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the place last year, of Mr. Packwood,^ the elder, at $225,- 

 000, with all on it. There are 8,000 arpents of land, 700 

 in cultivation, 450 in cane last year, and 575 this year, 

 balance corn, &c. ; 139 slaves; 80 field hands; 55 v^orking 

 mules and horses ; 50 oxen ; 20 carts ; 40 plows ; 200 cattle, 

 and a few sheep, but no hogs ; good sugar house and ma- 

 chinery, with Relieux apparatus of three pans capable of 

 making 12 to 14 hogsheads a day, or three hogsheads at 

 a strike. The sugar house and machinery is valued at 

 $50,000. The other buildings are good ; the negro houses 

 built of brick, with elevated floors, 32 feet square, divided 

 into four rooms, with chimney in the centre. There are 

 twelve of these. The last crop was 700 hogsheads of clar- 

 ified sugar, which usually sells, in hogsheads, from 5 to 6 

 cents per pound. The molasses will not probably exceed 

 20 gallons to the hogshead, if it does that. 



The next place below Myrtle Grove, is that of Col. 

 Maunsel White,- heretofore described in the Agricultur- 

 ist, by R. L. Allen. ^ His front fence, some three miles 

 long, is made of three boards, whitewashed, upon posts 

 set in a bank, upon which is a hedge, or rather thick row 

 of sour orange trees, many of them loaded with fruit glit- 



* Samuel Packwood. Awarded a premium for the Rillieux process 

 of loaf sugar and for the best rough sugar, 1846. American Agri- 

 culturist, 4:30 (1844); Southern Cultivator, 6:136 (September. 

 1848); De Bow's Review, 1:167 (February, 1846); 3:118 (Febru- 

 ary, 1847). 



' Colonel Maunsel White, of Deer Range plantation on the Missis- 

 sippi River, thirty-six miles below New Orleans. In 1801 came to 

 New Orleans from Ireland. State senator from Plaquemines Par- 

 ish, 1846. Administrator of the state university. Established 

 Chair of Commerce and Statistics. Fought under General Jackson 

 in War of 1812. Stockholder in a cotton manufactory at Cannel- 

 ton, Indiana. Aided W. J. Minor, a young Louisiana mechanic, in 

 the perfecting of a steel plow. Discovered the fibrous value of 

 okra as a possible substitute for hemp. Vice-president of Louisiana 

 Agricultural and Mechanics' Association, 1847. Contributor to 

 De Bow's Revieiv, 1847-1848. American Agriculturist, 10:122 

 (April, 1851); Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Re- 

 view, 18:670 (June, 1848). 



* American Agriculturist, 6:175 (June, 1847). 



