24 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



of said roads are very rough ones, and show that the 

 dwellers thereon are but a small remove above the un- 

 civilized llama-drivers of Peru. 



Manure. — Will manure deteriorate if kept under a shed, 

 or if well piled up out of doors? If lime, gypsum, ashes, 

 or charcoal, were mixed with the heap, will it "undergo 

 a degree of combustion and become dry rotten, mouldy, 

 and useless?" In using fresh, hot stable dung, I never 

 have found any difficulty if plowed in deep. The best way 

 to do it when much mixed with straw, is to spread it upon 

 the ground before the plow, and then let a boy follow 

 with a rake and rake into each furrow the width of the 

 next. 



To Prevent Smut in Wheat. — It is truly strange that 

 smutty wheat should ever be grown, when it can so easily 

 and certainly be prevented. The most expeditious way 

 to wash a quantity of wheat is, to have a large trough full 

 of brine ; let the wheat be in a tub or basket at one end, 

 where the washer can dip it up conveniently into a sieve, 

 a small quantity at a time; plunge the sieve suddenly 

 down into the brine, and nearly all of the smut will rise 

 up and float over ; then empty the wheat into another tub 

 of brine, and the remainder of the smut, if any, will float; 

 brush away to the other end of the trough the floating 

 smut, and repeat the operation until your second tub or 

 trough needs emptying. I don't think it will need to 

 stand and soak, and I don't think you can grow smut 

 from wheat so treated. Dry your seed as directed, with 

 lime, ashes, or gypsum. 



Side-hill Plows. — Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, manufac- 

 ture a very strong and easily worked implement, which 

 needs only to be seen to be appreciated. There are fifty 

 thousand of them needed at this moment in Mississippi, 

 Alabama, Tennessee, and Missouri, upon the soft easily 

 washed side-hills of those states. 



Repeal of the British Corn Laivs. — You and I, Mr. Edi- 

 tor, differ very widely in our appreciation of the benefit 

 likely to be derived by American farmers by this act of 



