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facts presented, and the evidence by which they are 

 supported. The change from a single grain, if certain, 

 would be as satisfactory a9 from any greater numb.-r — 

 but three such changes are required the better to guard 

 against possible mistakes, witliout adding any con- 

 siderable difliculty to the operations of tlie experi- 

 ment.] 



CORX STARCH, 



We are advised by an excellent house keeper, 

 is no wise interior to wheat starch, wliile it can 

 be made with half" the labor and expense. As 

 this is the season for malcinfj it, we have obtained 

 Jroni our intbrniant, lor the Cultivator, 



Directions for 7iiaking it. — Take 30 good ears 

 of green corn, fit Ibr eating, grate the corn with a 

 large grater, a lanthorn will do, into a pail of wa- 

 ter; turn the whole through a fine metal cullender, 

 or a coarse cloth strainer, to separate the hulls, &c. 

 then change the water two or three times, to ren- 

 der the starch, which settles at the bottom, white 

 and clean; and after the last water is removed, 

 the starch may be cut in pieces, laid out a few days 

 to dry, when it is fit tor use, and may be kept any 

 length of time. This quantity will suffice a year 

 lor a small lamdy. — Cultivator. • 



finest kinds, and they have had no diseases among 

 them, and found no difficulty in raising them. 



Two or three individuals wlio tried the experi- 

 ment of driving their turkcySj when young, to a 

 distance from the house, where the greatest num- 

 ber of insects were to be found and feeding and 

 housing them in the manner directed in the Agri- 

 culturist, have stated, that they have raised from 

 100 to 300 turkeys, and have pronounced it to be a 

 method, which of all others, they believed best 

 calculated to be attended with success. 



From Uie Soutliein Agriculturist. 

 EFFECT OF MARSH-MUD ONVEGETATION. 



A Cew days before the recent gale in August, 

 we had about an inch thick of marsh-mud, (which 

 had been thrown on the high ground, two months 

 previous,) placed between five or six of the rows 

 of an okra bed; shortly after the gale, we found 

 the leaves dropping from every part of the okra, 

 where no niarsli mud had beesi placed, and nothing 

 but the decaying stalks are now remaining. The 

 okra had arrived at its maturity, and agreeable to 

 the laws of nature, is decaying. But those parts 

 where tiie marsh mud had been spread still re- 

 mained in full and vigorous growth, and pj-oduced 

 fruit as usual. Will some of the numerous read- 

 ers of the y/griculturist, give an explanation of 

 the causes of tlie ahove? Was there some pro- 

 perty in the salt eartli that produced it? Or may 

 it have been produced Jjv the roots having received 

 an extra covering? May not the above fact be 

 usefully api'^icd to agriculture? The okra is very 

 nearly aJ'ied to cotton, and was even placed under 

 the same genus. May not the cotton plant be 

 j)reserved from dropping its bolls at the particular 

 season, by the timely application of marsh-mud? 



From the Southern Agriculturist. 

 RAISIKG DUCKS AND TURKEYS. 



In the ^Agriculturist of" last year, appeared tvv-o 

 articles, one on the best mode of raising ducks, 

 and the other, on turkej-s. Tv/o seasons have 

 since passed away, and the writer of this has 

 been enabled to test the efficacy of those directions, 

 and in every instance that has come under his 

 knowledge, they have been attended with perfect 

 success. 'Fhe directions for raising ducks, were 

 to feed them on animal food and keep them dry. 

 Individuals who have adopted this plan, have 

 iscnt to our markets from 500 to 700 ducks of the 



Vol.. II.— 31 



[Some of the experiments cited in the followmg 

 epitome Iiave already baen presented to the readers of 

 the Farmers' Register in a more extended form.] 



From the Cultivator. 

 BONES, HORNS, &C. AS MANURE, 



Bones are in great demand, in Great Britain, as 

 a manure; and great quantities are annually ini- 

 ported into that kingdom, from the continent, for 

 this use. They are broken in mills constructed for 

 the puri^ose, and often upon the farm, by the la- 

 borers. Bone dust ordinarily sells at about 2s. or 

 44 cents, and sometimes as high as 3s. 6d. per 

 bushel; and at this price it is generally found to be 

 a more profitable application than common dung. 

 Bones are frequently applied, and by many prefer- 

 red, wdien broken in half or three quarter inch 

 pieces, and sometimes when of larger size. Their 

 durability is in proportion to their size; the smaller 

 thev are crushed or ground, the sooner their ferti- 

 lizing properties are exhausted — and the less the 

 quantity required to be ap[)lied. They have been 

 applied in various proportions; though the ordina- 

 ry dressing is from 20 to 40 bushels per acre; a 

 heavy dressing does uot produce corresponding 

 benefits, and in most cases, no additional benefil. 

 Two bushels of crushed bones are deemed equal 

 to a load or ton of manure. The uncrushed bones 

 are sold at about 42s. or from nine to ten dollars 

 the ton. Their quality is not considered to be im- 

 paired by their having been boiled. Bones are 

 applied as atop-dressing to grass, and harrowed in 

 with the grain in tillage cro[ s. The following re- 

 sults are selected from a great many, to illustrate 

 the benefit and economy of bone manure. 



On the estate of Garrowby, in Yorkshire, tlie 

 crops of turnips had dwindled to nothing; by the 

 application of 12 to 20 bushels of bone dust per 

 acre, in drills, the crops have become excellent, and 

 the following crops are very considerably im- 

 proved. 



At Clumber Parlv, 600 bushels, spread upon 24 

 acres of pasture, a dry, sandy and gravelly soil, 

 doubled the product, in butter, of the cows pastured 

 upon it, over those fed upon pasture not boned. 



Mr. Watson, of Riellor, applied 25 bushels of 

 bones to an acre of turnips, and 25 loads of ma- 

 nure to an adjoining acre. The dunged acreyieid- 

 ed 22 tor.s; that dressed with bones 28 tons. 



Mr. Grauurn manured i)art of a field Avith 

 crushed bones, at the rate of 30 bushels the acre, 

 and another part with eiiiht loads of dung, and re- 

 peated the dung the twoToliowing years upon this* 

 part. The turnips, wheat and grass, which con- 

 stituted the three crops, were better upon the 

 part once boned, than upon that thrice dung- 

 ed. 



Thirty-four R<fvcs of sandy soil, on the estate of 



