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Show « 1904] PRODUCTS 53 two hundred and fifty- eight million pounds, North Carolina one hundred and forty- two million, and Virginia one hundred and thirty- six million pounds. Wisconsin, Ohio, and Tennessee come next in order of importance, while South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Maryland all yield crops of value. 1 Vegetables and small fruits are of course grown in enormous variety wherever agriculture is practised. Of these, potatoes are the most important, and amount to over two hundred and eighty million bushels annually. Of the states Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, and Maine, all reach the ten- million- bushel mark in potato production. Two impressions are left by this study of American products: one is the imrnense variety of plant growth due to the wide variations in climate and character of the continent; and the other is that the majority of the plants of ffrea^ economic value are of foreign origin In any case the fertility and adaptability of the soil must be regarded as among the chief contributing causes to the stupendous growth of the American nation. 1U. S. Dept. Agric, Year- Book, 1902, p. 819. |
