No. 3. 



Editorial Notices. 



103 



We have commenced in this number, the publication 

 of an Essaj' on the Preparation and Use of Manures, 

 by Willis Gaylord, of Otisco, N. Y. We take it from 

 the Transactions of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society, of last year. The prize was awarded to it by 

 that Society, at its annual meeting in the winter.— It 

 has been our aim, by giving sliort articles, to throw as 

 much variety as possible, into our pages. We hesi- 

 tated a good while, whether to publish the Essay, on 

 account of the space it would occupy. The conclusion 

 however, we came to, was, that we could not, with 

 propriety, withhold it from the readers of the Cabinet. 

 There is a great deal of plain common-sense practical 

 matter in this Essay, that comes home to every farmer, 

 and whicli, although but little of it may be new, will 

 revive many valuable hints. These, with the familiar 

 matterof fact manner, in which we are reminded of 

 duties to be performed in relation to procuring food 

 for our land, render the article, in our estimation, one 

 of sterling value: and we earnestly recommend it to 

 every reader of the Cabinet who has land, and is sen- 

 sible that it needs manure. To farm without manure, 

 is like a man who would go into business without 

 capital and without credit. Land will yield nothing 

 to promises: but deal liberally with it, and it will 

 prove itself an honest and safe debtor. 



It is stated in one of our exchange papers, that the 

 worm may be destroyed or driven from the peach tree, 

 "by pouring water almost boiling hot, around the 

 roots in the autumn, when the eggs are deposited, and 

 also in the spring, when any that escaped the first boil- 

 ing, will be hatched." — This reminds us of information 

 on the subject, obtained from William Johns, of this 

 city, who certainly manages his fine lot on Broad and 

 Pine streets, with much judgment and success. Step- 

 ping into his garden, some two or three weeks since, 

 we were struck with the dark green appearance of the 

 foliage on his peach trees, as well as delighted with 

 the superior fruit, under which they were bending. He 

 stated that a year or two ago, several of his trees had 

 put on quite an unhealthy appearance, and he com- 

 menced putting around their roots, from time to time, 

 strong hot soapsuds. He has also, occasionally applied 

 lime and ashes to the trees. They now appear per- 

 fectly healthy. Their fruit took one of the premiums 

 at our late Horticultural exhibition. 



With his grapes too, W. J., has been remarkably suc- 

 cessful: their training shows much skill; and tlie heavy 

 clusters on numerous varieties, tell very plainly, that 

 mother earth is not regardless of good treatment. He 

 showed the most beautiful specimen of grafting the 

 vine by approach, that we have seen. A bud of a 

 choice foreign variety— we forget the particular kind- 

 was introduced to a native stock, say sixteen months 

 ago, when the vine was in full vigor, and four splen- 

 did bunches were now hanging from the slender stem. 



On walking over this small lot, of perhaps less than 

 half an acre, and observing the luxuriance of produce, 

 and abundant variety of almost every thing of the 

 vegetable kind wanted in a family, the reflection se- 

 veral times occurred — what would our agriculture be, 

 if it were gardening on a large scale? And why 

 should it not be? Why should we not aim in our 

 farming generally, at the greatest limit of the earth's 



productiveness? In what— as was lately asked by 

 Gideon B. Smith, on a certain occasion — in what 

 should farming and gardening differ, but in the exten- 

 siveness of their respective scales of operation ? 



The Baltimore County Agricultural Society will hold 

 its second Annual Cattle Show, Agricultural Exhibi- 

 tion, Ploughing match, and Sale, at Govan's Town, 

 four miles from Baltimore, on the 18th, ]9th, and 20th 

 of this month. The Society offers a liberal list of pre- 

 miums for stock, implements of husbandry, agricultu- 

 ral products, domestic manufactures, fruit, &c., &c., 

 as well as for farms, crops, and essays. For the pre- 

 miums offered for essays, agricultural implements, and 

 machinery, competition is open from abroad. All 

 other premiums are limited to the city and county. 



For the best cultivated farms, they offer silver gob- 

 lets: — for the best crops of corn and wheat, sets of 

 American Farmer, Farmer's Cabinet, and Cultivator. 

 For the best Essay on the system of farming, best 

 adapted to Baltimore county, including rotation of 

 crops, and having reference to the productiveness, as 

 well as progressive improvement of the farm, — a copy 

 of Loudon's Encyclopedia. For the best Treatise on 

 the proper and most profitable method of applying 

 lime, — set of American Farmer. For the best Essay 

 explaining the cause of the failure of the rye crop, 

 with a remedy for the same,— set of Farmer's Cabinet. 

 For the best Treatise on the proper management of an 

 apple and peach orchard, — Loudon's Encyclopedia on 

 Gardening. For the best Treatise on the most eff'ec- 

 tual mode of destroying the Carolina pink, and other 

 noxious weeds, — four years subscription to American 

 Farmer, or Farmer's Cabinet. For the best Treatise 

 on the Hessian fly, with a preventive against the rav- 

 ages of the same, to be tested by a committee,— $25 in 

 agricultural works, &c. We are av^are that these 

 items of information cannot be made available from 

 our paper, as the meeting takes place now in three or 

 four days. We give them as a little evidence of the 

 spirit and animation our Baltimore friends are bring- 

 ing into their operations. If our memory is not in 

 fault, it is less than a year since this Society was or- 

 ganized. They now come into the field full grown, 

 and well aware of their strength. An Address will 

 be delivered on the 19th, at 12 o'clock. 



The United States Gazette, of the 15th ult., says, 

 that between half past twelve and six o'clock, on the 

 afternoon of the day before, there arrived at our 

 wharves, on the Delaware, seven thousand baskets of 

 peaches; and that by nine o'clock in the evening, they 

 were all disposed of. 



S3' SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, ^ 

 The subject matter of which, may correspond with the 

 agricultural character of this paper, will be inserted 

 at the rate of one dollar for each insertion often lines 

 or less; and so in proportion for each additional line. 

 The money to be paid in advance. 



We did not receive the Address of Peter A. Browne, 

 at the Cattle Show on the 5th ult., until the abstract 

 of it, which we give in this number, was in type, and 

 it was too late to give it in full. It shall appear in 

 our next number. 



