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item. Sometimes we put on twenty bushels to the 

 acre, and the cost of these is oftentimes ten dollars in 

 planting time. Ten dollars for seed ! Mr. Williams, 

 who obtained a premium for the largest crop, states 

 in his report to the Massachusetts Society, that he 

 planted eighty bushels of seed on his acre, — forty 

 dollars worth of seed ! This is a larger sum than the 

 whole crop of an acre of corn brings on the average. 

 Then the planting or dibbling out of eighty bushels 

 of potatoes will make the back ache of two of our 

 stoutest laborers. Now the seed for an acre of ruta 

 baga, properly sown, costs less than fifty cents ; the 

 seed for one acre of corn, twenty-five cents. It is be- 

 lieved that one bushel of turnips affords, when cooked, 

 as much nutriment as one of potatoes. It is true, there 

 are soils where turnips cannot be cultivated to good 

 advantage, at least not in drills ; but both the yellow 

 and the white turnip may be easily raised by sowing 

 broad-cast, and they both delight in new or unsubdued 

 grounds. 



This subject will be pursued. 



[From the Farmers' Cabinet.] 



FACTS AND OPINIONS OF LIME. 



" Examine all things, and hold fast to that which is good." 



The extensive and increasing use of lime for ag- 

 ricultural purposes, renders it highly necessary that 

 farmers should be put in possession of all the leading 

 facts in relation to so important an article, and one in 

 which large numbers of them are dealing annually, 

 some of whom have sustained loss from lack of that 

 kind of knowledge which would enable them \o pro- 

 tect their interest. 



