Proceedings of the Farriers' Club. 385 



Bog MaxupvE. 



Mr. C. Hunt stated that on his farm in New EngLmd, there were 

 fifty acres of sandy gravel soil, the remainder was muck or bog, and 

 lie inquired how it should be used to enrich his farm without the 

 addition of lime. 



Mr. Jas. A. Whitney and Mr. Solon Eobinson said it would be 

 cheaper to use lime, because the muck could be applied with good 

 effect a year sooner. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I have used thousands of loads of muck without 

 a particle of lime, and find it of the greatest advantage. On the farm 

 opposite mine a large muck heap was in a corn field ; there was no 

 time to spread it, and in planting corn the men planted on it, and 

 you ought to have seen what magnificent corn grew where the muck 

 ■was four feet deep. 'Eo lime was used. 



Mr. H. B., Smith, of Westfield, Mass. — A neighbor of mine has 

 used muck many years, but without any apparent advantage. It is 

 true that it was of the boggy wir}^ kind. I have tried muck with lime 

 to correct the sourness, and derived a benefit the same year. But it 

 should be understood that there are half a dozen kinds of muck.. 



' Grass in "Warm CLntATEs. 



Mr. A. Harroun, Apulia, N. T. — I have noticed with much inter- 

 est and some surprise the reiterated statements in the club about the 

 great lack of grass in the southern States, which may be true, but it 

 ought not to be, for there are valuable grasses tliat flourish in all lati- 

 tudes, the extremely cold excepted. South America produces grass 

 profusely over many thousand square leagues where snow never falls. 

 Texas is almost as warm as Florida, and abounds in grass, California 

 is noted for its fine pastures, of which grasses and clover form the 

 staple over a large part of the State. Even the West India islands 

 produce excellent grass and fine beef, or did once. Dr. Coke says of 

 Jamaica : " Among the valuable articles cultivated for domestic use, 

 the Guinea grass claims the first place. The introduction of this grass 

 soon increased the number of grazing and breeding fanns on spots 

 where the hand of cultivation had rarely labored before, and the 

 effects were soon rendered visible in the large supplies which at a 

 moderate rate, crowded the Jamaica markets." He also speaks of" 

 another species of grass grown there which " has been found to be 

 highly valuable," and which flourishes best on low or moist ground. 

 If none of the valuable grasses can be domesticated in the southern; 



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