MA1STUEES. 



THERE is no grain crop in this country that so well 

 remunerates the cultivator for a liberal application of 

 manure as Indian corn. Although it is capable of a 

 fair and sometimes even a generous yield on indiffer- 

 ent or unmanured soils, it is but short-sighted econo- 

 my, on the part of the husbandman, to take advantage 

 of this fact, by attempting to raise it without enriching 

 the land. If the object of the agriculturist is to get 

 the largest possible return for the manure applied to 

 his ground, he will effect it more certainly by a gen- 

 erous allowance to the maize crop than in any other 

 way. 



The fertilizing materials that may be usefully ap- 

 plied to the cornfield are so numerous, so various, 

 and many of them so readily procured, that no cul- 

 tivator is justifiable in neglecting to apply them on a 

 liberal scale. 



The standard manure for Indian corn, as well as 

 for other crops, is undoubtedly that of the farm-yard 

 and the stall. Nature has ordained that domestic 

 animals, which consume so largely the products of the 

 earth, shall in some measure compensate the proprie- 



