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loss, benefit or detriment, to the society remains to be seen. 

 It may be considered an experiment, though, perhaps, a 

 radical one. 



To show that even our distintcgrated granite has in it 

 elements of fertility, it is only necessary to repeat that we 

 have over one hundred bushels of corn to the acre ; over 

 forty bushels of wheat ; and over one thousand bushels of 

 carrots. We have also produced many pairs of working ox- 

 en, weighing from forty to forty-five hundred pounds ; three- 

 year-olds that pulled down thirty-one hundred ; cows which 

 have weighed sixteen hundred, and a pair o^ yearling steers 

 which weighed twenty seven hundred and twelve pounds. 



But remembering the injunction, " boast not thyself," 

 though having the excuse of boasting, if it is such, in a repre- 

 sentative capacity, I shut off steam here, engaging to keep 

 the " Transactions" posted further as to " little Sullivan." 



