1838] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



743 



the CcTpital stock of tl>8 conipnnv, to the amount 

 of one million and a liall' ol" dollars, and lor such 

 other aid as they niay deem most consistenl with 

 the interests ol' the siockholders. 



5. Jxesolvcd, As llie opinion of the stockiiold- 

 ers, that il id of the greatest importance to the 

 success of tins work, iliat the road should he ex- 

 tended to Columbia, South Carolina, and that 

 they will use ilieu' utmost eftorts to insure its ex- 

 tension to the South Carolina line. 



6. Jiesolvcd, That the report of the committee 

 appointed lo examine the accounts and vouchers 

 of the president, be approved and adopted, and 

 that he be directed to balance tlie books, pursuant 

 to the recommendations of said committee. 



7. liesolved, That in future the annual meeting 

 of the stockholders be held on tlie first monday in 

 June in each anti every year. 



Which were unanimously adopted. 



The meeting then proceeded, on motion of Mr. 

 Osborne, to the election of a president and five 

 directors. Win. Boylan and Samuel S. Downey 

 were appointed to superintend the lialloting. 



The coumiittee reporl^'d that the tbilovving per- 

 sons were elected: Geo. VV. Mordecai, president; 

 Duncan Cameron, Wni. Boylan, Joseph W. 

 Hawkins, Chas. Manly and Thos. P. Devereux, 

 directors. 



On motion of Duncan Cameron, esq. a commit- 

 tee consisting of Wm. Robards, Wm. Peace, 

 and Alfred Jones, or a majority ol them, was ap- 

 pointed to examine the accounts of tlie president, 

 and report lo the next annual meeting. 



On motion of Mr. Garnett, the Ibllowing reso- 

 lution was adopted: 



That we teel a lively interest in establishing a 

 communication by rail road with the west, and in- 

 vite the co-operation of our lellow-ciiizens of Sal- 

 isbury and the adjacent country, in procuring a 

 charter from the legislature, for that purpose. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



From the Maine Farmer. 

 USE OF SWAMP MUCK. 



Mr. Holmes: — I have noticed in the 44th num- 

 ber of the present volume of the 'Maine Farmer,' 

 that a friend wishes to know whether muck which 

 is composed of decayed leaves, roofs, and other 

 vegetable matters, will do as a dressing lor land 

 without being previously mingled with animal 

 manure? 



As I have used much of the muck in years 

 past, I will try and answer "from actual expe- 

 rience. '' I hauled direct from the swamp, one 

 winter, about 200 loads upon a piece of land of 

 different qualities, varying from a muck, or dark 

 black soil, to an open, porous, gravelly elevation. 

 On the black soil, it has done nothing — the soil 

 naturally abounded in muck. But on the irravel- 

 ly elevation it has done much to enrich the soil. 

 Its benefits vary much on different soils. I should 

 not put it on wet land in any case — it is labor 

 thrown away, without it is mixed with animal 

 manure; and in that case, the manure will do as 

 well without the muck. 



I should be in tiivor of laying the muck in the 

 barn or hog-yard ibr a season, ibr the purpose of 

 destroying the weeds and seeds with Avhich it 

 abounds. I have Ibuna when I have hauled 



muck direct liom tiie swamp on my lands, that 

 I have introihjced many of the wild grasses, and 

 weeds that are hard to be subdued. 



In conversation with one of my neigiibors — a 

 farmer who has had some experience in muck — 

 he told me that when he commenced operations 

 on the larm on which he now lives, that he 

 ploughed a light dry piece of ground in the lidl of 

 the year; and lieing short of manure, he hauled 

 what he had on half of the piece, and then went 

 to the meadow and hauled muck on the otlier 

 half, and in the spring following planted the piece 

 to corn. He liirther says, tliai that part of the 

 piece that was dressed with muck, produced as 

 good corn, and little the best wheat — and held out 

 as well Ibr grass, as that dressed with the manure 

 from the barn. 



I will make an extract from an article in the 8th 

 vol. of the 'N. E. Farmer,' fsiuned W. H., 

 Catskill, N. Y., 1830,) page 27.' The writer 

 says, "last fall I carted several loads of muck on a 

 knoll of loam, and put it in one heap,;thoui^h I 

 thing it would have been better to have dropped 

 one load only in a place — (I thiuk so, too.) In 

 the spring, prior to planting corn, the muck was 

 spread, and ploughed under. The crop of corn, 

 where the muck was spread, was large — I thought 

 larger than where barn yard manure was put. A 

 neighboring farmer has made use of muck for 

 several years. The first year he thought it equal 

 to barn yard manure, and its effects were perceiv- 

 able a much longer time. The soil on which the 

 muck was put, was a warm gravelly loam. 



The muck was used by another neighboring' 

 farmer, fbr manuring corn in the hill, in the fol-' 

 lowing manner: a row of each, alternately, one 

 of muck, one of barn yard manure, and one of 

 hog manure. He assured me the corn was much 

 the best manured with the muck. The soil a 

 sandy loam." 



Tho. Pierce. 



Eeadfield, Jan. 1838. 



Extract from tlie Delaware Journal. 



IMPROVEMENTS OF NEW JERSEY, AND PROS- 

 PECTS OF DELAWARE. 



We mentioned in our paper of last week that 

 the agricultural society of this county had, through 

 its president, Philip Reybold, esq. received an in- 

 vitation from several prominent and enterprising 

 gentlemen of Salem to [visit] the marl pits and 

 ! limestone quarries of that reixion, and also to see 

 j in the adjoining county of Gloucester, the cele- 

 i hrated Durham stock of Mr. Edward Tonkins. 

 j The compliment was properly appreciated by the 

 society, and a committee appointed to represent it; 

 and although the weather was unfortunately most 

 unfavoraLle for the excursion, we learn that a re- 

 spectable number of the committee were in atten- 

 dance, among whom were Edward Tatnall, Dr. 

 Thomson, and Joseph Tatnall of this city — Maj. 

 Stockton of Newcastle, Philip Reybold, Anthony 

 Higirins, and Philip Reybold, jr., of Red Lion 

 Hundred. The committee was met on its arrival 

 at Salem by Josiah Reeves, esq. of Alloways 

 town, Mr. Cassby of Salem, and other gentlemen, 

 and after spending a short time there — were by 

 common consent handed over to the particular 

 care and kindness of JNIr. Reeves, who took them 



