Proceedings of the Farmers' Club. 295 



The Lake Cllmate for Fkuit. 

 Mr. S. L. Dejo of Naples, near Canandaigna, N. Y. — I wish to 

 have read and published by you, if consistent, a statement of the 

 products of the town of Naples. This is for this town alone, and 

 does not include the vast amount of fruits and vines around the 

 head of Canandaigua Lake. TJie vines given here are nearly all 

 young, and one-lialf or more too young to bear in 1868. 



Bush, apples 25,405 



Bush, peaches 2 ,441 



Bush, plums 1 ? 416 



Bush, cherries 404 



Bush, pears Tl 



Lbs. grapes 553 ? 453 



Acres grapes 382 



Bush, quinces 27 



Bbls. cider 499 



Lbs. dried apples 22,186 



Lbs. dried jDeaches 2,412 



Lbs. dried plums 4, G59 



Lbs. dried cherries 552 



Galls, wine 14 , 689 



Cans fruit 6 1 795 



Ashes, Chemically Considered. 



Mitchell Bros., New Haven, Conn. — Will you be kind enough to 

 inform us through the Chemist of the Farmers' Club, how many 

 pounds of carbonate of potassa are contained in one busliel of ashes ? 



Mr. James A. "Whitney. — When reference is made to the value of 

 ashes as a fertilizer or for soap, tlie wood from which they were 

 produced should always be mentioned. Of trees commonly used as 

 fuel, none contains so much potash as the elm. Beech is rich in 

 potassa, and so is walnut. Pine, on the other hand, contains so little 

 that its ash is not worth saving. Oak has eight per cent of potassa 

 but a large amount of lime. Ashes vary in weight witli the moisture 

 they contain. If a bushel weighs twenty-five pounds, one buys in it 

 from two to five pounds of carbonate of potassa, when the wood 

 was hard. For agricultund uses oak wood ash is as good as any on 

 account of the lime it contains; for potasli, elm, beech, l)irch and 

 maple should be chosen. 



Leaves of TinrBAKU Fatal to Hogs. 

 Mr. Wm. P. Passmore, Fairville, Chester county, Penn. — Your 

 Club may be interested in the last experiment I have tried in feeding 



