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er. The second, viz., sprinkling the urine on the 

 seed, seems to be the safest, if performed by an at- 

 tentive hand ; the last, brining, may do equally well, 

 if such a quantity of salt be incorporated with the 

 water as to render it of sufficient strength. But it 

 may be remarked, that this last mode is often ac- 

 companied with smut, owing, no doubt, to a defi- 

 ciency of strength in the pickle ; whereas a single 

 head with smut is rarely discovered where urine 

 has been used." Treatise on British Husbandry. 



JAS. SMEALEE. 



MODES AND PROFITS OF STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 

 Having noticed an article in the August number 

 of the Cultivator, 1838, on the culture of strawber- 

 ries, to which my attention has been directed for a 

 number of years, and wishing the public to possess 

 all the light on the subject which can be obtained, I 

 am induced to communicate what little knowledge I 

 have of it. The kind generally cultivated on Long 

 Island (where I reside) for the supply of the New- 

 York market, I believe to be the early scarlet ; and 

 of these I have at present about three acres under 

 cultivation. We generally transplant, and form our 

 new beds in the beginning of May. Formerly the 

 universal practice was to plant in rows from two to 

 two and a half feet apart, the plants single being left 

 single, and at a distance of from 12 to 18 inches from 

 each other. My present practice, and that of many 

 others, is to plant them in hills about three and a 

 half or four feet asunder each way, placing four 

 plants in a hill, two and two together, about three 

 inches apart. By planting in hills there is a great 

 saving of labour, for it takes less time, the plants 

 are more easily kept clean by running the cultivator 

 through them both ways, and there is less labour in 

 hoeing; whereas, by the old method, when planted 

 close, the cultivator could not be used among them 

 at all, or, at most, only oxie way. The cultivator is 



