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Excerpt from An Essay on the Agricultural Capabilities of S. Carolina, and the Best Means of Developing and Improving Them: Read Before the State Agricultural Society of South Carolina, in November, 1847 and September 1848 Such are the chief reasons why perseverance in the production of cotton is perhaps the duty of the cultivators of the alluvial region. The enlargement of the lumber trade, which is rising rapidly value, and the new and most lucrative business. Of extracting and manufacturing the resinous product of the long-leaved pine, (pinus Australia, ) will obviously, and to all the great interests of the State, most beneficially withdraw a considerable portion of capital invested in the cotton culture. 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.