DR. GRAVES ON THE TRKATMENT OF I'.PISTAXIS. 



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its being kiln-dried previously to being 

 sown. A friend of ours, an extensive 

 farmer in this district, in the month of 

 October last, thrashed out a quantity of 

 wheat from the stook the day after it was 

 cut, but finding it too damp to be used as 

 seed, was induced to dry it in the kiln. 

 A field of considerable extent was sown 

 with the grain so prepared, with the ex- 

 ception of two ridges on each side, which 

 were sown a few days afterwards with 

 wheat, after it had remained a full week 

 in the stook and been properly wit7i. 

 The idea of sowing wheat after it had 

 been kiln-dried was treated as absurd and 

 ridiculous by several of his neighbors, 

 and an eminent and extensive agricultu- 

 rist asked him if he was so plenty of 

 wheat that he meant to sow his ground a 

 second time. Notwithstanding this unfa- 

 vorable opinion, the farmer persevered, 

 and sowed several bushels more, until he 

 had twenty acres completed. Experi- 

 ence is the surest test of any improve- 

 ment, and in this instance our friend has 

 had his hopes more than realized. It is 

 a remarkable fact, that the wheat thus 

 prepared, by being dried on the kiln, has 

 not only brairded more thickly, but is 

 much stronger and healthier in appear- 

 ance than that which sprung from the 

 wheat dried by the operation of the ele- 

 ments. — Kelso Chronicle. 



THE CRANBERRV. 



Until lately we believe nobody has 

 thought of cultivating the Cranberry, any 

 more than the Whortleberry or the Per- 

 simmon. It has been looked on as the 

 natural product of swamps which were 

 good for nothing else, and though the 

 fruit was a favorite in the markets, the 

 gatherers trusted to nature to keep the 

 supply equal to the demand. A gentle- 

 man in IBarnstable, Massachusetts, has, 

 however, discovered that it is as suscepti- 

 ble of cultivation and improvement as 

 the Strawberry. On about an acre of 

 ground he has raised for the last ten 

 years an average of about seventy bush- 

 els a season, sometimes a hundred. The 

 following account of his Cranberry yard 

 is from the Barnstable Journal. — N. Y. 

 Evening Post. 



Sandy bog-land is the best adapted to 



the growth of the Cranberry plant, and 

 it should be kept well drained. Captain 

 Hall has a tract of about four acres enclos- 

 ed, which he calls his Cranberry yard, of 

 a damp, sandy soil, surface nearly level, 

 and where not planted with Cranberries, 

 covered with rushes and swamp brush. 

 The Cranberry vines were set around on 

 the borders of the " yard," some on land 

 elevated two or three feet above the gene- 

 ral surface. The vines grow most vi- 

 gorously, and the berries are of a better 

 quality and more abundant where the soil 

 is most sandy and damp. In very dry 

 seasons, the Cranberries are liable to be 

 eaten and destroyed by worms ; but they 

 are in general, under skilful management, 

 as certain a crop as any kind of grain or 

 garden vegetable. 



The manner of transplanting is simple. 

 Holes are dug four feet apart ; only they 

 are made deeper than for corn ; into each 

 of these sods of vines are placed. The 

 Cranberry has creeping roots, spreads 

 very rapidly, and in three years from the 

 time of planting will entirely cover the 

 ground. If the land is overgrown with 

 bushes they must first be removed ; but 

 it is not necessary to destroy rushes, for 

 the Cranberry vine will do it in a few 

 years. When the land is very low, or 

 covered with a thick growth of weeds 

 and rushes, Capt. Hall practises spreading 

 over it a quantity of beach sand before 

 planting. — The fall is the best season for 

 transplanting. No other cultivation is 

 performed or required, than to keep the 

 land drained, and cattle from injuring the 

 vines. The Cranberi'ies sell from ^1 to 

 ^1,50 per bushel, and the cost of picking 

 is 20 cents per bushel. 



DR. GRAVES ON THE TREATMENT OF 

 EPISTAXIS. 



Permit me now, gentlemen, to direct 

 your attention to the treatment of one 

 form of the bleeding at the nose. It not 

 unfrequently happens that epistaxis con- 

 stitutes the only ailment to which young 

 persons are liable. I was consulted by 

 two gentlemen within the last year, the 

 one eighteen, the other twenty-eight 

 years of age; they were both healthy in 

 every other respect, and were both liable 

 to bleeding from the nose : sometimes 



