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without manure. His father says he can raise better crops there 

 Tvith half the manure that was necessary to produce a good crop 

 in Vermont. Farm hands, he said, receive one dollar and fifty 

 cents a day, and board themselves, or fiteen dollars per month and 

 board. He would not advise a man to go there, unless he has 

 three thousand dollars. Still, some poor men do go there, and do 

 well. He saj's they have no waste land there. Men who are 

 industrious and have but small means, can soon accumulate a fair 

 competence. There is no waste land in that locality; and the 

 climate is wonderfully salubrious, and the land is cheap and easilv 

 worked. 



Prof. Nash asked what the discomforts are in Jersey in compar- 

 ison with the discomforts of the Western States. In most of the 

 Western States the pioneers, he said, die soon after they reach 

 their new homes. 



Mr. S. B. Nichols. — We have a single physician in Hammonton; 

 and he is obliged to engage in some other business, or he would 

 starve to death. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — People do die in the West; but he thought 

 the mortality is not so alarming as has been represented. 



Mr. S. B. Nichols. — I could go to New Jersey with one thousand 

 dollars, and succeed well- But some other men could not do it. 



Prof. Nash. — Pai't of the West has been settled, in many local- 

 ities, at an immense cost of human life. The location of much of 

 the sandy land of New Jerey makes it valuable. Being between 

 thc'two great cities. New York and Philadelphia, these markets 

 will warrant the use of artificial fertilizers for the production of 

 vegetables and fruits. Adjourned. 



December 10, 1867. 



Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



NORTH CAROLINA TEA TEOPON. 



Mr. H. C. Davis, Beaufort, N. C, forwarded a barrel of Yeopon. 

 It is the same as the Mate of Paraguay, South America, which is 

 higiil}^ esteemed; and a part was distributed. It is prepai'ed in 

 the same way as common tea or coffee. A pint will make a gallon. 

 It is drank hot, and is a preventive of fever. Molasses and milk 

 add to its goodness, and the cost of this tea is from forty to fifty 

 cents a bushel. 



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