ABSTRACT
We are credibly informed that many of the farmers in the immediate vicinity of Baltimore, where we now write, have turned their attention exclusively to hay, and that from one acre they frequently gather two tons, for which they receive fifty dollars. Let us now inquire how many dollars may be expected from an acre planted in cotton. Mr. Cameron, from whose able address before the Agricultural Society of Orange County, North Carolina, we have already gleaned some interesting par ticulars, informs us, that the cotton planters in his part of the country, “have contented themselves with a crop yielding only ten or twelve dol lars per acre," and that “the summing up of a large surface gives but a living result.” An intelligent resident of the Palmetto State, writing in De Bow’s Review, not long since, advances the opinion that the cotton
27 Hinton Rowan Helper, Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South (New York, 1860), 30-31, 60-61.
