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HANCOCK COU Y PIN* LANDS PLANTED VITH RICE WITHOUT R^OVING TREES July - 1867
Daily Picayune - Wednesday, July ?*+, 1867 quoting "Bay St. Louis Gazette"
The "Bay St. Touis Gazette" says good upland Rice crops have been made there in the piney woods without clearing the timber or deadening it, plowing up the open woodsland with a bull plow and brushing it in.