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The great drought that has been prevailing here since the 1st of 

 August has injured the common corn very much, while this corn, 

 being so early, missed the dry season. The corn being white, will 

 command a better price in your market than yellow or mixed corn. 

 A bushel of this corn, when dry, will weigh sixty-one pounds. 



So confident am I that this corn is superior to any other large 

 field corn, that I will give a premium of $25 to any person who will 

 produce any other variety that will equal this for earliness and pro- 

 ductiveness. I call it " Cooley's early white field corn." 



Barren Pear Trees. 



Mr. J. E. Greene, of Pomfret, Conn. — "What can I do to make 

 several quite large, thrifty pear trees bear well — " Marie Louise " and 

 " Dix " varieties, twenty-eight years old ? They bear occasionally a 

 few. They stand in good, deep, black soil, well suited to grow trees 

 or almost anything else. Bartletts and Seckels by the side of them 

 bear well. Also, what can I do to prevent the yellows in peach trees \ 

 I am troubled with canker worm on apple trees. What shall I do to 

 prevent their appearance next year? 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — The trees are probably growing' still ; they will 

 bear when they stop spreading. I have known a Dix pear to go 

 twenty -five years before it commenced to bear, but the fruit it bore 

 in abundance was an ample reward for waiting. 



The Tennessee Table-lands. 

 Mr. S. Harrocl Bell, of Howard Springs, Tenn., sent the following 

 valuable communication : As this region has been frequently mentioned 

 in the meetings of your Club during the past two years, what I shall say 

 will not be entirely new. Many of the statements contained in former 

 communications were mere opinions in regard to an undeveloped coun- 

 try. They overrated it in some respects, and underrated it in others. 

 This was unavoidable. The country is only partially developed yet, and 

 many questions are still unsettled — at least, in part. I was raised a 

 Northern farmer, am a practical surveyor, and have been here two 

 years. I will state briefly what I have learned, and let inquirers 

 form their own opinions. This table-land is about thirty miles wide. 

 It lies 1,000 feet higher than the surrounding country, and 2,000 feet 

 above the sea. A large part of its surface is nearly level or mode- 

 rately rolling. The rest is more or less broken. The leveller por- 

 tions are usually covered with open timber and wild grass ; the more 

 broken, with heavier timber and less grass. The difference is mainly 



