1 
Middlesex Pigs. —(To A. Purdy, Jr., 
Maced on.) Thoro aro but few Middlesex 
pigs in the country. L. F. Allen, Black 
Hock, Erie Co., N. Y., had some a short 
time since, and it is probable ho could sup¬ 
ply you with the desired information. 
Red Tor Grass Seed.— Will you please in¬ 
form me in your paper whether there is Red Top 
grass seed iu the city, add how they sell it, 
whether by the pound or bushel ? and how much 
and what quantity is enough per acre for moist 
lauds ?— P. Dill, Wiscoy, N. Y. 
Mr. Jas. P. Fogg, seedman, in this city, 
soils the true eastern Red Top at $2 per 
bushel. The quantity usually sown is 8 
or more quarts per acre. It should bo sown 
on low land and unmixod with other grass¬ 
es, as it ripens late and may be cut m good 
heart the first of September. 
HILLING AND SUCKERING INDIAN CORN. 
Will corn be more likely to “breakdown’’ 
when “ hilled up,” than left without it ? Will it 
increase the crop of corn, by taking off the shoots 
or suckers J. W. B., Kendall Mills , N. Y. 
Our experience in the cultivation of com, 
is in opposition to the hilling system for 
any purpose. The simple addition ot an 
inch or two of loose earth about the foot ot 
an article, with as much leverage and carry¬ 
ing as many sails as the corn plant does, 
can have little or no effect in sustaining it 
against heavy winds ; but when in rich soils 
and in favorable seasons it makes a luxuri¬ 
ant growth. The application of a coating ot 
earth about the stalk, often induces it to 
put out braces, or a now sett of strong 
roots, which undoubtedly havo a tendency 
to stiffen and sustain the plant. The Dent 
and Gourd seed corn, grown at tho south 
and west, possess tho ability to support 
themselves in this manner, which they do in 
all situations. 
It has been well settled by nice and re¬ 
liable experiments, that tho suckoring of 
corn is a certain and decided injury to tho 
crop. The sucker is one of the wise designs 
for the corn plant, and its maximum pro¬ 
duction cannot bo perfected without its 
agency. This vegetable is monozeious, that 
is, tho soxal organs aro located in separate 
positions, the stamen containing the pollen 
is the tassel, and tho pistils are tho silk on 
the oar, or cob, and so absolute is the law of 
impregnation that if any one individual silk 
is injured, or fails ot receiving a portion of 
the dust of the tassel, that that portion 
never produces a kernel. 
In all well tilled and good crops of corn, 
there are setts for ears put forth after tho 
original tassel is dry and has lost its ability 
to shed its creating properties, and tho 
sucker comes out at the very period when 
it is neoded to impregnate and porfect this 
last sotting of corn. Tho growth of tho 
sucker is one of tho natural wise provisions 
and should not be interfered with, and can¬ 
not bo with impunity in relation to its pro- 
ductability. 
“WOODMAN SPARE THAT TREE.” 
I am sorry, friend Rural, your corres¬ 
pondent at Skanatales, (whose signature I 
forgot, and havo mislaid the paper,) should 
bo so bent on tho extermination of tho 
noble aborigines of our forests. I more 
readily coincido with tho writer who has 
taken up his pen in their defence. 
That the general rulo of leaving a portion 
of every farm uncleared, for fuel, woods- 
pasture, &c., should not bo of universal ap¬ 
plication, (the case of small farms, for in¬ 
stance.) by no means proves it to bo a bad 
rulo. “ There are exceptions to all general 
rules,” and I much mistake if our grand¬ 
children will not hold in highest osteem, tho 
forethought of their sires who limited the 
march of the “ chopper.” 
There is a very serious consideration con¬ 
nected with this subject, and thus far over¬ 
looked by your correspondent. Coal beds 
may supply us with fuel, dirty and offensive j ground, carry tho heat of the atmosphere 
though it bo-tasto and utility, in tho course I " ith and tb “ s w ™ tho 6oil and r00t3 
struction of the forests. Tho Connecticut 
river is said to have diminished one-half 
since tho white man camo to its banks. 
Tho Indians say it is tho curse of tho Great 
Spirit; but if so, then all our waters are 
cursed alike—for they are all alike lessening 
in volume. I know of mill soats, once 
abounding in “water-power,” now nearly 
worthless. I do not know a single stream, 
in a cleared up region, that is not shrinking 
year by year, if not already dry. 
That this result is, to a certain extent, 
unavoidable, I admit; but a wiser discretion 
in our land-clearcrs would lessen the evil by 
one-half. For instance, have you a rough, 
dense-wooded ravine on your land, with tho 
usual spring run through it t — leave tho 
thick trees to shelter it from the scorching 
sun. Let tho trees stand around that “ cold 
spring,” tho delight of the neighborhood, 
where tho traveler always pauses to refresh 
both man and beast. Your children will 
thank you for the glorious play-ground ; tho 
birds for their share of tho cool retreat, and 
pay you richly too. Is there a swamp on 
your land, whence issues a tiny stream ?— 
leave tho shadowing treos; the water is 
worth more than tho land, as you will be¬ 
lieve when your springs forsake their wont¬ 
ed channels —“ as summer-dried fountains, 
when our need is the sorest.” 
If your sons think differently, and find 
themselves cramped for room, leave to thorn 
tho pleasuro of reclaiming tho swampy 
acres — or lot them go West. And mean¬ 
time, you know the proverb—“ A little farm 
well tilled.” Therefore lay out all your on- 
orgies on the rest of your land. Solve tho 
problem of the maximum crop of all the 
cereals, and let us hear from you as to the 
rosult. Only, once more lot mo entreat 
you, “Woooman, sparo that tree!” 
YVeUsboro’, Pa., Sspt., 1853. S. *. *. 
UNDERDRAINING. 
The JY. Y. .dgricullor recently published 
a series of articles on tho subject of drain¬ 
ing which evince much study and investi¬ 
gation. Tho following extract sums up tho 
principal advantages accruing from the ju¬ 
dicious use of underdraining, which wo 
commend to tho earnest consideration of 
our readers: 
1. Romoving the water from tho poros 
admits the air, which is essential to tho 
growth of tho roots. 
2. The roots extend farther and deeper 
into the soil, get a firmer hold upon it, and 
draw nourishment from a larger area. 
3. The air decomposes vegetable matter, 
and thus furnishes organic food for the 
growing plant. 
4. The air and other gases decompose 
the earthy parts of tho soil, and thus pro¬ 
vide new inorganic food. 
5. The freo circulation of air in tho soil 
carries in ammonia, and other fertilizing 
substances to tho roots of plants. 
6. Tho presenco of water causes soils to 
bake, so as to render them hard to work, 
and also to prevent tho free growth and ex¬ 
pansion of roots. 
7. When all excess of water is removed, 
compact and clay soils become light and 
pulverized by working them. 
8. Tho free access of air renders poison¬ 
ous compounds of iron, maganese, &c., 
inert, and clovor and other deep rooted 
crops will not bo killod, but they will con¬ 
tinue to 'grow and flourish from year to 
year. 
9. The depth to which the roots pone- 
trato in soils, freed from poisons and filled 
with air, secures to tho plants sufficient 
moisture to withstand tho surfaco effects of 
drouth. 
10. In hot weather, the circulation of 
warm, moist air through the open mouth 
drains and the soil, condenses moisture in 
tho cooler soil, and furnishes additional se¬ 
curity against drouth. 
11. " The air circulating in the soil, decom¬ 
poses vegetable acids and removes “sour¬ 
ness.” 
12. The removal of the standing wator 
allows warmth, which cannot descend thro 
a body of wator, to penetrate farther into 
the soil. 
13. By causing the water to descend into 
drains, instead of evaporating from tho sur¬ 
face, another chief source of coldness is re¬ 
moved. 
14. Rains in descending through tho 
of time, may ro-clotho our denuded hills and 
vallies with orchards and luxuirant groves,— 
but who or ivhat can compensate for our 
dried-up springs and rivulets, and our 
shrunken rivers ? No thought seems as yet 
to bo given to tho startling fact, that tho 
destruction of our forests invariably causes 
the entire failure of many springs; in all 
casos the flow of water is greatly lessoned. 
Yet, behold the rocklossnoss with which 
every wooded ravine, swamp and precipice 
is laid bare to the summer sun ! Why not 
leave such spots untouched ? They aro of 
small value, generally, for cultivation. Ob¬ 
servation and reflection on such matters, 
would prevent much irreparable mischief— 
for no artesian wells can supply tho place 
Of! the lost, cool spring, and running brook 
of former days. 
Humbglt attributes the failure of wator, 
in some provinces of Franco, to the de- 
of plants. 
15. Draining by rapidly removing the 
water in tho spring, and after heavy rains, 
and by warming tho soil, is equivalent to 
lengthening tho season, and gives a wider 
range of cultivated plants, a longer time for 
plowing and working tho ground. 
16. Land freed from excess of moisture, 
expands much loss in freezing, and the roots 
of wheat, clover and other crops remaining 
in tho ground over winter, aro not destroy¬ 
ed by winter kill. 
17. Water by sinking through the soil 
into drains, is prevented from washing the 
surface into gullies, and from carrying away 
into streams the richer solublo portions of 
soils and manures. 
These reasons we believe are sufficient to 
induce farmers to inquire into the condi¬ 
tion of their soils, and to try the experi¬ 
ment of draining upon at least a small por¬ 
tion of their wettest lands. The experi¬ 
ment nood not be on a large scale. A sin¬ 
gle acre well drained will suffice to show 
whether this means of improvement may 
be profitably extended. 
We aro indebted to Moses Eames, Esq., 
for a pamphlet containing the Proceedings 
of tho Jefferson Co. Ag. Society, including 
the address by tho lion. Timothy Jefkins, 
of Oneida, at the recent Fair, and the Re¬ 
port of tho Viewing Committee, &c. It is 
an interesting document and contains much 
good, sound, practical information. Wo 
understand that tho receipts of the Society 
for tho past year were over one thousand 
dollars, and future prospects very encoura¬ 
ging. The following extracts from tho Re¬ 
port of tho Viowing Committee will bo read 
with interest: 
Tho severe and long continued drouth, 
and the general prevalence of tho grass¬ 
hopper scourge, have produced such dis¬ 
astrous effects in most parts of our county 
as to cause but comparatively little compe¬ 
tition. 
According to our observation, tho Dairy¬ 
ing portions of tho county havo suffered tho 
least from these evils, and wo havo reason 
to hope tho high prices of butter and choeso 
will onablo most of tho owners of Dairies to 
realize their usual nett profits. 
Tho grain producing farms, howovor, suf¬ 
fer tho infliction in its most aggavating form, 
in many cases not producing sufficient grain 
and fodder to support the stock until 
another year;.-. 
During the last six years wo have expe¬ 
rienced three seasons of drouth. Grain, 
roots and grasses havo suffered from tho 
want of moisture, and, in many localities, 
catlle havo suffered, and families been sub¬ 
jected to great inconvonienco from a de¬ 
ficiency in the supply of puro and whole¬ 
some water. 
These deprivations havo been submitted 
to, year after year without any serious ef¬ 
forts having been mado to avert their ef¬ 
fects. In all probability, our county will 
continue to bo visited hereafter frequently 
by drouths quite as intense as that through 
which we have just passed. 
Wo believe that on all our clay or marly 
soils, and in fact on most of tho soils in tho 
county, such a system of farming can be 
adopted as will avoid tho deleterious effects 
not only of long-continued dry weather, but 
also of too much moisture, and at the same 
time add greatly to the productiveness of 
tho land; and, also, that on every farm an 
abundance of good, wholesomo water can 
bo cheaply providod for tho use of the fam¬ 
ily and of tho stock. 
Without entering into any argument to 
prove theso assertions, we will satisfy our¬ 
selves by earnestly entreating our Farmers 
to turn thoir attention to tho subjocts of 
sub-soil plowing and under-draining, as 
herein we feel confident rests the secret of 
success in cultivating our soil during tho 
great vicissitudes of wot and dry, to which 
it is subject. 
And, in connection with the subject of in¬ 
troducing a higher grade of farming than 
that now practiced, wo would take this oc¬ 
casion to express our regret that so few Ag¬ 
ricultural papers aro taken by the cultiva¬ 
tors of the soil. Even among those who 
presented their farms or dairies for premi¬ 
ums, very few were able to respond affirm¬ 
atively to our inquiries upon that point.— 
But we can say that whore papers wore ta¬ 
ken, we found the most intelligent men, and 
tho best managed establishements. 
To understand thoroughly the system of 
deep plowing and drainage, to which wo 
have alluded it is necessary to road and re¬ 
flect upon much of what has been written 
upon tho subject. Somo Agricultural 
books give full treatises, while the current 
periodicals of tho day present to the inqui- 
ror the individual experience of those who 
aro experimenting upon and practicing tho 
system. 
" In viewing the Farms entered for compe¬ 
tition your Committee endeavored to keep 
in view as standard requisites and evidences 
of good farming, tho following points : 
1st. A good soil, well tilled, and kept freo 
of noxious weeds, both on the fields and in 
the roads. 
2d. Lots yvoII fenced, and suitable in 
number to tho size of tho Farm. 
3d. Substantial and convenient barns and 
stables of sufficient dimensions to contain 
the produce of tho Farm, and comfortably 
houso tho cattle kopt on it. 
4th. A judiciously arranged 'dwelling in 
neat condition, with a yvoII and filtering 
cistern. 
5th. Convenient buildings to facilitate 
tho economical management of tho Farm; 
among which may bo enumerated a ivood 
house, a waggon and tool houso, a work 
shop, a granary and corn house, a conveni¬ 
ent piggery, an ice-house, ash and smoko 
houso, all secured against decay by being 
well raised from tho ground and neatly 
painted or white-washed. 
6th. Convenient yards attached to tho 
barns and stables, so arranged as to provent 
the wastago of the liquid manure, well shel¬ 
tered from tho blasts of winter, and provi¬ 
ded with wator for the cattle. 
7th. Door yards laid with grass, and rose 
and flower-beds, and shaded by ornamental 
treos, indicating to the passer-by the dwell¬ 
ing of taste, health and comfort. 
8th. A kitchen garden highly cultivated, 
and containing evory species of vegetable 
that can be raised in our climate, with 
strawberry and asparagus beds. 
7th, A fruit garden or orchard, whero 
choice apples, cherries and plums are care¬ 
fully cultivated, and whero can bo found 
neat rows of raspberry, goosoberry, black¬ 
berry and currant bushes. 
During the past three years “ tho Times 
Commissioners” have visited noarly every 
county of England, and exposed to the as¬ 
tonished gazo of the world tho unheard of 
poverty, misery, ignorance and wretched¬ 
ness of tho working classos in many of tho ru¬ 
ral districts. The deeds of the landlords wero 
made manifest that thoy might bo reproved, 
and wo believe much good has been the re* 
suit. Wo are glad to see the Times (what¬ 
ever may be its motive,) lending its power¬ 
ful aid to the down trodden farm laborers, 
as follows: 
The anniversary of tho Royal Bucking¬ 
hamshire Agricultural Association has been 
celebrated in primitive stylo. Notwith¬ 
standing tho presenco of Mr. Disraeli, there 
wero no marvels of finance. Remission of 
<taxes, liquidation of dobts, and readjust¬ 
ment of burdens wore loft to fittor occasions, 
and tho entertainments were a plowing 
match, a dinner, prizes to laborers, and a 
defence of tho practice. Buc inghamshire 
has this year produced twenty citizens de¬ 
serving woll of their country. Mr. Disraeli 
appears to have taken tho domestic virtues 
under his special patronago. With his own 
hands, out of his own pocket h e presented 
£2 10s. to a veteran lain rer for having 
brought up, without parochial relief, nine 
children out of eleven, all born to him in 
lawful wedlock: £1 10s. to tiie bringer-up 
of seven; £1 to tho successful parent of 
throe, under tho same unexceptionable cir¬ 
cumstances. Prizes for longth of sorvice 
to laborers and dairymaids, and the “ Soci¬ 
ety’s coat and buttons,” a sort of green uni¬ 
form, completed tho list of honors. Tho 
eloquent roprosontativo for tho county took 
a highly poetical view of tho complimentary 
shillings which he assisted to distribute. 
When Socrates Yvas put on his trial, ho 
said that, so far from deserving punishment, 
he ought to bo maintained at public ex¬ 
pense, and provided w r ith good cheer and 
good company every day. So, also, wo say, 
that any English laboror who has brought 
up nino children without parochial assist¬ 
ance, simply on tho wages of daily labor, 
dosorves at the ago of 60 to bo secured 
against want, anxiety, or degradation. If 
misfortuno befalls him, and ho becomes in- 
capablo of labor, ho doservos to bo repaid 
tho long arrears that have boon mounting 
up in his favor from tho gross inadequacy 
of his Yvagos. 
Just conceivo an elderly man in tho Uni¬ 
ted States, or any of our own colonies, in 
tho middle of a public room, and on his 
name being called from a list, coming for¬ 
ward, bat in hand, bowing and blushing, to 
receive a green coat and brass buttons for 
having served one mastor for thirty years, 
or 30s. for having brought up soven children 
without parish relief! A fault certainly is 
somewhere, that long and faithful servitude 
givos no better inheritance, and that a life 
of heroism leaves a man still at tho foot of 
tho social scale. Wo all see how cleverness, 
roguery, and sheer impudenco will get a 
man on in the world ; and it certainly is la¬ 
mentable to find how little sterling excel¬ 
lence can do for its owners. Unquestiona¬ 
bly, thoro is a race of village worthies who 
demand the-recognition of their superiors; 
but what Yvq regrot is, that this recognition 
should bo so transitory and worthless. In 
this country povorty is still degradation and 
discomfort; and, in tho ordinary courso of 
things, the recipient of tho green coat and 
buttons at tho age of sixty would have to 
go through a long period of labor, priva¬ 
tion, solitude, and oven contempt, which his 
handsome livery would do littlo to avert or 
to miitgatc. Wo regret that something 
cannot bo done of a more lasting character. 
Should it bo answorod that theso laborers 
would bo totally unfit for anything but ser¬ 
vice, and that tho size of a farm and tho 
stato of English agriculture afford no op¬ 
portunity for setting up such a man in an 
independent way, or othenviso raising his 
condition, wo can only recognize in the dis¬ 
tribution of these really paltry gifts a con¬ 
fession of social weakness. It seems to ad¬ 
mit that a laborer has very little temporal 
inducement to do his duty in this country. 
Thero aro plenty of good speakers at 
theso meetings, and generally a want of 
topics ; so we beg to suggest a topic. Let 
somo ono tell tho British laboror what his 
opportunities really aro; what amount of 
justice ho roally recoives from society, and 
what comparison thore is between tho 
fruits of half-a-century at tho plow in this 
country and in the Unitod States. 
There aro more horses lod into shamb 
ling gaits, and awkward ovorroaching and 
stumbling habits, by bad shoeing, than by 
all other causes combined. 
Steuben Co. Ag. Fair. —Our correspon¬ 
dent, W. B. Pratt, Esq., of Prattsburgh, 
writes that tho first Fair of tho Steuben Co. 
Ag. Society, which took placo tho 13th and 
14th inst., exceeded tho utmost expectations 
of tho most sanguino. Bosides tho cash 
premiums, sixty copies of tho last Patent 
Office Report (a donation by Hon. R. 
Robio,) wero distributed. The future pros¬ 
pects of tho society aro most flattering. 
Valuable Application. —For wounds re¬ 
ceived from old nails, or cuts occasioned by 
broken glass, peach tree leavos, woll stooped 
and applied to the wound, will givo imme¬ 
diate roliof. By thickening tho liquid from 
which tho leaves have been taken with meal 
or bran, a good poultice is obtained, which 
will keep moist for hours. In case tho 
leavos cannot be obtained, a tea made of 
young twigs of tho peach tree, and thicken¬ 
ed, will do as well. 
A workshop, where tho tools can bo kept 
is an indispensablo appendage to a good 
farm. 
There is nothing like a fixed, stoadyaim, 
with an honorablo purpose. It dignifies 
your naturo, and insuros you success. 
In the pursuit ef a given object—in the prose¬ 
cution of any important enterprise—a crisis often 
arises when a broad, yet minute survey of the 
field, indicates wisdom, prudence and intelligent 
forethought. Every one of the 5,000,000 who are 
engaged in agricultural pursuits in the United 
States, however efficient as a business man, will 
occasionally be at a loss for some item of infor¬ 
mation, some facts or figures quite necessary to 
the most successful direction and prosecution of 
his affairs. No matter how extensive his general 
knowledge, valuable facts, in harmony with his 
continued progress are constantly arising, some of 
which escape the most careful observation, while 
others elude the most retentive memory. Laws 
are being enacted which may affect his interest, 
discoveries are being made, and ingenious men 
strive unceasingly to lighten labor, or at least to 
increase its results. 
The present is a crisis fraught with the richest 
hopes to the industrious and enterprising farmer. 
The bow of promise gilds the horizon of the 
future, and invites to a repast worthy of the gods. 
The maddening crisis of ’36 and ’37, with its 
dark and gloomy outlines written upon the past, 
stands far in the background, and a bright and 
holier morn dawns upon the present. In the 
elucidation of this golden sentiment, it is proper 
to mark the progressive changes for improvement, 
which are rapidly taking place in our country— 
changes that he who, before the invention of 
steamers, railways and the telegraph, or indeed 
much later, had ventured to predict, would have 
been subjected to rather a dangerous censure, and 
a most contemptuous incredulity. 
The vast increase of the precious metals, re¬ 
sulting from the late discovery of the California 
and Australian gold mines, tends directly to en¬ 
hance the price of real estate, and all farm pro¬ 
ducts. In 1852, $200,000,000 were taken from 
these mines ; a sum greater than all the gold mines 
of the world had yielded for a century previous. 
That this augmentation of the basis of the circu¬ 
lating medium, is already very sensibly affecting 
prices in the market value of lands and its pro¬ 
ducts, few will deny. History informs us that a 
similar result followed the .discovery of the Mex¬ 
ican mines, and that property in Englaud rose in 
value full 300 per cent. The prices of farms 
there to-day varies from $250 to $300 per .acre. 
The increased facilities for getting to tide-water 
the surplus products of the farm, is another cause 
why prices range high, and must continue to do 
so. The canals and railroads which are springing 
into existence as by magic, and already form a 
net-work over the length and breadth of the land, 
so diminish the cost of transportation,—so effect¬ 
ually annihilate distance, and place the broad, al¬ 
luvial west, the sunny plains of the soiith, and 
the hilly regions of the north, in juxta-position 
with the metropolis of New York, and other cities 
of the east,—that the producer realizes good and 
remunerative prices, and real estate must and 
does have an upward tendency. 
The large drain of young men from the agri¬ 
cultural corps, occasioned by the bold and fearless 
rush to the El Dorado of America, forms another 
powerful reason why farm products command a 
higher market value. Every one who leaves the 
farm for the gold regions, ceases to be a producer, 
and at once becomes a consumer, and consequent¬ 
ly makes a difference of two in his relative posi¬ 
tion to the two great classes. Competition in the 
departments of beef making, wool growing, grain 
raising, pork, butter and cheese making, is 
lessened, and hence as there is a less number t® 
produce, and a greater number to consume, prices 
rule higher and promise rich returns for capital 
and labor invested. 
American enterprise calls loudly for increased 
outlays upon our internal improvements. This 
forms an additional argument in favor of an ad¬ 
vancing market for farm products. Our country 
is now checkered with 13,000 miles of railroad, 
costing $237,000,000. It has under contract or 
in contemplation 20,000 miles more, to be built as 
soon as possible.. The vast requisition for labor, 
iron, coal, wood, paint, and other raw materials, 
to consummate this Herculean achievment—giv¬ 
ing employment to thousands, all of whom must 
be clothed and fed—pours a tide of evidence in 
favor of the brightening prospect before the 
American farmer. 
The elevated and commanding position which 
our country, with its free institutions, just and 
equitable laws, liberal policy, and its abundance 
of cheap and fertile lands, holds in the estimation 
of the inhabitants of Great Britain and the Con¬ 
tinent— causing a ceaseless and uninterrupted 
flood of immigration to our shores—forms another 
powerful reason why the market value of farm 
products is constantly tending upwards. It is 
estimated that not less than 400,000 persons will 
land upon our .shores the present season from 
Germany‘alone. Ireland and other oppressed 
countries will send more than their usual com¬ 
plement. These numerous thousands, on their 
arrival here make a direct demand upon the pro¬ 
ductions of the farm, in the shape of pork, beef, 
flour, butter, cheese, wool and cloth. In short, 
they must eat, drink and wear. Again : every la¬ 
borer leaving the shores of Europe, lessens the 
competition there and raises wages, and conse¬ 
quently the products of labor. This rise in Brit¬ 
ish, German and French manufactures lessens the 
competition of their fabrics in our markets, and 
consequently better prices are obtained for Amer¬ 
ican manufactures. 
In the United States $550,00,000 are now in¬ 
vested in manufactures, giving direct employment 
to 1,075,000 persons. In proportion to tho pros¬ 
perity attending this great branch of home indus¬ 
try, so may we count that attending the Agricul¬ 
tural interests of our country. Strike down the 
Manufacturing interest, and you with the same 
stroke, level a blow at Agriculture which is great¬ 
ly ruinous ; build up the former and you directly 
