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If our readers will heed what we say 

 they will not suffer dead animals to annoy 

 the eye, and disgust the nose hereafter. 

 Bury them in the manure heap; add 

 some lime to quicken the decay, and char- 

 coal dust or plaster to absorb the gases, 

 and much will be gained to the good ap- 

 pearance of the farm, the quality of the 

 manure, and the quantity of the crops 

 grown, and much to the purse of the 

 farmer. If your neighbor be so improvi- 

 dent as to waste a dead animal, beg it of 

 him, that it may not be detrimental to 

 health, and useless to vegetation. Laws 

 should be passed to compel the saving 

 and use of the most powerful of fertilizers, 

 when common sense and decency fail to 

 do it. 



Whenever it is desirable to hasten de- 

 cay, and rapidly turn animal matter into 

 manure, sulphuric acid may be used. — 

 This would be too expensive (though the 

 acid is cheap) for farm purposes, but may 

 be emyloyed for the garden, where ex- 

 pense is not so important. It is frequently 

 desirable to have a rich manure in the 

 garden, and it is not at hand. Animal 

 matter put into sulphuric acid will in a 

 few hours furnish it. Every house will 

 supply much refuse animal matter. To 

 this rats, mice, moles, feathers, hair, bones, 

 homes, &c, may be added. If the gar- 

 bage of a slaughter-house can be got, it 

 should be. All these will soon be reduced 

 to an available state, be inoffensive, and 

 will add great fertility to the soil where 

 used. The requisite quantity of acid may 

 be ascertained by experiment — about ten 

 or fifteen pounds is usually allowed for 

 one hundred pounds of animal matter. 



Albany Cultivator. 



TILLING AMONG YOUNG TREES. 



A correspondent tells us that he could 

 not readily procure any litter to place 

 around the trunks of his young trees, and 

 that as he has planted the field where he 

 set them with corn and potatoes, he 

 thought litter would be in his way in 

 tilling. 



We think there might be a quantity 



around each tree that would not interfere 

 with the crop. But he should endeavor 

 to keep his soil about his young trees as 

 moist as possible whether he uses litter or 

 not. Next to covering the earth with 

 something to check evaporation and to 

 keep the soil both moist and light, plough- 

 ing and stirring often through the summer 

 will be found best. If you have the least 

 doubt about the effect of ploughing and 

 hoeing often, just try the plan, let the 

 book-farmers say what they will. 



It is not very easy to explain why the 

 frequent moving of the soil, and that to 

 a considerable depth, should have an ef- 

 fect precisely the reverse of what is ob- 

 served when we often remove other ma- 

 terials and expose them to the air. Hay 

 will dry twice as fast when we stir it and 

 let the air in, as when we let it lie with 

 once spreading over the ground v Litter 

 of any kind, leaves, manures, will dry up 

 fast in proportion to their exposure to the 

 atmosphere. 



But it is certain that all soils are so 

 constituted that frequent stirring keeps 

 them more moist than when they are al- 

 lowed to lie still. We have known prac- 

 tical farmers to delay hoeing their corn in 

 a dry time for fear they should render the 

 soil more dry, to the injury of the harvest. 

 They may have reasoned from what they 

 had observed in regard to the stirring of 

 other substances. Experiments on a very 

 small scale will convince them that stir- 

 ring the unswarded earth will not in a dry 

 time, make it more dry. 



If no litter has been placed about the 

 trees, set this spring, keep the earth well 

 tilled both for the sake of your trees and 

 your harvest. When you plough among 

 your trees you should always muffle th# 

 ends of the whiffle-tree to prevent galling 

 or tearing off the bark. It is almost im- 

 possible to avoid it without this precau- 

 tion. — Massachusetts Ploughman. 



HARROWS, 



Most harrows are poorly constructed in 

 one respect ; that is in having the teeth 

 too near. Sometimes we find in a har- 



