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■with a cultivator. Sandy loam is preferable for carrots, as tlie roots run 

 deep ; and deep friable soil is indispeusible to the production of a good 

 crop. 



Potatoes. — This valuable and almost indispensable portion of our 

 vegetable food, after a period of apparent decay, which threatened its 

 extinction, has the present season yielded an abundant crop, and the first 

 one for years -which has shovrn no symptoms of the rot. The cause of 

 this disease, so far as we have been able to ascertain, is entirely unknown, 

 and no remedy yet proposed has been of the least service. By a sort of 

 natural order of things, the evil day of the potatoe seems to have passed by, 

 and we may now anticipate a fair return for its cultivation. All soils and 

 situations, and late and early planting, alike, seem to have been visited 

 by this decay, or blight, although sandy loam, and dry, rolling, gravelly 

 land has suffered least. The most easy, and consequently the cheapest 

 and most productive crops we ever raised were, by plowing green-sward 

 in the spring ; if well coated with grass, all the better, as that is equal 

 to a coat of manure. Turn the furrows well over, leaving them as level 

 as possible ; then harrow lengthwise with the furrows, and plant, cover- 

 ing with sufficient earth only to shelter the growing crop, and leave the 

 hill level and flat as possible. Xo grass will make its appearance ; the 

 few weeds will be best disposed of with the hoe, or cultivator, and often 

 neither are needed. Thus cultivated, the crop will be larger, with fewer 

 small potatoes. By the old plan of raising a hillock over them, the rain 

 and moisture is thrown ofi", instead of soaking into the hills. Another 

 objection to the old mode is, that the vines set for a new crop, every time 

 they are hoed ; and again, hills cause evaporation from the ground, after 

 rain, to go on more rapidly, at least one-third more surface being exposed 

 to sun and wind. From forty bushels to three hundred bushels have 

 been raised, per acre ; and from actual experiment, we would recommend 

 the plan of green-sicard level tillage as the cheapest and most productive. 

 Yalue, in Milwaukee, in September, 1852, thirty eight cents per bushel. 



Domestic Animals. — Standing at the head of the list, and deservedly 

 so, is the ancient ally of man, the horse. Virgil gives us of the Agri- 

 cultural profession, many hints relative to all the diflferent branches of 

 husbandry, from keeping bees to the rearing of horses ; the selection of 

 a sire for the different species of domestic animals,- and the selection of 

 seeds. "With regard to the latter he says: "unless human industry 



