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yield a speedy return for any unusual outlay required for the pur- 

 pose, is the fundamental problem to be solved. Upon its solution 

 hangs the practicability of an extensive and profitable planting of 

 fruits by the common farmer. And if this Society is to achieve a 

 worthy success, we must grapple with the problem and solve it. 

 And we must enforce the solution with energy and diligence, by 

 line upon line, precept upon precept, and by cogent example often 

 repeated. We must not only teach the method, but we must go 

 and do it. 



In that, which is about to follow, there is nothing new but the 

 application. To combine and apply what is known to the subject 

 in hand is all that will be attempted here. That the ordinary 

 product of manure yielded by the operations of the farm may be 

 very largely augmented by the judicious consumption of purchased 

 materials, and by greater care in the preservation of liquids and 

 solids, does not admit of a doubt. This involves an outlay of money 

 for the purchase of commercial manures, or other available fertil- 

 izers, for the culture of crops suitable for forage, and for the pur- 

 chase of corn, oil-meal, cotton seed, or other materials of like 

 nature. 



To him, therefore, who has no courage to step out of a beaten 

 path, however rough and toilsome, or even to tread a beaten path 

 with alacrity, nor capacity to compute and forecast results, nor 

 energy and perseverance to pursue a formed project to the end, 

 little can be said. But to him who has all these, the way is open. 

 Modern art and enterprise have provided means of transportation, 

 bringing remote districts into close and easy connection. And 

 while the soils of the great West are so exuberant that the manure 

 of the stables is deemed a cumbersome nuisance, the corn of the 

 Western farmer may be consumed upon our farms, first for profit- 

 able forage, and then to replenish our grounds and make them 

 abound in fatness. Science and experiment concur in declaring 

 Indian corn the best grain for fattening. And an eager market 

 awaits all future products of the orchard. 



Profitable Production of Manure from Corn and Oii^meal. 



The statute bushel of corn is fifty-six pounds. In a ton of corn, 

 therefore, there are about thirty-six bushels. Corn should be pur- 

 chased by our farmers in large quantities, at favorable periods in 

 the hands of producers, or first hands at least. We must soon 



