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oning — either one pound of salts in a quart of 

 \v;iter siuel, or ii pint to a pint and a iialf of lin- 

 seed oil. Sprains — ernhrocatioii ; one (unioo of 

 sweet oil, four onnees of spirits of liartslioiji, 

 half onnee of oil of lliynie. .SVi'/icf of (he whkr 

 or slow worm — apply initnediatoly sti'on;,' spirits 

 of liinMsliorn. For stinj,' of liees, apply clialU or 

 wliitenin^j mixed wiili vinegar. To lake jVim 

 Jrom a horse's q/c — blow loaf sn<;ar and a little 

 salt into iNe inflanjed eye, and in most eases il 

 will be relieved. Sassafras buds ponnded, and 

 pnl in water, to stand till it becomes nearly as 

 Iliiek as c-ream, applied to the eye, isan excellent 

 remedy for inllamation. To relieve eolic in horses 

 — rub spiiits of tnjpentine oji the breast of the 

 horse; and if it lie drenched with it lie will be 

 reli(n'e(l. lloises slioidd never lie put to severe 

 work on a full stomach : more horses are hint 

 by hard driving after a fldl; feed, than by a lull 

 focil after hard driving. — Enirtish Journal. 



Cdlture of Asi'ARAGUS. — The following meth- 

 od is described by Captain Clmrcliill, R. l\I. as 

 the one ptu'sned at St. Sebastian in Spain. " .As- 

 paragus is a iilant found natmally on the beach 

 of various parts of the coast of Etnope, where it 

 is covered by the drifting sand and watered by sail 

 water at high tides. Sand and salt water occa- 

 sionally may, therefore, be regarded as indispen- 

 sable eoiulilioiis for maintaining it in health, and 

 explain in part the excellence of St. Sebastian 

 Asparagus. It seems that at the month of the 

 Uremea is a narrow slip of land, about three feel 

 above high-water mark, consisiiiig of alluvial 

 soil, and tiie wearing away of sandstone hills, at 

 whose foot it is placed. This is the asparagus 

 gronnd of St. Sebastian. Beds are formed .5 ieel 

 wide, without any previous preparation, except 

 digging and raking. In ftlarch the seed is 

 sown in two drills, about 2 inches deep, and 18 

 inches frotn the alleys, thus leaving a space of 2 

 feet between the drills. The rows run invariably 

 E. and \V, — doubtless in oriler that the plants 

 may shade the ground during the heat of summer. 

 When the seedlings aretibout (J inches high, they 

 are thinned to something more than a foot apart. 

 Water is conducted once a day among the alleys 

 and over the bed, so as to give these seedlings an 

 abundant and constant snpply of Hnid during the 

 season of their growth. This is the cultivation 

 (luring the first year. The second year, in the 

 month of iVIarch, the beds are covered w illi 3 or 

 4 inches of li'esli night soil from the reservoirs 

 of the town ; it remains on them during the sum- 

 mer, and is lightly dug in during the succeeding 

 autumn ; the operation of irrigation being con- 

 tinued as duiiiigthe first season. 'I'liis excessive 

 stimulus, and the abundant room the plants have 

 to grow in must necessarily make them extreme- 

 ly vigorous, and prepare for the production of 

 gigantic sprouts. In the third spring the Aspara- 

 gus is fit to cut. Previously, however, to the cut- 

 ting, each bed is covered in the comse of March 

 verv lightly uitli dead leaves to the dejilh of 8 

 inches; and the cutting does not commence un- 

 til the plants peep through this covering, when 

 it is carefully removed liotn the steins, that the 

 finest only may be cut, which are rendered white 

 by their leafy covering, and succulent by the ex- 

 cessive richness of the soil. In autumn of tlie 

 third year after the first cutting, the leaves are 

 removed, and the beds are again dressed with 

 night soil as before, and these operations are re- 

 pealed year after year. In addition to this the 

 iiedsare under salt water annually at spring tides. 

 The asparagus thus produced is of the most giant 

 size and luscious quality." 



Young Turkies. — A subscriber of the Visitor 

 at Deerfield suijgests that young turkies fed with 

 the pulverised dust made from broken while 

 crockery two or three limes " will live through 

 any thing." 



Hess. — The satr,e genileinan keeps in one 

 drove running at large one liundred hens with 

 some half a dozen of the opposite s'e.x. The.se 

 he feeds with five quarts of corn per day, giving 

 them ready access to a trough with beaten brick 

 backs mixed with ashes and lime. He obtains 

 an average of about fifty eggs |ier day. He wish- 

 es to extend his number of hens to eight hun- 

 dred or one thonsaiul. Will any reader of the 

 Visitor through a future number, give a bill of 

 particulars how this may be done ? 



Corn Bins. — Oiw Decrlleld friend mentions a 

 method practiced in bis town of erecting corn 

 houses with cribs very conveiuent and safe and 

 with little ex|iensc. The slats le.-iving open 

 spaces for drying corn in the ear exposing the 

 corn in wet weather leave it sometimes liable to 

 injury. The slats and spares being of the same 

 width a second set to till the opiui spaces may be 

 so constructed as to move in and close up or be 

 drawn out and cover those already made ; and 

 the movement of opening or shutting niay he 

 made with the facility of opening and closing the 

 slats of a window blind. 



Top DRr.ssi.\G FOR Grass Lands. — A writer 

 in the Gardener's Chronicle lays it down as the 

 result of his (!xperience, Isl. that the proper time 

 to top dress lands is in the (idl, and 2dly. that 

 the stock should not be permitted to run tiiereon 

 late in the tidl. In. support of the (irst of these 

 propositions he maintains that as the tempera- 

 lure ol' the soil and atmosphere being cold in 

 u inter, the dung affords pruteclion to the tender 

 roots of the plants, and that whtitever particles 

 of fertility which may exist in the manure, are in 

 \yinter washed down into t!:e soil, and lose but 

 little of their virtue by evapoi-alion, and that the 

 drying winds and Sim of summer are more in- 

 jurious to the manures than .any drenching rain 

 call be. Immediately after the "autumnal appli- 

 cations of manure, he recommends that the 

 meadows should be thoroughly harrowed— a most 

 wise recommendation is this, one that will greatly 

 encourage the economy of tlie manure. 



Steeim.ng Seeds. — Mr St. Georire, of Caub, 

 upon the Rhine, recommends Cldoricle of lime 

 as a steep (i)rseed.s. The steep is made of i oz. 

 of the chloride of lime to a gallon of water, and 

 is said greatly to promote the germination of the 

 seed. It is also said to encourage the blossom- 

 ing of flowering shrubs. Might it not encourage 

 also the hearing of fruit in trees which are sliy 

 bearers ? 



Bones and Sulphuric Acid— Mr. P. Davis, 

 of Milton House near Peinbridge, Herfordshirc. 

 England, stated beliire the A^'ricuitural .Monthly 

 Council, that with reference to IMr. Pnsej's Sug- 

 gestion as to the propriety of using boilo dust 

 dissolved in Snl|ihric acid along with compost in- 

 stead ot'wahr,ibi- turnip.s, "I can confirm his 

 idea from practice, having last year manured 3 

 acres with only 1.3 bushels of bone dust dissolved 

 in 27 lbs. of the acid and 1.50 gallons of water. 

 After staudins 24 hours, the liquid was mixed 

 with three cart loads of coal ashes and left to re- 

 main for a week, during which time it was turned 

 over two or three times, the mixture was tiien 

 drilled along with the seed; and the result was a 

 fair crop of common lurni[i3 oft' a piece of poor 

 land, without other manure, and at a cost of only 

 12*. Orf. per acre. 



Top Dressing for wheat. — Salt; salt and 

 lime; salt, lime and ashes; soot; soot and ashes, 

 iiKike excellent top deissing tor wheat. If salt 

 should be ajiplied alone, two bushels to the acre, 

 is the proper ijnanlity ; if salt and lime, 2 bush- 

 els of salt and 10 of lime should be sown to the 

 acre: if soot alone from 10 to 20 bushels per acre, 

 and if soot and ashes, ten bushels of each will 

 form a most valuable mixture. 



From the American Farmer. 

 Royal Agricultural Society. 



At a meeting of this Society, held at the So- 

 ciety's House, in Hanover sipiare, on the IGtIi of 

 April, P. Pusey, Esq., M. P., in the chair, ihe fol- 

 lowing interesting Report was made, which we 

 copy from the London Gardener''s Chronicle and 

 .'Agricultural Gazette, of A|)ril Ulth, received at 

 the office of the ".Imerican Farmer" : — 



BONE MANURE. 



Mr. Piisey informed the Council, that the Prize 

 Essay of ftlr. Ilannam, on the application of 

 bones as a maiuirc for the Turnip crop, contained, 

 in his opinion, not only a detailed account of the 

 best experiment ever made in Agriculture, but 

 some points of so much importance at the present 

 season, when the time for sowing Turnips was 

 coming on, that he felt anxious that not a mo- 

 ment should be lost in communicating the facts 

 to the members, for their information and guid- 



ance. Mr. Pusey having adverted to the great 

 discovery of the economical and efficient em- 

 ployment of bones as a manure when dissolved 

 by m.-iceratioii in sulphuric acid, proceeded to 

 read extracts from Mr. Ilannam's Prize Essay, of 

 which the following is the substance: 



I. Superiority in Economy and Effects. — 

 This result consisted not only in a greater amount 

 of croj) olitained at less cost than in the case of 

 bones employed in their ordinary state, but also 

 in the condition and character of the phmt itself, 

 as well as in its growth; the crops derived from 

 dissolved bones being both more abundant, heal- 

 thy, and less liable to attacks of insects, and the 

 plant more rapid in its growth (by 10 days in the 

 first month, and the gain of a month at the cud, 

 the Turnips from the dissolved bones being ready 

 for use several weeks before any other,) wliile it 

 exhibited a decided tendency to form bulbs at a 

 iiincli earlier period. The greater and more rea- 

 dily fertilizing effects of bones dissolved in acid 

 than any sort of bones not so prepared, were 

 clearly shown in the following results; in which 

 the crops I'rom the dissolved bones took the lead 

 from the commencement — 



From which it appeared, that 2 bushels of dis- 

 solved bones per acre would actually produce as 

 good results as 16 bushels of bones in their or- 

 dinary .state in some cases; that 8 bushels of 

 dissolved bones would greatly surpass IC bushels 

 of bones used in any other manner; and that 4 

 bushels per acre would be a fair quantity to ap- 

 ply in the stale of solution : the results being 

 greatly superior to those from four-fold the same 

 quantity of bones applied in the usual manner, 

 and the cost cfthe application less in proportion 

 to the amount of the effect produced, evidenced, 

 by the weight of the croj), than that of any other 

 quantity. 



II. Proportions. — 1. Bones and Acid. — The 

 proportion of acid had generally been one-half 

 of the weight of bone employed ; but one-third, 

 or even one-tburlh of the weight of bone might 

 be used with success, if occasion required. That 

 was an important point in the economy of the 

 manure, as it afi'ected the cost materially. 2. Ha- 

 ter. — The proportion of water had generally been 

 100 times the weight of acid ; but 50 or 25 times 

 the weight of acid would serve the purpose 

 required very eliicienlly. The fact was one like- 

 ly to be of great use, one of the main practical 

 difficulties to contend with in the application of 

 dissolved bones being the large quantity of wa- 

 ter which had been considered necessary. Mr 

 Ilannam's results showed th it four bushels of 

 bones, (12 stone,) C stone of acid and 300 stone 

 of water, (50 limes that of acid) gave 420 gallons 

 of dissolved bones to be applied per acre; wliile 

 150 stone of water (25 times that of acid) would 

 suffice. It was, however, worthy of notice, in 

 reference to the preparation of the mixture, that 

 the bones should be pulverized as much as pos- 

 sible before they are mixed with the acid, in order 

 to render the solution more complete ; but should 

 that not be the case, and a few of the larger por- 

 tions of bone be left undissolved, that circum- 

 stances would occasion no injurious effect, as thero 

 would be bone enough dissolved for the plant in 

 its early stages, and the larger i)articles would 

 disintegrate by degrees and come into operation 

 towards the end of the season. 



III. Dissolved Bone Compost. — Mr. Pusey 

 thought that however great a point was gained 

 by reducing the bulk of the water employed for 

 dilution the solution of the bones, a still greater 

 step was attained by substituting altogether the 

 compost for the liquid form of the application. 

 In the Society's last Journal, p. 590, Mr. Tennant, 

 of Shields, near Are, gave the following account 

 of his practice on this head: — "I put 25 bushels 

 into three old boilers (of which every farm here 

 has a supply) and next poured in two bottles of 



