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THE CULTIVATOR 
March, 
to the two hoeingg, letting the pulverized dirt fall be¬ 
hind without covering the off side row. This plow runs 
closer to the row than the cultivator—runs steadier, and 
may be worked to good advantage in twenty inch 
spaces. 
I worked my corn with the same plow, as it leaves 
the ground nearly even in surface. 
I can’t help adding that “ theory” tells me that just 
as good a plow might be made with the old fashioned 
wood work with one handle, carefully made to the 
pitch of a common plow, and a new cast point fitted to 
the block and bolted on through the 'two bolt holes in 
the point W. Fergursonsville, N. Y-, Jan. 9, 1854. 
De Burgh’s Superphosphate of Lime. 
Messrs. Editors —We notice in the Country Gen- 
gentleman the results of Mr. Butterfiejld’s experi-* 
ments with superphosphate of lime sold by us. We en¬ 
close a letter from the head farmer of E. Morris, 
Esq., of Throg’s Neck, showing very different results. 
We have heard some complaints respecting some par¬ 
cels of De Burgh’s superphosphate sent out last year, 
though not so many as we have heard about the same 
article made by others. We have examined into the 
cause of the failure, and have found that it arose in 
every instance from the too great haste in which the 
article was manufactured, owing to a desire to supply 
the great demand, and the want of the necessary ac¬ 
commodations. Mr. De B. assures us that these defects 
are now remedied. Res. yours, Longett & Griffing. 
New-York, Jan. 28, 1854. 
C. B. De Burgh, Esq, —Having, during the last sea¬ 
son, put your superphosphate of lime to full test, both 
in horticulture and agriculture, I beg to assure you it 
is with feelings of the greatest pleasure I now write of 
the results. I have tried your article in all the de¬ 
partments of common vegetables, and have met with 
the most satifactory results, both as to the largeness of 
growth and general quality; I have also tested it in 
the departments of general agriculture, and have met 
with equal success.. In one field of jorn, I made ex¬ 
periments with six different varieties of manures, and 
found throughout the season that where I applied your 
superphosphate of lime the corn was much stronger in 
growth and superior in color, and when husked, the 
yield to be far the largest. 
We had upwards of six acres of beets and carrots. 
The land had been plowed and the manure for the 
beets applied in drills, seven drills side by side. I ap¬ 
plied seven different descriptions of manure, viz., barn¬ 
yard manure, night-soil, wood ashes, decayed vegeta¬ 
ble matter, bone dust, and Peruvian guano. I found 
the yield at least ten per cent, in favor of your super¬ 
phosphate of lime. I tried guano and your article only 
side by side on the carrots. I put it on broadcast, and 
met with the same results as with the beets—much in 
favor of the superphosphate. 
I consider that your superphosphate of lime is the 
cheapest and the most beneficial manure that can be 
applied to the land. Next spring I intend to apply to 
you for a larger supply of your valuable preparation. 
James McMillan. 
Notes on Oregon. 
A subscriber at St. Helens, Oregon Territory, writes 
us as follows r 
“ I emigrated to Oregon in 1847. I find the climate 
quite different from that of the western states. The 
frost is never severe enough in the spring to kill apples 
or peaches, and in the autumn never kills potato vines 
till about the middle of November. Potatoes planted 
by the middle of July will get ripe before cold weather 
sets in. We have the coldest weather about the mid¬ 
dle of December—the ice sometimes three inches thick. 
The weather becomes mild after the first of January, 
and vegetation commences the last of Jan. or in Feb¬ 
ruary, and by the first of April the grass is usually a 
foot high. I have harvested more and heavier wheat 
to the acre here than in the western states. It is ready 
to harvest by 8th of July, when the second crop com¬ 
mences growing up at the roots without plowing or 
sowing, and the next season produces full half a crop. 
Oats sown in October, are ripe in June, when a second 
crop starts up, which is ready to harvest about the first 
of November. We can raise- two crops spring wheat, 
barley, peas, potatoes, &c., yearly. We come near 
having seed-time and harvest all the year round—in 
fact wheat has been sown in every month of the year, 
and produced good crops. The English grasses do well 
here, generally growing five feet high, and afford good 
pasture all the winter except about two weeks in De¬ 
cember, when we frequently have snow to the depth of 
a foot or two. The wild gras3 is very fine and makes 
first-rate hay.” —■&>— 
Inquiry. 
Messrs. Editors —Will you or some of your nu¬ 
merous readers, tell me a cure for a difficulty for which 
I do not know a proper name, which is on the side of 
the neck of a young stag which has never been yoked. 
It is about midway between the butt of the ear and 
large joint in the shoulder, and looks about as large as 
a goose egg, and has a pulsation which may be seen a 
rod or more. On applying the hand, the feeling is as 
of a lengthened bag filled with liquid, and the pulsation 
has a gurgling motion. Information respecting the 
above will oblige A Steuben Subscriber. 
Mixing Soils. 
Observing how both vegetables and trees thrived in 
red clay, which had been turned up by deep plowing, 
I tried the experiment last spring of laying a coating 
of red clay over rich garden soil, which appeared ex¬ 
hausted, by long culture, of some of the ingredients 
necessary to nourish vegetables, although liberally sup¬ 
plied from time to time with manure. As far as I can 
yet discover, it seems to have had the desired effect in 
renovating the soil. The vegetables sowed on the clay 
did better than for several years preceding, but I wiil 
be able to judge more satisfactorily the ensuing year 
I thought that by putting the red clay around the rasp¬ 
berry, it would not be necessary to change its location. 
Mine have been for ten or fifteen years in-the same 
place and have not thriven for some years, although 
well manured ; I cannot yet judge of the application 
of the red clay in this respect. J. H. Carlisle, Pa. 
