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of the reality of which any farmer may satisfy him- 

 self, who will take the trouble to make the experi- 

 ment. 



From no item of outlays can the farmer derive so 

 ample, or so certain a profit, as from his expendi- 

 tures for manure to a certain extent. This has been 

 most strikingly verified by some of our West Cam- 

 bridge farmers. It is not uncommon among some of 

 the farmers in that town to put on their grounds one 

 hundred dollars' worth of manure to the acre, and 

 in more instances than one, the gross sales of pro- 

 duce from ten acres under the plough have amounted 

 to five thousand dollars in one season. This is the 

 result of high manuring and judicious cultivation of 

 a soil too which is exceedingly poor and sandy. 



The subject of subsoil ploughing is one upon which 

 there has been little said, and less done in this part 

 of the country. In all our grounds except those 

 which are very loose and sandy, there is no doubt 

 that great benefit would be derived from the use of 

 the subsoil plough. In England the effect of subsoil 

 ploughing in increasing their crops, as stated by 

 some agricultural writers, would seem almost incre- 

 dible. By this means, the crops in that country 

 have been doubled, and in many instances trebled. 

 The expense, however, is stated to be very great, so 

 great, as to be beyond the means of most of our far- 

 mers. In one case the expense of subsoil ploughing 

 on a farm of over five hundred acres, was estimated 

 by the owner, to cost the enormous sum of thirteen 

 hundred pounds sterling. This calculation took into 

 consideration the use of the heavy Deanston plougir 

 which always required four, and, in some stiff clays, 

 six horses to work it. I am aware that an implement 

 might be constructed, which though it might not do 

 the business quite so well, could, nevertheless, be 

 made highly beneficial in the hands of our farmers, 

 and obtained at a far less cost. I am informed that 

 Mr. Bosson, of the Yankee Farmer, has with a high- 

 ly praise-worthy zeal in the interest of agriculture, 

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