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through the State and take its advantages. Canada is desirous of giving the 

 Western States a passage through her dominions and to avail herself of what- 

 erer advantages may be gained by it. 



Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin desire a winter trade, and are restless at being 

 locked up so many months in the year by ice from the Atlantic, and they desire 

 also to have a shorter, quicker, and safer passage to the East than round through 

 Lake Erie. And the farmers in Canada and the interior of the upper States are 

 anxious to send down their produce, and would not like to be stopped by this im- 

 passable gorge in the river. Our readers will therefore see that the public in- 

 terest of vast multitudes is very deeply concerned in this enterprise, and though 

 presenting great inducements to the curious and fanciful, it is, nevertheless, a 

 work of vast utility, in which the benefit of millions is concerned. 



The prime mover of this magnificent display of civil engineering and combi- 

 nation of mechanical powers, is our worthy fellow-citizen Lot Clark, Esq., 

 heretofore distinguished in the public annals of his country ; but certain now to 

 be more widely and longer known by this momentous enterprise. 



This suspension bridge seems worthy to stand in view of that stupendous dis- 

 play of the grandeur of Nature, the Falls of Niagara ; the sight of which so well 

 rewards the pilgrims who come annually from all quarters of the world to con- 

 template and admire it. 



No reader of good sense — and we trust we have none others — will need to be 

 reminded of the inseparable connection which everywhere exists between the 

 Agriculture of a country, and its roads and bridges, which serve — according as 

 they are more or less perfect — to facilitate and cheapen transportation and ex- 

 changes between rural and manufacturing industry. 



Experiments on* Depths of Sowing. — October, 23; I'lauted, at 3 inches distance, 16 

 eeeds of Wheat, taken from one fine ear. Two were deposited at exactly 1 inch deep ; two 

 at 2 inches deep : two at 3 inches deep ; two at 4 inches deep ; two at 5 inches deep ; two 

 at 6 inches deep ; two at 7 inches deep ; and two at 8 inches deep. The land was in good 

 heart, and finely pulverized or meliorated 1 foot deep, on purpose for the experiment; the 

 situation facing the south, and in the middle of an open field. At harvest the result was as fol- 

 lows, viz: Those deposited at 1 inch deep were almost turned out of the ground, had tiller- 

 ed very little, and the ears were few, and the grain lean. Ditto deposited at 2 inches, tiller- 

 ed largely, and stood upright on the gi-oimd, were well filled, and excellent grain. Ditto de- 

 posited at 3 inches deep, tillered more largely, and had stronger straw and larger ears, ripen- 

 ed well and seasonably. Ditto deposited at 4 inches, nearly the same. Ditto dej>osited at 

 5 inches, did not tiller so much as those deposited at 4 inches, neither did they produce such 

 strong stalks, nor so much gi-ain. Ditto deposited at 6 inches deep, tillered less, and did not 

 ripen so well as the above. Ditto deposited at 7, produced only one stalk ; it shriveled to 

 nothing before midsummer. Dilto deposited at 8 niches deep, never came above giound. 

 The result of this experiment, and a vaiiety of others, made at different times on different 

 seeds, and in diflerent soils, the particulars of which I shall not here trouble you with, give 

 me reason to conclude that from 2 inches deep to 5 is the greatest latitude which this opera- 

 tion admits of The lightest soils and driest seasons require the greatest depths to be used ; 

 and wheal, of all thegi-ains, admits of being deposited deepest. When the soil has been lately 

 broken up, and rich, or is a very fine sandy loam, &c. full of manure (and withal a diy seed- 

 time), Ihave found 4 mches the best depth; but in general, 3 inches, in my experiments, has 

 answered best. [Clarke'sTheoiy of Husbandry, 1781. 



Keeping Beep Fresh. — Combr Raj-s the rib.t will keep longest, or five or six days in summer, 

 the middle of the loin next, the rump next, the round ue>it, aud the briakct the worst, which wiH 

 not keep longer than three days in summer. 

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