PICTORIAL CULTIVATOR ALMANAC. 
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O C T O B E R, 18 5 2. 
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CALENDAR 
For Charleston, N. Caro 
lina, Tenn., Georgia. Al¬ 
abama, Mississippi, and 
Louisiana. 
PULVERIZATION OF THE SOIL. 
The fact that plants can only receive their food in a 
soluble state, cannot he too strongly impressed on the 
mind of the farmer. He should also be acquainted with 
the agencies which bring the crude elements into this 
state of solution. Hon. L. C. Ball, in an address be¬ 
fore the Rensselaer County Agricultural Society, gave 
some good illustrations of this subject, in speaking of 
the ‘‘ mechanical preparation of the soil.” He explains 
the importance of this in reference to the preparation 
of soluble food for plants, and observes — u All these 
operations and results which I have endeavored to ex¬ 
plain, take place no where else than upon the surface of 
the earth; in the presence of light , heat , air , moisture 
and electric fluids; subject to the separate influence of 
each, and exposed to the combined action of all. At 
that moderate distance below the surface, at which 
these influences cease to operate, all tendency to de¬ 
composition and decay, and all attempts at changes and 
alterations of form and substance, are arrested. The 
same elements are doubtless every where diffused, but 
they are locked up by the conditions of their original 
combination, and will so remain until brought to the 
surface, and their prison doors opened by some agent 
already free. Bury this piece of rock below the in¬ 
fluence of heat and mois'ure, and unless thrown up by 
some convulsion of nature, it will remain there un¬ 
changed for ever. Place it upon a cultivated field, let 
it be turned by the plow, and exposed to the dccompo- 
ing agents existing in the air and in the soil, until it is 
I pulverized, and in a few years it will appear upon your 
I table in some article of food, or upon your person in the 
garments you wear, or be sent to market in the form 
of beef and pork, and exchanged for tea and sugar, or 
silks and laces.”’ -- 
Number of Seeds in Given Weights. —Mr. Melvin 
stated in a late discussion at an English Farmers’ Club, 
that after several trials he had found that 
1 lb. of red clover of good quality gives, per 
acre, to each superficial foot,. 64 seeds. 
1 lb. yellow clover, ( Medicago lupulina ,) ... 6 “ 
1 lb. white clover,...16 u 
1 lb. rye grass,... 5 “ . 
But as a large number of the seeds sown do not vege¬ 
tate, and many of the plants which come up die, it is 
necessary to sow much larger quantities than are speci¬ 
fied; and Mr. M. recommends for an acre, 8 lbs. red clo¬ 
ver, 2 lbs. white do., 2 lbs. yellow do., with one bushel 
of rye grass, which by his computation affords 100 seeds 
rye grass, 50 red clover, 32 white, and 12 yellow clover, 
per superficial foot. In this country, a good substitute 
for the rye grass, would be the same quantity of redr 
top per acre. - 
The Cherry Slug. —This larva, which eats the pulpy 
part of the leaf of the cherry, and sometimes of other 
fruit trees, is most effectually routed by a sprinkling of 
lime. Air-slacked lime, applied in the dew of the morn¬ 
ing, usually accomplishes the desired purpose. Dry, 
water-slacked lime, taken fresh, is still better, being 
more caustic. 
