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Average expense yearly for machinery re- 

 pairs 20 00 



Bagging and rope 350 00 



$ 6,676 80 



This crop, (28,000 pounds,) at six cents nett, will 

 leave a balance of $1,004.20, which is just about enough 

 to pay the owner common wages of an overseer, which 

 business he attends to himself. 



Now, while there may be a few better places, there 

 are thousands not near as good in all the cotton-growing 

 region. 



I could go on at considerable length to give other items 

 about cotton, as well as similar information about sugar, 

 &c., but my time nor your space will not allow it now. 



I would remark, however, that I am publishing a series 

 of letters in the American Agriculturist, published in 

 New York, for which I am the travelling correspondent. 

 It is possible also that I may publish the observations of 

 my tour in a more extended and permanent form, when- 

 ever I get time to write out all the notes that I have 

 taken. 



Any thing that I can do to add to the agricultural in- 

 formation of my country I have a strong desire to do. 

 I am, most respectfully, &c. 



Solon Robinson. 



Washington, June 4, 1849. 



Visit to Col. Capron's. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 8:250; Aug., 1849] 



[June 7, 1849] 



Col. H. Capron,^ of this place, is one of the most 

 intelligent, and his works show him to be one of the 



' Horace Capron, agriculturist, born Attleboro, Massachusetts, 

 August 31, 1804; died February 22, 1885. Failing to receive an 

 appointment to West Point, turned to cotton manufacturing, in 



