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South or South-eastern exposure as may 

 be necessary, be burnt, hard enough to 

 destroy all the grass seed which the soil 

 may contain. After the planting is over 

 in the spring or summer, the remainder 

 of plants are with a scythe or hoe, cut 

 down or dug up, and the patch covered 

 over about six inches deep with leaves, 

 wheat straw, or corn stalks, — I think the 

 stalks or straw are preferable, inasmuch 

 as they furnish more nutriment to the 

 soil and allows more atmospheric action 

 upon the soil. The stalks or straw are 

 allowed to remain upon the bed until the 

 time of farming comes round again, when 

 it is burnt upon the bed, which, with the 

 addition of a covering with brush, old 

 wood, or nothing at all, is amply sufficient 

 to secure a bed as clean, and free of all 

 seed, as it was after the first burning. 

 The soil is now in a much better condi- 

 tion to receive the seed than it was at 

 first, and the preparation not half so te- 

 dious and vastly better. This practice I 

 have continued consecutively for three 

 years, and am convinced that it is the 

 best if not the only method we have 

 in our power to lessen the amount 

 of wood consumed, and render more cer- 

 tain the raising of tobacco plants. 



Yours, very respectfully, 



Edward T. Page. 

 Buckingham Co., Va. 



Preserving Wild Fowl. — Remove the 

 intestines carefully, and wipe out the 

 blood with an old soft towel, until the 

 flesh is quite dry ; then dust flour over the 

 inside, and scatter two or three drops of cre- 

 osote upon a piece of blotting paper, and put 

 that in and tie the bird uptight in another 

 piece of similar paper, upon which put a 

 few drops more creosote ; then hang up 

 each carcass separate, in a cool, dry place, 

 and it will keep sweet for a long time. 

 Never remove the feathers from a bird you 

 wish to preserve. — Germantowa Telegraph. 



Wheat and Corn. — The auditor of 

 Ohio has made his report on the grain sta- 

 tistics of that State for 1856 to the legis- 

 lature. The number of acres sown with 

 wheat was 1,407,773; bushels gathered, 

 19,569,320 ; the average yield 13.81 bush- 

 els. The whole number of acres of corn 

 planted was 2,205,282 ; bushels gathered, 

 87,782,434; the average yield, 39.71 bushs. 



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The Eli Thayer Invasion. 



Clarke Co., April 1857. 

 Mr. Editor. — Having seen several articles in 

 one of the late papers relating to the intended 

 encroachment of the North on the soil of the 

 Old Dominion, I cannot forbear to sound the 

 alarm to my brother Virginians, to arouse them 

 from their slumbers, and implore them to make 

 every effort to repel the invaders. One of the 

 articles alluded to above, stated that there was 

 a Great Northern Emigrant Aid Society pro- 

 jected, with a capital of three or four millions 



