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ting the improved methods proposed in my lectures of 1848. One 

 friend near Princeton raised 57 bushels of wheat on an acre. 



Some accurate experimenters have found that by thoroughly cook- 

 ing corn, they have realized $1 per bushel for it, in pork at five cents 

 per lb. Pork may be grown at less than 4 cents by using cooked feed. 

 By reference to the letter of Mr. Jas. Campbell, (Working Farmer, 

 Vol. 2. No. 2) you will see that cooked food should be used for cattle, 

 and a portion of root crops with it. 



Many new Marl deposits have been discovered in New-Jersey 

 within the last two years, and the farms in their neighborhoods have 

 improved past all account. 



The great salt meadows of New-Jersey are also being brought Into 

 requisition ; these meadows are deposits of organic matters washed 

 down from the highlands during all time ; by decomposing this muck 

 with Chloride of Lime and Carbonate of Soda, (made by decompos 

 ing common salt with Caustic Lime) it passes readily into fermenta 

 tion, and is rendered proper food for plants. These meadows may be 

 considered as composed of " organic matter not in a state of decay,'' 

 and they only require proper treatment, and then to be carried back 

 to the highlands where they came from, to render every hill top in 

 New- Jersey as fertile as the bottom lands of the south west. 



I have used 3000 loads of this material, and last year raised 24,000 

 heads of late Bergen cabbages on two acres, and indeed all my crops 

 were equally prolific. 



Do induce the Farmer's Club to occupy more time with discussing 

 the merits of modern improvements, and less in repeating those of the 

 ancients. Old wine is good, but old style agricultural rules are only 

 to be f.olerated when they happen to resemble those of later dates. 



Root CTops require attention at this time ; small fruit culture should 

 also receive encouragement ; Ibe consumption of small fruits are in- 

 creasing, and the least diminution m price doubles the consumption. 

 There are more Strawberries eaten in Cincinnati than in New- York, 



