Posted on 12/26/2009 6:33:27 PM PST by DGHoodini
You asked this question without a google search?
http://www.agclassroom.org/kids/stats/texas.pdf
Cotton, one of Texas top 10 commodities, was growing wild in the 16th century. Cotton is now a major cash crop of Texas.
The top five crops raised in Texas are:
Cotton
Greenhouse & Nursery
Corn
Wheat
Hay
There were 4,474,000 bales of cotton produced in 2008.
Cotton cultivation was begun by Anglo-American colonists in 1821. In 1849 a census of the cotton production of the state reported 58,073 bales (500 pounds each). In 1852 Texas was in eighth place among the top ten cotton-producing states of the nation. The 1859 census credited Texas with a yield of 431,645 bales.
So far as I can make out Texas was 5th in the number of bales produced in 1860, behind Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia, and ahead of Arkansas, and South Carolina. There'd been amazing growth in cotton cultivation between 1850 and 1860, particularly in Texas and Louisiana.
The only reason Obama will not speak down here is that every time he gets up on stage some cotton farmer from west Texas in the back of the room starts bidding on him.
That wasn’t Gov. Goodhair Perry the cotton farmer was it?... Rick gave up farming and found it easier to suck at the gov’t teat for a living.
Several cotton fields not far from my home in Sugar Land, TX. Some out by Needville, others by Wharton. Just drive 59 south out of Ft Bend County and you’ll see them.
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