SHEEP HTSBANDRY. 579' 



Spirit of Tar — Destroys maggots, and repels the attack of flies. Flies 

 will not approach a part over which it has been smeared. 



Tar — Is a valuable application to the feet, nose, back of the horns, &c., 

 under the various circumstances detailed in Summer Management, and in 

 the treatment of grub in the head, hoof-ail, &:c. 



Tobacco — An infusion of it destroys vermin, and also is a cure for 

 scab, qiicin vide. 



Turpentine, Spirits of- — Prevents the attack of flies, and drives away 

 maggots. It is a useful application to old sores, wounds, &c. 



Verdigris (Acetate of CopjycrJ — Used in hoof-ail ; but adds nothing, I 

 think, to the good effects of the sulphate of copper. 



Zinc, Carbonate of- — Mixed with lard, constitutes a valuable emollient 

 and healing ointment. It is mixed in the pi-oportion of one part of the 

 carbonate, by weight, to eight of the lard. 



Mistake Corrected. — It was incidentally stated in the March Number of this Journal, that 

 we had been iuformed that Mr. Gowen, of Genuantown, Pa., had lately refused $500 for 500 

 bushels of Irish Potatoes. He assures us that our informant was mistaken, and that he would be 

 unwilling to be considered as speculating in an article of food. We regret not getting his cor- 

 rection in season for the April Number, and in the mean time have apprized him of the source 

 of our information, which was given, doubtless, under some misapprehension on the part of our 

 informant. 



Pruit-Trees, Grafting, &c. — In that valuable periodical. The Horticulturist — valuable, aa 

 might be inferred, from being conducted by Mr. Downing — there is an exceedingly impressive 

 and interesting paper from Mr. Turner, on the subject of the vital power and longevity of fruit 

 and timber trees, which goes far to explain facts and phenomena, that have been generally ob- 

 served but not understood. We shall take an opportunity of transferring Mr. Turner's letter, 

 ■with Mr. Downing's commentaries, to the pages of The Farmers' Librar}-. For the Americau 

 agriculturist who aspires to be respectably well informed in his profession, what subject more 

 pleasing, and at the same time more necessary to be studied, than the principles of Physiology 

 as applicable to trees which his houses and, in the greater part of the country, his fences are to 

 be built ; and from which his table is to be supplied with successive fruits, \{ snpplied at ail ! But 

 how many live and die on farms of hundreds of acres, enjoying less variety of fruits than is picked 

 up in large towns, after 10 o'clock, by the scavengers of the market! 



Potato-Rot — Another Promising E.rpcrhnent. — Wo promised to be done with this subject 

 tintil something new and promising should turn up. Such seems to be the experiment related. 

 by Senator Naill, of Maryland, a steady and zealous friend of Agriculture. 



He supplied a neighbor with potatoes for planting, who carefully i)lantcd the seis from three 

 to four inches deep, in drills about eighteen inches apart, covering them carefully with straw from 

 three to four inches deep, except a small portion that was purposely left uncovered by way of 

 experiment. The covering of straw prevented the growth of weeds and superseded the neces- 

 eity of cultivation. The result was an excellent crop of sound potatoes, so far as they were cov- 

 ered. Those left uncovered suffered with the rot. 



— " Had it not been for the last six words," said Mr. Skinner, " he would not have troubled 

 the gentlemen present by reading this extract — nor, but for that, would Mr. Naill have made the 

 communication— because it would have remained <jupstionable whether the crop would not have 

 been .sound irifhovt the rorcrinr^ .'—and this he took to be the sort of matterof fact practical in- 

 formation which New- York farmers and all other agriculturists wanted, and ^hich it would be- 

 come all Agricultural Clubs to send abroad, instead of mere generalizations." 

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