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ren County, Miss. I saw the correspondence and assure 

 Hinds that these seed are introduced from Georgia, yet I be- 

 lieve they are of the same parentage as the Cluster, which is 

 the original name, and from whence Win. Hogan, of Warren, 

 procured his seed. 



The Multiboll I never saw, and therefore cannot say aught 

 lor or against it. But the Sugar Loaf, upon rich fresh land, 

 say big black, or Mississippi low grounds, will excel any 

 other that has yet been tested by its side, and I know not a 

 solitary person who denies it. 



As to those, whom Hinds charges with " always collecting 

 new corn and cotton seed," and they being the persons who 

 fail in cotton crops. That may be so. There has to be one 

 sheep in the flock to carry the bell, and provided the bell is 

 useful, the other sheep should not complain. One who knows 

 all this ought not to split upon the breakers. 



Hinds has done me the kindness to send me some seed, 

 which I planted, and have only two or three stalks. They 

 shall be nursed, though I do fail in a crop. I am fond of tiles'! 

 sort of things, and as it is necessary that there should be some- 

 body fool enough to waste his time, I might as well be that 

 one, as I have no babies to feed. So Mr. Hinds, thou neigh- 

 bor of mine, who blaze away with a scattering shot gun, 

 under so large a name, e'en load up and fire again no telling, 

 you will hit somebody ; and it will keep up our blood in the 

 long days now setting in. 



I would like to know yc ; you talk well about impositions 

 I will join you in some respects, but I prefer to be specific ; 

 and I will not, if possible, commit a similar blunder, as any 

 one who says Banana, and Hogan, and Pitt, are one and the 

 same. The first two may be, but never the last. 



I have been buying seed for some fifteen to seventeen years. 

 I have sold for two or three years, and I wish to sell again. 



