196 FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
^.-i.a;.v« '"a.Yt-trvtl-l-irrrtl ^VTi>miz ; common material, except lime. It then becomes one of 
jFOUtglt ^gncmtm ttl Si tmS. j ^ most valuable of a fi mxawes.—Agricultuzal Gaz. 
The Best Mode of Mixing Salt with Lime. — Lay 
By the steamer Hibernia, we are in receipt of our three inches of unslacked lime, ten feet long and six 
foreign journals to 4th of May. wide, as a bed, and then spread one inch thieh of com- 
Makkf.ts. — Ashes, in steady demand. Cotton, an ad- mon sa it. Repeat these layers till a bed two feet high 
vance of ^d. to id. per lb., with large sales. Wheat ; s formed. If the mixture is made in summer, when it 
and Beef, a slight improvement in most other American j s dry, ft ma y be in the open air ; at other times, under 
products a trifling reduction cover. After ten days, turn it over, and repeat the 
Professorship of Culture in the Garden of Plants . turnings five or six times, at intervals of seven days ; 
at Paris. — M/Decaisne has been recommended as the S p re ad from a cart about 60 bushels per acre, covering 
successor, in this important chair, of M. de Mirbel, who the horse with a sheet or cloth, to prevent burning the 
has resigned in consequence of illness and age. hair off. It should be plowed in before wheat sowing. 
Glass for Conservatories. — Rolled, rough, plate glass — Hillyard's Practical Farming. 
is coming into general use, in England, for conservatory j Seed Oats. — Oats intended for seed should not be 
roofs, much exposed to the sun, as a preventive of burn- ' allowed to be too ripe before cutting, as considerable 
ing. Its excellence has now become a matter of cer- foss is sustained in all the various processes of manu- 
tainty. factures, and if sown upon damp soils, and uncongenial 
To Cultivate Canary Seed. — Sow ten pounds per climates, are apt to burst, especially "if the seed has 
acre, in rows a foot apart, on a clay loam, in October, been grown in the neighborhood of the seaboard, 
and treat the growing crop exactly as you treat wheat. Another reason why they should not be too ripe, is 
— Agricultural Gazette. their aptitude to " sheel," by the powerful machines so 
Glaze for Muslin. — Three pints of old pale linseed generally used for threshing. — North-British Agricul- 
oil; sugar of lead, one ounce; and white resin four turist. 
ounces. The sugar of lead must be ground with a Spent Tanners' Baric a good Manure for Strawber- 
small quantity of the oil, and added to the remainder, r { e s. — Perhaps the following experiment with strwber- 
incorporated with the resin by means of a gentle heat. r ies in tan, near Edinburgh, may prove useful. The 
Lay it on the muslin with a brush. , One coat annually, soil was very light, and appeared unfit for their growth, 
is sufficient. — Gardeners' Chronicle. yet finer fruit, or of better flavor I have seldom seen. 
New Invention. — A portable instrument has lately This was entirely owing to a covering of old tanners' 
been invented and brought into use, in England, for bark, about an inch thick, being applied between the 
fumigating greenhouses, stoves, and frames, or shrubs rows. The bark not only kept the ground moist and 
and flowers in the open air, without injuring the the fruit clean, but it is the material of all others in 
most delicate plants ; delivering the smoke cool, in a which this plant most delights. Many persons may 
dense mass and effecting a great saving of tobacco. \ have remarked how almost all plants, but particularly 
Covering for Gravel Walks. — Decomposed sand- the strawberry, will root into the old tan of a bed in 
stone is an excellent covering for walks, in order to which they have been forced, and yet, because they 
bind any loose material of which they may be formed, know new tan will kill weeds, they do not think it val- 
Soon after its application, the surface becomes perfectly uable as a manure. In the same garden were beds of 
smooth, and almost as firm as a flag. The walks may strawberries, which had not been covered, but after 
be swept during wet weather, nearly as well as when growing and flowering well, these bore no fruit worth 
it is di y. ,— Gardeners' Chronicle. gathering (a very common thing if the soil is too light); 
Death of Professor Kunth. — The foreign papers others were almost burnt up, whilst those to which the 
announce the death of this learned botanist, at Berlin, tan had been applied were luxuriant, and the ground 
on the 22d of March. He was well known as the col- j was covered with fine r-unners, fit to plant out, though 
league of Baron Humboldt and M. Bonpland in the the fruit was just in perfection. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 
preparation of the great work on the new plants dis- , Green Vegetable Manure. — This has been used for 
covered by them in Equinoctial America; and latterly, upwards of 2,000 years, and in countries where the art 
for a useful enumeration of all known plants, of which, i of culture has been most attended to. Various crops 
however, only a few volumes have appeared. ; have been sown with no other view than to be buried 
Salt and Lime. — Slack lime with brine, in some in when fully grown, to render the soil fit for crops of 
sheltered place, and apply 50 or 60 bushels per acre more importance. Every species of vegetable, in a 
some months or so hence. Your best plan will be to green state, acts more or less as fertilisers, some prob- 
do all this in midsummer, so as to be ready to apply it ably more than others, according to their power of 
on the stubble in autumn. — Agricultural Gazette. draining organic matter from the air, and inorganic 
To Raise Turnips. — Pare and burn. Spread the from the subsoil. It is, therefore, no detriment to the 
ashes. Plow 3 inches deep, roll, harrow, and harrow soil to be covered with weeds, providing they are not 
again. "When that plowing is reduced to a tilth, cross allowed to seed, and that they be dug into the ground 
plow at double the depth, and repeat the tillage. Sow instead of being hoed down and raked off, which latter 
3cwt. superphosphate of lime, broadcast, drill up in rows, ' process is a direct robbery of the soil. Green vegeta- 
26 inches apart, and sow 3 lbs. of seed on the tops of , ble manure is most effective on light, sandy soils, and 
the drills. Sow 3 or 4 lbs. per acre, in rows 2 feet ; least so on peaty lands, It is surprising how much val- 
or more apart, and single out to 10 or 12 inches. — Ibid. \ uable manure is wasted in gardens, by carrying it to 
Tanners' Bark as a Manure. — This, in its manufac- ; the compost heap, instead of at once burying it in the 
turing state, is unfit for cultivators to use ; but when soil ; and how much is lost or neglected in woods and 
exhausted of its tannin, and allowed to decay, it ceases waste pjaces, from, mere indolence, or from want of 
to be " tanners' bark," and becomes, like all other de- knowing that rampant nettles and rank-growing plants, 
caying vegetable substances, valuable to the cultivator constitute a great amount of the food of plants. Tree 
in proportion to its degree of decay. The worst way leaves, and the mowings of lawns are valuable manures, 
of using it is to burn it to ashes ; the best way is to and far too seldom turned to useful account. For us- 
char it. Whether charred or merely decayed, it should ing green vegetable manure, it should be applied as 
be mixed with putrifying matters, such as the contents soon as possible after it is cut. — North-British Agricul- 
of cesspools, or rotten dung, and also earth or any other ! twist. 
