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understood, and many are slow to try the experiment. Soil, 

 properly manured and thoroughly pulverized to the depth of 

 ten inches, is better calculated to resist the withering blight of 

 drouth than six inches. Many plead the want of manure as 

 one objection to deep plowing. Manage your corn field as you 

 manage your garden. Manure high, plow deep, pulverize fine, 

 and you produce heavy crops of corn, grain and grass. Cut your 

 garment according to the cloth — or in other words, manure ac- 

 cording to the quantity in your pile. Is your land dry ? A 

 deep, well pulverized soil, allows the roots to hide themselves 

 from the drouth. Is it wet? A deep, well laid up furrow, 

 allows the superabundance of water to sink below their reach. 

 It is under draining on a small scale. 



The specimens of plowing examined by your committee were 

 very good, but " deeper " is the watchword. Your committee 

 would suggest the propriety of establishing a minimum depth, 

 inasmuch as so many different opinions prevail as to the proper 

 depth. 



The skill displayed in managing the teams, is a distinguishing 

 characteristic of a Yankee farmer, whicli has much to do wiih 

 the proper execution of his work. Your committee did not take 

 the time into account at all, being convinced that forty minutes 

 is a sufficient short time in which to do justice to one-eighth of 

 an acre. 



J. S. Powers, Chairman. 



Gleanings from Statements. 



Frank "Wardsworth of Iliram, entered for premium on crop of 

 Malaga wheat, forty and a lialf bushels on one three-fourth 

 acres of light, yellow loam, twelve to eighteen inches deep, on 

 a hard, gravelly subsoil; lightly manured last year and planted 

 to corn ; a bushel and three quarts wheat sown broadcast to 

 acre May 24th ; soaked in brine and rolled in lime ; harvested 

 August 12th quite ripe; no manure applied the present year; 

 expenses not given; value' of wheat $2.50 per bushel. 



William Pierce of Iliram, also applied for premium on eigh- 

 teen or twenty bushels white bald wheat, grown on one acre of 



