FIELD


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FARM PRODUCTS.


deep and frequent cultivation and generous fertilizing as
any crop that can be specified, and its varying yield of
from five hundred to five thousand pounds to the acre bears
unmistakable testimony to the degree. of care bestowed
upon it. Good cultivation, indeed, will accomplish won-
ders with the cane; and though only the rudest processes
of manufacture are. as yet employed in Florida-the home-
made wooden cylinders are the usual type of mill-the re-
sults obtained are sometimes fabulous. It is known that
one small planter near Picolata, during the past year, with
no help except that of his own little boy, made from two
acres of land forty barrels of sugar and five hundred gal-
lons of sir ; and I have already told of the planter on
In ian River who, with the assistance of one negro man,
netted sixteen hundred dollars for five acres. When the at-


tention of capitalists
tunity, and improved
there can hardly be a
be the leading indust


shall have been drawn to the oppor-
processes of manufacture introduced,
doubt that the production of sugar will
ry of the State.


 CorroN.-Generally speaking, cotton is a safer crop in
Florida than anywhere else; but it is subject to some risks
from drought, rain, cold, and caterpillars, and other crops
which require less attention and are less dependent upon
negro labor are superseding it. Sea-island or long cotton is
raised mostly from the Suwanee River to the ocean, and
south of latitude 300. The average product per acre is from
one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds, though it
often exceeds double that. This species of cotton is only
raised on the sea-islands bordering South Carolina, Georgia,
and in Florida, the latter State raising over half the total
crop. Short cotton is grown west of the Suwanee to the
western and northern boundaries of the State; it will av-
erage from two to five hundred pounds to the acre. In
grade, Florida cotton rates with the best.
 CoRN.-This great food-staple is grown in all portions