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and if possible remove from the old pens into new ones after dipping 

 and a cure will be sure." 



Agriculture ix Georgia. 

 Mr. J. Howard Brown, Angusta, Ga. — In a tonr of several weelcs 

 through the soutliern States, I have liad opportunities of judging of 

 the present tone of sentiment of the southern people, and especially 

 as regards the encouragement of northern emigration, and their feel- 

 ings" toward those who wish to make the south their home. The 

 universal! J expressed opinion among all classes is that tlieir only hope 

 of future prosperity lies in the enterprise and superior training of 

 northern farmers as superior to and soon to supplant their slovenly 

 and imperfect system of planting. Seeing this, and that there is no other 

 way of obtaining the practical knowledge requisite to change the 

 prevailing sentiment that cotton is the only crop adapted to the 

 cotton States, is the importation of more such men as the few now so 

 successfully farming the lands of South Carolina and Georgia, open- 

 ing the eyes, of accomplished planters and wonder-stricken negroes 

 at one and a half, two and two and a half bales of cotton to the acre 

 on a clover sod, preceded by corn, and followed by wheat, and then 

 a crop of genuine North river h;iy that is cut three several times, 

 and nets from thirty dollars to forty dollars per ton at the nearest 

 depot. In view of these facts, and the apparent ease with which 

 they are produced, the former exclusively cotton planters are on all 

 hands praying for more northern men to come and teach them how 

 to become farmers rather than planters. The land is cheap. You 

 can purchase improved farms, with all the necessities of life and many 

 luxuries, for from two dollars and fifty cents to ten dollars per acre, 

 near cities and depots and markets ready and glad to have all you can 

 raise. If yon have but little money, they will sell you the land and 

 wait for the money until you make it from the fruits of your toil. 

 Pav a little down, and they M-ill depend on your success for the 

 balance. Have you no money, and are you a practical farmer, go to 

 Dr. Jaynes, near Penfield. in Green county, and he will give you a 

 farm, furnish you with teams and provisions, accommodate 

 you wdth a house, and let you pay for your farm from 

 the proceeds of your labor. This plantation is one of the 

 best in central Georgia, and where you can raise from twenty to forty 

 bushels of wheat, three-fourths to one and one-half l)a1es of cotton, 

 thirty to sixty bushels of corn, and three tons of JS^orth river hay to 



