thoroughly enriched by the clover and jtasturage, as one wonld say by looking at the 

 ■wheat in it now. I put no manure on except 40 Imshels per acre of cotton-seed when 

 seeded in the spring of 1871. Marion : Tlie fanners have managed badly ; planted 

 mostly cotton to the exclusion of corn and small grain. The jiast season has taught 

 them a lesson by which they ought to be governed in future. Schley: Tropical cane, 

 siruj) -making, sweet-potatoes. One mule or horse and two hands will make more 

 clear money upon half the acres planted to sugar-cane, sweet-potatoes, (the best of all 

 crops), and the small grains, than can be made witU wliole acres in cotton. Liberty : 

 West India sugar-cane and sweet-potatoes. From 8 to 14 barrels of sugar per acrehave 

 been made. Valuiug one barrel at $30, the products of one acre would amount to from 

 $240 to $420. The yield of sweet-potatoes successfully cultivated is from 300 to 500 

 bushels per acre, and the value per bushel from 50 cents to $1 ; avei'aging, if we 

 have 400 bushels, at 75 cents, $300. The yield of corn is about 10 bushels per acre, at $1, 

 $10 ; of cotton, about 100 jwunds of lint-cotton, at 15 cents, $15 ; of rice, about 20 bush- 

 els, at $1.25, $25. Harris : No branch has been very protitable, but where they have 

 all been combined more protits and benefits have been realized, and especially where 

 about one-third has been planted in cotton and the other two-thirds in corn, wheat, 

 oats, potatoes, barley, &c. Cafoosa : In my personal experience last year, 2 acres in 

 clover and timothy mixed yielded about 11,200 pounds of hay, worth at our village $1 

 per 100 pounds. No manuring whatever was applied. 



Florida. — Gadsden : Cuba tobacco and the Scuppernong grape. With respect to 

 the latter, I .am informed by a reliable jiroducer, who has been the jtioueer in this 

 branch in this county, and who now has a vineyard in full bearing, that 1,500 to 2,000 

 gallons of wine to the acre is not an extraordinary estimate, where the vineyard has 

 been favorably located and properly cultivated. A person recently from Georgia has 

 established, within the past year, a vineyard of 140 acres, with the design of extending 

 it to still larger proportions. Orange : Coru is reported as the most profitable in the 

 southern section of the county. In other sections orange-culture is acknowledged 

 to be the most profitable. My sub-correspondent reports that he has realized a little 

 over $1,000 clear from the orange-crop of one acre, and not a full crop at that. 



Alabama. — Walker: The corn and cotton crops are nearly equal in value. Greene: 

 There is no doubt that the cotton-crop is the most profitable one that can be raised 

 here, if raised as a snrplus crop. As long as we draw our corn and meal from the West 

 it is impossible that the country prosper, and at the present price of cotton it is simply 

 ruinous. Bulloch: The cereal or provision crops. The majority of farmers followed 

 in the old ruts, trying to retrieve their broken-down fortunes by planting too much 

 cotton to the neglect of the provision-crops. 



Mississippi. — Hinds : Fruit-culture and hay. H. O. Dixon harvested three tons of 

 hay to the acre and sold it in Jackson for $30 per ton ; he cultivates clover, timothy, 

 and orchard-grass ; many are planting the grasses this year. Newton: Cotton and 

 sugar-cane. We always plant cotton, not specially on account of the money there is in 

 it, but because it will always command the money. With' Louisiana sugar-cane, some 

 of our farmers have made 250 gallons of fine sirup to the acre, readily disposing of it 

 at 80 cents to $1 per gallon. The land that produced the 250 gallons would not have 

 made $25 if planted in cotton. All who can get seed will plant the cane this season. 



Texas. — Bed Biver : While we claim to be a cotton country, wheat and oats suc- 

 ceeded with us better than any other crops, because they matured before the season 

 could injure them. Navarro : Grain-growing; evinced by a general appearance of thrift 

 around farmers who have been engaged in growing grain over and above those 

 who have devoted their entire time to producing cotton. Titus: Heretofore the 

 cotton-crop, with prices ruling from 15 to 18 cents, has been most profitable; 

 tat now prices are down to 10 to 13 cents, with a i^oor and unsettled labor 

 system, consequently farmers cannot afibrd to risk increased acreage; the result 

 "was a general resolve to grow grain and stock, making cotton a surplus, and 

 the season just closing finds them with a surplus of grain, with plenty of pork of their 

 own raising, and abundance of hay and roots for wintering their stock. Smith : Of the 

 two general crops, corn and cotton, corn has paid the best ; all provision-crops have 

 paid better, and alwnys do pay better, than cotton ; wheat, though grown in a small 

 -way, has been the most luofitable crop ; a field of 12 or 15 acres yielded 23 bushels per 

 acre, and the wheat was sold at $2 per bushel, in specie. Wood : The small grains. 

 All surplus grains have found a ready sale at good prices, while it cost but a small per 

 cent, of these prices to raise them. 



Arkansas. — Fj-anliin : The cereals have yielded the largest per cent, of profits, 

 although this branch has been much neglected for cotton, which, from the high price 

 of labor, has resulted in a loss to the cultivator. Labor the past year cost the farmer, 

 besides board, $15 to $20 per mouth. I will put it at $18, and the aggregate expenses 

 of cotton-crop for one Land foots up $182.04. The average product per baud, after de- 

 ducting toll for ginning, will be 1,728 pounds of lint, yielding at 12 cents $207.3G ; net 

 profit, 

 an av< 



t, $25 32. The aggregate expenses of a corn-crop for one hand, $120 ; product, (at 

 verage of twenty acres, twenty-five bushels per acre,) five hundred bushels at 75 



