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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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268 tation has very little chance here. Our soil is not adapted to it. We need, also, more fences. One has no benefit of grass lands, etc., unless he has each field fenced. But our soil will endure more than others. [In answer to question]—I would never ridge up corn. I work it deep at first, and shallow as it gets larger. I would plow about five or six inches deep for corn. Long plowing makes a hard crust that must be broken up. PLOWING. WHITNEY—Plowing a little deeper one year and shallower the next, will prevent this packing. EATON, of Homer—I found in ground eight years farmed an increase of one-third In a crop of corn on double plowed land, over that on land once plowed. SCOTT—Plowing is the foundation of success. Deep plowing for corn I think the best. If you make permanent lands four rods wide and keep making the dead furrows deeper, you get drainage and better soil. [In answer to question]—Plowing in fall for corn is no advantage, unless you re-plow in the spring, on account of the weeds starting earlier. For small grains it is good. But the two plowings are very good for corn. Adjourned. FRIDAY AFTERNOON—2 O'CLOCK. Judge J. O. CUNNINGHAM, of Urbana, delivered an address on THE LAWS OF HIGHWAYS AND INCLOSTTRES. The caterer to the pleasures of the table seeks how he may provide that material which while it furnishes nutriment for the muscular man, shall also afford pleasure to the palate of the consumer. How I shall, in dealing with a subject at once so unpoetic and arbitrary, as the details of the laws of our State concerning Inclosures and Highways, succeed in accomplishing the latter, however much truth there may be in my remarks, is, I presume, as much of a problem to the hearer as to the speaker. Not that fences have no poetry in them, or that roads are destitute of interest to the seeker after pleasure—for a fence, if a good one, whilst it is of itself, or should be to the animal, a stern reality—may be a " thing of beauty; and, if a protection to the treasured products of the soil, is a "joy forever," what more beautiful, or poetic,
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