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heads. As you will see by the annexed table, showing the date of first frost, 
the winters here have been unusually mild the last three years: 
1849 3 oes eee Movembes: 2a es ae ata) aa) ila a= evare' fee November 12. 
1850iy p52 cen es & November: W7aSGU. 6.2). ./ Soa 655 04 November 10. 
1SSTY Pte So So November.) GoMelaG bso: 5 Soaan a ..-None. 
TGA cess os Novenmmbler: 2 eiehoee << .'.)</s'2 Dat esite s October 27. 
TSS oe st averine © Oetober ys se IS6S8 od ous ws eo hens? November 30. 
[07 oy | oe November: 15.41) 18642... 6.0 5 dee 25 - November 22. 
igs. ee Octabensni24a HISGSr . . .<k Sade See None 
NSS December oh lS6Ge- casio 25.425 None. 
LUSH. BARS B eons November tlOnW SGT aac eis ss ose cl5 cose None 
PG oe ce) Siota's aio ake November 9 
Last year the winter was so unusually mild that the sugar cane bloomed in 
some of our more favorable localities, which had not occurred here since 1842. 
Last year our trees were weighed down with oranges; this year they have 
scarcely any. Cause, the same disease which made its appearance in Florida 
about the year 1840. 
BUTTONWOOD BUSH. 
Randolph county, North Carolina. —The Randolph Agricultural Club directs 
me to request the Department at Washington to propound the querry in circu- 
lars, monthly reports, or otherwise, “ How best shall we get rid of the button- 
wood bush, that is such a great pest in our natural or wet meadows?” It would 
be very desirable to know the most practicable means by which the farmer could 
get clear of the bush in question. 
[Cut it down, spring, summer, and fall, until by continuous cutting it will 
become exhausted and die—Eb.| 
PINDARS. 
Onslow county, North Carolina—The Pinder pea is quite a full crop this 
year, and is largely planted in our county in many localities to the exclusion of 
cotton. There is an extensive belt of land lying on Brown sound, Stump 
sound, New river and other localities, that is peculiarly adapted to the growth 
of this pea, and is planted to the entire exclusion of cotton, yielding from 50 
to 75, and in many instances as many_as 100 bushels per acre, worth the past 
season from $2 to $4 per bushel, besides fattening a large quantity of pork. 
Where the land is adapted to the growth of the Pinder pea they will yield from 
50 to 100 bushels per acre, and each acre can, after the crop is housed, fatten 
10 head of hogs without other feed. 
PRODUCTIONS OF KANSAS. 
AGRICULTURAL Rooms, 
Topeka, Kansas, October 15, 1868. 
Dear Sir: Upon the 6th instant I forwarded to you by express a box of 
cereals and fruit from our State fair, trusting that you will deem it a worthy con- 
tribution to your Department. It is generally conceded east that Kansas is a 
good stock and grain-growing State, but, to our prejudice, an erroneous idea 
prevails that we cannot raise fruit, I sent you a variety of autumn and winter 
