He raised ramie successfully last year, and sold, he told me, from one-tenth of an acre, two hundred and sixty three pounds of prepared ramie, for fifteen cents per pound.

He used, to dress it, a machine made in California, which several persons have assured me works well and cheaply, a fact which ramie growers in Louisiana may like to know; for the chief obstacle to ramie culture in this country has been, so far, the lack of a cheap and rapidly-working machine for its preparation.

It struck me that Mr.Finch's experiment with ramie and jute would promise better were it not made on new land from which I believe only one crop had been taken.
When these tule lands have been diked and drained, they are sold for from twenty to twenty-five dollars per acre.

Considering the crops they bear, and their nearness to market--ships could load at almost any of the islands--I suppose the price is not high; but a farmer ought to be sure that the levees are high enough, and properly made.

To levee them costs variously, from three to twelve dollars per acre.
The tule lands which lie on the main-land, and which are equally rich with the islands, are usually ditched and diked for less than six dollars per acre; and this sum is regarded, I believe, by the State Commissioners as the maximum which the owners are allowed to borrow on reclamation land-bonds for the purpose of levee building.
I spoke awhile back of the existence of beavers in the tule country.