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I tuM habitd. In training horicn to go over bridg 



L^ it ia a good plan to lend them over some thruo or 



four bridges. 



To make n Homt slnnd still trhiU you mnunl. — 



Get on and dismount four or live timea before ymi 



novehim out of his trm-k 



lay horse will stand still. 



also, IS that 



If an old horse, you may mend ral earth in vegetable reproduction, twenty grams [ weeds and parasiiical vcgrtatmn, are prevented by 

 . 1... 1 ... ^,,- ^.|„,m ,vero sown u|ii)n the surface of a pane of j tins method, f.ir the straw choki-s every other plant 



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lorses to tame. 



D. O. 

 IN AGRI 



ass and covered with sonic straw alone, as in the 

 other case. 



The germination of the seed was soon apparonl, 

 and most healthy in devcloponienl. "The winter 

 and by repeating this '""' '•<^'"' rigorous," say these correspondents, " for 

 this part of the country, and the curlh has somc- 

 In conclusion, I would advise all breeders to be times been frozen in one solid mass to the depth of 

 ind and gentle to their foals, and by so doing I *'" inches in the garden where the wheat was 

 srill venture to say they will seldom haTe vicious sown, and this has happened 8<!vernl times during 



I the winter, to the great injury of many plants, and 

 I even the entire destruction of some, while the 

 I spots protected by the straw were never thoroughly 

 I congealed, nor were the grains of wheat, though 

 lying on the surface under the straw, at all alfcct- 

 ed by the cold. During the spring, excessive 

 droughts, prolonged, and several times repeated, 

 have prevented vegetation on the common plan from 

 tlourisliing in healthy progress, while our little 

 spots of wheat have hardly felt the inconvenience 

 of excessive dryness, for the earth protected by 

 the straw has never been deprived entirely of 

 moisture, and our blades of corn (wheat) were 

 flourishing, when all around was drooping and un- 

 certain. To conclude, tlien, we have thoroughly 

 succeeded in our practical experiment, and the 

 wheat produced is of the finest quality. The straw 

 was more than s\\ feet high, and in the ears were 

 50, fiO, and even 80 grains of wheat of full devel- 

 opement, the admiration of all who saw them, and 

 particularly those which grew upon the pane of 

 glass, and which were quite as healthy and as 

 large as those which grew npon the common earth. 

 It must be observed also, that there was not the 

 smallest particle of earth upon the glass, and that 

 the plants were left entirely to themselves, without 

 being watered or attended to in any way whatev- 

 er from the time of sowing to the time of reaping." 



The cause of this success, they think, may be 

 explained in the following manner: 



" Straw being a bad conductor of heat, and a 

 good conductor of electricity, maintains the root 

 of the plant in a medium temperature, and prevents 

 the earth from being deprived entirely of moisture. 

 The moisture of the earth or the substratum, be- 

 ing continual, facilitates the gradual and constant 

 absorption of carbonic acid gas from the surround- 

 ing atmosphere, and hydrogen and carbon, the 

 chief elements of nourishment to vegetables, are 

 thus economized in regular supplies where they 

 are constantly reciuired, and pass in combination 

 with oxygen from tlie roots up to the stem and 

 branches of the plants in which they are assiinila- 

 ted, and the o.\ygen throws off in exhalation from 

 the leaves. The straw decays but slowly, and 

 thus furnishes its substance by degrees to the 

 young plant in due progression and proportion, 

 (such as the siliqunus ingredients, for instance, of 

 the pod or capsule,) so that the decomposition of 



AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY 

 CULTURE. 



In the Phalange, a Fourier paper published at 

 Paris, of Sept. 8th, a novel discovery is described, 

 which if true, will work a great change in an ini- 

 lortant department of agricultural labor. It is 

 lommunicaied to the Paris print by Charles Poil- 

 iard and .^f. Bernard, who dated their letters at 

 Srest, AugusI, 1841. It appears that while they 

 md some of their friends, who farm their own es- 

 •tes, were engaged in conversation on the sub- 

 ect of agriculture, it "as observed by one oftliem, 



,t that branch of industry was suflfering more 

 rom the want of capital and enterprise than any 

 ther, and that nothing was to be done without ma 

 lire, which was every day becoming more scarce 

 Jid expensive. This remark led to an inquiry in- 



the properties of manure, and particularly as to 

 rhat provision nature had made in those unculti- 

 tted regions where there seems to be a vigorous 

 nd luxuriant growth, without artificial assistance. 



In observing nature unassisted, or unthwart- 



d, rather by the hand of man, in vegetable repro- 



uctioQ, it is found that when the seed is npo it 



Us upon the ground, and then the plant which 



as produced it sheds its leaves, or falls itself up- 



n it, in decay, and covers and protects it from the 

 'eather, until generation has commenced, and the 

 loung plant is able to grow up in health and 

 trengtii, and full developcmont, to recommence 

 ne same routine of seeding and of reproduction. 



'' From this it follows that, in nature, every 

 llant produces its own soil or humus, and that tiie 



Tth only serves to bear the plant, and not to aid 

 Dourish it in vegetation. Tlie nourishment of 

 lanta is thus supposed to be derived from nir and 

 Hlttr, heat and light, or electricity — in different 

 roportions, adapted to the different varieties of 

 eg^etablc nature." 



Willi this general notion in their minds, and 

 oosidering wheat to be, in present circumstances, 

 oe of the most important vegetable sub.slaiices, ] 

 ley agreed to try experiments, and in October of 

 tst year, undertook the following operations : 



In a field which had been sown with rye be- 

 ause the land was deemed too poor for "heat, a 

 lat of twelve square yards, untilied and left with- 



ut manure, was carefully strewed over with the 1 ihe straw corresponds to the four phases offermen 

 ruins of wheat, and wheaten straw was laid upon '"t'""! '" progressing from the saccharine to the 

 . closely, and about one inch in thickness. In a olcolic, the acid and the putrid elHles, analogous to 

 arden, also, which had been neglected several those of in/aiicy, 6u<i</i»g', ^oii<A and a«erfing- of the 

 oars, a few square yards of earth were trodden P'^'it. 



ver, and the surface being made close and hard, " We observe that our blades of wheat have but 

 ome grains of wheat were scattered on this liar- a very few roots, and those are short and liard, 

 ened surface, and a layer of straw one inch in something like a bird's claw, and this agrees wiih 

 epth, was carefully laid over it and left as in the the remarks of .Mons. Raspail, who states that the 

 armer case, to take its chance without ulterior at- most healthy plants in ordinary vegetation have 

 sntion. And, in order to make doubt impossible the least exuberance of roots and fibres. 



but that of Its own need. Many other intcrrsting 

 observntioDS might be made on these experiments, 

 but wo refrain at |iro«pnt from obtruding on your 

 readers; but if any of thorn wish for further in. 

 formation on this subject, we shall willingly afford 

 them every facility. The importance of the gene- 

 ral result will easily become apparent without fur- 

 ther cor;unenl, and a revolution in the prescnl 

 modes of agricultural labor is a necessary conse- 

 quence of this discovery. .No tillage will now be 

 required nor any artiticiql stimulants in manure 

 and other more or less expensive combinations 

 with regard to soil and culture. In fact it would 

 be tedious to enumerate the various advantages 

 that may result 111 practice from this casual expe- 

 riment, and therefore we proclaim it simply to the 

 world, that all may profit by it." 



As this experiment can be easily tried, wo hope 

 some of our farmers will put it to the test and 

 communicate the results. We shall certainly try 

 it on a small seven by nine lot of ground, which is 

 the largest that is vouchsafed to a dweller in the 

 city — JV. Y. Eve. Post. 



PICKLING PORK AND BEEF. 



For a barrel of pork, from three pecks to a bush- 

 el of salt is necessary : for one of beef less will 

 answer, say from half u bushel to three pecks. — 

 Whether for pork or beef, a small portion of salt- 

 petre, say half a pound to the barrel, is of service. 



Let the saltpetre be ground fine and mixed with 

 the salt; then take the pieces of meat, rub the 

 salt well ill, pack it away skin downwards, and 

 should tlio meat not make pickle enough to cover 

 the whole, add as much strong pickle (of strength 

 sufficient to bear a potato or an egg,) e.a will do so. 



If it be desired to keep tlie meat an;,' considera- 

 bl'.' time, rock salt will answer best: but if such 

 should not be the case, equal portioni of ground 

 alum and fine salt will answer. If the quantity to 

 be pickled should be small, tine salt alone will an- 

 swer. 



The head of the barrel in which the meat is 

 kept, must be kept tight, so as to exclude the air. — 

 Jlmer. Farmer. 



OLD PLOW- BO VS. 



The Connecticut Farmer's Gazette, in its ac- 

 count of the Middlesex (Ct) County Fair, says : 



" A most interesting exhibition took place in the 

 course of the day. One hundred and one yoke of 

 fine oxen were attached to a plow, by the side of 

 which were arranged a host of sprightly grey -hair- 

 ed plow-boys, from 70 to 00 years of age. .At the 

 handles of the plow was the venerable CapL Wil- 

 Imiii Harris, of Middlctown, a veteran farmer of JtVj 

 w'inrers, "and who, by the wink of his eye, and the 

 cock of his hat, was apparently ready for a dozen 

 more I" At the given signal the train moved on, 

 the old hero occasionally giving the plow that pe- 

 culiar shake so well understood by those accus- 

 tomed to walking in the furrow." 



Trii'h can hardly be expected to adapt herself to 

 the crooked policy and wily sinnositics of wordly 

 alfdirs ; for truth, like light, travels only in8lrai''lit 

 lines. — Lacon. 



