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F A R M E R S' REGISTER. 



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siders the leaves fully as valuable. But, notvvith- 



stan(lin<T the. plausibility of ihis reasonintr, I will 



hnzaril the opiuion, that it is an error in nuuiaire- 



inent, not to haul corn stalks toihe liirni pen. The 



I planter is almost comiiensated lor his labor in haul- 



I inix them, by teedini!; them early to his stocU. The 



1 loss irom evaporation, when they are sufl'ered to 



staiul, or, when badly covered by the ploua^h, (as 



I they irenerally are,) is considerable; and, as an 



I absorbent of the fufjitive portion of the larm-pen 



manure, they answer a nuich better purpose than 



leaves. 



Such a minute account of Mr. E's mode of man- 

 ; a^in^ his tobacco crop, has been <iiven by himself 

 in the Farmers' Reirisier, [No. 1, vol. 4,] as renders 

 any additional remarks unnecessary. 



E. 



From tlie Farmer and Gardener. 



METHOD OF 



DESTROYING 

 CROM'S. 



WOLVES AND 



An extensive farmer of Kentucky has very po- 

 litely furnished us with the following method of de- 

 stroying wolves and crows : 



"If 3^ou think the following information would 

 be of any service to any of your subscribers, it is 

 at their service. I have a mountain farm that 

 would afiiird excellent pasture for sheep, but was 

 so inlested with wolves that it would have been 

 very hazardous to have risked them there. In or- 

 der to destroy them, we took an old horse and bled 

 him in such a way as to make a trail of blood for 

 about five miles; we then killed him, and having 

 stuck a great many holes in him, put about a grain 

 of stricknine into each hole. I also remove(l the 

 skin olf one hip and thigh, where most of the poi- 

 son was put. The skin was dragged four or five 

 miles, coming back again to the horse. All the 

 wolves in the neighborhood would in tliis way be 

 brought b}- the trails to the horse. 



"Several dead ones were found near the horse, 

 and they are very scarce in that neighborhood 

 since. I shall repeat the experiment shortly. 



"I have also killed all the crows on mv I'arm in 

 the same way. I took a quarter of veal and hav- 

 ing cut up a portion of it into small pieces and 

 mixed stricknine with them, I stuck many holes in 

 the meat, and put one of those small pieces in 

 each place. I also sprinkled stricknine over the 

 meat, and then put the veal in a place where dogs 

 could not iret to it, and where the crows resorted, 

 and in a few days there was not a crow to be seen 

 on my firm, except dead ones, which could be 

 picked up all over the place. 



" For four or five years, I have killed viy crnrofi 

 in the month of April, shortly after they had built 

 their nests and become stationary, and am not 

 troubled with them any more, until they begin to 

 gather in flocks in the fall of the year. 



"If a dog should by accident (jet poisoned with 

 stricknine or nux vomica, an emetic of tarter will 

 cure him. It will require a tea-spooniul or more to 

 operate." 



From the Boston Courier. 

 ON THE QUALITY AND GROWTH OF WHEAT. 



From a late London paper, we learn that Col. 

 Le Couteur an officer in the Jersey miliiia, has 

 fecenlly published a small work, "on the varieties, 



properties and classification of wheat." The de- 

 tails are the results of the writer's own experi- 

 ments on his own properly. Circumstances led 

 him to make a collection of wheat ; and in the 

 course of five years' close attention and research, 

 it increased to upwards of 150 sorts. To show 

 the importance of attendinjr to the varieties and 

 properties of wheat, Col. Le Couteur mentions, 

 that, among these varieties, there are some that 

 will thrive better than others in the particular 

 soils and situations adapted to each, all over the 

 kiniidom ; that one ear of a superior variety, 

 sowed grain by ijrain, and sutf'cred to tiller apart, 

 produced 4 Ihs. 4 oz. of wheat; whereas, another 

 ear, of an inferior sort, treated in the same man- 

 ner, produced only 1 lb. 10 oz. — a proof of para- 

 mount importance of selecting the most produc- 

 tive and farinacious sorts of seed, the profit of 

 sowincj one sort, and the loss resultinjx from the 

 other beitig mani(f>st. The writer remarks that 

 his attention was directed to this important sub- 

 ject, by professor La Gasca, Curator of the Royal 

 Gardens at Madrid ; that five years since, he ac- 

 cidentally saw about eifrhty sorts of wheat grow- 

 in(j in a nursery garden in Jersey, some seven 

 feet hiffh, some only four, the ears of some being 

 three, others six inches long; and that the profes- 

 sor explained their nature to him. He requested 

 the professor to visit h's crops, considerinc them to 

 be as pure and unmixed as those of his neighbors. 

 To the writer's dismay the professor drew from 

 three fields. 23 sorts — some while wheat, some 

 red, some liver-colored, some spring wheat, some 

 dead ripe, the corn shaking out, some ripe, some 

 half so, some in a milky state, some green. He 

 hereupon became convinced that "no crop, in that 

 state, could either produce the greatest weight of 

 corn, give the largest quantity of flour, or make 

 the best or liirhtest bread, such as would be pro- 

 duced from a field in an equal and perfect state of 

 ripeness." He then selected the best and most 

 productive sorts of wheat, and seemed 14 sorts, 

 which he afterwards culiivaled with great care 

 and success, showinfj the jireal profit resulling 

 from this care and selection, and arguing on the 

 immense consequences to the country, if attention 

 to this subject could be made a national object. 

 The modes by which Col. Le Couteur proceeded 

 and succeeded, occupy large portions of the vol- 

 ume ; but the paper from which we have drawn 

 the preceding account, gives no further informa- 

 tion. 



From tlie Farmer and Gardener. 



NEW METHOD OF PROPAGATING APPLE 

 TREES. 



A new plan for increasinir plantations of apple 

 trees, has lately been carried into extensive prac- 

 tice by the horticulturists of Bohemia. Neither 

 seeds nor grafting are required. The process is 

 to take shoots fl'om the choicest sorts, insert them 

 in a potaioe, and plunge both into the irround, leav- 

 ing but an inch or two of the shoot above the sur- 

 fice. The potatoe nourishes the shoot, while it 

 pushes out roots, and the shoot gradually grows 

 up and becomes a beautiful tree, bearing the best 

 li-iiit. without requiring to be grafted. 



Whatever mav be the success of the underta- 

 king, its novelty is at least an inducement to give 

 it a lair trial. 



