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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



slightly buried, where they can be obtained al- 

 most aiiy time during the winter. On account of 

 their rapid growth when young, the weeding is 

 less trouble than weeding carrots. — Excliange. 



H-E"W ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Being unable to attend the meeting of New 

 England agriculturists at Worcester, on Wednes- 

 day, March '2d, we cannot give so full particulars 

 of the formation of the New England Agricul- 

 tural Society as we desire to do. We shall 

 take an early occasion to speak of its prospects 

 and opportunities of benefiting the agricultural 

 community. 



The Society was organized by the choice of the 

 following officers : 



■ President — George B. Loring, of Salem. 



Vice-Presidents— Ezekiel Holmes, of Winthrop, 

 Me. ; Frederick Smyth, of Manchester, N. H. ; 

 Daniel Kimball, of Rutland, Vt. ; William H. 

 Prince, of Northampton, Mass. ; T. S. Gould, of 

 West Cornwall, Conn. ; Amasa Sprague, of Cran- 

 ston, R. I. 



Secretaries — Charles L.Flint, of Boston, Mass. ; 

 Henry Clark, of Poultney, Vt. 



Treasurer — Thomas Saunders, Brookfield, Vt. 

 TRUSTEES. 



Maine — Samuel F. Perley, of Naples ; John F. 

 Anderson, of South Windham ; C C. Chamber- 

 lain, of Foxcroft ; T. S. Lang, of North Vassal- 

 boro' ; WiUiam D. Dana, of North Perry. 



New Hampshire — Joseph B. Walker and Moses 

 Humphrey, of Concord ; S. W. Buffum, of Win- 

 chester; Nathaniel Hubbard, ofTamworth; Nich- 

 olas V. Whitehouse, of Rochester. 



Vermont — Col. Daniel Needham, Queechy ; 

 George Campbell, Westminster; Edwin Ham- 

 mond, Middlebury ; Ebenezer Bridge, of Pom- 

 fret ; A. M. Clarke, of St. Albans. 



Massachusetts — C. 0. Perkins, Becket; Paoli 

 Lathrop, of South Hadley ; H. H. Peters, South- 

 boro ; S. B. Phinney of Barnstable ; A. W. Dodge 

 of Hamilton. 



Rhode Island — Edward D. Pearce, East Provi- 

 dence ; William Goddard, Warwick ; Alfred B. 

 Chadsey, of Wickford ; James De Wolf Berry, 

 of Bristol ; Thomas B. Buffum, of Newport. 



Connecticut— J. G. Webb, of New Haven: 

 Benjamin Sumner, of Woodstock ; Robbins Bat- 

 tel, of Norfolk ; E. M. Adger, of Middletown ; 

 C. M. Pond, of Hartford. 



The meeting was attended by about 150 of the 

 leading farmers of New England. 



Physiological Phenomenon. — The New 

 York Post has the following interesting item : 



A lady of this city, noted fur the acuteness and 

 accuracy of her observation of life and society 

 bears her testimony to a remarkable physiologi- 

 cal fact, owing to moral causes, which is worth 

 stating for the purpose of its being verified. She 

 affirms that of the births taking ])lace in this city, 

 those which occur in families whose attachment 

 to the Union is decided and zealous are mostly 

 boys, while in families in which there is a decided 

 sympathy for the secession cause they are girls. 



For the New £n^land Farmer. 

 SOME EXPERIMENTS -WITH COE'S SU- 

 PERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. 



I am an interested reader of the Farmer (Month- 

 ly.) The articles that interest me most are those 

 giving the result of carefully tested experiments. 

 And as others of your readers may be equally in- 

 terested, I will give them, through your columns, 

 some of my experience with Coe's Superphosphate 

 of Lime. 



Experiment No, 1. 



In 1859 I was induced by the representations 

 of a friend, of the benefit he had derived from the 

 use of Coe's Superphosphate of Lime, to purchase 

 a bag of it, containing one hundred and twenty- 

 five pounds, which I used mostly for corn, putting 

 about one tablespoonful in a hill, and then put a 

 shovelful of compost manure on top of it — with 

 the exception of two rows in which I did not put 

 compost — and planted with Dutton corn. The 

 seed where there was no compost in the hill did 

 not come up as soon as the other by about a 

 week, and did not grow much until July, wdien it 

 took a start and grew rapidly. At harvest time 

 there was but very little difference. Perhaps I 

 should state that I plowed in a light coat of ma- 

 nure. I had a few pounds of the Lime left which 

 I applied to ruta bagas, putting one-third to one- 

 fourth of a tablespoonful in a hill with the seed. 

 But little of the seed came up ; those grew to fair 

 size. The next season I sowed the land to bar- 

 ley and grass. I could see the hills where the 

 Lime was put the previous season, in the grain, 

 which grew more rank there. It was also per- 

 ceptible in the grass the following season. 

 Experiment No. 2. 



In 1861, not having a sufficiency of suitable 

 manure to put in the hill to start my corn, I re- 

 solved to try Coe's Superphosphate of Lime on 

 half an acre. The ground was mostly sward land, 

 plowed a few days before planting, manured 

 broadcast with new stable manure, and plowed 

 under, with the exception of a strip about a rod 

 in width on one side, where I spread the manure 

 on top of the furrows and harrowed it in. I put 

 one tablespoonful of the Super])hosphate in each 

 hill — with the exception of two rows in which I 

 put but half as much — covered about half an inch 

 deep with the soil, and planted the corn. The 

 seed came up well, and for a week looked -prom- 

 ising ; but where there was no manure spread on 

 the surface, it then began to look yellow, and the 

 ends of the leaves died. Upon pulling up some 

 of the plants the tap root was found to be dead. 

 There were some hills that grew well, and some 

 hills would have one or two stalks that grew well, 

 but the yield was very light. There was no per- 

 cejjtible difference to myself, or others whose at- 

 tention I called to it, between the rows where I 

 ])ut a spoonful, and those where I put but half. 

 But the corn upon the strip manured on top of 

 the furrows, and also one corner that was planted 

 the previous season, grew well. What made the 

 difference ? It was not because the Superphos- 

 phate was different, for the rows ran across the 

 two parts. Of some half a dozen lots that came 

 under my observation, the result was the same in 

 every case. Where the stable manure was plowed 

 in on sward land, and Coe's Superphosphate put 

 in the hill, the corn proved almost a failure, caus- 



