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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



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id Aii;^iist, I observed many of flie tops wilted 

 id doiul. Upon examination, I found the stalks 

 oni tlie sui-riicc of the (jroiind to their roots, en- 

 rely corroded or rusted off by some cause to iiic 

 en inexplicable. I think the crop was less than 

 ) bushels per acre. The part planted with corn 

 nountod to nothing except for fodder. The next 

 ;ar, ('38,) all except one-tenth of an acre was 

 )wcd in oats — rusted bad. The tenth of an acre 

 as iiiannrod with about four cartloads of coarse 

 anure, plowed twice, and sowed with ruta baga 

 )out 20th of June — harvested 1st of November — 

 mmed close, and accurately measured, and the 

 eld was KIO bushels— or 1000 per acre. In '39, 

 e produce of turnips was very good. The years 

 Gaud '-tl, in consequence of drou|Tlit, the turnip 

 ■ed mostly failed to vegetate, and what few did, 

 e insects destroyed. The past season, ('4'2,) I 

 anted three small pieces of land with squashes 

 id pumpkins. They were destroyed by the black 

 one of the pieces was set out with ruta baga 

 ants in July ; several very warm days succeeded, 

 id the tops were killed to the surface of the 

 ound ; and it was many days before they showed 

 y signs of life. When they were harvested in 

 ovembor, many of them were the largest turnips 

 ever saw. The other pieces were sowed late in 

 ly with English turnip seed, by merely hoeing 

 em in, and nothing farther was done to them till 

 ey were harvested. The product was nearly 20 

 ishels of as fine turnips as ever I saw. I cannot 

 •ubt but the sulphur in the soil exerted a bonefi- 

 al influence upon the growth of the turnips." 

 My experience of four years in cultivating clo- 

 r upon this kind of land, fully confirms Mr Chat- 

 rly's .statements; but from the length of this pa- 

 ri must t'orbear to go into particulars. 

 Tlie opinions I have expressed in this communi- 

 lion, I trust are correct ; what I have staled as 

 :tB, 1 believe are so, but if I am in an error, I 

 all be happy to be set right, as I have no favo- 

 e theories that I wish to establish at the expense 

 truth. LEVI BAllTLETT. 



ff'anur, jY. H., Feb. 184.3. 



E.irly Cucumbers The following has been 



iind by the writer an easy and successful way to 

 ise them. Place small pieces of dead turf, as 

 rge as one's hand, just below the soil in a hot- 

 ■d, and plant the cucumber seed upon them : when 

 ■e stems are two or three inches long, the pieces 



turf are removed, plants, roots and all, to rich 

 irden soil, and they will advance rapidly in 

 owth, and produce fruit two or three weeks earli- 



than those planted on open ground. Suitable 

 rf is easily obtained where grass has been invert- 

 1 the previous summer or autumn. The young 

 ants should be set out as soon as they will proba- 

 y escape the frost StUded. 



Corn Bees-wax Some rogue has been supply- 



g the merchants of St. Louis with large quanti- 

 09 of " bees-wax" made chiefly of corn-meal. He 

 lid to one house several hundred pounds, at 'J2 cts. 

 !r lb., being about 2 cts. less than the price of 

 le genuine. Five parts of the corn-meal were 

 jmbined by a chemical process with one part of 

 jes-wax, and the whole run into a cake, which, 

 ays the St. Louis Republican,) would defy the 

 idgnient of the best connoisseur. 



Look not to the praise of men for your deeds, but 

 Uher regard the decision of conscience. 



I'Voni the Boston Cullivalor 



MUSCLES AS MANURE. 



Having often seen a request in your paper that 

 farmers would write to you, giving their experi. 

 cnce, and having had some experience in the arti- 

 cle of inusck-s (or Mylnlus) as a manure, I here 

 give you what informution I can respecting them. 



I have used muscles two years as a top-dre.«sing 

 on my mowing lands, and the result has for sur- 

 passed my most sanguine expectations. My first 

 experiment was with twentyone cartloads. It was 

 spread as follows, in heaps of six shovels full in a 

 heap — the heaps were ten feet apart — where it re- 

 mained until the next spring; and after the frost 

 was well out ofthe ground, il was spread, care being 

 taken that none should remain on the spot where 

 the heap stood. The result was as follows : I cut 

 that season four tons of good English hay, and the 

 year before I cut but one ton on ihd same piece. 

 I will also state that there was large quantities of 

 Roman wormwood on the land before I spread mus- 

 cles on it, and it has been all killed out in this 

 manner. 



Muscle beds are found in most of our harbors, 

 and amongst our islands on the coast. The way 

 that we procure them in this place is by means of 

 a scow. I live about four miles from a muscle 

 bed. I take two men with me; we generally start 

 on the first of the ebb tide, so as to get on to the 

 bed before the tide leaves it ; then we get out on 

 the bed, and shovel in on both sides; we load the 

 scow in about an hour and a half. She will carry 

 about twentyfive cartloads. 



I haul it out on my land as soon as I get it, in 

 heaps, as before stated. The reason that I do not 

 spread immediately is, that it is so xvet and lumpy, 

 and by letting them remain over winter, the frost 

 slacks them, and in the spring they spread like 

 ashes. I think that muscles will do much better 

 on clayey land than on gravelly land. I know of 

 places on the shores of Massachusetts where a man 

 could drive his team off on the ice to muscle beds 

 at low water, and get muscles in the winter when 

 he could do nothing else. 



I know of a farmer about forty miles from this 

 place, who cuts annually one hundred tons of hay ; 

 all his stock consists of one cow and two yoke of 

 oxen. Another instance I know of, in this town, 

 where one scow load of muscles was put on the 

 land eighteen years ago, and has had nothing done 

 to U since, and still cuts a good crop of hay. I 

 have now on my land twelve scow loads ready to 

 spread in the spring, and next fall I will write you 

 the result. I have given you all the infurmation 

 in my power respecting muscles. 

 Respectfullv, yours, &c. 



GEO. E. TYLER. 



Live honestly, hurt nobody, and render to every 

 one his due. 'i'o these three general precepts, Jus- 

 tinian has reduced the whole doctrine of law. — 

 Btackslone. 



To divest milk of the taste of turnips, &c. upon 

 which cows have been fed, put into each pail of 

 milk, when fresh drawn from the cows, one pint of 

 boiling water. The heat of the water dispels the 

 odor ofthe turnip, which becomes volatile as the 

 temperature of the milk is increased. This has 

 been practiced by the writer, and proved to be ef- 

 fectual. — Selected. 



Suhstiliilc for Cliiztd f'rnmes in Holbeilf In 



the lilicintiindische Garlen%eilung is doscnhed a 

 substitute lor the glazed frames of hot-bi'ds and 

 green-houses, which deserves the attention of flo- 

 rists. Instead of glass, the frames arc covered 

 with a fine whit? cloth of cotton. In order to ren- 

 der this more iransjiaront, and enable it to resist 

 moisture, it is covered with a preparation, the in- 

 gredients of which are four ounces of pulverized 

 ilry white cheese, two ounces of white slacked 

 lime, and four ouiice.s of boiled linseed oil. These 

 three ingredients having been mixed with each 

 other, four ounces of the white of eggs, and nR 

 much of the yolk, are added, and the mixture is 

 then made liquid by heating. The oil combines 

 easily with the other ingredients, and the varnish 

 remains pliable and quite transparent. 



The expense of a forcing bed arranged in this 

 manner is inconsiderable, and it yields at the same 

 time many other advantages. Such a hot-bed 

 needs not the anxious attention required by the or- 

 dinary ones covered with glazed frames. During 

 the strongest rays of the mid-day sun they do not 

 require any particular covering or shade; the at- 

 mosphere therein preserves a nearly equal tempe- 

 rature almost the whole day, and requires only to 

 be changed from time to time, according to circum- 

 stances. If such a bed is provided with a soil of 

 horse-dung, and a proper thickness of some fer- 

 tile, finely sifted mo,uld is spread thereon, layers of 

 all sorts of flowers, early vegetables, and other 

 plants, may be rearwl from seeds in it. — Annals of 

 Chemistry. 



Guano. — The Li/crpool United Brokers' Circu- 

 lar states that 2000 tons of the new manure called 

 guano, have been recently sold in this town, at 

 from \Ql. to 12/. per ton. This quantity will raise 

 ten thousand acres of turnips, as four cwt. per acre 

 has been found sufBcient for that purpose. With 

 that quantity, which at the present price will cost 

 only two pounds, we ourselves raised larger crops 

 of turnips last year than we were able to raise 

 with eight pounds' worth of common manure. 



If the original importers of this valii.ible manure 

 had been satisfied to offer it to the public at the 

 present price, the consumption would have been 

 ten times as great as it is now ; for having tried 

 guano with every description of crop, we do not 

 hesitate to pronounce it the cheapest and most 

 valuable manure ever introduced into this country. 

 .\s we are buyers, not sellers of the article, our 

 praise of it is at least disinterested. — Liverpool 

 Times. 



Remarkable Pluwing Mutch. — A plowing match 

 lately took place in the vicinity of Cleland House, 

 Lanarkshire, which excited considerable interest 

 from the novel circumstance of the rival [ilownien 

 being two Members of Parliament — Capt. Daliym- 

 ple and Edward Horsman, Esq. Both went to work 

 like old hands, and produced capital furrows. The 

 land plowed by them was named, amid deafening 

 cheers, " The Members' Acre." This is as it 

 should be ; and we congratulate the landed aris- 

 tocracy in possessing meinbers who are disposed 

 to acquire knowledge of agricultural pursuits, with 

 a view to promote the interests of their tenants, in- 

 stead of squandering away in scenes of fashionable 

 frivolity, the hard-earned money wrung from an 

 over-taxed and oppressed peasantry. — Scotch pa- 

 per. 



