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SUN ON MERIDIAN. 
Get everything ready for winter. 
Kill swine, and poultry designed 
for the holidays’ market. Cut 
wood before snow comes, if pos¬ 
sible ; pile it up and haul it with 
the first sledding. See to a'l the 
live-stock. Any feeble lambs or 
other sheep should be put by 
themselves, and well nourished 
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18 3 55 mo. 
26 8 26 mo. 
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AGRICULTURAL PUBLICATIONS. 
If farmers would read and put in practice the teach¬ 
ings contained in The Cultivator, and other periodicals, 
they could hardly fail of making progress in agricultural 
knowledge. From reading some of the early volumes 
of The Cultivator and Genesee Farmer, I was induced 
to change from a shallow, to a deep and thorough sys¬ 
tem of cultivation—paying particular regard to drain¬ 
age, and the saving and application of manures—which 
have more than doubled the products per acre; and not 
only so, it has rendered the products measurably sure, 
and failures that were heretofore charged to the seasons 
were found to be chargeable to the method of cultivation. 
I have mentioned the sources to which I am mainly 
indebted for the progress-that I have made in agricultu¬ 
ral improvement at this time, for the reason that of late 
we not unfrequently see it stated that eastern agricultu¬ 
ral papers are not adapted to our wants—that they are 
not calculated for this latitude. Now whilst we admit 
the merits of our western papers, and are from duty 
and interest bound to sustain them, it is not admitted 
that eastern papers are not adapted to our wants; for 
we believe that wherever they are read, and what they 
teach is put in practice, they will answer for this or any 
other latitude where the cultivator of the soil is desirous 
of improving in his business, Linus Cone. Troy , 
Oakland county, Mich., June 25, 1851. 
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow 
worse as we grow old. 
SALT AS FOOD FOR PLANTS. 
Professor Way, chemist to the Royal Agricultural 
Society, in a lecture on this subject, stated, as a con¬ 
clusion to which his investigations had led him, that 
common salt was neither directly nor indirectly, a con¬ 
stituent of the food of plants. He stated, however, as 
his belief, that salt did, in some instances, produce an 
action beneficial to vegetation, on some soils. He had 
not carried out his investigations to such an extent as 
to say, positively, to what this, effect is attributable, 
but he was u led to believe that the common salt acted 
on certain silicates of lime present, in a way as yet not 
understood; and at the same time as it afforded a sup¬ 
ply of lime to plants, gave rise, probably, to a modifica¬ 
tion of silica, important to the straw of the cereals.” 
In reference to Prof. Way’s remarks, other members 
of the society gave the results of their experience in the 
application of salt to land. Col. Challoner said he did 
not consider it acted simply as a manure on grain crops, 
“ but it stiffened and brightened the straw, and caused 
it to ripen from 3 to 5 days earlier than it would other¬ 
wise have done.” Mr. Barrow has found salt improve 
the strength and quality of his wheat straw, his neigh¬ 
bors’ crops having been laid while his stood well. Mr. 
Mechi said—“ without being able to give the scientific 
reason, salt gave strength and brightness to the wheat 
straw and prevented its lodging.” He applied it at the 
rate of 3 cwt. per acre, mixed with the same weight of 
guano.” —- 
The writer’s labor makes the reader’s ease. 
