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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



EiHjirsTiosoF Lakd bt growisg Wheat. 

 — To coafine ourselves to Wheal — it appears 

 from the recent researches of Dr. H. WUi that 

 100 parts of the eanhy constiaients of the grain 

 consist of — 



Po»s3 22 to 34 parts. 



-Soda 16 parts. 



Lme 2 to 3 pana. 



Masneda 9tol3 pans. 



Perbside of iron — . 1 pana. 



Phosphoric acid 49 parts, 



A trace of sulphoric acid, silica, and fluorine. 

 ■«rhilst the earthy constituents of WTieat straw 

 contain very little phosphoric acid, bat a large 

 amoant of silica. Now, it is obvious that if the 

 farmer continually restores all the straw to his 

 lajid, but neg-lects, from ^vant of knowledge, or 

 Eeans, to replace the earthy matter of the grain, 

 the land •will be exhausted, and he cannot con- 

 tfnne to grow Wheat upon it* Moreover, if he 

 make an effort to maintain the fertility of the 

 land for Wheat, he must restore to it every in- 

 gredient of which it becomes exhausted by his 

 cricp in a proper proportion. To know this pro- 

 portion essential to the growth of every particu- 

 lar crop, he must have recourse to iijformation 

 supplied by Chemistry. One of the earthy con- 



stiments of "Wheat enters so largely into many 

 other crops, that the amount taken "off the land 

 everywhere is very great, and constitutes a ccn- 

 sidej^ble proportion of the total amount con- 



I tained in ordinary land, so that the loss has al- 

 ready, even in the present state of science, ex- 



I cited attention, and aroused the efforts of the 

 former to repair it. We aiinde to phosphoric 

 acid. Now. the chemist has shown, that in tlie 

 bones of animals a great part of this material 

 which has been drawn from land in the growth 

 of vegetables is to be found, stored up in a form 

 suitable for its restoration. 

 [Proposal for establishing a College of Chemistry. 



* This accounts for the exhaustion of the wheat 

 lands, in Western New- York, from twenty bushels of 

 ■^Mieai to the acre, twenty years ago, down to eleven 

 bushels now. This accounts too, in part, for the 

 check to the population of that region in the last few 

 years. There wiH be general exhaustion and drain 

 firom aH the other States, as long as land can be had 

 in the West for $1 2.5 and for nothing after a few 

 years when emigrants and their descendants get a lit- 

 tle stronger. [Ed. Farm. Lib. 



PRICES CURRENT. 



[Corrected, January 21, for the Monthly Journal of Agriculture.] 



ASHE.S— Pots. Ist son ^ lOiD IB. 3 



Pearls, 1st sort, '4^ 4 



BEE.-^WAX — American YeUow — 



OAKDLES— Mould. Tallow..^ »... — 



Sperm. Eastern and City — 



COTTON'— From ^ ft. — 



COTTON B-iGGDsG— American... — 



''^jRDAGE — .American f' Hs. — 



L J M.-:- TIC GOOBS— Shirtings, ^y. — 



F E.-i.THE^S — ^American, live — 



FLAX — -American — 



FLOCa & MEAL— Genesee, ^ bbL 5 



ICchigan 5 



' Ohio, flat hoop 5 



i Otit. Heywood 4; Venice 6 



"^Sbio, viaMew-Orleans 5 



Penn-sylvania — 



Brandywine — 



Oeorzetown 5 



Sikimore City >lills. 5 



(SJekmoad City MiHa 6 



RkduDond Country 5 



Alexandria, Petereburg. &c o 



Eye Flour 4 



Com Meal Jersey and Brand 3 



Com Meal Brandywine hhd. 17 



tzKADi- Wheat Westem . . ^ bush. 1 



Wheat, Southern new 1 



Rye. If ordiem — 



Com, iereey and North... fmeaa.) — 



Cora, .Southern Cmeasure) — 



Com, Southern (weight) — 



Oats, Jiorthem — 



Oais. .Southern — 



E A Y — North River bales — 



fiZ}tP — .American, dew-rotted. . ton ?7 



" water-rotted 125 



H©P.S— lat sort 1J=4.5 — 



laojr— .\merican Pig. No 1 ^ 



" Common K 



LIME— Tnomaston F bbL — 



LUMBEP^^Eoards, N.R., 4?M. ft. ch". 35 



Board-s, Eastern Pine 11 



^.>arda, Albany Pine ^ pee. — 



Plank. G»»rgia Pine ^M. ft. — 



f*i32; 



i 

 > 



•4 "t:^ 



Staves, \%'mte Oak, pipe. ^ M 48 — 350 — 



Staves, White Oak, hhd. 38 — 340 — 



Staves, \Vhite Oak bbL 28 — 330 — 



Staves, Red Oak. hhd .30 — 331 — 



Hoops 25 — 330 — 



Scamiing. Pine, Eastern. 316 25 



ScantUni Oak. 30 — 335 — 



Timber,''Oak ^ cubic foot — 25 3— 37 



Timber, White Pnie — 18 3— a5 



Timber. Georgia YeUow Pine — 30 3 — 35 



Shinsles, 13 in ^ bunch 17532 — 



Shingles, Cedar, 3 feet, 1st quality. 324 — 



Shinales. Cedar, 3 feet, 2d quality. 22 — 323 — 



ShinBes, Cedar, 2 feet 1st quality. 19 — ® 



Shindes. Cedar. 2 feet 2d quality. 16 — 318 — 



Shingles, Cypress, 2 feet 13 — 314 — 



Shingles. Company 329 — 



MUSTARI>— -im'erican — 17 3— 25 



NAILS— Wrought, 6d to 20d...f B. — 10 3— m, 



Cut.4dto40d — 4 3— 4i 



PL.VSTER PARI.S— ?■ ton 2 621 3 



PROVLSIONS— BeeC Mesa, ^ bbL.. 8 — 3 8 50 



Beef Prime 5 — 3 5 50 



Pork Mess. Ohio 13 — 313 .50 



Pork Prime, Ohio 10 12i310 50 



Lard. Ohio f tt. — 7i3— 81 



Hams. Pickled. — 7 3— 7i 



Shoulders. Pickled — 5 3— 5t 



Sides. Pickled — 6 3— 61 



EeeC Smoked ^ B. — 6i3— 7 



Butler. Oransre County — 18 3 — 30 



Btuter, Westem Daury — 14 @— 17 



Butter, ordinary — 11 ® — 13 



Cheeee, in casks and boxes — 7 3 — 7^ 



SEEU.S— Clover V Xb. — 10 3— 11 



Tunothy ^P'tierce 16 — -a!? — 



Flax, Rough. 10 25 310 37i 



SOAP— N. York, Brown ^ B. — 4 3— 6 



T.ALLOW— American, Rendered... — 7t3— 7j 



TOB.4CCO— Virginia 3 B. — 3 3- 6 



North Carolina — 3 ® — ^ 



Kenmckv and Missouri — 3 3 — 7 



WOOL— Am. .Saxony. Fleece,. F B. — 38 3— 40 



American Full Blood Merino — 36 3— 38 



American J and J Merino — 30 3 — 33 



American Native and t Merino. . . — 26 © — 28 

 Superfine. Pulled — 28 3— 30 



