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Excerpt from Resources of Southern Alabama: A Statistical Guide for Investors and Settlers, With an Exposition of Some of the General Principles of Economic Geography The degree of success attained by a person who moves to a new location depends mainly on his own efficiency and his ability to adapt himself to the new conditions. Indus try and thrift will produce results almost anywhere, if the environment is not too different from what one has been accustomed to. A farmer who had been raising corn and oats on the prairies of Illinois, or wheat on a thousand-acre farm in North Dakota, where the value of crops in 1909-10 was only per acre of improved land, would be likely to feel very much out of place among the mountains of Choc taw County, or on a small sandy truck farm near Mobile, where crops are worth $41 per acre; and one who had been running a dairy in Wisconsin or among the rocky hills of New Hampshire would be equally at a loss among the cot ton, corn and peanut fields of southeastern Alabama. As a rule a farmer or other person who moves from-one state or region to another looks for conditions similar to' what he has been accustomed to, * and maintains about the same standard of living as before; it is therefore very desir able for one contemplating a change of location to know beforehand something of the conditions of living in'the re gion where he is going, especially as regards the soil, water supply, climate and timber, the price of land, the average size of farms and cost of buildings, the usual number per farm of domestic animals of various kinds, the principal crops and average yield of each, the prevailing religious denominations, the proportion of settlers from his own state or country, etc., etc. 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 t