No. (J. 



AND gardeni!:r's journal. 



89 



been acc.nnplislied in ihe wny ot cxplaualion, h 

 scrvcJ linloelse tUnn t" cimvjirc us of our ignuriiiu 

 and tn show ua how iiruluuiid, to lulinnn perecpiion 

 arc the siiln'e rni'f.f>r;e-> "f voa^'talilo and nniniol li(V 

 Conveutiot) of S*l»ii$Iiniiik(!is niid Fa i mors 



A convention of rionglimakiMs from all parts ol i he 

 coutitry and others interested, is appointed to \tc ho!i en 

 in Canandai<;ua on Monday, the '2l)th day of .liiin 

 inst. 1'his da^v precedes the meeting of the Circuii 

 Court, when it is expected the eases of the heirs oi 

 Jethro Wood against several ploughmakers for an al 

 leged infringement of his patent right, will be tried. 



The ploughinakers in djlTercnt parts of the countrr 

 have been threatened ami visited with vexulioussuit^ 

 on these grounds ; and their conlident expectation is 

 by eliciting such facts as may in this way be brought to 

 light, to show that Wood had no just claims to an ex- 

 clusive right in the case; and tiiat the extension of hit 

 patent was surreptitiously and fraudulently obtained ; 

 and thus put an end to these prosecutions. 



It is a subject which concerns all the manufacturers 

 of cast iron ploughs throughout the country, and the 

 fanners g'"nerally, who, so long a6 this claim remains 

 must be ta.ted for the patent right of every plough they 

 purchase. As much valuable information connected 

 with ploughs and ploughing may be thus incidentally 

 brought out, it is earnestly hoped that the attendance 

 of farmers and others interested will be general. 



Canada Thistles. 



A correspondent G K. inquires if "in respect to 

 that vilest of nil weeds, the Canada Tbistle, some- 

 thing cannot bo done tor its exiirpniion. It is really 

 high time that the farnifirs lonk to this ; and that im- 

 mediately. If something is not doiio soon, the whole 

 country will be nothing but thistles. In vain may 

 the industrious farmer cut and plough and plough ami 

 cut, and endeavor to extirpate this vile weed, if his 

 neighbor is allowed to supply him from his land ; and 

 it would seem ss though the seed thus supplied from 

 a neighbor isbetter than our own." 



We agree to all this ; and consider such a neighbor 

 a3 he describes who willingly, by positive act or by 

 nvo.dable neglect, inflicts any injury upon his neigh- 

 bor, is even a viler weed than the Cnnnda Thistle, 

 and deserves to have his nose powerfully rubbed with 

 a good bunqh of them three times a day until he re- 

 forms. But there is no legal remedy in this case, 

 though we think there should be, since theraare few 

 ways in wli' :h a man can more injure bis nWehbor 

 than by filling his field with noxious and untra^ble 

 weeds. 



With respect to the destruction of those weeds, a 

 former in Le Riiy states that fourploughings in n sea- 

 son will effectually destroy them, and that after this 

 he has taUr-u a fine crop of wheat on the same land. 

 cnnsMering tlie ploughing in of these thistles and 

 their decay as a nue preparation or dressiuit of tue land 

 for the wheat. This in some degree conforms to the 

 experiment of Mr. Kelly in Haverhill, Mass., who 

 ploughed in an abundant crop of charlock or wild 

 musisrd three times in a season, and obtained a crop 

 of rye of thirty seven busliels to the acre, where be- 

 fore not more than from eight to thirteen bad been 

 the usual product. Of this remnrkaLle and mosLni- 

 Btructive experiment we shall give a full account 

 hereafter. G. K. promises that we sliall have his 

 method of destroyins Camda ThiKtIes. Pay your 

 note by all means. We understand it as nijw due. 



Wiml a-U. 



J. Horsefield says in a P. 3., "Allow me to say to 

 Mr. O. Wuyte, that lie will confer a lajor on me and 

 proonbly on mhers, if he will sjivo in yo.ir paper a 

 plan and description of the Wind Mill whichhe no- 

 ticed ill a late number." 



M.". W lyte, pi^i.se to comply. We know your 

 kindness in licys r;iiiie by. 'I'kire are few men ot 

 whom we would soon r ask a favor. 



Your old friend, Tb£ EDiTts. 



IMPROVED SHORT HORN BULL "ARCHER." 



OWNED BY J. M. SHF.RWOOD, ESQ., AtlJSURN, N. T., 



IV/ikh oblaiwd the fust Premium at t/ic Fair of the New York Stale Agriatltiii al Socirty, at Syracvse' 

 Scfiember 29.'A, 1841. 

 " Archer" is in co!or mostly white, with a roan head and neck — his body has some roan spots— was 

 ired by F. Rotch, Esq., Butternuts, Oisego Co., N. Y. Calved 15ih of June, 1637. Sired by Rollo. 



Dam, Adni:za,by Frederick, (H.ii)li)60 



G. " A'lelia by Orpheus, 473 



G.G. " Alpide bv Alfred. 23 



G.GG. " Strawberry by Windsor, 693 



G.G.G G. " 0!d Diiiry by Favorite, 2.52 



G.GG. G.G. " Old Dairy by Punch, 531 



GG G.G.G G. " Old Dairy by Ilubbotk, 310 



RoLi.o, sired by Patriot, (KcrJiSoofc) 2.112 



Dam, Romp by Admiral, !» S 



G. " Moss Rose by Young Denton, 96S 



G G. " Rosa by Young Denton, 96:? 



GG.G. " Ruby bv Denton. 19.5 



G.G.G.G. " Old Bed Nose by Frunncll, 639 



/ Salt and the Grub Worm. 



Mil. Editor — Through the columns of your valu- 

 able paper, I hope to make the public acquainted with 

 value of the common black grub, as an agent in 

 the cultivation of corn, when their labors are directed 

 by the genius of man. This, sir, is a new position, 

 a position which has for its foundntum that there has 

 nothing been made in vain, but that all things were 

 made for the benefit and service ot man and subject 

 to his direction, and that it is only in the ignorance of 

 man that worms and insects become a scourge upon 

 the face of the earth. Tha grub has been literally 



mreed i".jr following the instinct of his nature, which 

 teaches him to eat the corn and reject the glass and 



orrel, with which our Golds are generally filled. 

 Now, sir, if those who have onifced the grub and have 

 advised the agriculturist to follow him with a sharp 

 pieceof tin or a knife, with which to decapitate him, 

 or to tie him up in a rag and let him float downstream, 

 had but applied common ,^alt to the hills of com in the 

 plaL-e of gypsum, then, throughout the land, the mer- 



19 of the grub would have been duly appreciated, ih';n 



he would hove destroyed the grass and sorrel in placa 



of the corn, — thuamaleiiolly aiding the agriculturist. 



In my humble opinion, the introduction of salt as a 



lanure, and to prevent the ravages of the grub, will 

 be of incalculable benefit to the country. Upon our 

 I'tri-j we have used suit as a manure and as a protoc- 

 iion to the corn from the grub, for a period of sev.n 

 or eight years. We ought to be capable of judging 

 of the benelits which we have leceived from usmg it. 

 During this period we have missed the application but 

 one season. — the result was the losS of our crop : from 

 a field of about twenty acres, we harvested but one 

 cart load of corn, where, had not the grub injured it, 

 we should in all probabiliiy have harvested lifty bush- 

 els to the acre. Last season, 1841, we planted about 

 twenty acres ; the grubs were so plenty that we des- 

 paired of protecting it from them : indeed, upon on 

 average, I should tbjr.k th«r« were twenty to every 



hill of corn. We applied one bushel of salt to the 

 acre ; the protection was ample ; scarcely a single 

 blade was touched, but every spear of grass and sorrel 

 was destroyed by them, and in this way they assisted 

 in the cultivation. Tl,e application should bo made as 

 the corn is just peeping out of the ground. The tsit 

 should be put exactly U|ion the bills, and at the rale of 

 one bushel to the acre — -rnore than one bushel to the 

 acre would do no harm, provided it is put on with com- 

 mon judgment. One bushel is sufEcient if properly 

 applied. 



If you thinlc this communication will be of any ben- 

 efit to agriculture, you will please publish it aud 

 oblige a constant reoder of vour valuable paper. 



THOMAS N. ALLLEN. 



Salt Point, Dutchess Co., 1842. 



There is some wit in the foregoing, and we believe 

 33 much truth as wit. We know a farmer in whose 

 statements we place entire reliance, who has been ac- 

 customed for years to put a quantity of salt and mix 

 it well with his manure, which ho intended to put in 

 the hill at planting. It has happened repeatedly in 

 these cases that his own corn has been uninjured by 

 the grub, while his neii'hboi's just over the fenc^cs 

 suffered severely. He is confident of its efliLacy.' 

 The application of salt to the hill, as described by our 

 correspondent, is a new mode. — Ed. 



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Agvicuitaral Publicatioas. 



Wiiey & Putnam, New York, are importing and 

 republishing with great epirii, several Euglislj Agri- 

 cultural Publications of much value. Lkbig's Agri- 

 cultural Chemistiy hoa gone to a third edition oi the 

 Cambridge Press. Dana's Muck Manual for fanners 

 is on its way to a second edition. Little & I^rown, 

 Boston, are importing ciuistanily many valuable works 

 on Agriculture and Gardening. We shall get up and 

 keep up with our notices of them presently. A valu- 

 able notice from J. E. T., of Johnson's Lecture on 

 Agi icultuial Chemistty, republished by Wiley & Put. 

 nam, la necessarily postponed. 



