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that he found the roots of some corn planted near a cellar 

 wall, which he removed during the vigorous growth of the 

 sfalk, at least six feet from the surface, in great abundaiice. 

 Tlie rootlets of wheat and rye pmelraie in suitable soil from 

 ten to sixteen or eighieen inches deep. Many garden vege- 

 tables sink their roots trom one to tliieo or four feet; but of 

 course to these greatest depths, only in a permeable soil. — 

 Then who does not see that the deeper the earth is stirred 

 and loosened, the more thrifty and vigorous will be the 

 growth of every vegetable planted in its bosom. Another re- 

 sult of deep plowing, beside giving the tender rootlets of 

 vegetation a larger territory in which to range for their food, 

 is giving all your crops a power to bid defiance to almost any 

 drought that has ever occurred in New England. Otie of 

 the best farmers of our State informs ys that some twelve or 

 fifteen years since he planted his corn on a dry soil, that had 

 been sub-soiled two feel deep, and that a severe drought that 

 destroyed nearly all the corn in his neighbourhood, was per- 

 fectly harmless to his field, and permitted him to gather a 

 large harvest. Again, deep plowing, by loosening the soil 

 and turning its deep strata to the effects of the sun and wind, 

 gives it the capacity to absorb a much larger amount of the 

 various gases of the atmosphere, that are so essential to the 

 \i(e and growth of everything in the vegetable kingdom. 



The other essential to good plowing is, as before suggested, 

 thoroughly turning and covering the sward. I know some 

 farmers contend that it is better to leave the sward turned 

 edgewise, exposed to the wind and sun. This we believe 

 is false in theory as well as injurious in practice. All the 

 ammonia of decomposing substances is very volatile, and 

 a large portion of all that is produced by the roitinii of the 

 green sward, if left exposed to sun and witid, will of course 

 evaporate and float away to give food to neighboring vege- 

 tation, whereas if covered up, it is absorbed by the soil and 

 kept in reserve for a future crop at home. In New England 

 the average of farmers do not plow, of fallow ground, more 

 than one and a half or two acres in a year. It is of more 



