Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-11
blowing table :

table:
Year. Barrels. Value.
1862. .6S,9l5 $500, 267
1878. .33,9S5 577,755
1861. .24,9l4 26l,507
1865. .20;975 244,633
lS64-5.. 1888 S48,909
The enormous profits which are
derived from its culture, are GER
lainly calculated to make this O
staple product.
A planter in the parish Of st.
James last year received net returns
from his commission merchant Of
$4,000 from the yield Of Ito acres
of rice. liz bbls. clean to the hand
lie not above the average, which, at
&c. per pound, would give nearly
sl,4O0 per year. The labor in cul-
tivating 1t Is triAing, since 1t is
grown In water, and requiring only
to be grown, cut and thrashed, the
attention Of single boy being suf.
Acient to guard several acres from
the depreciation Of the rice bird,
With such an inducement why
will not some of the planters give
rice a fair trial for two or three
years?
Alexander Avery wrote from
Natchez, Miss, to the Hearth and
Home as follows:
II was recently In conversation
with a youth who, last year, began
work on a place for which he had
paid Sl5,500. He Is only twenty
two years of age, was raised In a
store in Memphis, and knows how
TO keep an account Of all it costs,
He showed me 0 statement Of hii
work in 1868, and l was SO takeT
with it that | asked him for q copy,
which runs as follows. l thinI
figures will do more to show thu
people OF the North and West thu
profits of cOtton-culture than lon!
articles without figures:
Sold SO bales cotton for. .SS,72l g.
Sold 1869 bushels corn, Toe l,244 2
Sold Sweet potatoes aud
Irish, 5Oc.,...,......., zig "
Sold "a barrels pindRrs$6.. 204 O
Hay, fodder, and corn on
hand January LIST, 1869,
estimated at............ 25 0
Total. SIU,3SI U
Expenses Of............ 3,16l 2
Leaving profit. $7,2N 0
am told farms of 1000 to $50
acres, with good houses and i'm
prOvements for all needful plant
ing, can be had In this count,
(Adams) for ten to fifteen dollar
per acre. 1t is very healthy, tn
land is rolling, not SO fertile as tn
low lands, but ietches one half 10
bale and a half per acre:
COrroN SEED MANURE should b
applied in the drill, under the bed
and as near the surface as othe
practical considerations will allow
: From the great facility with whiC
II can be handled, this manure !
/, subject 10 greater abuses than an
other. The common mode Of drop
ping near the seed at time of plant
ing, while upon rich lands will b
attended by the best results, upo
| thin soils can only term.
nate in disappointment. So, to-
the very common mode Of dropin
the seed around the base Of tn
stalk after corn has somewhat al
D vanced in its growth, Is in direC
conflict with the we'll known ply
: Biological law, that plants feed onl
l at the extremities Of their roots.
| EVERY farmer should produce b
. own mutton, rather than pay sue
! an exhorbitant price as is demand
J ed for meats by butchers. PrOcur
two or three sheep, put them in
! clean and comfortable place, fee
! them from one to two pounds eaC
Of corn and oats daily, This wi
= fatten them in q few weeks.
o FEED cows well, and the mi
and butter will not fall of. Civ
q pail Of slightly sailed waite
morning, noon aud night; gi'
I plenty of hay, and morning on
night stir into the warm water tw
/ quarts of wheat bran and col
meal, well mixed together, FC
well cows will give more milk tina
before they left the pasture.
| A CORRESPONDENT Of the Soutl
J. ern Cultivator asserts that a lars
: stable of horses and mules afrecte
by CHAMBERS were saved by givin
to each o teaspoOnful Of tartar enc
5 ic three times q day for six dal
+ conseCutively then discOntinT
, the dose for six days, when Il
treatment was repeated on such
were not well. The animals wei
fed and worked as usual during Il
! treatment, and not one was lost
Q those so treated.
THE HOUsEHOLD.
How much comfort and happ