The daily union., 1852-09-08

RIcI AND RICE cuLTURE.--The following concise and
accurate account OF this valuable article is from the pen
OF the Hon r. F. Alston OF South Carolina. II is found
in the Patent Office report:
Our lands are improving under the grateful Influence Of
the allc and rotation prac,ised by me as that OF sys
ten FIRST in is37s and they produce now rice OF better
quality than formerly SO much is this the TACT. mat
there is class OF recognised in the Charleston
market, who will be content with nothing but the choicest
samples, and for these they are willing to pay an extra
This system, extended as il s and greatly improved in
the hands of my observant skifu and judicous neigh
bors OF Waccamaw and Sandy island by manuring with
rice straw, cha and even flour. has been one among the
chief Of producing the beautiful long rice,
Cultivated by the two most euccessfu and expe
renced planters this districts and by not more Than two
others, far as know in the highest state oi malu-
Rice straw has long been valued as excellent ma
nure, when listed in and roed for upland corn and pota
toes 1t has laerly been used in the same way as a
dressipg for rice in the allow swamp land Sandy
island. and with favorable results
RICE chaf too, which formerly was discharged from
its analysis by Professor Shepard for our agricultural
society," is now used extent in renovaiing old
lands Ii is distributed the surface. some three
inches Deep and ploughed in stimulating the production
of the soil. and improving the quality of the grain.
Rice -four, noorousy Of value food for hogs. cattle
and poultry, and selling readily when corn is scarce. at
past. contributed lis share towards improving. in both
quality and quantity, particular crop il Waccamaw
The crop OF last year, lS50'5l ahordlng as does,
good portion OF very prime rice where the salt water
did affect it, will prove 10 be some 10 per cent short,
as estimated by This diminuton is believed TO be
owing chiefly 10 the high winds which passed over the
tide lands about the middle OF August last, when the
greater half Of The growing rice plants were still In
bloom. Rice is essentially "swamp seed" here
We do not cultivate any the upland Every year.
however IT is grown in small patches IN the interior.
and tended mostly with the plough. The best kind
of rice for this purpose believe, the old fashioned
"whi,e seed" which the only variety cutyatet
in The State until late in the last century when was
introduced among tide swamp planters the "gold-seed
rice," which is universally approved The "bearded
rce," variety of white rice, with very long avn, was
imported years ago for this very purpose (upland
planting J but believe it is nowhere bu, to be
eIaiIicaied.
The " long grain" seed alluded above, some
of which given in the proceedings Of the Stale
Agricultural Society OF South Carolina is the choicest
variety cultivated in this region Like the ordinary
seed requires care and attention throdg hout the pro
OF culture TO have il produced oil the prlmest quality
But when thus produced, n ii be carefully milied and
skilfuy prepared, the long grain rice will command
IN the winter market from so cents to 81 per 100 lbs
thar the very best qualities OF the ordinary small grain
For example, during the month OF December past, The
market in Charleston for smal grain has ranged from
SO and 50 IS for prime 50 37i and S. so per 100 lbs
toI choice whereas the market for long sas been
influenced by fancy Prices have been oba ned for hl.
knd OF 81 IS per 100 lbs 81 so Also and IS for
small fancy lot