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from the saltpetre, it must, in any event, be very- 

 trifling, not half suflicient to balance the risk of losing 

 the seed by steeping. 



We much doubt the propriety of using any infusion 

 or coating for seed-corn. If your ground be full of 

 worms, put ashes or lime on the corn-hill, as soon as it 

 is planted, instead of increasing the number of worms 

 by putting manm-e in the hill. If your ground is 

 suitable, you may have a good crop without any of this 

 quackery of steeping. 



None but warm lands should ever be planted with 

 corn. Let the cold lands go to grass, or to potatoes, 

 that like a cold bed. We shall not calculate on such 

 seasons as 1816 and 1836. They are exceptions to the 

 general rule, and we should not be governed by the 

 exception. 



Crows may be kept from the field by suitable scare- 

 crows ; not by such things as boys usually re^r, that 

 will frighten ten horses to one crow. They should be 

 made in the image of a man, which animal the crow 

 abhors as his greatest enemy, and always wishes to 

 avoid. If the image is partially covered with brush, 

 the crow will be still more shy, and will never meddle 

 with your corn, when he thinks he is running great 

 risk of his life. 



LIGHT AND LOOSE MOULD UNDER STONE WALLS. 



At one of our meetings in the state-house, last win- 

 ter, we stated, as a fact well known to farmers, that 

 the soil which lay beneath stone walls was much 

 lighter, generally, than any other. This statement 

 occasioned some surprise, not, however, in the minds 

 of experienced farmers : they knew it was fact. 



We did not attempt to give a reason for this phe- 

 nomenon ; but, as the statement caused some discussion 



