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leniisU deny tlic tact, but do not give us nuy ex- 

 jriiiients to prove it. We well know that it does 

 :cur in the soil, forniinir the mineral c;\llcd lluni- 

 (itite, which consists of oxalic acul •Iti.U, and 

 •ot. oxide of iron .'J3.8t). How extensivuly this 

 lit exists in soils, is yet unknown, nnd it is also 

 tiknown liow it would act on vegetation. It is 

 fobable that since it exists in all hard wood trees, 

 at it may, by decay, foiMu a manure, which would 

 ovo fertilizing to some species of plants. 



Fur llio N. E. Former. 



THE LODI MANUF.\CTURING COMPANY. 

 Ma EoiTOR — "A. Dey," who appends to his 

 signature, " President of the Lodi Manufacturing 

 Co.," has, in your paper of 3d May, for the sole 

 purpose of drawing llio public from the true point, 

 i. e. the t'«/iie of his poudrclteasa manure, attacked 

 the writer, or supposed writer, of" Steady Jfabils" 

 by making many assertions of which he is totally 



rhe agricultural chemist knows full well that ignorant. Jle says SUa,!;/ Habits "has detailed 



e moment organic matters enter the rootlets of 

 ants, they begin to undergo transformations, 

 hicli end in the assiinilation of the convertible 

 atter into the peculiar subitances which compose 

 e diffsrent parts of the stem, fruit and foliage. 

 Plants deiive their nourishment from the air, from 

 iter, and from the soil — and any one who would 



/iic(i which are itntnte ;"' that he "believes the 

 writer is known to him," and " that ho is the man 

 of Steady Habits, wlio, under various false preten- 

 ces, obtained six barrels of poudrctte without pay- 

 ing for it," that "he (Steady Habits) avows that he 

 followed the directions," and says, '• this is untrue," 

 and that "he has insinuated what he knoiis to be 



nit them to but one of these sources of supply, \futse, namely, that the Lodi company make use of 

 ovided by nature, IS liable to commit grave errors j pea(, coaZ as/ics, and a little night soil to make a 

 reasoning, which, however, he cannot very barrel of poudrette." lie also asserts that the 



invenienlly carry out in practice 

 Respectfully, your ob't serv't, 



C. T. JACKSON. 

 Boston, May 30th, 1843. 



P. S. — In your kind notice of my article on ex- 

 riments with chemical salts, you requested the 

 -mers to experiment on Indian corn. I hope 

 ey will do so, and communicate their results to 

 ■u. They rannot fail to prove interesting. 

 Will you also invite them to apply a small quan- 

 ly of each salt in solution, to a patch of grass 

 id. I suppose it is not too late yet to make the 

 periment. Saline manures generally augment, 

 a very remarkable manner, the foliage of plants, 

 d this is what we want in mowing lands. 



C. T. J. 



From the Albany Cultivator. 



LICE ON POULTRY. 

 Messrs. Editors — I have seen a number of reci- 

 a in the Cultivator lately, for destroying hen- 

 e. Any person that will try oil-cake meal, 

 cording to the direction in one of the back num- 

 Irs of the Cultivator, I think will not be troubled 

 th them. I had a hen-house last season, about 



feet square, in which I kept CO hens, the most 

 the time shut up, and the lice became so thick 

 It I could not go into it without being almost 

 |vered with them. I took two quarts of oil meal, 

 d sowed it with my hand, throwing it all about 

 house and nests, also up against the rafters 

 d sides of the building, and I was not troubled 

 th them afterwards. I used six quarts in the 

 urse of the summer — two quarts at each time ; 

 It I <lo not know but once would have answered, 



I saw no lice after the first time I used it, and 

 Sid not clean out the house or nest in the whole 

 mmer, which should be done two or three times. 



A SuBSCniBER. 



Poughkeepsit, April 18, 1843. 



The Cut Worm The Germantown Telegraph 



itea that Mr Isaac Newton, of Delaware county, 

 nn., has discovered what is considered a certain 

 nedy for the ravages of the cut worm. He has 

 ed it several seasons, and in all cases with en- 

 e success. It is simply by mixing lino salt with 

 ster, in the proportion of one quart of salt to 

 Jr quars of plaster, and applying it to the corn 

 ,er it has come up Aib. Cull. 



writer "Agricola," has no interest in the Lodi Co. 

 Mr Dey then says, that in making poudrette, the 

 Company do not make use of raw peal, turf, or 

 meadow mud, nor have lliey ever made use oi ashes 

 from hard coal, nor coal siftings, &,c. 



In 1840, Air Dey circulated a large number of 

 pamphlets to enlighten the public regarding the 

 value of a farm of 400 acres, with im.piovements, 

 for which he wished to get 200,000 dollars. .Amrmg 

 other things on said farm, he says there is " a ma- 

 chine house lo grind peat in." "On this farm in 

 detached pieces, is a peculiar kind of peat, of the 

 very best quality for the purposes of the [Lodi] Co., 

 which [the peat] is one of three or four articles 

 which are used in the compound to disinfect and 

 eiierminate the gas from the night soil, and reduce 

 \\. iown \.o mother earth." Again: "If the com- 

 pany had to pay the price for peat which was paid 

 for it last year, and in proportion to the extent it is 

 contemplated to manufacture poudrette, it is esti- 

 mated it [the peat] would cost not less than $5000, 

 and from that upwards." 



No man can doubt that rau< peal (unless grind- 

 ing cooks it,) is liberally used in the manufacture 

 of Iheir poudrette. If they now have a machine 

 for grinding and sifting hard coal ashes, that arti- 

 ticle may not iioio be as readily discovered as it 

 was in the ten barrels sent me for poudrette. 



" Agricola" as well as Anthony must be Solo- 

 mons in chemistry. Agricola say the only value 

 of manure is the thing called ammonia it contains; 

 and that the matter left in a dung heap after the 

 vapor has passed away is of no value. 



Early in April, 1840, I enclosed to A. Dey, ten 

 dollars, and ordered five barrels of poudrette to be 

 sent to mo immediately. He got my money, and 

 / got from him a number of letters, and finally five 

 barrels of his nostrum called poudrette, about the 

 25th of May. On the 2Cth, I applied it in the hill 

 for Broom corn, on the 27lh for Mercer potatoes, 

 and on the 28th for JSTorthern Dent corn — and to 

 all according to directions in the pamphlet, except 

 measuring it in a pewter measure instead of a tin 

 one or the hand. On the 28tli, I drilled this stuff 

 with parsnips and carrots in alternate rows, also 

 with ruta baga, and used it with melons and cu- 

 cumbers, without the least perceivable benefit to 

 either crop. About this time, or perhaps earlier, 

 I ordered five barrels more, without remitting the 

 money, for the purpose of experimenting with it on 



* Who before ever heard of facta untrue f 



tobacco. 'I'hcse five barreU were rccrivcd llio 

 l',*th of June, nnd the principal part of this was np. 

 plu'd to a portion of three separate piece* of tobac- 

 co, on the l.'ith, 18lh, and 20lh of June, and on a 

 few rows of planLi about the middle of July. [ 

 personally attended to oil this, and placed boards 

 with date, (S;c. written upon them, at every place 

 where used. 'I'lic labor was principally perfiprniod 

 by my sons, who were all desirous to bo bencfilod 

 by its use, but were sadly disappointed. It must 

 have been, that this no.^truin sent as poudrette, 

 was worthless as a manure, or the kinds of corn, 

 potatoes, &c., with the use of the pewter measure 

 instead of a tin one, nculrolizeil for a time the 

 stufl" as he says in his pamphlet, urate or poudrette 

 if mixed with other manures, will operate on those 

 manures until they are consumed before they are 

 beneficial to plants ! ! I 



About this time Mr Dey was very profuse in his 

 communications to me — sent mc a lot ol' his pamph- 

 lets, for which I was heavily postage taxed, and by 

 letter requested me to di.-ilribute thoin nnd obtain 

 subscribers for iiis slock. I distributed a part of 

 his pamphlets, but got no stock taken. 



Finally I was appointed agent, under something 

 of a new organization, with the offer of a heavy 

 commission, to induce me to aid them in filling' 

 their gull trap. 



I paid ten dollars for the first five barrels receiv- 

 ed ; for freight and cartage, .$3 50 ; — fiir freight 

 and cartage of the other five barrels, 1 paid ^'i 50 ; 

 for postage of pamphlets, letters, agency, &c., about 

 .$5. All this was paid for the ten barrels of hum- 

 bug nostrum, and lost, besides the labor. 



It is well known by every intelligent agricultu- 

 rist, that night soil has been advantageously used 

 in Flanders, France, England and China as a ma- 

 nure for a great length of time — but that is no 

 proof that the article sold by A. Dey as poudrette, 

 is good for any thing as a manure. 



The greatest medical quack as well as the great- 

 est quack in poudrette making, find no difficulty 

 in procuring names to append to whatever pulT 

 they may choose to make of their nostrums, even 

 if it is an "Insect and Worm Destroyer," or a 

 " powder poison." Believing that the public, with 

 my experiment detailed, will be satisfied they were 

 fairly made, and that the sliifi' sent me was worth- 

 less as a manure, and that 1 have paid dearly for 

 the humbug, I shall leave Mr Dey to be satisfied 

 or not with the results, for I at present will not 

 further trouble you, your readers, your printer's 

 " devil" or myself, regarding him or his humbugs. 

 HENRY WATSON. 



East Windsor, MayZUl, 1843. 



(JJ^'We hope to be bored with no more commu- 

 nications from any quarter touching the Lodi com- 

 pany, its wares, or its president — certainly we 

 shall publish no more if sent us — as the subjects 

 are of no interest to ninetynine in a hundred of 

 our readers — and in saying this we mean no dis-e- 

 spcct to those concerned in the controversy, who, 

 for any personal knowledge of ours to the contra- 

 ry, may be honorable men. 



Hoot it out. — A young lady was magnetized by 

 a gentleman of this town — one of our neighbors — 

 last week, and wliile in the magnetic state had a 

 tooth — a real hard customer, too — drawn without 

 moving a muscle. There's nothing in it — this mat- 

 ter of animal magnetism — all humbug — all imagi- 

 nation — hoot it out! So say the would-bc-thought 

 wise men of the nineteenth century. — JVaiAua Tel. 



