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cider tasting like vinegar and water. In Germany and France they are not 
much better. The orchards have not the luxuriant growth and fine appearance 
of our western orchards. * * * Ihave been engaged in underdraining for 
the last ten years, and as the result of my experiments I will mention one lot 
of twelve acres, the most of which was too wet to raise corn, except in very 
favorable seasons. This land was thoroughly underdrained, and I have since 
taken two splendid crops of corn and one fine crop of barley, (forty bushels per 
acre,) and then the lot was ploughed deep once and put into wheat early and last 
year, bad as the season was, harvested twenty bushels of fine wheat to the acre. 
The exnense of draining was less than $200 in the way I worked it, being mostly 
done in the winter, when I could spare my hands the best. It will be seen that 
one-half of last year’s crop more than paid the expense of the underdraining. 
Another inst ince: A lot of about fifteen acres was partially drained and put in 
corn the past year. The portion of the land that was drained yielded nearly 
one hundred bushels of ears to the acre, while the part undrained produced 
searcely fifty bushels. * * * My experiments prove that most of our land, 
when thoroughly underdrained and sowed early, will generally produce good 
crops of winter wheat. 
WHEAT CROP IN NEBRASKA. 
De Witt, Cuming county, Nebraska.—In recording the final results of the 
year just closed, it may not be uninteresting to give a few facts and figures of 
the most remarkable wheat crop ever harvested in this county. Although the 
average yield per acre is only 304 bushels, it would have been much higher were 
it not for a number of weedy farms having light yields, which reduced the total 
product. The best yield was that of afarm on Rock Creek bottom. The owner 
informs me that he sowed thirteen bushels of seed and harvested four hundred 
and forty bushels, or at the rate of forty-six bushels per acre. We raised over 
thirty thousand bushels of wheat in this county the past year, with a population 
of five hundred souls. 
OPENING FOR CAPITAL AND ENTERPRISE. 
Madison county, Georgia.—Northern capitalists are coming into the State 
and engaging in manufacturing, agriculture, mining, &e ‘he resources of 
Georgia are varied and incalculable. Nearly all the products which make up 
the necessaries and luxuries of life are found within her limits, What she needs 
is improved systems of husbandry and capital for manufacturing. With these 
she-would soon become one of the first States in the Union. Now that slavery 
is abolished, the people will doubtless become more settled and cultivate less 
land, but do it more thoroughly. The State presents fine openings for men of 
industry, skill, and capital. So genial is the climate that two crops are often 
made upon the same land—wheat and corn, or wheat and sweet potatoes. 
A SOLDIER-FARMER IN MISSISSIPPI. 
Lauderdale county, Mississippi.—l came here a discharged northern soldier, 
totally ignorant, practically, of even the first principles of farming. Cculd not 
commence operations until February, and then with such hands as I could pick 
up. The plantation had not been worked for several years, was covered with 
logs, overgrown with briars, and fences gone. Yet, with all this, I succeeded in 
planting about 200 acres. Oats proved a failure; castor beans, ditto; corn, an 
average of ten bushels to the acre; cotton averaged a bale of 500 pounds to each 
34 acres, peas, sufficient to pay for sowing; sweet potatoes, several hundred 
bushels. My expenses for labor, feeding stock, &c., amounted to $3,500, against 
which I have 34 bales of cotton, 400 bushels of corn, $100 worth of sweet pota- 
toes, and $150 increase in value of mules. So I have no cause to complain of 
