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tables, and having but little competition, he reaps the 

 benefit. I saw tomatoes in his garden to-day, Feb. 27, 

 a foot high. 



Within a short time past, Mr. Rogers has established 

 a milk-selling business in town, and reduced the price 

 from 40 to 25 cents per gallon. He assured me that it 

 used to be sold for two dollars per gallon. After a most 

 pleasant visit with this very intelligent gentleman and 

 his lovely wife, he accompanied us as far as Col. Heb- 

 ron's, 1 where we met Dr. Bryant 2 and several other 

 gentlemen, and partook of one of the most sumptuous 

 dinners that I have yet seen on my journey. And when 

 we take into account the long distance between the house 

 and kitchen, which Dr. Phillips and myself computed at 

 twenty rods, it appears a still greater wonder how such 

 a dinner could have been gotten upon the table in one day. 

 This wide separation of the house and kitchen, is only 

 an extreme of a very extraordinary fashion. If a similar 

 fashion prevailed in Yankee land, we should hear of 

 sundry enactments to "encourage the building of rail- 

 roads" between the two points. I will just mention that 

 among the standing dishes at Col. H.'s dinner, was one 

 of his three year old hams. 



Col. H. is earnestly engaged in a system of culture 

 that I should like to see more universally prevalent here, 

 where it can be followed with such pleasure and profit, 

 and for which the lands of Warren county seem so well 

 adapted. I allude to orcharding. Col. Hebron, Dr. Phil- 

 lips, and several others, are making extensive efforts to 

 supply the New-Orleans market, particularly with 

 peaches. In a small way, this has already been done at a 

 most enormous profit. Raising fruit and cotton will work 

 well together; for the great hurry with the cotton crop 

 is in picking time, which is long after the fruit season 



1 Colonel John L. Hebron, native of Virginia. Moved to Mis- 

 sissippi about 1820. Widely known as the proprietor of the La 

 Grange nursery and fruit orchard, containing 11,000 bearing trees. 

 Died about 1862. Letter from Vicksburg Public Library. 



2 Nathan Bryant, Bovina, Warren County. Planter. 



