FIELD AND FARM PRODUCTS. 269

 RICE.-There are thousands of acres in every section of
the State that are peculiarly adapted to the production of
rice, but it has not been cultivated as yet to any extent,
except for domestic use. The cultivation is as simple as
that of any. cereal, and twenty-five to seventy-five buels
of rough rice to the acre is a fair yield. The idea that rice
can only be successfully grown on low lands that can be
overflowed at certain seasons has proved to be mistaken.
What is known as "upland" rice can be grown on any
fairly good and well-irrigated soil; and the success with
which this has been cultivated in Florida seems to indicate
that in future, when rice-cleaning machinery has been in-
troduced, this will be one of the great staples of the State.
Maturing earlier than in other States, new Florida rice has
a proportionate advantage.
 SWEET-POTATOES.-This article of food is as indispen-
sable in all Southern households as rice is to the Chinese,
macaroni to the Italian, or the Irish potato to the Irish-
man. White or black, no family is so poor but it has a
potato-patch. It yields all the way from one to four hun-
dred bushels to the acre, according to soil, cultivation, and
season ;- is grown from root, drawer, and slips; is planted
from June to August, and matures from July to November.
It is of easy cultivation, and may be dug and safely banked
in field ani yard, or housed.
 IRISH POTATOES. -The common Irish potato grows
 fairly well in all parts of Florida, but does best in the
 northern and middle sections. The yield is not so large as
 in the North, but will average from one to two hundred
 bushels per acre, and in choice locations along the St. John's
 and in North Florida the product is sometimes upward of
 four hundred bushels per acre.
 ToBAcco.-Tobacco will grow anywhere in Florida. A
 superior quality, of Cuba tobacco, from imported seed, is
 mostly grown in Gadsden and adjoining counties, and fully