can subsisteuce. It is some obvious aiid ac- 

 knowledged differences of climate and staples 

 like ibis, wbich prompt many people to raise 

 up their lazy voices agaiust all English agricul- 

 tural writings, and the trial of all new things in- 

 troduced in English Agriculture and Horticul- 

 ture, and against English animals and imple- 

 meuis. This stereotype ci-y of difference of cli- 

 mate is, we hear too often, the convenient 

 refuge of ignorance and indolence. Listen 

 to it, and we should become stationary as 

 the Chinese. On the contrary, we should 

 keep our eye constantly on what the sci- 

 ence and the wealth of Europe is doing in the 

 melioration of fruits, the variegation of flowers, 

 the improvements of machinery, and in all the 

 useful and ornamental inventions. How, but by 

 an honorable spirit of inquiry and emulation, 

 has Mr. Wilder, the enlightened President of 

 the Horticaltural Society of Boston, been ena- 

 bled to exhibit several hundred vai-ieties of 

 pears, and flowers of Continental origin, in anti- 

 cipation even of the London florists, and incon- 

 ceivably beautiful ? But to return to our sub- 

 ject. Conceiving it to be our duty to look out 

 for whatever may be noticed abroad as new 

 and valuable, we have selected -^iree items 

 from a single paper — a late London " Garden- 

 er's Chronicle" — to wit, Italiau Rye Grass, 

 for soling ; a Strawberry, which appears to ex- 

 cel in size even our own Hovey ; and a New 

 Vegetable. 



As to the Italian Rye Grass, we are aware 

 tliat it has been introduced, and that it viay not 

 possess the value a.scribed to it, as in competi- 

 tion with Lucerne or Indian Com, sowed for 

 soiling; but surely an account thus plausi- 

 bly representing one acre to yield $150 worth 

 of grass, is at least tcorfh reading, and the grass 

 worthy of careful trial. The suggestion of 

 Viims, liquid manure will doubtless alarm the 

 timid and horrify the lazy farmer ; but boggle 

 at it as he may. he u-ill have to .come lo it at 

 last ! He must be blind, or worse, whom we 

 shall not, sooner or later, cause to see, in 

 the pages of this journal, how indispeii.sable 

 it is to adopt the means of saving and using 

 the liquid manure on his farm. Yes ! the 

 day shall come, when 'any man who pre- 

 tends to keep pace with the march of agri- 

 cultural improvement, shall be put in Coven- 

 try by any Agi-icultural surveying commit- 

 tee, who is found to neglect and throw 

 away that most valuable portion of his resour- 

 ces. That subject, wo promise, .shall be demon- 

 strated, in a manner, bj' argument and illustra- 

 tion, to make every farmer feel that to wilfully 

 lose the liquid excrements of his farm, is pre- 

 cisely as improvident as it would be lo leave 

 his meat-house open, or his wheat unshocked 

 in the field after being cut. All in good lime, 



my friends. For improvidence, for waste, for 

 ill-success, and for ruin, j-ou may plead any- 

 thing else ; but — you shall not plead ignorance 

 if you will only read ! 



On the subject of soiling, once more, wc 

 need hardly suggest that every man must prac- 

 tice it on some scale, or ought to do it. He 

 ought to have green food for bis plow-horses at 

 night, and, at least, for his milch cows. For 

 this purpose a lot, smaller or larger, according 

 to the number of animals, will suffice ; but even 

 for that there is a good and bad manner of pre- 

 paring the ground, as there is a choice of crops, 

 for the purpose. For the introduction and trial 

 ofnew kinds of grains, gi-asses, fruits and ani- 

 mals, the agriculturist depends chiefly on the 

 merchant farmer, or some other not regularly 

 bred to the pursuit ; and is it not too apt to be 

 the case that, if his trial fail, he is sneered at by 

 " the practical man" — and if he succeed, after 

 some years, the public profits by his eutei^jrise, 

 while he gets neither thanks nor remembrance ? 

 Who remembers Governor Kandolph, the .scho- 

 lar, as the inventor of the hill-side Plow ? or 

 Commodore Stewart, as the first to send Guano 

 to America twenty years ago ? 



P. S. Since the above was written, we have 

 had an opportunity to observe that in !New- 

 England the pi'actice of sowing corn broad-cast, 

 for soiling, is extending, and seems to answer 

 admirably. To save labor, the lots appropriated 

 to this object should be near the spot where the 

 food is to be consumed. 



LoLiUM iTALicfM — (Italian Rye Grass. J — 

 Much, and deser\'edly, as this Grass is esteemed 

 where it bas been cultivated, it may, perhaps, 

 prove useful to some of your agricultural friends, 

 and induce many who have not yet tried it to 

 take an early opportunity of doing so, if you 

 will publish a statement of the advantages I 

 have derived and expect from it.<i growth on a 

 small scale under the following circumstances : 



In September last, upon an acre of good loam, 

 previou.sly well drained and deep plowed, I 

 sowed four bushels of seed. It vci^-oiated 

 ([uickly, and grew so fast tliat, considerinic it 

 too thick to sumd over the winter without inju- 

 ry from snow, I depastured it with sheep bi'fore 

 ('hrisimas. In February it was splendid keep 

 tiir ewes and lambs; but having so little of it, as 

 fa.st as the latter were dropped they were, with 

 the ewes, turned upon it, each for a few days 

 only, to give them a start before passing th(!in 

 on lo the other keep, and in this way it was fed 

 down close by a small flock of ewes with their 

 couples. The liquid manure-cart then conveyed 

 upon it a i,'ood dressing from the urine tank of 

 the cowsheds and stable. In April it was 

 mown and consumed in the stalls day by day 

 as long as it lasted, the liquid manure-cart being 

 freely u.sed, as fast as a sufficient breadth was 

 cut for it to work upon, and I firmly believe 1 

 had consid>irab!y more th.au tv/o tons to the 

 acre. In the last week of June and the first of 

 July, a second and equally good crop was cut 



