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D\1.T.1Ke7dy'JL^rni31 RICHMOND, AUGUST 1,1855.  l^Ssr^.^v^'/IS';
The Harvest and the Cnop.—Tbe present number of the Farmer will find most of
our readers through with their harvests, and
*, resting from Jheir labors, and that harvest the
retJiost bountiful that has ever blessed the -west.
i  Occasionally we hear that in certain locations,
'V thc yield will not equal that of an average
• crop, but such results are "few and far between." In no single instance have we
heard complaint of the Oat crop, and the
corn  never presented a better   appearance.
.. -Jlie recommendation "to plant one more acre
this season than the last," has generally been
observed, which will givo an additional increase to the productions of "mother earth."
Truly the agriculturalists and "the balance of
mankind," havo great cause of gratitude for
the harvest which now blesses our happy
- country.
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Trees in Gardens.
" "es, evergreens, or any
Wo larger than
•t   'loved in.or
many a garden does not yield half the amount
it otherwise would but for trees in and close
around it. Where these exist, it is better
either to destroy them, or remove the garden
to some other locality, than continue the two
together.   We speak from some experience.
Richmond Plows.—In the Valley Farmer
of July published in St. Louis, we find a communication from Boone county, Missouri, in
relation to plows, from which we  make  thjby.
following extract:
"I have lived in Missouri fourteen years,
and in Boone county seven, and have been
to some extent-acquainted with tho farming
operations of the adjoining counties; but I
had never seen a good plow in Missouri until
last fall, when I imported some of the "Em:
pire Steel Plows," from Richmond, Indiana,
and upon trial found them even bettor than I
expected. -T had examined them in Richmond some three years since, and gave them
tho preference over any I had seen during
my tour of two thousand miles by land i"'
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