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Iff salt upon it. His friend said, that being 

 ,lcni some time before, he found upon one of 

 thnrves, a quantity of salt thnt had come troni 

 •go of hides, which he purchased for a trifle, 

 xporiment sake, and sowed it broadcast over 

 leld, as he would grain. As to the amount 

 sown to the acre, .Mr Stone could not give 

 account. The fall feed was much better, and 

 oin[)lexion of the grass superior to that por- 

 of the field where no salt had been sown. It 

 his opinion that, when used discreetly, it might 

 >nsiclcred a valuable manure. This lot was 

 ted about two miles from the ocean. The ef- 

 )f salt upon asparagus beds was well known 

 3St farmers ; it produced beneficial results. 

 (Concluded on editorial page.) 



?:COND AGRICULTURAL MEETING, 

 e copy from tlie Ploughman the conclusion of 

 iscussion at the second agricultiyal meeting, 

 e subject of " Alanures." 



r Smith, the member from South Iladley, said 

 d not rise to make a formal speech — he was 

 n the habit of it. I obtain all the materials 

 I from the back-house, from the drain, and 

 the cow-yard. My yard is dishing, to hold 

 iquid. Alter 1 have done plantmg, I cart in 

 it all leisure limes: I mow weeds and stubble. 

 e spring, I mix all my manures together, as 



as I can work them ; pile up, and leave the 

 J to father in the hollow in the centre of the 

 : I spread this liquid on my grounds. I 

 ad manure on my grass lands after the grass 

 itarted. 



a to plowing in green crops, the gentleman 

 spoke first omitted one which I think inipor- 

 — buckwheat. I can turn in two crops of buck- 

 at in a season, and have then time enough to 

 winter rye. I find this a good mode of im- 

 ing lands. 



[r S. said he would mention one experiment 

 ih had been reported to hitn, and on good evi- 

 :e. A colt, four years old, was kept in the 

 , through the year, and fed with hay — the ma- 

 ! which he made was put on to the same 

 ind whence the hay was taken that supported 

 : this was repeated for four years, and at the 

 of that term there was hay remaining, after 

 ishing a full supply for the animal. Mr S. 



that nothing was put on to the land but the 

 lure from this single colt ; he had a sufficiency 

 itier thrown in for his bedding. 

 Ir Merryman, the member from Auburn, ob- 

 cd that manure should be kept under cover ; 



worth more than double of that ivhich has 

 n exposed. He considered the contents of the 

 n from the house valuable : he spoke of the 

 iral wash on lands in summer, but hg thought 

 ore prudent to gather all into compost heaps, 

 said lime is not generally useful on our lands ; 

 where iron ore abounds, lime is found to be 

 d. He had made no great trial of swamp mud, 

 found it worked well ou dry lands. He had 

 nd sand out of the side-hill, good for his low 

 ijs. Higli land earth seems to be good for low 

 und, and meadow mud for high lands : where a 

 n has a good proportion of each, the one will 

 lish manure for the other. He had used, on 

 low lands, gravel that had been dug from his 

 ,ar, and had lain two years, and he had found 

 3 answer a very valuable purpose, bringing in 

 d grass without the application of any manure. 



Mr Hardy seemed to have some qualms as to 

 the colt story, but ho agreed that meadow mud was 

 good on high land. Ho could name a poor sandy 

 plain in Lowell, that lay by the side of a muck- 

 hole : the owner cleared all the roots out of the 

 hole and sold them at such a rate that the clearing 

 of the land cost him but five dollars an acre. I''orty 

 loads of tliis meadow muck was carried on to each 

 acre of the sandy plain and buried deep. Corn 

 was then planted, and no other dressing was ap- 

 plied, and the owner harvested sixty bushels of 

 good corn to the acre. 



Mr Smith now owned he was beaten, and de- 

 clared he would withdraw the colt story. 



Mr Cole, of Boston, thought that a man might 

 plow in one crop of buckwheat each year and take 

 off a good crop of rye — that this might be done 

 on most of our light lands. As to salt, he thought 

 it good to kill worms in the soil. And he had 

 tried it on a weedy bed of asparagus. The salt 

 killed the weeds and made the asparagus thrive. 

 He put one quart of salt to a pailful! of water, dis- 

 solved it, and then sprinkled it on the bed. 



ipect ; but, on his return, he publicly expressed 

 his determination to accept of no such tribute. Hu 

 seemed sent to rescue his country from the im- 

 peichment of "aye booin," for lie never bowed to 

 wh:it ho did not feul was entitled to respect. 



We have not hoard his age named ; but his 

 high brow, plowed and furrowed, and tiie ap- 

 pearance of his thoughtful face the last lime we 

 had the pleasure of seeing him, would lead us to 

 suppose he was somewhat about sixty. He ha.i 

 left a widow and one daughter. 



His country owes him much — perhaps more 

 than it does to any other individual who has pur- 

 sued the same walk through life. His name will 

 be honored and respected as long as the happiest 

 and most interesting of human pursuits are valued. 



DEATH OF MR. LOUDON. 

 To the death of the illustrious German Van 

 MojJS, is now to be added that of the celebrated 

 English horticulturalist, J. C. Loudon, Esq. whose 

 agricultural, floriculurai, and other works, are 

 known ns well in this, as in the mother country. 

 Mr. Loudon was a famous landscape gardener, in 

 which occupation he was aided, as it is said, by 

 the taste and skill of his wife, who has recently 

 published a work upon gardening, designed espe- 

 cially for the instruction of her own sex in that 

 healthy and facinating employment. Mr. Loudon 

 died last month at his residence in Porchester ter- 

 race, Bayswater, of a disease of the lungs which 

 had wasted him to a shadow. We copy the an- 

 nexed notice of this good man and his labors from 

 a late number of the London Sun. — Boston Tran- 

 script. 



'J he number and magnitude of his works are 

 almost without parallel, and excite absolute as- 

 tonishment when we consider the painful disad- 

 vantages under which he labored, having lost one 

 arm, and being deprived to a great extent of the 

 use of the other ; but nothing damped his desire 

 of usefulness, or checked his industry. He has 

 been known, while walking up and down his study, 

 to dictate to two amanuenses, and that so clearly 

 and continuously that their pens were never at 

 rest. In all Mr. Loudon's great agricultural, and 

 especially iiis floricultural works, during the last 

 twelve years of his life, he was assisted by his 

 wife. Mrs. Loudon was favorably known to the 

 literary world, before her marriage, as the author 

 of one or two novels ; but she made an easy Iran, 

 sit from the ideal to the real, and also accompa- 

 nied her husband on his visits, when occupied in 

 laying out the landscape gardens of many of the 

 nubility, both in England and his native Scotland. 

 A catalogue of hia works alone would occupy 

 more than a column of this paper. Early and late 

 — nearly day and night — he labored, and his 

 mind was as independent as industrious. During 

 his last absence from liome a number of indivi- 

 duals connected with horticulture in its various 

 and beautiful branches, assembled here together, 

 determined to show their respect for Mr. Loudon, 

 and their appreciation of his works, by presenting 

 I him with some splendid testimonial of their re- 



FARMING TOOLS. 

 There is nothing more worthy of notice than 

 the great variety of shape in tools which are ii.sed 

 by different persons and in different sections of 

 country for performing the same kinds of labor. 

 One having before him all the different patterns 

 which may be found in use of the same articlp, 

 would be surprised that those which are best adapt- 

 ed to the uses for wliich they were intended ate 

 not in universal use where all are equally easy to 

 be obtained. Even in those tools or implements of 

 husbandry which one would suppose should be the 

 same the world over, there is a marked difference 

 in the fitness or adaptness of those used in differ- 

 ent sections of country ; for instance: the article 

 of Grass-Scythes which are used in Massachusetts 

 and Maine are entirely different from those used 

 in ConniDcticut and in this State, In the former 

 States they use a light narrow scythe, made in the 

 neatest manner, and so formed that when used the 

 grass falls from the Scythe in the swarth without 

 loading upon the back to be swung round into 

 heaps by the workman. Here our people seem to 

 think that a good edge is the only thing to be 

 looked for, and use a heavy bungling article of an 

 awkward shape. It is true a keen edge is indis- 

 pensable, but other good qualities should bo com- 

 bined. The only reason that the best article of 

 this kind is not generally used among ns is that 

 we have not been willing to pay their value. Those 

 sent from Massachusetts to our market are no sam- 

 ples of what they use there, and without doubt our 

 manufactures can make as neat an article as any 

 others if they could be paid for it. The writer of 

 this was shown not long since, the neatest article 

 of this kind that ho has over seen, at the New 

 England Agricultural Ware-House, Boston, kept 

 by J. lireck & Co. It is stamped Dunn & Tay- 

 lor, and manufactured by Taylor, Hitchcock & Co. 

 in the State of Maine. If some of Messrs. T. H. & 

 Co.'s best Scythes should be for sale in our mar- 

 ket the coming season, it is to be hoped that our 

 people will give them a trial ; and if they should 

 prove as good as they have at the east, those who 

 gel lliem will be sure to receive the worth of their 

 money. Much might be said upon the value of a 

 good Scythe, but try the highest cost and you will 

 find them the besl. I understand they will be for 

 sale in this city in a few days — Ulica Democrat. 



Always have some worthy end in view, in what- 

 ever you undertake ; remembering that to fail with 

 good intentions, is more honorable than success in 

 an evil cause. — Cult. 



