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" We frequently find published by the ignorant, such articles as this, in a 

 soi disant scientific paper of this city, on the 10th of March inst. r " Some 

 years ago Prof. Mapes laid a trap for the merchants and lawyers, who 

 vionopolized the talking of the Fanners' Club in this city, and succeeded 

 in getting them to expend the whole evening in discussing the modes of 

 telling the ages of cows by their upper teeth." Now, I answer, first : the 

 club never meets in the evening, but always at noon, expressly to enable 

 our farmers who come to market, to attend ; secondly, that a cow has no . 

 upper teeth, and that admitted of no talk ! thirdly, that Prof. Mapes, who 

 was a merchant, has, by force of talent and science, rendered to agriculture 

 immense service ; fourthly, that for centuries agriculture lay low and 

 wretched — a miserable routine, without genius and science. That in our 

 own time the merchants, statesmen, lords, ladies, kings and emperors, all 

 now study and practice farming. Victoria and Albert know more of the 

 farm than the tenant of the office of that ' scientific ' newspaper. Napo- 

 leon, Victor Emmanuel, the Emperors of Russia and Austria are devoted 

 to the cause. Emmanuel has clothed his hills with millions of trees, which 

 had been naked a thousand years. The merchant princes of our country, 

 the Cushings, Handysidc, Perkins, Marshall P. Wilders, Frenches, and 

 thousands of others, have covered their granite hills with the splendors of 

 the farm and garden. The Failes, the Watsons, Pells, with 20,000 apple 

 tree orchard. The Mapes have enriched us by applying two indispensable 

 powers to the land, viz., capital and knowledge. They pay all the Liebigs 

 and Johnstons, chemists and philosophers, who do not, in many cases, know 

 practically wheat, barley, rye or oats, in the field. Chancellor McCoun, 

 late President of our State Agricultural Society, is a practical and scienti- 

 fic farmer. Reverdy Johnson has done great service by resorting to the 

 chemists. George Washington, a surveyor, a wealthy landlord, a great 

 soldier and statesman, devoted himself to agriculture ; and there is not a 

 hand in the newspaper office but longs for that happy day when he too can 

 have a farm. It is the longing of every good man. The consummation 

 of all his hopes to carry out the great original order of our Creator, to till 

 the earth, and keep it." 



NEW METHOD OF GRAFTING. 



Horace Everett, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, communicates to the club a 

 method of grafting common in Tennessee, that may be worth knowing in 

 other localities, and which he says is not described in any fruit book that 

 he has read. It is described as follows : 



" A long, smooth shoot, or limb is selected, cut from the tree, and a sharp 

 iron wedge driven through the limb, every four or five inches. Upon with- 

 drawing the wedge the graft is inserted, allowing the shaved end to extend 

 an inch or so through, so that when a graft had been inserted in every 

 split, the limb looked like a long stick, with the grafts extending from it at 

 right angles, a shoot of four feet having about twelve grafts. This stick or 

 limb was then buried in the ground, the top of the grafts only being 



