524 Comstoclc s System of Agriculture. [November, 



and the remedy for their private use only, without waiting to test it. 



This is the first article which has been written for publication on 



the Professor's discovered Cause and Prevention of Hog Cholera. 



Nov. 1857. 



COMSTOCK'S SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE. 



Signed by Experinientors of Hamilton, Clermont and Warren Go's., 0. 



Mason, 0., Nov., 1857. 

 Prof. Russell Comstock, of Mabbettsville P. 0., N. Y. 



Dear Sir: — We are pleased with our Terra-culture experiments, 

 made since hearing you disclose Terra-culture last Spring at Ma- 

 son and Montgomery, 0. They surpass our high expectations, 

 where care has been taken to follow the dictates of your system, or 

 botanical discoveries. 



We hope you will meet our Terra-cultural Society soon at James 

 Bowyer's, at 10, A. M., to initiate such of our friends as wish to 

 learn the principles and practice of Terra-culture. 



We believe that not any one in this section of the country has 

 any rational claim on you for either of the three rewards, amounting 

 to ?1,200, which you offer to be detected in error on Terra-culture. 



This year our Terra-cultured Peach and other trees, Irish Pota- 

 toes, Sweet Potatoes, Water Melons, Cabbage, and Tomatoes, 

 Corn, Oats, and other crops have excelled common cultured crops 

 from 25 to 100 per cent, and upwards ; and the Terra-cultured crops 

 have been grown with less labor and expense than those of common 

 culture. The growing crops of Terra-cultured wheat and barley 

 appear extremely well. Your discoveries appear to raise the prac- 

 tice of agriculture to exact science; and the method is one which 

 cannot be changed without injury to the crop, and which no man 

 of truth will attempt to expose or communicate, except yourself. 



Cordially Yours : 



William W. Harper, James Bowyer, C.-Constable. 



W. Wikoff, Stephen Probasco, H. P. Bouman, 



Wm. G. Ammons, Asa Smith, James R. Kendall, 



Wm. Cox, Jr., Andrew Beagle, Mark Coffin. 



So far as I have been able to experiment on Terra-culture I have 

 seen a marked improvement. Yours, R. Conklin. 



