, 1891-01-03

very partial are all that we can record.
Last month WAS dry, and the Canes had .
hard time of it generally. This month has
been no better, and while we write there is
every Indication OF idry weather. Cold
nights, lovely MOI ningS, hr0iling sans dur
ing the day, The intelligent and 0bserv-
ant Agricultural correspondent from ST..
Philip WIutr two months ago that IN his
opinion We were in for IA haryi year, and
his Opinfun seems very likely 10 he we'll.
founded. The canes us IL rule are low. ard
show more tops than body. OF course
there are exceptions, aud the St. Johns
correspondent gives the true state of
things in a few words. He sayS-"A goOC
deal depended on late rains. and it is very .
disappointing, after the good BEGINNING in
October, to have to record only 2G1 inch
es for this montiI-nOt halt of what was
gagged for the same month last year, when
it was not near so much wanted. 70 look
only at tie plant canes. one would still
think wetl OF the crops, but the rattoonS do
not grow and flourish as they .SlIould, ana
it is Il case of high and low all through the
parish. Some really fine canes are to be-
seen at Colletoa, and i'll spite of everything
this estate will do well, HothersdIs canes
are also good, so are those at Pool, Clay
burg, Ste0art's Hall, Clifton Hall, and
Society while below the cliff, Bath and
New castle make a fair show. Some lands
are much moe retentiVe of moisture than
others, and to this Gil circumstances our plant
ers, In a yeas like this. mnSt look, when
comparing crops with their neighbours.
Colleton with lis completely covered stock
mems, it's well-ted and well-houSed animals,
and it's other advantages, may be foremost
in the van, but it only furnishes another
proof of the uDwiSdom of undue parsimO-
ny, VIII lie it loudly prOclaimS the fact that
if you are t'liberal with the SOiP' (which
liberality includes q great many things, be
it remembered it will be liberal with you"
With all the diSCouragements around
them Our planter are pushing forward their
pre- parations for the young crop, and canes
are already planted in most of the parishes.
There is said to be IL general disposition to
plant ea RI y this year, and plants are SELL
ing fir ON is to 90 cents the hundred. Even
now it We had rain, and January 1891 was
anyt hing like January 1890, there would
be a good hope that the crop would not be
Contemplate, though 4 cannot possibly APP
pr Oach The one IeHped this year.
Provisions are not very abundant. PO-
tatOes are by no means as plentiful as uNn-
al at this time of the year. The yam crop
does not promise 10 be great, and eddOts
are begun ing TO "fall, !" which we are told
by one that knows "is worse luck"-tOr this
IdllIuR HuOuIO hOb NdA6 pIdC0 Nkl VduJhlS
or February.
1t will interest our distant readers to
know that the sugar exported to the pre-.
sent time amounted to SO ,235 aOgsheadS.
Last year it was 65,202 hOgsheads. The
quantity of molasses this year has been
50936 puncheOmS-laSt year it was ID, 1923
pu ncheOns.
Our own correspondent from St. John
WI ties us:-"There is every likelihood that
a. far amount OF sugar will be reaped in
this parish. The canes, though not as tor.
ward yet as nSually they are in December,
are green and continue to grow. The yell
low cast which shows they are looming to
maturity is still absent. Many of them
are as green as they usually are in the lat
ter part of October. If the showers con.
Time All average crop can be .'reaped.
Much, attention is bestowed on Manure.
Wherever one goes through the parish he
is reminded of this both by his nose and
his eyes. The land was never better man.
ured than at the present time. Cane plants
are sold at 20 cents per hundred, and many
of til EN- have changed owners. Most that
wee to he planted have already been put
in. With plants comes ryrup; it is said at
- shilling per gallon. Some of the vans
dug Fave given u good yield. Potatoes are
sea rec, selling only at 9 lbs. for 10 cents.
This M 4 ana that innst of what the people