524 Increasivg a Crop of Wheat — Pomological Convention. 
WHEAT— METHOD OF INCREASING A CROP FROM TWENTY 
TO THIRTY BUSHELS. 
BY IRA HOPKINS. 
Where you have a good clover sod, let the clover grow until 
the first of June; then turn the clover all under, and roll the sod 
smooth and pulverize the ground with a light harrow, and about "'' 
the 25th of June, sow 2| bushels of corn to the acre; after har- 
rowing it well roll the land smooth. About the last of August 
take your roller and press the corn down as flat as possible, (going 
round with the roller the same way you intend to plow the lantl,) 
then plow as deep as possible, and turn the corn all under, and 
follow with the roller, pressing all down flat. 
Thus, you have two crops well mixed with the soil for ma- 
nure. Then take a light harrow or cultivator and pulverise the 
ground fine and sow your wheat the middle of September, and if 
you do not have one-third more wheat than you do when you 
summer fallow, tell me I am mistaken in a cheap way for manur- 
ing land. The corn will grow so thick that it will keep every 
other vegetable down, and leave the land clean. 
Avburn, September, 1848. 
POMOLOGICAL CONVENTION. 
The meeting of the Pomological Convention took place at 
New York as appointed on the 10th instant, and Gen.Talmadge was 
appointed temporary chairman. It was soon perceived that all the 
operations had been pre-arranged by an eastern clique, and even 
lists of names for oflScers and committees, all cut and dried, were 
placed during the'initiatory proceedings in the hands of the tem- 
porary chairman, (but without any idea of the trick on his part) 
so as to insure to the clique referred to, the entire control from the 
advent, and every one whose homage was not sure, or who stood 
prominent in the State Agricultural Society, or who had enlisted 
warmly in the Buffalo Convention, was proscribed as a matter of 
course. The eastern clique after insulting our State Agricultural 
Society by refusing to send delegates to the Buff'alo Pomological 
Convention, made it their primary object, on the present occasion, 
to nullify and set at naught as far as possible the proceedings of 
that primary meeting, in which several more states and territories 
