THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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suffered severely. No one who will examine 

 the field can doubt the efficacy of the prepara- 

 tion. He will be astonished at the striking dif- 

 ference between the five rows and the remainder 

 of the field. 



For three } 7 ears we have published from time 

 to time, experiments and statements showing 

 the value of the saltpetre soak for corn and other 

 seeds, and yet probably not one-tenth of our 

 readers use this or any other soak. For several 

 years we have soaked all our corn with the most 

 gratifying results. None of it has ever been 



touched by the grub, against which we, there- 

 fore, regard the saltpetre as a protection, and it 

 grows with a rapidity that shames the sluggish- 

 ness of grass and weeds. We planted some 

 corn last year on the 6th of May, soaked as 

 usual, and in just twenty-eight days it stood 

 twenty-two inches high — ground rich but not 

 manured this year. A pound of saltpetre in 



I enough water to cover a bushel of corn, is about 



I the proportion. — Louisville Journal. 



I Say one pound of saltpetre to eight gallons 



; of water. — Editor Ohio Cultivator. 



HAY PRESS. 



There exists a great demand in Virginia for 

 a good hay press, and we have been favorably 

 impressed with the construction of the one re- 

 presented in the engraving. The arrangement 

 is of a simple character, and admits of great 

 strength in its details. The principle is an old 

 one, and has long been applied to the printing 

 it affords a very simple method of causing 



the follower to traverse the space required in the 

 compression of hay, and, as is to be desired in 

 every press of the kind, the power is greatly in- 

 creased in the latter part of the operation. We 

 do not know exactly the price of this press, but 

 should think a good and substantial article of 

 the kind ought to be furnished for about a hun- 

 dred dollars. It was invented and patented by 



