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East "Worcester, plowed a light upland Icam ten inches deep, with 

 first rate results. Except on some of the alluvial Hats along Cherry 

 Yalley creek, there is very little land in Otsego county but would 

 be the better for deep tillage. 



Migration Southward. 



Mr. Alfred B. Zorega, writes the club a long letter from Loudon 

 county, Va., saying that the club is wrong in discouraging migra- 

 tion south except by colonies. lie says that what Loudon county and 

 a]l Virginia want is Yankee enterprise and Yankee ingenuity. He 

 was a Union officer in the war, and connnanded a gunboat, has 

 ever and in all companies denounced slavery, but finds no prejudice 

 against him on that account, and no disposition to refer to the past. 



Dr. J. V. C. Smith.— I know this gentleman well. He has wealth 

 and intelligence, and what is more he has a generous heart. He will 

 take by the hand all northern men who go to settle near him. I shall 

 be happy to give letters of introduction to this correspondent to any 

 of my friends who propose to settle in that part of Virginia. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker.- — One error is hinted in this letter from Virginia, 

 on which I would say a word. He concludes that Loudon is a splendid 

 grape county because the native vines are very large. That is no sign 

 at all. As a general thing there are more wild grape vines in valleys 

 than on the hills. But that does not prove that vineyards should bo 

 in the valleys. A big vine does not always yield a superior grape. 



Dr. J. E. Snodgrass.— Loudon was of old one of the best counties 

 of Virginia. A great many Germans and Quakers settled there, they 

 were anti-slavery, and tb.eir part of the county was the best. There 

 is much rich, strong land there. But I think the gentleman is a little 

 in error about the temper of those old planters. 



Fine Table Grapes. 



Several boxes of them were distributed to the club by Mr. C. W. 

 Idell, of West Washington Market. The best were Isabellas. They 

 cling longer to the cluster. His Catawbas did not market so well this 

 year, many of them were not entirely ripe. 



Dr. Isaac P. Triml)le. — Last year I Avas at tlie Knox Vineyard, 

 Pittsburg, Pa., and saw tliirty acres covered witli a erop estimated at 

 160 tons. They were mostly Concords. 



Mr. AV. S. Carpenter. — We have no finer grape than the Catawba, 

 if it ripens. Those from Kelly's Island and the soutli shore of Lake 

 Erie are unecpialed in America. 



