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THE FARMERS' REGISTeH. 



Btrong mortar, to prevent the mice frora getting in. 



I have no doubt that saw-dust would be prefer- 

 able to earth for filling in between the rallers, &c., 

 aa the timbers would be less liable to rot, and the 

 saw-dust, (if packed in clost'Iy,) would as effectu- 

 ally exclude the air, and at liie same time have a 

 tendency to absorb any moisture arising Irom the 

 potatoes ingoing through a sweat. 



The greatest advantage in this plan is that you 

 may get your potatoes to use just when you please, 

 without ihe fear of having them injured, except in 

 the severest weather in wmter, during which time 

 I think it might prove injurious to open the door 

 at all, except in the warmest part of the day. 



J. H. Batte. 



OF MIXED EARTHS ANB CREEK MUD, 



From the Transactions of the Society for Promoting Agriculture 

 ill tlie State of Connecticut. 



What experiments have been made of creek or 

 harbor mud from the sea Hate ? what of mud ta- 

 ken from freeh-water ponds 7 wfiat of ihe soil 

 taken (rora swamps overflowed'? How have they 

 been used 1 on what soil*, for what crops, for what 

 grasses, in what manner, in what quanti- 

 ties, and what advantage has been derived from 

 them? 



3ir. Belden, of Wethersfield. A piece of land 

 in my neighborhood was manured with earth that 

 had been leached to make saltpetre — the earth had 

 been leached ten years before— the land has borne 

 surprising crops ever since this earth has been 

 applied. I have never witnessed so great 

 and lasting effects from any species of manure. 



Mr. Hart, of Berlin. One of my neighbors 

 carried on to his upland mowing a numTier of 

 loads of earth from under an old barn. It has 

 improved his land surprisingly. For several years 

 the crop has been very great.' 



Mr. Jlbel Branson of Waterbury. I have tried 

 the earth, taken from the ditches in my meadows, 

 but never found that my land received any benefit. 

 I have carried large quantities into my how sty 

 and barn yard, in autumn, and in the spring have 

 manured my Indian corn with it. I have found a 

 load of this mixture of the earth and manures, as 

 beneficial as a load of unmixed manure, from the 

 barn yard or the sty. I have used the'mixture, 

 when it has Iain in this situation a year, and never 

 found any dung better. 



Of yard or stable dung— tanner^ s bark, ^-c. 



What methods have been taken to augment the 

 manures taken from the yard or stable 7 What 

 means have been (bund to succeed best for that 

 purpose 1 



Mr. jindreio Hull, Jr., of Cheshire. I have 

 found no manure so beneficial, on poor land, for 

 potatoes, as the droppings of the cauie intermixed 

 with straw, thrown into the yard to make manure, 

 even before it is matured. 



Mr. j^bel Bronson, of Waterbury. 1 have 

 thrown pumice, tanner's bark, &c., into my hog 

 sty, and found them to become very good 

 manure. 



Mr. Blakesley of Plymouth, More than 

 twenty years past, 1 had a large nursery of fruit 



frees. To prevent weeds, &c., from growing, I 

 covered the ground over with tanner's bark, it 

 prevented every thing but the trees from growing. 

 After some years had elapsed, when the trees had 

 all been taken Irom the nursery, I sowed the land 

 with oats and clover. The oats were good, and 

 the clover excellent. Since the clover has gone 

 out, the natural grass has come in, and the land 

 has continued as good as any I have. I 

 have (bund bark one of the best kinds oi' 

 manure.* 



I find, from pxperiment, that two loads of duns:, 

 carried on the land in the spring, are worth three 

 loads carried on in the fall. 



Ploughing in of clover, or buckwheat. 



Have any experiments been made ol' manuring 

 land with clover, buckwheat, or oats turned, or 

 ploughed into the earth before they were ripe ; and 

 has any benefit been received 1 



Mr. Hart, of Berlin. I have made an experi- 

 ment in ploughing up a field, on which I had two 

 years beibre sown clover. The clover was mow- 

 ed and yielded a good crop. Soon afterwards I 

 ploughed the field and let it lie uniil I found thatthe 

 clover had matured. 1 then ploughed it again. 

 The land looked very well, and I supposed it 

 much enriched, I sowed wheat, but was disap- 

 pointed in it, lor the crop was poor. I knew, 

 however, that the land was much enriched, and 

 conclgided that I was prevented from having a 

 good crop of wheat from other causes than the 

 land not being well prepared. 



Mr. Phelps, of Simsbury. I ploughed up a clo- 

 ver field, ihe second year after it was sown, when 

 the roots were lull grown. It was about a fort- 

 night after mowing the land. I let the field lie in 

 this situation about six weeks, then harrowed it 

 well — sowed it with wheat, and ploughed in the 

 wheat. The next year I harvested as much as 

 twenty bushels to the acre. The soil was rather 

 dry and sandy. 



Mr. Hooker, of Farmington. I sowed a sandy 

 field with buckwheat. Wtien it was grown and 

 in bloom, I ploughed my field in ridges, and cover- 

 ed the wheat. After it had lain about six weeks, I 

 ploughed it again in ridges, putting the new ridges 

 where the balks were before. Soon after I har- 

 rowed the field, and sowed it with wheat. The 

 next summer I harvested an excellent crop. 



Mr. Belden, of IVethersfield. I have sown 

 buckwheat, both on sandy land and on loamy 

 land, and ploughed it in to prepare the land lor 

 wheat. I have had good crops from it, and have 

 found the experiment to succeed to my wishes. 



SUGAR FROBI CORN STALKS. 



Extract from an cilitoral article of the New Genesee Farmer. 



Another great article of product spoken of in 

 the report,t is that of sugar from corn stalks. 

 " A new mode of raising corn, trebles the saccha- 

 rine quality of the stalk." This is certainly an 

 extraordinary discovery. The stalks of corn, if 



• Tan bark is injurious to soil "before it rots ; then 

 it is excellent.— En. Gaz. 

 t Of' the Commissioner of Patents. 



