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inches square, and two feet or two feet three 

 inches long, with a piece of plank fastened to 

 the middle of it, with a hole in one end for a 

 a rope, and in this piece of timber there are two 

 teeth about seven inches long", not too much ele- 

 vated, upon which the tobacco stick is placed, 

 near a balance and ready for hoisting. 



C is the rope by which it is hoisted. At the 

 word hoist, it is carried up easily between the 

 tiers, to the top of the tallest barn — commence 

 filling at one end of the house. 



Only one hand is required above, standing on 

 a short plank, who takes the tobacco off and 

 places it, and the weight of B brings it to the 

 floor again, where the hand stands who hoists. 



D simply represents the joists which cross 

 the tobacco bam. 



My much respected friend, Gen. Lewis Bolton, 

 of Blufton, on the Osage river, was the first 

 who told me of this, and I believe him to be the 

 inventor and first user. I, therefore, call it the 

 " Bolton Hoister." D. M. 



Amelia County, Va., July, 1844. 



THE PEACH. 



"With the fertile soil of our country, we have 

 but little difficulty in growing peach trees until 

 they are three or four years old, when they are 

 attacked by the worm in the root, or a disase 

 called the yellow, and frequently by both. In 

 either case the tree dies in two or three years. 



The following remedies have been found per- 

 fectly successful in preventing the worm in the 

 root. When a tree is first set out in the orchard, 

 apply three quarts of fresh or unleached wood 

 ashes, and add ashes every spring. Another 

 method is to pour chamber-lye around the roots 

 of the trees several times during the spring and 

 summer. 



The method pursued by Mr. Pell, of Pelham, 

 Ulster county, New York, is to put one-half 

 peck of fine charcoal to the roots of each tree 

 when first set out in the orchard, and adding a 

 quantity each spring. — B. G. Boswell, Phila- 

 delphia. 



MANURES. 



With regard to what particular kinds of ma- 

 nures are best, were we asked the question, we 

 would say, that all are good — that of the animal 

 and vegetable kinds, every thing susceptible of 

 rotting, is good to be converted into manure — 

 that where the farmer has not the facilities for 

 making a supply to meet the demands of his 

 farm in his barn-yard and stables, he should 

 make the turning in of green crops a part of 

 his system of husbandry. 



If his lands are too poor to yield clover for 

 such purposes, let him sow two successive crops 



of buckwheat, and turn them in just xohen they 

 get into bloom, taking care at each ploughing in 

 of such green crops, to sow a bushel of plaster 

 per acre, on his field ; and if possible to spread 

 on each acre twenty -five bushels of lime and 

 two of ashes. With such a preparation of any 

 field, which might have been originally adapted 

 to wheat culture, we would not only promise 

 him a remunerating crop of wheat, but a good 

 growth of clover afterwards, provided he sowed 

 the seed thereon. So also, would we pledge 

 our word, that with similar preparation, excel- 

 lent crops of corn might be grown ; or, indeed, 

 any other of the cultivable grains or grasses ; 

 for all that either the one or the other wants, is 

 food, and that would be furnished by the means 

 we have pointed out. And if the condition of 

 production is to be continued, all that is neces- 

 sary to be done, is, to repeat the means of im- 

 provement indicated in our preceding remarks. 



American Farmer. 



For the Southern Planter. 

 THE CULTIVATION OF INDIAN CORN. 



Mr. Editor, — In your number for this month, 

 I observe a communication on corn by Mr. Wm. 

 B. Easley, of Mecklenburg. Mr. Easley is op- 

 posed to the mode of superficial cultivation ad- 

 vised by Judge Buel, and you side with Mr. 

 Easley. Asa young farmer, I am diffident in 

 opposing his practice, and your authority, and 

 would not do so if I could not state facts to bear 

 me out against you both. 



I know that a good deal must depend on the 

 nature of the soils operated on ; and the plan of 

 cultivation which would ruin a crop for Mr. 

 Easley might make one for us. His land is a 

 dry, stiff, clay soil. The south-west mountain 

 land, which I till, is a light, loamy clay, easily 

 tilled when once well broken up, and soon mel- 

 lowed by exposure to sun or frost. Deep plough- 

 ing, with a subsoil plough, if necessary, and 

 thorough harrowing might give Mr. Easley's 

 land the advantages of mine for corn. But of 

 this I know nothing. Some allowance too may 

 perhaps be made for the kind of corn, though it 

 is presumed that all good farmers reject the gi- 

 gantic varieties, as neither heavy nor prolific. 



The mode pursued in cultivating my crop, 

 acknowledged, though no merit of mine, how- 

 ever, to be one of the very best in the county, 

 has been as follows: The land, a naked fallow 

 of eighty acres, was broken up before Christmas 

 as deep as three-horse ploughs could do it. Ear- 

 ly in March it was well harrowed, leaving the 

 whole completely pulverized. It was then laid 

 off in deep furrows five feet apart with a heavy 

 two-horse plough ; planted two and a half feet 

 apart in the step, and covered with the hoe. — 

 The corn is of the kind known among us as the 



