THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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say the Dutch, a people more given to count- 

 ing expenditure than the Yankees themselves. 

 The expense of a yearly coat upon plank is 

 far more than saved by the superior durability 

 which is given to the wood. A man who uses 

 paint every year on his house, &c, will have 

 it to rebuild only once in some sixty or se- 

 venty years ; while he who does not use it will 

 have to rebuild, in most cases, twice in that 

 time. There is such a thing as false economy. 



CLOVER HAY. 



If, owing to the backwardness of the 

 season, you have been prevented in cut- 

 ting your clover, and have that still to do, 

 we would advise you to cure it by cock- 

 ing it so soon as it becomes wilted. By 

 curing it in cocks you prevent loss from 

 the falling off of the leaves, and retain 

 that delightful fragrance which is so ac- 

 ceptable to stock. In stacking it away 

 sprinkle on every ton of it a peck of salt. 

 The salt will prevent its firing and be- 

 coming mouldy, besides it will enable you 

 to stack it away much earlier than if it 

 be not salted. — Selected. 



TO SOFTEN OLD PUTTY. 



Put soap on the putty for a short time. 

 Panes of glass may easily be removed 

 by the application of soft soap for a few 

 hours, however hard the putty has become. 



From the Albany Cultivator. 



BLIGHT IN PEAR TREES CURED. 



Having noticed several articles in the 

 Cultivator respecting the fire-blight in 

 pear trees, I will relate my treatment of a 

 tree in my garden of about two and a 

 half inches in diameter, during last sum- 

 mer. It was about the last of June that 

 I first noticed the disease by the dropping 

 of the leaves on one of the limbs, in about 

 three days after the leaves turned black, 

 which made me fear that I should lose 



my tree. I immediately examined Mr. 

 Downing's work, and there found the only 

 remedy was the cutting off the affected 

 part, which I did. This stopped the dis- 

 ease as far as the limb was concerned ; 

 but still the whole tree began to droop, 

 which led me to examine farther, when I 

 found the bark on the body of the tree to 

 be entirely dead, and all cracked open for 

 about four feet from the roots upwards. 

 I then immediately prepared some ordi- 

 nary grafting salve which I melted over 

 a slow fire, and kept it warm till I whit- 

 tled the whole of the dead bark off of the 

 tree to the naked wood. I then applied 

 two coats of said salve on the tree with 

 a brush, dug about lh.e roots, and left it. 

 In about two Weeks after, my tree re- 

 vived ; the fruit, which had not grown for 

 two weeks, commenced growing, and 

 ripened well, except it was. most of it 

 stung or indented on one side. The pears 

 were Virgalieu. My tree now has an 

 entire new bark, and is as full of blos- 

 soms as can be, and in perfect health, at 

 No. 48 Howard street. 



A. Van Voast. 

 Albany, May 14, 1847. 



For the Southern Planter. 

 HOW TO DRILL WHEAT. 



Take a single shovel plough with a 

 narrow plate and furrow off your land as 

 close as you can, taking care not to run 

 so close as to fill up those that you have 

 made. A rain will cause a slight crust 

 to form, which will make all the wheat 

 roll into the furrows. Lay off and seed 

 across your furrows, and your wheat will 

 be completely drilled. Previous to fur- 

 rowing the land should be reduced to a 

 level by harrowing. 



The Dutch or Pennsylvania Way of 

 Drilling. — Harrow down the land until it 

 is smooth. Then take a large harrow 

 which is filled with good slrong cultivator 

 teeth, go over the land just as you would 

 with a harrow, wait until after a rain, then 

 sow and harrow in across the drills as 

 much as possible. Wheat put in in either 

 of the above ways will be found to rssist 



