No. 1. 



Editorial Notices. 



39 



In an Address lately delivered before the Agricultu- 

 ral Society of Fort Mitchell, Alabama, General Ham- 

 ilton says he planted this year twelve hundred acres 

 of cotton, and that he manured six hundred of it. 

 The remainder was planted in a rich virgin soil, which 

 needed no manuring. He also says Madder is begin 

 ning to attract the attention of the most intelligent of 

 our agriculturists, as a staple adapted to our soil and 

 climate, and susceptible of a moneyed return vastly 

 transcending the culture of cotton. His Address ap- 

 pears in the Southern Agriculturist of the present 

 month. Valuable information in relation to Madder, 

 will be found in our last volume, pages 54 and ]19. 



The last number of the Cultivator says that M. Van 

 Buren, the ex-president, raises on his farm, near Kin- 

 derhook, what is called the Carter potatoe, which was 

 produced a few years ago by the Shakers, from a ball. 

 He considers them a very valuable potatoe, yielding 

 well, and in quality equal to any other. 



Dr. Beekman, president of the New York Agricul- 

 tural Society, has tried several experiments to ascer- 

 tain "whether lime would kill sorrel. After a lapse 

 of tvi'O years, no effect whatever has been discoverable, 

 either for, or against the sorrel, or any othi'r plant." 



A PRIVATE letter dated Salem, Iowa, the 30th of 

 Sixth month, gives an unfavourable account of the 

 wheat crop of that district. '• The long continued 

 rains," says the writer, '-have not only raised the 

 streams almost beyond bounds, but have also drowned 

 the wheat on the flat lands; and on the high lands the 

 wheat is not flattering. Of oats, there is any quanti- 

 ty. The corn is very small. Some farmers have 

 ploughed it up where it had been replanted two or 

 three times, and been as often drowned out by the 

 great rains." From various accounts it appears that 

 the damages and sufferings on the Mississippi and its 

 branches, from the unprecedented rise of the waters, 

 have been indeed appalling. It is of course, impracti- 

 cable to estimate with even a show of accuracy, what 

 these damages may amount to in a pecuniary point of 

 view. Calculations however, have been made, which 

 set them down at ten or twelve millions of dollars. 

 Whole estates have been inundated— the buildings on 

 them, swept down the streams— and the occupants 

 hurried to their last long homes. 



The Ledger says some French capitalists have made 

 arrangements to enter spiritedly upon the cnllivation 

 of the vine in Louisiana; after carefully exploring 

 many parts of that State and Mississippi, thoy have 

 determined to locate themselves on Beaver creek. 



ticularly where it was put into the corn hills at the 

 time of planting. That which I put on the wheat last 

 fall also, has nearly or quite doubled the crop." 



As we were entirely unable to satisfy the demand 

 for Poudrette last spring, and as the fall sowing of 

 wheat is close at hand, when the demand will again 

 be brisk, we remind those who wish the article, to at- 

 tend to it early. The accounts in relation to its use, 

 so far as they have reached us, have very generally 

 been favourable. In a note from D. S., at Burlington, 

 N. J., who the other day, ordered four barrels for his 

 turnips, and who had previously had twenty five bar- 

 rels last fall and spring, it is remarked, " the last I had 

 shows to the admiration of all who see its effects, par- 



This, so far as we have learned, is very decidedly, a 

 fruit year. Our markets are filled to overflowing, 

 with every variety in its season, of the finest quality. 

 We trust our country friends will attend in earnest, 

 to securing a full supply of good vinegar. One would 

 conclude that with the abundance of apples which oc- 

 casionally bear down our orchards, there should never 

 be a scarcity of this article. There need be no diffi- 

 culty in its manufacture; it is one of the simplest pro- 

 cesses. Indeed, nature and time will effectually do 

 the work, if the cider be not improperly weakened. It 

 was the plan of the Editor for many years, while on 

 his farm, constantly to keep in an outhouse, tliree 

 vinegar casks— a hogshead, a barrel, and'a five gallon 

 keg: and he has no recollection of ever being without 

 No. ], on his table in the country. The keg was 

 drawn out of for family use, and there was a care to 

 keep them all, one-half or two thirds full. The bungs 

 should be but loosely put in their place, so as not to 

 exclude the air, or a piece of gauze may be secured 

 over the bung hole, to admit the air and exclude in- 

 sects, &c. It is best to keep the casks only partly 

 filled, as there is then a greater surface exposed to the 

 atmosphere. Frequent shaking, or drawing off from 

 cask to cask, exposes the liquor to the action of the 

 air, and hastens the necessary fermentation. With 

 due care, the farmer who has apples, need never be 

 without good vinegar on his table ; nor is it at all ne- 

 cessary that our citizens should have so much difficulty 

 in obtaining it. It is wholesome and agreeable with 

 many kinds of food, and eight or ten, or twelve cents 

 a gallon, by the large quantity, will well repay the 

 farmer for the manufacture. Who would relish corned 

 beef and cabbage with second-rate vinegar? 



In a letter recently come to hand from Goshen, Ohio, 

 dated the 4th of last month, it is said the wheat, oats, 

 potatoes and grass of that vicinity, promise well; but 

 the corn wasgreatlyinjured by " the wjre worm, which," 

 says the writer, " has been making sad work for seve- 

 ral years, and appears to be increasingly mischievous. 

 It is a yellow, hard worm, about an inch long and size 

 of a knitting needle: it works itself into the heart of i* 

 the corn before it is up, and afterward collects around 

 the roots, and seems to take away the juices, so that 

 the corn makes but little progress in growing. Can 

 any of the correspondents of the Cabinet, hit upon a 

 remedy ? Unless means are found to stop the work of 

 this insect, some of our farmers talk of abandoning 

 the crop of corn altogether. I am now trying on my,)i|Ak 

 farm as an experiment, a strong solution of arsenic, ^P 

 indigo and copperas separately, having steeped the 

 corn fifteen hours." We shall be glad to be advised in 

 relation to the habits of this worm, and of any means 

 for a remedy against its very serious mischief. Our 

 correspondent will please report the success of his ex- 

 periments. 



We hare seen it stated that arrangements are in 

 progress to extend the Electric Telegraph to this city, 

 New York and Boston. 



