ABSTRACT
Rice insects and diseases retarded the crop on the Southern Atlantic seaboard, and the types of soil discouraged the use of the newer implements. The alluvial soil of the lower delta of the Mississippi was more suited to the cereal than was the old rice coast, and the lay of the land encouraged the growing of an additional crop on the sugar plantations. The railroad land grants of the same era hit the South as well as the West. The possibilities of the market for cottonseed products were barely touched by the end of the century, but the rise of Southern cotton mills reduced the freight costs on a part of the cotton. In South Carolina, Columbia arose as a rival to Charleston. Southern canals were of relatively little importance in agricultural marketing. The Grange movement of the 1870's was too weak in the South to achieve important state railroad legislation.
