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called the new ground coalter. It is made 

 of a square bar of iron, about an inch wide, 

 and fifteen inches in length, with a coalter 

 bill, and strongly braced to the beam be- 

 hind with an iron brace. It should be 

 worked with oxen, as horses are apt to fret 

 at the sudden jerks and stoppages they en- 

 counter in breaking up new ground. It 

 will tear up and break all the smaller roots, 

 and the ploughman should have a hatchet 

 with him, to cut the larger roots. By the 

 use of this plough, I have known 70 acres 

 of new ground got in and cultivated in a 

 season, where the same force could not have 

 got in and cultivated more than ten or fif- 

 teen acres, by the old method of grubbing 

 and hoeing. The implement is also used to 

 open the beds for planting corn, by attach- 

 ing two short mould boards to it. I have 

 also known it used to run in the water fur- 

 rows in corn fields in dry seasons with good 

 effect. 



REPLY TO MR. CRENSHAW. 



In the Whig of the 1st of June, I notice 

 a letter communicated by you to the editors, 

 from N. C. Crenshaw, Esq., in which he 

 appears to have been led into a fatal error, 

 by information derived, as he says, from an 

 experienced farmer. This farmer informs 

 him, that although unripe wheat may be 

 safely put up wet, the same is not true with 

 regard to ripe wheat. Now I can affirm 

 from well tested experiment, that exactly 

 the reverse is true. -"Tis true, that in both 

 cases, considerable heat is generated from 

 the wet straw, which dries both straw and 

 grain; but with regard to the ripe wheat 

 both straw and grain are preserved, and the 

 former, with so little injury, that horses and 

 cattle feed freely on it. I have had, I admit, 

 no experience in putting up green wheat 

 wet, but from what we know with regard to 

 stacking green ha}^, we may safely conclude 

 that where ripe wheat would dry, without 

 injury to the grain, or material injury to the 

 straw, green wheat put up wet, would be apt 

 to rot and result in a total loss. I can pro- 

 nounce, with perfect certainty, that ripe 

 wheat may be put up wet without danger to 

 either grain or straw, which I am persuaded 

 cannot be affirmed with regard to green 

 wheat, tested by actual experiment, which 

 is the only evidence worthy of considera- 

 tion, on all subjects. One well attested ex- 

 periment is much more to be relied on than 

 the most plausible theory. 



WM. GARNETT. 



P. S. — In a communication to the Whig 

 I have corrected the error in which Mr. 

 Crenshaw seems to have been led. 



w. a. 



** For the Southern Planter. 



June 5th, 1860. 

 Dear Sir : — In your last number of the 

 Planter " A Friend wishes to know the 

 name and description of a bug or insect that 

 propagates the vermin on his young fruit 

 trees. He does not say what kind of trees 

 they are, but I presume them to be peach 

 trees, as I have seen the insect he describes 

 on my own, but have never known them to 

 attack the apple tree. I cannot tell him 

 the name or give him a description of the 

 insect that produces the little bugs, but I 

 think I can tell him something of more im- 

 portance in regard to them, that is, a reme- 

 dy or how to destroy them. I have tried it 

 on my own trees, and have seen it tried (on 

 my recommendation) by some of my neigh- 

 bours with entire success. It is to sprinkle 

 some amber (water in which tobacco has 

 been steeped) on the trees, and sprinkle 

 some fresh slacked lime on them Vv'hile'wet 

 with the amber. If he should not succeed 

 in destroying them the first time, try it 

 again, and I am sure he will not be troubled 

 with them agai^i that season. The lime 

 probably would answer without the amber. 

 Some of my neighbors say they have de- 

 stroyed them with lime alone, put on when 

 the trees were wet. 



Spotsylvania. 



Kew Ventilator. 



A correspondent of the New York Tribune 

 proposes a plan for ventilating rooms warmed 

 by stoves, which is as follows: Apply a verti- 

 cal pipe to the front of the chimney, into 

 which the lower end should enter below the 

 stove-pipe, and the upper end approach within 

 a few inches of the ceiling. In its operation, 

 the foul air from the top of the room rushes 

 down and into the chimney to fill a partial 

 vaccuum occasioned by the draft from the 

 stove-pipe above. By applying a damper to 

 the pipe, its capacity may be adjusted as de- 

 sired. — Annual of ScieiiiLfic discovery, 1860. 



Respect your whole kindred, so that you 

 may display genuine harmony. 



Be partcular in habits of economy, in or- 

 der to be careful in the expenditure of 

 money. 



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