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worth of the Northern Spy and Eoxburj Kusset apples from one acre of 

 land — almost four times the amount indicated by our estimate. The 

 same statements might be made in relation to the other fruits of the 

 orchard. Nor is there any danger of a glut in our markets from our 

 supplies of those products. In 1820 we exported more apples than we 

 have ever done since ; and for the thirty years past, while the quantity 

 exported is gradually diminishing, the prices at home are gradually 

 increasing, showing that our domestic demand outruns the supply. 

 There has not been any diminution of prices even for the perishable 

 summer fruits, and fifty times the quantity of winter -keeping fruit 

 would find remunerative markets among our own consumers. A single 

 city is no longer the limited market for the keeping fruit ; the whole 

 country is open ; railroads carry them to any part of the Union ; steam- 

 ships transport them to the illimitable markets of Europe. A single 

 orcbardist on the Hudson sold, in one year, ticelve thousand dollars' 

 worth of Newtown Pippins, a large part of which were profitably sent to 

 London and Liverpool. But the present amount sent to Europe, compared 

 with the quantities destined to flow there when our orchards are multi- 

 plied and facilities for transportation increased, is but as the dripping 

 rill to the mighty river. 



In view of all this, and much more that might be said bearing on this 

 point, we may certainly declare that agriculture will ahundantly imy. 



In all these estimates, allowance must be made, of course, for the con- 

 tingencies of seasons, &c. But when every allowance is made, there 

 remains a large margin of handsome profits accruing to the farmer — 

 sufficient, certainly, to offer the greatest inducements to the industry of 

 the country to embark its energies in that channel. And to this may be 

 added the further important considerations of physical and moral health, 

 happiness, length of life, and contentment, that agricultural pursuits 

 afford, and that rural retirement cultivates. 



What is Dyspepsia ? — In nature, it is a cross between a tiger and 

 a hyena ; in temper, it is savage ; in appetite, ravenous. It gets into 

 the pulpit, and says dreadful bitter things sometimes ; it gets into the 

 kitchen, and scolds the cook. It is long-visaged, sour-faced, and mel- 

 ancholy. It feels as if the world was made on purpose to be found fault 

 with. It sheds bushels of tears, and " speaks cross to the best of hus- 

 bands;" it has the head-ache, the back-ache, the toe-ache, the tooth- 

 ache ; it don't know what ache it has, nor what ache it has not I 



