Rice. hi 
The cost for scaring birds in the savannah is nil, the 
only birds to be seen are a species of wader resem- 
bling at a distance ' ( Negro Cop," and they are now 
harmless. 
In putting a price on rice grown on the East Coast, 
the local selling value for paddy was given ; the cleaned 
rice is white, such as you see on the table, which is sold 
retail at 36 cents per gallon. I may mention that the 
command of water to let off and on at pleasure is of 
vital importance, when attempting to grow anything in 
such pegass land, which burns up in dry weather to a 
cinder. 
Turning now to Anna Regina, as the most perfect 
mode of cultivating ricy, entirely by spade and hoe, that 
I have seen or read of, the arrangement is as follows : — 
As to the land, the abandoned cane fields, by preference 
in the lowest lying section of the properties, find most 
favour, as being the more readily put under water 
from the navigable canal. The arrangement is eight 
months rent free ; at the expiration of that term $23 04 
annually is paid in monthly instalments. An arrange- 
ment which refers more to the question of immi- 
gration is also entered into by which three days per 
week labour when called upon counts half rental, but for 
the object of this paper I confine myself to the ordinary 
tenants' agreement of $23 04 per annum, of course, 
including water. 
The rice farmer, having signed his agreement, enters 
upon possession, and when land carries sage, waak-a-baki, 
and such like, it is preferred, as the land is in better 
heart than where simple nut and bahama grass forms a 
complete sod. The bush is now all chopped down with 
