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creased crop by drilling, until he has seen with his own 

 eyes. This I saw well demonstrated upon the farm of 

 Dr. Brown, a real working farmer, near Wilmington. 

 Many bunches of six to eight grew so thick that the 

 centre ones were lifted quite upon the top of others, the 

 tap root only reaching the ground. 



Value of Swamp Muck on Grass. — Dr. B. used it as top- 

 dressing for grass, and doubled the crop. Thinks it the 

 most valuable application that can be given grass land 

 at the same expense. Dr. B. is a Yankee farmer, though 

 only lately engaged in the business, and understands the 

 profit of manuring. He gets three crops of market vege- 

 tables a-year, from a portion of the land. 



Hog Manure. — He thinks the manure that can be made 

 by a pen of hogs, worth more than the pork, and that is 

 worth 5 or 6 cents a pound. 



Price of Milk. — He keeps about a dozen cows and sells 

 milk at 5 cents a quart, which is equal to butter at 75 

 cents a pound. 



Ho2v to Make a Heifer a Good Cow. — C. P. Holcomb,* 

 says, let a two-year-old heifer have a calf, and let a 

 steady good milker draw the milk three times a-day, and 

 try to distend the udder and it will do so and increase her 

 capacity to secrete milk. Solon Robinson. 



' Chauncey P. Holcomb, born in Hartford, Connecticut. Went to 

 Ohio and thence to Philadelphia where he practiced law. Moved 

 to New Castle, Delaware; became deeply interested in husbandry, 

 and exerted all his influence to improve ag^riculture in the state. 

 Member of Agricultural Club of New Castle County. Contributed 

 to agricultural periodicals. Exhibited at Maryland State Agricul- 

 tural Society fair, 1850. Breeder of Devon cattle. Biographical 

 and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware, 1:523-24 

 (Chambersburg, Pa., 1899) ; American Agriculturist, 9:63 (Febru- 

 ary, 1850); American Farmer, 4th series, 4:13-14 (July, 1848), 

 7:138-39 (October, 1851); Boston Journal of Agriculture, 3:19-20 

 (July, 1852). 



