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NEW ENGLAND FARIVIER. 



Jan. 



Farmers here are demanding twenty-five cents. 

 Some are commencing to strip, and not much is 

 found to be damaged in drying, thongh some 

 whice stripes appears. Why do not manufacturers 

 boy directly of farmers, and have it sorted as they 

 wish ; or might not bonded warehouses be estab- 

 lished in Boston and other cities ? s. 

 Westdeld, Mass., Nov., 1870. 



POISON ITT. 



"A correspondent vtTites us that whenever he 

 comes near the poison ivy (Rhtis toxicodendron) 

 he plucks a leaf and bites it, and say s this is a non- 

 preventive of any evil effects from it. Some per- 

 sons, however, are so sensitive to this poison that 

 we fear serious results would follow the first at- 

 tempt to put this in practice." 



I cut this from a "Western paper. Probably the 

 correspondent who makes use of this homeopathic 

 "non-preventive," is, like myself, entirely un- 

 affected by the poison ivy. Several years ago, 

 while huckieberrying, I handled the poison ivy 

 quite freely, and returning home washed my hands 

 at the kitchen sink. I myself was not in any way 

 affected by the poison, but my mother, who hap- 

 pened soon after to use the same towel, was so se- 

 verely poisoned as to lose her eyesight for several 

 days. However efficacious "a hair of the dog that 

 bit yon," may be as a remedy, I should hardly like 

 to prescribe if, in all cases, as a prophylactic. 



Boston, Nov. 18, 1870. Geokge. 



EASTERN VIRGINIA. 



In reply to the many persons who have written 

 to me for information in relation to prices of land, 

 health of the people in this tide-water portion of 

 the State, I would say through your columns that 

 I am little acquainted with matters out of my own 

 neigLiborhood. Within a few months the follow- 

 ing salfis have been made within a circle of two or 

 three miles of my residence. Several hundred acres 

 of the Seaford estate, off the water, without im- 

 provement, at ^15 00 per acre; several hundred 

 acres of the Burke estate, at same prices ; two to 

 • three hundred acres of Dr. Tabb's estate at same 

 price. All the above without improvements. 

 Oakland 200 or 300 acres at $18 per acre, improved 

 — very low. Cedar Lodge, about same size, im- 

 proved, $'35 per acre. The th^e last lie on the 

 river. Other properties are in the market ; one of 

 some 300 acres on the water, beautifully situated, 

 offered at $35 per acre; anotlier unimproved, 

 plenty timber, excellent oyster shore, worth more 

 probably than the land, "at $22 per acre. 



As to health, there is very littleof lower Virginia 

 that is not subject to autumnal fevers and chills. A 

 considerable portion of Matthews and a part of 

 Gloucester counties are as healthy as any portion 

 of New England, and I think a good deal more so. 

 Our land is thin and sandy, but takes improve- 

 ment very kindly, and is peculiarly adapted to 

 fruits, such as apples, peai-s — that can't be beat — 



teaches, grapes, figs, &c. No use in writing to 

 le. Come lor yourselves, via Norfolk. 



Sam'l Clark. 

 Hick's Wliarf, Matthews Co., Va., Nov., 1870. 



Cheese Factory in North Carolina. — Spec- 

 imens of fine cheese made by W. S. Cornell, for- 

 merly of Ithaca, N. Y., at a factory in Buncombe 

 County, N; C, were recently exhibited to the New 

 York Farmers' Club. Mr. C. unhesitatingly pro- 

 nounces that section of western North Carolina 

 baving AshviUe as its centre as, in his opinion, 

 ilie best cheese-making section of the United States, 



The region alluded to by Mr. Cornell has a length 

 of over 150 miles, and average breadth of 50 miles. 

 The soil is a black loam, rich In potash and vege- 

 table matter. There are hundreds of locations as 

 good as Mr. Cornell's for cheese-making, and land 

 is cheap. This factory is on Elk Mountain, four 

 miles froDkAshville, and is about 4000 feet above 

 the sea. Last summer the thermometer did not 

 go over 80 degrees, and the climate is favorable to 

 consumptives. 



PATENT ON FBUITS A2fD "VEGE- 

 TABLES. 



We have received a circular from George Has- 

 kell, of Ipswich, Mass., enclosing a proposed bill 

 to be passed by Congress into a law "to en- 

 courage the production of new and valuable fruits 

 and plants," together with the form of a petition 

 for the signatures of those who favor the passage 

 of such a law. 



The following sections of the proposed law will 

 indicate its character. The omitted sections re- 

 late mainly to details : — 



Sec. 1. Any citizen of. the United States, or 

 any person resident therein, who hath been or shall 

 be the originator or discoverer of any new and 

 valuable plant, being a new variety of any fruit, 

 grain, herb, root, tree, wood, or flower, and which 

 shall not have been sold or publicly offered for 

 sale by the originator or discoverer, and his ex- 

 ecutors, administrators or assigns, shall, upon 

 complying with the provisions of this Statute, 

 have the sole right and liberty of propagating and 

 selling such plant for the term of twenty-eight 

 years. 



Sec. 2. [Provides for a continuation of this 

 period for fourteen years, after the expiration of 

 that provided for in section one.] 



Sec. 11. The provisions of this Statute shall 

 apply to the propagation, increase, or multiplica- 

 tion of any protected plant by cuttings, buds, 

 scions, slips, offsets, tubers, layers, roots, and in 

 every other manner except the propagation thereof 

 by the proper seed. 



Sec. 12. All actions, suits, controversies and 

 cases arising under this law shall be originally 

 cognizable as well as in equity as at law, whether 

 civil or penal in their nature, by the Circuit Courts 

 of the United States or any District Court having 

 the jurisdiction of a Circuit Court or in the Su- 

 preme Court of the District of Columbia or any 

 territory. And the Court shall have power upon 

 bill in equity filed by any party aggrieved to grant 

 injunctions to prevent the violation of any right 

 secured by this law, according to the course and 

 principles of equity, upon such terms as the Court 

 may deem reasonable. 



Sec. 13. A writ of error or appeal to the Su- 

 preme Court of the United States shall lie from all 

 judgments and decrees of any of said Circuit or 

 District Courts in any action, suit, controversy or 

 case under this law, in the same manner and under 

 the same circumstances as in other judgments and 

 decrees of such Courts, without regard to the sum 

 or value in controversy. 



Sec. 14. In all recoveries under this Statute, 

 either for damages, forfeitures, or penalties, full 

 costs shall be allowed thereon. 



The circular says, "If you think this or -any 

 similar law for the protection of horticulturists de- 

 sirable and just, it is hoped that you and your 



