th Carolina gives the following account of some rice raised there.
He says:--

"I have planted it the two past years with a view to private
consumption only; not, however, with the success of my neighbours,
who are famous, and have the things under their own management. They
make from forty to fifty, and some, sixty bushels to the acre, on
fine land that produces ordinarily from ten to fifteen bushels of
Indian corn or maize. It is a larger grain than the gold or swamp
rice, and very white; hence it is commonly called here the 'white
rice.' It is planted generally about the middle of March, or 1st of
April, in small ridges two-and-a-half feet apart, in chops at
intervals of about eighteen inches, on the top of the ridge, ten or
twelve seeds in each chop. A season that will make Indian corn,
will, if long enough, make this rice; but it requires about four or
five weeks more than the corn to mature. It ought to be cut before
quite ripe, as it threshes off very easily, and is liable to great
waste. Instead of the flail, we take the sheaf in the hand, and whip
it across a bench in a close room until the rice leaves the straw.
It does not stand the pestle as well as the swamp rice, but breaks a
good deal in the beating; this, however, I have heard attributed to
the dry culture."

A new variety of rice is mentioned as having been discovered in South
Carolina, in 1838, called the big-grained rice. It has been proved to
be unusually productive. One gentleman, in 1840, planted not quite
half an acre with this seed, which yielded forty-nine and a half
bushels of clean winnowed rice. In 1842, he planted 400 acres, and in
1843, he sowed his whole crop with this seed. His first parcel when
milled, was eighty barrels, and netted half a dollar per cwt. over the
primest rice sold on the same day. Another gentleman also planted two
fields in 1839, which yielded seventy-three bushels per acre. The
average crop before from the same fields of fifteen and ten acres, had
only been thirty-three bushels per acre.

The following were the returns of produce on some of the leading
estates of South Carolina, in 1848:--

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| Barrels | | | |
| Shipped | Barrels | |Average Net |Net Income
Plantation |__________|