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bam-yard manure, and equally as good as where 
I used sixty or seventy bushels of poudrette to the 
acre.” 
Mr. Edward Condict, of Morristown, N. J., says 
that “ early in October last, I used the poudrette on 
a loamy soil, somewhat inclining to clay, which I 
had prepared for wheat. There was no difference in 
the soil, nor in its preparation, except that on about 
one fourth part of it, after the wheat was sown, 
about twenty bushels of the poudrette to the acre 
was also sown, broad cast; and the result is, that 
on harvesting that part where the poudrette was 
put, is much the heaviest grain, and but very little 
injured with the rust or mildew, while the other 
part of the field is considerably injured.” 
Mr. Samuel Fleet , of Hastings, Westchester 
county, says that he “ finds it very efficient, if 
applied when seeding down. The seed took much 
better, in the same field, where poudrette was ap¬ 
plied at seeding, than where other manure was 
used, the whole being put down at the same 
time.” 
Mr. Wm. Wickham Mills , of Smithtown, L. I., 
says that “ where the poudrette was used, the 
wheat came in well. It stood the winter well, 
and the berry was fair; but where bone was used, 
about the same cost to the acre, in the same field, 
it was winter-killed, and very much shrunk, and 
the produce was only about one half the number 
of bushels to the acre.” 
Captain R. B. Coleman , of New York, used 125 
bushels of poudrette on his farm, near Pough¬ 
keepsie, in the fall of 1839, on wheat, at the rate 
of twenty-five bushels to the acre. His object was 
to lay it down to grass, and he desired to ensure 
good crops. June 5th, 1842, he says, “ The ground 
on which the poudrette was put, can be distinctly 
marked out, by the luxuriant growth of grass on 
it being superior to that adjoining.” 
From these extracts it will be seen, that prac¬ 
tically the questions asked in the commencement 
of this article, are answered in the affirmative; 
and it is the opinion of those who have had good 
opportunities to judge correctly, that it will be 
found as valuable for fall crops as for corn and 
other spring and summer crops. 
D. K. Minor. 
New York , July 13 th, 1843. 
ROAD-HORSES. 
For the last seven years of our life, we have 
been strenuous in deed, and by word and pen, en¬ 
deavoring to awaken the attention of the public to 
breeding a better race of road-horses throughout 
the country. But we might just as well have un¬ 
dertaken to galvanize the dead, as stir up the 
great body of our farmers to this important sub¬ 
ject. There would now and then come a short 
spasm, and an occasional throe from some spirited 
man or two in different quarters of the land, and 
then all would die away again, and remain cold 
and stiff, till at last we almost gave the thing up 
in despair. It is therefore particularly gratifying 
to us, to have recently received a letter from Dr. 
A. Campbell, of Middletown, Ohio, dated the 8th 
of last month, from which we make the following 
extract: 
Bellfounder is doing a good business here the 
present season. Since he has shown specimens 
of his stock among us, he has become emphatically 
the “ Lion of the day.” He has had eighty mares 
already, and I have now sent him to Mr. Steddoms, 
at Lebanon, to make a fall season; and although 
there less than a week, seventeen more have been 
engaged to him. He is in the finest condition im¬ 
aginable. His tail is very thick, and has grown 
so long that it absolutely drags now upon the 
ground. His colts excel in size, &c., the expecta¬ 
tions of every one who saw the horse last season. 
The Pennsylvania Germans settled here are es¬ 
pecially pleased with him. 
Mr. Munson Beach, of Lebanon, Ohio, also writes 
a friend in this city to the same effect as the 
above; and we are rejoiced for the sake of the 
farmers of that district, and the improvement of 
their horse stock, that they can appreciate in a 
small degree, the value of so excellent a roadster 
as Bellfounder, 
Viator’s compliments to John Fitz, Esq., of Ine 
Prairie Farmer, assuring him that the sugar in ques¬ 
tion had no part of a muskrat skin boiled down in it, 
but only partook of some ’possums, with a sprinkling 
of the ’coon. 
Manitouwoc, July 13 th, 1843. 
For the American Agriculturist 
SOUTHERN CALENDAR FOR AUGUST. 
Make it a matter of especial attention to have -every¬ 
thing in readiness for picking cotton. It requires only the 
same time to prepare, and if done in time, you will have 
no detention. I therefore urge you to examine baskets, 
sacks, gin stand, gin band, running gear, presses, &c., 
and if anything requires repairing, do it immediately. 
Continue your improvements all spare time, such as 
grubbing, &c.; repairing fences about lots, repairing 
buildings, making shingles and scaffolds to sun cotton. 
Cut crab-grass hay, throw into heap-rows, there to 
remain for a day, then into tall narrow heaps until 
cured. Clean your potato plantings, designed for 
seed or slips. Gather the fodder from late corn. 
Thrash the grain derived for fall sowing, to provide 
against loss of time from cotton-picking, when the seed 
will be wanted, and that you may have the straw to pack 
away with the pea-vines, if you intend to save them. 
Prepare turnep ground at once, if not done, a day or 
two extra work will not be missed 100 years hence, 
and you will be well paid. Procure Dale’s hybrid 
turnep seed, and sow on the 15th, rain or no rain, Sun¬ 
days always excepted. Sow half a pint of seed to the 
acre, any how, though old folks say a tablespoonful is 
enough; I would rather have a pint cup full. Unless 
the earth be wet, or decided appearance of rain, I would 
advise covering by brushing in : the last season taught 
me this. I had more turneps in half-a-dozen rows, 
where brushed, than on 8 acres where harrowed in. 
The ground should be made fine by frequent harrowings 
and plowings, then a brush rather settles the earth to 
the seed. 
Bud peach-trees of this year’s growth, the best if 
