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causes, but if one tree fails, another may grow in its 

 place ; and with proper skill and care, the actual 

 value of production, taking a series of years, may 

 remain without much variation. 



It is believed, that the cultivation of all the choice 

 fruits, to which our climate and soil are adapted, 

 may be very greatly extended with a certain pros- 

 pect ;of abundant remunerating profits. A distin- 

 guished cultivator, in a neighboring county, informed 

 me that the net income, arising from the sale of his 

 Isabella grapes alone, three years ago, exceeded that 

 of his whole farm of one hundred and fifty acres. 

 Another farmer, who has paid particular attention to 

 the cultivation of peaches, informed me a few weeks 

 ago, that his sale of peaches in the Salem market, 

 the present season, amounted in one week to the sum 

 of one hundred and twenty dollars ; and that his 

 peach-trees, for a series of years, have yielded him 

 an annual income of between four and five hundred 

 dollars. It is to be considered, that the Essex farm- 

 er finds a great and constantly increasing demand for 

 all the choice productions of the earth. He is in the 

 midst of the most densely populated region in this 

 country. He has a cash market almost at his own 

 door for every contribution that he can bring to it ; 

 and as the facilities of intercommunication are con- 

 stantly increasing, by the operation of that great 

 power of modern times, steam, which is effecting a 

 revolution, in the condition and relations of the 

 whole civilized world, the only means by which an 

 Essex farmer especially can successfully withstand 

 the active competition and conflict which these dis- 

 coveries are adapted to produce, are improved modes 

 of cultivation, with particular reference always to the 

 production of the best article for the market, what- 

 ever it may be. Our husbandry must be a model 

 husbandry. We must make up in fertility of skill, 

 expedients and useful devices, what we lack in the 

 natural fertility of the soil. In this way, and by 

 these means, Essex husbandry, which has a cash 



