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covered with ice several inehes thick. This is the 

 more remarkable fi-om its being a known fact that 

 the eun shines with all its lurce Irom eight or nine 

 o'clock in the morning until late in the evening, on 

 the sur(iice covering the ice, but the latter defies 

 its power. Mr. Deever?, who is the owner of the 

 property, informed the author that milk, butter, or 

 iresh meats of every kind, are perfectly safe from 

 injury for almost any length of time in 'he hottest 

 weather. If a fly venture in, he is immediately 

 stiffened with the cold, and becomes torpid. If a 

 enake in his rambles happens to pass over the 

 rocks covering the ice, he soon loses all motion, 

 and dies. Christopher Heiekel!, esq., informed 

 the author that several instances had occurred of 

 the snakes being found dead among the rocks co- 

 vering the ice. An intelligent young lady at the 

 sanie time stated that she had seen instances of 

 this character. In truth, it was upon her first sug- 

 gesting the fact, that the author was led to make 

 in(]uiry of Mr. Heiekell. And Mr. Deevers stated 

 that he had several times removed torpid flies 

 Jrom his dairy into a more temperate atmosphere, 

 when they soon recovered lile and motion, and 

 flew off'. 



Nature certainly never formed a better situation 

 for a fine dairy establishment. But it will proba- 

 bly be asked by some persons, where is the milk 

 to come from to furnish it ? The time will proba- 

 bly come, and perhaps is not very distant, when our 

 mountains will be turned to good account. Their 

 sources of wealth are not yet known ; but the spi- 

 rit of enterprise and industry ia abroad, and the 

 present generation will hardly pass away before 

 the most astonishing changes will be seen in every 

 part of our happy country. 



ON THE USE AND VALUE OF LIQUID MANURE. 



From the Marie Lane Express. 

 I was first attracted to the value of liquid ma- 

 nure when on a visit to Baron Biel, in Germany, 

 (the Sir Charles Bunbury of that country,) by 

 seeing two carts constantly at work on his land, 

 carrying out the liquid drained from a large num- 

 ber of cattle feeding on the refuse of wheat, from 

 which brandy had been distilled ; and by hearing 

 from himself the great benefit his land had obtain- 

 ed from the use of it. Immediately on my return 

 home, I put his plan into execution on a small 

 scale, in the following manner. I had a well sunk 

 as deep as I thought was necessary to receive the 

 drainings of a yard, in which about twenty horn- 

 ed cattle, as many pigs and seven cart horses (be- 

 sides colls and calves) were kept; having rather 

 a fine grating at the mouth of the drain where it 

 emptied itself into the well. A wooden pump 

 was put into the well, which raised the liquid into 

 the cart with very trifling labor by the addition of 

 a conducting ppout, and I am not aware ol' ever 

 having seen obstruction from filth, as your corre- 

 spondent com|)lains of in this simple operation; 

 neither was my well cleanctl out for the space of 

 several years. The machine for carrying this li- 

 quid to the land was of this description. 1 first 

 purchased the fore axle-treei and wheels of an old 

 braad wheeled wagon. I then had a water cart 

 made, exactly on the principle of those used to 

 water roads, which it requires two horses to draw 



when full. The expenses of the well (which was 

 bricked,) the axle-tree and wheels, and the body 

 cart, as near as I can recollect, twenty-two pound*. 

 And now (or the eflect. This will be best shown 

 in one single instance. I had a meadow of six 

 acres, so much out of condition that the laborers 

 absolutely refused cutting one year. By th.e ap- 

 plication of this liquid, alone, it was, ihe. next year 

 but one, as good as any other on the farm. It 

 told equally on other grass land, and I would have 

 used it on my other farm, had the locality of the 

 buildings been convenient lor securing the drain- 

 ing from the stalls, stables, &c. I never applied 

 it to ploughed lands, having always an abundance 

 of yard manure from horses summered in the sta- 

 ble, besides other regular sources; but the bailifi' 

 of the late Mr. Chate, of Ihe Vine, (master of 

 the Vine foxhounds,) who followed my example, 

 did apply it to his hops, and occasionally to naked 

 fallows with very good success. 



As to the test of its strength, which your cor- 

 respondent inquires about, I had no means of ob- 

 taining it ; but I considered it to be strongest when 

 darkest in color, and smelling very strong of the 

 stalls also in dry weather; and I like to see a 

 scum on the top of the well showing that a de- 

 gree of fermentation was going on. 



NlMROD. 



St. Pierre, near Calais, Jan. 2Sth, 1840. 



TO DESTROY THE STRIPED BUG. 



From the Cultivator. 



Mr. VVm. Youngs of Lyons, informs us of a 

 more feasit)le method of destroying the striped 

 bug which inlests melons, cucumbers, &c., than 

 that described by Mr. Wilson in the last Cultiva- 

 tor. It is to place a turkey, with her brood of 

 young, in a coop in the garden, just as the plants 

 appear above ground. The young ones will live 

 on the bugs, which they eat with great avidity ; 

 but the old one in the coop must be fed her usual 

 meals. The turkeys must, after destroying the 

 bugs, be removed liom the garden belbre they be- 

 come so old as to prey upon the setting fruit. 



THE DISPOSITION TO FATTEN OF DIFFERENT 

 BREEDS OF HOGS. 



From the We •♦ern Farmer. 

 To be able to decide, as nearly as possible, what 

 particular kind of hog, of all those imported into 

 this country from other countries, as well as the 

 productions of these by croi?sing them with one 

 another, has the readiest disposition to lalten, is a 

 point ol very great importance and interest. Al- 

 though we have not, at present, any statements 

 from agriculturists and stock raisers in the western 

 country upon this particular point in hogs, yet we 

 have from foreign sources, and from other jiarts of 

 the country, some data upon which to found a few 

 pretty certain conclusions on this subject : and 

 until we have further inlbrmation in this matter, 

 from those farmers who may be curious and 

 patriotic enough to make the necessary experi- 

 ments, we will content ourselves in laying belbre 

 our readers all our knowledge derived from foreiga 



