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yield will be 300 bushels per acre. The average market 

 price at home is twenty-five cents per bushel, I have found 

 the wood pile manure of all others the most congenial for the 

 potatoe. A farmer could not be better employed in potatoe 

 planting season, than in scraping together this kind of ma- 

 nure from his wood-house, or wood-yard, and applying one- 

 half peck to the hill. The potatoe is not near so liable to 

 the rot as when manured from long barn-yard material, 

 which undergoes the heating process, after the potatoe is 

 planted, and moreover the action of the sun and moisture 

 hasten the decay of the plant while in full growing condition. 

 And whatever may be the incipient or remote cause of this 

 disease, potatoe rot, excessive heat and moisture are proxi- 

 mate causes. The truth of this was exemplified last season. 

 The plant was arrested in its growth on the last of June, in 

 many places, by this disease, and from appearance the whole 

 crop was about to fall a sacrifice to this enemy. But upon 

 the sudden change of weather from wet to dry, the more 

 elevated ground was not effected, or if any, but partially^ 

 and upon the whole the crop is a full average one. These 

 suggestions are submitted for what they may be found to be 

 worth. 



Live Fences. — The farmers of this county have of late 

 become interested in propagating live fences, instead of the 

 usual fence of timber in common use. Timber for making 

 rails becoming more scarce every year, while the subdivisions 

 of farms increases, for convenience and interest, necessity 

 has almost required the change. Jacob Grave, of this county,, 

 has been engaged in the cultivation of the white thorn, for 

 hedging for the past twenty-five years, and his farm is now 

 a model for good and permanent fencing. Seed from the 

 shrub is produced in large quantities, and can be easily ob- 

 tained at almost all seed-stores. For further particulars on 

 this subject, we refer the reader to the 7th and 9th numbers 

 of the Indiana Farmer. 



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