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Tuscarora Corn .—I shall plant two or three 
acres, or perhaps more, of the Tuscarora. I 
shall make my roasting ears, and do my soiling 
with the sweet corn. It is quite a treat among 
us, and the merits of the different kinds have 
been much discussed. I am very proud of if 
all, but shall take my stand with the Tuscarora. 
Bread made of it will suit me best, as it has no 
oil, and then its growth is rapid. It was the 
most beautiful corn, until it was injured by the 
rains,that I have ever seen; it vegetated quick¬ 
ly, grew off with great rapidity, and was the 
deepest green imaginable. I think too that I 
can challenge any corn we have for product, 
except, perhaps, some very large corn which I 
have been improving for years. Of this last 
mentioned corn, I feel confident that I shall be 
able to select ears, forty or forty-five of which 
will shell a bushel. It is planted three by three 
feet, two stalks to the hill. The size of the 
ears is hardly credible, but it shall be weighed 
and shelled in the presence of witnesses. 
Parsnips .—I do not know the size, or rather 
the length of the parsnips. The last I pulled up 
were sixteen inches long; that was early in 
July. Their diameter is three to three and one- 
half inches; the ground was made rich, and sub¬ 
soiled. 
Lucern .—I put the lucern in drills one foot 
apart. The ground is completely covered with 
it. The plants are of every length, from one to 
three feet. The first rows were sown too thin, 
I have some seed left, will they vegetate next 
spring? [Yes. Eds.] I have some parsnip seed 
left, will that vegetate ? [Doubtful. Eds ] 
Buckwheat .—I have a fine crop of buckwheat 
growing for seed. If I fail either in that or pars¬ 
nips, I shall charge it to your account. I will 
let you off with the lucern, because you told me 
in advance that it would not do here. But why 
did you tempt me by sending the seed? Will 
it fail tho’ ? Remember that the ground is now 
perfectly covered by it, and that many of the 
plants are two to three feet long. True there 
is present a great deal of clay, but I nullified 
that to a great extent, with charcoal, ashes, 
leather, wool, woolen-rags and other things. 
I have kept the weeds out. What can I do 
now? Remember this is my pet crop, tell me 
if you please, what to do this fall and next 
spring. Shall I get gypsum, put on more char¬ 
coal, or both, or what? [Either, or both will be 
good. Ed.] I have the coal. 
How to Make Charcoal for Farming Purposes — 
Tomfoolery. —I piled up the brush of three acres 
of ground last spring, covered it with str 
and dirt, and charred it all in a single heap. I 
had some bones in it too. They call this tom¬ 
foolery and book farming, here, because I 
learned it from your paper. I find this coal 
useful to keep down odors about my stable, 
woolheaps, and other places which usually send 
forth their pestiferous breath upon the atmos¬ 
phere we breathe. 
Experiments at Fertilising Missouri Land .—I 
have done a great deal this season with the sole 
view of fertilising my land. I turned under four 
acres of fine clover as I have ever seen grow. I 
immediately sowed corn on the same ground, 
with the intention of turning that under, but it 
is so badly blown down, that I cannot well do it. 
I must cut it up. It will make me a fine parcel 
of food, and has served to keep the sun from 
scorching the ground. I have turned under 
some rye, and several acres of buckwheat; and 
shall turn under more wheat shortly. The 
ground has always washed badly, and will con¬ 
tinue to do so. Had I not better construct some 
side-hill ditches to prevent it? Please give me 
your good advice, always bearing in mind, that 
a little labor for the purpose of improving my 
land, is more a matter of amusement than other¬ 
wise. [There is no method, in our opinion, to 
preserve side hill land, equal to a thorough and 
complete system of ditching, and cultivation of 
all crops on a level; that is, the ditch falls three 
inches in ten feet, and the furrows in plowing 
always level. See our remarks upon this sub¬ 
ject in late numbers of the Agriculturist. Eds.] 
I shall not mind the iabor. Will it preserve the 
land ? 
IMPORT AWT TO WESTERN FARMERS. 
The following article from the Journal of 
Commerce is recommended to your particular 
attention. 
The great abundance and cheapness of Indian 
Corn in the West is the cause of so much actual 
slovenliness in hauling and preparing it for mar¬ 
ket. This was somewhat pardonable when it 
was only worth 8 to 10 cts. a bushel at home, and 
no facilities to send it abroad for a better mar¬ 
ket. But that day is past. Improvement in 
transportation has put the rich provisions of 
Indiana and Illinois within two days of New 
York, and farmers must mend their old ways: 
Indian Corn .—Some months since we called 
the attention of our Western friends to the fact, 
that a large porti/on of the corn coming forward 
from that section w; damaged, for want of 
care in preparing it f market. As the season 
choused, 
