315 



acres of land planted in rice this year. The harvest is just commencing. The crop is 

 good, fnlly an average. The risk to the planter is yet great from high winds, high tides, 

 and bad weatlier. 



Mnnatee Couiifij, FJa. — Rice promises a good yield. 



riaquemines Parbh, La. — The rice crop of onr parish will greatly exceed that of last 

 year. Cntting commenced Angnst 12 witli those whose crops had sufficiently ripened. 

 Much of it has been tlirashed and cleaned and gone to market. 



James Wood, iu his recent circular, makes the following statement of 

 the quantity and value of the Louisiana rice crop, so far as indicated 

 by the yearly commercial record of sales : 



The receipts of rice at the several ports, as commercially reported for 

 the year just closed, are as follows: 



Tierces. 



Eeceipts at Charleston and Georgetown, South Carolina 44, 073 



Eeceipts at Savannah, Georgia 21, 725 



Eeceipts at Wjlmington, N^orth Carolina 600 



Eeceipts at New Orleans, Louisiana ■ IG, 700 



Total receipts, 1870-'71 , 83, 098 



Total receipts, 18G9-'70 : . . 97, 735 



Decrease .... 14, 637 



At the commencement of the season the price at Charleston was 9 

 cents per pound for good; in November 5 J to 5| ; in May, 8f © 9, and 

 in August closing at 8 to 8^ cents. 



The returns of sales of the rice of last year's crop indicate a large 

 deficiency iu the product of 1870. The amount of clean rice reported at 

 New Orleans up to August 1 of the' present year is 37,585 barrels, 

 against 57,956 last year. The rough rice amounted to 25,899 sacks. 

 The deficiency was in a large measure due, in Louisiana, to a late spring, 

 a bad stand, and a deficiency of water to flood the fields. 



FEUIT. 



In New England the apple prospect«is reported less than half a crop 

 in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, 56 per cent, of an average iu 

 Vermont and Connecticut, and about two-thirds of a crop in Maine and 

 Ehode Island. In some counties the crop is almost a total failure,' 

 while in others the fruit is small, though fair. Iu New York six-tenths 



