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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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333 their successes and failures. Farmers fail and succeed like other men. Where a farmer has succeeded, he got up early and worked hard. Men have got rich here by farming, in eight years, by main strength and awkwardness, without tile drains. I have planted my own trees, and had no trouble. I believe they are handsome trees. I dug a cellar and put the hard pan and clay right about the house. I n the spring I found it materially changed. I did not have surface soil enough to cover all of it, but I graded and sodded it, and the grass has grown well. The difficulty here is drouth, and I think a proper surface cultivation remedies that. I think drains on top of the hard pan will not accomplish what we want. I am encouraged by Mr. Perrine's experience. BRUNTON—I did some draining in Indiana in 1834, with slabs, at the depth of twenty-two inches, and got good land. There are six acres of my land that we plowed and subsoiled twenty inches deep, with two teams, of four yokes each, of oxen. One mound of hard pan, near the creek, we managed to break a foot deep. I never could get into it more than an inch since. Adjourned, THURSDAY AFTERNOON—2 o'clock. 0 . W. MUKTFELDT, Secretary of the Missouri Board of Agriculture, repeated his lecture on " Dairying," which the ladies of Oentralia turned out in force to hear. The discussion which followed was unimportant, Adjourned, THURSDAY EVENING—7 o'clock. D R . E. S. HULL, of Alton, State Horticulturist, talked upon Pruning, commencing, however, with some remarks on the Curculio. Formerly, and for many years, the curculio gave me no trouble. When they began to do so, and I commenced jarring trees, I at first caught them with no difficulty in a few runs. Now I find it necessary to run the machine for a long period, and then often without entire success. I was puzzled to
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