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     eading individuals in this community, but as among 
     
     he pamphlets which lie on the author’s table, there 
     
     5 one by Judge Peters, entitled, “Hints to the 
     
     armers of Prince Edward Island,” it would be an 
     
     ,mission, not excusable, if attention were not here 
     
     'alled to that little work, as one of the least evi- 
     
     ences (valuable though it be) of that gentleman’s 
     
     niform, disinterested, liberal and successful attempt 
     
     o raise the character and augment themesources 
     
     fhis brother farmers Perhaps to Judge Peters, 
     
     ore than to any other influence, the growth oftur— 
     
     ips is indebted for its present proud evidence of 
     
     but in many other articles Prince Edward Island 
     
     ay be pre-eminent. The subject is so important 
     
     0 the farming interests,that we extract from a letter 
     
     y Judge Peters, to the Secretary of the Royal 
     
     grxcultural Society in 1853, a few paragraphs on 
     
     he cultivation of this winter sine-qua-non. His 
     
     Honor remarks— 
     
    
   
   
    
     " I may be permitted to make an observation on 
     
     the mode of cultivating this root. Many persons 
     
     hink'a heavy crop of Swedes cannot be raised with- 
     
     ut an immense dose of manure. Experience has 
     
     convinced me that this is a very mistaken idea. The 
     
     ode I pursue is this: I plcugh in 30 to 45 loads to 
     
     the acre in the fall, cross-plough in the spring, and 
     
     then throw up my drills, leaving a little hollow in the 
     
     op of each ridglet; I then apply my home made 
     
     uano (viz: nightsoil, hen dung, urine and sawdust, 
     
     bones, ashes, soot, Ste), which is quickly done by 
     
     he men,with a half bushel basket, walking along and 
     
     owing it in the little hollow along the top of the 
     
     rills, which are then sharped up by running the 
     
     noble mould board Plough between them, then 
     
     rolled down and seed drilled in. By this means a. 
     
     strong stimulating manure is placed close to the seed 
     
     which gives it n vigorous growth and shoots it quickly 
     
     :past injury from the fly I have found this method 
     
     give me better crops than twice the quantity of ma— 
     
     nure, either ploughed in broadcast, or covered in 
     
     he drills. Our soil is light, and soon parts with the 
     
    
   
   
    
     manure applied to it; it is therefore bad economy to 
     
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