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SEEl-TWE km HAB¥EST. 
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
Grand Bay, Ala., April 8, 1885. 
Editor Seed-Time and Harvest: 
Dear Sir,—I see in the March number of 
Seed-Time and Harvest, also in Northern 
fai in papers, something about Johnson 
Grass. While I think it is a good thing for 
the South and other hot and dry sections, 
1 do not think it will be found of much 
value in the North when better forage 
plants can be grown, such as clover, tim¬ 
othy, etc. It is true it makes very heavy 
civ ps on good land, but it must be remem¬ 
ber*-d that it is of a course nature. Roben- 
sirnia iScaboa, commonly called Mexican 
Clover, I think would be found to be of 
more value for forage or to turn under for 
green manure than either Johnson Grass 
or Japan Clover. It grows on the poorest 
kind ol urnd and stands drouth, in fact, 
stems to like dry weather. It grows on 
„ good soil too, Mr. Editor. Did you ever 
see anything that did not? It is good feed 
for all kinds of stock green or dry. I have 
often wished I was a horse or cow so I 
could eat some when making hay, it smells 
so nice. Fed green it increases the flow of 
milk, gives butter a rich color and good 
flavor; in fact, it is in my opinion as good 
as clover, and will grow where clover 
would not. It is an annual, but self seeder. 
Those who raise poultry, I should think it 
would pay to raise Upland Rice; that is, the 
early kinds such as Extra Early, Yengan 
and Houduras. I am sure it would grow 
and mature wherever corn does. I planted 
some Extra Early the latter part of last 
June and it was ready to cut by the middle 
of September. The same culture for wheat 
or oats in drills will do for rice. Rows 
should be about three feet apart, If any of 
your Northern readers have friends in the 
South, I advise them to send for a little 
seed and try it. Yours Truly, 
Calvin Schoradelbach. 
greater than 20 degrees above zero and not an inch 
of snow, nor more than seven frosty mornings. The 
rainfall since December 15th, amounts to 24 inches. 
We picked ripe cherries n April 10th. We dug 
new potatoes and picked green peas on Api il 1st. 
We have had new beets and Early Jersey Wakefield 
cabbage on our table since March 15th 
We planted tomatoes from the boxes to the field 
on the first of April. Our corn and beans and sun- 
dowers were planted the first week in April. We 
have had lettuce heads and radishes on our table 
since February 1st. 
Our Sharpless strawberries are being picked this 
week. Our Cuthbert raspberries will be ready to 
pick on April 20th, and our Ivittatinny and Lawton 
blackberries will be ripe on the 25th of April. Our 
grapes, the Pocklington, Catawba, Agawam and 
Hartford Prolific have put on full leaf and have 
already set their berries. Our foreign grapes, the 
Flame, Tokay, Muscatel, Black Hamburg and Mal- 
voisie have all blossomed and put on full leaf also. 
Our bgs both white and purple have already 
reached the full size of the fruit. Some of the fig 
trees bore 2000 pounds of fruit to each tree last 
year. They usually mature two crops each year, 
here. The almonds and some peaches, have reached 
the full size of fruit this week. All this, and besides 
we have orange and lemon trees loaded with blos¬ 
soms while some of the ripe fruit still hangs on the 
trees. 
And yet our land is sold for only $10 to $20 per 
acre, because there is 1,000,000 acres of gov¬ 
ernment land yet untaken in our County of Shasta. 
We want more people here to plant seeds, and 
then we will ask you to put on an extra clerk to fill 
orders from Shasta County, in January and Feb¬ 
ruary of each year. Yours Truly, 
Geo. R. Walden. 
Peconic, Long Island, Jan. 6, 1884. 
I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir, — In answer to Mr. 
L. M. McELvain's request for information, in the 
December number of Seed-Time and Harvest* 
Having had 13 years experience in small fruit grow¬ 
ing, I think from his description of soil and situation, 
that it would be well adapted to strawberries. I 
consider the Wilson, Crescent and Sharpless Seed¬ 
ling the best. Yours Truly, 
L. M. Baldwin. 
ft OPTICAL WONDER will- 
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Mention Seed-Time and Harvest. 5-? 
The South Florida Orange Grove. 
$1.00 a Year. 10 cts. in Silver for Sample, 
FOUR ACRE ORANGE GROVE. 
Payment on time. J. CROSS, Liverpool, Fla. 
Redding, California, April 15, 1885. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,— I wish to make 
some remarks about this locality as a field for your 
seed busines. This is an early section of California, 
and seeds ought to be in customers’ hands for plant 
ing by January. 
Let me tell you that this place is on the 40tli degree 
of latitude. That we have had this winter no cold 
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