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articles upon trial. I will endeavor to give a just and true 

 account of them. 



I have near about twenty varieties by name, and hope to 

 be able to make an interesting report next winter. 



Since writing the above, some good felloAv has sent me seed 

 of a millet, entirely new to me. I have seen and grown sev- 

 eral varieties, but the shape of seed, resembling slightly wheat 

 when not grown, or injured, or perhaps rye when cut too 

 ear ]y the seed being longest and largest at one end. The 

 seed came from Lauderdale, Mississippi, and the writer gave 

 " Lauderdale" as his signature. This mode of signatures does 

 in some countries ; for instance the Duke of Devonshire, 

 might sign his name Devonshire and bo known. But, de 

 gustibus non, I will not quarrel with any kind-hearted fellow 

 who will thus make me a recipient of his favor. 



Truly yours, 



Edwards, Miss., April, 1850 M. W. PHILIPS. 



SECTION XI. SCRAPER AND COTTON SEED. 



MR. EDITOR : To-night I read your May number, in which 

 I notice a call for the description of the Mississippi Scraper, or 

 a drawing thereof. I also received a letter to-night, from a 

 new friend in Alabama, on the same subject. 



I hasten now to say to you, that I will write to Yicksburg 

 to-night, and endeavor to get a drawing. If I fail, I will send 

 a scraper to Augusta, Georgia, with direction that a drawing 

 be taken, and that the scraper be presented, in my name, to 

 the contributor of the Cultivator, who is most punctual in sup- 

 plying original matter for this paper. 



I have used the scraper for ten years, and believe I had 



