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not drag a plough. The object of paring in this mode 

 is to furnish or to leave a good footing for the oxen, for 

 they can seldom walk in the furrow. After thus par- 

 ing, hoes and forks must be used to turn it up dry ; and 

 it will frequently burn well within two weeks of par- 

 ing. Sometimes you need be at no trouble in piling 

 up the sods, and in that case your ashes are ready spread, 

 and you have nothing more to do than with a harrow 

 or a rake, where it is miry, to mix well the ashes with 

 the surface that is unburnt, and sow a peck of herds- 

 grass and a bushel of red-top to the acre. September 

 is the best month for sowing : then we are sure of a 

 crop for the scythe the next season. 



[From the Maine Farmer.] 



GRAIN WORM. 



Mr. Editor, — It is a matter of regret that the 

 wheat-raising business, in at least some parts of our 

 State, is likely to meet with a serious check from the 

 ravages of the grain icorm. When the attention of 

 farmers was beginning to be turned to this business, 

 when encouraged by the munificence of the legisla- 

 ture, and when from practice they were fast gaining a 

 better understanding of the business, we would all have 

 hoped that the production of wheat would have in- 

 creased, till our State had become independent of other 

 countries for this article of sustenance. But this '' lit- 

 tle rascal " is a ^re«Y e?ie?77?/; and how successfully to 

 repel his attacks, I confess I do not know. Perhaps it 

 would be the part of prudence not to risk too much in 

 his way ; that is, not to depend chiefly on wheat, but 

 raise more corn and other grain ; and, on the other 

 hand, it would be the part of valor not to give up the 



