120 TlMEHRI. 
The average yield is 50 bushels to the acre, and the average weight 
of lowland rice is 55^ pounds to the bushel, making 2,666f pounds to 
the acre. It requires 80 days' labour to each acre from the first flooding 
till the rice is marketed. 
The result per acre of rice-raising can be stated as follows : — Labour; 
$18 ; manure, $8 ; interest on $100 @ 10 per cent., $10 ; total cost, $36; 
2,666| pounds of rice at 2\ cents, $66 66\ ; total profit, $30'66f . 
If the above was a real profit, the farmer could make a favourable 
showing ; but the Government tax is claimed by the farmers to be 50 
per cent, of this profit, leaving only $17 to $18 per acre. 
As I remarked before, 10 acres is a large amount for one proprietor, 
and many have one acre or less. The upland rice is sown at the same 
time, and flooded and manured in the same manner ; but the yield is 
far less and the profits proportionately small. The lowlands rest during 
the winter, but the uplands are immediately dug up and fertilized with 
rice, bran, or hulls, or horse-manure, rice-straw, or liquid manure from 
water closets, at a cost of about $4. to the acre and sown in wheat or 
barley. 
I trust that in this paper I have brought together 
trustworthy information to guide those who may throw 
their energies into rice. All the work required is of so 
light a nature that women and children may find 
employment at it ; and I see no reason why bullocks 
may not be pressed into the service in the rougher 
manipulation of the land. In all my remarks, I allude to 
small cultivators, there being no restriction to the size 
of the plots ; it may be a square rood, or an acre, or a 
company with a thousand acres. 
I take this opportunity of thanking all the gentlemen 
who have assisted me with reliable information con- 
nected with the subje6t under consideration, especially 
Mr. Imlach of La Bonne Intention and Mr. McPhail 
of Anna Regina. 
