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All the manures are calculated as being on the ground, those having long 
distances to cart can easily regulate the difference accordingly as they are 
more or less bulky. 
The corn is valued at 75 cents per bushel, with 5 per cent, deducted for 
shrinkage. The cobs pay for shelling in their value to me as fire-wood. 
Labor is reckoned at 75 cents per day for a man, and $1.75 for team. 
The quantities given per hill are not exact, but as near as can well be 
ascertained. 
To make up the total expense in the sixth column, $7 per acre is added for 
interest on the value of the land and taxes. 
In an experiment I made last year, urine proved more valuable than horse 
manure, which I attribute to its being unusually dry that season. I mention 
this fact merely to show, that a difference of seasons—as well as difference 
of soil or climate—will invariably have a greater or less influence on our 
experiments; we should therefore be cautious how we draw general conclu¬ 
sions from even a series, much less a single experiment. 
Oyster Bay, Long Island, Dec. 1 st, 1846. Daniel K. Youngs. 
MORE FACTS ABOUT THE PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS. 
We were among the first to introduce the Paulownia imperialis into this 
country, having received it the same year as the persons you refer to in your 
December number. We have gone, however, more extensively into its 
propagation, than others, and have now one plot containing 4,000 trees, 8 to 
10 feet in height, and five older trees that will probably bloom the ensuing 
spring. We measured some leaves of extraordinary vigor, that were 32 
inches in diameter; but, on older trees, the foliage is of much less dimen¬ 
sions. It is rather singular, that in a scientific description of this tree pub¬ 
lished in a Paris Horticultural work, the circumstance of its developing 
flower-buds in the autumn preceding their spring expansion, is commented 
upon as a striking peculiarity, when, in point of fact, this peculiarity applies 
to very many of the trees and shrubs introduced from the same region, and 
would almost seem to be a general characteristic of Japan and Chinese trees. 
We will instance the Camellia japonica, Magnolia obovata, gracilis, and con- 
spicua, Cydonia japonica, and others. We feel well assured that the Pau¬ 
lownia is destined to become the pride of our avenues and lawns, and it will 
be extensively planted in the streets of our cities, as it not only imparts the 
most ample shade, but cheers us with its brilliant and enlivening display of 
flowers at the opening of spring. Wm. R. Prince & Co. 
Flushing, Long Island, December 15th, 1846. 
S.USQ.UEHANNAH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A short time ago, I received a newspaper from Montrose, a flourishing 
little town in the northern part of Pennsylvania, containing a spirited 
account of the proceedings of the Susquehannah County Agricultural 
Society ; and their first Annual Fair and Cattle Show. This society is yet 
in its infancy, but it must and will succeed ; for the leading members are 
reading and thinking men, of intelligence and education, and good practical 
farmers, yet willing to make experiments, and always ready to communicate 
the results for the benefit of their neighbors, either as examples or as warn¬ 
ings; and encouraging among themselves a noble emulation to achieve 
what others have succeeded in accomplishing. 
Many premiums were awarded, which, after due acknowledgments, were 
returned as donations to the treasury, in consideration of the low state 
of the funds of the society; an example well worthy of imitation. There 
is a good spirit prevailing abroad among our farmers, throughout the length 
and breadth of our glorious land, encouraging a desire for improvement, 
and a growing willingness to be benefited by the experience of others, that 
proves the “ march of mind” to be something more substantial than a phi¬ 
lanthropic theory. The silly prejudice against what is sneeringly called 
book-farming, that, has hung like a black cloud, obscuring our mental 
vision, is fast fading away before the light of knowledge, now so widely 
disseminated by the agricultural journals, that are finding their way stea¬ 
dily though slowly, to every fire-side—and with their pages stored with 
valuable information, and the questions of intelligent ignorance, on a 
thousand subjects inseparably connected with the farming interest—make the 
