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satisfied with the pastoral condition of the fertile prairies of the 

 Attakapas. Cultivation, wire fences and agriculture were an 

 abomination to him and any change was dreaded. Now the 

 stranger has come ; his once beautiful pasture is the home of 

 thousands, who partition the land among them and set a price 

 upon each acre of his once unlimited pasture. And the stranger 

 has come to stay ; he has stuck his stake, built his roof-tree, made 

 a home, and must have his price, which will be its true value, 

 reckoned by the interest it will pay upon the money invested, and 

 when all agree upon that, and they soon will, the price will repre- 

 sent the rate of interest it will pay. 



ONE GRAIN OF RICE. 



One grain of rice produces on being sown, the first year, 

 sixty bunches, or heads, of rice, each bunch giving 250 grains, 

 thus yielding the first year 15,000 grains of cereal. 



These 15,000 grains on being sown the next year, will yield 

 one and one-half (i 1-2) barrels of rice, and i 1-2 barrels of rice 

 sown the third year will give six acres of rice, at twelve barrels 

 an acre, amounting to 72 barrels. 



Thus the conclusion is reached that one grain of rice will 

 yield at the end of three years, 72 barrels, and still there was a 

 time when rice lands went a begging in our parish. Plaquemines 

 Protector. 



PREPARING FOR RICE CULTURE. 



CANE AND RICE WILL LEAD ALL CROPS AROUND WHARTON. 



Wharton, Tex., December 2. Active preparations for rice 

 farming are taking place on the 8,ooo-acre farm belonging to 

 Moore and Cortes. Dirt has been broken on the large canal, 

 which will be used to irrigate the rice. The lumber used in the 

 building of the canal will be floated down the river from Whar- 

 ton. Wharton planters are also going largely into rice, though 

 the great adaptability of the soil for such numerous varieties of 

 product will prevent any one industry becoming predominant. 

 Cane and rice will lead all crops next season.. From Houston 

 Post, Dec. 3rd, 1900. 



THE SEASON'S RICE CROP. 



Gustave A. Jahn, a New York rice authority, builder of rice 

 mills, owner of the new plant at Beaumont, and an importer and 

 exporter, was at St. Charles Hotel Saturday, after three weeks in 

 the rice belt of Louisiana and Texas. 



"What is my estimate of this year's rice crop?" repeated Mr. 

 Jahn, after the reporter, and he stood for a moment, tapping one 

 shoe on the tessellated floor of the hotel corridor. 



