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Mr. Henry Atwood, Lancaster, Erie county, N. Y. — I will give 

 my method of raising wheat in a small way, on poor land. Plow 

 the land in June. Drag well, and cultivate with wheel cultivator 

 several times. After the turf begins to ferment or rot, about 

 August 20th, plow again, then dray, then draw out your manure, 

 lay it in heaps twelve feet apart along the center of each land, 

 and be careful not to make your heaps too small; then spread 

 evenly over the ground; sow your wheat as soon after spreading 

 the manure as possible, then put the cultivator on again, dray or 

 harrow, and have it all done by the 1st of September. In this way 

 the manure and earth are mixed near the top of the ground, where 

 it gives vigor to the root, and will, as a general thing, bring a fine 

 srowth before winter sets in. I have tried this method for several 

 years on our poorest clay soils, and have never yet failed of getting 

 good wheat A dairy of twenty or thirty cows is very convenient 

 for treating this kind of land. 



BLUE GRASS. 



Mr. E. S. Huliu, Holton, Jackson county, Kansas. — Can I get 

 blue grass to grow on the prairie without first subduiug the sod? 



IVIr. N. C. Meeker. — ^Yes; but it will take several years. Blue 

 grass follows in the trampings of sheep and cattle. The best way 

 to get blue grass is to sow on wheat or oats a mixture of equal 

 parts of clover, timothy and blue grass. First, the clover will 

 cover the ground and shade the timothy; in two or three years the 

 clover will die out, when the timothy will occujiy the ground, after 

 that the blue grass will come and stay forever. But what is the 

 matter with the natural grass of Kansas? We had supposed it 

 equal to timothy, and far better than Illinois prairie grass. Fence 

 in your prairie, and you have a stand of good grass to your hand. 

 It is often the case that people have possessions of great value, but 

 do not know it, and think what somebody else has is just the thing 

 ,hey want, while somebody else is wishing the same about them. 



Adjourned. 



February 11, 1868. 



Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair; Mr. John "W. Chambers, Secretary. 



WATER PIPE. 



Mr. W. B. Fuller, West Walworth, Wayne county, N. Y.— I wish 

 to inquire what is the cheapest and best kind of pipe for conveying 



