uneven, yet the rows were all as straight as the squares upoB 

 a chess board. 



If we call the potatoes at one-half the value of the corn 

 per bushel, his corn cost him $1.32 per bushel. We think 

 that this crop was injured by the dry weather much more than 

 the other fields. It will be seen by the statements that all the 

 crops had the manure spread, and none put in the hill ; — how 

 far it is best to practice this may be questioned by many. If 

 will be seen by the statements all the fields were planted late. 

 Mr. Smith's was all harvested in four months from the time 

 it was planted. We do not often hare a season when so large 

 a crop will mature in that time, when all the manure is spread. 

 The month of June was peculiarly favorable this year for those 

 fields where the manure was spread ; and the frost did not 

 injure vegetation so early as usual. 



We often hear it said that the farmer should know what 

 it costs him to raise a bushel of corn, as well as the manu- 

 facturer can tell what it costs to make a yard of cloth or a 

 pair of shoes. Who can tell Mr. Smith how much his corn 

 may be injured next year by being blown down ? how much 

 by frost ? how much by rust ? how many smutty ears he will 

 have? how much the birds will destroy? how much the worms 

 will injure ? He has escaped these evils this year, but they 

 are evils which the most careful and skillful cultivator cannot 

 avert. We have the general promise that " seed time and 

 harvest shall not fail," but an All-wise Being is teaching us by 

 his providence that the amount of the harvest is, in a measure, 

 dependant upon causes over which we can hare no control. 

 It is only by long^continued observation that the farmer can 

 calculate how much his crop will be injured by frosts, storms, 

 drought and worms, — and of these he can only judge by the 

 past. He knows not what the future may be. Our impression 

 is that the same amount of labor and manure that has been 

 applied by Mr. Smith and Mr. Hill, the past reason, and 

 yielded eighty bushels to the acre, would not have produced 



