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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



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articles of compound lo trpel the mephitic gus 

 iirf 7nake measure,' or ani/ other innteri'U that is 

 t in itself a vnlunble manure;'' and I will add, 



tlie salisfactioii of the public, timl only ttvo nr- 

 les of compound are used, and only one busliol 

 compound lo every ten bushels of night soil is 

 3d ill making the article, and the cost of one of 

 ! articles of compound is more than the price at 

 lich we sell poudrette. The system on which it 

 now made, is entirely different from that intro- 

 ced by Peter Bartliclcmy. An eminent chemist 

 whom I confided the system of preparing the 

 idrelte by the Lodi Company, declared that I 

 ] adopted the best thing in nature to prepare the 

 icle, which in France takes from five to six 

 irs, and which, in good weather, is usually done 

 the works of the Lodi Co. in a week. 

 Night soil or poudrette, has been used in Flan- 

 's more than 100 years ; in Franco and England, 

 ne 60 to 70 years, with uniform success ; and I 

 I only add the evidence my neighbors have giv 



in the shape of the following 



Certificate. 

 'The subscribers reside in the State of New 



(tT' We have been favored with the following 

 hnter to a gentleman in thi.s city. We should he 

 plciised lo hoar fro:n the wrilor upon any matters 

 connected with his experience in farming — Ihn 

 more so, as we are informed he is a gentleman of 

 intelligence, and one whose statements may bo re. 

 lied upon. It is the contributions of such farmrrH 

 to our agricultural journals, that, more than any 

 thing else, add to their interest and enhance their 

 usefulness Go. 



THE FLORID.\ POTATO. 



Portsmouth, A', if, Jlpril 23, 1843. 



Dear Sir — The following is an account of the 

 produce of the two potatoes which yon politely fa- 

 vored me with in the spring of 1842, and which you 

 informed me at the time, were raised in Florida, 

 and that yon obtained them at Mr ISreck's estab- 

 lishment. I call them the Florida potato. 



They were planted, as well as I can recollect, 

 cither the last day of May or the first day of June, 

 without manure. The mode I adopted.was, first, 

 cutting out each eye spparately, by which I ob- 



tained thirty-six eyes. In planting, I pul two eyes 

 j in each of sixteen hills, and one eye in each of 

 sey, many of us in the vicinity of the works , four hills— making twenty hills in the whole, 

 cted by Anthony Dey, of the cily of New j They came up in a very short time, and exliibi- 

 rk, on the Hackensack river, in New Jersey, for j ted fine thriving looking stalks. They were dug 

 manufacturing of Urate and Poudrette, called j aboul the first of October, and produced nearly 

 he Lodi Manufacturing Company.' We have |_^i,c pecA:^ potatoes, many of which were more than 



CRANBKItRY MEADOWS. 



Meadows that will bear good cranberries, will 

 yield more profit than grass meadows. Two hun- 

 dred bushels per acre, have often been obtained ; 

 and one man will harvest an acre at least expense 

 than ho will nn acre of corn A meadow, thoro- 

 fore, that will yield one-fourth of llnil quantity, 

 will net more profit than any acre of corn land, 

 and save yon the labor of planting', c f tilling, and 

 the cost of manure. Would it not be good policy 

 lo pay more attention to cranberry meaduwg ? Can 

 it be doubted that a little coarse sand strown on 

 the surface, would give a greater product on a cold 

 meadow ? Sand that has been saturated with the 

 wash of the cow-yard, would be better than that 

 directly from the pit. We hope some of our 

 friends will look to this matter, and make soino of 

 their cranberry meadows more productive. 



It should not be forgotten that flowing in winter 

 and spring, has a most beneficial cfi'ect on the har- 

 vest. Meadows may be kept covered with water 

 till late in May, and no doubt they would be im- 

 proved by drawing the water off, and then flooding 

 again, after a few days, as grass meadows are. By 

 a little mancgenienl of this kind, the June frosts 

 would be prevented. Thousands of bushels were 

 destroyed last season by the frosts of June. — .Mass. 

 Plowman. 



id the Poudrette on the spring crops this year, 



40.) We find it a valuable manure, superior to 



other kind that we have ever used ; and con- 



jring the facility of its transportation to the 



d, the small rjuanlity required in the application 

 he crops, the quickness of its operation on veg- 

 ole matter, and the ease with which it can be 

 lied — all tend lo recommend its use lo the far- 

 ■ and gardener, as the cheapest and best ma- 



e, and we recommend it accordingly. Those 

 i !S who have applied it to corn and potatoes, 

 Ilk that it ripens those vegetables quicker than 

 j other manure, by several weeks." 



)ated " New Jersey, Oct 1840," and signed by 

 ' acob D. Van Winkle, John Duryed, Josiah 

 t nblower, John Sise, John J. Newkirk, Daniel 

 I eland, G V. C. V. Reyper, George Demolt, 

 : nelius Urinkenhofl^, Israel Crane, George Sise, 

 nelius Van Winkle, Henry Drayton, Cyrus 

 rson, George Newkirk, Garret Newkirk, P. F. 

 Ish, Daniel Van Ripes, Joseph Munn. 

 I )ne word more on the subject of anonymous 

 ;er.s, and I have done. It is more satisfactory 

 .11 communications, that the writer should sub- 

 be his name and hold himself responsible for 

 allegations he makes. Some persons have a 

 cacy in appearing before the public under their 

 Der name, but I hold it, however, the bounden 

 ■f of every publisher, before he publishes a li- 

 ivs attack, to know the author, that the injured 

 y may have redress on him, and not on the 

 lishcr for the libel. 



A. DEY, 

 President Lodi Manufacturing Co. 

 *few York, April 18, 184.3. 



Anions. — If onions be planted in Iho same hill 

 a vines, it is said they will protect the latter 

 n the depredations of the striped bug. 



Whitewash — Don't fail lo apply this health-pro- 

 (er liberally about your premises. 



double the size of the original potatoes. 



The Florida potatoes are shaped like tl>e "Long 

 Reds," but their skin is of a blue color, and yel- 

 low within, like the " Blue Rnssian." For eating, 

 I think them better than the " Long Reds." They 

 do not, like them, contain that watery end, called 

 by some the pig's end, and are equal in quality to 

 " Pinkeyes." 



The hills containing two eyes, produced double 

 the quantity of those which contained but one — 

 making good the old adage, that " two eyes are 

 better than one." 



They appear well calculated for this climate, 

 having withstood the rust, while the Chenangoes, 

 planted on the same piece of ground, had their 

 lops killed the first of August. 



The difference between the yield of the Florida 

 and Rohan potatoes is as follows : 



Twenty hills of Rolians were placed beside the 

 Floridians, containing more than double the quan- 

 tity of seed, which produced only two pecks pota- 

 toes. The same number of hills of "Long Reds," 

 about two rods distant, yielded the same quantity 

 as the Kohans. 



Yours, &c. 



GIDEON BECK. 



Extraordinuiy Crop of Oats. — The New Gene- 

 see Farmer states that Andrew Snider, of Henri- 

 etta, last season produced 440 bushels of oats, esti- 

 mating them at ihe legal weight of 32 lbs. per 

 bushel, on four acres of land ; that is 111 1-2 bush- 

 els per acre. The kind is called the barley oat ; 

 it is properly the Scotch potato oat. 



Three bushels of seed were sown to the acre, 

 the last week in April. The land had been in 

 corn, peas, and potatoes the previous year. The 

 part which had been in corn, and that which had 

 been in potatoes, had been manured for those two 

 crops ; on that which had been in peas, wheat 

 straw only had been plowed in. 



TO PRESERVE EGGS. 



The high price and scarcity of eggs during the 

 winter season, render it an object of importance 

 to preserve them from decay during the season of 

 abundance, for that of scarcity. This, like every 

 thing else, is a very easy matter when we know 

 how to accomplish it, and difficult when we arc ig- 

 norant of the mode of effecting it. 



The shells of eggs are porous, and by being 

 long kept, the fluid contents evaporate gradually, 

 and that in proportion as the lemperuture of the 

 weather is increased, the vacant space occasioned 

 by the evaporation, is immediately filled with air, 

 and this air acts on the contents of the ogg, and 

 produces decomposition or rottenness. Now if 

 the air can be prevented from entering through the 

 shell, the egg will remain sound fur an indefinite 

 period — for decomposition cannot take place with- 

 out air. 



Reaumur tried varnishing eggs to preserve them, 

 but he found the cheapest and most effectual meth- 

 od was to apply oil or grease, with which they 

 were rubbed, or into which they were dipped. 



The transpiration of matter from the egg, was 

 proved to be as effectually stopped by he thinnest 

 layer of fat, as by a thick coating, so that no sensi- 

 ble vestige be left on the surface of the shell. All 

 sorts offal, grease or oil, were found well adapted 

 lo preserve eggs ; they were preserved for nine 

 months, as fresh as the day on which they were 

 laid. Oilier plans of accomplishing the same pur- 

 pose might be stated, but the above is so simple, 

 cheap and effectual, that it is deemed unnecessary. 

 — Farmer's Cab. 



A writer in the Farmer's Cabinet says, "there is 

 every reason to conclude, that by manuring corn 

 with cornstalks and constantly tilling by the plow, 

 the land between the rows, corn may be grown 

 with success for any number of years on the same 

 soil. Will not some one of your readers devote 

 an acre of land to the purpose, and deserve the 

 thanks of the agricultural community ?" 



