Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-04-27
ling is the result Of each precinct:
Total.

Total l:,scs balss
The census Of 1910 gives the crop at 1900 talcs;
1850, 1907 bales; but in the year 1853 wc make
l7,60S bales, averaging 40 pounds Those who
are familiar with the agriculture Of the county
Iress confident belief that the crop at no d:s,an,
day will he more than doubled Large tracts Of
first class land have their native forest growth and
others that have been exhausted have not yet been
renovated BY the hand Of improvement
A considerable part Of the country cast Of Fish.
ing creek and Tar river few wears ago was covered
with swamp waste. interspcrsct here and there
with oak ridges aHl islands. This is now drained
with fourteen leading canals, -four Of them to be
finished during the present year, varying from ten
to twenty feet in width. and from three and half
to FIVE feet deep, and about four to five miles in
length. One Of them is three miles lon. thirty
feet wide and three and a half feet deep; another
seven miles long, twenty feet wide and four feet
deep; the most usual size is fifteen feet wide anil
four feet deep Much Of this country is covered
with its original forest growth now the drainage is
greater rapIy. last year il produced 1 0as bales
OF cotton; some Of our most intelligent and skilul
planters have expressed the opinion tina: Il can lie
made to produce three or four times the amount Of
the last crop.
Between Tar river and Fishing creek much valu
able lands remains to he brought into cultivation
and no doubt exists as to the capacity Of this part
Of the county to double its crop. TN the South
and West side Of Tar river, by Gar the largest part
Of the creek, river and swamp lands have been
brought into cultivation, and some ncishborhools
in very high state Of improvement; in this part
Of the county arc tracts Of piney lands. well sur
piled with muck and mari, which, applied in sufi.
cicnt quantity to the SOIL gives good crops Of cot.
ton, both in quantity and quality. There are also
large districts Of wet, flat piney lands with clay
subsoil of equal value when drained and treated in
like manner. stiff clay undertaking the clay sub,
soil requires much labor to open the necessary
bitches, and in consequence Of the winter freeing.
more to keep them in good repair.
During the present year one Of our best and most
entcrprisng planters has introduced on river plan.
taton the system Of tile drainage which, thus Car,
gives indications Of perfect SUCCESS. II like sue
cess is had in the wet fiat clay subso pncy lands,
. vast deal will be added to the cotton growing ca.
pacity of the lands Of the county; so much that !
will not venture estimate Of the quantity that
would be increased by such system Of drainasc.
In the year 1868 many OF our best planters made
supply Of provisions and from eight to nine bales
Of cotton to the hand. Other sections Of Eastern
thCarolina with the same system Of cultivation
and manuring, will do rs well rs Edgccombe Why
then emgrate to the new States to make cotton!
They in their turn will be exhausted and require
manure; then we shall have the advantage Of them;
our crop requiring less time for cultivation and ma
nurins, will give more time for maturing.
EDGECoMBE