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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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and grows etronser than other seed sown at the 

 same time in the same field. 



Foudrette. — Puudretle is not dissolved in water 

 before bein^r used, as is urate, but it is to be ui-ed 

 in a dry staie, or 63' mixing it with dry soil in lulls 

 or drills, or sown in broad-cast on the land, as you 

 would lime or ashes. Experiments in this coun- 

 try, thus far, ha\e proved the Ibllovving methods 

 as the most advisable in iis application : 



JTor Corn. — Aller the i'urrovvs have been struck, 

 sprinkle in the |)lace where the hill is to be, belbre 

 planting, a handful of poudrette, equal to about a 

 gill, then deposite the corn, (double that quantity 

 of poudrette has destroyed corn and burnt it up,) 

 then cover up the corn and press the earth down 

 over it with the foot or hoe. 



For Potatoes. — The same quantity, namely a 

 handliii or gill, may be used very advantageously; 

 and it has so happened, that when the quantity 

 was increased nearly double, no injury lesulted, 

 but rather improved the potatoes : a large handiul, 

 however, is sufficient. 



Compost. — It is worse than useless to attempt to 

 make compost by mixing urate or poudrette with 

 ' any thing but dry soil ; if mixed with other ma- 

 nures, they operate on the other manures until 

 those manures are consumed, before they are ben- 

 eficial to plants; and in some instances it may be, 

 that the results of the use of the urate and pou- 

 drette in the first year of their first application, 

 will not be as satisfactory to the larmer as he will 

 think he had a right to expect; this arises from 

 the fact that iheland contains a considerable quan- 

 tity of some former manure upon which urate and 

 poudrette will first act; at the very next season, 

 however, the farmer will find a crop far superior to 

 his expectation, provided he will put no new ma- 

 nure of any description to the land lately manured 

 with urate or poudrette. 



This, however, must be further explained by 

 saying, that it applies to manure placed or dunged 

 in the hill, or where the land is in a high stale of 

 cultivation, from having been highly manured in 

 broad-cast, which would give the poudrette an op- 

 portunity of feeding upon or consuming it. Ex- 

 perience has proved, this year, that where there 

 was a moderate application of lime, or barn -yard 

 manure applied to the land in broad-cast, it did not 

 appear to affect the influence of the poudrette on 

 the crop. 



The quantity of poudrette must vary from 15 to 

 35 bushds per acre according to the quantity of 

 the land, and the crop cultivated : less than 15 

 bushels to the acre may not be very satisfactory, 

 and more than 35 is useless. 



On Long Island, the following has been adopted 

 by a practical farmer with success. For wheat, 

 he used to apply 20 wagon loads of 30 bushels 

 each, equal to 600 bushels of horse manure, 

 which cost him ^20, besides carting 20 loads. He 

 now applied 40 bushels of poudrette which cost 

 him ^16, and can carry more than sulficient lor 

 one acre in a load. 



For rye, 450 bushels of horse manure, and now 

 25 bushels of poudrette. 



For oats, 350 bushels of horse manure, and now 

 20 of poudrette. 



For buckwheat, 200 bushels of horse manure, 

 and now 15 of poudrette. 



, Indian corn, one gill in the hill. 

 Orate and poudrette are light substances, and 



liable to be blown off the ground by high winds, 

 ifsowedonthe surlace wlitin the ground is not 

 damp ; therelbre, it is considered bf^el to sow the 

 grain and harrow the lanil once, and then sow the 

 manure in broad-cast and crn.ss harrow the land 

 the second time. 



The difference of the season between spring and 

 auiiunn, and the stale of the aiujosphere, are to 

 be considered before using eiiher urate or pou- 

 dretie; damp weather is always to be preferred. 

 Neither of them contain any seed of weeds of 

 any description. An application of 35 bushels to 

 the acre of urate or poudrette once in every three 

 years is sufficient. 



Urate and poudrette may be sent to any part of 

 the country in barrels or bags — barrels are to be 

 preferred when it is liable to get wet. Or.lers may 

 be given, post-paid, directed to " The New York 

 Urate and Poudrette Company,^^ box No. 1211, 

 post otfice, New York. 



ANCIENT AND PRKSENT AGRICULTURAL CON- 

 DITIONS OF THE HOLY LAND. 



Extract from Addison's 'Sketches of Jerusalem.' 

 Hecataeus, a Greek historian, who flourished 

 549 years b. c, speaks of the great feriiliiy of 

 the land belonging to the Jews; and Polybius, b. 

 c. 170, states that the eastern part of the country, 

 about Tyre, lijrnished abundant supplies to the 

 arm(;y of Antiochus. Diodorus describes the in- 

 habitants, fif\v years b. c, as generally living upon 

 flesh and milk ; he st)eaks also ol'the pepper wliich 

 was produced upon the trees, and ol the abundance 

 of honey which, according to a later historian, the 

 country people used as a beverage, mixing it with 

 water.* Pliny also celebrates tiie palm trees, and 

 the oil and the balsam ; and other writers enthusi- 

 astically speak of the land as "the fortunate coun- 

 try," "the country abounding in pasture."! 



They describe the two Galilees as covered with 

 all sorts of trees, and the soil as everywhere so 

 rich tmd fertile, that the most lazy were encour- 

 aged to cultivate it from its Iruittulness. Samaria 

 is celebrated for its kind and genial soil, its sweet 

 waters, its abundance of trees, fruit, and cattle, and 

 also lor the delicious milk it produced, in conse- 

 quence of the quantity of grass. Gennessareth, 

 too, is spoken of as a delightful tegion, in which 

 all kinds of trees flourished, the nut, the palm, the 

 fig, the olive, and the vine ; and the valley of the 

 Jordan has been widely celebrated as " a garden 

 environed with hills," "a celestial region," de- 

 lightfiil for its trees, fruits, and odoriliprous balsam. 

 At a subsequent period, a. d. 313, when the 

 country had much declined from its flourishing 

 state under the dews, it is still celebrated by Euse- 

 bius fbr its oil, corn, wine, vegetables of all kinds, 

 hone)', palms, fruit trees, cattle and beasis of bur- 

 then; and later still, towards the close of the fourth 

 cen'ury, Hieronymus a native Palestine, observes 

 "That the celebrated land of Judea excels all land 

 m fertility, no one can doubt, who hath marked 

 well the country from Rhinocorura to Mount 

 Taurus and the river Euphrates, the power of the 

 cities, and the pleasantness of the climate." 



* Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. ix. c. 104. 



t Josephus. Tacitus. Ammianus Marcellinus. 



