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-No, 22. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



ui" his still with the worm to cool and con- 

 dense the rarefied spirits, which ascend in 

 evaporation. In both, the most precious 

 mater is that which assumes the ;criform 

 state ; and to behold it escaping with un- 

 concerned indifference, is a demonstration 

 if tlio most profound ignorance — lb. 



SOAP-SUPS FOR DESTROYING INSECTS. 



The Rev. Mr. Falconer, one of the cor- 

 respondents of the Bath Agricultural Socie- 

 ty, strongly recommends soap-suds, both as 



i manure and an antidote against insects. — 

 He observes, "This mixture of an oil and 

 an alkali, has been more generally known 

 <han adopted as a remedy against the insects 

 which infest wall fruit trees. It will dislodge 



ind destroy the insects which have already 

 formed their nests, and bred among the 

 leaves. When used in the early part of the 

 year, it seems to prevent the insects from 

 settling upon them." He prefers soap-suds 

 ro lime-water, because lime soon " loses its 

 causticity, and with that its efficacy, by ex- 

 posure to air, arjd must consequently be fre- 

 quently applied ; and to the dredging of the 

 leaves with the fine dust of wood ashes and 

 iime, because the same effect is produced 

 by the mixture without the same labor, and 



s obtained without any expense." He di- 

 rects to make use of a common garden pump 

 •or sprinkling trees with soap-snds, and says 

 if the water of a washing cannot be had, a 

 quantity of potash, dissolved in water, may 

 be substituted, and that the washing of the 

 trees with soap-suds twice a week, for three 



ir four weeks in the spring, will be sufficient 

 'o secur-e them from aphides, &c. — lb. 



PLANTING CORN. 



If you plant in hills on good highly ma- 

 nured ground, be careful not to spread your 

 -eed, but let it be entirely close together. If 

 it be scattered to six or eight inches on such 

 ground, from five kernels you will probably 

 have fifteen stalks at least, and to pluck 

 them off is much trouble, and is likely to be 

 ;n]urious to the corn. Five kernels in a hill 



'lose together, never will have a shoot from 

 «hc ground, and with good attendance will 

 thrive and produce double the quantity of 



orn of the other, and is much cheaper man- 



:ged. This ground can be over seeded with 

 •wo kernels only to a hill of the same size ; 

 that is, plant on abed of manure eight inches 



■part in the hill, hoe it well, and yon will 

 iiave as much as ten stalks to a hill. Now 

 .('five is enough, ten is too inach. — Ports- 

 mouth Journal. — — — 



GOOSEBERRY BUSHES. 



A gentleman who h^s for several years pro- 

 tected his gooseberry bushes from the disease 



■r insect, which is so destructive to this fine 

 fruit, informs us, that the disease (which he 

 Miinks is an insect) originates in a kind of 

 moss, which is observable in spots on the 



tock and branches of the bush, and that 

 whenever he finds it on them, he immedi- 

 ately cuts off the limb. He has left with us 

 -everal pieces of the bush with the moss ont 

 them, in which he entertains no doubt the 

 egg of the insect is deposited. Since be 

 began cutting off ti.ese infected limbs, he has 

 iiad abundance of fine gooseberries, which he 



•otild seldom obtain before. It would be 

 •veil to try the experiment at least. — 4mer. 

 Farmer. — — 



Let every farmer divide bis pasture ground 

 rs he pleases. Let the fence between his 

 vraWe and pasture land 1* as strong as an 



external fence. But, if possible, let all his 

 arable ground, though it be a hundred acre*, 

 be in one lot. Then his plow runs clear, in 

 a long fnrrow. His tillage is divided only 

 by the different species of grain and vegeta- 

 bles he cultivates. There are no fences of 

 consequence, no inconvenient and worth- 

 less headlands ; no apology for thistles and 

 nettles. The scene is beautiful to the eye. 

 The whole has the appearance of a garden, 

 and begets in the farmer a sort of horticul- 

 tural neatness. — Gardeners' Journal. 



CULTIVATING FRUIT TREKS. 



Instruction in the culture of fruit trees, 

 forms part of the education of the ordinary 

 seminaries in the states ef Mecklenburgh 

 Schwerin. No schoolmaster is admitted to 

 exercise that function without a certificate 

 of his capacity to teach the management of 

 fruit trees. The same masters are obliged 

 to take caro of fruit gardens ; and those who 

 previously to the promulgation of the law on 

 the snbject, were ignorant of the art, receive 

 the due instruction at the expense of the 

 school fund.— Bull. Univ. 



CUT WORMS. 



Dr. Deaue directed as follows: "If you 

 perceive any melon, cabbage, cauliflower 

 plants, &c. injured by the cut worm, open 

 the earth at the foot of the plant, and you 

 will never fail to find the worm at the root, 

 within four inches. Kill him, and you will 

 save not only the other plants of your gar- 

 den, but many thousands in future years." 



TAR FOR SHEEP. 



A gentleman who keeps a large flock of 

 sheep, assures us, that during the season of 

 grazing, he gives his sheep tar, at the rate 

 of a gill a day to every twenty sheep. He 

 puts the tar in troughs, sprinkles a little fine 

 salt over it, and the sheep consume it eager- 

 ly. This preserves them from worms in the 

 head, promotes their general health, and is 

 thought to be a specific against the rot. 



Patent Cast Iron Vice. — The patent 

 cast iron vice, invented and manufactured 

 by Mr. E. D. McCord, of Washington 

 county, has been heretofore noticed and 

 commended in this paper. — Could nothing 

 more be said of it than that, it is an elegant 

 specimen of American ingenuity and work- 

 manship, it would deserve to supersede the 

 use of imported vices. But this is far 

 from being its principal recommendation. 

 It unites in an eminent degree lightness, 

 durability and power. Its strength results 

 from the screw always acting horiznotly, 

 and both parts, the entering and receiving 

 screw being perfectly parallel, whatever 

 be the distance of the jaws of the vice. — 

 This enables the whole length of the thread 

 of the screw to act uniformly and equally. 

 The manner of its construction also gives 

 the advantage of fixing it into its block 

 much more firmly and solidly. Experi- 

 ments of its strengthand power have been 

 made in this city, which would have sliat- 

 tered an ordinary vice to atoms. It is al- 

 so much cheaper than the imported vices, 

 as is every other article of hardware. — The 

 agent passed through this city this morn- 

 ing, with several tons of his vices for the 

 New York market-. Wherever thev are 



known, they cannot fail to obtain the pre- 

 ference over any other. — Troy Sentinel. 



Cure of Lock-Jaw. — The following 

 case is given in a periodical work on meet 

 icine : — For the following interesting case 

 of the locked-jaw wo are indebted to Mr. 

 Joy,an experienced and scientific surgeon, 

 of Great Massingham, in the county of 

 Norfolk. A chaff-cutter, about twelve 

 years of age, apparently in good health, at 

 the time when he was exercising his occu- 

 pation, so injured one of his fingers, as to 

 render immediate umputation of it at the 

 first phalanx, necessary. Although the 

 wound went on very favorably, locked-jaw 

 came on when it was nearly healed. Not- 

 withstanding the usual remedies, as opium, 

 in large doses, mercury, musk, and other 

 antispasmodics, wero actively employed 

 on the first appearance of the disease, the 

 spasms increased in violence, and extend- 

 ed to the muscles of the back, producing 

 the convulsive contractions of the muscles, 

 termed opisthotonas. The antispasmo- 

 dics and warm bath having totally failed to 

 afford the slightest relief, after pushing 

 them to the fullest extent for ten days, Mr. 

 Joy determined to give the muriated tinc- 

 trre of iron a trial. He accordingly order- 

 ed ten drops to be administered every hour, 

 in a little water, which the loss of a few 

 teeth allowed of being done withoot much 

 difficulty. After continuing this medicine 

 24 hours, tlie spasmodic affection of the 

 muscles was evidently much diminished. 

 The following day he was nearly free from 

 pain. The medicine was continued in the 

 same quantity and at the same intervals, 

 and the disease so rapidly decreased in vi- 

 olence, evidently under its influence, that 

 he was perfectly well in the course of a few 

 days. 



Wooden Lamps. — This is a new arti- 

 cle.lately brought into the New- York mar- 

 ket. It is made of curled maple, highly 

 polished ; and a yankee sold 1200 of them 

 at $2 a dozen, in a very short time. We 

 believe the yankees have given up the nut- 

 meg business ; but they are such an ever- 

 lasting "whittling" nation, that we should 

 not be much surprised to see them ped- 

 dling one of these days wooden lightning- 

 rods. — Far. Adv. 



XTXhe Barometrical and Tftermometriecl observe 

 tiaivs are registered at 10 o'clock A M. end P. itf., irklcK 

 by a lo.ng scries of experiments made for t?te pvrjtasc 

 skaio that time to give a nearer mean average v'f Xh<: 

 rcTlfh;? kevt cf a aa$ '..'ten any otftcr time. 



