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fFork in the Garden — Correction — Hoven Cattle. Vol. II. 



crops, upon a summer fallow, are the only 

 substitute for manure under tillage; because 

 the effects are tlie same, with tliis exception, 

 that the meliorating effects arising from the 

 fermentation of strong manures, are both 

 greater for the time, and more permanent and 

 lasting. The manure, also, will continue to 

 assist the plough in meliorating the soil for 

 after crops, by causing a new fermentation 

 upon every new exposure of surface to the air, 

 until the strength of the manure is wholly 

 exhausted. Hence again, the value of your 

 potato fallow to increase your number of 

 stock, and quantity of manure. 



Work in the Garden. 



JULY. 



You may continue to plant the white pota- 

 to until the 20th, on rich ground. Continue 

 to sow broccoli. Continue your transplant- 

 ing, particularly your celery, and in the fol- 

 lowing manner. Dig your trenches one foot 

 wide, and one foot deep, or more, if on a warm 

 soil, and of any length you may choose; lay 

 the earth upon both sides of the trench ; then 

 dig up the bottom of the trench 5 or 6 inches 

 deep with a dung-fork, and manure at the 

 same time, with rich hog, or horse-dung, or 

 compost. Set your plants in the trenches (in 

 the centre) about 5 or 6 inches asunder ; earth 

 up the plants as they continue to grow, from 

 both sides of the tops of the trenches, until 

 they are evc?n with the surface of the earth, 

 then continue to earth up your plants as they 

 continue to grow, say 10, 15, or 20 inches 

 above the surface, until they have acquired 

 their heighc ; be careful not to bury the plants 

 at any time. 



Pull rareripes, garlics, and even late onions, 

 as they come forward and ripen ; house them 

 in dry weather, and bunch such as you choose 

 to keep for use. 



Continue to watch your vines, and destroy 

 worms, bugs, &c. Continue to nurse your 

 plants with the hoe in the morning; this 

 must not be omitted, until the frosts and 

 snows come. Your garden should be as free 

 from weeds as your drawing-room. Conti- 

 nue to sow ruta baga, turneps, &c. Continue 

 to clip your strawberries. 



AUGUST. 



Continue to transplant late cabbages, broc- 

 coli, ruta baga, celery, &c. Contin'ue to ga- 

 ther seeds as they ripen, and dry them care- 

 fully ; see to such seed-peas as were not ga- 

 thered last month, and plant a new crop for 

 autumn. Continue to pull late onions. Con- 

 tmue your hoeing in the morning when the 

 dew is on. Let me repeat it, this is the best 

 way of watering and manuring, unless it be- 

 comes very dry, a little water may then be- 

 come necessary early in the morning, or at 



evening, upon a dry soil. Continue to earth 

 up your celery, and nurse such potatoes as 

 are not fit to dig. Dig such as are ripe, or 

 have dead vines. Begin to sow turneps for 

 winter's use, and transplant your ruta baga 

 on to your early pea and potato ground, in 

 rows 4 feet asunder, as before directed. In 

 digging your ground, leave an open trench 

 at each 4 feet distance ; manure in these 

 trenches plentifully, with rich manure; co- 

 ver it with eartli, and set your roots over the 

 manure when the earth is fresh dug; keep 

 your plants clean with the hoe. 



for the Farmers' C^abinet. 



Correction. 



Dear Sir : — The writer of the article on 

 Marl, at page 335 of your last number, has 

 ascribed the credit of making the first analy- 

 sis of the green sand marl to " the late Dr. 

 H. Seybert." This is an error, which I 

 wish to correct, by informing you that the 

 merit, so far as I know, of making the first 

 accurate analysis of this important mineral, 

 and showing it to contain a large proportion 

 of potash, belongs to Mr. Henry Seybert, a 

 gentleman now residing in our city. The 

 analysis furnished at the page referred to, is 

 precisely the same as that communicated by 

 Mr. Seybert, in May, 1822, to the Philadel- 

 phia Society for Promoting Agriculture, and 

 published, in detail, in the fifth volume of 

 their Transactions, (pages 18, &c.) E. 



[Mr. Henry Seybert, the gentleman al- 

 luded to, is the son of the late Dr. Adam Sey- 

 bert, author of the Statistical Annals, &c., of 

 the United States.] 



For the Farmers' Cabinet.^ 



Hovem Cattle. 



Don't kill if you can't cure. 



A very simple remedy for relieving cattle 

 that have eaten too much succulent clover or 

 grass, consists in making a band of straw, and 

 putting it in the animal's mouth, and passing 

 the ends up over the head, and making it fast 

 behind the horns. The animal will immedi- 

 ately begin to chew the band in order to re- 

 move it, and, this process going on, will soon 

 bring up the cud from the first stomach, and 

 will give relief, provided the animal is kept 

 in motion, and the disease has not advanced 

 too far to be curable by simple means. This 

 plan has often been resorted to with success, 

 though it is believed it is not generally 

 known. _A. B. 



The ancients, by labor, prevented luxury 

 in their young people, till wisdom and phi- 

 losophy taught them to despise it. 



Truth never lost ground by inquiry, be- 

 cause she is, most of all, reasonable. 



Sense shines with the greatest beauty 

 when it i§ set in humility. 



