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The difference between the average yield of this 

 grain and the amount raised per acre by many of the 

 best farmers is at first view not a little surprising-. 

 When we observe scores of cultivators in every direc- 

 tion counting their annual yield by the hundred 

 bushels per acre, and others ascending to still higher 

 figures, and yet find that the average for the whole 

 country during the past twenty years has ranged from 

 twenty-five bushels to a little over thirty, we can 

 scarcely credit or comprehend so strange a contrast. 

 Yet the matter is very simple and easily solved. The 

 difference in crops is a difference of diffused intelli- 

 gence ; and it is gratifying to know that the contrast 

 is gradually melting away in the presence of farmers' 

 clubs, and before the increasing circulation of farming 

 journals. 





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