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and man and team. It can be attached to any plow at a cost 

 of four dollars. 



Prof. Nash. — I have no doubt it will be better than the Michi- 

 gan plow, though that is good ; but it is not always beneficial 

 to turn the earth from below the first furrow upon the surface. 

 This' plow will loosen up the bottom of the furrow that has been 

 tramped by the ox and compressed by the plow, and I have no 

 doubt will prove worth more than the cost of doing the work. 

 Wherever the top soil is inverted much below the usual de^jth of 

 plowing, it injures the first crop materially. 



Mr. Carpenter. — From the opportunity I have had in examining 

 this attachment, I consider it a great improvement, as it saves 

 the labor of running a separate subsoiler. I like to turn the sub- 

 soil up for corn if I have plenty of manure to apply to the top. 



Solon Robinsen. — This plan of attaching a subsoiler to a com- 

 mon plow is good, but not a new idea. I gave this Club an 

 account of its practical working some ten years ago. It was 

 first applied by a common blacksmith at Norfolk, Va., and answered 

 an excellent purpose in all kinds of soil. It was not patented 

 then ; it is now ; and now that farmers will have the opportunity 

 of buying the patent, it is probable they will adopt the improve- 

 ment. 



PEAS GROW UNDER SNOW. 



Dr. Trimble, of NeAv Jersey, exhibited growing peas, planted 

 March 15, to show how they will grow notwithstanding the cold 

 and snow storms since they were planted. 



BUG-EATEN PEAS. 



The doctor has experimented with them, and finds that only 

 one in six or seven planted will grow. He does not believe in 

 using such seed. 



THE VALUE OF HAY FED ON THE FARM. 



0. Crawford, of Globe Village, Mass., inquires the value of 

 hay (good upland) as a fertilizer, to be fed out on a New Eng- 

 land farm, rather than to sell the hay and buy patent manure. 



Prof. Nash said that Mr. Brooks, of Massachusetts, proved by a 

 series of experiments, that it was better to feed hay on the farm 

 than to sell it at twenty dollars a ton. As a general thing, 

 farmers who feed their hay on the farm are more thrifty than 

 those who sell hay to buy manure. 



Mr. Carpenter. — I shall dispute the gentleman upon this 



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