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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
tered them through the winter. The nice, fresh 
eggs for breakfast, are a m >st acceptable to¬ 
ken of gratitude, and we feel no disposition to 
undervalue them. 
But our hens, in their extreme generosity, 
provide us with more than we need to use at 
present. How shall we best preserve them for 
a season of scarcity ? Sometimes we have pack¬ 
ed them carefully in coarse salt, always placing- 
the small end downwards. They have kept 
very well through the winter in this way, and 
perhaps would do so through the summer. 
Recently we have adopted another method, 
which has proved quite satisfactory, and by 
which we have kept them a year. I re¬ 
ceived the recipe from a dealer in eggs. To 
whom he is indebted for it, I cannot say; but, 
I will, in my turn, give it to the readers of your 
paper, who may be disposed to use it. 
To Preserve Eggs .—Take one pound quick or 
stone lime and slack it in three gallons of water. 
Then add one pound of salt. Put the eggs in 
when the mixture is cold. Look to it frequently 
to ascertain if the top is encrusted with lime. 
If not, slack a little more and add to it. A 
pork or wine barrel is best for the purpose. 
It is necessary to be particular that the shell 
of the egg should not be cracked. If it is, the 
lime hardens the yolk, and renders it unfit for 
use. A. H. 
Hazelwood. 
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HARVESTING CORN. 
We published in No. 27, a series of questions 
from Mr. T. R. Jaynes, Jr., (the printer by mis¬ 
take set the name Jones,) and we have received 
several replies from correspondents, giving a par-' 
ticular description of their methods of harvest¬ 
ing corn. We have put these aside to the ap¬ 
propriate season for the discussion of this sub¬ 
ject, when it may be worth while to take up, 
the time of cutting, the relative advantages of 
“topping” the corn or cutting up the whole 
stalk, &c. We are obliged to our correspondents 
for any thing they write on this and other sub¬ 
jects, though we find it impossible to crowd into 
our columns all communications we receive. 
Writing down one’s views always benefits the 
writer, even though the sheet should be con¬ 
signed to the flames as soon as written. It helps 
him to think methodically. We will, however, 
give here one of the letters referred to above, 
and defer the others. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES OF TIIOS. It. JAYNES, JR. 
1st Gutting up the Corn .—We will suppose 
the field to be square with the cardinal points. 
Commence say near the north-east corner, 
at the fifth row from the east side, and walk in 
from the north side to the fourth hill. Grasp 
the whole of that hill a little above the ears, by 
the left hand, and with one blow from the knife 
in your right hand, cut off all the stalks just 
above the ground, and stand them up carefully 
against the north side of the hill before you. 
Then go to the south side, cut up a hill and 
stand it up in the same manner on that side; 
then turn to the west, and place a handful of 
stalks on that side of the standing hill; and do 
the same on the east side. Now grasp a hill 
and cut it off, then another and other, until your 
left hand is full; then step to the shock and set 
up your handful. So go on round and round 
the stock until its base is three feet in diameter; 
the top will not be half that. Bind firmly near 
the top, and the shock will shed rain well, and 
stand for months if you wish. 
Straw is better than corn stalks for binding, 
but the latter are so much more convenient, that 
nineteen-twentieths of the corn in Western New- 
York is bound with them. 
Pick up any stray ears that may fall from the 
stalks and crowd them into the side of the shock. 
The way I have planned it, nine rows of corn 
make one row of shocks; but the number of 
hills it would be best to put in a shock, de¬ 
pends, of course, on the size of the corn. If 
winter wheat is to follow the corn, as is often 
advisable, put fifteen rows of corn in one row 
of shocks, making a greater number of shocks 
in a row, and then you will have good-sized 
plow lands between the rows of shocks. 
2d. Gathering the Corn .—When the grain 
has got dry and hard, take a jack-knife, and 
crowding open the bottom of the shock cut off 
the hill left standing. Lay the shock down on 
one side, unbind the top, and take a comforta¬ 
ble seat on one side of the pile of stalks, and if 
the weather be pleasant, you have the most 
agreeable work of the season before you. 
Husk so as to leave the husks on the stalks, 
and when you have got your lap full of them, 
bind them into a bundle and throw it aside. 
Put all the bundles made by two shocks into 
one shock and bind it firmly at the top. If my 
stalks are dry, I draw them into the barn im¬ 
mediately after husking, and they keep well and 
make good fodder for cattle. If left out, they 
should be made into stacks, not exceeding ten 
feet in diameter, though some leave them in 
shock until foddered out. 
The advantages 'Of our Northern practice are 
these. 
1st. The ground is left beautifully clean for 
the plow. 
2d. The stalks make much good fodder, and 
what are not eaten, soak up the juice of the sta¬ 
ble or yard and make good manure. 
3d. The cobs retain less dampness; and the 
corn can be husked as rapidly as by any other 
method. 
4th. I should say a man could cut up fifty per 
cent, more corn than he could “ top.” 
M. Hurlbert. 
Arhport, Steuben Co., A r . 7. 
Answers to Mr. Hurlbert’s apple question 
will be given in a week or two. 
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SOWING CORN FOR FODDER. 
As spring is upon us, it is reasonable to sup¬ 
pose that every practical farmer is laying out 
certain grounds for his various crops; and as 
the period in the history of agriculture has ar¬ 
rived when all farmers must economize, by put¬ 
ting in those crops which will most remunerate 
him for his labor, as a means to effect this end, 
allow me to call the attention of practical agri¬ 
culturists to the subject of sowing corn for 
fodder. 
Last spring, I sowed about three acres of 
corn, intending to cut it green for soiling, but 
owing to the favorableness of the season for 
grass, but one acre was cut—the other two was 
cured for fodder. I have no doubt the produce 
from the one was equal to ten acres of ordinary 
grass made into hay. The best way to raise it, 
is to plow and harrow the ground as if for corn 
or potatoes; then start the plow and let a man 
or boy follow and drop every other furrow until 
the piece of ground is completed; then run the 
roller over it and it needs no more attention. 
We put three and a half bushels of seed to the 
acre. I would prefer putting it on a piece of 
ground that was not to be seeded, in order to 
save labor in the curing. All that would be 
necessary is to cut and shock as other corn, and 
let it stand until dry, then bind it in sheaves 
and haul it to the barn or shed, and salt it. Cat¬ 
tle eat it with great avidity, and milk better 
than when fed on hay. We propose putting 
down from ten to fifteen acres this spring, and 
calculate to save twofold by the operation. 
First, in curing hay there is almost always diffi¬ 
culty in procuring men even at the highest 
wages. Second, instead of mowing from forty 
to fifty acres we will have them for pasture, 
which does not impoverish the land like mow¬ 
ing. I think there is no crop which will pay 
better than sowed corn. Let our farmers try 
it .—Delaware Republican. 
TRANSPLANTING SHADE TREES. 
The following article is from a practical nurse¬ 
ryman, who speaks from experience—and con¬ 
tains some good hints. Wc have another article 
from the same source, on the “ Diseases of Fruit 
Trees,” which will appear soon, and we hope the 
writer will, as he hints he may, continue to give 
to others the results of his own long experience. 
But read his communication : 
For the American Agriculturist. 
I know of no subject that should be of such 
general interest, and so worthy of general at¬ 
tention, and yet so universally neglected, as 
the setting out of ornamental shade trees, along 
the avenues, walks, and highways of our coun¬ 
try towns. No person of good judgment and 
correct taste will deny the truth of my intro¬ 
duction. Neither do I know of any investment 
of an equal amount of funds—as judiciously 
and carefully expended as the merchant does in 
the selection of his stock—that will pay better 
in the improvement of property, in the satisfac¬ 
tion, comfort and contentment to be derived in 
the enjoyment of their growth, thrift and suc¬ 
cess. To make home pleasant and attractive, is 
a study worthy of any mind, however aspiring 
or lofty. 
There has been much attempted, sometimes 
with success, oftener with mortifying failures, 
particularly with the novice ; and the reason is 
obvious. It is to save the paltry shilling tem¬ 
porarily gained by employing cheap hands that 
will undertake for a trifle less, what they really 
know but little about. I have known common 
swamp trees furnished, set out, and warranted 
to live, for fifty cents a tree, the common price 
for a good nursery plant as it stands in the 
nursery. Now there is nothing more ridiculous 
than this guarantee to live ; just as if the seller 
could insure life against his own ignorant plant¬ 
ing, severe drought, accidents by the cattle 
droves, and against the thousand and one mis¬ 
haps to which trees as well as human beings 
are liable. To warrant a tree to live , is the 
greatest possible injury you can inflict upon the 
purchaser of trees, for the simple reason that he 
feels no kind of responsibility or interest in 
their safety, and consequently neglects and 
leaves to" others what needs his own personal 
supervision and care. 
But such trees as I have seen disposed of in 
this way, I should want warranted to die. Not 
that I would entirely reject all our native forest 
trees. Not at all. There are many of them 
that are fine, and with care succeed well. The 
Sugar and Scarlet Maple, Linden, Horse-chest¬ 
nut, Elm, and the Tulip tree or White-wood as 
we commonly call it—esteemed in about the or¬ 
der named—are among our finest native trees, 
valuable for transplanting. But I would say 
that in removing them, by all means employ the 
hand that will do it the best, and not the cheap¬ 
est. 
With a shrewd eye to form, symmetry, and 
habit of growth, choose your plants from open 
and exposed situations on upland, and not in a 
swamp or copse of wood where the plant has 
had no chance for spreading its branches. Now 
let the digging up process be done in the very, 
best manner. No after culture will compensate 
for, or begin to repair the mischief done by care¬ 
less and slovenly lifting. 
Don’t lift your tree with a crowbar and a yoke 
of oxen, but dig a trench entirely around it, 
and far enough off to retain the small fibrous 
roots—the life and soul of the tree—then un¬ 
dermine the tree by digging below the roots, so 
that .the great body of dirt will have room to 
