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common salt fn addition to wood ashes, will be of 

 great service on red top meadows. Salt and plaster 

 are exceedingly valuable articles to mix with all 

 stable and barn-yard manure, as well as with night 

 soil, before their application to the land. 



A luxuriant plant of Spear Grass, (Poa praicn- 

 sis,) sometimes called herds grass, just headed out, 

 gave of 



Water, 81.564 



Dry mailer... 18.436 



Ash,--. 2.26/ 



Ash calculated dry, 12.296 



ANALYSIS OF ASH FROM WELL DRIED HAY. 



Silicn, --- 56.320 



Phosphates, 14.980 



Carljonnte of lime, 3.540 



Potash,-.- - 15.624 



Soda, 6.828 



[Magnesia, 1.996 



Snlphuiic acid, 0.200 



Chhirine, 0.863 



100.351 

 Another specimen gave the following results, 

 which Prof. E. suggests may be a fairer average 

 sample of poa p'ntcnsis than the above : 



Silica,-- 48.300 



Phosplialos, - 11.650 



Lime 0.030 



Magnesia, trace. 



Potash, 3.531 



Soda, - 12.505 



Sodium, 4.180 



Chlorine,.--- 6.365 



Sulphuric acid, -- - 5.156 



Organic acid, 4.400 



98.186 

 The quantity of chlorine, soda, and sodium, (all of 

 which are common salt,) in the above deserves atten- 

 tion. The almost total absence of lime is remark- 

 able. Wo respectfully suggest to farmers to try the 

 easy experiment of sowing broad-cast about two 

 bushels of salt on an acre as an experiment, applying 

 it five weeks before haying time, 't \ ill be more 

 likely to benefit dry than wet meadows. Two bushels 

 of salt and two of wood ashes, unleachcd, will doubt- 

 less pay well for the expense incurred. 



In former volumes of this journal we have fre- 

 quently taken occasion to say, from our personal 

 observation, that young clover, yonng corn, and other 

 ])hints cut for soiling, should be partially dried before 

 feeding. The following results bear upon that ques- 

 tion. Red clover gathered when nine inches high, 

 contained 



Water in the stem, 88.30 



Dry matter, 10.95 



Ash. - 0.75 



Ash calculated dry, 6.85 



Water in the leaf, , 71.00 



Dry matter, 20.00 



Ash, 2.00 



Ash calculated dry, 10.00 



" "Water in leaf aji'd sta/k 84.15 



Dry matter, 14.48 



Ash, 1.37 



Ash caJciiIated dry, 9.46 



Ash in a ton 211.68 Ihs. 



All plants, when young and growing rapidly, con- 

 tain a large amount of water to facilitate the circu- 

 lation of thoir aliment. There is more water in 100 

 pounds of yonng clover or corn than in a like weight 

 of blood. In the arterial blood of a horse there is 

 about 7G per cent, of water ; in that drawn from a 

 vein a little less, say 757.251 in 1000 parts. To keep 



horses, cows, working o.xen, and sheep in health, and 

 provide for them a generous supply of food, are objects 

 of great importance to the farmer. Science will aid 

 him much in this department of his great profession, 

 if he will not treat her with rudeness or neglect. 



S. W'S NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 



Our Winter Trade. — A correspondent of the Syra- 

 cuse Star, in his statistical notices of freight coming 

 from the east, to go via Geneva and the Erie Rail- 

 road to New York during the month of February, has 

 omitted to include some hundred tons of whiskey, 

 pork, cotton and woolen goods, fcc, k.c., which has 

 gone by water from Waterloo to Geneva, \vhence 

 the loaded boats were towed by steamer direct to the 

 railroad depot at the head of Seneca Lake. Heavy 

 goods, sugar, molas.ses, fee, are now brought by the 

 Erie Railroad Company, from New York to Geneva, 

 at 48 cts. per 100 lbs. The spring trade is thus 

 early being supplied by this route, to the discourage- 

 ment of our canal boatmen, many of whom are now 

 bound to California. 



Ireland and the Irish. — From the great rush of 

 Irish emigrants into the United States, one would 

 naturally suppose that Ireland was over peopled. So 

 far from it, Carlysle tells us what a beautiful coun- 

 try Ireland might be ; but alas, says he, "it carries 

 on it, as the surface of the earth ever does, ineflace- 

 ably legible, the physiognomy of the people that 

 inhabit it — a people of holed breeches, dirty faces, 

 ill roofed huts — a people of impetuosity and levity 

 — of vehemence: impatient, imperfect, fitful indu.s- 

 try ; imperfect, fitful veracity." * * * " Vigorous 

 corn, but thistles and docks equally vigorous ; ulcers 

 of easily reclaimed bog, lying black, and miry, and 

 abominable, at intervals of a few miles ; no tree 

 shading you ; with fences as it were soliciting the 

 cattle to be so good as not to come through — by no 

 means a beautiful country just now ! but it tells all 

 men how beautiful it might be." He advises all 

 those patriots who talk about dying for Ireland, to 

 reflect upon the better policy of living for it — "let 

 them at least plant one tree each. That eight mil- 

 lions of persons will be persuaded to plant each his 

 tree, we do not expect just yet ; but do thou, my 

 friend, in silence go and plant thine." 



The Fevkr for Gold. — One day la.'-t week, about 

 #6,000 of the new gold coin was received in this 

 village, fresh from the mint. This was the gross 

 earnings of three individuals lately returned from a 

 year's voyage to California. Their les.s fortunate 

 associates were left behind to enjoy as they could 

 their various health and fortujie — tlte poorest and 

 sickest buoyed up by that ever blessed hope, which 

 the philosophic Hume said was worth a thousand 

 pounds a year ! The sight of these money bags, for 

 the time being, turned every head — nothing was 

 talked of, thought of, or dreumi'd of, but fitting out or 

 setting out for the El dorado ! Woo to that croaker 

 who dared to speak of the uncertainty of the diggers' 

 gains, the certainty of privation and sickness and 

 suffering, as every eye was blind, every ear deaf, 

 and the mind impassive to nil the hindrances and 

 positive evils that stood in the way of the glittering 

 pile ? All accounts agree that from the east, the 

 north, the south, and the far west, at this time the 

 migrating army of gold diggers is greater than ever ; 

 still greater, perhaps, than the host of crusaders that 

 followed Peter the hermit to the holy land ! 



