. North Carolina and its resources. ed as to be under the complete control of the planter;Vkdiile rice is a water plant, it may be easily killed with too muchwater. The rice lands of the lower Cape Fear river, are as fertile asany in the world, and will yield from fifty to sixty bushels to the acre,though the average is considerably less. From two and a half tothree bushels are seeded to the acre. To prevent floating, the seedare clayed by the use of clay and water, and then dried before soon as sown, the fields are flooded. This is the spring flow and remains until the plant is up, th
. North Carolina and its resources. ed as to be under the complete control of the planter;Vkdiile rice is a water plant, it may be easily killed with too muchwater. The rice lands of the lower Cape Fear river, are as fertile asany in the world, and will yield from fifty to sixty bushels to the acre,though the average is considerably less. From two and a half tothree bushels are seeded to the acre. To prevent floating, the seedare clayed by the use of clay and water, and then dried before soon as sown, the fields are flooded. This is the spring flow and remains until the plant is up, then drained and kept dry until therice shows distinctly over the entire field, when it is again floodedv/itli the stretch flow, which covers the plant entirely and remainsfor some days, when the water is drawn to a stand, that is, enoughis taken off to allow the tips of the plants to show on the surface ofthe v/ater. This stand of water remains until the plant has hadtime to regain the strength of stalk lost in the stretch flow, and. The Peaxut. 163 the plant will straighten up vrithii: twenty aa5S, when all the wateris taken off and the fields kept dry for a like period. Then theharvest flow is turned on, and remains for about two months, orv/ithin a few days before the begins. On August 20th, nevervarying more three days, the multitudinous rice bird puts in hisappearance. They come in such vast flocks that men and bo5s withguns must be stationed at intervals in and around the fields to preventthe destruction of the crop. Six weeks after the appearance of thefirst head of rice, the crop is ready for harvest. A sickle is used, thelaborers are paid by the acre for cutting and tying into bundles-After one da3s exposure it is shocked in the field, and after ten da5^sit is ready for the barn. The threshing is done by steam, and thegrain, weighing forty-five pounds to the bushel, is shipped in bagsand sold to the miller, who cleans and grades it for consumption. ToMr. Fred
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