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that "soils containing a fair proportion of clay, especially stiff 

 clay soils," are not benefited by its application. The expe 

 rience of Mr. H. is to the contrary. Dr. Y. also advocates di 

 luting liquid manures ; Mr. H. objects, and thinks the former 

 draws his conclusions too exclusively from the Flemish farm 

 ers of Belgium. 



The food for winter feeding is steamed, the rations for each 

 cow being rape-cake, 5 pounds; bran, 1^ pounds; malt 

 combs, 3fa pounds ; Indian meal, 1 pound ; with straw, cut to fa 

 inch in length, 10 to 12 pounds. This mixture is dampened, 

 care being taken in this particular, as the laxative qualities de 

 pend on the amount of moisture it contains, and then steamed 

 one hour. The materials are changed according to the price. 

 The weekly cost of this cooking is four cents per head, one 

 man, with a little help in milking, having the charge of twenty 

 cows. The price at which the milk is sold is four cents per 

 quart, and as the demand does not always come up to the sup 

 ply, the remainder is used for butter-making. 



Everything he had seen of Mr. Horsfall's practice, in fine, 

 could not be regarded as less instructive than his essays have 

 been, and the two consulted together, furnish facts of univer 

 sal value, and hints as well capable of being turned to good 

 account here as in England. 



At 7fa in the evening, Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr., of Boston, 

 gave a very fine lecture upon " The Profits of Farming and the 

 Position of the Farmer." To 20,000 lawyers, and 100,000 mer 

 chants in our country in 1840, there were 2,400,000 farmers, 

 and the number would not fall short of 3,000,000 now. The 

 first question always asked about farming is, Will it pay ? Will 

 the returns for all my labor be remunerative ? He then pro 

 ceeded to consider the gentlemen farmers who work for amuse 

 ment, as not coming properly within the category. And there 

 the contrast was strikingly drawn between the English or Con 

 tinental farmer, whose rents and taxes are enormous, and who 

 farm at the worst advantage, and the free noble American cul- 



