editor’s table. 
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Great Crops of Wheat. —Mr. Peters states in the 
New Genesee Farmer, that Mr. Lewis, of Alexander, 
raised 140 bushels of wheat, weighing 60 lbs. to the 
bushel, on 2 acres and 70 rods of ground, which would 
be at the rate of 60 bushels and 3 pecks to the acre. 
Gen. Harmon, in the N. Y. State Ag. Soc. Transactions 
1842, says, in 1803, Mr. Shelfer, of Wheatland, har¬ 
vested 40 acres of wheat which produced 62| bushels 
per acre. 
Mad-Itch. —I know of but one remedy for the mad- 
itch, and that is surgical. Open the second stomach 
and extract the cornstalks. This fatal disease among 
cattle is produced by cornstalks. The fibres being in¬ 
digestible, hang in the manifold or duodenum , and 
irritate and inflame until the poor animal is driven to 
madness. Farmers feed their hogs upon green corn ; 
the cattle follow and pick up the stalk chewed fine by 
the hogs, which by superior sagacity he spits out, and 
this ready-made article does all the mischief, and so it 
would serve the horses or hogs if they were to swallow 
it. Separate your cattle from your hogs in cornstalk 
chewing time, and you will separate your cattle from 
the mad-itch. An ounce of prevention is worth a 
pound of cure. Farmers, this is the remedy. 
Tern. Agriculturist. 
To remove grease-spots from Merinoes, Silks , Cloth , fyc. 
■—Take the yolk of an egg entirely free from the white, 
mix it with a little warm water (be sure not to scald the 
egg), and with a soft brush apply the mixture, and rub 
it on the spot until the grease appears removed or loose. 
Wash off the egg with moderately warm water, and 
finally rinse off the whole with clean cold water. 
Should not all the grease be removed, which may arise 
from being on a long time, or not sufficiently washed, 
dry and repeat the operation.— Southern Cult. 
Egg-Hatching by Artificial Means. —An apparatus 
for this purpose is now exhibiting in this city, at 160 
Nassau street. It takes the egg and goes through the 
whole process of incubation before visiters. 
A New Southern Staple. —We cut the following from 
the Charleston Courier: An ingenious citizen of the 
State of New Jersey has recently taken out a patent 
from the office in Washington, for a discovery which 
he has made which enables him to manufacture paper 
of various qualities, and of a very firm and strong tex¬ 
ture, from the cane which grows in such abundance in 
the swamp lands of the southern states. The process 
is to remove the outer coat by a very simple chemical 
process, when the remainder of the cane is easily con¬ 
verted into a pulp of which the paper is made. 
South-Down Sheep for the South. —We understand 
Mr. Joseph Cope, and Mr. J. Worth of Westchester, 
Chester county, Pa., recently sent a few of their fine 
South-Down sheep to South Carolina, and that they are 
much liked by their purchaser, and find great favor in 
that quarter. Mr. Cope went out to England a few 
years since for the express purpose of procuring superi¬ 
or stock, and in addition to South-Down sheep, made 
an importation of the superb bull Yorkshireman, from 
the celebrated herd of Thomas Bates, Esq., of Kirk- 
leavington, Yorkshire, England. 
To Kill Worms in Peach-Trees. —In the manage¬ 
ment of my peach-trees, I use one part of saltpetre, to 
about four to eight parts of common salt, and apply it 
in its solid state, about half a pound of this mixture to 
a bearing tree upon the surface of the ground, and in 
close connexion with the trunk of the tree. I never 
disturb the earth about the tree—for a long time I ap¬ 
plied it three times in the course of the year, though 
twice, I now think, will answer—I have heretofore ap¬ 
plied it in April, June, and first of September—mow 
last of April and first of September. 
Of 500 trees, 300 were treated with salt and nitre, 
and 200 left without its use—those around which the 
salt and saltpetre were put, were and still continue en¬ 
tirely exempt from worms—of those left without the 
salt and saltpetre, not one escaped the ravages of the 
peach-worm. Lyttleton Physick. 
American Farmer. 
Superiority of Cut-Hay. —Four oxen kept on cut-hay, 
eat 18 per cent, less than when given the uncut, and 
made 15 per cent, greater weight of manure, and this 
manure from the cut hay was thought equal to that 
from the uncut. Thomas W. Ward. 
Mass. Ploughman. 
Preserving Corn from severe Early Frosts. —This was 
done in the month of June, by covering it with earth, 
and letting it remain for two days till the weather mod¬ 
erated, then uncover. It was large enough at the time 
for the first hoeing. S. Ellis. Mass. Ploughman . 
Cane-Coverer recently invented by J. P. Bryan. —If 
we could convince them that this instrument, in the 
course of the year, effects a great saving of time, labor, 
and money, we have no doubt but every one would im¬ 
mediately adopt it. We have the testimony of several 
sugar-planters of experience, to prove that it is ail that 
it purports to be—that it will, with one boy and two 
horses, cover ten acres of cane per day, in as effectual a 
manner as the work can be performed with hoes. It 
is also used instead of hoes, in scraping. We saw sev¬ 
eral planters at the state fair who assure us of this 
fact. The instrument was thoroughly tested last spring, 
and Mr. Bryan now offers it to the public with the 
fullest confidence. It has been used by Messrs. Bar¬ 
ker, Allain, Camp, Mather, Andrews, Col. Hickey, 
General Trist, and many others.— Planters’ Banner. 
Value of Sulphate of Soda. —The following account 
of the effect of soda as a top-dressing to beans and peas, 
is from Professor Johnston’s celebrated work on chem¬ 
ical manures: 
“ The first dressing was applied the 4th of May, on 
some beans on a border in the garden ; the drills that 
were dressed quickly took the lead of the others. 
There was no alteration of color, but greater strength, 
and it littered wonderfully. There were five or six 
stems from every seed sown, and the beans in the pods 
a great deal larger than the same variety undressed. 
It was also put upon some of the ridges of the beans in 
the field, and with the same effect, and gave a very 
large crop. 
“ Upon peas in the garden it appeared to add little, 
if anything, to the strength of the straw, but those that 
were dressed had a far greater number of pods, and 
those better filled, and the peas of a better flavor, and 
it seems a valuable dressing for all leguminous crops . 
When sown in the drills" along with the peas, it nearly 
killed every one of them.” 
The Pork Trade of Cincinnati. —About 235,000 hogs 
have been packed the past season at Cincinnati, the 
average weight of which the Gazette estimates at 210 
lbs. each. The price ranged from $2,60 to $2.70 per 
100 lbs. The expense of preparing them is $2 per hog, 
which with the first cost, gives the sum of $1,800,000 
invested in the single article of pork. 
Farming in Wiskonsan. —Three brothers purchased 
300 acres of prairie land in Wiskonsan, 18 months since. 
It cost them 10s. an acre, the fencing $1 an acre, and 
the breaking up 14s. an acre. Every item of expense 
after harvest shows an aggregate of $2,156. The 300 
acres produced 6000 bushels of wheat, which sold for 
$3,240. This tells a good story for Wiskonsan lands. 
To pay for land and all improvements the first year, and 
have a handsome surplus left, is not common here? 
abouts.— Rochester Democrat „ 
