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THE CULTIVATOR 
Sept. 
Ice Houses. 
United States AgrcuRural Society. 
Besses. Eds. —I wish to build an ice-house, and it 
has occurred to me that I might make use of some of 
the spare room in my cellar for the purpose. Being 
in a stiff clay soil it requires a drain. A window in 
the north side affords a chance for sliding in the ice. 
The three stone walls of the cellar would also be so 
much saved in the construction. If properly lined 
and filled in with tan or saw-dust would such an ice¬ 
house answer its purpose, as well as one constructed by 
itself in the usual mode 1 W. H. S. Adrian , Mich. 
Ice houses are not unfrequently constructed in cel¬ 
lars, and succeed well if sufficiently capacious, with 
good non-conducting walls, and with good drainage 
without the admission of air through the drain-pipes. 
We have known several good ice-houses situated under 
carriage houses, shops &c.. the ice being well imbedded 
in saw-dust in addition to the usual provision for ex¬ 
cluding heat. —— 
Application of Manure. 
Messrs Editors- -I would like to be informed when 
is the best season of the year to apply manure upon 
grass land —spring or fall ? My soil is sandy, t'hdugh 
I have applied 50 loads of meadow loam to the acre. 
A Subscribes. East Hartford , Ct. ' 
By all means, apply manure to grass lands in au¬ 
tumn—-the fall, winter, and spring rains will carry 
down the soluble parts among the roots, and the plants 
will have the full benefit at the commencement of their 
growth. There will be very little evaporation of the 
manure cgmparatively, during winter, and tL 0 remain¬ 
ing portions become well settled about the plants, and 
do not hinder their growth. On the other hand, if ap¬ 
plied in the spring, the first tendency is to smother and 
check,—some time elapses before the enriching por¬ 
tions get down among the roots: and the warm weather 
promotes the escape of the volatile portions of the ma¬ 
nure. —< 3 >— 
Inquiries—Seeding—Destroying Sorrel. 
Messrs Editors —Being a subscriber to your valua¬ 
ble paper the « Cultivator,” I have taken the liberty 
as a young farmer to make some inquiries and to ask 
some advice of those more experienced in cultivating 
the soil. My farm is a gravelly loam mixed with some 
sand. One year ago last spring I sowed 16 acres to 
oats and seeded it to clover and timothy. On that 
intended for pasture I mixed equal parts, sowing 12 
qts, per acre. On that for meadow one third clover, 
putting on the s.ame amount of seed per acre. One 
field the seed was bushed in—another rolled in and the 
third nothing done. There dame a pinching drouth, 
and if the seed ever germinated it was killed; and 
the result this year seen, is fields covered with sorrel, it 
being natural to the soil. Now I wish to inquire of 
some practical farmer the cheapest and best mode to 
pursue with this land to kill out the sorrel and make 
it produce again. One neighbor says sow lime; ano¬ 
ther says sow ashes, and a third says mix the two with 
gypsum or plaster and the sorrel will disappear. But 
mind you, they do not speak from experience —they 
do not know— they guess. —We want experimental 
knowledge hot guess-work. J. F. B. Unadilla Forks, 
Otsego Co. N. Y. 
At a meeting N of the Executive Committee of the 
United States Agricultural Society, held in the 
City of Washington, in February last, it was resolved 
that the Society would hold no Exhibition in any State 
having a State Agricultural Society, without the assent 
of the Officers, or of the Executive Committee of such 
Society. 
The citizens of Springfield, Ohio, having requested 
this Society to hold an Exhibition of Cattle, at that 
place, during the current jmar, and generously sub¬ 
scribed about ten thousand dollars to defray all the 
expenses of the same, and to guarantee the Society 
against loss ; and the Executive Committee of the Ohio 
Agricultural Society uniting in the. request, the Execu¬ 
tive Committee of this Society have concluded to hold 
a NATIONAL SHOW OF C4TTLE, open to general 
competition, without sectional limit, on the 25th, 26th 
and 27th days of October next, at Springfield, in 
the State of Ohio. 
The friends of Agriculture in all the States of the 
American Union, and in the neighboring provinces of 
Canada, are invited to co-operate with us, bo that this 
Exhibition may be the more extensively useful, and 
be alike creditable to the generous citizens of Spring- 
field, with whom it originated,—to the Contributors and 
Visitors, who sustain it,—and to the United States Ag¬ 
ricultural Society, who are so deeply interested in its 
success. 
In consequence of the holding of this Show of Cat¬ 
tle, the contemplated Exhibition of Horses, at 
Springfield, Mass., and the Show of Sheep, in Ver¬ 
mont, will be omitted. 
The Journal of the Society, which the-Executive 
Committee have concluded to issue once in each year— 
four numbers in one,—will qppear in January next; 
and will contain the Transactions of the Society, at its 
last Annual Meeting, the Lectures and Addresses de¬ 
livered at that time, a full and faithful account of the 
Springfield Show, with other valuable papers, by emi¬ 
nent members. This volume will be forwarded to all 
members who have paid their annual assessments for 
the year 1854. 
MABSHALL P. WILDER, President. 
Wm. S. King, Secretary. 
Boston, August, 1, 1854. 
Insects and Farming. 
I have been a merchant eight years and found it a 
risky business—have been a farmer two years and 
find it also risky. We plant our corn and as soon as 
it makes its appearance we have to fight worms and 
crows. And here let me say I know from experience 
that the only way to save a corn field from being devour¬ 
ed by worms is to dig them out and kill them. I em¬ 
ployed four hoys this season and saved four acres by 
worming. Yours. J. F. B. 
The Queens Co. Ag. Society will hold their next fair 
at Jamaica, on the 28th Sept. * 
