Excerpt from The Making of America, Vol. 3: Industry and Finance Oats are more cosmopolitan. We produce a little more than a fourth, and are slightly exceeded by Russia, while Germany produces about three fifths as much as the United States. Rye and barley are a different story. Of these two cereals the United States produces scarcely any, while Russia raises more than half the world's crop of the former and a fourth of the latter, leading the world in these two cereals. Of rice we produce but a trifling amount, in ...
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Excerpt from The Making of America, Vol. 3: Industry and Finance Oats are more cosmopolitan. We produce a little more than a fourth, and are slightly exceeded by Russia, while Germany produces about three fifths as much as the United States. Rye and barley are a different story. Of these two cereals the United States produces scarcely any, while Russia raises more than half the world's crop of the former and a fourth of the latter, leading the world in these two cereals. Of rice we produce but a trifling amount, in comparison with the enormous crops of China and India. As with corn, so with cotton. Of this textile fibre the United States furnishes three fourths of the world's supply, while India contributes but one eighth, and Egypt one tenth. Two thirds of our crop goes to Europe, to supply the factories of England and the continent. Two thirds of the cotton manufactured in Europe is raised by negro labor in our southern states. In the production of other fibres, the showing is not by any means so favorable to the United States. In the matter of wool, we are exceeded by Austria, Argentine, and Russia, which produce, respectively, 19, 15, and 14 per cent of the world's product, while the United States contributes only 11 per cent, and spends annually in supplying her deficiency. Of raw silk we produce none; of hemp 4 per cent only, while Russia raises nearly half the world's supply; and of flax fibre very little. Here again Russia comes to the front, with nearly four fifths of the world's supply. Potatoes we gave to Europe, and Europe almost monopo lizes their cultivation, producing over nine tenths of the world's crop while the United States raises less than one tenth of it. Our production of sugar from all sources - from the cane of Louisiana, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, and from beets - is but 8 per cent of that of the world. Of cane sugar, we raise about one sixth, and of beet sugar little more than 1 per cent. We spend per year on imported sugar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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