Fruit Trees—Kentucky Farming. 
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ones. This increase in the product of the fruit, 
from the above practice, is what we might cer¬ 
tainly look for, from a knowledge of the laws 
of circulation before stated. The crude and 
undigested sap passes up through the alburnum 
or Sap-wood, and is elaborated and prepared for 
use by the leaves, and then takes a downward 
course ready to be appropriated either to the 
formation of new wood, or maturing and giving 
weight and fulness to the fruit, as the habits of 
the tree may dictate. Many trees, and all oc¬ 
casionally, are indifferent bearers, and the elab¬ 
orated sap, passing by the embryo, or newly 
forming fruit, proceeds downward in the pro¬ 
cess of forming additional wood, or it may be, 
all the way to the roots. But as the downward 
sap passes along between the bark and wood, by 
removing the bark this is arrested, and it is thus 
forced to enter into the fruit for which it is now 
every way adapted. The small space denuded 
of bark is soon re-covered, and a similar pro¬ 
cess may be subsequently required on the same 
limbs. Some conjecture a like result is par¬ 
tially attained, when the branch forms an acute 
angle with the trunk below it, as the close ap¬ 
proximation of the bark to the wood checks the 
rapid transmission of sap, and in this way dis¬ 
poses it to the formation of fruit. However this 
may be, well lopped trees are generally prolific 
bearers. We should be careful in adopting the 
experiment, not to use all the limbs at once, and 
we may look for a feeble growth, or no growth 
of wood at all, as the necessary consequence of 
diverting its necessary aliment to the exclusive 
formation of fruit. r. 
KENTUCKY FARMING. 
We recently had the high gratification of a 
tour through a part of Kentucky, and as the 
course of cropping and some other things in 
this beautiful state, are quite different in many 
respects to the system prevailing in this latitude, 
and as it presents the oldest and finest example 
with which we are acquainted, of South-West¬ 
ern agriculture, we have thought it might not 
prove uninteresting to our readers at the North, 
to give them a short summary of it—leaving 
more particular notices of the different stocks 
and some other matters that fell under our ob¬ 
servation, to be detailed as we can find room in 
our columns hereafter. 
A portion of Kentucky has been celebrated 
for its fertility in sustaining large herds of buf¬ 
falo, elk, deer, and other wild game, from time 
.‘inmemorial, by the Aborigines of the Ohio and 
lower Mississippi vallies; so much so indeed, • 
that no one tribe was allowed by the others to oc¬ 
cupy permanently here, but it was kept with a 
rigid jealousy as a neutral hunting ground for | 
all the tribes of this extensive region. This 
also was their general battle field, where their 
disputes were settled by recourse to arms, thence 
its name among them, of the “ Dark and Bloody 
Ground.” These meetings at times must have 
proved very sanguinary, as whole masses of 
human bones are occasionally turned up by ex¬ 
cavations, that show a destruction of savage 
life in years gone by truly appalling. Nor was 
it won from the Indians by the ancestors of the 
present high spirited occupants of the soil, with¬ 
out many a desperate and bloody struggle, and 
the chronicles of Kentucky, whenever they 
come to be fully and graphically written, will 
exhibit a series of events abounding in incident 
and peril, scarcely inferior to the wildest tales 
of poetry and romance. 
The country is peculiarly attractive within a 
circle of some 40 or 50 miles average diameter 
around Lexington, and, considering thesoftnessof 
its climate, the fertility of the soil, and the general 
adaptedness of the state to the production of 
grass, grain, and roots, and the consequent easy 
sustenance of all kinds of domestic animals, it 
may be pronounced one of the most fertile and 
eligible agricultural districts upon the globe. 
In a careful and minute analysis of this soil by 
the very able professor of Chemistry and Phar¬ 
macy at the Transylvania University at Lexing¬ 
ton, Dr. Peter, it is found to be much like that 
of the celebrated alluvium of the Nile, and 
though it has not like that the advantage of annu¬ 
al fertilization by the overflow of waters, it pos¬ 
sesses others scarcely inferior. The soil here 
will bear severe cropping for a series of years, 
without intermission, of corn and other exhaust¬ 
ing products, and when slightly deteriorated, by 
sowing it down two or three years in rye, clo¬ 
ver, or grass to be fed off by stock, it is appa¬ 
rently restored to its original fertility 
That part of the state bordering upon Vir¬ 
ginia, is broken, wild and mountainous, but 
when put under cultivation it is found reasona¬ 
bly productive, and we have no doubt some 
years hence, it will become celebrated for its 
flocks and herds. It has two months less win¬ 
ter than the mountains of the extreme Northern 
States, and possesses a superior soil, and yet so 
entirely has this fine region been overlooked, 
that land in any quantity can be had there, from 
5 to 25 cts. per acre, and even within 50 miles 
of the Ohio river, whole sections may be pur¬ 
chased from 50 cts. to $1 per acre, that would 
make the best sheep pastures. 
The Crops of Kentucky are hemp, tobacco, 
grass, roots and gram, and latterly, some attempts 
have been made to produce wine and silk, and 
we have no doubt, in both of these last, she may 
succeed as eminently as she ha$ in the first, and 
make them important sources of her wealth; 
