No. 1. 



Manure. — Premmms of Pa. Horticultural Society. 



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with any other remarks deemed to be of 

 utility. 



Tlie Judires are authorized to withhold 

 premiums where none is entitled to distinc- 

 tion ; and where but one of a class is exhib- 

 ited they will award such premium as they 

 think it merits. Those who intend to com- 

 pete, must inform the Committee of Ar- 

 ranjiement before 11 o'clock on the day of 

 exhibition. 



All stock, &c., exhibited, must remain on 

 the ground during the Exhibition; and all 

 stock intended for sale will be required to 

 be registered in a book provided by the Com- 

 mittee of arrangement, at the following 

 rates: For each horse, $2; for neat cattle, 

 $1 each ; for hogs and sheep, 50 cents each. 

 Articles that are designed to compete for 

 premiums, will be produced when practica- 

 ble, at the annual exhibitions of the Society. 

 Perishable articles may be offered at any of 

 the meetings of the Society, or at those of 

 the Directors, which take place on the after- 

 noon of the second Saturday of every month 

 in the City Hall; or they may be subjected 

 to the inspection at any time, of either of 

 the following committee appointed for that 

 purpose, viz; Dr. J. W. Thomson, 



Merritt Canby, 

 Samuel Hilles, 

 Philip Reybold, 

 Anthony M. Higgins, 

 ZiBA Ferris, 

 W. J. Hurlock. 



The Society will dine together at three 

 o'clock. All members not in arrears to the 

 Society, will receive their tickets to the 

 d'uner free of charge. The Annual Ad- 

 dress will be delivered by a distinguished 

 agriculturist, at John Hall's Hotel, immedi- 

 ately after dinner. 



Manure. 



It is well known that in a close stable, 

 where there are a good many horses, there 

 is a very pungent smell, affecting the eyes 

 and nose, more particularly when the stable 

 is being cleaned out. This smell is occa- 

 sioned by the flying off of ammonia, which 

 is the es-ence of manure, and which vola- 

 tilizes or flies off at a very low temperature 

 — even the warmth of the manure in a sta- 

 ble will send it off, and it goes off in great 

 quantities by the common heat of the ma- 

 nure in a farm yard, whether thrown up in 

 heaps or not. There is however a very 

 cheap and simple remedy for this. Before 

 you begin to clear out your stable, dissolve 

 some common salt in water; if a four horse 

 stable, say 4 lbs. of salt dissolved in two 

 buckets of water and poured through the 



nose of a watering pan over the floor of the 

 stable an hour or so before you begin to 

 move the manure, and the volatile salts of 

 ammonia will become fixed salts from their 

 having united with the muriatic acid of the 

 common salt, and the soda thus liberated 

 from the salt, will quickly absorb carbonic 

 acid, forming carbonate of soda; thus you 

 will retain with your manure, the ammonia 

 that would otherwise fly away, and you have 

 also a new and most important agent thus 

 introduced, viz : the carbonate of soda. As 

 this is a most powerful solvent of all vege- 

 table fibre, and seeing that all manures have 

 to be rendered soluble before they can act 

 upon vegetation, it is apparent that the car- 

 bonate of soda thus introduced must be a 

 most powerful agent. — Gardener's Chroni- 

 cle. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Premiums of Pennsylvania Horticultu- 

 ral Society. 



The Seventeenth Autumnal Exhibition of this So- 

 ciety, will be held as usual, at the Museum building in 

 Ninth street, on the 2-lth, 25th andaCth of next month. 

 The following premiums are offered. 



FOR NATIVE GRAPES, VIz: 



For the best Isabella, six bunches, $3 00 



do do next best do. do 2 00 



do do best Bland or Powell, do 3 00 



do do next best do. do 2 00 



do do best Catawba, do 3 GO 



do do next best do. do 2 00 



do do best Elsinborough, do 300 



do do next best do. do 2 00 



do do best of another variety, do 3 00 



do do next best do. do 2 00 



FOREIGN GRAPES, RAISED IN THE OPEN AIR. 



For the best Black or Red Hamburg, four bunches, $5 00 



do do Hansteretto, four bunches, 5 00 



do do Black Coiistantia, do 5 00 



do do Chasselas, do 5 00 



do do White Gascoigne, do 5 00 



do do Frontignac, do 5 00 



do do St. Peter's, do 5 00 



do do of another variety, do 5 00 



FOREIGN GRAPES, RAISED CNDER OLASsf. 



For the best without artificial heat, four bunches, $5 00 



do do next best do do do 3 00 



do do best with artificial heat, do 5 00 



do do next best do do do 3 00 



do do best Peaches, one bushel, 10 00 



do do next best do do 5 00 



do do best do one peck, 3 00 



do do nest best do do 2 00 



do (to best do two dozen, 2 00 



do do best Seckel Pears, one peck, 3 00 



do do next best do do 2 00 



do do best Reurre or Butter do 3 00 



do do next best do 2 00 



do do brst Bartlett Pears, half a peck, 3 00 

 do do best Tears, of another variety, one peck, 3 00 



d'l do next best Pears do do 2 00 

 do do best and most numerous named varieties 



of Pears, 5 00 



For the next best and most numerous named va- 

 rieties of Pears, 3 00 



For the best Apples, one bushel, 3 00 



do do next best Apples do 2 00 



do do best Apples, one peck, 2 00 

 do do best and most numerous named varieties 



of Apples, 5 00 



For the next best and most numerous named va- 

 rieties of Apples, 3 00 



For the best (Quinces, half a peck, 3 00 



