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position, fertile soil, and the best varieties, and 
adapted to the locality, be adopted. If objec¬ 
tions—thick as blackberries—can be alleged 
against the cultivation of any or each of the 
other fruits, none can be successfully maintain¬ 
ed against this. It is a fruit that is suited to all 
tastes, as it runs through any conceivable shade 
of flavor; it is in full season from July to June, 
and is equally adapted for use when plucked 
from the tree, as when prepared by an almost 
infinite variety of forms, when artificially com¬ 
pounded by skillful cookery. We marvel at 
the neglect so frequently observable in the cul¬ 
tivation of this splendid fruit. 
A reasonable degree of attention to these pro¬ 
ducts, would not only be attended with decided 
pleasure in the planting and rearing of the trees, 
and in the luxury and support they yield to the 
family as food, but there would be frequently, 
besides, an ample result in money profit, from 
the sale of the fruit. A friend whom we visited 
the past season, had but two or three acres 
around his house, and this mostly devoted to 
lawn, gardens, out buildings, and ornamental 
trees; yet he informed us that a fruiterer solic¬ 
ited the privilege of gathering some of his sur¬ 
plus cherries for market, and paid him $75 for 
what he scarcely missed. He had an abun¬ 
dance of choice peaches, and we have not, for 
years before, seen such a profusion of the dain¬ 
tiest plums and pears, including barrels of the 
fairest Seckles we ever saw, the white Doyenne, 
Bartlett, &c. 
The progress of the age, we are happy to ob¬ 
serve, is decidedly towards fruit raising. Read¬ 
ing, observation, and the impulse given by the 
various agricultural and horticultural societies 
of the country, have stimulated effort and sharp¬ 
ened invention, and thousands of our more in¬ 
telligent countrymen are commencing a system 
now', which posterity will carry forward to a 
successful issue. It will be a disgrace to them 
if the finest fruit-producing country of the globe 
does not hereafter yield an abundance of fruit 
to supply every mouth in the Union. 
WHEAT IN GEORGIA, 
Mr. R. Peters of Atlanta, one of the most en¬ 
terprising and improving farmers of Georgia, 
writes us under date of August 15th, as fol¬ 
lows :— 
I decided three years ago that wheat could 
be raised in the Cherokee counties of this state 
to a profit. After three years of trial, two of 
which failed, owing to remarkably bad seasons, 
I haye this year produced 417 bushels from 
nineteen of seed. Upon one measured acre— 
forty bushels. It is known as the Tubman vari¬ 
ety, a very early white wheat, and is the best 
out of twenty-five kinds tried since 1849. The 
ensuing season I go in to beat any farm in the 
state, both in quality and yield per acre. I 
therefore request you to forward me ten tons of 
the best Peruvian guano, and I will sow one 
hundred acres with guano, and fifty with lime, 
which I consider will be a fair experiment. If 
it fails I will try again, and if it succeeds, I 
hope all my neighbors will profit by it.” 
This is the true spirit which animates all the 
improving agriculturists of America. 
Georgia has produced this season, one of the 
best wheat crops ever grown in the state ; and 
yet Mr. Peters, at his great steam mill at Atlan¬ 
ta, is grinding wheat grown in Ohio and Michi¬ 
gan. This is a very singular result, and one 
not anticipated by farmers or millers, when the 
crop was harvested in May and June. It is in 
consequence of the most extraordinary drouth 
ever known, which has entirely cut off the corn 
crop, and obliged farmers to make use of their 
wheat, not only to feed their people, but horses, 
mules, and pigs. 
Mr. Cunningham told us he had been offered 
wheat at his mill at Augusta, in even exchange 
for corn. 
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COLOR OF COCHIN CHINA FOWLS NOT MIXING. 
Mr. Turner of England, asserts that he has bred 
buff, white, and grey Cochin China fowls to¬ 
gether; and that the produce of these were all 
of clear, distinct colors—that is, pure white, pure 
buff, or pure grey. 
This is the first time we have heard of white 
or grey Cochin China fowls; we had understood 
that the pure breed were always buff. But so 
far as our observation is concerned, we see lit¬ 
tle or no difference between them and Shang¬ 
hais. These are of various colors, black, white, 
grey, red and buff'. At least so they are called. 
Of their distinctive names however, we know 
little, and care less. These fowls are one and all 
too long legged to find a place in the poultry 
yard, in our humble judgment; although we 
have many excellent friends, particularly at 
the south, who differ with us in opinion.— 
But in that warm climate, be it remember¬ 
ed, they will do infinitely better than at the 
north, where cold weather checks their growth, 
and prevents a full development of carcass 
and egg-laying. 
Suppose by way of convincing us, some south¬ 
ern friend sends us a brace of fat capons, so as 
