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mostly very dry and unfavorable. With his present 

 knowledge of the business, he is confident that he can 

 obtain at least three thousand pounds per acre, which is 

 said to be more than is often obtained in Germany. The 

 whole amount of labor he estimates at from eighty to one 

 hundred days' work per acre. The value of the crop, 

 at the usual wholesale price, (about fifteen cents pel 

 pound,) from three to four hundred dollars. In foreign 

 countries it is customary to m-ake several qualities of the 

 madder, which is done by sorting the roots ; but as only 

 one quality is required for the western market, Mr. Swift 

 makes but one, and that is found superior to most of the 

 imported, and finds a ready sale. 



