New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-04
phe 4aIes Crop OF south Carollna.
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| coastwise and foreign ports being generally some
three to four million dollars in value s
As many of our readers know, its culture here
was accidental vessel in distress from the
| Island. of Madagascar having put into this port
about the year l70S, small quantity of the seed
| was procured from the captain by Landgrave
Smith, who planted it on a piece of low ground
near the corner of the present East Bay and
| Longitude Lane. The season being propitious,
| tue grain grew uXuriantly; and from this small
experiment the cultivation rapidly spread through
/ the country.
4 Before the revolution of IT76 its growth was
entirely confined to the inland swamps, and its
culture was precarious owing to the difficulty of
supplying the fields with fresh water; but not
| withstandng this obstacle, the growth increased
rapidly, and for the ten years, from 1870 to 1880,
| the export averaged about 80 900 barrels year;
| from 1876 TO 1910 over 10000 per annum; and
one year just previous to the revolution it had at
| tanned the considerable sum of 10000 barrels.
Soon after the peace Of 1883 the value Of the river
swamps for the growth of the plant was discov-
| cred, and Mr. Gideon Dupont, of ST. James Goose
Creek parish, made public his system of water
il culture, which, in a few years, caused almost
the. entire abandonment of the inland for the
river swamp. Owing, however, to ITS having to
compete with low-priced East India rice, the in
creased value of laborers and the uncertainty of
the crops in many localities, the amount of the
i grain produced had not increased for many years
4 before cur late war, the expectation generally
amounting from 10000 to 10000 tierces.
DIFFICULTIES OF CULTIVATION.
Perhaps there is no plant grown that has sur
4 rounding it q more trying atmosphere for the
white man during the months of August and Sep
| TENDER, and even the negro suffers so much from
pleurisy and pneumonia that on some plantations
4 it has been said that there was no increase in
the population. 1t can be easily seen that there
are many difficulties in the cultivation of this
staple which will perhaps oramp its growth for
| many years under the present state OF affairs.
THE PRESENT CROP.
! In consequences Of the above mentioned diff
culiies and the general decentralization arising
| from the sudden change in the status Of the ne
gro there has been almost entire failure of the
crop Of the past season, and the result of the pres
ent years planting is looked for with great anxi-
ETY., many fearing that for some years at least the
! crop will nearly cease to be grown.
| Our inquiries have been attended with some
difficulty, and in the following statement we can
only promise our readers an approach to aeeu-
racy:
Commencing north of Charleston, we meet the
large rice district tributary to Georgetown s. e.,
consisting of the rice lands on the WaCcamaw, |
Pee Dee, Black River, Sampit Greek, etc, and
Immediately adjacent the important North and !
South Santee district, This portion of the State
in a successful year before the war, would send
TO market about $4,000 tierces Of rice. But
portion Of this valuable land is under cultivation
and the remainder will only make limited crop,
the growth of this district being estimated, SHOULD
no storm or other casualty occur, at about Is 900
bushels equal 10 some 900 tierees clean rice
In this section are located, on Waecamaw River
the noble rice fields where the late Colonel j. j.
Ward cultivated the famous big grain rice, the
most superior species Of the grain ever sent to
market.
The next district is the Cooper river rice fields,
where most of the planters are cuitiyating but a
small part Of their estates, and we are informed
that much Of this small crop is in poor condition
These lands are very fertile, and some of them
nave been known to produce eighty to ninety
bushels 10 the acre, and in good seasons the Weld
Of these Kinds will amount to s25 600 tierces but
theyare quite uncertain in consequence Of a def
Gent supply Of fresh water in dry seasons, the
river being ut such times brackish through much
OF Its course. We have heard the crop of this
season very differently stated some placing it az
10000 bushels, and others as high as 100000.
We take the medium and place it at 10000 bush-
els, equal to 5000 terees. 5E- =
To the south lie the Pom Pom rice fields on The
dlsto river at which point there is little land in
cultivation; the Ashepoo rice fields where We
/ learn there are some excellent crops and the
Combahee river plantations In thit region lies
the elegant estate of Jehosse Island, belonging to
the Hon. VIM, Aiken. The yield Of this district
the present season is estimated at about 100 900
bushels equal to 5000 terces 1t is stated that
mere are some good crops on the South Carolina
sIdesof the Savannah river and that Mr. Daniel
Haywood has here a superior show of rice, |
which he has made by the most untring effort and
sklllful management and that he will be able to |
send 70 market near 10000 bushels. It's esti- |
mated that Charleston will get from this source |
about 100000 bushels, equal to 5000 tierees clean
RICE. we haye no certain intelligence from Geor-
gia, but if Weestimate the WELD there at ouetbird
that of South Carolina, the rice crop of South |
Carolina and Georgia for the present year will
give the following result:
ESTIMATE OF THE RICE CROP IN SOUTH CAROLINA
AND GEORGIA FOR 1866.
Clean Rice
a. ear1aw Pee Dee and sauee District 1000 tierces
Cooper River district. 30e0 tiaTcas
Fun Pom, Ashepo0 Gombahee and ycinity 600 tierees
sa G Back River, amouut to come to
Loo erees
crop u 5000 tierces
Total. a nm tie-ce-
!, There is, perhaps, q limited amount planted on
!he Cape Fear river, North Carolina and some
inland rice produced in the interior; thelatterwiil
q certain extent if the price keeps up be
brought to this market by railroad but the above
ments. z '1sae ~
!, Ihe dangers nov are an equinoetiaI gale and
Pau work during harvest. 10 show our readers
the complete prostratfon of this branch of agr
culture by the war, we give the receipts at fbis
point during the years SO and 80, and go and sl
ana the same for '65 and &c. and conecturally for
'66 and 81: 10y i0t
REGENTS " Charleston from 1T Of sept 1859 rl'fss'
Receipts from Sept L 1862 to Aug. 81 1851 i2s2s9
receipts from Sept l. 1863 to Aug 81. 1865 $0S5
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