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powdered sugar, it loses much by the operation; when dissolved in 

 water, it renders the water turbid; not so in the loaf. Dissolve loaf 

 sugar and churn it, and it becomes like molasses. Fine Indian corn 

 meal, therefore, although salaeratus be used, will not make light bread, 

 and the taste of the salaeratus will prevail in it. By much stirring 

 the starch of vegetables becomes sugar. 



Mr, DePeyster — ^Presented a quantity of Egyptian corn from his 

 farm. This grain is larger than that which I first planted. It yields 

 sixty bushels per acre. It can be eaten without grinding or cooking 

 if necessary. It is the corn which our Saviour gathered, and for 

 which Joseph went to Egypt. 



GRAIN. 



Judge Van Wyck. — This club commenced the discussion of the 

 subject of Indian corn by the method of cooking it, intending to 

 teach our friends in England. Now let us look into the modes of 

 raising the grain. It is now becoming essential to increase the corn 

 crops of our country, which are already worth twice as much 

 again as our w'heat crops. We exported latterly about one million of 

 dollars worth of Indian corn, and about six millions of wheat. This 

 shows the great consumption of corn by our men and animals; for 

 in 1845 our Indian corn crop was 418 millions of bushels, worth 35 

 cents a bushel, and our wheat crop 106 millions of bushels, worth 65 

 cents a bushel. If we obtain a market for our corn in Europe, we 

 shall have to plant more corn. France gives a crop of 198 millions 

 of bushel of wheat — raising about 13 1 bushels on an acre. Our corn 

 crop is on the general average of our country, about 25 bushels on an 

 acre. But in Madison county of this State, 170 bushels of shelled 

 corn has been produced on an acre, the greatest on record — this 

 planted in drills, as most of the extraordinary crops were. 



Chairman. — This will shew our Southern friends how short of 

 product, their cultivation is, compared with our Northern. Col. 

 Skinner gave in his Farmers' Magazine many years ago, amounts of 

 corn crops of 160 bushels of shelled corn to an acre. 



Judge Van Wyck. — A beast consumes far more corn than a man. 

 Our farmers need not fear the want of a market for corn; it is a 

 much more valuable crop than wheat. Wheat takes ten months to 

 grow! corn but four or five months! and leaves the soil in better con- 

 dition for culture. It cleans the land, wheat is good for that, but 



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