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having raised a second crop of Early Hose, planted on the 8th of July, 

 harvested on the 20th of November. From one barrel of second-sized 

 seed potatoes, cut, plastered and planted on a gravelly hill-side, he 

 gathered ten bushels. The ground becoming very dry immediately 

 after planting, caused many of the sprouts to die. T. S. Wright, 

 another member, planted live bushels of small seed potatoes, same 

 variety, and about the same time, on clay soil, which produced thirty 

 bushels. Others reported having planted the same kind, about the 

 same time, but failed to get any return crop ; supposed cause, the 

 long-protracted drouth, which continued from the second week in 

 July until the second week in September. Perhaps the rolling in 

 plaster had something to do with the starting of the sprouts. It seems 

 to be a settled fact that we can raise two crops of Early Rose profitably 

 in this section, this being the second season the experiment has suc- 

 ceeded. The specimen of Monitors exhibited were planted the first 

 of July on the same ground as the Early Rose ; no fertilizer used. 

 "With such specimens and such conditions, we may challenge any por- 

 tion of the country this side of Nebraska. 



Japan Clover. 



Mr. C. Montgomery, Kingston, Jamaica — The Farmers' Club, as I 

 see by its record, seems to be doing a good work in conciliating all 

 races and sections of the Union into mutually instructive relations. 

 The wants of southern agriculturists may be weighed with special 

 advantages at this season, when northern tillage is taking its winter's 

 rest. In the semi-tropical belt of Florida and the west borders of 

 Texas and other States, there need be no cessation of out-door work 

 throughout the year ; and almost every man who can and will work, 

 may easily acquire a comfortable homestead ; but not one in fifty, 

 even of the class who have some means, and would be glad to profit 

 by instruction, know how to make use of their singular natural 

 advantages of cheap land in a superior situation. For example, the 

 value and the use of suitable green crops as alternatives and restorers 

 of land after exhausting it by corn, tobacco, cotton, etc., is but 

 little understood even in those sections where the cost of transporta- 

 tion alarms people out of the application of "imported" fertilizers. 

 The Japan, or, as some style it, the " Georgia clover," may come, per- 

 haps, to the rescue of millions of acres of old land at the south, if 

 their owners but knew what could be done with it, and could get the 

 proper seed. Can any member of the Club tell those who need it so 

 much where the Japan clover can be had, and at what price? The 



