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THE farmer’s MANUAE. 
* Remarks. 
1. It is the easiest and cheapest mode of fertilizing 
poor land. 
2. It promotes a perpetual fertility without the ex- 
pense of manure. -• 
3. It may be made to yield the greatest possible 
products, both in hay and pasturage. 
4. It will greatly increase the means of the farmer 
'.o multiply stock, and thus enrich the other lands with 
manure. 
5. It is within the power of almost every farmer 
to derive some advantage from irrigation ; this, when 
better understood, will oe more generally improved. 
All alluvial lands enjoy the benefits of irrigation, 
and such as are upon the borders of large streams, that 
annually overflow their banks, derive a fertility from 
a warp, or sediment, which the waters deposit, which 
is peculiar to that description of land, and renders 
'hem peculiarly rich and valuable ; such are the lands 
of the Nile in Egypt, the Mississippi, the Connecticut, 
Sic. in America. The warp has formed by its depo- 
sit a large district of country in Egypt, called the 
Delta, and is constantly forming large and extensive 
tracts on the above rivers in America. Wherever 
this can be promoted by the assistance of art, it 
should never be neglected*. 
• Since my remarks upon the culture of luclian-corn were in 
press, 1 have seen in the Connecticut Couritnt the following success- 
ful experiments upon the culture of that most valuable grain, which 
appear to be worthy of notice. 
“ From the Coopersloum Jourrutl, Oct. 25. 
“ .Agricultural . — We are pledged to publish the mode of culture 
adopted by those who were the successful candidates for premiums 
on corn, &c. at the late fair in this County. We have accordingly 
selected the descriptions given by Mr. Hayden and Mr. Brightman, 
the former having raised 1 25 bushels and 26 quarts of corn to the 
acre, and the latter 109 bushels and 4 quarts. 
