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the north, and that northern merchants could not: tell the difference ; 
still in order to get the highest price he was obliged to send his skins to 
New York, through Ohio and wa the Erie Railroad as if they had come 
from the northwest. The principal furs obtained in the southern Alle- 
og are the skins of the otter, mink, black fox, red fox, raccoon, and 
that they have a northern climate, A year ago, our guide to the top of 
Roane told us that he had been on its summit when it was covered with 
' The wheat harvest at the Forks of Pigeon begins about the first 
ia July ; and we know of no better criterion for isothermal lines 
¥ we time of ripening wheat. We kept a record of it in western 
‘w York, and in ten years the annual time of beginning the wheat 
< did not vary three days from the 16th of July. 
@ valleys in the Carolina Mountains vary in elevation from two 
Pees to upwards of three thousand feet, hence a few miles travel will 
osha gaat mate. This we experienced 
brome in going from the valley of Jonathan’s Creek to that of the 
setand the latter near two thousand. The Chinese sugar-cane (Sorghum) 
vely grown, and may be regarded as a decided success. There 
tection s dear; hence the introduction of the Chinese sugar-cane in that 
pers ‘efia great blessing, and will enable many a poor family to have 
we section of the United States have we seen finer apples, and they 
? from seedlings originally planted by the Indians. Silas 
re of Franklin, in Macon Co., has devoted more than twenty years 
into those mountain valleys, butter” i 
| eys, butter and cheese might also be 
for the —— market. One great drawback to the raising of 
sy are destroyed by wild animals, and also killed by the 
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