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the mealing process, of a small size, such as weigh about 1000 lbs. gross, or 500 

 net. Larger cattle would require more time and a greater quantity of meal. 

 Hogs are not fattened on meal in this region of country to any extent. Those 

 who have tried it say it is a great saving of corn — I will take more time, and col- 

 lect all the information on the subject of your letter that is m my reach, and will 

 write you again. 



Yours respectfuUy, JACOB D. WILLIAMSON. 



We shall hope to hear again, and cannot too often, from a correspondent of so 

 much practical experience. At the same time we cannot but lament the want of 

 facilities if not of inclination among American practical farmers and graziers, 

 for more varied and exact experiments, with a view to practical economy, in the 

 pursuit of their business. J. S. S. 



PRINCE GEORGE'S AND ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTIES, MD. 



LANDS AND STAPLES MEN AND MANAGEMENT. 



If any man desire to see a superior region of country, let him traverse that, 

 •tip and down and crosswise, which lies from the head-waters of South River 

 stretching across to Bellair, and embracing the forest of Prince George's County, 

 including all the head springs that empty themselves into the Patuxet River, 

 fdown, (as far as we have personally observed,) as low as Bendict, and embracing 

 both shores of the Patuxet and the shores of the Chesapeake Bay from the 

 mouth of Rhode River to Drum Point, and his eye will pass over a district scarcely 

 any, if anywhere, in the Union surpassed for natural fertility, easiness of culti- 

 vation, adaptation to the most valuable staples and fruits, and quickness, under 

 good management, to recuperate when exhausted by that which is murderous and 

 bad. 



This region, it will be seen, embraces the whole of Calvert County. Nor, 

 probably, in any part of the United States will the same number of agricultu- 

 rists be found who better hnoxv what is needed to constitute good and profitable 

 Husbandry. Among them the first Agricultural Journal attempted in the Union 

 has been distributed for 29 years, and during all that time, with occasional inter- 

 vals. Agricultural Associations have served to disseminate the knowledge of the 

 best informed and most successful cultivators. If it may be said that a small 

 proportion read agricultural journals, it cannot be denied that those who do 

 freely communicate what these journals contain ; and thus the best processes and 

 latest discoveries and improvements are made known to all. 



Thirty years ago, Mr. Hebb and Blr. Law were appointed by the Prince 

 • George's Agricultural Society to report the value of the exports, the preceding 

 year, from that county. On the 19th of Oct., 1818, Mr. Hebb reported as follows : 

 " The only article that I have been able to ascertain with certainty was the crop 

 of Tobacco, of 1816, which according to the return of Inspectors, amounted to 

 4,460 hogsheads, inspected in the year 1817, as the product of the preceding year 

 to which may be added 200 hogsheads shipped out of the county without being 

 inspected. To this quantity, made in 1816, may be fairly added one-fourth as the 

 increased product of the last year — equal, at the present averaged price, to 

 $873,000, a sum perhaps not equaled by any county in the State." Tobacco must 

 .have been then at a high figure. When that report was printed, in the follow- 



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