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applied to the acre or about one gill to each set. 
After this, the potatoes may be hoed, earthed up, 
and harvested the usual way. By either of these 
modes, a crop of excellent potatoes can be raised, 
which, if sold at ordinary prices, in the New York 
markets, will be attended with some profit. 
Should the potatoes be of an early sort, and dug 
by the end of July, a bushel of buckwheat may be 
sown on the same ground, which should be plowed 
under, as soon as it is in full flower. In this con¬ 
dition, the ground should lie until the next spring, 
when it may be planted with Indian corn, three 
feet apart between the rows and two feet between 
the hills. In order to give the corn an early start, 
114 bushels of well-fermented stable or barn-yard 
manure should be applied to the acre (about a pint 
to each hill), or an equal amount, in value, of 
guano or poudrette. Four kernels may at first be 
planted in a hill, and the number of spires in each 
may be reduced to three, at the time of weeding or 
first hoeing, which may neatly be done without 
cultivator or plow. In July, at the time of the 
second hoeing, a cultivator, or double mould- 
board plow, may be run between the rows, and 
a fish (7,365 moss-bunkers to an acre), dropped 
in the furrow midway between each pair of hills. 
The surface of the soil should next he slightly 
moved and levelled with the hoe, covering over the 
fish to a depth of three or four inches, without form¬ 
ing any mould or hill. By these means, a good 
crop of com may be raised, with a tolerably fair 
profit. 
The land, by the time the corn crop is removed, 
will have been sufficiently broken and subdued, to be 
prepared for more permanent use. The next step we 
would recommend, is, to spread upon the surface of 
each acre, late in autumn or early in winter of 
the same year, 2,000 bushels of marl or strong clay, 
where it should remain exposed, during the winter, 
to the action of the frost. Early in the spring of 
the third year, this marl or clay should be plowed 
under, while moist or wet, to a depth of about a 
foot, in order to form a permanent bed for retaining 
moisture and the solvent parts of manures. This hav¬ 
ing been done, with the addition of a liberal dressing 
of guano, or stable manure, the ground will have been 
in a suitable condition for planting fruit trees, the 
cultivation of garden vegetables, or for the rotation 
of general crops. 
2. Oak Barrens .—In subduing and enriching 
this class of lands, a very different course must be 
pursued, the first season, from that recommended to be 
adopted in renovating the prairies. For, as little or 
no sod exists on their surface, and only a scanty 
portion of vegetable matter of any kind, except 
bushes, the potato crop had better be dispensed 
with, and measures taken to produce a growth of 
buckwheat, to be plowed under, as soon as it is in 
flower, preparatory to a crop of Indian corn the 
second year. 
Any time previous to the first of July, the bushes 
may be mown, or grubbed up close to the ground, 
chopped fine, and collected into small heaps, in or¬ 
der to dry. Towards the latter end of that month, 
a day or two before sowing the buckwheat, the 
ground may be broken up with a four or six-ox team, 
plowing under all the leaves and young sprouts 
that may exist on the surface at the time ; and, when 
five or six furrows have been turned up, the dry 
brush wood may be compactly piled in small heaps, 
on the newly-plowed ground, and set on fire. As 
soon as they become well ignited, these heaps may 
gradually be covered with earth, beginning at the 
bottom, and closing at the top, leaving one or more 
air holes near the base,r according to the state of the 
wind, in order to keep up combustion. By these 
means, the brush wood will smoulder away, and in 
due time, will be converted into ashes and charcoal r 
which may be evenly spread on the surface of the 
field, at the sowing of the seed,' to enrich ihe soil. 
If the labor of covering the brush wood with earth, 
is thought to be too great, it may be burned in the 
open air (although evidently at a great loss), 
scattering what ashes remain over the ground for 
the benefit of the crop. 
In burning over thin, gravelly, or sandy soils;, 
containing much vegetable matter, great precaution 
should be used, as it often destroys their staple by 
the operation, and dissipates a large proportion of 
their fertilizing substance, in the form of gas or 
smoke, into the air. The numerous fires which 
have spread over these Long Island lands, from time 
to time, depriving them of the principal part of their 
humus or vegetable mould, is doubtless the princi¬ 
pal cause of their present infertility. All such soils., 
therefore, should never be burnt over without well 
weighing the benefits or evils likely to arise there*- 
from. In general, on thin, gravelly, or sandy soils, 
the evils or disadvantages will be found to prepon¬ 
derate. 
The buckwheat being sown, as directed above, 
may be well plowed under as soon as it is in flower, 
for the benefit of the corn crop of the following 
year. Forever after this period, the treatment of 
these barrens may be precisely the same as that re¬ 
commended for the plains, with the exception of 
scattering around each hill of corn, the second year, 
about a half pint of leached ashes (56 bushels per 
acre), at the time of hoeing. 
A SKETCH OF CLINTON VILLE, N. J. 
Clintonville is beautifully located, on elevated 
ground, on the west side of Elizabeth Creek, and 
contains several handsome dwellings. Other im¬ 
provements are now in progress, among which is 
an institution for the higher branches of education, 
to be conducted by the Rev. Mr. Chapman, pastor 
of the Dutch Reformed Church, and when com¬ 
pleted, will be a great acquisition to the neighbor¬ 
hood. Several retired citizens and others still en¬ 
gaged in business in the city of New York, have 
selected this place, or its vicinity, for their resi¬ 
dences ; which, on account of its healthy location, 
beautiful scenery, and easy access, renders it one of 
the most desirable situations within two hours’ ride 
of that city. The soil, in this region, is good, 
and capable of producing fine crops of oats, corn, 
wheat, potatoes, &c. 
The main route from Ohio and Pennsylvania, be¬ 
ing through this village, droves of horses and cat¬ 
tle, are daily passing to New York, which, together 
with the numerous carriages and teams of every de¬ 
scription, give life and animation to the place. The 
sweet sound of the “ church-going bells” is fre¬ 
quently heard on Sabbath days and evenings. The 
various roads leading to numerous villages in every 
