CORN CULTURE AT THE WEST. 



AGEICULTUEE on the "Western prairies is quite a 

 different affair, and presents a different aspect, from 

 that with which Eastern farmers are familiar. It is 

 conducted on a scale of such extent, and in a manner 

 so original and peculiar, that it has not only eclipsed 

 all previous ideas on the subject, but seems to have 

 quite bewildered the staid farmers of the older States, 

 some of whom appear to be needlessly disturbed, 

 and imagine all their established theories to be un- 

 settled because the man who plants his corn by the 

 square mile considers it necessary to strike out a 

 theory and practice of his own ; as if he imagined his 

 gourd-seed crop of five hundred acres would not be 

 the " big thing " that it is, if raised on the same prin- 

 ciples that produce the yellow-flint crop of five acres, 

 or the King Philip of three. 



The brave and resolute yeoman who, disdaining 

 his scanty paternal inheritance in New England, has 

 gone forth with a steadfast purpose, and an iron will, 

 to commit his fortunes to the rising West, is naturally 

 impatient of the minute details and commonplace 

 results of Eastern farming, and confidently expects 



