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other side, and when at length you are compelled to break 

 the ground on the western and southern side of the house, 

 do it late in the fall or early in the spring, and thereby 

 much sickness may be avoided. 



Farmers in the old States may ask what they are to do 

 with ground on the westerly side of their dwellings? We 

 answer, put in grain, grass or the like, but not fruit or 

 truck near the house on the westerly side. 



The above hints are vastly more important than they 

 may at first appear to be. Try them. 



INDIAN CORN SUGAR. 



This new article of Western product is every way 

 worthy of notice here. The public has been so often im- 

 posed upon by new articles of growth and manufacture, 

 that there are prejudices against those which are really 

 valuable. 



One thing is certain, namely, that in a particular state 

 of the plant, the corn-stalk is full of sweet juice. Here we 

 have the material out of which sugar is made, in great 

 abundance. Why should not the rich prairies furnish 

 all the sugar that the country will need, and even ship it 

 to Europe ? 



The following article is from the published transactions 

 of the New-York Agricultural Society: 



It is now but three or four years since it was discovered 

 that sugar could be made from the corn-stalk. Very 

 little attention was given to the subject, until the appear- 

 ance of a report made to Congress by Mr. Ellsworth, 

 Commissioner of Patents. The account given by him of 

 experiments made the preceding year, which he had col- 

 lected from the different parts of the United States ; the 

 great amount of practical information embraced in the 

 report, together with the very interesting and important 

 character given to the subject, awakened public attention. 



