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•aiiean, give equally g.iod returns. Sliipments 

 learly all those places have been ujiifornily dis- 

 XJU3. Unless shipped with ice, every body who 

 IW3 any thing about the matter, knows that they 

 not bo sent a 60 days' voyage with any chance 

 luccess." 



rhis does not conflict with the statement or our 

 irmant, or with any thing- in our article. We 

 not pretend to say that shipments to any of 

 le places were attended with success, unless the 

 essary precautions were taken to preserve the 



We did not suppose that rotten apples 



1 sell there any better tlian here; and the 



hat shipments have been made to these places, 



hen properly made, with similar success with 



made to Calcutta, still stands unconiradicted. 



ving thus disposed of this article — one which, 



ig from an anonymous writer, we should not 



deemed it necessary to answer, had it not had 



ing position in so respectable a paper as the 



England Farmer, and been endorsed by its 



r.nd having, as we believe, fully vindica- 



he character of our informant for veracity, it 



perhaps, be an act ot supererogation to say, 



we consider the Editor of the Farmer bound, 



irne-is, to give this article a place in his col- 



, — tf'orcesttT Spy. 



EFFECTS OF PLASTER. 



R. Harrison reports to the Prince George 

 ty (Va.) Agricultural Society, that he has uni- 

 y found the most decided beneficial effects 

 the use of plaster on his farm, which he finds 

 lit to reconcile with the discordant and con- 

 opinions entertained and expressed by others 

 eir respective farms, but this explanation may 

 uglit in difference of soil. In March, he se- 

 i two pieces of land contiguous, believed to 

 ss equal fertility ; the one part was dressed 



aster (sulphate of lime,) in the proportion of 

 usiiel per acre ; the other had no application 

 ; kind. The soil was a loam, adapted to the 

 ction of both wheat and corn. The quantity 

 id selected for experiment, contained in each 



84 square yards. There was soon evinced 

 d improvement in the appearance and luxuri- 

 of the clover, which continued to progress 

 it was fully grown. At this time, the clover 

 ;h piece was neatly cut, suffered to wilt by 

 ure to the sun, then put up in cocks : the suc- 

 ig day the hay was opened to dry ; the quan- 

 n each piece was separately and accurately 

 ed, and subsequently housed, with the follow- 

 •sult: that portion which had a dressing of 

 r, weighed 747 pounds : the portion without 

 r weighed only 428 pounds. 

 js it appears, that by an outlay of about 50 

 per acre, an additional increased product was 

 •d of almost two thousand pounds of clover 

 jesides an additional increased quantity of 

 ible matter, in the roots left for decay. This 

 a solitary instance of its value, (says ihe ex- 

 jnter,) but it is corroborated by additional 

 ony in our vicinity. Its virtues are not con- 

 .0 the clover crop, hut peas, potatoes and 

 jre also improved by it. 

 VVm. B. Harrison reports that late in March 

 died plaster to clover on a low sandy loam, 

 mes omitting to plaster one bed, and occa- 

 ly two; and in no stage of its growth could 

 cover any difference between the plastered 



and unpliistercd parts. On q higher and drier 

 field, where plaster was sown, a bed was left nn- 

 plaslcred — and here the difference was most strik- 

 ing, being observable several liiindrcd yards off", 

 from ilie yellow appearance and great iuleriority 

 of the clover to that on Ihe plastered beds. These 

 facts (says Mr H.) would seem to favor the opin- 

 ion, often expressed, and as often controverted, that 

 plaster acts mainly by attracting moisture. 



Mr Peebles reports, that on the 1st of April he 

 plastered, at (he rate of three pecks to the acre, 

 half of an eight-acre lot of clover — Ihe soil on a 

 part stiff" iind inclined to clay — the other part, light 

 and gravelly. The eff'ect produced by the plaster 

 in .1 short time began to show itself, by the clover 

 assuming a much richer color, whilst the un|ilas- 

 tered clover remained of a sickly appearance. The 

 1 t of June, the growth was fine on the whole of 

 Ihe plastered clover, and very heavy on the light 

 portion of the lands, whilst on the land not plas- 

 tered, the growth was not more than half as heavy, 

 and was much sooner parched up by the heat of 

 the sun. ]st of August, plastered two 20-feet 

 beds across a field of young clover, which had no 

 efltct that he could perceive. 



Middle of June, fallowed under a heavy growth 

 of rye on four acres of land, (the soil stiff and 

 cold,) and sowed 1 bushel of peas to the acre. 

 Alongside, fallowed half an acre of clover under, 

 and sowed a half bushel buckwheat ; four weeks' 

 after, he sowed plaster at the rate of half a bushel 

 to the acre, leaving several beds not plastered, to 

 see the effect produced, which was none that he 

 could perceive, either on the buckwheat or peas. 

 His main object in this experiment was to destroy 

 or prevent the wild onions seeding among wheat 

 on this land. 



August ist, fallowed a piece of light land, dam- 

 aged by too heavy an application of marl, and 

 sowed peas. Plastered as soon as Ihey inadelheir 

 appearance above ground. The effect of the plas- 

 ter was soon perceptible, and quite a luxuriant 

 growth was soon upon the land. 



This, with other experiments which he has fre- 

 quently made with plaster on difference soils, has 

 brought him to believe that plaster, or t.ie benefits 

 resulting from it, is much more perceivable on 

 light soils. 



Mr James Cocke reports that, he has made the 

 followinL' experiments : 



1st. As soon as he finished sowing oats, he sow. 

 ed clover seed upon the land, at the rate of three- 

 quarters of a gallon to the acre. And on four 

 acres he followed immediately with ground plaster, 

 at the rate of 11-2 bushel to the acre. And he 

 believes there was no benefit to either the oats or 

 clover. 



2d. When planting corn, he mixed one bushel 

 of plaster with one bushel of seed corn, and plant- 

 ed thirteen rows through his whole field. The 

 soil of each row was stiff clay, a mixture of clay 

 and sand, and very light sand, at different parts. 

 At no period from the planting to the gathering of 

 the crop, could he perceive any difference between 

 the thirteen rows of plastered corn, and the parts 

 of the field adjoining. — Farmer^s Register. 



To Slap Bleeding.—}. H. Young, in the Albany 

 Cultivator, says : " A few years ago, a valuable 

 carriage horse of mine, took suddenly ill on a jour- 

 ney. A professed furrier in the village in which I 

 was compelled to stop, advised bleeding in tho 

 mouth, which was done iccordingly. But unfor- 

 tunately, after the animal had bled more than a gal- 

 lon, it was found impossible to stop the bl-ioil. We 

 nil thought the horso would bleed to death. At 

 this crisis, a farmer happened to pass by, and di- 

 rected an application of the fresh excrement of 

 swine. A small portion of this was immediately 

 field on the wound made by tho farrier's iiistru. 

 ment, and in two minutes the blood was complete- 

 ly stopped. I have tried this simple thongli not 

 very pleasant remedy, several times since, in simi- 

 lar cases, and with the same remarkable success." 



The Use of Money. — It is not the plenty of meat 

 that nourishes, but a good digestion ; neither is it 

 abundance of wealth that makes happy, but the 

 discreet use of it. 



Sowing Corn for Fodder. — Extract of a letter 

 from Pittsburgh, Pa. : " I last spring sowed erne 

 acre of corn, and find it a most excellent feed for 

 milch cows: in fact, I consider it the best feed we 

 can give them, together with pasture. ,1 cut and 

 fed it green : 1 had two crops on the same ground. 

 From the little experience I have had, I would say 

 the ground requires to be good, and as free from 

 weeds as possible. The first crop, in our section 

 of the country, should be sown as early in the 

 spring as the weather will permit ; the second crop 

 not later than the first of July, to insure a full crop, 

 and time to feed green. The second crop will 

 outgrow the weeds." 



A letter from M. P., New York, says : " I last 

 year sowed about two acres of corn broadcast. 

 Though I neither measured or weighed the crop, 

 it was so abundant and profitable as green and dry 

 fodder, that I intend doing the same while I have 

 a farm."— Mb. Cult. 



To Preserve Flowers Fresh. — Procure a flat dish 

 of pocelain, into which put water sufficient to near- 

 ly fill it. In the water place a vase of flowers: 

 over the vase place a bell-glass, with its rim in the 

 water. The air that surrounds the flower being 

 confined beneath the bell glass, is constantly moist 

 with the water that rises into it in the form of va- 

 por. As fast as the water becomes condensed, it 

 runs down the sides of the bell-glass into Ihe dish ; 

 and if means be taken to enclose the water on the 

 outside of the bell-glass, so as to prevent ils evapo- 

 rating into the air of the room, the atmosphere 

 around the flowers will remain continually damp, 

 and they be preserved from wilting. Th'' rxperi- 

 nient may be tried on a small scale, by inserlinga 

 tumbler over a rosebud, in a saucer of water Se- 

 lected. 



Comets — A comet is a vast mass of nebulous 

 or purely etherial matter, so light and filmy that 

 nothing on this earth can be compared with it. It 

 was calculated of one, that ils whole immense vol- 

 ume, if compressed into a density equal to that of 

 our atmosphere, would not occupy more than a cu- 

 bic inch! Even the denser part of these bodies — 

 their appparent nucleus — is altogether filmy ; for, 

 through the very heart of a comet of considerable 

 brightness, stars of the sixteenth magnitude have 



been descried JVicAo/s' Phenomena of the Solar 



System. 



Be slow in choosing a friend, and slower to 

 change him. 



