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culture has been tried and proved a fair success. Hops are naturally 

 adapted to our soil and climate, and we learn that the present year 

 promises to he a profitable one for the hop grower. The Alden fruit 

 drying process is another opening for enterprise, which will give value 

 to the surplus fruit of our numerous orchards that now goes to waste. 

 We might mention many other articles which would be profitable pro- 

 ductions in this State, such as the sugar-beet, hemp, jute, silk, English 

 walnuts, oranges, raisins, lemons, etc. Let the fact once be clearly 

 proven to the farmers of our State that a much more profitable return 

 can be got from these crops than from grain raising, and they will turn 

 their attention to new channels. We are not opposed to wheat growing, 

 if cultivated in addition to other products. One continuous crop year 

 after year will ruin the best land in the world. A change of crops will 

 give land a chance to recuperate. Besides, a variety will be the means 

 of adding to the wealth and importance of our State in many ways. It 

 will create manufactures, thereby inducing immigration that will settle 

 up the waste places with thriving communities. 



