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its place by a short wood-screw. The whole appears to be a valu- 

 able improvement for farmers. 



Wet Cellars. 



A farmer's wife inquires " whether she can cement her cellar 

 bottom with plastic slate, to keep the water from oozing up ?" 



Mr. Isaac Hicks. — I would not advise it, unless you can Avait a 

 lone: time for it to drv, as the odor of the G:as-tar would be un- 

 pleasant; beside the plastic needs the sun or tire-heat to harden 

 it so it can be walked upon. Still, I have no doubt it would stop 

 the water. I have lately been trying this plastic for a variety of 

 things, and do not think that half its use and value have yet been 

 discovered. I have completely mended some old brass-kettle 

 bottoms, wdiich had become useless. I can make very cheap, 

 durable under-drain pipes out of hemlock boards, nailed together 

 and coated with plastic slate, and I intend to use it to coat pigs' 

 troughs, making them tight, and preventing the pigs from eating 

 the boards when they set soaked. For anv kind of water- gutters- 

 the substance is invaluable. 



Information for Emigrants. 

 Mr. Solon Rol)inson. — Mr. Powell writes from Crossville, near 

 Sparta, White county, Tenn. : " As there is an opinion to the con- 

 trary, prevalent, I wish to tell the people of the North, through 

 you, that they may come into this county of Cumberland, Tenn., 

 to remain here as permanent citizens, or merely as visitors, and 

 that they will be welcomed by the inhabitants, and treated with 

 all the respect and kindness they could reasonably ask for. They 

 will be just as safe in their persons and property as they are in 

 their present homes, and I see nothing to lead me to suppose they 

 will not continue to remain safe. Our courts would protect them 

 in their rights, if any person should infringe upon |;hem. They 

 will iind thousands who are ready to sell them land at a low fig- 

 ure, and give them good titles. On these cheap lauds they can 

 produce bountifully every kind of grain, root or fruit, that belongs 

 to a temperate climate. They can till the lands with ease — they 

 will not have to contend Avith the stone, and clay, and mud of the 

 North, and East, and West, nor with their diseases. They will 

 find a plenty of wild deer in our extensive forests, and no muske- 

 toes to prevent them from having first-rate sleep through our 

 cool nights. If the invalid comes with his dyspepsia, or bron- 

 chitis, or liver complaint, or almost any other of the long cata- 



