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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



produce heat, and of course a ready decomposition, 

 the process of jireparation may be hastened. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 WOOL WASTE FOR MANURE. 



" Is wool waste, or the sweepings of the mill, of 

 any value as a fertilizer ? It contains some oil, 

 which is said to be valuable for crops." 



Waste wool, — well decomposed, which may be 

 effected in a short time by the use of alkalies, and the 

 sooner for its containing oil, and the manure will be 

 the richer for the oil — is a valuable manure. These 

 substances are used by farmers in the vicinity of 

 Lowell Avith excellent success. 



NORTH AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL CON- 

 VENTION. 



The undersigned, a committee of the above Con- 

 vention, who were appointed at the meeting held in 

 Euffalo, last September, to report such plans for the 

 organization of future conventions — should it be 

 deemed advisable to hold them — as might be deemed 

 necessary to carry out successfully the objects for 

 which they were to meet, agreed, after consultation, 

 as part of their plan, to appoint committees for each 

 state, territory, and the Canadas, whose duty it 

 should be to report the results of their observations 

 and consultations in relation to matters suggested for 

 tlicir action in a circuhir, (which was issued by us 

 and sent to each one of them,) on the first day of 

 the assemblage of the Convention, which was, by 

 unanimous resolution, agreed should be held in the 

 autumn of 1819. 



The committee have had their attention called to 

 an editorial in the Horticulturist for March, in which 

 it is stated that the North American Pomological 

 Convention is a defunct convention, and that the 

 state committees have received the complijnent 

 from a committee which does not exist, or by an 

 authority unknown, ^yithout intending in any way 

 to comment on the article alluded to, the committee 

 think it their duty to remark, that bj' a perusal of 

 the report of the proceedings of the Buffalo Con- 

 vention, it will be seen that the report of this com- 

 mittee, making the Convention a national and a 

 permanent one, was adopted unanimously ; that it is 

 entirely unconnected with the New York State 

 Agricultviral Society, and that the designation of the 

 time and place for its next meeting, where the great 

 fair of that Society is to be held, was done for the 

 better accommodation of the public who are in the 

 habit of attending it from all parts of the country, 

 and also as a compliment to that society, in acknowl- 

 edgment of the great benefit they had conferred on 

 horticulture, by being the first to move in calling a 

 National Pomological Convention. The committee, 

 owing to the hurried close of the Convention at 

 Buffalo, had not time to concoct, or submit fully, 

 their plans for the consideration of the Convention, 

 and in doing it thus far afterwards, they conceive 

 that they are carrying out the true spirit and intent 

 of- their appointment, and th.at their action will meet 

 with the apiirobation of all concerned. 



The committse therefore hope that the gentlemen 

 appointed will not be deterred by the article above 

 alluded to, from attention to the several duties which 

 have been submitted for their action, as the North 

 American Pomological Convention will convene at 

 Syracuse, in the state of New York, on the 14th da)' 

 of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. — it being 

 the day succeeding the closing of the annual fair of 

 the New York State Agricultural Society. 



Com- 

 mittee. 



Pomological, horticultural, agricultural, and kin- 

 dred societies, or associations, throughout this 

 continent, are requested to send delegates to the 

 Convention ; and gentlemen resident in vicinities 

 where no societies exist, who take interest in the 

 advancement of pomological science, are also invited 

 to attend. 



J. D. G. Nelsox, Indiana, Chairman. 



James Dol'gai.i., Canada. 



Herman Wendell, M. D., N. York. 



J. C. Holmes, Michigan. 



Lewls F. Allen, New York. 



F. R. Elliott, Ohio. 



N. Goodsell, New York. 

 March, 1349. 



CIPCULAR. 



At the meeting of the Pomological Coxvextiox, 

 held at Buffalo, September, 1848, the following reso- 

 lutions were adopted : — 



" Resolved, That hereafter an annual assemblage or 

 convention shall be held under the name of the 

 " North American Pomological Convention." 



•' Resoleed, That this Convention shall be held, in 

 the comino; year of 1849, in the town or citj' iu 

 which the New York State Agricultural Fair may bo 

 held — to convene its session the first day succeed- 

 ing the closing of the Fair — and that the recording 

 secretary of the New York State Agricultural So- 

 ciety shall be intrusted with the charge, and respect- 

 fully solicited to give due notice of the time of 

 meeting, by means of agricultural journals, and cards 

 of invitation to gentlemen pomologists and horticul- 

 tural societies throughout the Union and the Cana- 

 das, that they may send delegates, or attend and 

 bring or send specimens of fruits for exhibition." 



The annual Show and Fair of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society having been fixed for the 11th, 

 r2th, and 13th of September next, at the city of Syra- 

 cuse, I do, in comijliance with the request contained 

 in the above resolution, hereby give notice of the 

 meeting of the North American Pomological Con- 

 vention, at the city of Syracuse, on Friday, the 14th 

 of September next — the day succeeding the Show 

 of the New York State Agricultural Society ; and on 

 behalf of the said Convention, extend a cordial invi- 

 tation to yourself to attend, and the Society with 

 which you are connected to send delegates to the 

 Convention, and to forward specimens of fruits for 

 exhibition. 



Any fruits that may bo sent can be directed to the 

 care of P. N. llusx, Esq., Syracuse. 



B. P. Johnson, 

 ■Sec. N. Y. State Ay, Society. 



Albany, April 6, 1849. 



DOMESTIC FISH PONDS. 



AVe are surprised our country friends do not i:)ay 

 more attention to the subject of fish ponds. Many 

 of them have, on some part of their estates, cither 

 natural ponds, or small streams running through 

 narrow valleys, which may be dammed at a trifling 

 expense, and occupy but a comparatively small sur- 

 face of land, and which, in many cases, is entirely 

 worthless. These ponds should be fed Avith living 

 streams or springs. The former are preferable, as 

 they bring to the pond supplies of seeds, vegetables, 

 roots, mud, &c., on which many of the finny tribes 

 subsist. Aquatic plants, insects of various kinds, 

 and infusoriic are also soon generated in the pond, 

 and supply them with an adequate amount of food. 

 Wherever this is deficient for the inmates, artificial 

 food may be added, as bread, decayed grains, vegeta- 

 bles, meat, and the like. They may be soon taught 

 to come at call, as by the tinkling of a bell, the blast 

 of a horn, the beat of a drum, or some musical instru- 



