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would it be ? In my opinion, there is nothing so great, no other one 

 thing that we could do that would benefit him so much, as to annihilate 

 the tobacco plant from the face of the earth. 



Carrots a Substitute for Coffee. 



Mr. Asher H. Chapman, of Pendleton Hill, Conn., recommends carrots as 

 a substitute for coffee, and thinks them much better than chiccory. One 

 of its principal recommendations with Mr. Chapman is that it takes less 

 sweetening. It is the very point upon which we should condemn it. We 

 repeat our previous assertions, that chiccory is the best substitute for 

 coffee that has yet been used. Mix one part chiccory, two parts rye, and 

 one part coffee. It will make a beverage that at least one-half the coffee 

 drinkers will prefer to pure coffee, and we are .satisfied it is more whole- 

 some. The rye should be carefully picked over by hand, clean washed, 

 well roasted and ground. The chiccory should be cut in small slices, 

 thoroughly dried, well roasted and not ground, and it should be thoroughly 

 boiled. The coffee will then be clear. 



Fruit in Michigan. 



Mr. George Redfield, writing from Mill Point, speaks in the most hopeful 

 terms upon the prospects of fruit culture in Michigan, particularly in its 

 western portion: "Hundreds of acres have been planted within the last 

 two or three years in this immediate vicinity." 



Tree Cotton. 



Mr. Thomas C. Buckmaster, Newburgh, writes: 



"There is nothing that I read with more interest, or take more pleasure 

 in, than the report of the Farmers' Club. 



" Wishing for some further information in regard to the South American 

 cotton tree, which you had under consideration some time since, and seeing 

 the pure seed advertised by one Edward Tathesall, Wilmington, Del., I 

 write to inquire whether he is reliable, whether the seed is reliable, and 

 whether the former statements of this tree are reliable." 



Professor Mapes. — A certain Mr. Kendall appeared before the Club last 

 year, and made very flattering statements about this South America cotton 

 tree, and deposited with me a quantity of seed for sale. Some months 

 afterward, circumstances came to light which convinced me that Kendall 

 was an impostor — tliat he never grew the tree in Maryland except as a 

 hot-house plant; and any one selling the seed now with the recommendation 

 that it will grow here, is either humbugged himself, or trying to humbug 

 others. 



Mexican Guano. 



Upon motion of Prof. Mapes, a committee was appointed to inquire and 

 report upon the value of Mexican guano, found upon the Atlantic coast, 

 which, although destitute of ammonia, he says contains from forty to sixty 

 per cent, of phosphate, which must make it a valuable application upon all 

 well prepared soil, for that does not require ammonia. He does not allude 

 to the volcanic phosphate or rock guano, as it is termed for that has been 



