45f 



THE COAST REGION. 



Cost of each Item of Labor and Material expended in the Culture of an Acre 



of Cotton. 



ITEMS. 



ONE. 



TWO. ; THREE. FOUR. FIVE. 



Rent or interest on money invested 

 in lands 



Wear and tear of implements . . . 



Cleaninoj and burning weeds and 

 stalks^ 



Other cleaning up 



Digging and carting salt mud . . . 



Spreading salt mud 



Cotton seed for manure, 20 bushels, 

 at 85 cents 



La|)ping mud and seed in with two 

 furrows, or rolling ditto .... 



Fish scrap, 200 lbs., and spreading, 

 15 cents 



Kainit, 200 lbs 



Acid Phosphate, 200 lbs 



Spreading last two, 15 cents each. . 



Commercial manures 



Home-made manures 



Applying manures 



Bedding up with plow 



Splitting middles 



Breaking out ridge of old bed . . . 



Planting 



Replanting 



Seed 



Eight to ten hoeings and haulings. 



Blowings with sweep plow .... 



Thinning and regulating stand . . 



Cleaning ditches 



Picking cotton 



Sunning and drying cotton . . 



Ginning, cleaning and packing . . 



Bagging and twine, per bale. . . . 



Hauling to gin 



Hauling to steamboat and freight to 

 city 



Storage, insurance, weighing, dray- 

 age and selling 



Foreman's wages and rations. . . 



$ c. 



5 00 

 1 00 



40 



07 



1 00 



80 



6 40 



12* 



G5 

 50 



2 00 

 30 



"Zo 



121 



45 



20 



30 



60 



25 



121 



10 



00 



15 



00 



55 



50 



2 50 



2 75 



5 00 

 1 00 



40 

 07 



121 



?? c. 



5 00 

 1 00 



40 

 07 



f c. 

 3 00 



25 



15 



6 50 



25 



45 



40 



25 



121 



50 



25 



30 



60 I 



25 



12i| 



10" 



00 



15 



00 



55 



40 



50 



2 50 



1 50 



50 



25 



45 



40 



25 



121 



50 " 



25 



30 



60 



25 



121 



10 



00 



10 00 



2 00 



55 



50 



50 



7 00 

 55 

 40 



50 



2 50 



50 



25| 



1 50 

 6 00 



2 50 

 50 



11 20 



8 80 

 55 

 50 



50 



2 50 



Total 45 69» 51 2914^ 52 I 52 25 27 32 



