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labor after it was laid by, for it had to be gathered and there
was the shucking and shelling as occupations for rainy days. It
was not unusual in Texas to plant two crops of corn a year, but
there is nothing to indicate that this was done on the Perry
plantation. They did plant potatoes in the corn.
As a rule, there was more corn raised on the plantation than
was consumed there. In 1838 the Record Book showed that 15
bushels of corn and 11 bushels of corn in the shuck were sold;
in 1839 a surplus of 31 bushels of corn, 54 bushels unshucked
corn, and 23 bushels of corn meal were sold; in 1841, out of 73
loads, 10 bushels of corn, 9 of meal, and $1.25 worth of "hom-
money" were sold; in 1842, 1 bushel of seed corn and 30 bushels
of meal; in 1843, 10 bushels of corn and 83 bushels of meal. In
1844, they sold 150 bushels of corn, contracting to grind 20 of
it into meal, 57 barrels of unshucked corn, 5 bales of fodder, and
80 bushels of meal. The following year the plantation disposed
of 228 bushels of corn, 20 bushels in the shuck and 30 bushels
of meal. The crop of 1846 amounted to 3800 bushels and was
gathered in September. Of this amount, 123 bushels and 116
sacks of corn, 11 barrels of corn in the shuck, and 17 bushels of
meal were sold. In 1847 the crop, which was planted between
March 2 and 6, yielded 92 loads, estimated at 2300 bushels. They
record as sold, 24 bales of fodder, 110 bushels and 114 sacks of
corn, 42 barrels of corn in the shuck, and 8 bushels of meal. Of
the 1848 yield of 144 loads (about 3600 bushels), 60 bushels
were sold. From the crop of 1850, the memorandum shows as
sold 583 bales of fodder and 58 barrels of corn. From this time
until 1863, there are no records of any sales except 176 bushels
in 1858. In 1863, the overseer, Mr. Ayers, sold 1162 bushels
of corn and 23,973 pounds of fodder to the government, and 25
bushels of meal to various civilians. The price varied from
seventy-five cents to a dollar per bushel. Apparently the planta-
tion never had to buy corn or meal, but always had sufficient to
supply their needs. The custom was to charge toll in kind for
grinding corn at the mill. All this corn may not have been
raised on the Perry land. Part of it may have come from the
mill, no doubt some of the meal did.
The crop which was apparently taking the place of cotton in
the fifties was sugar cane. Phillips, quoting from P. A. Cham-100
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, July 1922 - April, 1923, periodical, 1923; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101084/m1/106/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.