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were planted between four grains of corn, it is said to be serviceable 

 in keeping off the grub and black corn worm. If you have promul- 

 gated this I am sorry, as I have since learned from undoubted au- 

 thority, that a few years ^ince all the onions in a neighborhood near 

 me, were cut off by these very black corn worms. 



We have many experienced milkmen here, and some of them as- 

 sure me that after cows commence to fail materially in their yield of 

 milk, that increasing; the quantity of salt given to them, to two quarts 

 per week, and dividing that into three messes, given with great reg- 

 ularity three times per week, will often restore the quantity of milk 

 after it has lessened one third. 



You notice that our Newark Franklin Institute which I have 

 established, has several hundred members already, and all enthusias- 

 tic. Their large room at Military Hall, is crowded every Wednes- 

 day evening. Last Wednesday there were at least fifty persons who 

 could not get seats. 



Since the receipt of this communication, the Farmers' Club has 

 received from Professor Mapes a turnip weighing eight pounds, 

 twenty-eight inches in circumference, of which he says to Mr. Wake- 

 man: " this turnip grew immediately over an under drain, and is a fair 

 sample of othets in that situation. The drains are twenty feet apart, 

 and four feet deep. At ten feet distance from the drains the turnips are 

 only four or five inches in diameter, and at twenty feet distance from 

 the last drain the turnips are not worth pulling. The ploughing and 

 manuring is the same in all parts, but not subsoiled. This a perfect 

 example of the benefit to be derived from under draining or subsoil- 

 ing. In another field where one of my neighbors used the subsoil 

 plough, following the surface plough through every third furrow, the 

 turnips over the subsoil furrow are nearly or quite double sized! 



Dont publish these letters, you may read them to the Club." 



The Professor says that he " cannot filter water through three feet 

 of earth, rnd get away Mith it any of the constituents for plants, 

 until the earth is charged with many times the quantity it is capable 

 of applying to vegetation." 



We obey the injunction of the learned Professor. .We don't pub- 

 lish his letter. The above are only a few extracts which we dare not 

 withhold from members of the club who were not present at the meeting. 



