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no quantity of long manure, buried deep in a poor soil, 

 will give a heavy crop. 



When we speak of burying manure, we do not mean 

 the burying of a shovelfull in a hill, either of corn or 

 of potatoes. A more pernicious practice was never 

 adopted by a farmer. By it he seldom harvests so 

 good a crop in the first instance. Then in what con- 

 dition is his manure the following season ? In heaps ! 

 and his second crop of wheat, oats, or rye, will be in 

 clusters. His grass, too, will grow in heaps ; but he 

 gains nothing by this, for he must spread it before it 

 can be fit for the barn. 



It should be the aim of every farmer so to husband 

 his land that it may become more and more valuable 

 from year to year. W. B. 



Framingham, Oct., 1838. 



[From Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.] 



MAKING AND SALTING OF BUTTER. 



The following notes on this subject are by an indi- 

 vidual (a female) who has been personally engaged in 

 the preparation of butter for fifty years : 



Some time ago I observed in the Journal a compari- 

 son between Dutch and English butter. Could the 

 particulars of the Dutch method be obtained it would 

 be a very desirable acquisition ; but I apprehend the 

 superiority of their butter is chiefly owing to the pas- 

 ture and an unremitting attention to the duties of the 

 dairy. In our own country the pasture affects, in a 

 high degree, the quality of the butter: old pasture 

 produces much richer butter than new ; and, on some 

 hilly grounds, where wild flowers and certain kinds of 

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