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plants often perish. This difficulty may be obviated, in a great mea- 

 sure, by sowing- the grass seed, clover and timothy with or soon after 

 the wheat in the fall, and then rolling it in hard to make the land 

 more compact or solid, thus enabling the young plants to take a 

 firmer hold and get a start in the fall, that they may grow stronger 

 the next spring before dry weather, and so insure a good stand. Roll- 

 ing will not injure but rather benefit the wheat, as it delights in a 

 firm soil. If the grass should become large enough to injure the 

 wheat, which is hardly likely on such land, the loss will be much 

 more than made up in the grass. When the seed is sown with the 

 wheat, or soon after, and rolled in, one-half or even one-fourth the 

 amount of seed will give a better stand than the usual quan- 

 tity sown in late winter or early spring. One quart to the acre 

 of timothy seed put in with the wheat has been known to give a 

 good stand. Situated as the land is between the Delaware bay 

 on the west and the Atlantic ocean on the east, the climate in the 

 winter is much tempered by the warmer air from these bodies of water, 

 so that snow seldom lasts over three or four days, and spring and 

 summer open several days more forward than in the latitude of 

 Philadelphia. The corn and other crops do not suffer with intense 

 dry atmosphere, as they do further inland, on account of the air 

 coming from these bodies being more humid. One great want with 

 the farmers is fertilizers in sufficient quantities to bring up their lands 

 to a high state of improvement. Their resources for these fertilizers 

 we believe are ample. 



Cape May county, according to the geological report by Professor 

 G. II. Cook, of Paitger's College, contains 170,171 acres, of which 

 106,923 are upland, 48,381 tide marsh, 4,424 beaches, and the 

 balance — 10,443 acres — sounds, bays, etc. The county is thirty 

 miles in length, by from three in the south to eight or nine in the 

 north in breadth of upland, across which from Dennis creek, which 

 empties* into the bay across in a north-east direction to a branch of 

 Great Egg Harbor river, extends a great cedar swamp. In the tide 

 marsh bordering on Dennis creek, and for many feet below it, large 

 quantities of cedar logs have been quarried and worked into shingles 

 for covering buildings. Logs have been quarried with a thousand 

 rings and upward, overlying stumps, showing the tides rise higher 

 than when those logs were deposited there, or rather the country has 

 subsided, and that they have been deposited there hundreds if not 

 thousands of years. Shingles made of these are all heart and very 

 durable. Bordering on the south-east is a strip of salt marsh, nearly 



