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repairing works and replacing structures and machinery, and with pro- 

 tection against foreign competition they will utilize otherwise worthless 

 wastes, and add millions annually to tbe wealth of the country. 



lu 1869, the crop of South Carolina, as returned by the census author- 

 ities, was 32,304,825 pounds ; of Georgia, 22,277,380 ; of Korth Caro- 

 lina, 2,059,281. Production had nearly ceased in 1805. The commer- 

 cial returns of Carolina rice show an increase as follows : 18GG, 21,031 

 tierces; 1867,23,482; 1868,37,047; 1869,41,172. An increase was also 

 reported in 1870, but the season of 1871 was unpropitious, and the 

 record may show a decrease. 



Dr. J. J. Waring, of Savannah, gives local figures illustrating the 

 rate of increase as follows: 1866, 12,500 casks; 1867, 24,337; 1868, 

 30,795 ; 1869, 60,146 ; 1870, 07,736. 



In Georgia, two-thirds of the rice is grown in Chatham and Camden 

 Counties ; half in the vicinity of Savannah. In South Carolina, nearly 

 half of the crop is grown in Georgetown. The following figures show 

 how small a district yielded the rice of the palmy days of 1859 : 



South Carolina. 



CTeorgetowD 



Colleston 



Charleston 



Beaufort , 



Total 



Twenty-four other comities 



Total 



Pounds. 



55, 805, 385 

 22, 838, 984 

 18, 899, 512 

 18, 790, 918 



116, 334, 799 

 2, 765, 729 



119, 100, 528 



Georgia. 



Pounds. 



Chatham.. 

 Camden. .. 

 Mcintosh . 

 Glynn 



25, 934, 160 



10, 330, 068 



6, 421, 100 



4, 842, 755 



Total 47,528,083 



Eighty-eight other counties 4, 979, 569 



Total 52,507,652 



But the extension of rice culture in Louisiana is a triumphant refuta- 

 tion of the baseless assertion that the business cannot prosper under 

 the most favorable present circumstances. The census exhibits it as 

 follows : 1849, 4,425,349 pounds ; 1859, 6,331,257 pounds ; 1869, 15,854,- 

 012 pounds. The record of M. Bouchereau, by plantations, accounts for 

 a total crop in 1869 of 100,748 barrels of 200 pounds each, or 20,149,600 

 pounds. The crop of 1870 was not a successful one. In 1859 Plaque- 

 mines Parish yielded 4,635,500 pounds of the crop of 6,331,257 pounds, 

 or about two-thirds of the total product of the State; in 1869 the same 

 parish produced 6,247,400 pounds, (record of Bouchereau,) and yet it was 

 less than a third of the crop of the State, and returns were made from 

 14 other parishes. 



The following is the census exhibit of rice production at three 

 decennial j^eriods : 



