Alabama in 1870 produced 429,482 bales; and in 1880 699,654, an increase of 62 per cent.

Mississippi in 1870 produced 564,938 bales; in 1880 she produced 955,808 bales, an increase of 69 per cent.
Here is a very significant fact also with regard to the condition of our laborers in the South, and it shows one of the disadvantages we have had to labor under.

During the war, and from the results of the war, nearly all of our live stock was destroyed, a great portion of it was destroyed, which left us after the war without the means of raising our own meat and such supplies at home, and took away from the South a great portion of our wealth, for we know that cattle, hogs &c., increase in arithmetical progress.

If you have a hog, this year she bears so many pigs, and in a couple of years those pigs bear so many, and so on.

But we were left without live stock.