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rows plainly. The plaster I would apyly directly on the corn or 

 potato plants, a gill to a half pint to a hill when a few inches or 

 a foot high. 



II. This question is mainly answered under the first. Ashes, 

 or lime, or salt, applied strong to young plants will injure them, 

 and some of the tender sort would be killed. 



III. Ashes and plaster are, as a general rule, always valuable 

 on sandy land. 



IV. The lime and salt are generally good for moist and mucky 

 soils. 



V. Of the four named ingredients, plaster only can be profita- 

 bly mixed with poultry-house manure, unless the lime and salt 

 mixture has been used to decompose muck, and then that may 

 be applied to the droppings of hens with more jDrofit than any- 

 thing else. You may profitably mix dry muck, decomposed sods, 

 loamy soil, or charcoal dust with any strong-scented manure, but 

 never mix lime, nor ashes, nor salt. Plaster (sulphate of lime), 

 or chloride of lime, or sulphate of iron are valuable substances 

 to use upon anything that has a strong odor to absorb and retain 

 it in the manure heaj3. 



VI. Hot water, or even hot ley, may be applied to trees enough 

 to cook all the worms within reach. To try an experiment, take 

 an egg and lay it on the ground at the root of a peach tree, and 

 then pour boiling water from a tea kettle long enough to cook 

 the egg equal to boiling it three minutes, and if it injures the 

 tree, please report the case to me, and I will lay it before the 

 club. As to applying hot water to cattle, that may be done 

 without injury, and much to their benefit if they are infested 

 with grubs in the back. Take a common lamp-filler of boiling 

 water and apply the small nozzle right to the orifice over the 

 grub and pour a little, and he will bo cooked, and the spot will 

 soon heal up. 



Dr. Trimble, of New Jersey — I have never found anything so 

 certain and easy as the knife to kill worms in peach trees. 



The Chairman — If the worm is deep in, it will require so much 

 cutting that it will do about as much damage as the worm. The 

 crooked wire used by some fails with me in some cases. I cannot 

 always follow the insect. 



CORN PLANTING. 



The Chairman stated that he finds a good deal of early planted 

 corn will not come up. It was planted too deep. He said — I 



