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will be invariably $1 per bushel of 25 Ibs., 10 cents per bushel 

 for the sacks and hauling to depot. No seed will be reserved 

 except from cotton picked in September and October. 



Now as to varieties : 



The Sugar Loaf Seed will be from the second year's selec- 

 tion. Sugar Loaf is regarded, by every neighbor I have, as 

 being the best seed yet planted by them. I have heard the 

 opinion of a majority of them. With me they prove, on rich 

 land, the very best. 



Vick's WO- Seed is generally acknowledged to be the best 

 selection from the Mexican or Petit Gulf, ever planted in Mis- 

 sissippi. Col. Yick sold his, the present year, at $1.50 per 

 50 bushels, or over, and $2 for any quantity under. 



Brown's Seed is, in my opinion, identical with the Tarver 

 Seed of Alabama, and very much like Sugar Loaf; bolls more 

 pointed ; not so prolific or so easy to pick. 



Pitt's Prolific, I have growing this year, for the first. For 

 me it does not well, and does not seem to be established ; some 

 stalks are good, some excellent, others so-so. 



Hogans. I have eight acres to itself, no other seed planted ; 

 besides two other patches replanted with other seed. I shall 

 only reserve from the first. I am not so highly pleased as last 

 year, but there is great allowance to be made : I had to replant 

 twice, not cleaned out until May, and the land was in part too 

 level a good part of the land so level that cotton was almost 

 drained out. 



Banana, from seeing and feeling, I pronounce identical to 

 the above. 



Prout, the same, I might say, as I can show both kinds in 

 same field. 



Chester, I might say as for Banana. 



Pomegranate, I believe to be identical : never heard of it 

 until I saw a notice from a Mobile paper, though Gen. Mitchell 



