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Mr. Andrew S. Fuller. — For my part, I am glad to see this young 

 Georgian among us. He, and all like him, who believe in a new 

 epoch for the south, a brighter day, a truer system, sounder ideas, 

 and a just economy of the powers of nature are welcome, and if we 

 can aid them by words uttered, or words printed, we will be glad 

 so to assist. There is hope from the young men of the south. They 

 are not haunted by vague regret and dim visions of a faded glory and 

 splendors now traditional. They are not brooding over old wrongs,, 

 and asking whether there is a protection from a just God. The old 

 planter will never take lessons from a northern farmer in anything, 

 because that would be to admit that northern ideas may be better 

 and sounder than southern ideas. But the young man of the south, 

 he who honors labor and is not above work himself, will come, 

 in time, to understand and adopt a system that will lift their acres 

 from a value of ten dollars to a value of $100. Thorough tillage, 

 blooded stock, and big manures piles will do it in Georgia as they 

 have in New Jersey and New York. 



Cranbekkies. 



Mr. F. S. Abbott Sharon, Penn., and Mr. Augustus Parker, West- 

 ville, Conn., make inquiry in relation to the culture of cranberries. 



Mr. J. B. Lymau. — The best soil is a cold, black muck. The 

 land must not be made too dry. If cut with ditches, these should 

 be kept half full of water ; and a dam is necessary to flood 

 the patch in winter and to kill worms. The best results follow a 

 top-dressing of white sand, the cleaner and whiter the better. Sand 

 does good in two ways. It keeps the patch clean of grass and 

 weeds, and it keeps the muck below cool and moist. The top-dressing 

 of sand should be renewed once in two or three years. The plants 

 can be obtained by applying to Mr. Ephraim Empson, New Egypt, 

 N. 'J., or Mr. Frank Todd, Bricksburgh JST. J. They cost about 

 two dollars a barrel, and you set out eight barrels to an acre, like 

 cabbage plants, two feet apart each way. If you have sand mixed 

 with the muck naturally, and the ground is too wet, plow, harrow, 

 and set out ; then keep clean with the hoe and hand. 



Adjourned. 



