CONCLUSION. 



THROUGHOUT the discussion of this subject, it has 

 been a leading object with the author to illustrate the 

 value of first principles, and to convince the farmer 

 that in order to insure the highest success in cultivat- 

 ing his corn, as well as in using it with advantage, 

 thoroughness of treatment is not merely important 

 and useful, but that it is in fact the one indispensable 

 condition, in which all others are included. This, 

 though true enough in other branches of husbandry, 

 is more emphatically so in the case of corn, on account 

 of its remarkable capacity of development. Its sensi- 

 tive nature feels and responds to every degree of treat- 

 ment, rapidly unfolding and expanding under the 

 genial influence of care and effort, springing forward 

 at every touch of thoughtful culture, and, when the 

 hand of skilful labor has apparently exhausted its 

 capability of production, still showing that it has a 

 further capacity of yield only requiring additional 

 labor and thought, and awaiting the approach of a 

 new and higher method of culture. 



It has also been' the constant endeavor of the wri- 



