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HE VIEW DF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 
with a compost made of muck, or mud taken 
from a river, chip manure, slacked shell lime, 
cinders from a wood furnace, a small portion of 
salt or brine; fill the trench, applying sufficient 
earth to prevent evaporation. In the spring 
scrape the rough bark from the trees, and 
thoroughly wash them in soft soap suds, and re¬ 
peat the operation once or more during the 
spring. 
By this mode of treatment he had restored to 
a bearing condition a sickly pear tree that had 
ceased bearing, the product of which, last year, 
was so abundant that it became necessary to 
pluck a part of the fruit early, in order that the 
remainder might attain to a full size. 
Mr. Williamson is making further experi¬ 
ments in agriculture, the result of which will be 
forwarded to the Agriculturist in due season. 
Trumbull , Ct. A. Sherman. 
REVIEW OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER OF THE 
AGRICULTURIST. 
I have only time to glance hastily over two 
or three articles, and make a few short obser¬ 
vations and bring my labors to a close with 
your volume. 
Country Houses on the Hudson River .—If you 
can write down those ugly “two-story pillars in 
front” of most of the houses which disfigure, in¬ 
stead of adorn the banks of the Hudson, you 
will be entitled to the thanks of all who admire 
rural scenery, with appropriate architecture. 
Important to Western Farmers .—So it is, but 
not one in ten will read, and not one in ten of 
those who do, will heed. Such is the perverse 
nature of human nature. 
Boys Make a Sad Mistake , <Spc .—So they do, 
and the reason is, because those who are more 
manly set them such unmanly examples. 
Phipps' Improved Wire Fence .—Something 
worth notice, I believe, frbm the description. 
Cure for Founder .—The short of a long story 
is, give a horse the ague, and you will cure the 
fever—of the founder. 
Cultivate Fruit .—A more truthful article never 
was penned ; and yet it ought to make us blush 
to think how true it is that this country is so 
poorly supplied with this necessary of life. 
Wheat in Georgia .—There is a deal of matter 
for reflection in this short article. 
Cow Milkers — Churns .—I have just as little 
faith in this patent milking machine as you have, 
but I do like the looks of that big dog at work 
making butter. It seems as if he was of some 
use in the world, and that is more than most of 
the race are. 
Rural Architecture .—This country needs a work 
of this kind more than any other that can be 
published. I hope the one noticed as forthcom¬ 
ing will fill that want. I think in the main, it 
will. But I hope notwithstanding the few errors 
in style, which the work may contain, it will 
be found a very useful one; but I am fearful 
it is not written in that plain simple language, 
required to meet the ordinary understanding of 
the rural population of America, and which they 
had a right to expect from a plain farmer, such 
as the author professes to be. 
Stone Walls , cf-c.—I am pretty severely keel¬ 
hauled for running afoul of the stone walls of 
New England. 1 have no time now to fire my 
reserved broadside, or I would sink the whole 
fleet of them deep into the earth in every place 
requiring an underdrain, and then appeal to 
owners if I had not made a profitable cruise for 
them. It is a subject which will bear a good 
many hard knocks, and if we can bring forth a 
single spark of light, let us knock away, and as 
we say when running afoul of each other, let 
the hardest fend off. 
f And now, Messrs. Editors and readers, after 
a long and prosperous voyage, our good ship 
has hauled into port, where she is destined to 
lie a while, awaiting new fittings and fresh or¬ 
ders. In the mean time, a new craft is to take 
her place, on board of which I am generously 
invited by its master to take a free passage ; but 
this, for the present, I must decline, as I intend 
to devote all my energies, to carry out some 
long intended improvements on my farm. How¬ 
ever, I expect the new craft will occasionally 
pass along our shore, and as she does, I intend 
to keep close watch of her with my spy glass, 
and perhaps now and then I may jump on board 
and take a pull at the ropes, especially when it 
turns out squally weather. I had long ago de¬ 
termined to give up to some younger, and per¬ 
haps, more able pen, the task of reviewing each 
number of the Agriculturist, but have never been 
able to find a suitable point to wind up at, until 
the present. If in aught I have said, I have 
given offence, I pray forgiveness. If I have in¬ 
structed, amused or interested the readers of 
the Agriculturist, I rejoice to think my labors 
have not been entirely lost. I may, perhaps, 
occasionally make my appearance in The 
Plow, but will give no promise; neither can I 
promise ever to be known to you by any other 
title than “ the captain,” or your Reviewer. J 
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The better animals can be fed, and the more 
comfortable they are kept, the more profitable. 
