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tioned impresses us with the belief that 

 the prospect, at this season of the year, 

 never was worse.' " 



The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, which 

 the Baltimore Sun says is considered the most 

 reliable authority in all that relates to flour 

 and grain, and probably takes more pains in 

 collecting the statistics of the trade than any 

 other paper in the country, gives a better ac- 

 count from the West than we have seen else- 

 where. It says, 



" There can be now but little doubt that 

 the coming crop will be an abundant one. 

 In the grain growing regions of the West 

 there will be a large surplus, as there has 

 been more land sown than last year, and 

 the crops look equally favorable at this 

 season." 



From the Richmond Enquirer. 

 CORN. 



Gentlemen, — In compliance with Johnny 

 Raw's request, published in the Enquirer 

 of June 1st, I have to say that there is a 

 period in the life of Indian corn, as in that 

 of all other annual plants, at which the 

 leaves have performed their function and 

 begin to change their color and to dry up. 

 The grain has been formed but has not 

 become hard, though it is glazed, the 

 tassel is dry and the fodder or foliage is 

 in that state which the old Virginia 

 planters call ripe, fit to be stripped off the 

 stalks and cured for blade fodder. It is 

 at that time and in that state of the leaves 

 that corn sown broadcast should be mowed 

 for winter food. 



Were it cut a little before that period, 

 the leaves and stalk would contain more 

 nutritive matter, which has been taken 

 from them to form the grain. But before 

 that period the flow of sap into the plant 

 from the spungioles of the roots has not 

 ceased; the stalk and leaves are very 

 succulent, and, therefore, more difficult to 

 cure. The changed appearance in the 

 color of the leaves, not from drought but 

 maturation, their having become partially 

 dry at their extremities, the grain having 



been formed on such plants as bear grain 

 or ears (for the thick sowing, while it 

 gives more foliage, diminishes the quan- 

 tity of grain,) give certain indications of 

 the right time to cut and cure the crop. 

 Hoping this explanation will enable your 

 correspondent to secure a good supply of 

 corn fodder, 



I am, gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant, 



John Lewis. 

 Llangollen, Ky., June, 1847. 



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WATT'S CUFF-BRACE AND GUACE 

 PLOUGH. 



FARMERS are requested to examine our 

 stock of ploughs. We have about twenty 

 sizes, all on the "cuff" plan, by which the 

 beam may be raised or lowered and turned to 

 the right or left to regulate the depth and width 

 of furrow without altering the harness. Some 

 have wrought points and others cast. The 

 ploughs when adjusted to the height of the- 

 horse can be made as permanent as any other 

 plough, if not more so. The sizes vary from 

 a light one-horse to a large four-horse,-: and 

 the prices from S3 50 to $14 or $10. 



The four-horse we confidently recommend 

 as superior to any in use in this country. 

 Those who use four-horse ploughs will please 

 call in time to allow us to get them ready for 

 the present season. 



For further description see Planter of June,. 

 1842, (with a cut,) November, 1846, and Feb- 

 ruary and April, 1847. 

 Patent rights for sale. 



Address GEORGE WATT & Co., 

 je — tf Richmond, Va. 



