times, these crops, owing to the possibility of frost, were not
fully matured. Had they been allowed to grow to full ma-
turity and ripeness, their yield would have been one-third
greater. Fifty bushels of rice, fifty bushels of corn, and
forty bushels of oats, per acre, have been frequently made
on large areas of similar lands, and are now being made.


 OBJECTS.
 The prime objects of the company will be the drainage
of and sale of lands, the erection of sugar mills, and growing
of sugar cane. It will promote all other industries-agri-
cultural, mechanical and commercial.
 The purchase of sugar cane delivered at central mills
will be one of its prime objects.
 The following estimates of cost of drainage, erection of
mills, field drainage and cost of growing cane, have been
carefully compiled by eminently practical and successful
drainage engineers, and successful sugar plantation man-
agers.
 The cost of each item of expense has been fixed at maxi-
mum rates, while the result in value of lands reclaimed, and
yield of crops per acre, have been fixed at the minimum
figures, as shown by years of experience in similar work in
Florida, Louisiana and Cuba.


 CONTRACT CANE.

 Small growers who desire to plant small areas of cane,
io to Ioo acres, will find the company disposed to pay the
highest price possible for sugar cane. As the "season" is
not crowded, the grower can expect the best results.
 The canals will afford the most direct and economical
method of transportation. The owner of a small farm will
be greatly benefitted as the heavy expenses for mules and
horses are greatly diminished.