North Carolina Conditions Inviting Farming, Trucking, Cattle-Raising and Dairying

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Excerpt from North Carolina Conditions Inviting Farming, Trucking, Cattle-Raising and Dairying: Soils and Climate North Carolina is essentially an agricultural State. While she has developed in manufacturing in the last decade more than any other State in the Union, the increase in this line having been over 800 per cent, the greatest increase is in cotton manufacturing, which is largely due to the fact that the farmers of the State are largely engaged in the culture of this staple. To the large area in tobacco, too, is due the great development of the State in the manufacture of tobacco, and her unequalled forests of hardwoods have tended to the building up of a great woodworking industry. Hence we come back to the soil as the source of the wealth and development of North Carolina. There is no State in the Union, unless we except California, which has such a varied series of crops, owing to the great range of climate. Lying largely on the great undulating plain sloping from the mountains to the sea, and from the greatest elevation east of the Rockies down to the coast plain but little elevated above the sea-level, North Carolina greets the rising sun, and her climate varies according to the elevation. On the high plateaus of the northwestern part of the State we find a grass and grazing section with cattle on a thousand hills, and the forest growth of white-pine, hemlock, and fir resembling Canada. Dropping over the great escarpment of the Blue Ridge, we reach the undulating region of the piedmont country, which in this State is again divided into upper and lower piedmont by a range of hills a hundred or so miles cast of the Blue Ridge and forming the falls of the rivers with wonderful water-powers. This section lies in a series of rolling uplands, intersected by the rivers with their fertile bottomlands and rising from 700 to 1, 500 feet elevation at the foot of the Blue Ridge. East of the Uwharrie Mountains and the Occoneechee Hills there is still the same rolling upland extending eastward till it drops off into the level coastal plain which extends inward for more than a hundred miles from the ocean. This lower piedmont, from its lessor elevation, has a milder winter climate than the upper piedmont, and the upper piedmont is far warmer in winter than the mountain region between the Blue Ridge and the Great Smokies that separate the State from Tennessee. As we reach the lower coast we find that instead of the white-pines and hemlocks of the high mountain plateaus and valleys, we have the first touch of the Floridian vegetation in the cabbage-palms which tower among the other evergreen growth on Smith's Island at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. This wide-stretching area from the white-pine to the palms shows the wonderful variety of climates which the State possesses, and accordingly indicates her adaptation to the crops of the North and the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.