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NUMBER OF SWINE IN THE UNITED STATES.--PRUNING OF THE PEACH TREE. 
ployment of tiles would be cheaper than that of 
stones in most situations, unless they had to be 
transported many miles. It is, moreover, much 
easier for inexperienced persons to cover them pro- 
p jrly. n 
Much of the land in and about Hartford, is what 
is termed in New Jersey, a “ red shale,” which means 
a pretty stiff, red clay soil. It is strong land, and 
particularly good for grass. But it would be greatly 
improved by under-draining ; and we hope the in¬ 
telligent farmers of Hartford will be disposed to put 
the recommendations of Mr. Norton in practice. 
We are confident that in so doing, they would 
double the value of their property. As we were 
passing up the banks of the Connecticut last sum¬ 
mer, we saw many fields in which there was stand- 
ing water some time after a rain, and springy places, 
which were a great detriment to the land. No 
hoed crops could have been cultivated there with 
success ’ and a coarse watery grass was their only 
product, and must continue to be till draining is re¬ 
sorted to. 
We would gladly have quoted at greater length 
from these capital addresses, but our limits forbid. 
It will be seen that both of these gentlemen have 
been abroad, and that they have made an excellent 
use of this important advantage ; and now take 
pleasure whenever called upon, to liberally impart 
such information as they have obtained in their 
travels, as they think will benefit the farming com¬ 
munity. 
Number of Swine in the United States.— Ac¬ 
cording to a late census recently taken of the swine 
in Ohio, they amount to a little short of 2,000,000 ; 
we may therefore suppose, that if the census were 
taken of all in the United States, in the month of 
September, when young and old are most nume¬ 
rous, they would not fall short of 20,000,000, or 
say a pig for each inhabitant! 
PRUNING OF THE PEACH TREE. 
The pruning of the peach tree differs very mate¬ 
rially from that of the apple and the pear. In the lat¬ 
ter, a shoot may be shortened to any bud and the 
one directly below the cut will almost invariably 
produce a shoot ■ but a peach shoot must be cut to 
a place where there is a wood .bud ; for, if short¬ 
ened to a blossom bud only, no shoot can result. 
A sometimes so happens that all the buds on a 
shoot are blossom buds, except the terminal one 
and one or two at the base. Such a shoot must 
cither be left its entire length, or cut back to the 
wood bud at its base. The shoots of the peach 
naturally terminate always with a wood bud. If 
this be cut off, the blossoms on the part left will 
expand, and the fruit may set • but all will prema¬ 
turely drop without setting, or the fruit would fall 
at the time of stoning; at all events, a leafless, 
budless shoot would result incapable of further 
vegetation, dying downward to the first wood bud. 
There are instances on record, however, of peaches, 
as well as of nectarines, attaining maturity without 
a shoot at their bases, or above them, which may 
be regarded only as exceptions to a general rule. 
The peach and nectarine bear their fruit ex¬ 
clusively on wood of the preceding summer’s 
growth. For instance, a peach plucked from the 
branch in the autumn of 1848, it must be from 
wood formed in the summer of 1847, and which 
had no existence, as a shoot, in 1846, although then 
its origin might have been traced to a vital point 
within a bud. Such an almost invisible point, in 
1846, might have been the section of the 6hoot A, 
as denoted in Fig. 1. 
Fig. 1. 
In the summer of 1847, this point would have 
been developed from a bud, forming a shoot fur 
