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Flower Seeds. — Our applications for flower 

 seeds now count up more tlian four thousand, and 

 every one will be sent previous to the 5th of 

 April. Some apply for double dahlias, verbenas, 

 and other plants that are not propagated from 

 seed, but from bulbs and cuttings, wliich it will 

 be impossible for us to send. The following per- 

 sons iiave made application for packages of seeds, 

 without giviixg in their Post office address : Mrs. 

 A. S. Manly, Mary Coon, Clarinda R. Sanders, 

 Mrs. D. L. Aekerman, J. L. Anderson, A. M. Mc 

 Fatridge, C. Wire, Mary C. Saunders, Louisa Luce, 

 Mrs. D. Bouck. Tliese will have to send again, 

 giving us the name of Post office and State. 



If any of our bretliren of the Agricultural Press 

 wisli to engage the services of an editor who is a 

 good practical farmer, and thorough chemist, well 

 acquainted with the best systems of agriculture in 

 this country and in Europe, and who for several 

 yeai-s assisted Messrs. La wes and Gilbert in their 

 invaluable experiments, they will please write us 

 on tlie subject. 



Cloth for Hot-Beds.— I see in your March number of 

 the Farmer, that you say you can not speak favorably of 

 cloth as a substitute for glass in hot-beds. You don't say 

 why it is not successful. I used both the cloth and glass 

 last season, and found in many respects the cloth was far 

 superior to glass; so much so, that I shall this season 

 wholly discard glass, and use the cloth instead. Sylvester 

 Lord. — Medusa, K. Y. 



Necessary absence about the time our hot-beds 



should have been in perfection, prevented our 



testing the matter personally as we intended to do, 



and consequently we had to rely on the statement 



of those to whose care tiiey were committed. We 



are gratified at the statement of ilr. L. 



Inquiries anb ^nstoers. 



(John B. Jones, Patterson.) Carrots. — We 

 know of no better manure for carrots than well 

 rotted barnyard manure. 300 lbs. per acre of su- 

 perphosphate of lime may be added with profit. 

 Four pounds of seed per acre is sufficient. It 

 should be sown in rows about one foot apart, as it 

 Ls tlieii much easier to keep the land clean. The 

 superphospliate of lime should be placed as near 

 the seed as possible. 



(W. V. Morse, Hayfield, Craw. Co., Pa.) We 

 believe there is no cure for horses that have the 

 heaves badly ; but much may be done to relieve 

 them by judicious management and feeding. The 



full stomach, nor allowed to drink large quanti- 

 ties of water at once. Dusty clover or hay is very 

 injurious. Good clean timothy, cut fine and moist- 

 ened with water, and if convenient, mixed with 

 shorts or bran, is the best food. Equal parts by 

 weight, of sulphur, saltpetre, antimony, and liq- 

 uorice powder, mixed together, is a good cordial 

 medicine for such horses in the spring. A table 

 spoonful sliould be given in moistened shorts 

 twice a week. 



Ammonia.— Can you inform me how to manufacture am- 

 monia? I have read in some book, that large quantities 

 have been manufactured in Lngland by the use of common 

 salt ; but that the duty on this article is so high there, that 

 the manufacture has been abandoned. T. 11.— Z. Islaml. 

 We believe there is now no duty on salt in 

 England, and muriate of anwioiiia is extensively 

 made ; but the impure article used for agricultural 

 purposes sells for $100 per ton, and tliough it 

 greatly increases the produce of wheat, yet at the 

 present price of wheat it does not pay to apply it. 

 The cheapest method of obtaining ammonia, is by 

 growing green crops extensively and consuming 

 them with cattle or sheep, giving them oil-cake or 

 other rich nitrogenous food. 



Coal Tar. —Will coal tar at $2..50 per barrel preserro 

 shingles enough to pay the c<ist of painting them with it? 

 Will the building be more likely to take fire with it on the 

 roof-' How woul<l you apply it? I am altogether unac- 

 quainted with it, but have heard it would be beneficial if 

 applied. A. Kent. 



We know of no substance so cheap and so i)en- 



eficial to preserve wood of all kinds, as coal tar. 



Have never seen shingles painted with it, but 



think it would render them more durable. They 



are themselves highly inflammable, and a coat of 



coal tar would rather diminish than increase their 



liability to take fire. It could be applied with a 



common white-wash brush. Gates and board 



fences, barns, out-houses, <tc., would be greatly 



benefitted by an application. 



Onions. — We have received many valuable 

 communications in answer to the inquiry of S. A. 

 D. T. K. in the February numlier, from whicli 

 we give extracts tliat will be found interesting. 



"The ground best adapted for the growth of 

 onions is what is generally termed a good wlieat 

 soil. Tlie year previous to sowing onions, I plow 

 the land deep ; manure well with horse dung, and 

 plant to potatoes or corn. After the crop is off in 

 the fall, yard sheep on the land, removing them 

 before feeding hay in the spring. 



I stir tlie sur 

 _ face of the ground only with "a cultivator, and 

 horse affected should never be worked hard on a ' sow the seed as early as the soil will admit. 



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