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YELLOWS IN PEACH TREES, ETC 
dry. Weed and vegetable ashes of the farm, when 
clean, may contain 25 per cent., but are often so 
full of earth, &c., that they may be not half this 
strength. Wood ashes (if we average their potass 
at 3 per cent.), vary, also, and are not easy to get 
sound and genuine ; and green vegetables, unburnt, 
must be rotted in compost before they can be 
mixed with the other ingredients. Crushed granite, 
(averaging 7 per cent, potass) digested with lime, 
although the materials are inexhaustible, is not yet 
in the market; and must be used, when it does 
come, in increased proportion, from its slow solu¬ 
bility ; but will still be much cheaper and more 
certain, as well as far more durable, than any 
other potass manure. 
Our wheat crop, then, will require, including the 
straw, phosphoric acid, 20$ lbs., which will take 
bone dust, 80 lbs., with 40 lbs. salt, and 40 of 
the cheap (or 27 lbs. of the strong) sulphuric acid 
—which will also more than supply the soda, sul¬ 
phuric acid, and chlorine. The 10^ lbs. of magne¬ 
sia (if not contained in the lime of the usual course), 
may be supplied by § cwt. of crude sulphate of 
magnesia, or 10 gallons bittern liquor from the salt 
house, and the 29 $ lbs. of potass (of which | is in 
the straw), by 50 lbs. potass, or 60 lbs. pearlash, or 
by about 120 lbs. common weed ashes (clean) ; or 
5 to 10 cwt. common wood ashes; or in about 4 
cwt. granite, of which, however, three or four times 
that quantity should be used, as above explained. In 
short, for every pound of phosphoric acid, we have 
to take 4 lbs. bone dust, 2 of salt, and 2 of acid, 
which clears, also, the sulphuric acid, soda, and 
chlorine. For every pound of potass nearly 2 lbs. 
of foreign potasnes, or full 2 lbs. of pearlash, or 4 
lbs. (or more, according to its dirtiness, of weed 
ashes, or 40 to 50 lbs. of crushed granite ; but this 
will last three or four crops) ; and for each pound 
of magnesia, 5 lbs. of crude Epsom salts, or a gallon 
of salt works bittern. 
This gives us, by simple calculation, the follow¬ 
ing table of dressings per acre, for the crops above 
estimated; heavier crops, of course, requiring more, 
in due proportion :— 
Dressings 
per acre. 
Bone. 
Salt. 
Acid. 
Sulphate 
magnesia.' 
Pearlash. 
Wheat. 
80 
40 
40 
50 
60 
Barley. 
100 
50 
50 
40 
35 
Oats. 
80 
40 
40 
60 
100 
Beans. 
110 
55 
55 
70 
208 
Red clover.... 
35 
18 
18 
22 
54 
Potatoes. 
256 
128 
128 
170 
546 
Turnips. 
220 
110 
110 
140 
462 
Cabbage—.. 
448 
224 
224 
270 
210 
These dressings will save many crops which 
now occasionally fail, for want of one or more of 
these ingredients ; since they are, as before said, 
essential to the thriving of the plant. 
Save Your Egg Shells. —Eggs that are to be 
used for puddings, custards, &c., should be nicely 
cleaned, before they are broken, with a cloth dipped 
in strong vinegar. Then, if after being emptied of 
all but the white that always remains sticking to 
the inside, the shells are spread out and dried. 
They serve as well for clearing coffee, as isinglass, 
or any other substance generally used for that pur¬ 
pose, with the additional advantage, that it costs 
nothing but a little forethought. 
YELLOWS IN PEAOH TREES. 
As it can now no longer be doubted that peach 
trees will thrive in New Jersey, when judiciously 
managed, I propose to communicate an item omitted 
in my former notes. 
I have not as yet met with a case of yellows in 
my new nursery, but have had abundant oppor¬ 
tunity to test my theory elsewhere; I also see it 
yearly tested. It is a sure and certain remedy ; a 
cure, not for the subject itself, but to prevent its 
propagation. Let every tree, small or large, pre¬ 
senting the least appearance of infection, be imme¬ 
diately rooted out, and, if convenient, be consumed 
by fire, not waiting for the premature crop to be 
gathered, as such fruit is worse than none ; neither 
waiting for the tree to die on your hands ; but, at 
any season, root it entirely out in each and every 
case. Then will your entire orchard always pre¬ 
sent a thrifty and healthy appearance. 
W. Day. 
Morristown , N. /., Dec. 26 th, 1848. 
RELATIVE COST OF MATTRESSES. 
Hair Mattresses. —These are generally sold by 
weight, and cost from 50 to 75 cents per pound; 
30 or 40 pounds will cost $15 to $20. 
Wollen Mattresses. —30 pounds of wool, at 30 
cents per pound, $9 ; 12 yards of ticking, at 12 h 
cents per yard, $1.50; labor, thread, &c., $2.75—- 
total, $13.25. 
Feather Beds. —40 pounds of feathers, at 30 cents 
per pound, $12.00; 15 yards of ticking, at 12J 
cents per yard, $1.87$; labor, thread, &c., $2.75 
—total, 16.62|. 
Moss , or Corn-sliuck Mattresses , ready made, $12. 
The labor of properly preparing the shucks consti¬ 
tutes its main cost, and which cannot be done for 
less than the above price, all materials furnished. 
Cotton Mattresses .— 30 pounds of cotton, even at 
8 cents per pound, $2.40; 12 yards of ticking, at 
12$ cents per yard, $1.50 ; labor, thread, &c., $2 75 
—total, $6.65.— N. O. Paper. 
A MUSICAL HORSE. 
In the December number, 1848, we had a 
humorous account of an old jokester, “Yellow 
Ned.” In the following, from the Providence 
Journal, we have another development of a horse’s 
mind, an acute ear for music 
A physician called daily to visit a patient oppo¬ 
site to my place of residence. We had a piano in 
the room on the street, on which a young lady 
daily practiced for several hours in the morning. 
The weather was warm, and the windows were 
open, and the moment the horse caught the sound of 
the piano, he would deliberately wheel about, 
cross the street, place himself as near the Window 
as possible, and there, with ears erect, would he 
quietly stand and listen till his owner came for him. 
This was his daily practice. Sometimes the young 
lady would stop playing when the doctor drove up. 
The horse would then remain quietly in his place, 
but the first stroke of a key would arrest his 
attention, and half a dozen notes would invariably 
call him across the street. I witnessed the effect 
several times. B. 
