COMMUNICATIONS. 



To the Board of Managers of the Twenty-fourth Annual Fair of the 

 American Institute. 



Gentlemen : — Agreeable with the requirements of your insti- 

 tion I hand you a few remarks on the agricultural and garden 

 products grown by me, and exhibited at your late exhibition. 



Indian Com. 



The cultivation of the thirty-four varieties was the same as 

 that of the previous year, a detailed statement of which you 

 have in the last number of your transactions. All were grown 

 on clay loam and a portion of the land employed has f(»r the 

 last four years been under cultivation for this exhausting crop, 

 which to me is another evidence of the importance of the system 

 of manuring as recommended by the most intelligent agricultur- 

 ists of the present time, which in substance is furnishing the 

 soil with the constituents of the plants, or in other words supply- 

 ing the plants with proper tood to feed upon, and a good return 

 is a sure result. 



The important rank occupied by this grain in the agricultural 

 products of our country, its great capabilities of production for 

 sustaining animal life and being, as I believe now conceded, indi- 

 genous to our soil, it justly claims the attention of every tiller of 

 the land and notwithstanding the great improvement made by 

 cultivation, we may still suppose that it is far from its zenith and 

 its capabilities for production not yet fully known. 



To trace its rapid advancement we scarcely need go further 

 back than the commencement of your annual exhibitions which 

 no doubt have given a stimulus to this as well as other important 



