XXTI.KO. 20. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



20.5 



Kitli sand, it is an excellent tiling to put into 

 nrds and pi^-siyes, to be incorporated with 

 er ami iiiaimrc ; it niny likewise be thrown 

 heap until it beroniis completely pulverized, 

 Dn 8|)read upon the land, 

 lir-slacked lime, or small broken lime, can 

 lined in the city for about half the price of 

 inie, Mr Partridge suggests that it would be 

 ollenl ingredient to mix with the sea-mud, 

 purpose of forming a compost. A bushel 

 of the lime to a cartload of the rRud, he 

 a good mixture. When it abounds with 

 'fable vegetable matter, we would recom- 

 i greater proportion of liine, say from one to 

 twenty parts. Ashes and charcoal dust are 

 nf. ingredients to mix with sea. mud, and 

 iither (if these or limo is used to form a 

 it, thoy make it much more lasting. It is 

 )or to transport the sea-mud directly to the 

 ihere it is to be used, and spread it broad- 

 oiice upon the land ; and as the saving ot 

 s quite an object in our country, we have 

 hat tins method of applying it is the most 

 lly pcarticed. 



II the exception of a few of our more intelli- 

 rmers, sea-mud and marsh-mud as fertili- 

 •c not valued as highly as they ought to be 

 United Stales. They exist in immense 

 ies all along our seaboard, and may be had 

 nlimited extent, for the mere labor of trans- 

 in. We hope that some experiments may 

 er be made with them by some of our read- 

 tlie diflercnt kinds o( crops, and that ihey 

 lie us the results. The time, we think, is 

 ;hing, when sea-mud and marsh-soil will be 

 lly prized here as they now are in Europe. 



GREAT YIELD OP CORN. 



publish below an account of the manner of 

 ting an acre of corn, by George W. Wil- 

 of Bourbon, Ky., with a certificate of a com- 



of the Bourbon County Agricultural Society, 

 ted to measure the corn and the land. We 

 is method of doing things of this kind. To 

 inly that a man grew a certain amount of 

 Br acre, is extremely unsatisfactory. It is 

 isc to the community, and often excites sus- 

 ,of imposition. We should always have the 

 r of culture, along with a well authenticated 

 enl of the amount of produce and the meas- 

 Ithe land. In a private letter to us, Mr Wil- 

 flalcs that he considered the yield of this 



failure, on acciiuiil of wind and blight, and 

 ects to liear of much larger crops. — Louis- 

 )ur. 



nsrs. E. Clnrk Sf W. W. Forman : 

 iTLEMEN — The Bourbon County Agricultu- 

 :iety have appointed you to measure an acre 

 1 cultivated by me, and I am required to give 

 rst, a " detailed account" of the mode of its 

 lion, " describing the soil and whole treat- 

 from the fall of 1842 to the gathering of the 

 This I proceed to do in ns concise n inan- 

 I can. 



! acre was enclosed about the 1st of Si'ptern- 

 i4'2 ; is in s square, and includes land, one- 

 ' which had been exhausted by long previous 

 ticii in corn and other crops ; and, when en- 

 , wa.s such land as, I suppose, in the com- 

 ay of planting corn, might have yielded 35 

 jushels per acre ; the other half inclosed was 

 lemp land. Early in September, I com_ 



mcnccd feeding 110 hogs within the enclosure, and 

 continued to do so until they were fatted, which 

 was about the lOth of November. In March fol- 

 lowing, I carted from the stable, green stable ma- 

 nure enough to cover, with a light coat, the whole 

 of that part of the ground which had been exhaust- 

 ed by former cultivation ; being careful to have 

 none put on the other and better half As soon 

 as the frost was out of the ground, which did not 

 occur till after the Ist of April, I plowed it well, 

 harrowed and cross-plowed it, in this way pulver- 

 izing the soil thoroughly. On the 14th of April, 

 with a shovel-plow, I laid it off into rows each 

 way, two feet apart, and planted it, dropping two 

 grains to the lull ; I covered with a harrow, and 

 followed the harrow with the roller. The whole 

 after-cultivation was done with a hoe, which was 

 tedious and required an amount of labor I had not 

 anticipated, on account of the growth of grass, and 

 many weeds. I gave it two hoeings, and, to have 

 done it justice, it should have had the third. The 

 crop was greatly injured and reduced by the occur- 

 rence of two storms of wind, which swept nearly 

 the whole to the ground, and besides many ears 

 were entirely ruined by blight, the consequence of 

 bruises received in hoeing. On the 7th day of 

 September, I had the crop cut and put into slacks. 

 I cut it thus early because being mostly lodged, 

 and many rains occurring, the crop was injuring 

 very much. My hands are today engaged in 

 shucking it, and I will be gratified to have you 

 measure it tomorrow. 



GEO. W. WILLIAMS. 



CERTIFICATE. 



We, the subscribers, appointed by the Bourbon 

 County Agricultural Society to measure one acre 

 of corn cultivated by Geo. W. Williams, do certify 

 that we have measured the same accurately, and 

 there is one hundred and iwenlyseven bushtls, six 

 gallons, one quart, one pint, and a half pint to the 

 acre. We were exact in the measurement of the 

 land as well as the corn. 



Given under our hands this 28lh of September, 

 1843. Edwi.v Clark, 



W. W. Forman. 



SKILFUL AGRICULTURE AND HORTI- 

 CULTURE. 

 The extraordinary results of skilful agriculture 

 and horticulture, stated in the annexed extract 

 from a report in the N. Y. Tribune of the proceed- 

 ings of a late meeting of the Farmers' Clnb of 

 that city, shouldjstimulale to like eflTorts elsewhere. 

 We remember to have been much struck, at the 

 recent exhibition of the American Institute, with 

 the remarkably fine specimens of cereal grains and 

 "arden vegetables from the farm of Mr Pell, and 

 can now perceive the reason of their marked supe- 

 riority. — Albany Mv. 



"Mr Meigs stated that Mr Pell, of Ulster coun- 

 ty, had made a statement to the Club, from which 

 it appeared that he had employed fiftytwo bushels 

 of charcoal per acre ; that on this charcoal dress- 

 in;:, he obtained last summer, sevenlyeight bushels 

 and Iwcntyfour quarts of wheat per acre. That he 

 had twenty thousand apple trees in full bearing. 

 That in dry weather, he had applied lime freely at 

 the roots — fouud that this preserved the verdure 

 and growth, when the neighborhood was much in- 

 jured by drought. That he had cut wheat two or 



three weeks soon T than his neighbors, when the 

 root of the straw began to turn brown, and when 

 by the pressure of the finger and tiiumb on the 

 grain, tne milk would fly out. That thi.s wheat 

 weighed siityfour poumts per bushel. That he 

 had cut clover and housed it on the same day — 

 sprinkling about a eusliel of salt over every load. 

 That this clover retained its green color and was 

 preferred by caitle to that cured in the old way. 

 I'hat he dipped a sponge in ammonia and applied 

 it to the worm nests on his trees, and banished 

 them completely. That he has sent four thousand 

 barrels of apples to market, many of which go to 

 London, and there sell for nine dollars per barrel. 

 That he employed a man from Vermont to engraft 

 ten thousand apple trees for $150. That this man 

 brought a company of men, of whom two sawed 

 off the proper limbs, two more made the proper in- 

 cisions (two of them,) in the branch, two more in- 

 serted the grafts, two more applied a compost of 

 wax, tallow, and ro-^in. That out of the twenty 

 thousand grafts not one failed." 



LARD OIL. 



A great improvement is made at Cincinnati in 

 rendering lard. The .\tlas of that city says : "The 

 ard, in leaf and strip, is thrown into a large wood- 

 en vat, some ten feel in diameter, where it is thor- 

 oughly n)elled by a voluine of steam being poured 

 upon it. It 13 then conveyed to another vat under- 

 neath, the water thoroughly evaporated, and the 

 melted lard drawn off into kegs and barrels. One 

 hundred and fifty barrels per day can be thus ren- 

 dered, with the labor of two men ; there is no pos. 

 sibility of the lard being burnt, and every particle 

 of it in the hog is thus saved, which cannot bo 

 done by any press, however powerful." 



It is not probably known that we consume a 

 considerable quantity of lard oil under the name of 

 fresh olive oil, and although lard oil is preferable 

 to dress salad to castor oil, yet we are paying too 

 dear for it. A great portion of the oil we receive 

 from France, n.cely covered over at the top of the 

 flask with tin foil, and packed in clean wicker 

 baskets, is compounded with lard oil, say at least 

 one-half. As the ingenuity of our people is not 

 disputed, and as they have long been celebrated 

 for making capital Champaigne out of Newark ci- 

 der, it is not presumed that they are idle in the 

 manufacture of oil. They have only to purchase 

 old flasks and baskets — a few hogsheads of olive 

 oil mixed with a few of clear lard oil, packed off 

 and sold at three dollars and a half per dozen bot- 

 tles, yiold.s a very fair profit, and may be consider- 

 ed sufficiently pure for our families, hotels, and 

 eating houses. Oil, like butter, should always be 

 pure and sweet. We may be singular in our no- 

 tions, but we prefer the oil pressed from the olive 

 instead of that from the hog. — Long Island Hun. 



Sleep. — Few of our readers, perhaps, ore aware 

 that the human body falls asleep by degrees, ac- 

 cording to .M. Cahinis, a French physiologist. The 

 muscles of the legs and arms lose their power be- 

 fore those that support the head ; and these last 

 sooner than the muscles which sustain the back ; 

 and he illustrates ibis by the cases of persons who 

 sleep on horseback, or while they are standing or 

 walking. He conceives that the sight sleeps first; 

 then the sense of taste ; next the sense of smell ; 

 next that of hearing ; and lastly that of touch. — 

 Selected. 



