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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No.§: 



To tliree bushels and a half of common wood 

 ashes, was added huh" a bushel ofunslacked iinie. 

 These^ being well mixed together, were put into a 

 cask capable of containing sixty gallons, and was 

 filled up with water. In lorly-eight hours, the lye 

 was strong enough to float an egg. It was then 

 drawn otJ', and from six to eight gallons of it put 

 into a copper kettle, capable of containing about 

 twenty-five gallons. To this was added only four 

 pounds of" myrtle wax. This was kept boiling 

 over a constant steady fire f"rom 9 o'clock in the 

 morning till 3 in the alternoon. For the first three 

 or four hours, a supply of strong lye was poured 

 in occasionally, and the whole l"requently well stir- 

 red with a ladle. Alter six hours boiling, two 

 quarts of common large grain salt were thrown 

 into the kettle, which was left one hour more to 

 simmer over a slow fire. The liquor was then 

 put into tubs to cool, where it continued twenty- 

 lour hours ; and then the soap was taken out, wip- 

 ed clean, and put to dry. 'Fhe next day it was 

 weighed, when the produce wasfounti to be forty- 

 nine pounds of good solid soap, from the materials, 

 and by the process above mentioned. At the end 

 of six weeks, the soap had lost only a few pounds, 

 from the evaporation of" iis watery particles. 



In many parts of our stale, the myrtle tree is 

 abundant, and from three jjecks to a bushel may 

 be gathered from a hand per day. Would it not 

 be worth the while ot"our planters to attend to this 

 matter? I am sure it would save them many a dol- 

 lar. Your obedient servant, 



Economy. 



St. PauVs Parish. 



If the operation be performed with care, after 

 some experience, the result will be the production- 

 of grapes without pips. 



From tlie Ilorticultiiral JournaU 

 EMASCULATION OF THE VINE, OR A BIETIIOW 

 TO PRODUCE GRAPES WITHOUT SEEDS. 



Some of your readers will possibly feel startled 

 at the above designation, and many will disap- 

 prove of a term used in surgery to an operation 

 on the vine, at variance with received opinions on 

 the physioloiiy of plants. But to your more inge- 

 nious readers, the experiment will offer a new 

 .source of amusement, and perhaps may lead 

 to useful investigation. In Portugal and other 

 places, I fi-equently met with orange and lemon 

 trees, which produced fruit divested uf" pips. Up- 

 on inquiring for the cause, no one was able to en- 

 lighten me, further than that the effect was acci- 

 dental. And I make no doubt that mere accident, 

 (such as the perioral ion of the plant, when young 

 by a worm, or a blow from a spade or hoe, when 

 first planted,) did produce the same efFfct on those 

 trees which it would have produceil upon the vine, 

 if done purposely, and with a view of the same 

 result. 



For this ingenious operation on the vine, I was 

 indebted, some years ago, to a horticulturist of 

 great eminence in Paris. It is as follows : 



When the sap is rising in INlarch, make a deep 

 incision in the heart of the bearing branch, from 

 whence extract, with a grafting knile, about a 

 quarter of an inch [1 centime, 5 lignes,] of the 

 pith, [moelle,] close under the first bud [nojud,] 

 at the stem, (souche.) The wound is then to be 

 bound up with worsted, like a grat>. This may 

 be removed at the end ol' three weeks. 



From the Horticultural Journal. 

 NEW BIETIIOD OF APPYTNG SULPHUR TO- 

 PLANTS, IN A LIQUID FORM. 



The "flowers," or the finely levigated stone 

 brimstone, are with great difficulty mixed with 

 water ; and yet it is sometimes highly desirable to 

 throw a shower of sulphuretted water over the en- 

 tire foliage of a vine or peach tree. This object 

 can be readily effiscted by the aid of a little gum 

 tragacanth [ijum-dragon, as it is vulgarly called.} 

 Half an ounce of the powdered gum, which can 

 be procured very chea()ly of any drugcisf, may 

 perhaps sutBce for two or three years. To a table 

 spoonful or two of flowers of sulphur, in a wedge- 

 wood mortar, add three or four grains [or a quan- 

 tity that would scarcely cover one hall" of a four 

 penny piece,] of the tragacanth; rub them toge- 

 ther, dropping in a very little water ; work these- 

 materials with the pestle till an even pasty mass be 

 produced ; then add water, to bring the sulphur 

 to the consistency of cream ; and in this state it 

 will nnite with any quantity of water; or, in other 

 words, the particles of the sulphur will become dif- 

 fused throufrhout the whole hulk, and can then bo 

 taken up by a syringe. The sulphur, it is true,. 

 will be deposited in time, but agitation will bring 

 it again to that stale of diffusion in which the par- 

 ticles may be thrown on the plant ; to which, also, 

 they remain fixed in situations wherein they may 

 exert their utmost energy, whether that be [ire- 

 ventive or remedial. 



THE FORMER POOR AND EXHAUSTED CONDI- 

 TION, AND EARLIEST SUBSEQUENT IM- 

 PROVE?JENTS, BY JMARLING, OF COGGIn''s 

 POINT FAR3I. 



(An omitted portion of the 'Essay on Calcareous Manures.') 



[The following article was, as it purports, for 

 the greater part, written in 1S26, and was added 

 to and completed in 1833. The object of it, at. 

 both times, was to be inserted in the 'Essay oit 

 Calcareous Manures,' to serve as appendix to the 

 many particular experiments with marl, therein 

 given. But the saine considerations, as stated be- 

 low, which prevented it's beiog included in the 

 first edition, also operated to exclude it from the 

 second. In now giving it publication, no change 

 has now been made, except a few merely verbal 

 corrections.] 



Experiments on a small scale, made to test the 

 value of manures, however numerous and varied 

 they may be, or however carefully conducted and 

 minutely reported, will never be so satisliiclory to 

 the reader, as knowing the general effects of the 

 same practice when applied to the whole of the 

 experimenter's land, and affecting the whole of 

 his capital and labor. In limiled experiments, the 



