Dear Sir: I should like to send you some of my seedling potatoes in the spring. They are from the "caster" variety. They are very productive - the parent yielding more than two hundred and seventy-five, and the highest five hundred and eighty bushels per acre, without any manure, except plaster and ashes.

I have also some nine hundred to one thousand varieties from the boll, not yet perfected.

I will send you a good variety of choice squash seeds.

I have found out a sure preventive of crows and worms working on corn and other grain; also to keep off bugs on vines, and it is sure cure; and last year I tried the same on plum-trees, and kept off the black knots, and it works to a charm; for, out of five plum-trees, in a row, to the two middle ones I applied the wash, and they had not a knot on them, and grew double what the others did, and the others were covered with black knots. I cannot say that it will always do the same, as I have only tried it on trees one year. I have applied for a patent. If generally used, it will add millions of bushels of grain to the yearly product.

Yours truly, and very respectfully, D. A. Bulkeley.