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gion for growing wheat, when compared with England. In our 

 western States, a farmer can purchase a farm of 200 acres, fence 

 it, and break up 100 acres for $1200 or $1500. He can put on 

 a house and barn for $500, making the whole cost $2000. His 

 first crop, every thing favorable, will bring him, on an aver- 

 age, $1000, and his second 100 acre's crop of wheat, $1000 

 more. His lands and improvements are now paid for. The third 

 year, if 150 acres are put into wheat, the product will be $1500. 



Now, in England, according to the work above quoted, the 

 charge on one acre of wheat for the two years, is 10s sterling; 

 and poor, highway, and church rates for two years, 8s sterling — 

 our lands have no such charges as this. Our farmers may well be 

 satisfied with their own country. 



In the State of New York, I am informed, that wheat lands 

 may be purchased from $30 to $50 per acre, in improved farms. 

 Every 100 acres of wheat yields from $2000 to $2500 gross in- 

 come. 



It is clear then that with free competition, the United States 

 will command the wheat and flour markets of Europe and 

 America. 



One fact, however, requires the serious attention of the Ameri- 

 can husbandman. It is calculated by McCulloch, that the in- 

 creased average product of wheat in England, since 1821, prob- 

 ably from improved implements, and a more enlightened and 

 scientific cultivation, now at 26 bushels to the acre, being an in- 

 crease of 9 bushels to the acre, which is about double to that of 

 the State of New York at the present time. 



In the county of Monroe, the best wheat growing section of the 

 State, only 19.^ bushels is the average. 



Farmers of America ! are you satisfied to rest with only ob- 

 taining from 12 to 13 bushels of wheat to the acre ? Sixty 

 bushels per acre has been raised the past season ; and what has 

 been done, can be done again. It is only to let our heads assist 

 our hands, and we can increase the average very considerably. 

 It is in this way that great results can be obtained. 



EXPERIMENT IN PLANTING POTATOES. 



BY. C. N. BEMENT. 



On looking over my Diary a few days since — which I kept 

 during my residence on the farm — I found the following, which 

 I offer to the public gratis, it being all it is worth. 



I had understood from some publication or other, that it was 

 a nice piece of economy to plant the eyes only of potatoes, and 

 give the hearts to the pigs. Knowing well, too, that a farmer 



