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yellow, and plant three feet by two and a half apart, four stalks in a hilL 

 Plant as late as the last week in May or the first week in June, and hoe 

 four times — making the cultivator or horse-hoe do as much of the work as 

 possible. With straight rows, and a practiced hand to hold the cultivator, 

 it leaves a precious little work for the hoes. Cut the corn about the middle 

 of September by the roots, and shock it. There is more corn, and the 

 fodder is better. This process will give us corn at 50 cents a bushel or 

 less. 



Upon the virgin soil of the prairies, or upon the bottom lands of some 

 of the western rivers, men will not, of course, follow these directions, 

 because they can get a large acreable yield with less labor, and some of 

 them have been so long in the practice of raising corn in the slovenly, 

 careless manner they do, that it is as useless to ask them to improve as it 

 is to ask a New England farmer who never grew 40 bushels of corn upon 

 an acre, to believe thai his neighbor has grown it. Both east and west, 

 and north and south, the process Avill still work on in the old way, notwith- 

 Btanding all the facts spread before them ; yet we will hope that one or two 

 may be induced to resolve upon improvement. 



Mr. Treadwell exhibited 120 dark leaden colored worms of a little over 

 one inch long, which he took from ten hills of corn destroyed by them in 

 his garden. He asked for a remedy. 



President Pell put on a reasonable dose of salt and lime. 



Mr. Treadwell procured some, which being sprinkled well over the 

 worms being in mass in a small glass tumbler, all died in about 12 to 15 

 minutes. 



Mr. Pell desired to say that after all the signs given for the time of 

 corn planting, he had long practised the planting on the first day of June> 

 and always found his crop the better for it. 



Mr. Fuller said that the best way was to plant by the weather rather 

 than the day of the month. 



J. Gr. Bergen. — The most certain method of all is to plow deep and well, 

 manure well, cultivate thoroughly, and you shall have a good crop in any 

 summer you may find. But when the land is merely skimmed, as a great 

 many farmers do it, let them as they do, always lay the blame on the sea- 

 eon. I get sixty bushels on an acre and some profit, but I can make more 

 by other crops. Land is too dear with us to leave profit. 



Mr. Moigs. — But sir, you must not count the land, for if that where we 

 are — which is worth a great price — bore corn, the corn might be 100 

 bushels per acre, and really a highly profitable crop, and leave the laud 

 just as valuable as before. 



T. W. Field said that his friend 3Ir. Bergen raised crops more profitable 

 than most men. 



Adrian Bergen. — The corn fodder is fed to horses who have got the 

 heaves by eating hay, and the fodder cures them. My observation about 

 soaking corn is that early planted corn if soaked, is apt to rot. The strife 

 of neighbors trying to beat each other in planting corn, has been injurious 



