144 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



On the best creek-bottoms in Carroll three-quarters to 1 bale per acre. 



In Choctaw, 800 pounds seed, with clean culture, may be obtained. 



A small farmer in CUcJiasaw sometimes makes "by accident" 1,500 

 pounds seed-cotton per acre j but few large farms make a very close 

 approximation to that figure. 



One bale per acre on a few acres is made in CopiaJi. 



One acre fresh sandy pine-land in Covington, fertilized with stable- 

 manure, realized $55 ; cost of manuring and cultivating, $10 ; gathering, 

 $8 ; hauling to gin, $3 ; to market, $5 ; total, $20 ; net gain, 829. 



A farm in Be /Sofo.yielded 37 bags on 40 acres, at a cost of 5J cents 

 per pound. 



In Franlclin, 120 bales on 225 acres black sandy soil. 



In Grenada, 18 bales on 30 acres, common culture. 



In Attala, the best result is 180 pounds per acre on 8 acres. 



One bale per acre on small farms is sometimes got in Jefferson. 



A farm in Lawrence, but not one producing the best results, yielded 

 1,300 pounds lint per acre on 8 acres common soil, giving a profit of $10 

 per acre. 



In one instance in Lincoln there was a yield of 1,000 pounds seed-cot- 

 ton per acre on creek-bottom three years in culture. 



Our correspondent in Newton knows no man who has mad© 1 bale to 

 3 acres, and not a man who is making any profit. 



In Neshoha, a yield of 2,500 pounds seed per acre is reported on one 

 small farm ; fine sandy soil ; cultivated with plow and hoe. 



A farmer in OlctihheJia got 100 bales on 200 acres stiff black hummock 

 with common culture. 



In Ferry, 1,000 pounds seed per acre may easily bo obtained in black 

 sandy loam, with good preparation, well stirred with cultivator. One 

 hand will tend 15 acres cotton ; 5 in corn and pease j 2 in potatoes and 

 rice ; 1 in sugar-cane and sorghum. 



Louisiana. — Mr. Isaac A. Dillard, in Bossier, got COO bales on 480 

 acres in 1875. He had 500 bales in 187C. One tenant got 30 bales on 

 20 acres. Clear profit, $15,000. 



Some of the river-farms in Caddo produced 500 pounds lint per acre. 



In Claiborne, the highest result on best lands is 1,000 pounds seed-cot- 

 ton per acre. 



In Concordia, 400 pounds lint and sometimes IJ and 2 bales per acre 

 are realized. If overflows could bo stopped, the parish would be a 

 garden. 



In Cameron, 1 bale to IJ per acre, with ordinary culture, is not un- 

 common. 



On two farms in Fast Baton Boiige, 1^ bales per acre on 8 or 10 acres 

 were obtained on each, on excellent soil, with ordinary culture. 



Some farmers in Grant make 1,200 pounds seed-cotton on hill-land. 

 The average is about 500 pounds. 



In La Fayette, 9 bales of 450 pounds on 9 acres black loam, ordinary 

 mode but more careful culture. 



A farm in Union produced 250 bales on 200 acres ; product, $15,000 ; 

 expenses, $12,000. 



Texas. — In Anderson, 200 bales were made on 500 acres dark sandy 

 loam, cultivated mainly by blacks, whose labor cannot be intelligently 

 controlled. 



In Angelina, a farm owned in New Orleans, and rented to diff'ereut 

 parties, made the best yield. A boy of 13 years made G bales on 4 acres 

 and another 5 on 4 acres. 



