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for a cow-pen, sow it in peas and pasture on it. He must plant 

 some sweet potatoes, onions and other vegetables for food, and pea- 

 nuts for sale. • Suppose two acres in potatoes and vegetables, three in 

 peanuts, five in cow-pen, and five in sugar-cane and any other crop. 

 He must set out a hundred or more orange trees right in the woods. 

 He can expect from two to three hundred bushels of sweet potatoes 

 per acre} from thirty to fifty bushels of peanuts per acre, and a crop 

 of sugar-cane which will yield him from 600 to 1,000 pounds of sugar 

 to the acre. The peanuts sell on the spot at one dollar and a half 

 per bushel, and the sugar at ten cents per pound — the molasses always 

 pays the expense of gathering, grinding and boiling. Hence his 

 first year's salable crop, at lowest estimate, is worth $425 ; and he 

 can make much of his own living. In the fall he must plow in the 

 peas and cattle droppings, and have another five acres ready for a 

 cow-pen. The next year he plants his former cow-pen with sugar-cane, 

 and may expect a yield of at least 1,000 pounds of sugar to the 

 acre ; in a few years this may be doubled. A man who is willing to 

 work can make more money in Florida than any other part of the 

 United States I have ever seen. The great trouble is that too many 

 go there thinking to live without work. I would advise him to take 

 a steamer from New York to Savannah, and thence by rail to Talla- 

 hassee. There look over the land-office maps and see where 

 there are vacant lands between the St. John's and the ocean ; 

 then go down there and look at them and locate. Avoid all 

 land agents as long as Uncle Sam has a foot of territory for his children. 

 The fare from this city to Jacksonville, via Savannah, is twenty-seven 

 dollars. I would advise him and all others who wish to learn some- 

 thing accurate of Florida, to buy Hank's Gazetteer, for sale by the 

 American News Company. With strict economy, a man can get a 

 good start in Florida on $250, and he can be comfortable on $500. 



Japan Clovek. 



Mr. Andrew Post, Angelica, Allegany, N. Y., wrote to ask if any 

 one had tried Japan or Georgia clover in western New York, also as 

 to Gambia grass, and is there anything better than timothy for our 

 soils. 



Mr. Henry Stewart — Japan dover is not adapted to the northern 

 States, and at best is only suited for a poor makeshift pasturage. 

 It is not a cultivated plant. There is no better forage or leafy plant 

 possible for almost every part of the country than red clover, and this, 

 with the help of plaster and a mellow, well-prepared soil, will thrive 



