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AND H U T 1 C U L T [> K A f. R K (i I S T K R . 



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lNea|i>>litiui liojT, liavinj; come from a WBfm | rcniiily discomr the (IiIUtoiico in llio ;,'ri)Wlli ; imd 

 pti-y, liss nogloclcJ 10 coiiio properly clullicd, j » ln-n iiKiued, ifio part iiiaiiiircd willi iho iiiiiiernl , 

 llicrcl'urc may bo said to be a imkfd Iioj;. ' yielded full one <|iinrtcr more crop For live yettri", [ 

 kt little hair he lias is black. );rnurally, though , tlio field has averaj^cd t»'o tonx, and is by no means . 

 (tunes he Iries to hide his nakedness with olh- | a rich soil. 1 am no chemist, nnd ciiiinul describe 

 )lors. .-Vllhoiigh I think that a little more of ; by what property it acts on llio land. I I'oiind in ' 

 kcd truth" would bo benetkial both to the crruss |;round where the varimis kinds tif foul grma , 



iH iii('>i(li>tv bultoiii, hss with common uaa|{e, produc- 

 ed Iroiii two to two and a half tons of hay onnuallj. 

 It mi|;ht be made to produce a much larger <|uao- 

 lity." — Ibid. 



From llie Albany CultiTator. 



and seller of " improicd" hogs, many of 

 h, it must bo coiiles.-ied. arc only made so by 

 acuity of hidin<; the naked truth ; yet I must 

 that tbo Neapolitan, although ho may ba a 

 enoui;h hojr fur a f^cntlcman, is not so for a 



le more seiUenco about hogs, and I hsvo done 

 this " whole hog" subject, 

 nonij the recent importations, I saw an entire 

 variety, called "Kennilworlh liogs,'" in which 

 y will be found size enough even to suit the 

 of a southern gentleman, who wrote to Mr 

 for a hog "as big as a horse." For though 

 about tliree inonlhs old now, they are half as 

 and h.ilf aa high aa "a right smart chunk of a 



e more word in the way of odvice, to all buy- 

 stock. Never purchase from ony man but 

 f known and established integrity, who has a 

 ctcr to lose, but which he is determined nev- 

 do. 



d now, .Mr Editor, may you never have peace 

 jr mind while you have a piece in your pock- 

 tjl you have induced a goodly share of the 

 Its of the valley of the beautiful Ohio, to take 

 e of your monthly advice, that the best way 

 p peace in the family, will be to get a family 

 ceabic pigs in the pen, and then tliey will 

 be without a piece of good bacon, with which, 

 ho calls, they can treat their old friend, 



SOLON ROBINSON. 

 kt C. H., /a., -Vou. 27, 1841.' 



GL.ASS FACTORY MANURE. 



ibjoiD the e.xperitnents of the Superintendent 



Gloss Manufactory, at Sandwich, Plymouth 

 *cming Jarves, in the use of a material not 

 known as a manure. I am much indebted to 

 ndoess for this account. As there are some 

 nwe glass manufactories in Middlesex county, 

 bstance may be equally procurable there, 

 grceably to your request, I herewith give you 

 ment of the mode of using, and of the ef- 

 ts a manure, of the material obtained by the 

 Tinnufacturers in refining their pearl or pot 

 —usually called neutral salts, being that part 



ash not soluble in water. After many ex- 

 !;ils, I found a barrel of this material well 

 with 10 horse cart-loads of soil or loam, was 

 Qst proportion. Too much care caiiiint be 

 n mixing the material well with the earth — 

 n its unctuous nature it is apt to lie in lumps, 

 1 more injury than good. When welF pre- 

 I have found it the most powerful manure I 

 ver seen used. I liave successfully applied 

 d in all cases as a top-dressing — on coUl 

 land, meadow, and high grass ground ; also 



glic.J fields for rye, corn, oats, &,c. Whor- 

 sed It has been marked by powerful etfects. 



various experiments I made, no other ma- 

 vos applied the same year. On one tield in 

 of about ten acres, I dressed a few acres at a 

 ith this miierial ; the other part of the field 

 led with barn manure, at a rate equal to l.j 

 la per acre. Before mowing, the eye could 



or weeds grow — such as some. call lamb's loiijiue 

 sorrel, &ir.., ull these disappeared, and the clover 

 and lierdsgrass took their place. I am this full 

 dressing the last aero with this material, und do 

 not lulend to use any other manure ; my practice 

 has been to spread about '-20 loads to the acre. In 

 ploughed land I have found the same lieiieficial re- 

 sult when compared with that part manured with 

 barn manure. 



How long its good effects will last, 1 cannot 

 say; certainly for three years its influence is felt. 

 Wet ground will bear more of it than dry ; too 

 much on dry ground burns the land. 



It has been used in this vicinity, ot times, for 

 twenty years; but the want of knowledge in tem- 

 pering It, made its usefulness very limited. One 

 fanner for many years secured all a glass manu- 

 factory made ; and he told nie ten years since, he 

 used It secretly and with great success ; so much 

 so as to occasion much surprise among his neigh- 

 bors, that his farm yielded so luxuriantly, when he 

 did not appear to make more barn manure than they 

 did. 



I once ploughed under a strong dressing, but 

 did not discover any good effect from it; my im- 

 pression at the time was, I lost my labor and ma- 

 terial. 



Its alkaline property cannot be very strong, as 

 all that tan be obtained from it by the several pro- 

 cesses which it passes through in the hands of the 

 glass manufacturer, is small, yet strong enough to 

 neutralize the acid in the soil. When mixed as 

 heretofore named, and thrown in a pile, no weeds 

 will grow in it for two or more years, but it will 

 remain dry and barren." — Colman'3 Fourtli Report. 



PRODUCTIVE LANK. 



The produce of a small piece of land in Groton, 

 belonging to George Brigham, is so remarkable, 

 that I subjoin it. The owner, the year I visited 

 him, besides a full supply for his cow, sold ten dol- 

 lars' worth of hay. The abundance of the yield is, 

 I believe, to be in some measure attributed to the 

 fact that a large potash establishmcBt, forty years 

 since, stood on the lot. 



"The small plat of ground which you saw when 

 at Groton, contains one and a half acre ; about one 

 half of which is meadow bottom, deeply gravelled 

 more than thirty years since. I mowed the grass 

 about twelve years, and once in three or four years 

 gave it a light dres.^ing of common manure. Find- 

 ing it to yield much more hay than was nece.ssary 

 for a cow, and wishing to save the trouble ond ex- 

 pense of pasturage, perhaps a mile or more from 

 home, 1 appropriated <me half acre for that purpose. 

 It produced a good supply for five years ; when I 

 gave It a light dressing of compost manure, and 

 reduced the pasture to sixtyeight rods by accurate 

 survey. It has for the last four years supplied iny 

 cow with an abundance of feed, from early turning 

 out to September first. The pasture is low ground 

 bordering <in meadow, and is altvays moist. I 

 have never noticed a dry spot, even in tlie driest 

 seasons. 



"The adjoining acre, about two thirds of which 



"DID Nr I DRU.M WELL.'" 

 .Many of your renders, doubtless, have road the 

 onecdote of the justly celebrnlod merchant of Bos- 

 ton, Hilly lirny, ns ho was fanulinrly called; but 

 lent oil your readers may not have seen it, I will 

 lake the liberty to give the substance here. When 

 Mr Gray was somewhat advanced in years, he was 

 one day superintending a piece of carpenter work — 

 for nothing about him was permitted to escape his 

 vigilant eye ; ho hail occasion to reprimond the 

 man who was performing it, fur not doing Ins work 

 well. The carpenter turned upon him — he and 

 " Hilly" beins known to each other in their youth ; 

 and said; " Hilly Gray, what do you presume to 

 scold me for ? You are a rich man, 't is true, but 

 did n't I know you when you were nothing but a 

 drummer?" "Well, sir, did'nt I drum wf//, eh, 

 did'nt I drum well T' The carpenter was silenc- 

 ed, and went on to do his work better, agreeably to 

 Ijilly's orders. 



Billy Gray commenced his career a poor boy, 

 and began early and continued through his long 

 life to act on the principle of always drumming 

 well; or in other words, of doing every thing as 

 it ought to be done, and not by halves ; and the re- 

 sult was, that he died worth his millions of dollars. 

 A number of years since, I heard from his nephew, 

 who received his mercantile education in his un- 

 cle's counting house, several anecdotes connected 

 with his habits of early rising, untiring industry, 

 personal supervision of his imnjcnse bu.siness, and 

 the clock-work manner in which every thing about 

 him had to move — indeed, always "drumming 

 well" This is a text from which much, very much 

 might be deduced to the advantage of every far- 

 mer. Let us, one oml nil, endeavor through the 

 year 1842, to drum belter \.U.\i\ we have ever drum- 

 med before ; and an increased reward to our labors 

 will be the snre result. L. A. MORRELL. 



Barley. — Barley should be sown as early in tho 

 spring as the ground can be well fitted for its re- 

 ception. We have known it sown from April to 

 June; but it may be observed, as a general rule, 

 that on soils equally prepared, the early sown 

 grain always gives the best samples. From the 

 1st to the 15th of May may be considered the usual 

 time of sowing. It rarely suffers from spring 

 frosts. 



Any siul that will proiincj good roots, or clover, 

 will grow barley. It should bo rich and friable, 

 moist, but not wet. C<dd, heavy, tenacious soils 

 are unfit fur this crop. — Alhnny Cult. 



A Cutting Reply. — An orphan beggor boy ap- 

 plied for alms at the house of an avaricious rector, 

 and received a dry mouhly crust. The rector in- 

 quired of thi-- boy if he could say the Lord's Prayer, 

 and was answered in the negative. " Then," said 

 the parson, " 1 will teach you that : repeat after 



me — 'Our Father who' " Our father 1" said the 



boy ; "Is he my father 03 well as yours?" " Yes, 

 certainly," said the priest. " Why then," replied 

 the boy, " how could you give your poor bruthtr 

 this niiJuldy crust of bread ?" 



