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regard to their culture. Getting these products to market in 

 good order is of great importance, and it is really cheaper to 

 bring them in good order than otherwise. The quantity named 

 by Mr. Brinckerhoff, three gills, is as much as should be kept 

 together, either of strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries ; and 

 baskets containing this quantity is preferable to any other method 

 of preparing them for market ; the fruit can thus be kept cooler, 

 and there is less liability to ferment. 



The diseases which make their appearance annually in our 

 cities dui'ing the season of fruits, such as cholera-morbus and 

 other bowel complaints, are generally attributed to unripe fruits, 

 particularly among children. But I apprehend they may, with 

 greater propriety, be attributed to small fruits in a state of fer- 

 mentation, than to any other cause. The quantity in this condi- 

 tion which is found in our markets, is by no means small, and 

 much of it undoubtedly finds purchasers. 



Of the small fruits worthy the attention of cultivators, we 

 would name strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, 

 gooseberries, cherries and cranberries. The latter, it is well 

 known, is capable of cultivation upon upland, producing crops 

 of from 3 to 500 bushels per acre, vastly improved in quality. 



A. CHANDLER. 



PAPER FROM THE BARK OF THE MULBERRY. 



Northampton, Mass., July 30, 1850. 

 Secretary of the Amencan Institute : 



Dear Sir — It is now some ten or twelve years since the culture 

 of silk attracted the attention of the public. The American In- 

 stitute put forth its energies to promote a cause which must ul- 

 timately succeed in the United States. What has been done by 

 other nations can be effected here, particularly when a more 

 dense population will inevitably call into requisition every agri- 

 cultural appliance. The energy and enterprize of oui- country- 

 men, engaged in mechanical and scientific pui'suits, have pro- 

 (h^ced results of the most gigantic character in magnitude and 



