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merits of last year's crop, I give a few of them in this article to 

 show the possibilities where all conditions are favorable and the 

 best seed is used. 



Mr. Bob Andrews planted rice in Jefferson County in 1899, 

 and from forty acres of Japan rice, he harvested twenty-three 

 barrels per acre and sold it for $3.40 per barrel, making $3,128, 

 or $78.20 per acre. He also harvested from ninety-six acres of 

 Honduras rice, thirteen barrels per acre, for which he received 

 $3:60 per barrel, or $46.80 an acre, making a total of $4,492.80 

 from the ninety-six acres. 



Mr. William Day is from Illinois, but is living in Jefferson 

 County, Texas, along the Beaumont Irrigation Canal, and last 

 year, 1899, planted a crop of rice, and reports that from sixty 

 acres of imported Honduras rice, he made the following sales: 

 Four hundred barrels at $4.50, 150 barrels at $5.00, 75 barrels at 

 $5.00, 100 barrels at $5.00 and 175 barrels retained for seed to 

 use on his farm, which is worth $5.00 per barrel, making a total 

 of 900 barrels from 60 acres, with a total value of $4,300, or $70 

 an acre. 



D. C. Turner, living in Jefferson County, Texas, at China 

 Station, writes as follows: "I only had thirty-five acres of last 

 year's crop sufficiently watered. It made sixteen sacks per acre, 

 averaging one hundred and eighty-seven pounds per sack. Ten 

 acres were seeded with pure seed, second year from importation, 

 which I sold for $5.00 per barrel. The other twenty-five acres 

 were seeded with rice which had red in it. I sold it to the Beau- 

 mont Rice Mill for $3.55 per barrel. You can make your own 

 figures and see what it is worth per acre. I farmed rice in Louis- 

 iana four years." 



Mr. Frank Hammond, manager of the Port Arthur Rice 

 Canal, which is located in Jefferson County, under date of April, 

 1900, says: "We planted here last year 750 acres of ground, from 

 which we harvested 9,627 sacks. This amounted to 10,500 barrels 

 of rice, making an average of 14 barrels per acre. We had one 

 piece of new land amounting to no acres, upon which I planted 

 imported Japan seed. We harvested from this no acres about 

 2,270 sacks of rice, which averaged 193 pounds each, making 

 making about 2,700 barrels. I have sold this rice at an average 

 price of $4 per barrel for seed purposes. This makes 10,800 gross 

 receipts from the 1 10 acres of ground. I fully expect to repeat 

 the operation this year." 



The difference between rice culture and other agricultural 

 pursuits is, that a rice planter grows nothing else. He does not 

 want to do so, for the product from one acre of rice will buy sev- 

 eral acres of corn, oats, hayseed. Therefore, he buys all his feed- 

 stuff, except, possibly, a portion of his rice straw, which, when 

 properly saved and cured, is used instead of hay. The rice farmer 

 is not a competitor, as regards any other crop grown in our State. 

 In fact, he has gone on to lands heretofore unoccupied, and being 

 a good consumer, he is creating a market for great quantities of 



