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during the month of July. In many of the northern States barley, 

 and sometimes wheat will be sufficiently ripe to harvest by the 

 20th of the month. Should the soil be only in a moderate state 

 of fertility, by applying a good dressing of l^arnyard manure, and 

 just before the ground is plowed, or by scattering commercial 

 manure in the drills before planting the seed, if the ground is not 

 exceedingly foul, a large crop of roots may be raised the present 

 season. Sometimes farmers have been greatly deceived in regard 

 to the crop of turnips when they have planted the seed in mellow, 

 finely pulverized ground. Soil may be in a finely comminuted 

 condition, and to a[)pear at once capable of producing a bountiful 

 crop of any kind of roots, yet if it be deficient in those elements 

 of fertility which are essential to produce turnips or other roots, 

 the crop will be a fiiilure. Whether a person keeps only one cow, 

 one horse, or fifty, during the winter, he should always have a 

 good supply of roots to feed during the foddering season. Turnips, 

 carrots, beets or potatoes are as essential in raising sheep, either 

 for wool or mutton, as such roots are for neat cattle or horses. 

 Adjourned. 



July 3, 1866. 

 Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair ; John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



BUCK%\7IEAT IN HoP YaRDS. 



Mr. A. Bailey, Alps, Rensselaer county, N. Y. : " Last year, 

 two of my hop-yards Avere devastated by the hop-louse. In those 

 I sowed buckwheat as a preventive. I think it added to the 

 trouble, for a third yard, without buckwheat, was not injured. In 

 my case, the buckwheat was most certainly of no advantage. The 

 same result happened with my neighbors. 



Gas Lime. 



Mr. F. R. Whitwell, Fair Haven, Conn., wants to know more 

 than this club tells him about gas house lime. " Is there no book 

 that treats upon it ?" 



jNIr. Solon Robinson. — You will find it in man}- agricultural and 

 chemical works, and encyclopedias. Everywhere you will find 

 the same general information that we have given — that lime 

 attracts sulphureted hydrogen and carbonic acid from the gas, 

 which renders it unfit for manure, until it has been long exposed 



