be marked out with a marker made for the purpose and the seed covered with a rake. If the 

 weather is favorable they will be up and ready for the first hoeing in about three weeks. The hoe 

 should then be passed lightly througli, between the rows to kill the weeds and help the growth of 

 nxe carrots. In t«n days hoe again, weed and thin, leaving one plant in a place ; in two weeks hoe 

 deep weed and thin, leaving the plants four or five inches apart in the rows, and the work will be 

 completed for the season. If weeds grow after the last hoeing, weed them out, for weeds and car- 

 rots cannot grow on the same ground at a good advantage. A good crop is eight or nine hundred 

 bushels per acre; and is worth at least Is. 6c?. per bushel amounting to onb hundred and fifty dol- 

 lai-s p'^r acre The cost of cultivating, manure, seed, storing, and interest on land, wiU not vary 

 much from fifty dollars; leaving for the nett profit the sum of one hundred dollars from one acre 

 of land What farmer will say that this is not good profit. Then who will not raise an acre or 

 more The greatest difiiculty in raising a crop is bad seed, bad weather after sowing, and neglect- 

 ia- to thin them in the right time. The seedsman is often blamed, and unjustly too for sellmg bad 

 seed when the fact is the seed is good but badly managed by the cultivator of the crop._ If the 

 weather is'very dry and dry seed sown, or if cold and wet it will be a long time in vegetating, and 

 nine times in ten the weeds will have much the start, so you may look very close to find the poor 

 weakly plants and perhaps only find a few scattering ones, and without further thought or investi- 

 gation the laud is plowed again, and the seedsman must bear all the blame for bad weather, and 

 bad management I usuaUy raise my own seed, but sometimes run out, and have bought from 

 the Genes'ee Seed Store, and never had bad seed, and always had a fair ci-op. E. N. Hayward, 

 Rochester. ^^ . 



Plowing iv Greex Crops.-I am becoming every day more satisfied that the science of farming 

 must look "upwards;" that the air we breathe is the great fountain that sustains animal as well as 

 ve-etable life-' and that the great primitive source of all the richness in our soil is from the air 

 No^thino- is destroyed. No sooner does the animal and vegetable die, than it commences its round 

 of chance until it returns to its original elements, and is prepared to be remodeled into new anmials 

 and vesTetables Let man do his woi-.t, and he cannot destroy one jot or tittle of substance ; neither 

 can he impoverish the earth so that skillful agriculture cannot restore. My neighbor, an intelhgent 

 man has collected all the barn-yard manure he could buy, and has mingled with it eausfc lime, 

 and has made an immense heap which is now a perfect crater almost on fire. Think you if he 

 could see the wheat, corn, and grass, that is continually ascendmg from that heap, he would con- 

 tinue the fire? Far from it. He can smell at a great distance, the ammonia and enriching gase^ 

 avi4u- of coiu-se Now, if. as I have said, we could see the enriching gases arise, and knew their 

 value" the world would have been convinced long ago; for " to see is to believe." 



Well I hear you say, what a destruction. Not so ; not a particle is destroyed ; it floats off in the 

 air ove; your farm, and any farm, ready to be brought into the harness by the skillful former, who 

 LL Ler and other ammonia-absorbing plant, in his broad fields ready to catch and devour it. 

 T hnl 1 that air above is and has been for all time charged with all the organic properties of plants, 

 on 1 thnt It is a fountain that will never fail,* ever ready to respond to the demands of science. 1 et, 

 ^e ™r. oVcous properly cultivate the soil. I believe fully in T.l.'s theory. If I had the means 

 Tf i^^fnin. all the ammonia and invisible noarbhment for plants that is foolish y expelled from my 

 nei^iW's Lm, I am satisfied that I should have^the lion's share. C. ^.-Lalce Grove. 



Yu-a.s.K LVNDS.-I have received, probably, in the last few months, Ae thousand letters, mostly 

 from Tour State making inquiries about lands in Eastern Virginia, but mostly making their require- 

 ZliZl^T^^-- answer would be useless. A farm of 150 or 200 acres near a village, well appor- 

 ZilTu o .uowing, pasturing, and woodlands, is not ealily found fo.r $4 or |5 per acre, forthe 

 f^l owing reasons: fiU those villages are very rare; second, not more than one farmer in a 

 hundred makes any point of cutting hay, and as Uttle for pasturage. Cat le get some coarse W 

 1;: or tire xnonths ] sheep none, yet do exceedingly well Good ewes will probably net $2.50 to 



^^r :::!:-;:: ::!:: llXlooking anything Uke the lands in Western New York, wiH 

 surdy be disappointed and had better stay at home or go West. As to cro^^ our very poores , 

 surely be u IP ^^^^ j^^ ^^1 ^^^^.^^^ ^2 bushels, at least. 



T::1 ^ Henel-ally I stan'd of clo^verfor 15 to 25 bushel, of .or. Very little attention ^ 



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