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at first planned for, find if in the press of spring work, or by reason 

 of unusual rains and cold weather, you cannot get it into the ground 

 earlier than the middle of June, plant then at her than not at all. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — The article referred to took into view the whole 

 country, and in particular the great corn region of the west, not the 

 seaboard wl:ere they raise little corn. To secure a fair crop in the 

 west, where large fields are planted, it is of the utmost importance to 

 plant early, in order that the crop may be laid by before the wheat 

 and grass crops require attention ; for if work is demanded from 

 each at the same time, one, at least, must go by default, or at the best 

 all will sufler. There is no such thing as having a prosperous season 

 in the corn region of the west if corn cannot be planted before the 

 1st of June. Still, corn may be raised if planted even so late as the 

 1st of July ; but this must be on quick, warm soil. This has no 

 reference to the great crop of the country on which much food other 

 than bread depends. 



Mr. Horace Greeley. — I am in favor of the resolution ofiered by 

 Mr. Lyman, especially if the words are so modified as to convey the 

 idea that in late planted corn the ground should be rich and the field 

 well prepared for seed, so that no delay or back-set be sufiered. But 

 I would urge our farmers not so much to planting area as to better 

 cultivation and getting more from an acre. I move over some portion 

 of the west almost every year, and I oan see the corn getting smaller 

 every year. On an average the cornfields of Iowa aiid Illinois do not 

 look better while growing, or show bigger stubble when cut than the 

 cornfields of New Jersey or Connecticut. 



Mr. A¥m. Lawton.— I shall vote for the resolution, for it conveys a 

 timely and important hint to the whole farming comraunity. But we 

 cannot be understood as prescribing the best date for corn planting 

 for the whole country. I have raised excellent corn where the field 

 was not planted till the 3d of June. 



Mr. Theo. C. Peters, of Western ISTew York. — In our country we 

 often make good crops of corn, planting after the 10th of June. In a 

 trip whicli I have made of late to the west, I saw no signs of a scant 

 crop of corn, but there is no danger of planting too mucli, and I hope 

 the resolution will pass. 



Upon vote taken the passage of the resolution was decided 

 unanimous. 



