Messrs. Editors : — I shall be greatly obliged if'you will in- 

 form me through the columns of your valuable paper, of 

 some method of killing Tanzcy. I have a small patch 

 which does not appear to spread unless plowed. It has been 

 plowed for a number of years, and if you, or any of your 

 many subscribers, can give any information on the subject, 

 you will greatly oblige a Subscriber. 



Salt it well and it will die. Mowing and burning, if prac- 

 ticable, will aid in destroying it. 



S. W.'S NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 



The World's Fair and thr Yacht America. — The 

 eclipsing character of the American people for labor- 

 saving inventions, and time-saving locomotion, could 

 not he better illustrated by a volume of argument, 

 than by the premiums given at the World's Fair to 

 Mears &l Prouty's Plow and McCormick's Reaper. 

 As if to put the nub on, or as the French say, mis le 

 cornble, to American triumphs in the premises, 

 aqaatic England is all astounded at this time by the 

 superior fleetness of an American Yacht ; and what 

 is the most wonderful of all is, that instead of a close 

 race, where Greek meets Greek, the triumph of the 

 Yankee is set down not by fathoms, but by miles and 

 leagues. With a generosity truly admirable, the 

 American Yucht instead of taking the wind of John 

 Bull, which she had a right to do, courteously passed 

 to leeward of the chase relying on her superior fleet- 

 ness to bring her to windward again. 



The forav on Cuba. — The country laments the 

 sad fate of the brave, but deluded, men who embarked 

 in the Lopez expedition to revolutionize Cuba. Much 

 indignation is expended on the very few American 

 newspaper editors who falsely represented the inhab- 

 itants of Cuba as being in revolt against Spain. But 

 methinks it is as well to leave these men to their 

 own remorse, which, at this time at least, must be 

 sufficient for them. 



Our Cereal Crops. — A masterly farmer from the 

 rich and fertile plateau of Romulus, comes down 

 upon me with a wet sail for saying too much in favor 

 of our present wheat and Indian corn crop. So far 

 as relates to wheat, I plead guilty of a want of 

 correct advices, at that time ; it is now pretty 

 generally conceded that the wheat crop is below 

 the average of good crops, in Seneca county at 

 least. I still contend that Indian corn is, or might 

 have been under proper culture, a large crop. In 

 twenty years I have not had as large a growth of 

 well filled ears as at the present season. But, per- 

 haps there never was a season since 1816 when corn 

 needed more attention, in order to secure the maxi- 

 mum yield. Even a dry, well manured soil would 

 have failed, this cool, wet season, to fill the ears well, 

 had not all barren stalks and suckers been early re- 

 moved. Corn thus treated, will fill better stand both 

 drouth and wet better, and ripen a fortnight earlier 

 than corn in the next row equally as well hoed, if 

 suffered to go unshorn of suckers and barren stalks. 

 I have no need to dilate on the philosophy of this 

 theory, as repeated experiment has placed the fact 

 beyond question. 



Farmers Products — Prospects of Prices. — 

 When the prices of breadstufts rule high in New 

 York, the consumption of flour, even at home, is in- 

 finitely less, and the export to foreign countries 

 nothing, compared with the great export under the 

 present extreme, and I may say unprecedented, low 

 prices. Our expart of the products of the United 

 States from JNew York alone, for the month of July 



this year, amounts to nearly three and a quarter 

 millions of dollars. During the past year France has 

 been our greatest competitor in the supply of wheat 

 and flour to England. But at the present extreme 

 low prices in the United States, France will hardly 

 compete with us ; the resull will be that our export 

 of wheat, flour, and Indian corn, the coming year, 

 will be unprecedently large, and the longer low pri- 

 ces rule, the greater the export and the more the 

 market will be relieved ; so that those farmers who 

 have good wheat will be safe in holding it lor an im- 

 proved price. I take it that the ultimate point of 

 depressed prices is already reached, from whence a 

 rise is certain. Indian corn, heretofore unused and 

 almost unknown in Great Britain, is now received 

 therefrom the United States to the amount of mil- 

 lions of bushels ; and as a shipper of this cereal the 

 United States has no competitor. Our own home 

 consumption of breadstuff's is enormous and daily 

 increasing. Perhaps no country on the face of the 

 earth ever progressed faster in commercial enterprise 

 and manufacturing industry than these United States 

 — no country can boast of the same rapid increase of 

 fixed machinery. Our cotton fabrics compete suc- 

 cessfully with those of England in many foreign mar- 

 kets. New England manufactures eight million 

 pounds of wool from Ohio alone. Our shipwrights, 

 founders, and machinists, furnish steam ships, steam 

 engines, and machinery, to many foreign nations ; 

 even the two little towns of Waterloo and Seneca 

 Falls already manufacture fabrics of cotton, wool, and 

 iron, to an amount approaching a million of dollars 

 annually. 



My last " notes for the month" were shorn of some 

 remarks on the pertinacity of certain political econo- 

 mists who gave the reader one side of the picture, 

 which mystified, rather than elucidated, the other. — 

 I may be wrong, but I cannot resist the idea that our 

 agricultural papers are a little too thin skinned when 

 they demur to a .summary of current events, merely 

 because an incident in political economy is attempted 

 to be explained, palliated, or controverted. Waterloo, 

 JV. Y., Sept., 1851. 



Peat as a Manure. — At a "Farmers' Club," held 

 in W. in the winter of '49, the subject of peat being 

 under discussion, one gentleman remarked, that 

 when a youth, he assisted his father in removing 

 from its bed, about a hundred loads of peat, which 

 thoy spread over a field the soil of which was a 

 sandy loam, the sand being in excess. It was taken 

 out in the fall, thrown in small heaps about the field, 

 and left in this condition till the time of plowing in 

 the spring, when it was spread over the ground and 

 plowed under, and the field was then planted with 

 corn. During the whole season they watched for 

 the effect, and " tried to believe" that the corn was a 

 little better on that part of the field where the peat 

 had been thrown, than on other portions. The sec- 

 ond season showed a manifest, though not a great 

 diff'erence ; and the third, a greater ; and so on, in- 

 creasing for several years ; and for twenty years, a 

 difference was distinctly discernable in favor of the 

 portion of the field on which the peat had been 

 thrown. He attributed the small advantage for the 

 first few years, to the presence of an acid in the peat, 

 which was gradually neutralized by the summer sun. 

 The addition of a quantity of lime would doubtless 

 have rendered it immediately beneficial. H. — Down 

 East, 1851. 



