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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



acre. It somelihics costs tiiirty dollars. One ail- 

 vantace in lliis mode of reclaiming meadows is, we 

 have manure enough in the peat aslies for two or 

 tliree years, and we sometimes cut two tons to the 

 acre without any other dressing. It cost us more 

 than twenty dollars to subdue an acre of this meadow, 

 for we were beginners and had no instruction. We 

 sold ;4)out four acres of this reclaimed meadow to Dr 

 O. Dean, at two hundred dollars an acre. Such lands 

 must have a new dressing once in a few years, and 

 if compost manure is carried on, it should consist, 

 in part of gravel. This being far preferable to 

 saiid. Not more than one peck of lierds grass 

 (timotliv) should be sown on an acre, for the seed 

 will all grow, and when it is sown thicker it some- 

 times come up and mats together so close, as to 

 check a thrifty growth. These bottoms become 

 harder as the gr.iss grows, and we are often able 

 in a few years to plough them and turn the wild 

 grass under and seed them down anew, as we do 

 higher lands. We intend, in a future number, to 

 show how we have subdued peat meadows by dif- 

 ferent processes. 



In general, when gravel, or loam, or both are not 

 nigh by, paring and burning are cheaper than any 

 other mode. — Gtnesee Fanner. 



AGRICULTURAL GLEANINGS. 



The papers, in very many sections of our ex- 

 tended country, contain most cheering accounts, 

 both of the (juanlity and quality of the forthcoming 

 reward of the labor and care of the husbandman. 

 We extract a few of the principal for the gratifica- 

 tion of our readers. 



The Carbondale (Luzerne county) Journal states, 

 in reference to its neighborhood: — "We are on 

 the eve, if all signs are to be credited, of a most 

 abundant summer harvest. There are local excep- 

 tions, as there must ever be, but the general pros- 

 pect is excellent. Should the season continue 

 propitious to its close, without serious blight, rust, 

 mildew, or frost, we believe that an aggregate har- 

 vest, at least twenty per cent, greater than ever. 



promise. That arch enemy of the firmer, the army 

 worm, has been at its destructive work in Missouri 

 and Illinois, as we learn from the two journals 

 ([noted below. 



The St. Louis Republican states that, on many 

 of the farms in St. Louis county, and its neighbor- 

 hood, hardly a vestige remains of wheat, oats, or 

 corn, which but a few days before, promised fair to 

 reward the farmers for all their labors. They are 

 equally destructive to meadows. 



The Columbus (Illinois) Herald asserts that this 

 direful plague is at work in every direction there- 

 abouts, and is exceedingly destructive. In Illinois, 

 late very heavy rains have been productive of very 

 serious consequences. 'I his fact we gather from the 

 slatoment of the " Backwoodsman," which informs 

 us that, at Grafton, the quantity of water that has 

 fallen is greater than ever before known in so 

 short a tiuje, at this season of the year. The 

 smaller streams are overflowed, and in many places 

 the bottom lands adjoining are inundated. It is 

 feared that many bridges are swept away, and 

 sonic of the farmers sustained serious damages. 

 One had a field of corn, containing twelve or four- 

 teen acres, entirely destroyed. The corn was lit- 

 erally washed out of the ground. 



Per contra, in Georgia and Florida, they com- 

 plain, and with reason, we regret to say, of drought. 



The Milledgeville (Georgia) Journal says — 

 "Without there is an early rain, the planters in 

 this vicinity will lose their crop of corn, and the 

 cotton will be materially injured." And the Talla- 

 hassee (Florida) Gazette declares that the drought 

 had been greater than for several years ; and that 

 unless rain should come speedily, the corn would 

 bo " ruined." Thus far, however, the cotton in 

 tliat quarter looked well. 



At Cincinnati, on the l.?th, Flour had fallen to 

 .§5,00 ; and but little doing. Wheat had firllen 

 i20 cents per bushel, and waj then plenty and dull 

 at yO cents, with the expectation of a furtlier de- 

 cline. Although large supplies of Corn had been 

 received from Illinois, prices ranged from 70 to 80 



nients and predictions have been remarkably cor- 

 rect, 1 can eee I was very much mistaken with re- 

 gard to prices of fiour at this time. I had antici- 

 pated a great fall ere long, knowing well tliat al- 

 most all otJior crops were abandoned to make room 

 for wheat; but with some exportations and no im- 

 portations, I did not dream of a fall until after 

 next crop ; but I see I am mistaken. Oats are 

 here worth from .5s to (is per bushel, and wheat 

 cannot be worth over 9s, according to the price of 

 flour in your market, which plainly shows that 

 wheat was raised in place of oats. Provided our 

 wheat ripen regularly and in good season, you may 

 rely on having a large quantity from Western New 

 York, and you may tell the iMillers to take care 

 how tiiey buy else they will ruin themselves out- 

 right. I shall write you about the commencement 

 of harvest ; then we can tell to a certainty what 

 the crops are. At present it is only guess work, 

 but [he chance was never more promising. We 

 have a good demand for wool ; prices range from 

 37 to 56 1-4 cents per lb. Sheep and cattle very 

 higl), especially cattle. Cows from S35 to $50 

 eaci. A FARMER. 



AGRicuLTDRAL Meeti.ngs. — It is as important 

 to the country that agriculture should be scientifi- 

 cally understood and studied, as that iTianufaq,tur- 

 inr science should progress. The mere culture of 

 the land is nothing, except it is conducted (m the 

 bfst possible principles. To plough and manure, 

 to sow and reap, to break up and lay down land, to 

 breed and to rear stock, and to farm and to labor 

 ♦n a farm, merely as they who have passed away 

 ^'\^, is no great merit. 'I'his is merely to exercise 

 in imitative talent. The resources of the mind 

 bught to be brought to the labor; and profiting not 

 only by experience but in learning by experiment, 

 we may hope to see improvement progress in an 

 equal ratio in agriculture as in mechanics ; and 

 the knoMl.edge that the stores of experimental phi- 

 losophy affords to be applied to this, the most use- 

 ful of all arts because it produces the raw material 



