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results of the deep stirring of the subsoil will be watched with much 

 interest, both by the advocates and opponents of deep ploughing. 



Beaxs. — Seven acres of beans yielded 68 bushels of the white 

 marrowfat variety. Manure, 300 lbs. of guano per acre, harrowed in. 

 Yield, 9^ bushels per acre. 



EucKAVHEAT. — Two acrcs and a half, without manure, produced 

 48 bushels, 19-i- bushels to the acre. 



Oats. — Five acres on the Sibley lot yielded, without manure, 119 

 bushels, or 23y bushels per acre. This lot was sown with grass seed 

 and looks well. 



Fruit. — 55 bbls. of good winter ap pies were gathered, and peachea 

 and pears were abundant in proportion. 



Sweet axd Fodder Corn. — One and a half acres of sweet corn 

 produced well, and was sold green, for the table. 



Two acres of fodder corn produced a heavy crop, and was fed 

 green. 



Chinese Sugar Cane. — Two acres were planted on light, poor 

 land. The seed vegetated poorly, and the crop had a sickly appear- 

 ance for some time. In the language of the head farmer of the 

 Farm, "At the last of August, when, varying froni one to four feet 

 in height, thinking its appearance no credit to the farm, it was cut 

 down, and first given in small quantities to the cows, and after being 

 repeatedly offered to them, and as often by them refused, it was 

 offered to the oxen ; they reluctantly ate a little of it ; it was then 

 offered to the horses and they refused to taste it ; it was then offered 

 to the hogs, and with the same result." 



We quote the experience of our excellent head farmer, because 

 the same result has been experienced by many others, owing to the 

 mistaken idea that the sugar cane was a profitable crop to be fed to 

 stock green. So far as our own experience and observation go, we 

 think the crop of no value as fodder, until the proper time for making 

 sirup from its juice ; after which period, although dry and frost- 

 bitten, it is eaten very eagerly and with great benefit, by all kinds of 

 stock, and we trust the experiment will be tried again, if only upon a 

 small scale, before it is thrown by as " a humbug." 



It will be seen, that the peculiar character of the past season has 

 affected many of our crops very sensibly, but we think not more 



