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I should like to convince Charles of what I have often thought & perhaps told him, that he does most abominably undervalue & considerably misuse his intervale lands. It seems to me I could convince him, if I had him here, that one acre of than Intervale rightly used was worth more than any other five acres he has; perhaps as Milo taxes are than the whole the rest. I should like to show him these intervale lands along the Connecticut River; have him examine the lands, their prices, their crops. If these lands are now valued at from one to two hundred dollars per acre: sell quick at that. This you will remember too is - until the Rail Roads are built - farther from Market that you are at Milo. - And most richly are they worth those prices, when compared with the upland farms, at any price. Suppose two farms, producing with good cultivation the same. It makes a great difference with the profits, and with the real value of the farms, whether the cost of cultivation is 99/100 & more, or 9/100 the value of the crop. But you will say that these Conn. River intervales are much richer naturally than yours. I do not believe it. I dare you to prove it - by testing yours with equal cultivation. One thing for the Intervales here. Hoof of grazing beast, horse, cattle, sheep or hog, never touches them. They will produce prime crops without Stable Manure indeed. Why the Full growth of Grass left on them every year is worth more than any manuring you ever gave your land two years in succession. But they do manure these lands. The secret is not that they need no Manure but that every ounce of Manure instead of washing away as it does from every upland acre into every brook & valley, stays there. Your intervale may be by mismangement run out but if I wanted to make farming profitable, it would be by a dozen acres of that, rather than by any upland farm in Milo. And Public opinion, not in Milo, but throughout the valley of the Conn. would sustain my estimate. People here whom Uncle Jos. tells of your intervale farm suppose of course you are wealthy, and a peice [right-hand side] Isaac Nov. 22 - 47