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Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — I believe in deep plowing, but do not 

 believe in burying manure so deep that the efi'ect of the sun will 

 not be felt. 



Mr. Wm. Lawton thought that there is enough moisture in the 

 atmosphere. 



Mr. Horace Greeley. — In California I have seen one thousand 

 trees a foot through which died in one year from drouth. Will 

 anybody tell me that there is enough moisture in the atmosphere? 

 In Illinois the river-bottom soil is sixteen feet deep, and I never 

 heard anybody complain because the soil was too deep under their 

 crops, or that the soil was too rich. Every one West will tell us 

 that the deeper and more mellow the soil the better the crops. 

 There is a jjreat deal of soil in the world that had better not be 

 cultivated at all, and be devoted to growing fruit trees, but where- 

 over the soil is worth plowing at all, it should be well done. The 

 mayor of Maidstone, England, told me that where the trees of an 

 orchard had been dug up and the top soil put a foot below the 

 lurface, he had produced three times the amount of pears he other- 

 irise would have raised, for they kept on growing long after others 

 liad stopped. 



Mr. Williams. — In Western New York deep plowing has been 

 limited, from the want of proper plows, and I am glad to see 

 these exhibited here to-day. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — I regard this question as the most important 

 tiver brought before this Club, for good plowing is the foundation 

 (»f all agriculture. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman offered the following resolution, which passed 

 unanimously: 



Resolved, That the Farmer's Club thank Mr. Greeley and Mr. 

 Brown for the exhibition made to-day of contrivances for deep til- 

 lage. We commend this subject to the whole farming community 

 as being of the first importance to successful agriculture. 



POTASH FOR POTATOES. 



Mr. P. M. Barrow, Rington, Pa., — I have bought two hundred 

 pounds of crude potash for raising potatoes, in place of wood ashes, 

 but have just read that alkali-wash from straw-paper manufactories 

 will kill some growing crops. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — Mix about a pound of potash with 

 five bushels of muck; it contains moisture enough to ' dissolve the 

 potash. 



