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Third. That the gains of farming are smaller, but more sure than 

 those of most other kinds of business. 



Fourth. That the farming interest, for its full development, requires 

 an agricultural school to be established in the vicinity of New-York, 

 and other large cities, where boys can be taught the best modes of 

 performing work, and necessary chemical science ; for without 

 such knowledge they will, nineteen times out of twenty, lose money 

 by their fiist trials in farming, and soon perhaps get tired, give up, 

 and say, that there is not a chance of a man's making any thing by 

 a farm. 



GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. 



CULTURE OF CORN. 



The soil upon which the corn was grown was a gravelly loam. 

 The previous crop was hay on sod ground. The land was plowed, 

 rolled heavily, and then harrowed and cross harrowed; furrowed 3 

 feet 8 inches apart each way, manured with equal parts lime and 

 pond muck, about three pints to each bill. Planted the seed in May 

 after the 10th, with no preparation, and dropped without being 

 soaked. Dropped four grains to the hill, which was about one bush- 

 el of corn to five acres of land; the product from 22 acres, harvest- 

 ed as follows: from 11 acres planted as above with eight rowed 

 white flint corn, 1,250 bushels of ears. From five and a half acres 

 planted with lime and muck, eight rowed yellow flint corn, 850 

 bushels of ears. From five and a half acres planted upon ground 

 bones (about one pint to the hill.) eight rowed yellow flint corn, 950 

 bushels of ears. 



The crop was gathered in November. Two fields were husked 

 entirely from the hill. (One five and a half field had been topped 

 early in the summer, which materially injured, the yield,) the other 

 was cut up in September from the bottom, and slacked in small 

 shooks, thereby improving the stocks for winter fodder, and not in- 

 juring the grain. 



DAVID S. MILLS. 



