CORRIGENDA. 



No. VI. Table of Contents, for line fences, read live fences. 

 No. II. page vi, in the note, for heretofore, read theretofore. 

 No. IV. page x, near end of paragraph, for " before it, (the seed corn,) 

 starts" read sprouts. 

 x\t the end of the second paragraph, page x, add 



Transplanting, from a seed bed, sown early, broad cast, in or conveni- 

 ent to your corn field, or with supernumerary plants, from other hills, 

 is far preferable to using seed corn for supplying defective hills, cut off 

 by the grub, or otherwise vacant. Plants overtake and keep pace with 

 those uninjured ; but renewals with seed corn, seldom arrive at maturity. 

 Salt is used for destroying grubs, worms, 8tc. ; and has been success- 

 ful in killing, or banishing the com grub. Old pickle, or refuse meat, or 

 fish, dispersed in small quantities, in mole tracks, has banished moles 

 from gardens, or fields. 

 At the end of the last paragraph, — 



Indian corn is truly a great exhauster ; however valuable it may other- 

 wise be. It should therefore be only one of a course of crops, and not 

 repeated, but at long intervals. When its turn arrives, it should be used 

 as a cleaning crop ; for which it is highly estimable, not only for its own, 

 but for the benefit of its successors ; which should be small grains and 

 grasses. Whatever may be done in more fertile or new countries, old 

 lands will not admit of frequent and uninterrupted successions of this 

 crop. 

 No. V. page xiii. Insert after " or stable manure," — It is a mistake to sup- 

 pose that dung sinks into the earth It evaporates ; and its salts and 

 gases mix with the air. Superficial applications may serve a turn for a 

 crop or two ; but the ground is not durably benefited. 

 No. XIII. page xxvi. The following was accidentally omitted in the copy ; — 

 Nothing requires more attention to the nature and qualities of your 

 soil, than the use of lime. If it be too lavishly applied, or too frequently 

 repeated, without intervals of grass to furnish vegetable matter; or ma- 

 nures, either animal or vegetable, ploughed in, for the lime, (according 

 to the country phraseology,) to feed on ; it renders your ground lime 

 sick ; and reduces it»to sterility. Our caustic lime must be applied in 

 quantities very far less than the mild lime of Europe, if we would avoid 

 turning a highly beneficial auxiliary, into a destructive scourge. No cer- 

 tain rules, as to quantity per acre, can be fixed, without a perfect know- 

 ledge of the soil to which it is to be applied. In all cases, moderate 

 quantities, at first, are the safest. Our common lime is here meant ; as 

 much depends on the kind of lime applied. It must therefore be the 

 study of those who apply lime, to discover its composition, or what is 

 called its strength ; before they can form a correct opinion of its salutary 



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