of | | Produce | Amount
|Whole|Half|600 lbs.net| Weight |per barrel. | Dollars
-----------------+-----+----+-----------+---------+------------+----------
1. Prospect Hill |1,387| 10 | 1,4951/2 | 897,166|16 08-100ths| 24,001
2. Springfield | 737| 5 | 8011/2 | 480,937|16 60-100ths| 13,264
3. Brook Green |1,571| 15 | 1,716 |1,026,405|16 53-100ths| 28,261
4. Longwood |1,113| 4 | 1,2271/2 | 736,413|15 53-100ths| 19,021
5. Alderly | 484| 6 | 533 | 319,912|16 68-100ths| 8,851
-----------------+-----+----+-----------+---------+------------+----------
Total |5,292| 40 | 5,7731/2 |3,460,833| | 93,398
-----------------+-----+----+-----------+---------+------------+----------

Nos. 2 and 3 were sown with long grain rice, the others with small
grain. These plantations were all on the river Waccamaw. The expenses
of a well supplied rice plantation may be stated at 33-1/3 per cent. on
the net income.

A gentleman from the United States, named Colvin, proposes to
establish the cultivation of rice in the colony of Demerara. This is
no new experiment, rice having been already grown with success in
several parts of the colony--for instance, in Leguan, up the Canje
Creek, and elsewhere; and some of it is of superior quality,
preferable, indeed, to that imported. If Mr. Colvin's object be not
merely to demonstrate the practicability of rice being grown in
British Guiana, but to promote its cultivation on such a scale as may
tend to render it in time one of the staples of the colony, he is
deserving of support, and I hope that his efforts will be crowned with
complete success.

The editor of the _Gazeta_, a local paper, has been shown some sprigs
of rice raised near Matanzas, in Cuba, the smallest of which contains
at least three hundred grains, perfectly opened, and of a larger size
than is usually produced on the island. He observes that this
phenomenon is not limited to a certain number of sprigs, but that the
whole crop is similar--that this excess of production is to be
attributed to the extraordinary abundance of rain this year. "Here we
have a specimen," says the editor, "of the enormous production that
could be raised in our fields of this excellent and nutritious grain,
if it were cultivated in places contiguous to the rivers, where it
could be flowed during drought."

The experiment of cultivating r