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way to sow plaster is to wet it before sowing. I always sprinkle 

 about a pailful of water on 300 pounds of plaster, and mix it thor- 

 oughly. There are several advantages in doing this. First, when 

 sowing there is no dust; it is no more disagreeable to handle than 

 wheat. Second, it falls just where it is intended to. Third, it 

 can be sowed at any time. Four years since, I took a farm which 

 had been worked by a man eight years. Hjs average wheat crop 

 was eight bushels per acre. The first year he did little except 

 to follow me around when I was plowing, and tell me that I would 

 raise nothing — " he had taken all the cream out of the land.'' The 

 first year I raised twenty-six bushels of wheat per acre from the 

 same land. 



CLUB-FOOT CABBAGE. 



Mr. Abraham Herr, Eeading, Pa., wishes a remedy for a wart or 

 hard green substance growing at the bottom of the roots of his 

 cabbages. This disease has become so prevalent that his neighbors 

 planted few cabbages this year. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — This and other diseases of cabbages are 

 common through the country, and no one pretends to cure them. 

 Perhaps there is no vegetable more difficult to grow, nor is there 

 one, when it is grown, which the cows are so likely to get after. 

 Around New York, the professed gardeners have little or no diffi- 

 culty; at least, if they succeed at all, their success is complete. 

 The general rule is, to grow cabbage on ground not recently devoted 

 to them. We have seen a piece of heavy grass cut one day, the 

 ground plowed the next, and cabbage planted on it the day after. 

 Sod is preferred. Very little care seems to be given in planting, 

 at least the work is done with great rapidity, a hot sun comes out, 

 eveiy plant seems dead, but in a day or so they are all alive, and 

 it is not uncommon to find acres where not more than one plant in 

 a hundred is dead. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — Never apply hog manure to land on which you 

 plant cabbage. Adjourned. 



August 20, 1867. 



Mr. Nathan C. Elt in the chair; John W. Chambers, Secretary 



A FINE CLUSTER OF PEARS. 



The Chairman exhibited a branch of a young pear tree, bearing 

 ten perfect pears of fair and full size, all of which touch each 

 other, and the cluster weighs over two and a half pounds. Surely 



