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this great difference. A farmer has to learn how, and especially when, to irri- 
gate his crop, how to lay out his land to the best advantage, how to lay out and 
make sluices, &c., and to become familiar with the various kinds of soil, which 
require great difference i in treatment, in ploughing, and irrigating, * * * 
Our wheat crop would have averaged thirty-five or forty bushels per acre had 
it not been for rust, which struck it in consequence of the unusual wetness of 
the season. 
CASUAL NOTES, 
The cotton worm—The New York Mercantile Journal, in an article on the 
cotton worm, and the means of preveting its ravages, says: 
«A Louisiana French paper suggests a method, commonly adopted in France, 
to protect the cabbage plants from insects. The larvee are destroyed by sowing 
among the rows a certain quantity of hempseed, and, probably, placing layers 
of hemp between them would answer the same purpose. 
_ The subject is worthy of the investigation of the ablest Daverneneal agen- 
cies that can be brought to bear upon it, if the planters themselves have not en- 
terprise enough to take the proper measures.’ 
The utility’ of hemp sown around or among cabbages to prevent the depreda- 
tions of insects is said, by an English aniliog not to be owing to any noxious 
or repellant quality of the plant to the caterpillars, but me rely because birds 
are attracted by the shelter and seed afforded by the hemp, and can feed undis- 
turbed upon caterpillars and other insects in the garden. 
Rice in South Carolina—Georgetown county, South Carolina—Since my 
last I have in figures, from the mills, as follows: Tierces of clean rice prepared 
for market, of the crop of 1866 up to January 1867, twelve hundred and thirty- 
six bushels. Estimate of the entire erop for market 6,000tierces. A larger por- 
tion of seed will be required and has been reserved for the crop of 1867, but 
this, added to the estimateof 6,000 tierces, (equal to 132,000 bushels,) will bring 
the crop of 1866 to less than twenty bushels to the acre * * * On the 
plantations the depredations upon stock continue most provokingly, and although 
cholera has destroyed a large proportion of hogs, and sheep have been decimated 
by distempers, by far the greatest loss of hogs, sheep, and cattle has re- 
sulted from larceny. The whites are not exempt, but chiefly by the freedmen 
have the depredations been committed. * * * Thereis a deficiency of labor 
for the tide-lands, aid atleast 3,000 hands could find employment in this district 
the present year, in rice culture alone, at ten dollars per month, with house rent, 
fuel, and rations for themselves, but not for their families. Owing to the scarcity 
of capital, farms are worked, as last year, on shares, the ‘laborers in no 
instance getting less than one-third the gross product, and in some cases nearly 
one-half, (with privileges equal to one-half the gross product.) And yet the tide 
of migration has get in, and many have left for cheaper and less productive lands, 
aud thousands of acres of the richest alluvial soil on this continent are doomed 
to abandonment. 
Colorado Agricultural Society —The Agricultural Society of this Territory is 
enterprising and progressive. The first fair was held last season on a forty-acre 
tract near Denver, which was pur chased and enclosed with a substantial concrete 
wall, and improved with convenient buildings and fixtures, all costing about 
$12,000. Premiums amounting to $500 were given, and the receipts of ite fair 
were $3,500. ‘The officers of the society give a favorable account of the agri- 
cultural capabilities of the Territory in the following paragraph : 
