MERIC AN AGRICULTURIST 
tiful place near Whitestone, Long Island. 
He sold them to a gentleman in Morristown, 
N. .1., about two years since, who is breeding 
them extensively. 
A TWO-ACRE PAEM. 
Nine years ago last spring I came into 
possession of a two-acre farm, and at that 
time it was scarely possible to get one tun of 
hay from the whole of it, such was the state 
of cultivation it was in. It was al't in mow¬ 
ing at the time, except one-eight, of an acre 
that I sowed oats on, and they were so small 
that a good stout grasshopper could eat the 
heads off by standing tiptoe. Circumstances 
prevented me from making much improve¬ 
ment on it until 1849 or ’50, and now for the 
result of the past dry season : 
2 | tuns hay, at $8 per tun .$20 00 
12 bushels corn, at 80c. per bushel . 9 60 
Corn fodder. 1 00 
2 loads pumpkins. 1 00 
21 bushels potatoes, 3Cc. per bush . .... 6 30 
2 bushels beans, 91c. per bush. 3 00 
38 do. carrots, 30c. do. 11 40 
22 do. turnips, 28c. do. 6 16 
10 do. graft apples, 50c do. 5 00 
Garden sauce. 5 00 
Growth of 140 standard apple, plum, cherry 
and pear trees, 10c. each. 14 00 
Growth 250 nursery trees, 2d year, 5c. each i2 50 
“ 1,100 “ “ 1st year, 3c. “ 33 00 
“ 1,000 seedlings, |c. each. 5 00 
Total.$133 20 
Perhaps some may think it is impossible 
to have so much on so small a surface. I 
would just say that my beans and carrots 
grew among the nursery trees, and the most 
of the turnips among the potatoes. On one 
small patch I raised a good crop of green 
peas, potatoes and turnips ; the peas were 
planted in the hills with the potatoes, and 
the turnips set both ways between the hills, 
getting three good crops on the same land in 
the same season; and neither crop appeared 
to injure the other—at least they all did 
well. 
Now if this will stimulate any other two- 
acre farmer to do the like out of nothing, I 
have my reward. H. 
New-England Farmer. 
OFFICE BEGGING. 
Tom Corwin’s Advice. —About three years 
ago, a young man presented himself to Mr. 
Corwin for a clerkship. Thrice was he re¬ 
fused ; and still he made a fourth effort. His 
perseverance and spirit of determination 
awakened a friendly interest in his welfare, 
and the secretary advised him, in the strong¬ 
est possible terms, to abandon his purpose 
and go to the West, if he could do no better 
outside the Departments. “ My young 
friend,” said he, “ go to the North-west ; 
buy 160 acres of Government land—or if 
you have not the money to purchase, squat 
on it; get you an axe and a mattock ; put 
up a log cabin for a habitation, and raise a 
little corn and potatoes : keep your con¬ 
science clear, and live like a freeman ; your 
own master, with no one to give you orders, 
and without dependence upon anybody. Do 
that, and you will become honored, re¬ 
spected, influential, and rich. But accept a 
clerkship here, and you sink at once all in¬ 
dependence ; your energies become relaxed, 
and you are unfitted in a few years for any 
other and more independent position. I may 
give you a place to-day, and I can kick you 
out again to-morrow; and there’s another 
man over at the White House who can kick 
me out, and the people by-and-by can kick 
him out; and so we go. But if you own an 
acre of land, it is your kingdom, and your 
cabin is your castle—you are a sovereign, 
and you will feel it in every throbbing of 
your pulse, and every day of your life would 
assure me of your thanks for having thus 
advised you.” 
RED JACKETT, 
BRED BY AND THE PROPERTY OF J. M. SHERWOOD, 
AUBURN, N. Y. 
Red Jackett was calved 3d Nov. 1853— 
Got by 3d Duke of Cambridge (5941), dam 
Red Rose 2d, bred by J. Stephenson, Dur¬ 
ham, England, of his Princess’s family, by 
Napier, (6237); Tube Rose by South Dur¬ 
ham, (5281); Rose Annby Belorephon,(3119); 
Rosette by Belvidere, (1706); Red Rose by 
Waterloo, (2816); Moss Rose by Barron, (58); 
Angelina by Phenomenon, (491); Anna Bo- 
leyn by Favorite, (252); Princess, by Favor¬ 
ite, (252); (Bred by R. Collins,) by Favorite, 
(252); byHubback, (319); by Snowden’s Bull, 
(612); by Masterman’s Bull, (422); by Har¬ 
rison’s Bull, (669). 
LECTURE ON PEAT CHARCOAL. 
BY PROFESSOR WAY. 
Prof. Way remarked (says the Chemist) 
that, independently of the noxious gases re¬ 
sulting from the putrefaction of animal mat¬ 
ter generally, and which consisted principal¬ 
ly of sulphuretted hydrogen and sulphuret of 
ammonia, each particular animal substance, 
excretion or otherwise, had its peculiar odor, 
which, although abundantly perceptible by 
the senses, and, in many cases, as in musk, 
almost inexhaustible, was inappreciable in 
weight; therefore, by deodorizing a large 
amount of odor, it was to be inferred that a 
large amount of manuring matter was there¬ 
by secured. He then enumerated the vari¬ 
ous single and double deodorizers that had 
been employed. He referred to Sir William 
Burnett’s excellent application of chloride of 
zinc, and to the ordinary chloride of lime ; 
to gypsum (sulphate of lime), and its con¬ 
version, in ammoniacal atmosphere into sul¬ 
phate of ammonia and carbonate of lime ; 
to the agreeable odor of pure ammonia, and 
its power of giving intensity to odors of a 
disagreeable character, which intensity was 
lost when the ammonia was withdrawn ; to 
sulphate of iron (green copperas), which, 
when powdered and thrown into tanks turned 
black, on account of the sulphuret of iron 
formed on the decomposition of the sulphur¬ 
etted hydrogen present. He then proceeded 
to the consideration of charcoal as a deodor¬ 
izer. He gave an interesting statement of 
the peculiar action of charcoals in general, 
arising, he believed from the great amount of 
surface their spherical interstices presented, 
and of the peculiar action and superior val¬ 
ue of animal charcoal over all others. He 
referred to the theory he had been led to 
form of this peculiar difference, and to a very 
successful imitation of animal charcoal, 
which he and Mr. Paine had made, in refer¬ 
ence both to deodorizing and decolorizing 
properties, from the light porous silica rock, 
found on Mr. Paine’s estate in Surrey, and 
when broken up and steeped in heated tar, 
was put into a gas retort, where the tar was 
burnt off in the state of very pure gas, and 
a residuum left of the new silicated char¬ 
coal in question. He explained that in char¬ 
coals it was not the amount of carbon they 
. contained that constituted their value, but 
the mode in which the carbon was distrib¬ 
uted ; that animal charcoal contained only 
10 per cent of real carbon, while wood char¬ 
coal contained 90 per cent. He referred to 
the large amount of water, 50 or 60 percent, 
which peat charcoal took up, and to the fal¬ 
lacious dry state of the manures, with which 
this water-carrier was mixed. He feared 
this mode of introducing water in a latent 
state into manures, in many cases, gave a 
turn in the scale more in favor of the manu¬ 
facturer than of the farmer. He doubted 
whether the peat charcoal could be used 
economically for the purpose of soaking up 
tank water; if not, he feared it would 
prove of no advantage, in other respects, as 
a remunerative agent to the farmpr. It had 
been long before the public, but had not pro¬ 
gressed in market value, as it would have 
done had its application been successful. 
He considered it to lead to much error in 
practice, that the exact nature of the action 
of charcoal on ammonia was not better un¬ 
derstood by the public. Fresh burnt char¬ 
coal would absorb a large quantity of am¬ 
moniacal gas, but it was a mistake to sup¬ 
pose that it would consequently abstract 
ammonia from a liquid impregnated with it; 
on the contrary, water had the power of dis¬ 
placing from charcoal the whole of the am¬ 
monia it had received in a gaseous state 
within its pores. Peat charcoal did not 
either take manure or separate it from sew¬ 
age ; it simply rendered manure portable. 
He exhibited a striking experiment, show¬ 
ing the power of dry peat charcoal to arrest 
odors. Two open tumblers were half filled 
with the most offensive sewage matter Pro¬ 
fessor Way could obtain, and the surface of 
each mass covered with a film of thin pa¬ 
per and a thin bed of powdered peat-char¬ 
coal resting upon it. These tumblers were 
in this state handed round to the members, 
who ascertained the perfect manner in which 
the sewage-matter was thus rendered no 
longer offensive to the smell. He then gave 
an interesting account of the process of Mr. 
Stothert, by which sewage-matter was re¬ 
duced, by a double action of purification, 
into clear water and inodorous precipitate— 
a process admirably adapted for sanitary 
purposes, although not for those of agricul- 
