The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-01-13
and bacon exported in the second place

and bacon exported in the second plac,
to the prices obtained for those articles
not at the port of New York, but at tn,
places where they were produced, for tn,
farmer has had the advantage for over {
year of the internal freights low beyond
precedent; in the third place, to the lowe
rate of wages at which farmers anC
planters have this year procured theil
labor; and in the fourth place, to the fac
which naturally, follows from the three al
ready mentioned, that the imports o.
tea, coffee, and sugar have been much
larger in the fiscal year ended with june
last than in any previous year in the
history of the country. In her dealing;
with the United States, Great Britain
has proved good customer. While ouI
imports from the British Isles have been
enormously curtailed, our exports to
those regions have greatly increased
since the close of the year 1872. In either
one of the three calendar years 1873, 1874,
and 1875, we had a market for more
grain in Great Britain than we ever did
before. Much of that grain has gone to
reduce Indebtedness, but utnevertheless the
farmers who produced it have been paid
for it, too.
Evidently the panic has not hurt the
farmers. Evidently, too, we have not
enough farmers, especially in the East.
Why, then, should not unemployed or
poorly-paid mechanics, clerks, lawyers,
teachers, and other residents of towns
and cities seriously consider whether it
is not possible for each of them to OBJ
tain bit of land and become inde-
pendent?
GROWING RICE ON UPLAND.-Mr. R..
E. Huey, of Brundige, Ala, writes in the
Southern Plantation on the culture of rice
on uplands, a subject which is attracting
considerable attention in the South. We
quote as follows:
Let the land be well drained, so that it
may be well prepared with the plow lay
off two and half feet; BED up as soon
after Christmas as convenient, with four
or five inch halfturn. If you intend
planting early, say the 1st of March, re-
bed in four or five weeks; but if you wish
to plant about the 10th of May, it will
be best to bed again about the middle of
April, so that the lands will be free from
weeds and grass when planted. II rice is
not planted very early it is best to plant
in May, for if planted in April the time
of its maturity will be in the dryest and
warmest time of the summer; but if
planted the first of March it will mature
before that time; if it is planted from the
10th to the 20th of May its maturity will
be in September and the first of October.
When the seasons are good and the
weather cool, prefer planting old land,
unless well drained, in May, for the fol-
lowing reasons: First-The seap water
has dried up, and when the time comes
to cultivate it, the land is in a condition
to destroy all weeds and grass.
Let the beds be but little elevated Law
of with bull-tongue scooter about the
size of mans hand cover with the same;
if any clods are left on the rice, shake off
with hand rake; when the rice is about
six inches high and the weather is dry,
run round with sixteen-inch Dixon
sweep, but if too wet to kill what is
plowed up bar off (very shallow with
halfturner; then as soon as the ground
is dry enough, scrape off each side with
hoe, pulling out of the rice all weeds and
all grass, except crab-grass. As soon as
the ground is in good condition, run
round again with D xon sweep eighteen
9r twenty inches wide), throwing some
dirt against the rice-the dirt and rice
will kill the crab-grass; after this, cult
Fate 81 circumstances may suggest.
For low land rice prefer what is
called flint rice, as it is the hardest rice,
md can be cleaned much better than
my large, soft rice, as it will not break
70 badly; but for stock / would as soon
nave the Clinch or any other large rice.
After taking off the outside husk. the
ice is not clean; the grain is covered with
thin, glutinous membrane that comes
IF by heating. Three-fourthso of bushel
If rice will plant an acre. The rice should
De cut when the grains are golden vel
ow, the straw will be green, and will
make, if saved, good food for mules,
lorses or COWS. If the weather is bad,
t is best to tie into bundles and hang on
'oles; but if fair, cut Qaying the heads
If the rice upon the stubbles), !, say three
,r four days, and haul up and house.