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PLOWING THE PLAIN LANDS OP LONG ISLAND, ETC. 
probably in our March number, as he is a 
thousand miles South by this time. He is a 
good-natured man, and wrote the " Flight" more 
out of sport than anything else; and yet he 
contends it was all true so far as he went, and 
cannot be gainsayed. 
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FLOWING THE PLAIN LANDS OF LONG ISLAND. 
Dr. Peck states, that with the Worcester Eagle 
D plow, with three yoke of cattle attached, he 
has succeeded in plowing these lands well, im- 
mediately after the wood was cut off, and with- 
out the previous operation of grubbing. This 
he has done at an expense of $3 per acre, while 
the old grubbing process alone would have cost 
from $12 to $16 per acre. The trees and bushes 
cut off' previous to plowing, stood very thick on 
the land ; and their roots when he put the plow 
in were not only of ordinary size, but green and 
tough. Many farmers came from his immedi- 
ate neighborhood to see his plowing, having 
little faith in removing scrub oak and pine 
stumps and roots in this summary way. We 
have only to add, that the manufacturers of 
these plows, are now at work on a model which 
will be decidedly more efficient than the one 
used by Dr. Peck. As soon as some are finished, 
they will be sent to our warehouse, where we 
shall be glad to have the Long Island farmers, 
and any others interested in such matters, call 
and look at them. 
AN EXPERIMENT WITH HOGS. 
John C. Stevens, 30 years ago. — Extract from his 
Journal— ■" Sept. 30, 1819. Put up 30 hogs— 15 
barrows and 15 sows, in separate pens. The 
barrows weighed— 250, 250, 196, 196, 175, 171, 
171, 168, 163, 161, 141, 140, 114, 112; average, 
170 lbs. The sows weighed— 168, 158, 131, 126, 
122, 119, 119, 117, 115, 113, 109, 105, 105, 101, 80; 
average, 119 lbs. 
Nov. 4. The largest barrow weighed 334 lbs. — 
gain in 43 days, 84 lbs. 
Nov. 10. Butchered hogs — not fed since noon 
yesterday. Thirteen of the fifteen barrows 
weighed after killed and before dressed — 200, 
225, 228, 259, 287, 160, 194, 226, 252, 317, 223, 
203, 168, lbs.; average, 226 lbs. and a fraction. 
Dressed and weighed again, averaged 165 lbs., 
less a fraction. Average loss in dressing, 
62 lbs. 
Thirteen of the fifteen sows weighed before 
dressed— 152£, 170, 186, 169, 189, 194, 224, 142 
233, 175, 174, 161, 169 lbs.; average, 180 lbs., 
less a fraction. When dressed, averaged 135 lbs. 
Average loss, 45 lbs., less a fraction, which is a 
less loss than upon the barrows. 
The hogs were fatted upon pumpkins and 
potatoes, boiled, and some corn. 
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CORN FROM THE SaNDT PLAINS OF LONG Is- 
land. — It is well known to many of our readers, 
that thousands of acres of the sandy land of the 
south side of Long Island, have never yet been 
cultivated. They have hitherto been supposed 
to be too poor for this purpose, and have conse- 
quently been left ever since the settlement of the 
country, to produce nothing but stunted pines 
and scrub oaks. Dr. Peck, of Lake Road Station, 
has just sent us a fine sample of corn raised on 
this kind of land the past summer, as a sample 
of what can be produced there. He says it 
was late planted and imperfectly tilled. The 
ears of this sample are from 7£ to 10i inches 
long,'2 inches diameter at the butt, and the cob 
is very perfectly filled with large, fine grains. 
It is of the white variety, and we should call it 
a handsome sample of corn, even if produced 
from a highly fertile soil. 
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GREAT AMOUNT OF INDIAN CORN FODDER 
GROWN IN ENGLAND. 
W. Hants states that ninety tons of Indian 
cornstalks, weighed green and fresh cut, were 
taken from a single acre in England last year. 
If this be so, it is more than double the weight 
of stalks we ever knew taken from an acre in 
America. 
Perhaps there is some mistake in this statement, 
and perhaps the greater humidity of the Eng- 
lish climate, and the stalk being well saturated 
with rain at the time of cutting, makes the dif- 
ference in weight of acreable produce between 
the two countries. 
Mr. H. urgently recommends increased culti- 
vation of Indian corn throughout the south of 
England expressly for soiling, as the green stalks 
are highly relished by all stock there, pigs ex- 
cepted. This agi'ees with our own opinions 
often expressed to the English farmers when 
travelling there eight years ago. We told them 
that they could not calculate upon the ripening 
of the grain in their cool, moist summer cli- 
mate, but they might be certain of a great and 
valuable growth of stalks, which would be 
found equal to tares, rye, clover, lucern, &c, 
cut green and fed to their cattle. 
SOUTH OREGON CORN. 
Permit me to give you for publication the ori- 
gin and cultivation of a new variety of Indian 
corn, obtained by myself three years past from 
the State of Maryland — and successfully culti- 
vated. This corn was introduced into the State 
in 1839, by Gen. Harrison, from the southern 
part of Oregon and cultivated successfully, and 
decided to be 30 per cent, superior to any before 
cultivated by himself. For myself, I can safely 
say, in some cases, I have nearly or quite 
doubled my crops on the same land, over any of 
the older varieties of corn. Its adaptation to 
thick planting, and prolific bearing, I consider 
great acquisitions to the corn crop. The color is 
orange-yellow ; ears, long and large ; grains from 
half to three-quarters of an inch in length, 
plump and closely set on a small red cob ; six- 
teen to twenty-four rows to the ear ; few or no 
barren stalks. It ripens early, for this climate, 
and I think would be a great acquisition to the 
corn crops of the north. It is known as South- 
Oregon corn. A. G. Moody. 
Smithfield, Isle of Wight, Co., Va. 
To Take the Frost out of Roots. — When 
potatoes or other roots are frozen, soak them in 
cold water till the frost is all drawn out, and 
they will be nearly as good as before frost 
bitten. 
