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wet weather, became very grassy, he estimates at about 

 35 bushels to the acre. The cotton crop of this vicinity 

 was much shortened by early frosts. 



A medium crop of cotton is 1,000 lbs. of seed cotton per 

 acre. This will produce 290 to 300 lbs. of ginned cotton, 

 and about 30 bushels of seed, weighing about 22 lbs. a 

 bushel. If 100 bushels of cotton seed per acre is used as 

 manure, it will increase the crop about one fifth. About 

 a quart of cotton seed to a hill of corn, scattered around 

 the hill of young corn, it is thought will increase the crop 

 about one fourth. Yet vast quantities of this valuable 

 article are wasted. Perhaps it would be useful informa- 

 tion to some of your readers to learn that cotton seed is 

 about the size, and has somewhat the appearance, when 

 free entirely from the lint, of large sunflower seed, and is 

 equally oleaginous. 



Dr. P. having a rather extra quality of Petit Gulf and 

 sugar-loaf variety of seed, is putting up some hundred 

 bushels for sale. He is sending a large quantity to South 

 Carolina, and realizes a dollar a bushel, exclusive of pay 

 for sacks. 



There is a new kind of seed in this neighborhood called 

 the "Hogan seed," selling for $10 a bushel. Last year, it 

 was sold at $1,000 per bushel, or a dime a seed ! It is said 

 to be a very large and productive variety, though not any- 

 thing like so large as the mastodon, which, frequently in 

 rich land, grows 8 or 10 feet high, with corresponding- 

 sized branches. 



Dr. P. is quite an amateur orchardist. He has about 

 40 acres set with trees, among which, he has 70 kinds of 

 apples, some of which are now coming into bearing. And 

 140 pears, — 150 named varieties of peaches, besides a 

 host of unnamed — 26 kinds of plums, 13 apricots, 5 or 6 

 of figs, and several nectarines. Early harvest apples 

 ripen here the last of June. Early York and rareripe 

 peaches ripen about June 20th. Snow peaches, July 1st, 

 and some of them eight and a half inches round. Early 

 Tilletson, ripen about 30th June, and are a very rich 



