MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
immediately after the article appeared in the Rural, 
and in time to have the Working Farmer entirely 
correct. The experiment on tobacco was made 
•with Coe’s superphosphate, made at Middle- 
town, Conn., and according to my experiments, 
is very much better than Mapes’ “ improved.” 
I have tried both on nearly all crops, except to¬ 
bacco, side by side. Yours, very truly, 
R. Linsley. 
Mapes’ assertion that the experiment was 
made with his manure, and that he knew “ all 
about it,” taken in connection with Mr. Lixs- 
ley’s letter, will afford some insight into the 
Professor’s love of truth. As will be seen, we 
have had this letter on hand several months, 
waiting to see if Mapes would correct his mis¬ 
statements; but he has not done so. YV e have 
abundance of such matter on hand. We are 
continually receiving letters complaining of the 
Professor’s misdoings. One gentleman, in 
whose veracity we place implicit confidence, 
writes, that “ at the auction of E. J. Tryon & 
Co., Seedsmen, Chambers street, New York, 
Mapes attended, and bought up very large 
quantities of the seeds, and also a large lot 
which came from Comstock, Ferre & Co., 
Weathcrsficld, Conn. Immediately afterward, 
he opened a seed-store in Fulton street, and 
advertised very valuable seeds for sale, raised 
by Professor J. J. Mapes, Editor of the Work¬ 
ing Farmer, &c.—selling them at high prices, 
as a very superior article.” 
Perhaps Mr. Mapes may condescend to tell 
us something about this transaction in the 
promised “ supplement.” 
And we would propound another question 
to be answered at the same time. Mr. Mapes 
declares that he puts to every 100 lbs. “ fire- 
dried bones,” 3G lbs. Peruvian guano and 20 
lbs. sulphate of ammonia. During our late 
visit to his factory, we saw many tons of char¬ 
coal mixed with sulphuric acid, and several 
tons of this acid and charcoal mixture, mixed 
with the guano, ground and put into bags, 
with Mr. Mapes’ certificate. The proportion 
of guano used was 12 level half-bushels, to 13 
heaped barrow-fulls of the charcoal and acid. 
The barrow held three bushels. From a num¬ 
ber of weighings, we know that the acid and 
charcoal mixture weighs 78| lbs. per bushel, 
while guano weighs 52 lbs. per bushel. This 
would give about 10 lbs. of guano in each 100 
lbs. “ improved superphosphate of lime.” But 
what of the sulphate of ammonia? We 
watched very carefully, but we saw none put 
in, and could discover none on the premises. 
Taking the improved to contain 10 per cent, 
guano, it would contain 1-6 per cent, of ammo¬ 
nia, corresponding closely with what Mr. John¬ 
son found in the sample he analyzed. j. n. 
A NEW FENCE. 
A correspondent of the Michigan Farmer 
gives a mode of building a board fence that 
obviates the necessity of setting the posts in 
the ground. Where timber ot suitable dura¬ 
bility for setting is scarce, this plan may be 
economical; as any kind of timber will answer 
for the posts, which may be much smaller in 
size than when intended to be put in the 
ground. With some, the objection might be 
made against the fence occupying more ground 
than the common board fence, as this is w'orm- 
ed like a common rail feuce. Yet there is this 
advantage, the fence can be made more sub¬ 
stantial against winds and other accidents.— 
But to the plan, of whose utility our readers 
can judge for themselves. 
Take narrow boards, say five inches wide, 
and an inch and a half thick,—we suppose inch 
boards would suffice, but the thicker make the 
stronger fence,—and twelve feet long; use six 
boards to each length, leaving the proper 
spaces between the boards, so that the fence 
shall be at least four feet in height if set on the 
ground. Posts of hard wood durable above 
ground, are preferable—two of which are used 
to one length. Three by four scantling will ■ 
suffice for size; cut the posts long enough to 
project two inches below and three inches 
above the bottom and top boards of the fence. 
To make the fence maintain its position, it 
must be wormed more or less, say four and a 
half feet when two lengths of twelve feet will 
reach twenty-two feet. 
To prevent the fence swaying lengthwise of 
the panel, it is better to mortice the middle 
post, and pass the boards through it with a 
wedge driven tight over each board—the mor¬ 
tice being wide enough for the purpose. Ora 
gain may' be sawed in the edge ol the post tor 
each board when they are to be spiked on.— 
For the end posts, cut a gain in the outer cor¬ 
ners, in such a shape that when the board is 
nailed to its place, the uncut four inch side 
will be parallel to the line of the next length, 
to which it should be nailed. In this manner, 
one set of boards will be on each side of the 
corner posts. The ends of these boards may 
be reduced in thickness, when double ten-pen¬ 
ny nails may be taken and annealed; these may 
be driven from the fiat side of the board 
through the post and both boards, and clinch¬ 
ed, thus serving the purpose of both nailing 
the boards and doubly strengthening the fence. 
The posts should be raised from the ground 
on fiat stones or blocks, where they will be just 
as durable as any part of the fence. But a 
small amount of material is required, and the 
openness of the fence will, in a snowy country, 
obviate much of the tendency of drifts in a 
winter season. t. e. w. 
UNRIPE SEED. 
M. Duciiartre, Professor of Botany in the 
Royal Agricultural College, Versailles, has 
made a series of experiments with a view of 
testing the power of seeds to germinate and 
grow 7 , when gathered before their period of full 
maturation. The Farmers’ Companion trans¬ 
lates some portion of the Professor’s article on 
thesubject. The experiments were carefully 
conducted and with several varieties of wheat, 
rye and barley. The conclusions arrived at 
from the experiments were that the seeds of 
our cereals w'ould germinate and grow a long 
time—from 20 to 25 days—before their matu¬ 
rity; while the embryo is yet very imperfect 
and the albumen still almost in its milk. Bar¬ 
ley, however, seemed to be limited to 15 days,, 
and appeared to be more difficult in germinat¬ 
ing. Others, the seeds of which did not reach 
their maturity, germinated more easily than 
those perfectly ripe. Plants grown from the 
unripe seed dried, were all remarkable for their 
vigor and luxuriance. If the offspring of the 
seeds sown unripe and green, w'ere at first 
visibly w r eak, they rapidly gained strength, and 
then their growth w r as very beautiful. There 
v'as no difference perceptible between the 
plants grown from seeds in different stages of 
approach to maturity or ripened; or if any, it 
was in favor of the plants from the most un¬ 
ripe seed.” To those of our readers who have 
the time and inclination to make similar exper¬ 
iments, carefully in a small way, it would be in¬ 
teresting, while it would aid in throwing light 
upon the vitality of seeds, that might be of 
practical benefit to agriculturists. t. e. w. 
QUACK GRASS, ALIAS CHESS GRASS. 
Eds. Rural:— If your space and patience 
are not already exhausted, and seeing that my 
former article preceded our friend Johnson’s, 
(v'hether or not his was written with reference 
to it I cannot say,) I should be glad to offer a 
few wmrds more. 
I know a kind of grass which I have heard 
denominated quack grass, which grows only in 
low ground, but I cannot suppose this to be 
the grass in question, for it is not a long-root¬ 
ed grass, neither is it difficult of extermination. 
The grass which has caused me trouble, I have 
preferred to call chess grass, because there is 
some resemblance between it and chess, and 
also because quack is a general name, equally 
applicable to other noxious grasses. 
Now, as to the underdraining idea, I have 
this to say:—I had a field of five acres, a little 
more than half of which was considerably 
overrun with this grass, but by plowing and 
cultivating during the hottest weather, I sub¬ 
dued it. The center of this field rises from the 
sides at an angle of 20° or 30°, and is proba¬ 
bly as high land as there is in this town, and 
is already too dry without underdraining; and 
yet this grass has luxuriated on the top and 
southern slope of the hill. There is not a 
moist spot on the hill, nor any evidence what¬ 
ever of stagnant water; iudeed, it is too dry. 
I found a little of this grass in swale, which' I 
underdrained, but it grew nothing like as 
thrifty as that on the upland. w. b. 
West Bloomfield, N. Y., June 13,1854. 
Do Sw allows Kill Bees?— I noticed an 
article in the Rural from D. N. Glass, stating 
that swallow’s would kill bees. This is un¬ 
doubtedly so? they will kill the drones, which 
are about twice the size of the workers, and 
have no stinger, but they will not kill the work¬ 
ers, as the stinger, in my opinion, would cause 
death. The drones leave the hive from 12 till 
3 o’clock, at which time you will see the swal¬ 
lows selecting out their game. Swallow’s never 
meddle with bees until the drones make their 
appearance, which is about the first of June; 
they are the worst in July. 1 have kept bees 
for ten years, and believe swallows to be a 
benefit to bees rather than an injury.— Geo. 
Swift, Clarkson, JY. Y. 
Public Benefactor.— lie is a public bene¬ 
factor who, by the prudent and skillful outlay 
of his money in bettering its condition, shall 
make a single field yield permanently a crop; 
and he wdio does this over a square mile, vir¬ 
tually adds a square mile to the national terri¬ 
tory—nay, he does more, he doubles to this 
extent the territorial resources of the country, 
without giving the state any larger actual 
area to defend. All hail, then, to the improv¬ 
ers of the soil! heaith and long life be their 
fortune—may their hearts be light and their 
purses heavy—may their dreams be few and 
pleasant, and their sleep the sw r eet repose of 
the weary—may they see the fruits of their own 
labor, and may their sons reap still heavier 
harvests.— Blackwood's Magazine. 
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National Cattle Show. —On the 25th and 
27th of October next, there is to be a great 
Cattle Show at Springfield, Ohio. Twenty 
acres of ground have been inclosed, and 21)0 
stalls erected for cattle. 
A Manufactured Quotation. —I refer your i 
correspondent “ Farmer,” to Harris’Prize Es- i 
say on Phosphoric Acid, contained in the j 
Patent Office Report for 1852-3, page 402; 
also page 391. He says:—“It is now univer- | 
sally admitted that these two (Ammonia and , 
Phosphoric Acid) are the valuable elements of ' 
all manures, and effects have been attributed | 
to ashes and marble, and even lime, which ( 
w’ere entirely due to the Phosphoric Acid they ( 
contain.”— Correspondent of the Del. Rep. 
In the essay on Superphosphate of Lime, < 
published in the Transactions of the Ne ,v York 
State Agricultural Society in 1852, and copied ; 
into the Patent Office Report, we may have 
said that “ammonia and phosphoric acid were j 
the most valuable elements of all manures,” for 
such we believe to be the case; but we certainly 
did not say that the effects of “ ashes, marble ' 
and lime were entirely due to the phosphoric 
acid they contain.” We have turned to the 
pages referred to, and can find nothing of the 
kind; and are satisfied we never penned such : 
obvious nonsense. We suspect the correspond¬ 
ent of the Republican copied it from some , 
Mexican guano or mineral phosphate adver- ■ 
tisement. 
PLASTER AS A FERTILIZER. 
M. Mene, a French chemist, has come to the 
conclusion that “Plaster has not of itself any 
fertilizing quality; it only acquires this proper¬ 
ty when it comes in contact with those auniio- 
niacal salts which it is capable of decompos¬ 
ing. It w’ould thus appear that it may be 
replaced by any other salt capable of returning 
ammonia in a fixed state at ordinary tempera¬ 
tures.” The experiments seem to have been 
very carefully made, and we submit this fact 
to the consideration of our intelligent readers. 
The use of covering dung heaps with plaster is 
thus explained. 
We find the above going the rouuds. The 
idea that the value of plaster is owing to its 
converting the volatile carbonate of ammonia, 
into the fixed salt, sulphate of ammonia, is not 
new with M. Mene. Liebig, and a host of his 
satellites, have been advocating this theory of 
the action of sulphate of lime for 20 years.— 
But like many others of Liebig’s brilliant the¬ 
ories, it is opposed by so many indisputable facts, 
that at the present day, nearly all chemists 
who have any practical acquaintance with ag¬ 
riculture, have abandoned it. 
SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME vs. GUANO. 
The editor of the American Agriculturist has 
recently visited the farm of Mr. John S. Ran¬ 
dolph, Bound Brook, N. J., who is making the 
following interesting experiment: 
In the same field, one large plot was treated 
with 300 tbs. of guano per acre, another with 
300 tbs. of superphosphate; a third with a 
mixture of 300 tbs. of guano, and 250 lbs. of 
superphosphate; and a fourth plot was left 
without any fertilizer. The guano and super¬ 
phosphate were both sown at the time of put¬ 
ting in the crop last fall. We went over this 
field, and found that the poorest in appear¬ 
ance is that without any fertilizer; the super¬ 
phosphate portion is a little better than this, 
but that having guano alone is far superior in 
color and growth, and apparently is fully equal 
to that part having superphosphate with the 
guano. From present appearances, the money 
paid for the superphosphate, was so much 
thrown away; but the ultimate yield may be 
different, and we hope Mr. Randolph will give 
us the result at harvest. 
TASTE IN AGRICULTURE, &c. 
The following eloquent passage, we extract 
from an address delivered before the Southern 
Central Agricultural Society at Augusta, Ga. 
“ Agriculture, if profitable, I know, is not a 
pastime; but it ought not to be rejected be¬ 
cause of its sweat, and dust, and toil, as if it 
had no charms beyond its gains, no pleasure 
beside the joy of possession. If we expect to 
ennoble and elevate it, we must associate it 
with science, intelligence, and taste; throw 
around it the attraction of cottages, and gardens 
and tiower-beds, and orchards. The farmer’s 
dwelling must become the home of hospitality, 
and knowledge, and refinement. But while 
the gin-house is the best house on the premis¬ 
es, the cotton-blossom the only flower that 
throws its fragrance on the air, a worm fence 
—the unsightliest thing in all the land, except 
the drunkard, whose reeling pace it most re¬ 
sembles—the only enclosure, who could admire 
a country home and a farmer’s life?” 
A Valuable Cow. —We have an account 
of a cow owned by John B. Decker, of Wan¬ 
tage, N. J., that is thirty-two years old, and 
has a young calf, the fifteenth in nine years.— 
She has brought over forty calves in her time. 
She gave 20 to 24 quarts of milk per day last 
summer. She was raised by the father of the 
present owmer. Her teeth are yet good. This 
cow with all her descendants, if alive, would 
make one of the greatest cattle shows ever 
seen in this country.— Ex. 
We have had some wonderful cotvs in New 
York, but now New Jersey certainly possesses 
the most remarkable cow that ever had her 
deeds recorded in type. We would propose, 
if she should ever go the way of all flesh, that 
a monument be erected to her memory, or that 
of the getter-up of the story. 
The Livingston Co. Stock Association 
propose to sell their imported stock at auc¬ 
tion, on Tuesday next See advertisement. 
HONEY BEES. WASHING SHEEP. 
The Albany Cultivator has an interesting Washing sheep is not only laborious and 
article on honey bees, from the pen of a dis- disagreeable to the men who perform the work, 
tinguished professor, from which we quote the but may be hurtful to the sheep. In Merinos, 
following paragraph: the dirt adheres closely, and the animal must 
“ Many, nearly everybody, suppose that the be immersed a considerable time to cleanse the 
bee culls honey from the neciar of flowers, fleece effectually. 1 he water, therefore, should 
and simply carries it to his cell in the hive.— be. at a bearable temperature, and to secure this 
This is not correct. The nectar he collects it is necessaiy to defer washing till the latter 
from the flower, is a portion of its food or P ai ’t ot May or first of dune. 1 he English 
drink; the honey it deposits in its cell is a se- jn-cods of sheep carry less dirt, in the fleece, and 
cretion from its mellitie, or honey secreting j 10111 then less amount of yolk and its less a<,- 
giands, (analogous to the milk secreting glands ‘^ s J’ ve q na ft} 7 > ^ be y a™ more perfectly cleaned 
of the cow and other animals.) If they were ft th much less washing Sheep generally 
the mere collectors and transporters of honey struggle in the hands of the washer, and unless 
from the flowers to the honey comb, then we 10 58 careful, their limbs or back maybe se- 
should have the comb frequently filled with merely mjuied. _ - 
molasses, whenever the bees have fed at a mo- . ^oft water should be obtained for washing 
lasses hogshead. The honey-bag in the bee sheep, if pi act icable, as it more readily cleans 
performs the same functions as the cow’s bag tbe > anddoes “ft the nnmersion 
or udder; merely receives the honey from the ft the sheep for so long a time. When tie 
secreting glands, and retains it until a proper she . e P fre collected for washing, it is useful to 
opportunity presents for its being deposited in ft nnkle t iem Wltb water, and let them stand 
its appropriate storehouse, the honey comb. a few ft urs ‘ Tbls causes the impurities of 
“Another error is, that the bee collects pol- to f.P arate r mo . re ft a<Jl ft "hen^ub- 
len from the flowers accidentally while it is in • iecte< to wa8 ftft’ , L f eavi ft the shee P °ft m 
search of honey. Quite the contrary is the a warm rai ” J ust before the Y are washed > a11 ' 
fact. When in search of nectar, or honey, swers a similar purpose, 
as it is improperly called, the bee does not . Alter having been shorn, sheep require pro- 
collect pollen. It goes in search of pollen ft ct,on both against storms and hot sunshine, 
specially, and also for nectar. When the pol- ibe animal 18 fuidenly exposed to very differ- 
len of the flower is ripe, and fit for the use of ent ^fluences from those which surrounded it 
the bee, there is no nectar; when there is nee- P’ e ft 0Usl ? to tl f operation, and its health is 
tar, there is no pollen fit for use in the flower. f metir ft S much ther ft Cold ™ ns 
it is generally supposed, also, that the bee frequently occur, and diseases of more or less 
constructs the wax from which its comb is s ? ve 7ft are be consequence. 1 he animals 
made, from such vegetable substances. This sho " d hav ® at least shelter of sheds in bad 
is likewise an error? The wax is a secretion wea,ber j ^posiire to a hot sun while the skin 
from its body, as the honey is; and it makes its ! s naked ’ frequently occasions blisters and in- 
appearance in small scales or flakes, under the th W tth g r of ,ft e ot 'Ta¬ 
rings of the belly, and is taken thence by other ll har ft and *7- the Y f re alb ft ed 
bees, rendered plastic by mixture of the bees shade they will gladly avail themselves of tins 
mouth, and laid on the walls of the cell, with P. rotect ft"’ feeding mostly at morning and eve- 
i • .i , . mug .—Boston Cultivator. 
the tongue, very much in the way a plasterer ° 
uses his trowel.” * ’ * * 
- . - FARMERS. 
TREATMENT OF GAPES. . . -- , . 
_ Adam was a farmer while yet in Paradise, 
In one of the numbers of your useful publi- aIld ft fer ft?; pommanded to earn his bread 
cation, I see that a correspondent calls the by the sweat ot his brow, 
gapes “ an incurable disease.” As I have year- „ Job - the honest, upright and patient, was a 
ly reared a large number of chickens, I think bu mer ’ and endurance has passed into 
it right to state that 1 have found spirits of a Pft vei “’ „ , 
turpentine, if not specific, at least an almost i .derates was a farmer and yet wedded to 
certain remedy for this complaint I have ad- b ! s ca H in ff the giory ol his immortal philoso- 
ministered it in two ways, and both successfully. P “ft T , „ 
First, with chickens of larger growth, by dip- ft nbe ^ as a farmer, and divides with 
ping a feather in the spirit and passing it down Prometheus the honor of subjecting the ox tor 
and turning it round in the throat of the pa- * “ft “ se . 0 “ !a “ - „ , , , J 
tient, by which means the little worm causing p Cmcinnatus was a farmer, and the noblest 
the complaint is sometimes extracted, but near- Aomau ot them all. 
ly always destroyed; and secondly, with young Burns was a farmer, and the Muse found 
birds, dropping a few very small crumbs of bread hl ft at f he P low ’ and ft led h,s so ft W1 . th P°ft r Y 
saturated with the spirit into their pens, which, n a ft’ mer ’ aad retired from 
if hungry, they will pick up quickly. I know a ft “qftft earthly station to enjoy’ the quiet 
gentleman, a very large breeder of fowls, who 0 ru " al llfe ’ and P resent to tbe world a s P ecla ‘ 
always gives his chickens, at six weeks old, eft ot human greatness. 
wheat steeped in turpentine. This was given ft 0 th «* ma y be added a ftft of 0 ft" 3 
to them once in the morning when fasting, and W1 ° S0U Sft peace and repose in the cultiva~ 
as a prevention against, instead of waiting for, bo “ 0 t mother ear.h; the enthusiastic 
the arrival of gapes. I may trouble you again ftftft ft’ 1 ie ftft'lftA * u ',kcnng, the j’cbo¬ 
on tliis and other subjects relating to poultry, b'sbc Jefferson, the fiery Randolph, all found 
should you think further communication likely an Eldorado of consolation from life s cares 
to prove interesting to your readers .—Poultry and troubles, in the. gieen and verdant lawns 
Chronicle J surrounded their homesteads. 
LARGE PUMPKINS. PLANTING SMALL POTATOES. 
Having had good success the past season, ft E have given no little attention to this 
in raising fine large pumpkins, 1 will give you subject for many years, and have settled the 
my plan and experiment. The ground planted matter conclusively in our own minds, that 
was a warm, clayey loam, descending to the ? does u °t P a Y to plant small seed. For 
south. fifteen years we planted the same nameless va- 
I planted the 20th of May, with corn and riety, on the same soil, and at the end of that 
one or two pumpkin seeds in a hill: used time, found no deterioration in the quality or 
about one table-spoonful of plaster or gypsum yield,.but rather an improvement. We have 
to the hill. The field was a clover sod, plowed invariably thrown out from our seed all pota- 
once and harrowed three times. When the t° es ^ ess ’ n s ' ze than a hen’s egg, and also re¬ 
vines commenced to run, say one foot in length, jected those overgrown, pithy, or irregular 
1 gave them a careful hoeing. After the fruit shaped. 
was well set, or some were six to eight inches ft some favorable seasons, and on particular 
in diameter, I covered the stem, and a large soils, those purchasing and planting the small 
portion ol the vine joining the stem, with potatoes which we have rejected, have raised 
moist, loose soil; the result was, that roots di- crops equal to or more prolific than our own; 
rectly from the stem of the pumpkin were but one year with another, we have averaged 
formed, and the fruit derived sustenance, and thirty to fifty per cent better crops of good 
plenty of it, judging from the size and weight, potatoes, than our small potato, neighbors, 
which was from eighty to ninety pounds.— WTiat we have found true in regard to po- 
Plowboy. tatoes, we have also, by long practice, proved 
—t -» .- true in regard to other kinds of seed. Our 
Consumption in Fowls Curable.-A cor- pl^pest and earliest grains have always been 
respondent of the Poultry Chronicle, a new ^served for propagation, and our neighbors 
publication devoted to the poultry interest, can testify that our practice has been attended 
announces consumption curable among fowls. wlth b r ° od result ^.-American Agriculturist. 
Cod liver oil, whose virtues seem to be unlim- *’’•'** 
iled, is in this instance the saviour and fattener The Salt Lake of Utah. — Experiments 
of skinny cochin cockereL We are told that have been made upon the properties of the 
“the best way to exhibit this medicine is in water of Salt Lake, Uta!| for preserving meat, 
Scotch oatmeal, for, singularly enough, it mix- by Mr. Stansbury and hh associates. A large 
es with it much better than in barley flour.— piece of beef was suspended from a cord and 
Hie dose is a full tea-spoonful thiee or four immersed in the lake for over 12 hours, when 
times daily. After about two days, the circu- it was found to be tolerably well cured. After 
lation seems improving, for gradually the livid this, all the meat they wished to be preserved 
character of the comb and wattles, as also their was packed into barrels without any salt what- 
general appearance, gives way; and from this ever, and the vessels were then filled with lake 
lime (the medicine still continued) the bird im- water. No further care or preparation was 
proves alike in flesh and spirits. I repeat, I necessary, and the meat remained perfectly 
am not friendly to much doctoring of poultry; sweet, although constantly exposed to the at- 
but finding not a single instance has come to mosphere and sun. They were obliged to mix 
my knowledge of recovery by the many other fresh water with the brine to prevent the meat 
means adopted, and where the oil was freely becoming too salt for present use.— Ex. 
administered not a death occurred, I have_ , . ^ __ 
ventured to forward my experience for the Heavy CALVES ._ 0ur friend, J. II. Under- 
benefit of your readers. wood, Esq., who always rears the best stock, 
* ■ -c’- *~ ~ writes us that he now has a heifer calf, threc- 
Bones may be decomposed by putting them fourths Hereford, which weighed, the day be- 
between layers of wood-ashes, moistened in a fore it was three months old, three hundred 
barrel. Bones and eggshells should b« thus and forty-five pounds; and a bull t cali; half 
disposed of as fast as they come from the Hereford, which weighed, at two months and 
kitchen. A strong heating compost heap will nineteen days old, two hundred and ninety-one 
decompose bones. Diluted oil of vitriol in an pounds. They have not had extra keep.— Me. 
, old kettle or big earthen jar, is a good thing Farmer. 
into which to cast the waste bones. -- 
-- David Gay, of New London, N. H., says 
B. P. Johnson, Esq., secretary of the New garget root, steeped in water, will cure sick 
York State Agricultural Society, will deliver pigs, if they are allowed to drink as much as 
1 the address before the Hampshire, Franklin they will of the liquor. It is a sure remedy for 
• and Hamden, (Mass.,) Agricultural Society, blind staggers and costiveness, and excellent in 
on the 12th of October next. 
other diseases. It is also good for cattle. 
