Washington—North Carolina contains three of the 50 leading agricultural counties in the United States—Robeson, Pitt and Johnston.
This is the enviable record revealed in figures made public by the bureau of census covering the worth of agricultural products produced by all the counties in the United States. From the complete list the census bureau selects 50 headliners and of this number the Tar Heel state draws three.
California leads them all because of its climate, which makes the growing of fruit a great industry. New York, Illinois and Texas, much larger than North Carolina, come in the order named. In the 48 states of the union, North Carolina stands seventh, and the majority of the states are not named at all in the summary of the “50 leading agricultural counties of the United States.”
For the year 1919, the census bureau says, the agricultural crops and live stock produced in Robeson county were worth $28,389,828. Practically all of this was represented by crops of cotton, tobacco and corn. These crops were valued at $22,190,152, the remainder was the worth of live stock.
For the same year the crops and live stock of Pitt county amounted in dollars to $21,486,117, and nearly all of this was in tobacco, cotton and corn. The value of these three crops is given at $21,052,441—the balance represented in live stock.
Johnston county in the same year produced livestock and crops worth $19,842,510. Practically all of this amount was represented by farm products, cotton, tobacco, corn and sweet potatoes. The small balance was live stock.
From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 1921
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