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In order to stop the gummy exudation from cherry threes, wash 

 the gummy spots with strong soap, and tie a bandage over them, 

 with soap enclosed. This is stated to be very efficacious. 



Potatoes. 



Mr. Bergmahn, a merchant of Waklheim, remarks that potatoes 

 are so much the better and more mealy, as the leaves are more round ; 

 that pointed leaves indicate an inferior quality in the tuber, and he 

 says that he has experimented upon more than one hundred and twenty 

 kinds of potatoes; that the Beck potato, which is marbled bluish-red, 

 holds the first rank. 



Scions of fruit trees arrived at Falmouth, England, from Bombay, 

 in good condition, being covered with grafting wax, placed in cot- 

 ton, wrapped up in India rubber cloth, and then suitably baled up. — 

 Translated by H. Meigs, sec'y of the Farmers' Club, April 5, 1847. 



Joseph Utley, of Perrysburg, Wood county, Ohio; The following 

 letter from him was read: 



Perrysburg, Wood county, Ohio. ^ 

 March 26, 1847. ^ 



Henry Meigs, Esq. Dear sir — The interest you take in agricultural 

 matters, is the apology I have to offer for the liberty I have taken 

 in addressing you. 



I live in a section of country, that has been blessed by Providence 

 with one of the richest soils that is to be found in the west, but 

 from which the farmers are not able to take good crops of wheat. 

 This kind of soil predominates throughout the western country, and 

 if science could step in and tell the farmer what his soil lacks, and 

 in what manner the difficulty could be obviated, thousands of dollars 

 would every year be added to the wealth of the country. I know 

 of no way that this could be so effectually brought about as through 

 the " Farmers' Club," provided they are willing to receive a sample 

 of our soil for analysis, and at the same time give to the people of 

 the West, the lights of their experience in the matter. 



At the same time they would be benefiting us, they w^ould be reap- 

 ing an advantage from it themselves, as the sample I would send, is 

 that from which our large crops of corn are taken. In telling us 

 what to add to our soil to produce good wheat, our soil, perhaps, 



