Agriculture

The Handbook of the State of North Carolinaprepared by the Department of Agriculture (1893) furnished a description of mountain farms with its inventory of each county’s resources and the use of its acreage. The counties still had most of their land covered with trees, many of which would fall to th...

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1. Verfasser:	John J. Van Noppen
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agricultural economics Agricultural geography Agricultural land Agricultural sciences Agriculture Agronomy Applied arts Architecture Arts Biological sciences Buildings Collective farms Crop economics Crop production Crops Economic disciplines Economics Farm economics Farming Farming systems Farmlands Farms Field crops Industrial agriculture Specialty crops Storage facilities Subsistence farming Tobacco Truck farming Warehouses
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Zusammenfassung:	The Handbook of the State of North Carolinaprepared by the Department of Agriculture (1893) furnished a description of mountain farms with its inventory of each county’s resources and the use of its acreage. The counties still had most of their land covered with trees, many of which would fall to the woodman’s axe when the railroad came. For instance, 7/8 of Graham, s/6 of Macon, 3/4 of Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, and Surry were still forested. Another way of saying this was th3at Macon County included 39,000 acres of “improved” and 164,000 acres of “unimproved” land, Madison County 69,000