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THE CULTIVATOR 
Nov. 
For notices of this machine, see former numbers of the Cultivator. We learn from Mr. J. S. Wright 
of Chicago, the joint proprietor of the patent, that it has been used quite extensively the present season, with 
entire success. 
Manuring Land. 
It is a matter highly interesting to every farmer, and 
one that should be closely investigated, whether the 
high manuring of land, especially for Indian corn, re¬ 
commended by some agricultural writers, and advoca¬ 
ted by those who address societies for the promotion of 
agriculture, and which is also the invariable guide in 
awarding premiums, is the best course to be pursued by 
farmers, or one that will, to the greatest degree, im¬ 
prove the condition of the farm. A judicious system of 
manuring is necessary to ensure remunerative crops. 
The practical farmer should take into view his whole 
farm, and look to the general good of all his acres, ra¬ 
ther than have an eye to one oxj two, to raise a great 
crop M to tell of,” at the expense of other parts of the 
farm. 
• Mr. Clift, in his address before .the Windham Coun- 
ty Agricultural Society, (Ct.) some extracts of which 
are found in the Cultivator, August No., says, “ The 
average produce of com, per acre, in the state is not 
over forty bushels. The experiments of educated farm¬ 
ers in Massachusetts, and in other New-England states, 
have demonstrated that a hundred bushels or more can 
just as well be grown upon the same acre.” We will 
admit that this increase may be attained ; and yet the 
question in point is, is it best for the occupant or the 
farm 1 The same Cultivator gives extracts from reports 
of the Ncw-IIampshire State Agricultural Society : 
“The crop of James A. Cook, of Cornish, yielded 
96 bushels per acre. It was manured first with 50 cart 
loads of manure per acre, plowed six inches deep, then 
50 loads of compost, plowed three inches deep, and 20 
loads of hog manure and compost in the drill.” Here 
we have 120 loads of manure to raise 96 bushels of 
Probably Mr. Cook had vast resources to obtain ma¬ 
nure, and did not neglect other fields that were calling 
loudly for warmth and nourishment. But it is not so 
with those who occupy the small farms on the hill tops 
and in the valleys of New-England. They may exert 
all this energy and exhaust all their resources, and still 
the manure heap is small indeed, far too small to en¬ 
rich the impoverished fields, some of which are to be 
found on almost eveiy farm. 
To illustrate the subject before us, we will take two 
of these small farms of 100 acres each, 33 of which on 
each is at times under the plow. Each occupant can 
make but 100 loads of manure yearly more than is 
wanted for the garden and kindred purposes, or in 
other words, each has 100 loads to apply to his corn 
crop. Mr. A. goes in for a great crop per acre, and of 
course puts all his manure on that acre ; he planks in 
drills in order to obtain the greatest yield, consequent¬ 
ly in no small degree augments the amount of labor in 
planting and tending the erop. lie harvests his 100 
bushels of corn. The next spring (as the usual rotation 
in many parts of New-England is corn, then oats, and 
seed down ivith clover and timothy,) he sows his one 
acre to oats; they grow luxuriantly, promise fair, but 
an over stimulous induces so rapid growth that they 
fall, blast, and yield but an indifferent crop, say sixty 
bushels. % 
Next year comes his grass—a great growth, coarse, 
injured by lying on the ground, a yield of perhaps five 
tons per acre. A. pursues this plan, takes up and ma¬ 
nures in this manner one acre each year, and will be 
thirty-three yearn before he gets round to his first field. 
B. takes a course somewhat different, but follows the 
same rotation. He applies his 100 loads to three acres, 
plants in hills, and cultivates well. The hand labor 
corn! 
