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over a good dish of liasty-pudding and milk, or hominy ; who that has 

 a wife who knows how to make a loaf o^ good brown bread and an old- 

 fashioned Indian baked pudding , (bless her for he is thrice blessed,) 

 will not say amen to this panegyric V Who neglects to use starch made 

 from maize, or to make a pudding from maizena '? The praises of the 

 Indian hasty-pudding has been elaborated in verse by one of our''poets 

 who was a great epicure. It is said that the fodder from an acre pro- 

 ducing fifty bushels of corn, will pay for the cultivation after the corn 

 is planted, including the harvesting, which will be at least two tons. 



To the young farmer we would say, when you plant corn, plant for 

 fifty bush, to the acre at least ; and when you manure and cultivate as 

 you may, you may expect seventy-five bush., which are equal to three 

 tons of English hay ; added to the two tons of stover makes five tons. 

 And when you plant, suffer only four blades to grow in a hill ; and 

 graduate your distance of rows and hills according to the va'riety of corn 

 you plant. Let most of your manure be spread and incorporated with 

 the soil evenly as possible, so that every itinerant fiber of the root shall 

 find something to elaborate into corn. It is difiicult at earing time to 

 fiud a cubic inch of soil without some of these fibers. Cut and stook 

 your corn at the proper season and you will make a great saving in the 

 value of the fodder, and also, in labor. When you cut up your corn, 

 bind and stook as fast as you cut, and your ears of corn will be heavier 

 and sounder than they will if you suffer your corn to wilt and dry 

 before binding and stooking, for in the green state the sap continues to 

 flow sometime after the corn is cut. And in the cultivation of your 

 corn crop keep your field clean of all weeds, for beans, turnipo and 

 pumpkins, in corn language, are weeds. 



WHEAT. 



It has been estimated that every person consumes a barrel of flour 

 yearly, and that a town of one thousand inhabitants will consume one 

 thousand barrels of flour, which, at the present prices, will be sixteen 

 thousand dollars for every one thousand inhabitants. If we should 

 have such a tax imposed on us for the support of paupers, schools, and 

 other town charges, we might fear an insurrection, or a total breaking 

 down of our finances. 



Now what shall be done to obviate this evil ? Let us return to the 

 diet of our fathers, to the simplicity of the living of our ancestors, who 

 were blessed with constitutions and strength which some of the men of 

 our degenerate days believe to be fabulous, and the record of which, 

 ought to be bound with such books as ''Robinson Crusoe" and the 

 '* Arabian Nights," or, which perhaps is far better, raise our own 

 wheat on our farms, and it can jje done. Let (i\^eYy farmer select an 

 acre or two on his farm for a crop of wheat, annually, and either sow 

 winter wheat or spring wheat, according as the land is best adapted. 

 If he will sow winter wheat, let him prepare his land in good season, 



