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.growth, is to be found a number of fibres, which consti¬ 
tute the main support of the tree. If these rootlets or 
fibres are disturbed by a plow, two or three times in a 
•year, what can be expected but the yellows, or some¬ 
thing else as bad? 5 '* He observes that he has seen the 
peach tree survive its twenty-fifth year, producing good 
crops both in size and quality. The ground was cultiva¬ 
ted with different sorts of culinary vegetables. The plow 
was not used, and care was taken not to injure the roots. 
Poudrette. —A correspondent at Long-Island, writes 
us that he has used poudrette—he manured a piece of 
corn-land partly with poudrette, (a gill to a hill, and some 
with a pint to a hill,) and partly with street and stable 
manure. The crop was best where was put a pint of 
poudrette to a hill. His neighbor used it for wheat, 
broadcast, at the rate of 40 bushels to the acre. The crop 
was so inferior that he has used none since. Now we are 
not told here how much of the street and stable manure 
was used to a given extent of land, or what was the rela¬ 
tive expense of the manure and poudrette. What we 
want to know, is, which is the most profitable manure— 
and in order to be able to tell this, tl >se who make ex¬ 
periments, must state the relative expense of the different 
substances used, for a given extent of land, as well as the 
product and nett value of the crop from each sort. 
Cheese-Press. —In a note to an article on Gloucester 
cheese, published in our May No., we stated we pre¬ 
sumed a beam press was used. Our correspondent “L 
M.” says, “ this is an error—it is a perpendicular press, 
merely a large stone 3 or 4 hundred weight, the cheeses 
placed on top of each other,the last always at the bottom,and 
of course gets the hardest squeeze .” 
Fair at Washington, Miss, —From the Concordia 
Intelligencer, we learn that the annual spring fair of the 
Adams county Horticultural, Agricultural, and Botanical 
Society, took place on the 17th of April. The attendance 
was very large, numbering several hundred ladies. The 
display of stock, among which were several fine Bur- 
hums, showed clearly that there is a spirit of improve¬ 
ment at work. In the department of Home Manufactures, 
were specimens of jeans, plain and colored, hearth-rugs 
of beautiful colors and texture, fine samples of butter, 
&c. &c. There was also a respectable show of imple¬ 
ments; and taken altogether, the exhibition may be said 
to have been highly gratifying to the friends of improve¬ 
ment. 
J. S. Skinner, Esq. has been appointed to deliver an 
.address before the Agricultural Society of New-Castle 
-county, (Del.) at their next exhibition. Great prepara¬ 
tions, we learn, are being made to render the exhibition 
superior to any former one held by that society. 
Tennessee Agriculturist.— Mr. Fanning, the for¬ 
mer editor of this paper, being engaged in the manage¬ 
ment of Franklin College, Mr. Charles Foster, for¬ 
merly one of the editors of the Western Farmer and 
^Gardener, takes charge of the Agriculturist. In addition 
to other high qualifications, Mr. Foster is one of ihe best 
draughtsmen in the country, and it is proposed to illus¬ 
trate each number of the Agriculturist with engravings 
from his pencil, of country residences, animals, fruits, 
plants, flowers, &c.—a sample of which appears in the 
June No.—viz. a view of Dr. Shelby’s residence, and a 
portrait of one of Mr. Mark R. CockriPs Saxony bucks, 
both, of which are well executed. 
Strawberries winter killed. —The Boston Cultiva¬ 
tor states the past winter has been very destructive to 
strawberries in that vicinity. The Early Virginia (a 
celebrated early kind,) Hovey’s Seedling, the Wood, and 
Methven Castle, are in some gardens nearly all killed; 
while the Scarlet, or Royal Scarlet, separated from the 
other kinds only by a path, and under the same manage¬ 
ment, are all alive and flourishing. Young plants, it is 
said, have endured the cold with less injury than old 
ones. The Royal Scarlet, which it is said has escaped 
injury, is spoken of as a large, valuable, and productive 
variety. 
Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of 
Agriculture. —At a meeting of this highly useful so¬ 
ciety, the oldest of the kind in the country, recently held 
in Boston, the following gentlemen were elected officers 
for the ensuing year:—John Wells, President; Peter C. 
■ Brooks, 1st Vice-President; John C. Gray, 2d do.; Ab- 
. bott Lawrence, Rec. Sec.: Benjamin Guild, Assistant do.; 
Henry Codman, Treasurer, and Josiah Quincy, jr., Cor. 
Sec’y. Daniel Webster, J. C. Warren, E. Phinney, F. 
C. Lowell, David Sears, and W. P. Mason, Trustees. 
Agricultural Education —The late State Conven¬ 
tion of Common School Superintendents appointed a com¬ 
mittee to co-operate with a committee of the Slate Agri¬ 
cultural Society, for promoting the introduction of agri¬ 
cultural books and studies into the common schools. 
The Hon. John Greig of Canandaigua, is the chairman 
of the committee on behalf of the State Society; and we 
perceive the name of Gov. Seward and Lieutenant Go¬ 
vernor Dickinson among hi-S associates. This commit¬ 
tee will meet at Poughkeepsie, on the second Thursday 
(11th day) of July. Writers on agriculture, and other 
friends of the the cause, may promote the object by 
communicating their views on the subject—in reference 
to the preparation of agricultural works, as well as the 
introduction of the matter in school exercises—under 
cover to the care of the Recording Secretary at Albany. 
I The school superintendents can incidentally render an 
!immensity of service to the cause of agriculture, by 
bearing its importance steadily in mind when discharging 
their duties among the ten thousand school districts of 
the State. 
The Season in Ohio _Extract of a letter from a gen¬ 
tleman at Zanesville, dated Juue 12 :— C( The season here 
'has been remarkably favorable to vegetation, and there 
is much heavy wheat in the country, though there are 
fields greatly injured by the fly. The fruit crop is fair, 
and the prospect in Ohio, taken all in all, looks like any 
thing but starvation.” 
Moles _Many of your readers are no doubt desirous 
of knowing the best mode of destroying moles. The fol¬ 
lowing, I have tried most successfully. Raise the skin 
|of the heart, or soft part, of a kernel of corn with a pen- 
lknife, scoop out a portion of the soft part, and fill up the 
! vacancy with wet arsenic. Place a few of these in the 
tracks of the mole, and I assert his ravages are at arfend. 
J. Boyle. 
{jCp 3 The drawing alluded to by Mr. B., was too im- 
oerfect to admit of our using it. 
Domestic Industry. —The manufacturers, as well as 
the farmers <c down east,” will probably, be represent¬ 
ed by fair specimens of their products, at the State Fair 
in Poughkeepsie, as well as at the several of the New- 
England Fairs and Cattle-Shows. We have seen a letter 
from Samuel Lawrence, Esq. who is largely connected 
in business at Boston and Lowell, saying that an assort¬ 
ment of goods from his establishment will be exhibited 
at Poughkeepsie—about fifty pieces in all. The well 
known fabrics of the Middlesex Mills, of which Mr. S. 
is agent, is a sufficient guarantee that the exhibition will 
be alike creditable to the enterprising proprietors and to 
the country. Manufacturers of all sorts of useful goods, 
in New-England, as well as in this state, may find the 
Agricultural Fairs advantageous opportunities for exhi- 
niting the varied products of their factories and work¬ 
shops—those products particularly which anywise con- 
concern the the comfort or profit of the farming com¬ 
ma ity. 
To make yellow butter in winter. —Put in yolk 
of eggs just before the butter comes, near the termination 
of the churning. This has been repeatedly tried, and it 
makes very fine sweet butter. It is kept by many as a 
great secret, but its great value requires uublicity. B. 
[ Sturgeon. —Our friend Botts, of the Southern Plant¬ 
er says one of his friends gives the following recipe for 
cooking sturgeon:— cc Slice the white part of a sturgeon, 
and pour upon it boiling water to extract the oil, then 
boil it hard until nearly done; put it into a stew-pan with 
a little water, flour, cream, butter, pepper and salt, or 
catsup, if you like it, and stew it well.” 
Bachelor’s Pudding, —In the same paper, “Oberlin” 
gives the following for making Bachelor’s pudding. 
“ Break, or grate ripe bread into new milk, and permit it 
to get soft before adding a good portion of boiled rice, 
some eggs, butter, and other condiments the taste may 
dictate, and sweeten with molasses.” 
