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analysis it is found to contain soda and potash. It is an excellent ma- 

 nure for fruits, flowers and vegetables, on land formerly barren. 



CULTURE OF THE PEACH. 



A gentleman in New Jersey, writes thus. " I planted on my farm 

 900 peach trees. I treated them in every way applying ashes and lime, 

 and cleaning the roots, and had 120 left. One near my house, I cul- 

 tivated as I would a cabbage, leaving no grass or weeds near it ; thai 

 one is a healthy and vigorous fruit bearer, cultivation does that /or it. 

 The tree and all plants must, like animals, have good and proper food. 

 The grub worm does not mind ashes, lime, or salt, he will crawl out 

 of it, and I have tried by wrapping ihem in these substances to kill 

 them but find they do not mind it. I tried it on bots taken alive from 

 a dead horse ; the bots were not killed by it, nor by any of the articles 

 given to a horse as remedies for bots. This animal does not die ei- 

 ther in or out of a horse by being enveloped in the articles. As to the 

 peach tree, I wrapped a bandage, and a mat over that around the body 

 of the tree, just under the forking of the branches, yet the worm eat 

 down to the ground. All the remedies applied at the roots of the 

 tree, were, I have no doubt, useful to the soil ; they invigorated the tree, 

 but did not kill the worms. 



*' Tansey planted at the roots of trees has been found to prevent the 

 attack of worms. The worm bores a hole through the bark at the 

 edge of the ground ; its eggs are hatched in June." 



CURING MEAT. 



Mr. Ethan Campbell— '' Belween the years 1838 and 1812, 1 

 made several experiments on curing meat. I tried the exhaustion of 

 air, and high pressure also. I had an iron cylinder made,- put in 

 meat, exhuasled the air by steam vacuum, proved the vacuum by using 

 a glass tube with a portion of water through which the air might be 

 detected in passing. I maJe a perfect vacuum. I then administered 

 a saturated solution of salt, applied a pressure of five hundred pounds 

 an inch ; the meat was found after all this not to contain a particle of 

 salt. I broke the cylinder by over pressure. I then made a cylinder 

 o{ the best cast iron, perfectly tight, solid at one end and the other 



