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FARMERS' REGISTER— MANURE— BUCKWHEAT, MILLET, &c. 



risked with huno;er and cold. We li;iAre been in- 

 formed that sacks might have been filled with red 

 and brown birds Iroui the banks of oar waters;in 

 a short lime. Many flying into houses, of perch- 

 ing themselves along sideot" persons seated out of 

 doors. Others would alight upon the seats or 

 row-locks of crafts when m the- river, instinctively 

 seeking relief from the hand of humanity, and 

 Avhen taken up m the hand would expire,' supposed 

 to be overcome by the heat of the . hand. Our 

 fi'osts have been so severe as to kill almost every 

 kind of vegetation. It is said that the rye has 

 suffered greatly — the gardens and.li'uit are destroy- 

 . ed, excepting such roots or seeds as had not put 

 forth their tender buds or seeds, and even the early 

 wlieat has suffered materi<\I injury." 



The Keene (N. H^) Sentinel, states that the 

 siiDW storm of the 15th May, was veiy severe in 

 that vicinity, the. snow-dritls _:las in February. 

 V/est of the mountains it was 'a foot deep on a-, 

 level. The Rutland Herald sajs the storm raged 

 with .fury troin'8 o'clock Wednesday evening -to 

 Thursday atlenioon. The snow fell -12 inches. 



QUERIES OA" BUCKV>^I1EAT ^NI> atll.LET. 



For the Fanners' Register. 



Will some que of the many able correspondents 

 of the Farmers' Register, iolbrrn H. through the 

 medium of its ■ pages, whether buckwheat is as 

 great an impoverisher of land as oats, and whether; 

 if turned in, it becomes a good fertilizer? Wiiat 

 soil is best adapted to its growth, and what quan- 

 1 ii;y is generally sown to the acre I Is millet made 

 to any extent in any of the United States? Wliat 

 soil suits it — is it an exhauster — and what is the 

 price per bushel? 



Tiie object of these . enquiries, is to ascertain 

 what cheap grain cf op is most suitable to sow. on 

 poor light sandy land, in lower Virginia, on which 

 clover will not grow, in consequence of the. suriimer 

 droughts, and where the fields of this soil are so 

 extensive that .the process of enrichirig them by 

 manures, is too slow. ' • 



II. 



May 27 ih,lS34.. 



and spread immediately this woods Utter, or suffer 

 it toTemain in iieaps until the winter or spring? 

 I am inclined to think, land W(^d bo much im- 

 pi'oved by being protected during the summer, 

 previous to cultivating it, by a cover of leaves and 

 mould from the WQuds, 



E. II. 



MANURE MAKING. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



King TVilliam, May 29ih, 1834. 



Having no marl I determined to make an expe-' 

 riment in the way of manuring with leaves. Sic. 

 from the woods. My force consists of a mule, a 

 small boy and a woman. With these I get out 

 from twenty to twenty-five loads a day, and ma- 

 nure one acre per week, at the rate of one hundred 

 loads per acre. I use hoes in scraping up the litter 

 and take off something like an inch of the soil 

 along whh the leaves. I also keep my stable yard 

 well covered with leaves, say two feet thick; upon 

 this, the manure from the stable is daily spread 

 and the whole covered thinly with red clay every 

 morning. The slops, soap-suds, &c. from the 

 kitchen are carefully saved in barrels, provided for 

 the purpose, and poured upon the heap. This 

 mnnure, I intend carting out at the expiration of 

 every three months, and then-commence another 

 heap. 



Can you, or some of your experienced subscri- 

 bers inform me whether it would be better to cart 



SHELIj^ ■ ON THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS OF 

 THIBET. ■ 



At a meeting oC-the A&iatic Society of Calcutta, 

 on 5lli May last, extracts from Mr. Gerard's let- 

 ters, relative to the fossil shells collected by him in 

 his late tour over the snowy mountains of the Thi- 

 bet frontier, were read. The loftiest, altitude at 

 which he picked up some .of them, was on the 

 crest of a pass,' elevated 17,000 feet: and here also 

 were fragments of rocks, 'bearing the impression.of 

 shells, winch must laave been detached from the 

 contiguous peaks rising far above the elevated 

 level. Generally, however, the' rocks formed of 

 these shells are at an altitude, of 16,000 ieet, a/iiZ 

 one cliff 10 as a mile i-n perp&ndlcvlar height.above 

 ,the nearest level. Mr. Gerard farther states, "Just 

 before crossing the boundary of Ludak into Bus- 

 salier, Iwas exceedingly gratified by the discove- 

 ry of a bed of fossil oysters, cliuging to the rock 

 as if they had been alive " In whatever point of 

 view we are to consider the subject, it is sublime 

 to think of .millions of organic remains lying at 

 such an extraordinary altitude, and of vast cliffs of 

 rocks formed out of them, frowning over the illimi- 

 table and desolate waters, where the ocean once 

 rolled. — jlsiutlc Res:ister. 



PACKING FRUIT TREES FOR EXPORTATION. 



As soon as the tree is taken out of the ground, 

 the roots are dip])ed in a thick mixture of earth 

 and water.' The roots are then tied in bundles, 

 and dipped in all at once, and a mat is lapped over 

 them"; to keep the earth round them together. 

 They are afterwards placed in a box, and a piece 

 of wood is fixed across the box, over the top part 

 of the roots, to prevent them from moving, as the 

 branches are not lapped up at all. Trees packed 

 in this manner, have remained in the above con- 

 dition four months; and, when unpacked, the roots 

 were throwing out new fibres. This occurred last 

 sifring; and, although the season was so unfavora- 

 bR", Jhe trees made exceedingly fine strong shoots. 

 The plan adopted by Messrs. Buel and Wilson, 

 of the Albany nurserj^", in packing their fi'uit trees, 

 is as foUoAvs: They dip the roots well in a mixture 

 of earth and water; but instead of lapping the 

 roots in a mat they lay them in the end of the box, 

 and fill in between them •with ivet moss; so that 

 the lid of the box presses against the moss and; 

 thus prevents the roots from being shaken. 



IMMENSE QUANTITY OF FOSSIL BONES IN 

 SIBERIA. 



M. Hcndestrom, who was a])pointed in 1808, 

 by the Russian government to visit the coasts of 

 the Icy Sea, from the Lena to the Colyma, states, 

 that he has seen in the ice thousands of mam- 

 moths, rhinoceroses, buffalos, and other fossil aui- 

 mals.^your. de Geol. II. No. 7. 



