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SCIENCE AND PRACTICE IN FARMINC. 

 BY WILLI IM 



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e their dili- 



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 but the pra 

 much on the man of 

 : think, ex 

 e for himself; tperience the nu- 



ect bim in I 

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true thei built up; hence 



the importance of experiments in practical 



. but 



. The time was when it was not known that 



1 that would cut 

 on 



imm : but the I 



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cultivators. T 



the importance of each farmer being an experimenter, 



tal one. . 

 enl culth to allow a season to 



line of the vari 



without incurring much expense, for a half or a 

 quarter of an a< :ient to test an i 



if it is performed with care, and clo 



Op ' es of 



equal width; and how easily can a farmer, 

 ue of various manures, by applying the fermented and 

 nented, the compost or pure barnyard manure, 

 or any of the numerous fertilizers, on different r 

 in the same field? And also test the various modes 

 of cultivation; let one ridge be plowed only one 

 the aft . lone with the cultival 



Ige plow twice, and a third one 

 limes — and with care he can ascertain the 



; that is best to applj 



the r the numerous ' each 



kind of grain. But he must be attentive, and watch 



i] of all hi : and 



ult with accurate certainty — not guess 



at it. 



All expt i be continued for a 



of years in succ 



test, even to ^.-probability, so numerous and va- 



■ductions of 

 the soil — causes, ton, which are beyond the control 

 of the cultivator, so that he cannot always know. 

 how much- ive for his labor. A 



great proportion of the very bountiful crops that are 

 recorded, are tii' - . which the 



cultivator cannot foresee, nor control, and are not a 



which 



severe 



that it is necesi 



tinue them for a series of years, to < 

 •ee of certai 



ary to h:v. 



for a numl 



•ofit of his 

 A". Y., Oct., 11 



MORS LI3HT WANTED. 



3SRS. Editors: — In tl 



in that town. I 



which, 



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els 1 



nothing about what 

 farming mi;.;' 



PEAR TREE BLIGHT. 



The " Young Digger" in your N num- 



ber hi 



jervation ai 



plum trees, and • 



Trees — an to be for 



Would thath :tive 



of the Blight in Pear Tr< . i am 



after. His crii ; 

 worth. It. is no sms : 

 Bafr , 

 my art' i Pear Blight" and al 



my ideas of 



the bligl fter his j 



will ! with the "potato rot." JAwes H. 



Watts. Rochester, Nov., 1849. 



