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to make them throw out latemls. There is no doubt but that mulch- 

 ing is important, if for nothing more than to prevent the growth of 

 weeds in the spring. Last fall was wet, and where land was plowed 

 deep, and the culture good, there must have been a late fall growth, 

 which winter-killed. All these things must be taken into account, 

 and one must consider them according to the changes in the seasons. 



Dkting Green Corn. 



Mrs. Lima Sherman, Canisteo, Steuben county, N". Y. — Shave the 

 com from the ear, taking care to cut it as near in center of the grain 

 as may be, scraping off what remains on the cob. Butter your 

 dishes, spread the corn an inch and a half thick on each dish, set it 

 in your stove oven, scald it thoroughly, taking care to stir it fre- 

 quently that it may not scorch. You may now finish drying it 

 around your stove ; the oftener it is stirred the sooner it will dry. It 

 should be put up in paper sacks and packed away in a dry place. 

 This mode of drying corn is preferable to the old way of scalding the 

 corn on the ear, as the water extracts nearly all the sweetness and 

 renders it insipid. 



"Washing made Easy. 



From the same. — Soak your linen over night in cold water ; put 

 into your boiling water one pint of soft or one-quarter pound of hard 

 soap, add one tablespoon heaping full of saleratus ; wring your 

 clothes from the water in which they have stood over night, place 

 them in your boiler while the water is yet cool, boil three-quarters of 

 an hour briskly with frequent stirring, rub them out and scald in 

 clear water; blue and rinse as usual. The suds are excellent for 

 washing calicos, delaines, and flannels, not injuring the color but 

 rather improving it. , 



Adjourned. 



August 25, .1868. 



Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair ; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 

 Lime as a Manure. 

 Mr. E. A. Pierce, Wyoming Co., Pa., asks in relation to the value 

 of lime as a manure, also about mulching, and how it is done. 



Mr. James A. Whitney. — I have heretofore stated, lime cannot 

 properly be called a manure, inasmuch as plants contain comj)ara- 

 tively little of this mineral. The beneficial effects of lime result from 



