feet to each), and attach as many light chains or weights, and draw each way. Make the rows perfectly straight for convenience of cultivation. Drop the corn with a corn-planter on each intersecting line. Commence cultivation as soon as the corn can be seen. Go through with the cultivator every week, and as often with the hoe. It is easier to hoe four times than twice, when you commence late. Go over the field, when out of the way of worms and crows, and thin to three stalks. Hoe as late as August 1st, if there are any weeds. It is a good practice to hoe level and sow grass seed, to save labor. Cut the stalks or stakes as the case may be. Cure the fodder well and it is worth one-half the labor of cultivation. From sixteen to twenty-one days work is all the time necessary to cultivate an acre, as a general rule. When husking is done (and that always in evenings or on rainy days), every man or boy has his own basket and husks independently.

STATEMENT.

Credit by sixty bushels corn, $1.25

Thirty-two loads manure $32.00, one-half credit to following

crops

Sixteen days' labor $28.00, one-half credit to corn-fodder

Seed corn, interest and taxes

Balance

COL. CLOUGH'S REMARKS.

$75 00

Col. Clough, of Canterbury, was called up and made a practical and instructive talk on corn growing. He raises twenty acres annually, but don't make it a specialty. He believes in mixed farming, advocates thorough preparation of soil, liberal manuring, chaining both ways, using cultivator freely, which must be sharp.

He said he had been on his farm fourteen years. It had previously been rented thirty years, been skinned and was as solid as a pavement. He began by thorough plowing. Six oxen he said would plow an acre a day; eight, an acre and a half, and ten, two acres. To kill the grub-worm, plow in the fall; to stop the wireworm's effect, plow in spring. Col. Clough said he had learned to master witchgrass by plowing so as to turn it under, and by constant cultivating between the rows. He used superphosphate and always made it a point to cover the seed well. He agreed with Mr. Brown in regard to harvesting corn. He thought corn growing exhausted the soil but not so much as it would to sell hay. He believed in feeding out hay and grain and selling stock.

Holstein Cow, TEXELAAR, imported and owned by Winthrop W. Chenery, Belmont, Mass.

THE DAIRY.

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The subject of dairying is beginning to awaken an interest in our state. We have not a soil in all sections sufficiently easy of cultivation to allow the greatest profit from a cultivation of the cereals, 、 nor can we make rapid progress in getting rich by growing roots and vegetables generally. We can produce good corn; we can grow oats, barley and wheat successfully in many portions of the state. We can produce alternate years a fair product of fruit; we can always with proper care and dressing gather a compensating crop of grass, which to New England is the royal harvest. But. with our short seasons, our hard soil, a lack of stable manure, and the expense and uncertainty of special fertilizers, and above all the high price of labor, which we maintain is none too high to afford the laborer the comforts of life, we cannot compete successfully with the great farmers on the rich lands of the West. must seek other sources of income to supply the deficiency of products that should come directly from the earth. We have disposed of our lumber too freely, we are penetrating our granite and other quarries, we are harvesting winter fields of ice, we sell our hay and our fruit, but we are limited in our incomes and seek other resources. We have fattened our cattle for the shambles, but the returns are small when measured by our desires; we have stocked our pastures with sheep, coarse and fine wool, but our wool lies unsold in our attics, or has been sent away to an agent with orders to sell at the best price; we have reared horses for the cities and the farm, but profit comes only to the few, seldom to the many, and the question still comes up, especially to the farmers on the many hill lands, and remote from proper markets for the produce of the field, What new source of profit shall we seek? Having considered the matter carefully many farmers are ready to abandon their sheep folds, lessen the severe labor of plowing the soil to reap a fair harvest, devote a few acres to grass and roots,