The Fairfleld Herald. t tel 'PUBLiUUEDp * kE RY WEDVESh Ib . p C011911ton -clifornia. 'TII oLbHN STlK A 'A ILD 0On t GROWING TI19 FLEECY SAPLE, o Major John L. Strong has furnish- Y ed the San Joaquin Valley Argus t with the fallowing comprehensive statement of thb edtton crop in Mor cod, Marlposa> Fresno and Korn couh- 1 -ties: . t ON TIE MEttoi b. The crops on the Meroed River are t Inuch father advanced than at the t rio anto the past year, hnd than-any e inpoctod by Major Strong. A heavy I yield would result from all the plant Ings if unmolested by the bugs which so seriously damaged the Strong crop last year. The same crop this year would yield a balo por nore if not 9 dainaged by bugs. It has already t suffered much injury from this pet, a and they continue to depredate upon it, so that no predictions as to yield 'znay be depended upon. v TIE COTTON ceor8 ON MAnIPOSA CREEK. -QI'ho crops on Mariposa oook are I more promising than at this season I last year, when the average yield was i 'two hundred and fifty pounds of gin 'ned cotton per acre. The first blooms on the Mariposa were found ol Wil cox's place on June 23. Mr. Wilcox 0 'has a 'ine crop of -180.acres, which 0 lis in some respects the most romarka- , ble cottou crop over produced in the United States and perhaps in the world. The entire work, except the a 'hooing, has been performed by two men. The hooing cost $1,60 and was 0 'xocutod by Chinamen. Mach of it was thinned to a stand at the rate of two and a half acres por man per day and "laid by" in May. We remem bor to have noted soine two years since some rather severe criticisms of the statements put torth by Major Strong through the public journals to to the effect that.ono man in Onlifor ida would cultivate double the num -bor of acres of cotton that wore culti. vated by a single laborer in tho cot. ton Statos. Tlhe Wilcox oropeviden ve'sn the fact that a laborer here will cultivato more than five tituos tho ,n ubor of acros cultivated by a labor. er in that region. Actual experience demonstrates resultsso far beyond the predictions of Major Strong as to ron der ctatomnonts which then seemed the extravagant fancies of an enthusiast, truo and iusignifcant by comparson. Nor is this remarkablo work confined to asingle oporator. 11. 1N. MeCinre has a crop of forty-five acres-tho best crop on Maripos;a Crook-all the work 'upon which he hits performed himself, except the hoeing, whicb was done by Uhinmuen at a cost of $100. Turner & lohlm have a crop of fifty acres lnesar thI foot hilha, which is equally rumarkable for the economy with which it has boon cultivated, and which promises a fine yield. The crop of Sampson Brothers, at tho forks of the Mariposa, comprise fifty acres, another two having performed the en tire work oxcepthoeing. Ti19 DANNER COTTON PILANTATIO4. Tiho largest crop on Miariposa Crock is thatof Major Strong, comprising 200 acres, which we think will give nn average yield of 250 pounds of ginned cotton per ace. The crop is on the iazelton ranch, and the plant ilng was attended with so many difii cul ties that they deserve mention, if but to show the wonderful results to be developed by the future in cotton culture in our State, The llazolton ranch lies immediately upon Maripo. sa Creek, and a large proportion of it is annually inundated by it during the rainy season. The lands planted by Major Strong are of this charaoter. lie informs us that '75 of the 340 acres ploughied was a cotton field last year, the balanice was a jumnghe of small woods, sun-flowers, old stubble, green barley, oats, grais, &c, Pos session of the lHazelton rnch wvas secured the 5th of March, and the first furrow was ploughed on the 9th. A large proportion of ground had not beeni ploughed for four years, and was eoveredl with the swamp grass known as "Mercod staight.," the roots very like those of "salt grass," and as difficult to break. The ground was first mowed, then raked into wvinrows and burned, then ploughed and liar. vowed. Much of it could not be burned because of the gren grass which had grown up among the dry stufi' and had to be hauled off the land. WVhenever sufficiently clean this greon growth was fed for hay. The ploughiing extended through A pril and plantiung was begun on the l5th. Thus the ploughming, planting, mowing andl raking all proceeded to gethier. T1he planting comprising 200 aores, was finished on the 10th of May. The ground, dry from tihe vegetation with which it was coveredl, from late ploughing, and the loose condition in whiich it was left by the heavy sod and thje vast quanitit y oft rash turned un. der, gave but a poor stand. Nuch of it had to ho replanted. This occu pied nearly the whole of May, replant. ing boimg stopped on the 20th. A d1Am wvas built across the creek which would have enabled Major S. to flood two or more acres of very dry land, but wvhiich was rendered worthless by some individual above him who also0 built a dam and monopolized the stream. Th'le perseverance under so snany difficulties exhibits as a result a crop equal to the annual average growth of the MIissisp pi river bottom a* this season. O. the 7th of July so foral e talks in thme open fild ' ouut+ o I80 to 100 bolls, bloomis and squares p r stalk-the stalks not above 2.1 root in heigtha. The best eott-ma is about waist high. and will attain to vo or six feet. Major Strong thinks iat all the land planted in cotton the resout year on this ranch will, with like season next year, yield 1,000 ounds of seed -cottoi per aore, or bout 333 pounds of ginned cotton. 'he past spring was very unfavorable ) the rapid grokvth and develgpuent f the cotton crop. It was character. :od especially by cold high winde, and hio absne of our usual spring show iro. TIhe lands planted in cotton dii lariposa oreek were nearly all new inds, and the *crop of tho pre.y F. E LDER. linC his goods before purchasad e uudersold by any one. F. ELDER. t. t ge th....en.ii.> N.I:\CNMsAN IDET o. iitout rei c~nann. e an r fspodotacsa fh in sdiment.i aie~c L ll Dgod8i Wrantd Couts rerste. t. nor., 60and $1ra0ted. DI. 2~t Nole crie f or. looi. 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