No. 



In Farming, Manure is the principal thing. 



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finding' it very difficult to get his corn to 

 stand on a grass sward, on account of worms 

 or insects, tried the experiment of sowing 

 oats on a sward to clear the land of insects, 

 and the following year he planted corn on 

 the oats stubble, and he remarked to me 

 afterwards, that his corn did stand — it stood 

 too well — it was stationary — for it did not 

 grow at all. And I have often heard it 

 spoken of by other persons, as the poorest 

 corn they had ever seen — and produced on 

 harvesting, if my memory serves me, only 

 five two-horse loads, of forty bushels of nub- 

 bins, nearly all soft, olT of eighteen acres. 

 The oats being very light too. 



In the spring of 1835, I set out a young 

 orchard of apple and peach trees, and think- 

 ing it would be advantageous to the trees 

 not to disturb them the first year, while they 

 were putting forth new roots, I sowed oats 

 among them — the consequence was the loss 

 of several trees, and a loss to the remainder 

 of nearly a year's growth. 



I have had five fair crops of the peaches 

 and two small ones, or partial failures, fi"om 

 my trees. And each succeeding year they 

 rot more than the former ; on which account 

 for the last two years, and particularly the 

 last one, many of the trees have become al- 

 together wortliless, w'hich leads me to the 

 conclusion, that the soil needs some addition 

 to or subtraction from it, to enable the trees 

 to perfect their fruit. The peaches have 

 grown fair and to a good size, until about 

 the time they swell, or in other words, until 

 saccharine fermentation should commence, 

 and expand them. It cannot be on account 

 of acids in the soil, because I covered the 

 land two years ago with lime in the state of 

 a carbonate- — which is known to be a cor- 

 rector of acids — to the amount of three hun- 

 dred bushels per acre. The question arises 

 with mQ, whether tliere could be a crop 

 grown among them that would enable the 

 trees again to perfect their fruit, and whe- 

 ther white clover is that crop, as it is almost 

 impossible to eradicate it from the land. I 

 have almost ventured the belief, that crea- 

 tive power has been at work, or that the 

 earth has turned to seeds, as it is utterly 

 impossible for seeds to vegetate and grow 

 nearer together than the white clover has 

 done among my trees year after year. The 

 ground has been well stirred several times 

 every year, since my trees were trans- 

 planted. 



The above hints I Imve thrown together. 

 If tiiey may be thought af any worth to the 

 cause of agriculture, they are at the disposal 

 of the editor. 



D. Petit. 



Mannjngton, Salem co., N. J. 



In Fai'ming, Mannre is the principal 

 thing. 



To the Editor of (he Marlboro Gazelle : 



There are so many good hints in the en- 

 closed extract from tlie last number of the 

 New England Farmer, and there are so 

 many of my acquaintances vvlio ought to 

 be ready to take them, that I cannot for- 

 bear asking you to give them a place in the 

 Gazette. 



The chief, the grand, I was going to say, 

 almost the sole object, with every farmer, 

 should be the accumulation of manure, from 

 one year's end to another, day in and day 

 out, and from every possible resource. Not 

 a single pound of feathers, or of hair — of 

 horn, or of hoof — not a single pint of ashes, 

 or of soap suds, or of urine — not a weed if 

 it were possible to prevent it, should be lost; 

 all — all should be saved and converted into 

 manure. Of one thing every farmer is cer- 

 tain — that cultivation exhausts his land — 

 something, of course, must be done to restore 

 that of which it is exhausted. How long v.ill 

 a borse work if he gets no feedl How long 

 w^ill the best cow give milk if she gets no- 

 thing to eat] Neither can a farm be worked 

 and milked without being fed. 



Instead of looking only to the stable, or 

 the cow-pen, or barn-yard for manure, and 

 managing them carelessly and unskilfullj', 

 the thinkmg farmer will reflect, that there 

 is nothing wliicli will rot, but that it may 

 be converted into good fattening food for 

 his farm. If a horse dies on the farm, let 

 him be covered with cart loads of earth, and 

 the very gasses that escape in the course of 

 putrefaction, will impregnate and make good 

 manure of the whole mass. Let nothing 

 be lost— not even the offal of poultry or the 

 pigeon-bouse. I- S. S. 



Gleanings on the farm. — The first lesson 

 in true economy is, to take care of small 

 matters. When one has made a fixed prin- 

 ciple of action, he will be very sure not to 

 suffer more important matters to be neglect- 

 ed. There are many things scattered over 

 the farm that are worth saving, and may be 

 turned to profitab'le use, if taken care of 

 now, but winch will lose their value if neg- 

 lected much longer. Of this character, are 

 substances for manure and litter — such as 

 vines, potatoe-tops, leaves, bog herbage, &c. 

 The collection of leaves for manure is parti- 

 cularly deserving attention. ^' For many 

 years (says one who has practised this,) I 

 have been in the habit of collecting in the 

 fall, leaves in my wood lot, and to iir-e them 

 as litter for my cattle through the winter 

 When the floor is cleared in the morning, 



