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gradually descend and present themselves to the 

 roots of plants. Not only is the greater part of 

 the manure, as we have before staled, preserved 

 and prepared in this way, but the atmosphere 

 itself is made to give up its constituents, its oxy- 

 gen to form acids, its nitrogen to swell the bulk 

 of ammonia, or to form nitric acid. 



If my arguments are sound, and I believe 

 them to be so, am I not justified in asserting 

 that manures do sink; that manure does not all 

 evaporate; that manure should not be buried 

 deep; that it should be kept near the surface? 



The parable of the talents seems an apt illus- 

 tration — he who buries his talent deep, particu- 

 larly in a sand bank, will lose the use of his 

 capital, while he who pursues an opposite course 

 will get it back with usury. 



W. G. Carr. 



April 10, 1845. 



We are obliged to Mr. Carr for his ex- 

 cellent comments upon the article of Coates- 

 wood. We did not mean to endorse all the po- 

 sitions of the latter, but simply to recommend 

 the article to public consideration. For our own 

 part, we suspect the truth Vies between the two 

 disputants. The fertilizing properties of ma- 

 nures are both soluble and gaseous, both liable 

 to sink and evaporate, and we would neither 

 spread them upon the surface, nor bury them 

 very deep. 



We believe that land is greatly injured by 

 exposure to atmospheric influences: it is true 

 that the benefit to be derived from the shading 

 of a crop, may be counteracted by the exhaus- 

 tion of the roots where the crop is not turned in, 

 but we are sure that a mere covering of wheat 

 straw which will protect the gaseous properties 

 of the soil from evaporation, will be equal to a 

 coating of manure. 



SEEDS. 



We omitted to acknowledge our obligations 

 to Mr. Ellsworth for a spring supply of seeds, 

 and were only reminded of our negligence by a 

 renewal of the favor. 



APPLE BREAD. 



A Frenchman has invented and practiced, 

 with great success, a method of making bread 

 with common apples, very far superior to potato 

 bread. 



After having boiled one-third of peeled apples, 

 he bruised them quite warm into two-thirds of 

 flour, including the proper quantity of yeast, and 

 kneaded the whole without water, the fruit being 

 quite sufficient. When the mixture had ac- 



quired the consistency of paste, he put it into a 

 vessel in which he allowed it to raise for twelve 

 hours. By this process he obtained very excel- 

 lent bread, full of eyes, and extremely palatable 

 and light. — Exchange paper. 



I saw a mode of roasting potatoes, a few 

 days since, that was new to me. I do not know 

 but it is practiced by every lady when I am not 

 present to see it. Take an old cracked iron 

 kettle, hang it over the fire, put in coals, then 

 the potatoes, and then more ashes and coals, 

 and you will soon have them well roasted by 

 the heat above and below. Any body could do 

 it, if they only could think of it. — Maine Farmer. 



CORN PLANTER. 

 We have received from Mr. Holladay, of 

 Spottsylvania, (too late for notice in the last 

 number,) an implement for planting corn and 

 depositing plaster, guano, or ether dry fertilizers 

 at the same time. Fie wishes its merits, in 

 which he seems to have great confidence, tested 

 by some experienced farmer. It is at our office 

 for public inspection. 



CONTENTS OF NO. V. 



Tuckahoe— Character and history of the plant, p. 97. 



Cement — Fire and water proof, p. 98. 



Overseers — Proposition to change the time of con- 

 tracting with overseers, p. 98. 



Marl— Calculation of the cost and benefit of marl- 

 ing, p. 99. 



Soap — Directions for making, p. 100. 



Horse Power and Threshing Machines — Dr. Bryant's 

 opinion of the one manufactured by C. T. Bolts, 

 p. 100. 



Berkshire Hog— Low's account of, p. 101. 



Agricultural School— About to be established in Buck- 

 ingham, p. 102. 



Agricultural Society— Mr. Hicks' idea of the princi- 

 ples upon which it should be organized, p. 104. 



Economy— Its relation to agricultural improvement, 

 p. 105. 



Lime — Its effects upon manure heaps, p. 407. 



Ward's IVhite Wheat — An account of, from Mr. Ward 

 himself, p. 108. 



Budding and Grafting — Directions for, p. 109. 



Durhams— Extensive sale of, p. 110. 



Agricultural Papers — Value of, p. 110. 



Posts— How to set them, p. 111. 



Guano — Report from the New York Agricultural As- 

 sociation, p. 111. 



Bees — To preserve from moth, p. 113. 



Chinches — To prevent, p. 113. 



Cockle — How to get rid of, p. 113. 



Weather— Its effect upon the crops, p. 114. 



Scotch Plough— Manufactured by Mr. Currie, p. 115, 



Manure— Should be kept covered, p. 1 15. 



New Books — Noticed, p. 115. 



Miles— Different measurements in different countries, 

 p. 116. 



Reaping Machines — A new one, p. 116. 

 Bommer — Come back again, p. 116. 

 Peas — New varieties, p. 117. 

 Harrows — Compound form of, p. 117. 

 Manures— Do they sinkl p. 118. 



