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tree 6 inches from the trunk every year as soon as 
the ground is frozen. “ Put on in the winter, it 
works into the ground by degrees, and becomes 
diffused through the soil before vegetation com¬ 
mences, and it is then taken up in a suitable por¬ 
tion by the small roots, and is circulated with the 
sap through the tree, leaves, and fruit, and insects 
are so averse to salt, that they will not take it if 
they can get fresh food. 
“ By this means I have been able to obtain good 
crops of plums while others have lost both fruit 
and trees by insects. As a proof of the utility of 
salt applied to plum-trees, Mr. Pond, who culti¬ 
vates land once overflowed with salt water, never 
fails to obtain good crops of plums, and Mr. Jones, 
who has a plum orchard and an asparagus bed on 
the same ground, which he covers with salt mud, 
never fails to get a good crop, and his trees and 
fruit are perfectly free from disease. 
“ I have known several persons to try this who 
had good crops by the use of salt, while the fruit 
of the adjoining gardens all fell off.” 
Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry. —It 
will be seen by the advertisement of Dr. Garden¬ 
er, that our citizens are now to be favored with 
a series of lectures on that science, which is at 
length beginning to attract more attention both in 
Europe and America than any other—we mean 
the science of Agriculture. 
Dr. Gardener, we are informed, has been sever¬ 
al years a practical farmer, was a student under 
that celebrated botanist Professor Lindley, and re¬ 
ceived his chemical information from Brande and 
Turner. He lectured for some time on Chemistry 
and Botany, at one of the oldest Colleges in Vir¬ 
ginia, and is now engaged to deliver a series of 
popular lectures at the Rutgers Institute of this 
city. 
His first lecture will be delivered at the Univer¬ 
sity on the 27th inst., at o’clock, P. M., and we 
earnestly hope that all who are seeking to improve 
themselves in the principles of agriculture will at¬ 
tend. We find several of our most respected citi¬ 
zens already subscribers to this course. 
Our January No., the First of Volume Third, 
will be the richest paper ever yet issued from an 
Agricultural press. It is already nearly printed, 
and only waits the arrival of the steampacket with 
Foreign News, when it will be promptly issued. 
The correspondence is uncommonly able and va¬ 
ried, and very fairly represents the North, East, 
South, and West, of this great country. We real¬ 
ly feel under a load of obligations to our friends 
who have come forward so promptly in our behalf, 
and we shall take great satisfaction in requiting 
their favors in any way in our power. Our paper 
is meeting with unexampled success, and in its 
circulation, as it has in all other matters, it will 
henceforth take precedence. Payments for the 
Third Volume are already coming in rapidly. 
This is right. Recollect to remit through the 
Post-Masters as the law allows. 
LIST OF PREMIUMS 
Of the American Institute. —■ Concluded . 
Agricultural Products. 
George Chesterman, Harlem, N. Y., for forty ears of 
fine white Indian corn—Two volumes American AgrD 
culturist. 
S. Van Valkenburg, Harlem, N. Y., for forty ears 
of fine yellow corn—Two volumes Transactions State 
Agricultural Society. 
Nathan Coleman, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for a bushel 
of superior white flint wheat, weight 64 pounds—Silver 
medal. 
R. L. Pell, Pelham, Ulster Co., N. Y., for a bushel 
of extra fine rye, weight 60 pounds—Four volumes of 
the Cultivator. 
'Mrs. S. Campbell, Springfield, N. J., for a bushel 
of fine oats, weight 43 pounds—Planter’s Guide. 
James Depeyster, Flar.bush, L. I., for superior 
Egyptian corn—American Agriculturist. 
Tunis Bell, Piermont, N. Y., for fine specimens of 
white Indian corn—Farmer’s Mine. 
J. Q. Underhill, Secaucus, N. J., for fine specimens 
of mammoth Indian corn—Farmer’s Mine. 
Hiram Smith, Wheatland, N. Y., N. H. Wolf, 17 
South street, N. Y., agent, for the best wheat-flour— 
Silver medal. 
Hecker & Brothers, 245 Cherry-street, N. Y., (Cro¬ 
ton mills,) for the second best wheat-flour—Diploma. 
Hecker & Brothers, 245 Cherry street, N. Y., (Cro¬ 
ton mills,) for superior unbolted, or Graham flour— 
Diploma. 
W. H. Imlay & Co., Hartford, Conn., for superior 
rye-flour—Silver medal. 
Silks—Raw and Manufactured., 
W. J. Cantelo, Weehawken, N. J., for the best 
cocoons and raw silks—Gold Medal. 
Albert P. Heartt, Troy, N. Y., for the second-best 
cocoons—Diploma. 
Lucius Carey, Moreau, Saratoga Co., N. Y., for the 
second-best raw silk—Silver Medal. 
Northampton Association of Education and Industry, 
for specimens of raw silk—Diploma. 
Luke A. White, 15 Whitehall street, N. Y., for a 
specimen of raw silk—Diploma. 
F. Trowbridge, Flushing, N. Y., for a specimen of 
raw silk—Diploma. 
Ephraim Montague, Belchertown, Mass., for a spe¬ 
cimen of raw silk—Diploma. 
W. J. Cantelo, Weehawken, N. J., for winding- 
racks for cocoons, a very useful article—Diploma. 
William Hayflon, 9th Avenue, and 27th street, N. 
Y., for superior silk-dying—Diploma. 
New England Silk Co., Hartford, Conn., for the best 
black and colored sewing-silk—Silver medal. 
Northampton Association of Education and Industry, 
for the second-best sewing-silk—Diploma. 
Haskell & Hayden, Windsor, Conn., for superior 
colored spool sewing-silk, (gold medal having been 
before awarded,)—Diploma. 
John W. Gill, Mount Pleasant, Ohio, for the great 
est variety of manufactured silk goods—Gold medal. 
Timothy Smith, Amherst, Mass., for a piece of plain 
drab silk—Silver medal. 
Murray & Ryle, Paterson, N. J., for ladies’ and 
gent’s cravats, and twilled silk handkerchiefs—Gold 
medal. 
John Denmead, 137 William-street, N. Y., for silk 
gimps, silk-wire, and coat-binding—Silver medal. 
Mrs. Mary Beach, Newark, N. J., for a pair of 
white silk hose—Diploma. 
