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the English have applied this manure most 

 in the large way. They derive from Russia 

 and India considerable quantities of bones, 

 besides a large part of those which result 

 from their own large consumption of meat. 

 A bushel of coarsely powdered bones costs 

 the cultivators about one dollar and thirty 

 cents; they use from fifteen to forty-five 

 bushels to the acre ; this manuring prolongs 

 its efl^ect during ten to twenty-five years, 

 and enormously increases all the crops, es- 

 pecially those of grass and of turnips. It has 

 been observed that a mixture of wood ashes 

 of equal bulk, or two or three per cent, of 

 saltpetre, renders this manure still more effi 

 cacious. 



Bones in powder can be placed in the 

 trenches with potatoes, or sown upon seed 

 before passing the harrow or roller which 

 covers it with earth. 



It is sometimes preferred to mix them 

 with the earth previously ploughed and har- 

 rowed, by passing the harrow and roller over 

 them a second time. 



If the bones were in fine powder, they 

 could with advantage be placed upon the 

 transplanted plants, and be covered up in 

 closing the hole of the planter. — Farmer^s 

 Mine. 



Farmers' Club, New York. 



Osier Willow. — C. N. Bement presents 

 two stalks of Osier Willow, of one year's 

 growth. I have four rows 57 feet long, the 

 rows three feet apart — I have just sold the 

 spring cuttings for ^, to a German, for bas- 

 ket making. 



Last spring I set out with cuttings one 

 acre and a quarter, which when four years 

 old, if they grow as vigorous and thrifty as 

 then, four rows will produce at the rate of 

 $100 per acre. 



This willow flourishes best in a wet soil, 

 too wet for grain or grasses. 



I am informed that laige quantities of this 

 willow are imported from France, &c. 



If it will command such a price, what 

 crop would be more profitable? 



D. Jay Browne — On Grand Island, in Ni- 

 agra river, there is an extensive marsh, com- 

 prising about two hundred acres, covered 

 with fir, resembling the Osier Willow. 

 These willows have been used for wicker- 

 work, and were found to be good. 



Mr. Meigs — Will members please to state 

 where, in this vicinity, they can be obtained? 



Isaac Underhill of N. J. — James G. King, 

 of Hoboken, has them on his farm. 



Judge Van Wyck — The Osier Willow, 

 like the whole family of the willows, is at- 



tached to low wet grounds, and the value of 

 it seems not to be generally known. 



Mr. Meigs — I found a very few Osier 

 Willow cradles in Philadelphia more than 

 forty years ago, and admiring them for their 

 neatness, for their safety to the infant, which 

 cannot injure itself by contact with its yield- 

 ing nature — I thought it so superior to all 

 the pine, cherry, mahogany, and oak cradles 

 I had seen — I bought one, which has now 

 cradled two generations for me, and is fit to 

 cradle ten more. And if handsome baskets 

 and boxes are made of it to bring any suit- 

 able produce to market, then the farmer will 

 find a profit in the basket or box, as mer- 

 chants formerly did by making regular trunks 

 to send their goods in to this country, and 

 as the Frenchmen do by sending us their 

 choicest prunes in boxes, ornamented and 

 useful for other purposes. — Farmer and Me- 

 chanic. 



The Daisy. 



Bright flower, whose home is everywhere ! 

 A pilgrim bold in Nature's care, 

 And oft the long year through, the heir 

 Of joy or sorrow. 



Methinks that there abides in thee 

 Some concord with humanity. 

 Given to no other flower I see 

 The forest through ! 



And wherefore? Man is soon deprcst; 

 A thoughtless thing! who, once unblest, 

 Does little on his memory rest, 

 Or on his reason. 



But thou would'st teach him how to find 

 A shelter under every wind; 

 A hope for times that are unkind, 

 And every season. 



WorJsteorth. 



Be Economical. — No matter if your pa- 

 rents are worth millions, it is not the less 

 proper that you should understand the value 

 of money, and the honest, honourable means 

 of acquiring it. What multitudes of young 

 men, particularly in our cities, make ship- 

 wreck of reputation and health, and eventu- 

 ally of property, by neglect of this maxim. 

 They are aware that their parents obtained 

 their wealth by habits of industry, but they 

 are ashamed of the name. They forget that 

 wealth in this country passes rapidly from 

 one to another, and that he who is rich to- 

 day, may be poor to-morrow; or that he who 

 relies on wealth amassed by i)is father, may 

 end his days in a pauper-house. It is for 

 the young man to say, whether by industry 

 and economy he will secure competence and 

 respectability; or by idleness, become worth- 

 less. — Exchange Paper. 



