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Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — That may be very well so far as sugar goes 

 just in that locality, but it has been demonstrated that in the cotton- 

 fields three inches is enough and to spare. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — It is true that fine crops of cotton are made 

 by plowing three inches deep ; for cotton, like the] camel, is a child 

 of the tropics, and can flourish on less water than any plant we 

 cultivate. But the average corn crop of the largest cotton State is 

 less than twenty bushels per acre, and in South Carolina it is six 

 bushels an acre. A drouth that does not aff'ect cotton will curl the 

 corn leaves and turn them as yellow as a frost-bitten leaf. The 

 planters never plow any deeper for corn than they do for cotton, and 

 thfe result, in a dry time as this season, is ten acres skinned for a little 

 pile of corn, when more would grow on one if tilled right. In 

 Middle Jersey we have had a severe drouth, and the crop is cut 

 down half and two-thirds. I asked a neighbor the other day about 

 his corn. I saw it in May, and dug down to find out how deep he 

 had stirred it, and I found eleven inches of good dark, mellow soil. 

 " Well," said Mr, Eue, " my crop is good ; the dry weather has hurt 

 it a little, but I shall make sixty-five shelled bushels to the acre. 

 Some of my neighbors, on land just as good, but shallow plowed, 

 will not raise thirty." 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — There is not a farmer in my section of New 

 Jersey that plowed six inches that has suffered at all this season from 

 the drouth — at least in his corn field. If it were necessary, I would 

 take the trouble to bring some stalks of corn from my place. For- 

 merly the soil on which it grew was too poor for beans even. I 

 plowed deep, manured liberally, and though there has scarcely been 

 any rain since May, and I have not a leaf curled in my fields ; not a 

 leaf curled ; and my neighbors are all burned up. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen. — I live in a city, and believe in early rising, but 

 I have space enough for experiment. I spaded ten inches, planted 

 corn, kept it well hoed and hilled, and I have not a curled leaf in my 

 garden. 



The Concord Grapes. 

 Several plates of beautiful clusters of the Concord grape were 

 placed upon the table by Mr. Alexander Palmer of the Modena fruit 

 farm, located at Modena, Ulster county, New York. They were 

 distributed among the audience and everybody seemed to think them 

 good. Mr. J. B. Lyman remarked that he had visited Mr. Palmer's 

 place ; that Mr. Palmer had found great profit from the culture of 



