THE CULTIVATOR. 
51. 
agricultural periodicals of the clay. These abound in communi¬ 
cations from our best farmers, and detail the improvements which 
are continually developing in rural labor. We venture to say, 
there is not a farmer in the Union, of common intelligence and 
enterprise, who is ambitious to improve his condition, and who 
takes an agricultural periodical, that is not more than remune¬ 
rated for his subscription, by the useful information which he ac¬ 
quires from it. They are generally printed in a form to be easily 
preserved, and they ought to be preserved. We subjoin a list of 
such as are known to us, for the benefit of the readers ol the Cul¬ 
tivator :— 
Monthly. —Southern Agriculturist, at Charleston, S. C. ; Far¬ 
mers’ Register, at Shell-Banks, Va.; New-York Farmer, N. York ; 
Cultivator, Albany; Tennessee Farmer, Ten.; Fessenden’s Prac¬ 
tical Farmer, Boston ; Rural Library, a monthly publication of 
32 Svo. pages, New-York. 
Weekly. —Genesee Farmer, at Rochester; New-York Farmer, 
at New-York; New-England Farmer, at Boston; Maine Far¬ 
mer Winthrop, Me.; Yankee Farmer, Cornish, Me.; Ohio Farmer, 
Columbus, Ohio ; Southern Planter, Columbus, Georgia. 
Devoted to Horticulture 'particularly. —The American Garden¬ 
ers’ Magazine, by Hovey & Co., and Horticultural Register, by 
G. E. Barret, both monthly 8vos., published at Boston. 
Devoted to Silk Culture. —The Silk Culturist, at Hartford, Con. 
To Orchards and the Vine. —Coxe on fruit trees ; Thatcher’s 
Orchardist; Prince’s Pomological Manual; Kenrick’s New-Ame- 
rican Orchardist, and Prince, Adlum, Lombat and Rafinesque on 
the Vine. 
The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and New-York Farmer 
are from the same press, as are the New-England Farmer and 
Practical Farmer. The Rural Library is a republication of Ame¬ 
rican works on husbandry and gardening. 
We can neither give the price of all the books we have enume¬ 
rated, nor refer to the bookstores at which they can be had. The 
periodicals may be obtained, by addressing the editors of the re¬ 
spective works. 
Directions for sowing the seeds and rearing the plants of the 
White Mulberry Tree , prepared in pursuance of a resolution of 
the Neiv- York Agricultural Society. 
1. Prepare a good piece of garden soil, by digging and pulve¬ 
rizing it; lay it out into beds of three or four feet broad, and rake 
it off smooth. Do this early in May. Sow from the 12th May to 
the 1st June. 
2. With a hoe, stick, or other instrument, proceed to make 
shallow drills across the bed thus prepared, from twelve to eigh¬ 
teen inches apart, and scatter the seed in the drills as thick as you 
would onion or parsnip seed; then cover half an inch with fine 
mould, and press it moderately down with a hoe; or, when the 
first drill is sown and covered, place upon it a narrow strip of 
board, and stand upon this board to sow the second drill, upon 
which, when sown, place the board in like manner, and sow the 
third drill, and proceed thus until the whole is completed. The 
pressure of the earth upon the seeds is to bring it in close contact 
with them, that they may be kept moist, and germinate readily. 
If the weather be dry, or the soil very light, an occasional water¬ 
ing at evening will be beneficial. 
3. The only further care required the first season, will be to 
keep the ground free from weeds, and the soil moderately loose. 
4. Strong plants of one year’s growth, may be transplanted in 
April into nursery rows ; or, the whole may be left to grow a se¬ 
cond summer in the seed bed ; the ground, as before, being kept 
free from weeds and occasionally stirred. 
5. After two summers’ growth, all the strong and healthy plants 
should be placed in nursery rows, which may be done thus : the 
ground being prepared, as for a crop, draw a line and proceed to 
open a trench, of sufficient breadth and depth to admit the roots 
freely, leaving the side next the line straight and perpendicular. 
Having assorted the plants, and cut off the bruised and shortened 
the tap roots, a man proceeds to place them in the trench, in their 
proper position, the heel of the plant towards .the line, and at the 
distance of a foot apart; while another man with a spade, or the 
planter with a gardener’s trowel, throws in earth to hold them in 
their place. The trench is then to be filled, the plants set upright, 
and the earth trod about them. The other rows are planted in 
like manner, three feet apart—the ground to be kept clean during 
the season. 
6. After standing two years in nursery, the plants will have ac¬ 
quired a sufficient size to plant out in the ground where they are 
to stand ; and if intended to be grown in hedge, or as bushes, 
they may be taken earlier, even at two years old, from the seed 
bed. For hedges, plant the same as for nursery rows, at eighteen 
inches, the ground having been previously prepared by an ame¬ 
liorating crop, as potatoes. The same precautions are necessary 
with mulberry as with other fruit trees, intended as standards, as 
to distance and planting. A broad and deep hole, partially filled 
with good surface mould, will always repay for extra labor. When 
intended to be cultivated as bushes, they may be planted thick, 
and left untrimmed, so as to occupy the entire ground. The mul¬ 
berry is generally grown in the latter way in India and some parts 
of Italy. It facilitates the gathering of the leaves, and affords an 
earlier product. 
The mulberry grows well on almost any soil, and particularly 
in one which is stony. Upon poor, dry soils, it affords the best 
material for silk. An ounce of seed will give some thousand 
plants, and require a bed four feet broad, and forty to fifty feet 
long. Albany , March 15, 1832. J. BUEL, Cor. Sec’y. 
Gama Grass has been a topic of commendation in our journals 
for some years without our having participated in its praise ; not 
because we did not think it an acquisition to farmers, but because 
we apprehended it would not do for northern fanners—that it 
jwould not withstand our winters. The seed is enveloped in a 
; thick capsule, which it is difficult to separate from it, and which 
is ordinarily planted with it: it has been found extremely difficult 
ito germinate, for which a high temperature, like that of June, is 
requisite, and it is yet in time for those who have the seed to sow 
■it. Through the politeness of our esteemed friend, Dr. Beekman, 
j we have received a package of the seed, some of which we have 
Jnow growing in a hot-bed, and a small parcel yet remains in our 
office for distribution. Our readers shall be advised of the result 
of our experiment with it. In the mean time, we subjoin Dr. 
Beckman’s directions for managing the seed and plants. 
“Gama Grass Seed —.Sow in drills, 18 inches apart, about a half pint tum¬ 
bler full to forty feet in length; cover about two inches; in a month it will 
come up like oats; when about six inches high and two suckers appear, one 
on each side, then transplant, about three feet by two feet. The second year, 
in Georgia, the first cutting may be made in May, and once every month to 
the first of October, say six cuttings ; each cutting the blades will be three feet 
or upwards; each forms a large bunch, and may be annually divided into Irora 
: ten to fort.- plants. The cuttings will probably be reduced to four, northerly, 
I in place of six. Good land is of course required for such vegetation. 
“ Copy of the directions. From your friend, 
_“ J. P. BEEKMAN.” 
PRACTICAL HINTS TO CORN GROWERS. 
William Clark, Jr. of Northampton, to whom the public are al¬ 
ready indebted for some nicely conducted experiments in growing 
this crop, has published in the New-England Farmer, the result 
of a series of new experiments, to determine the most advantage¬ 
ous distance of planting, &c. We subjoin the result;— 
“ The following table will show the order in which the rows were planted, 
and perhaps will exhibit the method pursued and the result, betier than can 
be done by description; and also afford opportunity to detect any error that 
may have been admitted in the estimates 
| Number. || 
Distance. 
Ground to 
each hill. 
Hills per 
acre. 
Hills in 
row. 1 
Stalks per 
hill. 
Produce of 
row. 
Produce of 
hill. 
Shelled 
corn per 
acre. 
1 
2 ft. 6 in. 
6 ft. 3 in. 
6970 
80 
3 
47 lbs. 9 oz 
6| dms. 
54 b 
. 44 p. 
2 
do 
do 
do 
30 
4 
49 
9 
12| 
56 
67 
3 
do 
do 
do 
80 
5 
521 
104 
60 
74 
4 
Inlermediate or dividin 
t row. 
5 
2 ft. 9 in. 
7 ft. 61 in. 
5769 
72 
3 
48 h 
10 
12* 
51 
56 
(j 
do 
do 
do 
72 
4 
53 
11 
124 
56 
41 
7 
do 
do 
do 
<2 
5 
.57 
12 
3* 
58 
48 
8 
Intermediate. 
9 
3 feet. 
9 feet. 
4840 
66 
3 
43 
11 
104 
46 
70 
10 
do 
do 
do 
66 
4 
54* 
13 
3* 
53 
20 
11 
do 
do 
do 
66 
5 
56 
13 
94 
54 
56 
12 
Intermediate. 
13 
3 ft. 3 in. 
10 ft. 65 in 
4124 
60 
3 
43 
11 
74 
39 
31 
14 
do 
do 
do 
60 
4 
484 
12 
15 
44 
34 
15 
do 
do 
do 
60 
5 
•55 
14 
10 2-3 
50 
30 
16 
Intermediate. 
17 
3 ft. 6 in. 
12 ft. 3 in. 
3556 
57 
3 
16 
12 
144 
35 
18 
18 
do 
do 
do 
57 
4 
55 
15 
7 
45 
56 
19 
do 
do 
do 
57 
5 
56 
15 
11 
46 
43 
