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tinue to bear good crops for over 20 years.’ Lincoln county : “ Our ridges, hills, 
and barren lands produce excellent fruit—apples, peaches, pears, &c. Fruits have 
never been made an object of profit, except small quantities of apples and peaches 
distilled into brandy. In 1866 some dried peaches were exported, and, perhaps, 
2,000 cans put up for exportation.” Coffee county: “Our table-lands are 
thought equal to any portion of the United States for thriftiness in the growth and 
durability of trees, and of quantity and quality of apples, peaches, plums, &c.” 
Our Henry correspondent writes as follows: 
There is no finer fruit region than that embraced by the State of Tennessee. Our winters 
are cold enough to put a stop to vegetation sufficiently long to enable the tree to recuperate, 
and yet not so severe as to endanger the life of any but the tenderest species. Apples, 
peaches, pears, quinces, plums, cherries, apricots, nectarines, figs, grapes, berries, melons, 
&c., may be raised with the greatest ease and in abundance. Wild grapes are found in vast 
quantities on the ridge and mountain lands, and also upon the table-lands, upon which, in 
some counties, they grow better upon the hills. Cultivated varieties have been successfully 
grown in some localities, while in others the results have been indifferent, and in some cases 
discouraging. } ' ; 
Our Haywood county correspondent says : 
The cuiture of grapes has received little attention, yet there is no doubt but they will do 
as well here as anywhere on the continent, from the fact that the best wild grapes I have 
ever seen grow throughout the whole extent of this country. A grape grows here in abund- 
ance called the muscadine, which produces a very superior wine. 
KENTUCKY. 
1. Returns from Kentucky show an average increase of about 10 per cent. in 
the value of farm lands over the estimates under the census of 1860, though 
the advance is by no means uniform, nor is the decline or increase confined to 
any particular section of the State; as, while in Kenton, Pendleton, and Boone, 
in the northern portion, lands have advanced from 40 to 50 per cent., Franklin 
county, close at hand, reports a decline of 25 per cent., and Owen and Old- 
ham “no change.” In the western section Webster reports 10 per cent. decline ; 
Ohio, Butler, and Christian, “no change.” Todd and Graves a small advance, 
and Livingston an advance of 10 per cent. Of the central and southern coun- 
ties, Clinton reports 10 per cent. decline ; Russell and Pulaski, ‘no change ;” 
Metcalfe, Whitley, and Laurel, 10 per cent. advance; Edmonson, 25 per cent. 
advance ; and Rockcastle, 30 per cent. advance. Thence further north, Har- 
din reports a decline of 25 per cent.; Spencer, 15 per cent. decline; and Fay- 
ette, “no change;” Scott and Gallatin, a slight advance; Henry 10 per cent., 
Harrison 20 per cent., and Anderson 33 per cent., advance; Jefferson reports 
lands in vicinity of Louisville 100 per cent. higher than in 1860, but not so large 
an increase for lands more remote from the city. In the northeast, Lewis 
county reports 30 per cent. advance, while the adjoining county of Greenup 
reports ‘‘no change.” 
2. The estimated value of wild or unimproved lands in the State varies from 
$1 per acre up to the price of improved lands in the several counties. Rock- 
castle and Pulaski are the only counties reporting as low as $1 per acre, the land 
in the former being “poor, hilly, and heavy,” and in the latter “varying from 
poor freestone plateaus to rich, north slopes and hollows in limestone, suited to 
fruit culture.” Lewis, Lincoln, Butler, Christian, and Graves report from $2 
per acre upwards, most of those at $2 being mountainous and poor, though some 
are covered with heavy forest and are susceptible of improvement and will pro- 
duce good crops. Russell, Edmonson, Webster, Livingston, Ohio, Hardin, Laurel, 
Greenup, and others, vary from $2 50 to $5 per acre; Anderson, Owen, Frank- 
lin, Trimble, and Metealfe, $5 to $10 per acre; while Todd and Pendleton esti- 
mate at $20, Kenton $25, Oldham $30, and Bourbon as high as $75 to $80 
per acre; the higher figures representing lands in close proximity to cities, 
upon lines of railroad, or with valuable timber accessible to market. In Ken- 
