Proceedings of the FAB^fEns^ Club. 403 



unload centrally without dragging off the hay from either side of the 

 wagon while doing so. 



S. EDWAKDS TODD, 



WM. S. CAEPENTEK, 

 JONATPIAN CAMP, 



Committee. 

 Use of Lime, 



Mr. "Wm. Brinkworth, Hanover township, Jefferson county, Ind. — 

 I wish to tell you my experience. First, I commenced burning lime 

 about thirteen months ago. Limestone of a very superior quality is 

 abundant here. The wood ashes and air-slaked, or refuse lime are 

 used on my land with very satisfactory results, ray corn crop being 

 about double this season to what it was last, and other produce in 

 proportion. The potato bug made its appearance early in the season. 

 I took air-slaked lime in a peck measure, and with a trowel scat- 

 tered it broadcast over the potatoes. The next day not a bug was to 

 be seen. Two weeks later they appeared again in spots where the 

 lime did not reach. I repeated the experiment with like results. 

 Later they appeared again and again. I gave them lime, and mv 

 vines kept green until frost came, while some of my neighbors' vines 

 were stripped and ruined early in the season. My crop is better 

 where the lime was put than in other parts of the field where it was 

 not cast, thus showing it did good two ways. My lime is very strong, 

 and commands a ready sale, mostly at Madison, seven miles distant. 

 Every farmer should burn and use it if he has the stone ; mine is full 

 of fossil remains, very pleasing to look at, both before and after it is 

 burned. One of my horses was cured of the heaves and a cough by 

 eating corn twice out of the wagon the lime was hauled in. I now 

 put some in all the mangers once a month. 



Ceanbekeies. 

 A crate of this fruit grown by J. G. Torrey, jr., Manchester, 

 K. Y., was exhibited to the club. Mr. Greeley pronounced them the 

 largest, handsomest, finest, and every way best cranberries he had 

 ever seen. Mr. Torrey has seven acres, which this year will yield 

 about 750 bushels ; at the same time other fields have very short crops 

 owing in many instances to the ravages of grasshoppers. One reason 

 for his success seems to lie iu covering the vines wliere they run over 

 each other and cannot reach tlie soil, with two or three inches of sharj^ 

 sand, wliicli seems a method worthy of note. 



