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and I do not believe there is a farmer in Connecticut who is 

 incapable of doubling his crop — and suppose the same thing 

 should be done all over the United States, what a mighty im- 

 petus would be given to the manufactures and mechanical 

 industries of New England ! If five hundred millions were 

 added to the income of the farmers of the country by the in- 

 crease of the corn crop, they would want more new stoves, 

 more new implements, more new coats, more new shirts, more 

 new stockings, more new everything. The whole community 

 would feel this wonderful increase. We should pay our cler- 

 gymen better, and we should get vastly better preaching. We 

 should pay our musicians better, and get vastly better music. 

 Every thing would respond in the most magic manner to this 

 increase of the corn crop. Now, if these vast moral and 

 physical results will follow from this increase of our crops, is 

 it not worth while for us to make a little effort? Is it not 

 worth while for us to try to stir up our sluggish brains to 

 higher aims and nobler aspirations ? If we shall do this, 

 if we shall only commence it to-night, the labor and expense 

 of these meetings will be most abundantly paid. (Applause.) 



Dr. Baldwin. You said that in Mr. Tull's experiment, 

 the maximum size of the turnip was where there were two 

 feet of loose earth on each side, and the depth eight inches. 

 Are we to understand that if the soil had been loosened to 

 a depth of two feet, instead of eight inches, giving tiie same 

 area downwards that it had sideways, that he could have got 

 a turnip as large there as where it was two feet wide ? 



Mr. Gould. That is an important question. Mr. TuU 

 found that the length of lateral range was diminished just in 

 proportion to the depth. He found that the root naturally, 

 spontaneously, if it got a chance, would always go downward; 

 tliat the deeper the earth was loosened, the less was the late- 

 ral spread. 



Dr. Baldwin. We have a turnip called the rock turnip, 

 which grows down, and the rutabaga, which grows up. Would 

 the gentleman say that the rutabaga would naturally grow 

 down into the ground, if the soil was loose ? 



Mb. Gould. Yes, sir. My impression is, (I am not sure,) 



