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acre. The crop was not in the least affected by the disease, and I 

 attribute this to the use of refuse salt from the packing houses, put 

 on as a top dressing, at the rate of six bushels to the acre, after put- 

 tincr about a quart around every peach tree. 

 ' ° WM. B. ODDIE. 



HOPS. 



Morrisville, JYovemher 17th, 1846,. 

 T. B. Wakeman, Esq., :^^'j^i 



Dear Sir: — I received yours of the 1st, and in reply -would say,. 

 that the expense of raising and delivering hops of the quality of 

 those I sent to the Fair at Castle Garden in. October last, is as fol- 

 lows: - v] 



Rent of one acre of land, $10 00 



poles, 28 00 



Cultivating the land, 45 00 



Barn-yard manure, 10 00 



Harvesting, drying, bagging, and transporting to New- 

 York, 82 50' 



Profit, 34 50 



$210 OO 



Raised on the above acre 1,500 pounds, and sold Wm. 



B. & A. Mills for 14 cents per pound, $210 00 



The above acre of land is a dark loam, and plowed in spring of 

 1845, and 35 loads of manure were spread on, plowed in, dragged 

 and planted to corn and hops; and last spring the poles were set, 

 the hops were planted and hoed three times during the past season. 



Yours truly, 



EZRA LELAND. 



GEORGIA ARROW-ROOT AND STARCH. 



St. Marys, Geo., September 15th, 1846. 

 Dear Sir: — I beg leave to forward to you for exhibition at the 

 next Annual Fair of the American Institute, a sample of Arrow- 

 root, which I request you to exhibit under the name of " Georgia 



