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and he is now using 300 tons annually on one farm 
alone. He also uses it in compost and stable manure, 
and mixed with sea-weed, and finds that it brings in 
clover and other valuable herbage before unknown 
upon his land. We hope some of our sea coast farm¬ 
ers will take a hint from this experiment, and try the 
effect of shell sand on the Atlantic borders. Mr. Clark 
also finds by planting potatoes whole instead of cut¬ 
tings, is a remedy against the seed becoming diseased. 
We should like to know whether this has any effect 
upon the curl in potatoes. 
Excretions of Plants. —From an Essay on the Ra¬ 
dical Excretions of Plants, by A. Gyde, he infers from 
a series of experiments :— 
1 . That most plants impart to water certain soluble 
substances or excretions. 
2. That this is identical with the sap of the plants. 
3. That plants have no power of selection, but take 
into their texture any solution offered to their roots, 
and that they have little or no power of again excret¬ 
ing it. 
4. That plants watered with excretion receive no in¬ 
jury from it. 
Monument to the Earl of Leicester. —Nearly 5000Z. 
have already been subscribed towards erecting a monu¬ 
ment to the late Earl of Leicester, as a testimony of 
Ills worth and the improvements made by him in agri¬ 
culture. 
Dead weight of Stock at Smithfield. —The dead 
weight of the largest prize ox exhibited at the late 
Smithfield Show, was 2,117 lbs. He was a Short-horn, 
and only 4 years 10 months old. The largest Long- 
woolled sheep weighed 204 lbs., at 1 year 8 month sold. 
The largest South-down, at 2 years 8 mos. old, weighed 
165 lbs., others 1 year 8 months old, weighed 133 lbs. 
With pigs the largest was 236 lbs., at 32 weeks old. 
The London Farmers’ Magazine for February is em¬ 
bellished by a portrait of one of the old Long-Horned 
bulls—a pretty good animal—and a party of Sportsmen 
on horseback leaping a high fence. This last is called 
“ Getting into Difficulty , 55 and is graphically done. 
Sheep"Stock. —After discussing the management of 
sheep at the Framingham Farmers 5 Club, it was re¬ 
solved that they should have free access to either rock 
or common salt—that nothing is preferable to common 
hurdles for folding them in fields—that pasturing old 
clover leys with them, destroys many of the slugs and 
wire worms, and that their feeding the young wheat in 
the spring is beneficial. 
Recipe for the Hoven in Cattle. —The Hadleigh Far¬ 
mers 5 Club recommends the following recipe for blown 
or hoven cattle : 1 lb. glauber salts, £ lb. of treacle, and 
1 oz. of ginger mixed with one pint and a half of warm 
water. Powerful stimulants, such as ammonia, are 
also recommended. 
Scours in Sheep. —In case of their being thus attack¬ 
ed, a small dose of castor oil should be given to remove 
any offending matter from the bowels, after which four 
grains of opium and 1 . oz. of chalk, and then put them 
upon dry food. 
The Veterinarian for February is full of able articles, 
but we dare not enter even upon a synopsis of them. 
If the public would countenance us in issuing a Three 
Dollar Magazine, to contain reprints and translations, 
accompanied with numerous engravings from European 
periodicals, we would give them such an interesting 
and valuable work as they have but a faint idea of. 
Agricultural Improvement in Ireland. —The Marquis 
of Waterford having about 40,000 acres of land in the 
County of Derry, with 800 tennats upon it, has com¬ 
menced a thorough course of draining on the Deanston 
system, by which it is supposed that the crops hereafter 
will be at least doubled. 
In the Gardeners’ Magazine for February, we find 
that charcoal as a manure is coming into pretty gene¬ 
ral use. It proves very beneficial wherever applied. 
May’s Red Victoria Currant. —The berries of this 
magnificent currant are said to measure not unfre- 
quently l£ inches in circumference, and the bunches 
6 inches in length. The fruit is a beautiful scarlet, 
and the flavor excellent. The foliage is thicker than 
the common red currant and hangs on later, and of 
course assists in prolonging: the fruit. 
Hubshee Grape. —This has lately been introduced 
into Europe from India, and is nearly 3 inches in cir¬ 
cumference and If inches long. 
Talavera Wheat produced in the Isle of Jersey last 
year, at the rate of 662 bushels to the acre. It was 
sown in drills 14 inches apart after a crop of potatoes, 
and cultivated in the best manner. 
Pomerania Cabbage is highly spoken of as being the 
best autumnal kind. 
Sulphate of Ammonia is much used now as a top¬ 
dressing on grass, wheat, and other grain. 
Paxton’s Magazine of Botany for February, presents 
its flowers lithographed upon a new system. They are 
the Comparettia rosea, Scyphanthus elegans, Columnea 
splendens, and Paulowina Imperialis, colored after 
nature, and are eertainly superior in delicacy, truth, 
and finish, to anything we have ever before seen in 
works of this kind. 
WHEAT SHEAF FARM ON STATEN ISLAND, 
FOR SALE. 
A recent domestic bereavement has induced the Undersigned, to 
offer his residence on Siaten Island, for sale. It is situated mid¬ 
way of the outer bay, on the sea shore, eight miles from the Qua¬ 
rantine Ferry, three from that of Rossville, and equi-distant from 
two others, Seguine’s Landing and Port Richmond. 
The condition of the Farm—the extent, value, and practical use¬ 
fulness of the improvements, and its peculiar advantages, are suffi¬ 
ciently known. It has been improved in a way to render it sus¬ 
ceptible of six farming division^ of thirty acres and upwards 
each, including, an appropriate allotment of woodland—each 
divisi n offering a moderately elevated building location. The 
condition of the soil is well known to be in the best working order. 
Terms to suit the Purchaser, as the object is merely to change 
the investment for anothe r susceptible of equal product. 
W. A. Seely, 
New York, Feb. 16th, 1843. 218, Fulton-street. 
ORCHARD GRASS SEED FOR SALE. 
The Subscriber offers for sale Seed of the best quality of the 
above valuable variety of Grass, at $2 per bushel. Apply at the 
Office of this paper, or to Robert White, Jr. 
Shrewsbury, New Jersey, Feb., 1843. 
COMMERCIAL GARDEN & NURSERY OF 
Fruit and Forest Trees, 
ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS, DAHLIAS, BULBS, #e. 
FLUSHING L. I., NEAR NEW YORK. 
Flushing, 3 mo. 20 1843. PARSONS & CO. 
SHEEP FARM FOR SALE. 
The Subscribers offer for sale, or to let, their extensive Sheep 
Farm, situated in La Snlle County, State of Illinois. The Farm 
consists of upwards of 1500 acres, over 400 being enclosed by sub¬ 
stantial picket fence, and improved; the balance dry rolling prairie 
and timber, most admirably adapted to sheep husbandry, for which 
purpose it has been used by the Subscribers for the last two years 
successfully. . .- , 
The Flocks of Sheep can be sold at the same time, if purchasers 
are inclined. They consist of over 1500 good strong healthy white- 
faced Cheviot breed; also Three Fine Paular Merino Bucks, pur¬ 
chased of a celebrated Breeder at the East. . , . 
If the Farm cannot be sold for cash, offers will be received for 
renting the same for two or three years. Apply either to John 
Rose, Little Vermilion, La Snlle, Murray & Ward, Chicago, 
HI., or James Murray & Co., Buffalo, New York, either of whom 
will give every information wanted. 
