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WHEAT CULTURE IN LEBANON COUNTY, PA. 



Lebanon County^ Pa. — The limestone region of this county averages 

 about twenty-one bushels of wlieat per acre ; gravel and slate region about 

 fifteen bushels per acre. Earliest sown wheat (sown first week in Sep- 

 tember) was best, drilled wheat averaged on best farms twenty-five bushels 

 to the acre ; better by two bushels to the acre than hand-sown. Land early 

 prepared for sowing and allowed to settle well before seeding is believed 

 by our best farmers to be a great advantage over sowing in loose, fresh- 

 plowed ground, especially in dry falls. 



COTTON CULTURE IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



Pasquotanh County^ N. G. — Cotton is a staple crop in this section of 

 North Carolina, and good farmers have realized over $60 per acre, clear 

 profit, on their cro^) of this year. Added to this, the land in this county, 

 unlike anywhere else, improves rapidly from raising cotton upon it; and 

 the same land may be cultivated in cotton for thirty or fifty years in suc- 

 cession, and will get richer all the time. The same is nearly true in 

 regard to corn, if pease are sown at tlie last working. 



PEANUTS IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



Beaufort Gouniy, W. C. — One farmer had five hundred acres in peanuts, 

 but the season was too dry ; yield about thirty bushels per acre. Last 

 year the yield v\'as about sixty bushels. 



FERTILIZERS, FREE LABOR, ETC., IN (GEORGIA. 



Stewart County, Ga. — The sandy loams, especially the past season, 

 were decidedly unfavorable for wheat, a great deal of the land sown not 

 yielding more than two bushels per acre. Exiieriments in this county 

 on a small scale, with land liberally fertilized and carefully iireparecl, 

 > have yielded as much as twenty-seven bushels per acre, (sandy loam,) 

 worth $60 75 gross value. It was believed, however, tliat an acre of 

 the same land so fertilized would have yielded seven hundred and fifty 

 pounds lint cotton, v/orth $187 50, more than twice the value of the wheat 

 croi). A given amount of labor will produce at least fifty per cent, more 

 in value when applied to the production of cotton than when devoted to 

 the raising of any variety of provisioji crop, (sweet potatoes perhaps 

 excepted.) Yet our planters are rapidly becoming convinced that net 

 progress in wealth is increased by appropriating a sufficient amount of 

 land space and labor to the production of provisions enough for the stock 

 and laborers employed on each plantation. Doubtless that iiolicy will 

 ultimately be adopted. 



A gentleman of this county by the name of Haunon, assisted only by 

 his wife, who also attended to her domestic afiairs, cultivated forty acres 

 of land, making eleven bales of cotton, eight barrels of sirup, and one 

 hundred and fifty bushels of corn. He employed no freedmen. This is 

 a striking illustration of what white labor can accomplish in this latitude. 

 It illustrates also the low market value of the lands of this country com- 

 pared with the money value of the crops they produce. Hannon had, at 

 the Oldening of the year, only a few bushels of corn, one mule, and no 

 money ; yet he bought his family supplies on time, which he paid after 

 the sale of his crop. He also bought and paid for the land be cultivated, 

 at $15 per acre, out of the proceeds of his crop, and had means enough 



