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ters, but labor is wanted. K we could get reliable labor we could 

 increase our acreage in cottou and corn at least twenty-five or tliirty per 

 cent, the coming season, having everything necessary for so doing, with 

 that important exception. 



SUaAB-CANE m WASHINGTON PARISH, LA. 



Washington Parisli., La. — Our farmers are turning their attention to 

 sugar-cane, as it pays here better than cotton or any other crop. All the 

 molasses made this year for sale has been sold in the parish. 



CROPS m FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS. 



Fayette County., Texas. — There is a great lack of diversity of crops in 

 our county. While our climate and soil are adapted to a great many 

 products, cotton absorbs all the attention, and we are fast drifting into 

 the fashion existing before the war of raising cotton and buying every- 

 thing else. The ramie plant has the past year made a splendid growth, 

 but no one is paying any attention to its cultivation as an article of com- 

 merce. The only product besides cotton that is exciting any attention 

 is the tropical sugar-cane, (ribbon,) Avhich it is believed can be success- 

 fuU^^ cultivated in our county and manufactured vvith the sorghum 

 machinery; at least, the experiment will be made soon. 



SUGAR, COTTON, ETC., IN CA:^IERON COUNTY, TEXAS. 



Cameron County., Texas. — Many farmers are planting increased quan- 

 tities of sugar-cane. The produce heretofore, for some years back, 

 has been sold in the cane for the Mexicans to eat or chew. Next season 

 we have hopes of making sugar. Cotton has had, during 1869, quite a 

 furor. The product of this section will exceed three hundred bales; in 

 18G8 the crop was about twenty bales; in 1870, from present api^ear- 

 ances, there will be at least one thousand bales made. We have no im- 

 migration here, and the Mexicans are difficult to start at anything new. 

 Cotton they will plant if they can contract in advance for the delivery 

 of the staple in the seed. There will be a couple of gins put up for next 

 year's crop. Potatoes do well, but not enough raised for the home 

 demand. 



THE RA:\nE IN TEXAS. 



Bexar County, Texas. — The ramie has flourished this season beyond all 

 expectation. We believe the ramie is indigenous with us; a plant is 

 found growing wild in our river bottoms as much like it in shape of leaf, 

 root, stalk, and liber as two grains of corn or beans are alike. If the 

 two are mixed together no man can distinguish them, not even in pre- 

 paring the lint. 



RESOURCES OF SULLIVAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 



Sullivan County, Tenn. — This is a good time and place for northern 

 capitalists to invest their money in the different branches of manufac- 

 tures. A woolen mill for custom work was started in an adjoining 

 county last summer, and the proprietors were surprised at the liberal 

 patronage they received ; in fact, they have been unable to do all the 

 work they have been called upon to do. We have any, amount of the 

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