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ductions. Your manual will encourage and assist these exper- 

 iments, and it will be of essential service to the community. 

 Very cordially and truly, your obedient servant, 



Charles L. Flint. 

 To J. F. C. Hyde, Esq. 



FROM HON. SIMON BROWN, EDITOR OF THE N. E. FARMER. 



Office JVew England Farmer, Boston, Dec. 27, 1850. 

 Dear Sir : I am glad to learn, through your note, that you 

 are preparing, and about to publish, a manual relating to 

 the cultivation of the Chinese Sugar-caTie, and the best mode 

 at present known of obtaining the juice and converting it 

 into syrup. 



The introduction of the sugar-cane is only another of 

 those blessings conferred on the progi'ess of the race which 

 have been so frequent and beneficial, and which there is still 

 reason to believe will be greatly extended. More earnest, 

 intelligent, and scientific investigation into the great art of 

 agriculture will undoubtedly introduce new vegetables, and 

 grasses, and grains, of permanent value, and new and 

 delicious fruits, of which we are now entirely ignorant. 

 Nature is prolific and bountiful throughout her wide realm ; 

 her secrets are not all past finding out. Intelligence and 

 application will reveal them, and constantly confer new com- 

 forts upon all. 



I hope our people will find in your manual encouragement 

 to make multiplied experiments in the cultivation of the 

 cane, and the production of syrup, so that out of all the 

 trials instituted a sufficient number of reliable facts will be 

 obtained to settle the question whether it can be produced on 

 the farms of New England and the West at a cheaper rate 



