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suits iii the pocket. Spring wheat, hurley ant 

 flax, may he made to follow the potato crop 

 with most perfect success in nine cases out ot 

 ten; ami with those crops, toe land may he 

 sown with clover with much advantage and 

 profit. , 



The great point, after all, since the prevalence 

 of the potato epidemic, is the saving ol the crop 

 after they are grown. Until more light be thrown 

 upon this difficult subject, it would he unwise to 

 cultivate the poiato to any great extent. With- 

 out further comment, we give the following ex- 

 tract from the letter in question :— 



"About the first of May, 1 planted five acres 

 in the following manner: the soil was a dry, mi- 

 caceous, sandy loam, gradually rolling with a 

 southern exposure ; the seed used was both 

 while and purple Mercers, principally large ones, 

 cut into three pieces, and rolled in gypsum, and 

 allowed to lie but a few hours after cutting. 

 The field was an old sward, chiefly of moss and 

 garlics; the manure employed was entirely from 

 the yards, made from the cow and horse stables 

 and the styes, about twenty-five two-horse loads 

 per acre, spread broadcast before the plough— 

 the land having been heavily limed several years 

 previous. The planting process commenced 

 with the tillage, by dropping the pieces of the 

 tubers (prepared as above) about one foot apart 

 in the bottom of every other furrow, which was 

 five inches ill depth and ten inches wide, strew- 

 ing them with ashes and fine charcoal (from a 

 locomotive, in which pine wood was consumed,) 

 about twenty bushels per acre. The ploughing 

 was performed in the usual manner, in the lands 

 of twenty-five yards each. 



"Immediately after planting, the ground was 

 thoroughly rolled. After it had lain a few days, 

 it received repealed harrowings, lengthwise of 

 the furrows, in the warm part of the day, which 

 was continued until the tops were three inches 

 in height, alter which they remained without til- 

 lage until they were some eighteen inches high, 

 when the cultivator was passed through, between 

 the rows, and the weeds, if any, removed. They 

 then received a light lop dressing of gypsum, 

 after which they remained untouched until fit to 

 harvest, which was done as soon as the skins of the 

 new tubers were firmly set, but before all the 

 lops were entirely dead. We began 10 dig about 

 the first of September, before the autumnal rains 

 commenced. They were placed in a cool, dark 

 cellar, and spread" on the ground floor, about 

 eighteen inches thick, where they remained for 

 two months, when they were assorted and placed 

 in bins about foul feet deep, there to remain un- 

 til marketed in the spring. They have so far 

 kept perfectly, there being no visible traces ot 

 disease in the entire crop." 



been given to horses for cough, with good suc- 

 cess. A dose of this fodder occasionally, in the 

 winter, is good for the health of horses; and it 

 should be saved for that purpose. 



Another. — We once cured a horse of an obsti- 

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 were tried without effect, by feeding him exclu- 

 sively on sheeps' orts. They have peculiar me- 

 dicinal properties, which they imbibe from the 

 dung and urine. 



Another, — Boil a small quantity of flax seed ; 

 mix it in a mash of scalded bran, adding a few 

 ounces of coarse sugar, or some molasses or 

 honey. 



A good toast for an agricultural dinner party : 

 " The Plough — Its one share in the hank of the 

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Cough in Horses. 



In all disorders accompanied by a cough, the 

 true cause should be astertained. Sometimes 

 the cough is only a consequence of" a chronic or 

 seated disease, as is the case in heaves, &c. At 

 other times it is symptouiic of recent inflamma- 

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