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result tban the cultivated land around Hammonton. One year 

 a^o he was just as much prejudiced against all that section of the 

 State as Prof. Nash, but he had to yield to ocular demonstration. 

 Every one who visits the place can see for himself what the land 

 produces, and he must believe the whole community are combined 

 in one grand lie, or else he must believe cultivation here equally 

 profitable with any other part of the State. Strawberry culture 

 commenced here in 1863, and in 1865 the crop sold for $32,500. 

 There are now growing 160 acres of cultivated blackberries. 

 Some of these acres yielded DO bushels per acre last year, and the 

 prospect is most encouraging this year. So it is for everything 

 else, excepting peaches and strawberries, which are no worse 

 here than everywhere else. We have prided ourselves upon pear 

 culture on the clayey lands of Newark, yet we must own now that 

 we are in no respect ahead of the sandy lands at Hammonton, and 

 in all that part of the State, and I must credibly acknowledge that 

 a poor man has a better opportunity to make a living upon sandy- 

 land than upon a stiff clay soil, or upon the richest lands of the 

 west. The only difficulty that I have found at Hammonton, or 

 any of the other new places, is in the want of means to start with. 

 The new settlers are not able to buy and use as much manure as 

 would be profitable. 



Country House Nuisances. 



Mrs. Van Slyke, Genesee, Allegany Co., N. Y. — "You can do 

 the country a great favor by calling the attention of people to 

 sources of disease existing upon many farms, in the " pest houses" 

 called privies, which accumulate their contents for years, the wash 

 of the kitchen sometimes included, until they are not only offen- 

 sive, but, according to reports in your board of health, extremely 

 detrimental to health." 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — No doubt of it, and often the unknown 

 cause of severe fits of sickness. A reform in the construction and 

 care of t*liese necessary farm buildings is much needed. They 

 can be deodorized by fine charcoal, dry muck, fine, dry clay, gy^p- 

 sum, copperas in solution, and several other inexpensive substances. 



Early-Cut Grass. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — Grass cut early always makes the best 

 and most nutritious hay. It is better for work-horses and oxen, 

 and is infinitely better for cows that give milk than ripe grass, aa 



