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VOL. XXVI. NO. 23, 
VVHOIjE NO. 1193. 
PRICK SIX CENTS 
82.30 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of C’onarress, in the year IS72, by f). T>. T. 
Mourns, in the offlce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
plied in t ho row upon the same kind of soil 
Last season he used night soil and wood ashes 
about two-fifths ashes and about 50 bushels 
of each applied in the drills. Tho crop came 
forward three days earlier than his neighbor’s 
winch were manured witl 
planted t wo weeks earlier 
lie has 85 acres to not i, 
manure and 
oniing season 
i; manure is 
-ou to get auu he asks us to tell him what is 
to theTr qUiU ‘ l ) ity ° f 1>0ra ™» Bwno to use 
to the acre on sandy soil, which will not pro- 
the nflL er ~° bUl ?f l80f °° rn P® ra C r «» and where 
the peas are put in drills four feet apart, lie 
also asks if it will hasten the maturity of the 
pea by sprouting them about forty-eight hours 
before sowing them. II e adds: 
is oI(1 'f usllinn « fl «ay or growing peas here 
s to phmt them and lot them go without cul- 
^ nnt '} ih "y oom ° out in bloom; then 
un to L r “ d throw Arrows 
ip to them to prevent thorn falling over 
w lioh find does them more harm than good! 
.s 1 have tried it—so treating ten rows in the 
oenter of the field, and find they will not vield 
half as much, and the vines are sickly and dry 
ten days earlier than when they have had no 
so. thrown up to them. I never hoe my peas, 
but I plow once fr->m the row and then plow' 
twice with a cabbage plow; iuid the last time 
1 Plow l oan run my plow fifteen inches deep 
and 1 find the peas to bo much largor and three 
to live days earlier, and the vines are as green 
when I pick the last peas as when 1 commenced 
picking.” 
Wo have never used guano in any shape, ex¬ 
cept in a dilute form, for watering plants; 
Sr? kM J J r *' ld USed 011 liRht 8a,ld Y 8oilH at 
the rate of 200 to 500 pounds per acre. It is a 
ot, stimulating manure. No lime nor ashes 
should bo mixed with it, because they would 
expel the ammonia from it. It is better to mix 
it before i.aiug-espeoiully for sandy soils, with 
four or nve times its bulk of vegetable mold- 
even loam may bo used if the muck cannot be 
obtained; add to this muck charcoal or gvn- 
sum, or both; keep this compost under cover 
till used; don’t let it get wot. In this shape 
you oan apply it safely in the drills, or spread 
it broadcast, as you ohoose. Guano is a ma¬ 
nure which acts quickly, and quickly exhausts 
its powers; and those who use it find it profit¬ 
able often to give two applications of it to the 
same crop. 
No doubt the comiug up of your peas may 
be hastened by sprouting. Sometimes guano, 
very much diluted—say one pound to fifteen 
or twenty gallons of water—is used for soak¬ 
ing seeds before planting. Care must bo taken 
that the soak bo not too strong; for if It is it 
will destroy the germ of the seed altogether. 
according to tho now system of sowing grass 
seed alone, and not with grain, as generally 
practiced by our furmers. The seed was sown 
thd last of August, and the grass is now two 
inches high,completely covering the ground as 
handsomely as any man could desire. We wish 
those who have doubts in regard to the advi¬ 
sability of sowing grass seed alone, could see 
this one field and judge for themselves wheth¬ 
er the system is a good one nr otherwise. 
Il tho grass at tho Kuley farm promised 
well, tho turnip crop was a realization, and as 
the workmen were busy gathering it we took 
particular notice of the yield, wbioh certainly 
exceeded anything of tho kind we have ever 
staoi in this vicinity, the variety being the 
Cow-Horn, a long white turnip, resembling in 
appearance the white sugar boot. We selected 
a fair specimen, from which the accompanying 
illustration was made. Mr. Kumar Informed 
us that tho seed was sown August 2d. As tho 
seed were scattered broadcast, of course no 
after cultivation was given; soil tight, sandy 
loam, well enriched with barnyard manure. 
The quality of this variety is fully equal to the 
Purple Top, White Norfolk, and similar well- 
known sorts, while the form gives it a decided 
advantage over all the globular varieties, inas¬ 
much as it does not occupy so great a surface, 
making up in length what it may lack in 
breadth. We selected a specimen four inches 
in diameter, and one of the Yellow Stone tur¬ 
nips from our field of tho same diameter, and 
weighed both; tho former was equal to five of 
HILL VS. LEVEL CULTUEE. 
On the first day of J une I planted a piece of 
land containing one-eighth of an acre, with 
I eerless potatoes; soil a light sandy loam. It 
was manured with a small shovtdful of yard 
manure in the hill. One-half of the piece in 
alternate rows was killed; the other half kept 
as near level as possible. The part hilled pro¬ 
duced six bushels of largo, marketable potatoes 
and three bushels of small potatoes. Tile part 
not hilled produced six bushels and fifty-five 
pounds of largo and two bushels aud two 
pounds of smull potatoes—a difference of fifty- 
five pounds of large in favor of the part not 
hilled, and a difference of fifty pounds of small 
in favor of the part hilled. The potatoes on 
the part not hilled were much larger and bet¬ 
ter than those in the part hilled. Tho season 
here has been a very wet one; therefore, I 
think more favorable for potatoes hilled than 
a dry one would have been. I believe a 
MANUEES FOE EAELY PEA 
A correspondent at Portsmouth, Virginia, 
writes the Rural New-Yorker that he has 
been very successful in growiug green peas by 
the use of gas-house lime. In 1808 he planted 
four bushels of the Hancock pea upon four 
acres of poor sandy soil, and from it received 
150 barrels of peas, using no other manures in 
their production than about 00 bushels of gas- 
house lime to the acre. This product was 
twice as great as when hopse manure was an- 
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