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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 



But they too have to meet the low-minded cultural cause. It is an outrageous and abom- 



and mean opposition, and to suffer from the most 

 aggravated and least defensible attacks, the stabs 

 of pretended friends ; they, and the agricultural 

 press besides, have been for years urging the ex- 

 tensive trial of specific manures, whether to sup- 

 plant, assist, extend or enhance the benefits and 

 use of bard-yard manures. 



To secure a judicious application of the mate- 

 rial used, repeated directions have been given of 

 the amount to be used, and the best way of ap- 

 plying it, in some cases, even, with details of 

 carefully tried experiments, as farther guides ; 

 and as a result of this action, a larger quantity 

 of specific manures has been sold this year than 

 ever ; how disastrous, then, must be the effect 

 upon novices, who have been excited to try such 

 aids to culture, by this continuous advice, if they 

 buy in good faith,and relying upon the assurance 

 of the seller, a spurious article, perhaps at a high 

 price, which will prove either useless or perhaps 

 positively injurious to their crops. 



If, for instance, any one purchases guano, 



inable piece of quackery and imposture, nor can 

 too much indignation be felt against its perpetra- 

 tors ; no confidence will hereafter be felt by the 

 victims of this fraud in any so called agricultu- 

 ral improvements. But we cannot too strongly 

 urge upon those who have suffered this year, not 

 to be discouraged in the future, but with re- 

 newed zeal make other efforts, only hereafter be- 

 ing careful to purchase their material from men 

 of solid and well-established reputations, and 

 never to purchase any recommended preparations 

 because they are cheap, nor unless heartily en- 

 dorsed by men who can be depended upon. 



It is to be desired that the exposure of this 

 humbuggery as published in the Country Gentle- 

 man and American Agriculturist should have the 

 largest publicity, that the public may become 

 so thoroughly awakened to a sense of the benefit 

 good special manures may do, and of the worth- 

 lessness of the bad, that there may be a larger 

 use of the former every year. And we cannot 

 help believing that those interested in agriculture 



trusting to the statement of the vender that it is "^ '^"^ Commonwealth have so large a sliare of 



good sense as to be able to discriminate between the 

 good and the bad, and while they award tlie largest 

 share of praise and encouragement to all who are 

 honestly laboring to forward the cause amongst 

 us, no less thoroughly to condemn all quacks, 

 and venders of patent agricultural medicines, 

 whether for men, animals or the crops. 



a genuine and valuable article, paying $40 or 

 $50 a ton for it, which is in reality a miserable 

 combination of lime, plaster, salt, coal ashes, 

 and a pinch of guano to give it smell and color, 

 (see analysis of Chilian guano below, taken from 

 the London Agriculturist of jNIay 24,) which will 

 give no remunerative return for its application, 

 he does not condemn the article he used, so much 

 as the spirit of improvement which prompted 

 him to make the trial, and the entire discredit of 

 the operation falls, not as it should on the head 

 of the vender, but upon the advocates of progres- 

 sive agriculture ; and the untiring efforts of the 

 friends of improvement are all laid under suspi 

 cion 



many, for it has been discovered by the editors 

 of the Country Gentleman, tliat an article denom- 

 inated Chilian guano has been largely manufac- 

 tured, and sold over the country, and some even 

 shipped to England, at the price of $40 a ton, 

 that is not worth §10 the ton. It is composed of 



Water 4.0 



Sand 2.4 



Organic matter, (Sugar-house scum) 15.." 



Phos. Lime 24.5 



Plaster 9.5 



Salt 6.2 



Chalk 37.6 



99.5 



of which there is 1.00 per cent, of ammonia — and 

 this abominable preparation is endorsed by Dr. 

 Hayes of Massachusetts, and Prof. Mapes,ofNew as in the 19th of i2th month 



For the New England Far?ner, 



EFFECTS OF THE WINTEH OIJ FRUIT 

 TREES. 



CORRECTION. 



Friend Brown : — I have no desire to appro- 

 priate too much space in the Farmer to myself, 

 But such must this year be the fate of 'but noticing several serious mistakes in my com- 



munication which appeared in the last number, 

 I venture to correct them. 



In the lUth line, for "9*" and "S'"' read —9^ 

 and —S°, or, 9"^ and 8» below zero. 



In the 21st line, read —14^. 



In the 2Gth line, read — 28'^. 



In the 30th line, read —38°. 



In the 31st line, read — 24J<^. 



In the 39th line, read —40'^. 



A great difference will be seen in tlie two read- 

 ings, — a diflerence equal to twice the nv/nbcr of 

 degrees ijidicated. In the fir.st, too, there is a 

 manifest inconsistency which no reflecting reader 

 will fail to observe, for it makes me say that in 

 the "coldest day on record in this county," the 

 mercury did not fall so lo^v by ten decrees as in 

 the previous day, nor so low by fifty-vx degrees 



York, and some others, and has been widely re- 

 commended as a valuable fertilizer. 



"\rhat a terrible stab from liehind is this, com- 



The sign mimis ( — ) is commonly used to indi- 

 cate below zero, and in my communication I 

 used it accordingly. No doubt the mistakes 

 were made by the compositor, who, perliaps, did 



ing, too, from the very men who make the largest not consider 'the vcdue of the signs, 

 protestations of zeal and enthusiasm in the agvi-^ Perhaps it may not be out of place to make a 



