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slightest notion that a vineyard in Missouri how- 

 ever exquisite the vintage wiU return the treble per 

 acre of the Lafitte estate of Medoc. There have 

 been exceptionable periods as in the days of the 

 Morus Multicaulis fever when an acre under ordi- 

 nary cultivation would yield its three or four thou- 

 sand dollars of profit ; but whoever makes such excep- 

 tional returns, whether due to wine or mulberry 

 delirium, the basis of certain and continued horticul- 

 tural successes, is either blinded by his enthusiasm, 

 or wantonly misleads. 



I record one other fifty-acre experience. Mr. 

 Stimpson, an active, red-bearded, prompt man, is 

 understood to have purchased some eight years since, 

 a farm of some forty to fifty acres, within a couple 



of miles of the thriving city of , for the sum of 



twenty thousand dollars. Does he recommend a simi- 

 lar purchase to such inquirers as Mr. Urban ? 



Witness. " If Mr. Urban can make as good a pur- 

 chase unhesitatingly." 



Mr. Stimpson has found his farming profitable 

 then? 



The witness begs to correct a possible misappre- 

 hension ; his farming was not profitable. He had 

 undertaken the raising of vegetables ; but he could 

 never find a grocer or vegetable dealer who would 

 pay him half price for them ; he undertook the small 



