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In conclusion, I must urge upon my brother farmers the importance 

 of putting in less land and preparing it better. With good seed, one acre 

 ■well cultivated will yield 50 bushels, which gives infinitely more satis- 

 faction and is done with much less labor and expense than the skim- 

 ming over of ten acres with the same result. Almost any of our up- 

 land soils can be made to produce 50 bushels by a little scientific culture 

 and saving of seed. 



A. E. BLUNT. 



Agricultural Stefction, Mouse Creek, East Tennessee. 



