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cents a load to have it carted away as a nuisance, have learned 

 the value of one of our new agricultural discoveries. We can- 

 not within fifty miles of this city, afford to raise hay. Why, sir, 

 instead of hay, raise almost any other crop. Try Lima beans, 

 now of greatly increased and increasing value and demand. By 

 proper management you can have off one acre two hundred and 

 forty dollars' worth. Our farming is generally suicidal. The 

 very bones now so valued, were thrown off the dock within the 

 last three or four years. Now we are glad to get them at a dollar 

 and a half per liogshead. I have visited one hundred and five 

 farms, and those that try the improvements spoken of, pay. Mr. 

 Rennie's farm raised by it 120 bushels of corn where he before 

 got twenty bushels only, and so in other products. He had ap- 

 plied the right amendments. Within the circle of ten miles 

 round my place, it is judged that the increased value of all the 

 crops was twenty-five thousand dollars last year. Where potash 

 and phosphate of lime have been applied for ruta bagas, it turns 

 out that the root is more solid, and keep much better, as well as 

 a greater crop. Mr. Scofield, of Morristown, raised last year, by 

 these amendments, fourteen hundred bushels of them on an acre 1 

 On soil so prepared they do not run to leaf like lettuce. The 

 same results are found in carrots, which have so lately become a 

 highly valued crop — equal to oats, bushel for bushel — and what 

 a difference in the amount of crop per acre ? Parsnips, too, gave 

 seven hundred bushels an acre, which sold for fifty cents a 

 bushel. 



Judge Van Wyck remarked as follows : Prof. Mapes has given 

 us an account, and no doubt a correct one, of what is called in 

 Europe, high farming, or farming as respects manures, tillage, 

 drainage, &c., according to science and the best practice, not 

 only here, but in Great Britain. His knowledge of chemistry 

 enables him to apply this with success to farming purposes, and 

 to call to his aid in practice the qualifications of a good agricul- 

 tural chemist. The account he has given of his operations and 

 experiments, on his farm in New-Jersey of 40 acres, situated 

 about three miles from Newark, is very interesting, and may 

 prove highly beneficial to most farmers who own farms in a simi- 



