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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



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] different, but not less marked 'lion these. And so 



complete have been such changes, and sucli toliilly 



II new growths of trees produced, that many persons, 



and even some men of science, have thence boliev- 



jl ed in the spontaneous production of such new 



j growth, or equivocal generation of the new trees, 



because they could jiot conceive whence their 



I seeds had been derived. Such fucts and proofs, 



I directly opposed to Mr Turner's position, are too 



, ' numerous to be cited here. The subject is howev- 



, er curious and interesting, and may be resumed 



' hereafter in a distinct and substantive article. 



In sundry of the particular positions assumed by 

 ' Mr Turner as proofs, orsiepsin his argument, we 

 * entirely concur, and suppose that no one would 

 dispute. For example — it is not our opinion, nor 

 I the opinion of any reasonable advocate for rotation, 

 that the mere growth of any crop serves to enrich 

 :i the land producing it — or that any rotation of crops, 

 if all are removed, can increase fertility. Nor 

 j: would we dispute that some tilled crops, as corn, 

 cotton and potatoes, (the very cases adduced by 

 Mr Turner,) may each be continued for many years 

 on the same ground, without very manifest deteri- 

 oration, especially if dressed by various hinds of 

 manures. But the true question is, could not, even 

 in the most successful cases, these crops have been 

 raised better, and to greater profit, if alternated 

 with others ? Hut even the admission of such ex- 

 ceptions cannot be made as to broadcast crops, 

 which are not cleaned by tillage. It is manifest 

 and notorious, that neither wheat nor oats, nor any 

 one kind of grass, can be continued to any prot'it, 

 for years in succession on the same ground. Mr 

 Turner's statement of his own herdsgrass giving 

 place after a few years to green sward, or to weeds, 

 is not only a proof of this position, but also of Na- 

 ture's urgent demand for a change of crops. — Ed. 

 Far. Reg. 



THE CUT WORM. 



We do not think this destructive insect was ever 

 known to be more destructive than the present 

 season. In many sections of the State, entire fields 

 have been utterly and totally destroyed, and in 

 most regions from which we have any account, 

 their ravages are represented as being altogether 

 unprecedented in the memory of man. As the 

 corn crop is one on which we place our principal 

 reliance for bread, this evil is one of fearful mag- 

 nitude. It is calculated to affect all classes but 

 more especially perhaps, the indigent but indus- 

 rious poor. Still, great as it is, the evil is not to 

 be regarded as wholly without remedy. There 

 are many valuable crops, which in this climate will 

 come to full maturity if sown now ; and those who 

 have suffered in the loss of their corn should lose 

 no time in getting in some crops to occupy the 

 soil and supply in its produce, the loss involved in 

 the failure of their com. Buckwheat, Peas, and 



i(( many of the earlier varieties of the bean tribe will 

 have sufficient time to grow even if planted as late 

 as the last of June or the first of July. Potatoes 

 also and Turnpis, may yet be planted, and the 

 spaces in our fields which have been vacated by 

 the destruction of the original growth, be made to 

 produce a crop equivalent, in point of actual value, 

 to the corn. Fortunately, the cereal grains prom- 

 ise at present a most luxuriant crop ; — rye, oats, 

 barley, millet, and wheat wherever it is cultivated, 

 will be abundant, and of a quality, judging from 



,( the present favorable indications, seldom if ever 

 Borpassed. — Maine Cull. 



From the Conn. Farmers' Gazelle. 



MUCK AGAIN. 



Mr Stoker — I wont say " For the Gazette," 

 because I wi.»h to have you dispose of what I write 

 as you lliink proper ; hul I want to say a few words 

 to you about vtucli — yes, muck ngaiu. My wife 

 says that it's all muck, and that I do n't want any 

 thing more if I can get a ditch to dig, or a barn- 

 yard to plow and scrape oLit ; and that my neigh- 

 bors and every body says that I never shall pay 

 my debts, but will certainly go down, or " come 

 upon the town," if I undertake so many, what she 

 calls, extra jobs, — or work that I never shall get 

 any thing for, and that is not, in her estimation, 

 necessary to be done, — such as draining and plow- 

 ing land which nobody else ever thought of plow- 

 ing, and which never was plowed since Mother 

 Eve picked all the roses and killed all the bushes 

 but the alders, sumachs, haz!e-nuts, white bushes, 

 sweet fern, elders, briars of all sorts, and nigfrer 

 heads, (cinnamon fern.) I wanted to kill what few 

 bushes the old lady left, and I could do it in no 

 other way than by plowing. They have been cut 

 once in about two or three years ever since I was 

 a little boy ; but they grow thicker and faster. 



I have made land which was estimated at five 

 dollars per acre, worth thirtytive, and some say 

 fifty. It cost me fifteen, perhaps, to subdue it, 

 more than I have as yet received from it. But I 

 am away from the subject I started upon. I was 

 about to tell you what a brushing I had when I 

 stepped on to the clean floor and carpet after I had 

 been digging muck. 



I had a piece of swamp meadow which formerly 

 produced a good burthen of grass. It grew wet 

 and miry, and my father dug a ditch through the 

 middle of it. It was drier for this, but the grass 

 would not grow after the ditch filled up; the grass 

 grew where the water run on to it, but not much 

 elsewhere. I dug a ditch round it, cutting off all 

 the springs, and that was the finishing stroke to it. 

 Nothing of much value except upon what was 

 thrown out of the ditch, and there the weeds, &c. 

 were so rank and large that 1 concluded my mea- 

 dow %vas worth more for manure than any thing 

 else. I carried off about twenty loads of the sod, 

 wliich is composed of moss, vegetable matter, such 

 as decayed grass, leaves, limbs, roots of trees, and 

 sand washed in from the hills. Some of this I put 

 upon my upland meadow last fall, and laid in a 

 heap, hoping it would rot so that I could beat it to 

 pieces. In the spring I succeeded in spreading 

 two thirds or three fourths of it ; the rest I have 

 piled up. But not(vithstanding it was not fully 

 prepared for manure, the effect is strikingly visible 

 more than one fourth of a mile. I put some of it 

 in my yard. This spring I put it on my corn 

 ground, and the corn is better where it comes in 

 contact with one of those sods which have been 

 saturated in the barn-yard, than it is where I put 

 on stable manure. I believe if this can be decom- 

 posed and neutralized, it is worth more for manure, 

 on some soils, than any thing else, because it will 

 last longer. Now what do you think about it, Mr 

 Editor.' Just lot me know, when you send me one 

 of your agricultural handmaids. 



Eggs from Ohio. — 700 bbls. of eggs were re- 

 cently shipped from Cleveland, Ohio, for Boston. 

 F.hch barrel contained 70 dozen. The "enter- 

 prise" was " got up" by a genuine Yankee of Mass. 



I CULTURE OF THE VINE. 



We notice n letter from Mr Longworth, of Cin- 

 cinnati, to the editor of the Horticultural Maga- 

 zine, published in New York, in which some useful 

 ob.seivations occur on this subject. Mr L. has 

 been long known as a distinguished amateur in 

 things of this sort, and the vine particularly has 

 received from him a large share of judicious atten- 

 tion, lie has given up nio.stly, if not altogether, 

 the attempt to cnliivate the European species, and 

 has found his labor best rewarded by procuring and 

 improving the best varieties of the native vine. 

 The result of his experience in this particular is 

 worthy of note. A light soil is especially adapted 

 to the vine. Mr Longworth says: 



"I have three varieties of native grapes which 

 I consider far superior to the Catawba for the ta- 

 ble. They have none of the hard pulp common to 

 the Catawba, Schuylkill, Muscadel, and the Isa- 

 bella. For the table, they are equal to the Meu- 

 nier, or Miller's Burgundy, and as free of pulp. 

 One of them, which I first met with a few years 

 since. I call the Ohio grape. The vine is perfectly 

 hardy, a fine bearer, has never had the mildew or 

 rot, and the branches very large, say four times 

 the size of the Burgundy. I sent a bunch of these 

 grapes to Boston last fall, but it was too long on 

 the road to be in perfection. I will give five hun- 

 dred dollars for a root of native grape that, in qual- 

 ity of the fruit and size of the bunch, shall surpass 

 it. The other two are equally good for the table, 

 perfectly hardy, great growers, but the bunches of 

 fruit not so large. 



" I was surprised, when East, to see no good na- 

 tive grapes. At my difllerent vineyards, I have 

 about sixty acres in grapes, but not all in bearing. 



"There is, perhaps, no fruit so much affected 

 by circumstances of soil, position, and culture, as 

 the grape. By taking the native vine, the proba- 

 bilities of success will be greatly increased, since 

 its quality may be better known, and the necessary 

 situation as it respects soil and exposure more sure- 

 ly ascertained." — Ball. Amtr. 



Risks of Mercantile Life. — Gen. Dearborn, in a 

 lecture delivered last winter before the farmers of 

 the Massachusetts Legislature, declared that 97 

 out of every 100 persons who obtained their liveli- 

 hood by buying and selling, failed or died insol- 

 vent. This fact he ascertained by reference to the 

 books of the custom-house, the banks, the probate 

 office, and from the recollections of the oldest mer- 

 chants. If this statement approximates to the 

 truth in relation to the risks of mercantile life, it 

 should induce fathers to instil into the minds of 

 their sons a love of agricultural pursuits. Gen. 

 Dearborn declared that " he would prefer a cottage 

 in the country with five acres of ground, to the 

 most splendid palace that could be erected in the 

 city, if he must depend upon the success of mer- 

 chandize to support it." — Ohio State Jour. 



Sound Sentiments. — That mechanic or profes- 

 sional man, who cannot sustain himself without 

 assailing those of his neighbors engaged in similar 

 business, may always be considered a mean-spirited 

 creature, unworthy the name of man. He who 

 goes about slandering a competitor, however exalt- 

 ed his merits in his own conceit, will always be 

 despised by noble minds, as a thing which makes 

 tself despicable to gratify a bad heart. — Selected. 



