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a committee to whom tlie subject shall be referred with instructions 

 to report in regard to all tlie peculiarities and collateral facts. For 

 this work I will name Messrs. Fuller, Downing, Lyman, Quinn and 

 Crandell. 



Yegetable Seeds. 



Mr. J. H. Lee, American Eanch, Prescott, Arizona Territory, 

 wrote as follows : Inclosed the secretary Avill please find ten dollars, 

 which he will confer a great favor to me by handing to some practi- 

 cal farmer, and in return request him to send me several four pound 

 packages of winter wheat, with full instructions as to sowing, &c. 

 Our winters here are very mild, scarcely any snow or frost sutficient 

 to staj^ frozen all day, ])ut owing to the altitude we are liable to 

 late frosts in June, which might prove fatal to wheat. I would 

 like, also, to correspond with several members of the Club for the 

 purpose of exchanging wild seeds of various kinds, which abound 

 here, for vegetable and garden seeds of difterent kinds. Last spring 

 I paid ten dollars a pound for all my garden seeds, in fact all kinds 

 of vegetable seeds. I planted carefully according to directions, and 

 when they came up some were one thing and some another. Will 

 the Club refer me to some reliable person to procure seeds for next 

 season, as -our mails out here, owing to Indian difficulties, are very 

 uncertain ? By commencing now I might procure a good supply by 

 next planting. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — I don't know a better wheat grower than Geo. 

 Geddes of Syracuse. I propose that half the money be forwarded 

 to him, with a request that he oblige our correspondent in the way 

 indicated. The other five dollars might be put into the hands of some 

 reliable seedman. 



Ramie. 

 Mr. D. B. Ranney of Smithville, N^. Y., asked several questions 

 on the subject, to which Mr. J. G. Gregory, a gentleman who may 

 be considered authority in the matter, made the following replies : 1. 

 A wet soil is not necessary, neither is irngation essential. 2. The cli- 

 mate of Middle Georgia is not favorable to its growth. 3. There is no 

 good machine yet in operation for reelucing the cuttings to market- 

 able condition, but I was recently informed that Mr. Erastus Bigelow, 

 President of the National Wool-growers' Association, has a machine 

 which he thinks will do the work well. I shall have opportunity to 

 investigate further, and will report hereafter. 



