TWELFTH WEEK. 



R. HORACE GREELEY, the in- 

 troduction of whose name confers 

 an honor upon this page (although 

 I ought to say that it is used entirely without 

 his consent), is my sole authority in agriculture. 

 In politics, I do not dare to follow him ; but in 

 agriculture he is irresistible. When, therefore, I 

 find him advising Western farmers not to hill 

 up their corn, I think that his advice must be 

 political. You must hill up your corn. People 

 always have hilled up their corn. It would 

 take a constitutional amendment to change the 

 practice, that has pertained ever since maize was 

 raised. " It will stand the drought better," says 



