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ployed (or the deslruciion of these insects. It is 

 said that hoi water may also be employed (or the 

 same purpose with saleiy and success. The water, 

 tobacco-lea, or suds, should be thrown upon the 

 plants with considerable force, and if they are oT 

 the cabbage or lettuce kind, or other plants whose 

 leaves are to be used as (bod, they should subse- 

 quently be drenched thoroughly with pure water. 

 Lice on the extremities of branches may be killed 

 by bending over the branches and holding them 

 (or several minutes in warm and strong soap-suds. 

 Lice multiply much (aster, and are more injurious 

 to plants, in a dry than in a wet atmosphere ; hence 

 in green houses, attention should be paid to keep 

 tlie air sulticiently moist, and the lice are readily 

 killed by lumigaiions with tobacco or with sulphur. 

 To destroy subterranean lice on the roots of plants 

 I have (bund that watering with salt water was 

 useful, if the plants were hardy ; but tender, her- 

 baceous plants cannot be treated in this way, but 

 may sometimes be revived, when suHerintr from 

 these, hidden foes, by free and frequent watering 

 with soap-suds. 



NOVEL JIODE OF CULTIVATING CORN. 



Extract from tlie Louisville Journal. 



My universal rule is, to plough in)' corn land 

 the tall preceding the spring when I plant ; and 

 as early m the spring as possible, I cross- pfou"h 

 as deep as circumstances will permit, and as 

 soon as this is done, I commence checkino- 

 off the first way wiih my large ploughs, and the 

 secoHd with my small ones, the checks, three feet 

 by three, admitting of workinir the land both 

 ways. And then I plant my co7n (rom the 20ih 

 to the 25th of March— a rule to which I adhere 

 with scrupulous exactness ; planting from eit^ht 

 to twelve grains in each hill, covering the -same 

 from four to six inches (/ee/), greatly preferring 

 the latter depth; and in ihis particular I take 

 more pride and more pains than any other (armer 

 in Kentucky, holdmg it as my ruling principle, 

 that the product of the corn crop depends very much 

 upon its being properly covered, and much on its 

 being properly ploughed the first time. So soon I 

 as my corn crop is up of sufH.;ient heicrht, I start I 

 the large harrow directly over the rovvl, ullowin.T ' 

 a horse to walk each side, harrowing the way the ' 

 corn was planted ; and on land prepared as above ! 

 and harrowed as directed, the hoeino- part will be ' 

 so completely perlbrmed by this process that it ' 

 vyill satistythe most skeptical. Then, allowin^r I 

 the corn thus harrowed to remain a lew dav« 1 • 

 start my small ploughs with the bar next the ' 

 corn; and so nicely will this be done, that when 

 a row IS thus ploughed, so completely will the 

 intermediate spaces, hills, &c., be lapped in by 

 the loose earth occasioned by this system of close 

 ploughing, as to render any other work useless 

 for a time. I thin to (our stalks upon a hill, never 

 having to transplant, the second ploughing beincr 

 perlormed with the mouldboard towards the rowl 

 of corn; and eo rapid has been the growth of 

 the corri between the first and second plouf^hino's, 

 that this IS performed with ease; and wlien^'in 

 this stage, I consider my crop safe ; my gene- 

 ral rule being, never to plough my corn liiore 

 than lour times, and harrow once. My practice 



19, to put afield in corn two successive years 



then grass it, and let it lie eight years, a rule from' 



which I never deviate. Now, I do not pretend 



that the labor bestowed upon a sod-field, to put 



it in a state of thorough cultivation, does not 



meet with a fair equivalent from one crop, but I 



presume no farmer will doubt when I say, the 



second year's crop from sod-land is better than 



j the first, with not more than one half the labor. 



I The best system of farming is, to produce the 



[greatest amount of profit from the smallest 



amount of labor. 



I lay it down as an axiom incontrovertible 

 in the cultivation of corn, that whenever a lart^e 

 crop has been raised, it was the result of close 

 and early planting; and I defy proof to the con- 

 irary. I plant my corn three feet by three, (bur 

 stalks in a hill, and allow but one ear to a stalk 

 and one hundred ears to a bushel, and then as- 

 certain how many hills there are in a shock, 

 sixteen hills square, which is the usual custom to 

 put it up. My present crop, planted on the 20th 

 of March, bids fair to outstrip any preceding one ; 

 I am now ploughing and thinning the first'^plant- 

 itig- Walter C. Young. 



Jessamine co., Ay., jlpril 26, 1842. 



MANURES. 



According to Liebig, the evacuations of an 

 j adult, liquid and solid, will annually yield 547 lbs. 

 lor one and a half pound per day. This is suf- 

 j ficient to manure fully one acre of wheat or other 

 j grain. But even in the modes of preserving and 

 i.using it by the aid of lime, much of its ammonia 

 j is wasted ; and it has been shown, that to the 

 ammonia the wheat owes its nitrogen, the ele- 

 ! ment on which we have most to depend for im- 

 [ provement, both in quality and quantity. Lime 

 I should no more be mixed with night soil, than 

 with gas liquor; on the contrary, the matters 

 j added to absorb the liquid, should have an acid 

 ! tendency. Gypsum does very well by double 

 i decomposition. Peat earth is acidulous enough 

 to fix the ammonia, where at hand ; but in large 

 [towns, this earth often requires pretty distant 

 , carriage. Refuse bark is, however, generally 

 produced in populous places, and is an incum- 

 brance to the tanner, from which he is obliged to 

 contrive various methods (or relieving himself- 

 amongst the rest burning, to the great annoyance' 

 and suffering of the neighborhood. 



But tanners' refuse bark has also enough acidu- 

 lous quality to fix the ammonia in night soil' 

 and being so generally at hand in populous (oivns, 

 may be employed for the purpose exlens/ve/y. 



Three parts of tanners' bark to one of n/gftt-soil 

 (urine included, which is as valuable as any 

 part,) will make a stronger manure than stable- 

 dung; and with this further advantage, that the 

 stable-dung requires to be rotted, to reduce the 

 long straws, and kill the undigested seeds it con- 

 tains ; whilst the bark being already short, and 

 the night-soil containing no seeds, it may be 

 carted lo the field at once; thus saving the heavy 

 waste in rotting. 



In the tan-yard, the bark may be stercorized, 

 by having a privy or two, and suitable corners 

 for the work people, all made to drain upon the 



