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  AGRICULTURE. 
  

  

  twenty 
  bushels. 
  Thirty 
  bushels 
  are 
  accounted 
  a 
  very 
  

   fair 
  crop, 
  and 
  forty 
  a 
  large 
  one. 
  

  

  The 
  total 
  production 
  of 
  corn 
  in 
  the 
  State, 
  in 
  1849, 
  

   was 
  stated 
  at 
  22,446,000 
  bushels, 
  equal 
  to 
  about 
  thirty- 
  

   seven 
  bushels 
  to 
  each 
  individual 
  inhabitant. 
  

  

  Mississippi 
  ranks 
  only 
  as 
  eleventh 
  as 
  a 
  corn-producing 
  

   State, 
  making 
  a 
  little 
  over 
  a 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  quantity 
  pro- 
  

   duced 
  in 
  Ohio 
  and 
  Kentucky. 
  Three 
  other 
  States, 
  in- 
  

   cluding 
  the 
  adjoining 
  State 
  of 
  Tennessee, 
  make 
  double 
  

   the 
  quantity. 
  If 
  our 
  corn 
  crop 
  was 
  suitably 
  distributed, 
  

   it 
  might 
  perhaps 
  afford 
  a 
  scant 
  subsistence, 
  but 
  the 
  river 
  

   counties 
  are 
  largely 
  indebted 
  to 
  the 
  Western 
  States 
  for 
  

   their 
  supply. 
  

  

  WHEAT, 
  OATS, 
  RYE, 
  BARLEY, 
  RICE, 
  ETC. 
  

  

  Of 
  these 
  less 
  cultivated 
  and 
  comparatively 
  less 
  im- 
  

   portant 
  cereals, 
  some 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  imperfectly 
  adapted 
  

   to 
  our 
  climate, 
  this 
  notice 
  will 
  be 
  quite 
  brief 
  

  

  The 
  humidity 
  of 
  the 
  climate, 
  especially 
  of 
  the 
  south- 
  

   ern 
  and 
  western 
  counties, 
  subjects 
  wheat 
  to 
  the 
  smut 
  ; 
  

   and 
  the 
  want 
  of 
  water-power, 
  and 
  suitable 
  mills 
  for 
  

   preparing 
  the 
  flour, 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  facility 
  of 
  pro- 
  

   curing 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  wheat-growing 
  States, 
  at 
  a 
  cost 
  below 
  

   that 
  of 
  producing 
  it, 
  prevents 
  its 
  cultivation 
  in 
  this 
  

   quarter. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  northern 
  and 
  eastern 
  counties, 
  where 
  these 
  

   considerations 
  do 
  not 
  apply 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  extent, 
  and 
  

   where 
  there 
  are 
  in 
  many 
  neighborhoods 
  convenient, 
  and 
  

   in 
  some 
  cases 
  very 
  efficient, 
  merchant 
  mills, 
  it 
  becomes 
  

   more 
  an 
  object 
  of 
  attention. 
  The 
  quality 
  and 
  weight 
  

   of 
  grain 
  in 
  that 
  quarter, 
  and 
  the 
  yield 
  per 
  acre, 
  are 
  

  

  