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ent kinds of com. If planted at like distances, if 

 the one kind has proper space for that parlicular 

 situation and season, a very different variety of 

 corn would probably have too much or too little. 

 And if different distances are allowed, the proper 

 and correct allowance can seldom be made in new 

 trials. 



Though more distrustllil than most others seen) 

 to be ol" the alleged superior productiveness of 

 new and highly praised kinds of seeds, still we 

 would by no means desire to discourage compa- 

 rative trials. All that we have aimed at, in 

 these and previous remarks, is to prevent too 

 much reliance being placed on single experiments, 

 or insufficient testimony of any kind. 



Besides the reports of several gentlemen which 

 were communicated i'or, and published in this 

 journal, we have heard several other concurrent 

 opinions, (and indeed seen the growth in one 

 case,) going to confirm the superior productive- 

 ness of the twin, or Baden corn. But one of 

 those who had the largest and fullest experience 

 of all whom we have met with personally, and 

 who had a high opinion of this corn, still re- 

 commended to others his own practice of plant- 

 ing but a part of his crop in that kind, and fur 

 this reason : that, in a favorable season, it was 

 more productive than other kinds, but less so if 

 otherwise ; and iherefoiehe deemed it useful not to 

 trust to it for his entire crop. Now we do not as- 

 sert the soundness of this objection — and the 

 remedy proposed is but a mode of dividing and 

 balancing risks of loss. But the same objeciion, 

 and the same reasons for diffei-ence of productive- 

 ness, must apply, in a <rreater or less degree, to 

 every t\v'o varieties of corn, having considerable 

 difference of cliaracler. — Ed. F. R. 



ON THE INJURIOrS F.FFECTS OFKYAn's AN- 

 TI-DRY-ROT SOLUTION, AS REGARDS THE 

 DESTRUCTION OF VEGETABLE LIFE. 



From tlie Gardener's Magazine. 



Some of the rafters in one of the pine and grape 

 houses in Tnoresby Park, having become quite 

 decayed by dry rot, Earl Manuers was i-erom- 

 mended to use limber for the new raliers which 

 had been steeped in one of Kyan's patent tanks. 

 Accordingly, ten new rafters lor the roof liirhts to 

 work upon were put up in February, lb37 ; such 

 rafters being first steeped in the solution, at the 

 strength of one pound of corrosive sublimate to 

 ten gallons of water. These rafters were in use one 

 year before being painted, and in that time totally 

 killed three fine vinesi trained to the first three raf- 

 ters, and seriously injured those trained to the re- 

 mainin^^even raliers; so much so, indeed, as to 

 quite kill the fruit ufion them ; and, in fact such 

 was the injurious etFcct of the poisonous vapor 

 drawn from the wood, that the fruit in the remain- 



der of the house was of a very infi'rior description. 

 The pine plants standing immediately under these 

 rafters were seriously injured, and a considerable 

 number of them were quite destroyed; the re- 

 mainder, on being placed in the fruiting pit, in a 

 in a very short tinie put up a small weak prema- 

 ture fruit. 



The cause of this gr3at damage to both the 

 vines and pine plants, was the damp va^ior which 

 arose from the heat of (he house ; and also froio 

 rain soakage, occasionally falling upon them. 



In the s|)ririgofl838, ihese rafters were carefully 

 painted lour times over ; but, although the injuri- 

 ous'efiects were thereby in some degree diminished, 

 yet the plants looked unhealthy, and did not fruit 

 properly. 



At the present time, the younij vines are look- 

 ing yellow, and have not a single bunch of grapes 

 upon them ; and the pines under these ten rafters 

 are weak and unhealthy, when compared with- 

 those at the other end of the house. 



In 1837, twelve young vines in pots were wa- 

 tered with water taken (i'om a tank in part sup- 

 plied from the roof of this hot house, and these 

 plants were all killed in a very short time. 



A trellis-work flower stand, made of deal tim- 

 ber that had been steeped in the solution, was 

 placed in a small green-house in the gardens, and 

 if this had not been taken out, every plant in the 

 house would have been killed by the noxious va- 

 pour arising from the wood. The plants soon 

 came round again after the removal of the trellis.* 



PROMISCUOUS RE3IARKS. 



For tlie Fanners' Register. 



Umformity. — A field containing rich and poor, 

 wet and dry, high and low, black and white, or 

 sand and clay grounds, reminds me of the confu- 

 sion at the buildinu of the tower of Babel ; when 

 one portion is ready for operations the other is 

 disorganized; consequently the unskilful, or lazy 

 arlizan, must either quit the premises or starve. 

 If the farmer will not be at the expense of drain- 

 ing his wet grounds, or wetting his dry arounds — > 

 if he will not mix his sand and clay"— if he will 

 not modify his black and while grounds — if he 

 vi^ill not manure his poor ground's — then he should 

 cultivate separately each different portion, liow- 

 ever small, in different crops, suited to their na- 

 ture; whereby they are made separate and dis- 

 tinct fields. It is not only important that a field 

 should be uniform in quality, but that it should 

 also have a uniform surface, lc)r which purpose the 

 liirmer should at every ploughinff and harrowing 

 have an eye to this object. Even our bottoms 

 have their slides and bumps, and without attention 

 they will so lemain; but with attention they will 

 soon disappear. Before the Itdlow plough starts, 

 let the farmer examine the field, for the purpose of 

 ascertaining the direction of every sink, however 



* Of the conservative efficacy of the Kyan solution 

 upon the woody fibre which has imbibed it, several 

 articles in our pa^es afford satisfactory evidence ; — of 

 the remarkably deleterious nature of the effluvium 

 from the surface of timber, thus treated, upon vege- 

 table life, the above paper furnishes an instance sin- 

 gularly striking and demonstrative. G. 



