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nothing beyond that. I can't certainly say whether it was 

 $35. per column that I first worked for, for the Tribune, or 

 not, but I think it was that. I struck for $50. per column, had 

 it for 6 mos, then declined to go on. That was large pay I 

 suppose, for the paper, but my literary spigot has such a 

 stricture that I couldn't dribble anyway for the press, in 

 addition to my other work. I have no idea what C. gets. 

 I don't know who shines in the N. Y. Sun. I now don't read 

 or see the ag. columns of any of the N. Y. or other daily 

 papers. I haven't strength or time. 



The Co. Gent., Albany, pays me $5.00 per column and I 

 have a sort of feeling that its column is not so consumptive, 

 relatively, of MSS. as the Tribune e. g., but I don't now recall 

 the result of any close comparison. I think that per column 

 is the usual mode of reckoning, and by that they mean as solid 

 matter as they can get, generally. 



I shall at once see if I can't suggest to some good parties 

 that they may get you to write for their papers, etc. Yours 

 most faithfully, S. W. Johnson. 



This letter of Professor Storer is an instance of 

 early use of the typewriter. 



Jamaica Plain, April 3, 1880. 



My dear Johnson: Behold how the virtuous man consid- 

 ereth the eyes of his friend and spelleth out his little sermon ! 

 To wit : I have had a great deal of pleasure in reading your 

 report, and I wish to bear the fact in upon you, and upon 

 Drs. Jenkins and Armsby also. I wish you would make my 

 compliments to both these gentlemen. Jenkins' list of fodder 

 analyses and Armsby 's article on amids are not only excellent 

 in themselves, but they are timely. It isn't often that fate 

 permits us to be thus instant in season. 



Your question of American hay vs. European becomes inter- 

 esting, does it not? I fancy we must look to Botany for its 

 solution. You remember, I suppose, that some twenty years 



