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wise. Impressions are often erroneous, facts and figures 

 are wanted to confirm or confute them. Open an 

 .account with every field and crop, noting down, in a book 

 to be kept, every item of expenditure, whether of labor, 

 jnanure, seed, or anything else, depth of plowing, time 

 .of planting, &c,, and credit the crop, and see on which 

 ^ide lies the balance. A regular system of putting 

 .down every evening^ an account of the work of the day, 

 takes but little time, and soon becomes a habit, and then, 

 is attended to as a matter of course \ and at the end of 

 .a year, or a series of years, you have a mass of facts by 

 which you may profit, and of which you may be proud. 

 Let no sleep visit your eyes any evening until the 

 .account is fair in the book. 



We would congratulate our brother farmers upon the 

 improvements which have been made, and which are 

 constantly being made in agricultural affairs, particu- 

 larly in the implements at our command, and in saving 

 and using manures. No man now can pretend to good 

 jnanagement without a barn cellar for the saving of 

 solids and liquids, without exposure to wind and rain, 

 which would dissipate by evaporation and leaching the 

 best part of the fertilizing properties of the manure. 

 The importance of using to the best advantage every 

 waste article which can be decomposed in the compost 

 heap is becoming more and more apparent. If more 

 Yankee shrewdness were brought to bear upon this 

 point, there would be less disappointment in regard to 

 crops. Then in using manures, are they not often 

 covered too deep ? Take a quantity of the liquid which 

 has leached from your dung heap, thick and strong, an(J 

 Jet it leach through eight or ten inches of sand or soil^ 



