!K16 Salt a Good Manure for Cellery. 
ping, the fertility of the soil has materially diminished since the 
settlement of the country. Instead of the large crops of grain 
formerly obtained, farmers complain that the harvest is comparative- 
ly scanty. As a fertilizer lime has much to recommend it; what- 
ever means conduce to convert the vast layers of lime rock into an 
excellent and available manure, tends to confer materially, wealth 
upon the country. The extensive lines of canals and railways 
which intersect the state, will enable parts to feel the benefits of it 
which are not immediately within the limits of the lime stone region. 
The injurious practice among farmers, which has obtained too much 
favor, of carting all the weeds with the crops raised upon the 
farm, into the barn, and subsequently with the straw into the barn- 
yard, to be transported the following season in all their freshness, 
to manure a single field, when instead of a crop of grain, he has 
an accumulation of weeds, will scarcely find favor where a manure 
obnoxious to none of these objections, may be procured. Upon 
the completion of the Erie rail road to Corning, it will form a 
convenient mode of conveyance to the city of New York, where 
it is deemed important for many purposes. In the manufacture of 
salt, as wood becomes more scarce in the vicinity of the works, 
from its evaporative power above referred to, it must become a 
valuable substitute for the fuel now made use of, and generally 
throughout the western part of the state, as applicable to various 
economic purposes. 
Salt a Good Manure for Cellery. — A root and a stalk ol 
cellery weighing fourteen pounds, without leaves, and measuring 
fourteen inches in circumference, was exhibited at a recent 
meeting of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. It was exhibited 
to show the value of salt as manure for this plant; the gentleman 
who raised the article having made the experiment of treating a 
portion of his plants in the ordinary way, and manuring a part oi 
them with salt. The former were of ordinary size and quality, 
the latter being both larger and finer flavor, of which the speci- 
men exhibited was an exemplification. 
