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SO that it did more harm than good. If corn is hoed after harvest- 

 ing, the roots are so torn as to injure the crop. 



Mr. Gale rehated his experience, in corn culture. He plants 

 his corn at the distance of three and a half to four, by five feet. 

 He expressed the opinion that every time the ground is moved 

 in the cornfield the crop will feel the advantage ^f it. If the 

 man who plowed his manure so deep, had had his land so tho- 

 roughly disintegrated that the roots of the plant could reach it, 

 he would probably have been benefited ; but his own rule would 

 be never to put manure into the ground at all ; it needs air as 

 well as water to act upon it, in order that it may be decomposed, 

 and take the condition in which the plant can appropriate it. 



Mr. Lodge stated that corn should never be worked after the 

 braces begin to be thrown out from the bottom of the stalk. If 

 earth is put upon them then they become soft, and are unfit to 

 support the corn. The corn should be planted in warm, well 

 pulverized ground; the surface should be kept clean and open 

 until the braces appear, and then it should be left undis- 

 turbed, 



Mr, Eobinson said that the subsoil plow is the best implement 

 for working the rows for corn, and for working the corn when it 

 is young. 



The subject selected for the next meeting was, " What »iay yet 

 be Planted J' Adjourned, 



JU712 3, 1861. 

 Mr. Edward Doughty^ of New Jersey, in the chair, 



ROSE SLUGS. 



Dr. Trimble inquired whether cxjtting down a few bushes con- 

 taining slngs^ the others being free from them, and burning them, 

 would not be the best remedy; whether the bushes would not 

 shoot up again and make good bushes hereafter: or whether it 

 would be necessary to kill the slugs individually. 



Mr. Robinson said that he had found the aphis worse than 

 slugs, and proposed that the subject should be considered at the 

 next meeting. 



