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THE SOUTHE 



will cover five bushels of wheat, and steep the 

 wheat in that solution, say about eighteen hours 

 before sowing it. 



At the recent Poughkeepsie Fair and Cattle 

 Show, among other curious and interesting ob- 

 jects was a frame on which were spread out in 

 divisions, each one covered with glass, thirty-five 

 varieties of wheat, grown by Gen. P. Harmon, 

 Jr. of Wheatland, Monroe county, New York. 

 There were, of each variety, three heads with 

 a small portion of grain and the name of the 

 wheat, a list of which I will endeavor to get 

 and send you. J. S. S. 



USEFUL RECIPE. 



I send you below, Messrs. Editors, a recipe 

 for making a composition which will render 

 wood entirely incombustible. It is very simply 

 prepared, and quite easy of application, being 

 used the same as paint with an ordinary brush. 

 A good coat of it applied to the floor under the 

 stoves would be an excellent precaution. 



Take a quantity of water, proportioned to the 

 surface of wood you may wish to cover, and 

 add to it as much potash as can be dissolved 

 therein. When the water will dissolve no more 

 potash, stir into the solution, first a quantity of 

 flour paste of the consistency of common painter's 

 size ; second, a sufficiency of pure clay to render 

 it of the consistency of cream. 



When the clay is well mixed, apply the pre- 

 paration as before directed to the wood ; it will 

 secure it from the action of both fire and rain. 

 In a most violent fire, wood thus saturated may 

 be carbonated but will never blaze. 



If desirable, a most agreeable color can be given 

 to the preparation by adding a small quantity of 

 red or yellow ochre. — Buffalo Com. Advertiser. 



COWS. 



Cows should have warm water for a few days 

 after calving, otherwise they are very liable to 

 colds, inflammation of the udder, &c. It is a 

 good method as practised by many, to prepare 

 the first drink by putting a shovelful of hot coals 

 into a pailful of cold water, and after a few mi- 

 nutes take off the swimming coals, and then 

 give the water to the cow, which must have be- 

 come sufficiently warmed, and it will have ac- 

 quired an alkaline quality, which is considered 

 beneficial. — Boston Cultivator. 



From the Albany Cultivator. 



PLOUGHING ORCHARDS. 



If well done, and the trees not run over nor 

 lacerated, is found to be a difficult work. To 

 make it easy, get a short one-horse whipple-tree 

 about fifteen inches long, and attach one of the 



horses by long traces to the plough ; fasten the 

 other horse before it, and let them go tandem. A 

 careful boy or man rides the forward horse, and 

 another holds the plough. After the interme- 

 diate space between the rows has been ploughed 

 in the usual manner by horses abreast, as near 

 to the trees as convenience and care will admit, 

 finish the rest with the tandem team, rigged as 

 just stated. The long traces will allow the 

 plough to run as near the trees as is needed, 

 and the short whipple-tree can scarcely be made 

 to touch a tree. Well tested by experience. 



J. J. T. 



CURE FOR FOUNDER. 



The seeds of sunflower are the best remedy 

 known for the cure of founder in horses. Im- 

 mediately on discovering that your horse is foun- 

 dered, mix about a pint of the whole seed in his 

 feed, and it will give a perfect cure. — Cultivator. 



CONTENTS OF NO. X.- 



Fly and Bug — To prevent their ravages on vines and 



tobacco, p. 217. 

 Anonymous Writers — Our estimate of them, p. 218. 

 Turkeys — Directions for raising, p. 218. 

 Electricity — Applied to agriculture, p. 218. 

 Saltpetre and Plaster — Experiments with, p. 219. 

 Cherry Bounce — Directions for making, p. 220. 

 Weeds — Effectual means of destroying, p. 220. 

 Improvement — Of poor land, p. 220. 

 Marl — Drawing and description of a plant indicative 



of marl, p. 221. 

 Hoarseness — To relieve, p. 223. 

 Green Oats — Not injurious to colts, p. 223. 

 Hens-^-To protect them from vermin, p. 223. 

 Sheep— May be killed by brine, p. 223. 

 Hemp — Used to keep lice from cabbage, p. 223. 

 Milk — To relieve from onions, &c. p. 223. 

 Rheumatism — To cure, p. 223. 

 Colic, Felon and Burns — To cure, p. 224. 

 Flowers — Preserved by salt, p. 224. 

 Grafts and Cuttings — To preserve until they can be 



used, p. 224. 

 Potatoes- -An experiment, p. 224. 

 Drought, ffc— p. 225. 



Worn Out Land — "Wonderful improvement in, p. 228. 

 Missouri — A negro's opinion of, p. 228. 

 Tobacco—The Bolton Hoister, p. 229. 

 The Peach — To preserve from the worm, p. 230. 

 Buckwheat — Recommended to improve poor land, p. 

 230. 



Indian Corn — The level mode of cultivation ap- 

 proved, p. 230. 

 Barberry — Innocuous, p. 232. 



Manure — Directions for its accumulation and preser- 

 vation, p. 233. 

 Hoven^-Cure for, p. 233. 



Western Virginia — Some account of, from "A Tra- 

 veller," p. 233. 



Draining — Good effects of, p. 235. 



Hogs — The Chester County, recommended, p. 236. 



Reaping Machines — Hussey's and M'Cormick's, which 

 is bestl p. 237. 



Ploughing — Contrivance for turning in weeds, p. 239. 



Smut— A steep to prevent, p. 239. 



Wood — To render it incombustible, p. 240. 



Cows — How to treat after calving, p. 240. 



Orchards — Directions for ploughing without injury to 

 trees, p. 240. 



Founder — To cure, p. 240. 



