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contrivances, may be made to concentrate or ward off the rays of the sun. Irrigation and drainage go far to complete the farmer's independence of the wayward weather. In all the operations of his little farm, Mr. Greeley takes the liveliest interest, and he means to astonish his neighbors with some wonderful crops, by-and-bye, when he has everything in training. Indeed, he may have done so already; as, in the list of prizes awarded at our last Agricultural State Fair, held in New York, October, 1854, we read, under the head of vegetables, these two items:—Turnips, H. Greeley, Chappaqua, Westchester Co., Two Dollars, (the second prize); Twelve second-best ears of White Seed Corn, H. Greeley, Two Dollars. Looking down over the reclaimed swamp, all bright now with waving flax, he said one day, All else that I have done may be of no avail; but what I have done here is done; it will last. A private letter, written about this time, appeared in the country papers, and still emerges occ