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REVIEW OF THE MARCH NO. OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 
York, and other limestone regions, will be com¬ 
forted. 
Transplanting Trees. —If you are to procure them 
from a long distance, get them in the autumn, and 
bury the roots in garden mould, and just as the 
buds begin to swell in the spring, set them in place. 
Don’t set them too deep , although you cannot dig 
the ground too deep. The preparation of cow ma¬ 
nure is a good recommendation. 
Cultivation of Indian Corn, by John Brown, 2 d, 
is one of those plain common sense articles that 
tell that the author should write much more than 
he does. It will readily be perceived that this article 
is not calculated for a Mississippi planter; but could 
not be better written for the latitude of the writer. 
Cotton Gin-stands. —This is one of those capital 
articles that come from Doctor Philips’s pen'occa¬ 
sionally, which tell that he is a practical man. 
This is, to me, a new way to prevent a band from 
slipping, and is worth the notice of every one who 
uses bands. Thrashing-machine men, as well as 
cotton-ginners, will do well to try it. If found to 
succeed as well in all cases as with the doctor, the in¬ 
formation is invaluable. The alteration in the gin is 
worthy of the notice of every planter, for all know 
that the best cotton is most seriously injured in 
ginning. 
Apple and Pear Trees Destroyed by the Locust, is 
something new under the sun; but is worthy of 
investigation. Let every reader turn back to this 
exceedingly well written article, and carefully read 
it over again, and investigate the facts stated. This 
is a valuable correspondent, and she should write 
more frequently. 
Corn for Shipping. —“ What variety is best ?” 
As Mr. Allen says, it depends entirely upon what 
part of our immense corn growing country the crop 
is grown. We grow Indian corn in the United 
States through twenty degrees of latitude. The 
seed of Mr. Brown’s crop, just noticed, which he 1 
grew at Lake Winnipisiogee, in New Hampshire, 
would prove worthless in Florida. And it would 
be equally idle for Mr. Brown to undertake to 
grow the Florida gourd-seed variety. I should like 
to see him “ topping” some that I have found grow¬ 
ing in my Southern and Western travels. He 
would need a long knife to reach up to the butt of 
the ears. To my taste, the Southern white corn is 
superior to all others for bread ; and if some of my 
Yankee brethren will only make that “ steam appa¬ 
ratus for drying corn and meal,” as it goes on ship 
board, this variety will prove the most acceptable 
to Fmglish palates. Since writing this article, I 
nave seen in the Cincinnati Gazette of April 15th, 
an account of such an apparatus, invented in that city, 
which is capable of drying 5000 bushels of Indian 
corn a day. It appears to be made of sheet-iron, 
and is probably portable. Perhaps this will answer, 
as before suggested, to use upon the ship’s deck, 
and dry the corn as it passes into the hold. If not, 
one that will can be invented. 
Construction of Hot-Houses. —The ridge-roof plan, 
recommended in this number, will never answer in 
this vicinity. It may do further south. Here the 
snow and ice that might accumulate, in one night, 
in all the gutters, might ruin the whole. The 
plates, illustrating this article, are most beautiful 
specimens of wood engraving This is one of the 
very important benefits which the readers will de¬ 
rive from the Agriculturist being published by a 
house that has such a vast number of cuts as the 
Messrs. Harper, and which can and will be used 
to illustrate this paper. In that respect it can, and 
I hope will, become the most valuable paper in the 
United States. There is nothing so pleasing to the 
general reader as pictorial illustrations. For this, 
London works are pre-eminent; but we can equal 
them with equal patronage. 
Mr. Norton’s Letters, No. 3.—I have a very se¬ 
rious fault to find with this letter; and I venture to 
say that nine-tenths of the readers of it will coin¬ 
cide with me. And it is a fault that our friend 
Norton can, and I hope will, amend in future—# is 
too short. Good descriptive writers are always 
interesting. Mr. Norton is eminently of this class. 
Economy in Food. —Use less meat, cold and hot, 
and more vegetables. 
The Corn or Fly-Weevil. —Mr. Ruffin intimates 
his opinion, that this insect will not become trouble¬ 
some in the Northern States. I hope not; but yet I am 
aware that it has been gradually gaining northward, 
like some other “ southern abstractions,” for several 
years past; and that now Tennessee, Kentucky, 
Southern Indiana, and Illinois, are exceedingly tor¬ 
mented by these wheat destroyers; and I have no 
doubt but what the weevil is as easily acclimated 
at the North as is Southern corn. To keep corn in 
the shuck clear from the weevil, it should be put 
in a well ventilated crib, and a little salt sprinkled 
upon the shucks as it is put in. Wheat in the 
chaff should be served in the same way. Shelled 
corn or wheat, if put up perfectly dry, in tight 
casks headed up, and kept in a dry place, will keep 
well. If put up in open bins, and covered over 
with a coat of powdered lime, half an inch thick, 
sifted on the grain, it will prevent the weevil from 
penetrating, and will not injure the berry for seed 
or bread, as it is easily blown out. There will 
then be no “ weevil-eaten surface” to feed to the 
hogs. All plans for preserving grain from the 
weevil will be successful, if it is only understood 
and borne in mind, that if the atmosphere is ex¬ 
cluded, this insect cannot increase. Eggs already 
laid may hatch, but thus endeth the family. 
Letters from the South, No. 4.—It might have 
been stated that not only “ the whole southern por¬ 
tion of Louisiana is exclusively an alluvial deposit,” 
but the whole State, and a great portion of Missis¬ 
sippi and Arkansas are equally so. There was a 
time when the mountains of Tennessee joined with 
those of Missouri, and these great alluvions were 
not; and all the vast basin of the Mississippi, Mis¬ 
souri, and Ohio rivers, now covered with rank 
vegetation, was then a vast inland sea. When the 
gap, through which the great river now flows, was 
thrown down by earthquakes, then it was that all 
of this great alluvial deposit was made, and the 
lower Mississippi first began to roll its muddy 
waters onward into the Mexican gulf, gradually 
raising its banks above the level of the sea, till 
they might be habited by man; which, as the 
writer says, has been done too soon by many cen¬ 
turies; for the whole levee system tends to prevent 
the filling in of swamps lying back from the river, 
along its course from the mouth to the mountains 
of Missouri; so that all the lighter portions of tho 
