sues, and that the peculiar organs, as the hairs and spines, developed by those tissues were dependent on this fact." Since the above was prepared for publication, we have received the following, in relation to the same subject, from a scientific correspondent:

"Many newspapers contain marvellous stories of the remarkable effects of common electricity on vegetation. One experiment has been minutely described and illustrated by a diagram, and consists merely of a buried wire enclosing a piece of ground, and connected with iron rods rising some feet above the surface like common lightning rods. The land thus enclosed is stated to have produced a very heavy crop, which it may have done from other causes; but to suppose that the electricity had any influence, is of course ridiculously absurd. For the wires not being insulated, the trifling amount of electric fluid which may descend, passes off instantly into the earth; and if they were insulated the case would be in no wise different. The fluid always following the best conductor, the plants could not be electrified in the slightest degree by any management. A man may hold a lightning rod in his hand in a hard thunderstorm, and receive no injury, the fluid passing through the rod directly to the earth. And if the plants were actually electrified, it is by no means probable that any perceptible effect would be produced. It is well to distinguish real scientific discoveries from humbugs-to discriminate between good bills and counterfeits."

ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

In our last we mentioned, in a brief paragraph, that this Institution was shortly to go into operation. Our late English papers give some particulars in relation to the plan on which it is to be conducted, and as agricultural education is beginning to be regarded with so much attention in this country, we presume the doings of other nations in regard to this important subject will be looked upon with interest.

The Institution is located at Cirencester, in Wiltshire. Attached to it is a farm of 410 acres, 380 of which are arable, and of a varied character of soil. The general outlines of the plan and mode of management, so far as we have seen, appear to be judicious, and of an economical character.

hydraulics, &c., more particularly as they have reference to agriculture. The structure and treatment of the diseases of cattle, and a simple but accurate system of farm accounts, will form part of the instruction.

"Pupils who have at the least a knowledge of reading, writing, arithmetic and grammar, will be admitted from the age of fourteen to eighteen years; no pupil to remain after twenty. Their time will be divided between in-door instruction and out-door occupation. There will be frequent examinations, both public and private, and certificates of proficiency will be given them on leaving the Institution. They will board and lodge in the College. Each pupil will have a separate bed, and every attention will be paid to health and comfort. Each pupil will pay £30 [about $150] per annum, by half-yearly instalments, in advance. Probably two vacations will be given in the year; a short one between hay and corn harvest, and a longer one at Christmas."

STATE OF THE CROPS.

HILLSBORO CO., N. H.-A letter dated Aug. 9, from J. L. EATON, East Ware, informs us that there has been but little rain in that vicinity since the snow went off last spring-not so much as has sometimes fallen in a single day. The hay crop is not more than two-thirds an average yield. Wheat is well filled, but the heads are short. Wheat has been an uncertain crop there for several years, owing to the worm or maggot (Cecidomyia tritici) in the head-it sometimes destroyed nearly the whole crop. To avoid the insect, it was sowed late, but the late sown was liable to rust. Afterwards, it was thought better to risk the worm by sowing early, than the rust by sowing late. For the last two or three years, till the present, the insect has not been much seen. This year it has appeared in nearly all wheat fields, but has not been very destructive. Winter rye is light-oats good considering the drouth. Corn on dry land will not be much. Potatoe crop uncertain; much rain is wanted to give a fair crop of corn or potatoes. The rot has not yet troubled the potatoes in that neighborhood. The crop was good there last year.

ALABAMA. From JOHN H. DENT, Esq., of Eufalla, we have a letter dated August 7th. He gives a gloomy account of the cotton crop. The drouth is said to have "The farm," (it is said,) "will be cultivated on the been more severe than was ever known before. The best established system, and will combine the breeding ground has not been wet four inches in depth since and feeding of stock, with a dairy. Every description March last. There are a few neighborhoods that have of trial and experiment will be made in such a manner had timely rains, and have made fine crops. In general, as not to risk general results, it being the determination Mr. D. considers the "cotton crop at an end, and it is of the council that the system pursued on the farm shall daily exhibiting a more sickening appearance." He be the one most profitable, and such as the pupils may says "our only hope for so sad a disaster, is an advance adopt with confidence in their future occupations. Still of cotton." Corn crop is very short, but it is added a portion of land will be set apart for experiments with "by sowing grain this fall, we may have enough for manures and various seeds." domestic purposes."

The management of the farm is to be entrusted to a man (Mr. Scales,) who it is said is thoroughly versed in the minutest details of good husbandry. The farm laborers are to be chosen with great care; and that the pupils may obtain a thorough knowledge of all farming operations, a portion of the work will be allotted for their performance. The buildings are to be erected with such a view to economy of cost, that they may be safely adopted on any farm of similar size and character.

from Waterloo, Aug. 10th-"Wheat in our vicinity has WESTERN NEW-YORK.-SAMUEL WILLIAMS, Writes been much injured by the rust. Many pieces were struck in our warmest driest weather. Hay is a middling crop; oats middling, but shrink; barley, flax, and Indian corn, very good; potatoes very light, but so far uninjured by rot. The last few days have been the hottest of the season. Last evening, we had two inches of rain."

PENNSYLVANIA.-A letter from A. LANGDON ELWYN, dated Reculver, Westchester county, Aug. 19th, states"the frost of 31st May destroyed nearly all the wheat in this neighborhood. Little or none of the Mediterranean variety escaped, it being more forward than any other. What is known as white wheat was not injured. The early maturity of the Mediterranean wheat is an objection to it; but in a climate like ours, who is to calculate or guard against summer chills?"

"The College is situated on the farm. The building will include a large dining-hall, class-rooms, laboratory, museum, besides ranges of sleeping apartments on two floors, throughout which the best mode of heating and ventilation will be adopted, and separate rooms will be provided in case of illness. The head master and the professors will reside in the College. The schools will be under the management of the different professors, who will be constantly on the spot, and give their whole time to the pupils. The instruction will be conveyed not SOUTH CAROLINA.-W. B., Laurens District, writes, merely by lecture, but also by individual study and prac- Aug. 10th-" Our oat crop was a failure; wheat is light, tical working. Mr. Way has been chosen as chemical but the berry is as fine as any I ever saw. Corn is and geologicial professor. Professors will be engaged scarce. It is now selling at 87 cents to $1 per bushel. to instruct in botany, natural history, mathematics and I do not think the price will be sustained this fall, for in physics, drawing, mechanics, gemometry, dynamics, some parts of the state, the crop is said to be better than levelling, mapping, surveying, building, hydrostatics, lever before-especially creek and river bottoms."

IMPROVED SHORT-HORN BULL "KING CHARLES 2d."-Fig. 86.

The above is a most accurate portrait of the imported form, and apparently hardy. We should think the best NeaShort-Horn bull King Charles 2d, owned by JAMES politans would make a desirable cross with the BerkLENOX, Esq., Netherwood, Dutchess county. The pedi- shires-especially the larger class of the latter. Mr. L. gree of this animal is given in the fourth volume of the has several full blood Neapolitans at his place in NewHerd-book, as follows: York, but the sow mentioned is the only one kept at the farm.

"4154, KING CHARLES 2d, bred by Mr. Whitaker; got by Sir Thomas Fairfax (5196)-d. (Lingflower,) by The team work of the farm is done partly by horses Ellerton's bull-g. d. (Gillyflower,) by Young Colling, and partly by oxen. Of the latter, we saw two yoke (1843)-gr. g. d., by Allison's Danby-gr. gr. g. d. by that were large and strong. But we were particularly Pink Bull, bred by Mr. Leonard Carter, of Applegarth." pleased with three or four of the carriage horses which Mr. Lenox has also several cows imported at various were shown us. One of them in particular, a colt five times. Of one of these, Red Lady, our readers will re- years old, bred by Mr. Neefus, near Flatbush, Long member, we gave a fine portrait, on steel, in the first Island, is one of the most splendid horses we have ever no. of our present volume. Daffodil, another very supe-seen. It would certainly be of service to know exactly rior cow, imported with Red Lady in 1840, he has been how such a noble animal has been bred and reared. so unfortunate as to lose. She died of milk-fever, shortly Mr. Lenox's farm consists of upwards of two hundred after having her calf last spring. Gayly, imported in acres. He purchased it about seven years ago, at which 1841, is a fine showy cow, evincing a great tendency to fat-time it was much out of order. All the buildings and ten. Mr. L. has also a fine Ayrshire cow, showing ex-nearly all the fences have therefore been erected by Mr. cellent points as a milker, and for constitution. Mr. L. L. who has spared no pains to render them as perfect as informed us, that she was equal, for the dairy, to any possible in their.design and completion. The place emcow in the herd.

From these cows, he has several heifers, (some of which have now had calves,) that are very promising. With a yearling and a two-year-old, out of Daffodil, and a two-year-old and a calf out of the Ayrshire cow, by King Charles 2d, we were particularly pleased.

braces a great variety of surface, which has rendered it susceptible of being laid out and improved in a highly ornamental and tasteful manner. The mansion, which is approached from the main road by a long avenue, winding through beautiful groves, is situated on a delightful spot, commanding the most charming landscape views Mr. Lenox keeps the South Down sheep, of which he on the banks of the Hudson. To the south, the village has a very pretty flock of about sixty. He is well of Newburgh, though seven or eight miles distant, is pleased with them on account of their hardiness, and es- brought plainly before the eye; and all the various obpecially for the superior quality of their mutton. He re-jects which mark the scene, with almost every inch of marked that he hail frequently sent carcasses of the mut- the surface of the river may be readily seen till the noble ton to his friends, without their having any knowledge stream is suddenly lost from sight in its deep gorge of the breed, and its excellence never failed to excite re- through the Highlands. To the north, also, the view is mark and inquiry in relation to it. The quality of the scarcely less beautiful, embracing as it does a rich and mutton of this fine breed is beginning to be properly ap-varied picture of cultivated fields, thriving villages and preciated in our cities. towns, woods and mountains. Indeed, considered both

Of swine, Mr. L. showed us some very pretty Berk- in reference to its natural advantages, and the embellishshires, and a very fine Neapolitan sow, with several of ments which wealth and taste have bestowed, Netherher progeny of various ages, by a Berkshire boar. The wood is a place exactly fitted for the abode of contemcross bred stock look exceedingly well, being of fine plative and well cultivated minds.

FARM OF JAMES GOWEN.

In the Farmer's Cabinet for June, is a copy of the report given by Mr. GowEN of his farm, to the Philadel phia Society for Promoting Agriculture. We should be pleased to copy the whole of the report, but want of room allows us to make only the following summary and extracts.

The farm is located near Philadelphia, and now contains about 100 acres, exclusive of woodland. Mr. G. took possession of it in 1834, at which time it is represented to have been in a very worn down and poor condition, from the neglect and bad management of previous owners. Mr. Gowen took away the old fences, made a new division of the farm, and fenced with stone-walls and hedges of the Osage orange, drained, and filled up ravines and gullies,

The land is now brought into a high state of cultivation, producing 100 bushels of corn, 400 bushels potatoes, 50 bushels wheat, &c., to the acre. He at first bought manure from the city, but after three or four years' experience, he gave up the plan, and has since made enough on his own premises, excepting light dressing. To do this he has been obliged to increase his stock of animals. "To maintain this stock," he says, "and bring my land to a high state of cultivation, by the most efficient and economical practice, has been a leading object; and to accomplish this, required no ordinary ma

But the collection of flowers more particularly excited stone fence, and picket fence, as encloses my farm withwarm and general admiration. Not only were the speci-out incurring a heavy outlay; but I view these improvemens numerous and splendid, but the tasteful arrange- ments as cheap in the end. It may be safely inferred, ment for display we have scarcely if ever seen equalled. They occupied a platform which extends across one end of the large public hall used for the occasion. On the right and left was a fine collection of green house plants, some of them in splendid bloom: and in the centre, on light shelves, rising successively to near the ceiling, and extending a length of 30 feet, were a most brilliant pro fusion of cut flowers, arranged with great skill, the brilliancy of which was much increased by transmitted light from behind, blending with the copious reflected light in front. Among the contributors were a large number from the immediate neighborhood, together with splendid collections from Auburn, Ithaca, Rochester, and other places.

Several hundred persons were assembled to witness the exhibition, and during the afternoon were addressed with much effect by H. R. Schoolcraft, C. Mattoon, and Wm. H. Bogart. The awarding committees reported, and the flowers and fruit were then sold by auction on the spot, which enabled the spectators to avail themselves of a much better view of each specimen individually, and to possess them if thev chose. As an indication

"The secret of keeping so large a stock on so little land, consists in my practice of partial soiling, and green crops, whereby I make some four or five acres do the work of thirty acres, in the "slow and easy go way." From May to August, my cattle are confined to one or two fields, most commonly one, to which they are driven, more for exercise in the cooler parts of the day, than for pasture; they being fed in the stables early in the morning, at noon, and at night, with food cut for them from a lot adjoining the barn-yard. The food is generally of lucerne, orchard grass and clover, oats and corn. The patches from which the corn and oats are cut,

last month; they weighed from 400 to 450 lbs., sold for $86.24. Have sold the last two years of pigs, designed for breeding, $150. Bacon, lard, &c., over $120, besides, having on hand 14 fine young barrows, last fall's pigs, now ready for slaughter, which will weigh from 250 to 300 lbs. each, value $150. The stock on hand consists of one fine boar of Lincoln, Hampshire, and Berkshire breed; one brood sow of Berkshire breed, 12 shoats and seven pigs."

are always sowed with turneps in August. No one shire Boars, and my Hampshire and Chester county sows, can credit, unless he has had proper experience in the matter, the quantity of food that one acre of lucerne, one of rich orchard grass and clover, and one of oats and corn, afford from May till August, nor can he estimate the great saving in manure, much less the comparatively good health of the cattle, from not being exposed on the naked fields, under a fervid sun, toiling all day in search of food. This practice allows me to crop almost the whole of the land, and to make some 120 to 150 tons of hay annually. In the fall, from August till November, the cattle have the whole range of the mowed lands, as I do not cut second crop grass for hay. Then for winter feed, I have always an acre of sugar beet, half an acre of sugar parsneps; half an acre or more of carrots, for my horses; and generally from three to four acres of turneps. I report to the Committee on Crops this season, over 100 tons of these roots. In 1843, I gathered from one acre, 1078 bushels sugar beets, 60 lbs. to the bushel; carrots at the rate of 687 bushels; sugar parsneps, 868 bushels. This year 972 bushels sugar beets; 970 bushels carrots; 700 bushels sugar parsnep; and from three and a half acres, 2500 bushels of turneps, sowed with timothy seed.

The farm buildings consist of three substantial stone barns, one 70 feet by 33, another 50 by 26, and another hipt roof with cupola, 57 by 25, besides a large overshoot stable and hay house, stable high of stone, 60 feet by 30-the lower floors of all these are made of broken stone and lime, planked, being vermin proof. There are also, a corn crib capable of holding 1200 bushels of corn, one barrack, ample hog-pens, and sheds for carts and wagons. The barn buildings have been filled this fall to their utmost limit, except the corn crib.

"A substantial stone wall encloses the principal manure heap; the drainings from this heap are led into a place of deposit, in which are received also a drain that runs under ground from the kitchen, as well as drainings from the pig-pens, and the washings from all the yards. These drainings form an important item in the supply of manure to my land; it is a saving which I cannot estimate at less than $200 a year. This liquid by a simple process is applied to the patches of roots, &c., and to this may be ascribed my great success in raising such

FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.

From the circular of the Managers we give the following extracts. They are making vigorous efforts to render the coming exhibition superior to any preceding one:

The exhibition will be opened to the public on Monday, the 6th day of October, 1845, at 12 o'clock, M., at Niblo's Garden, Broadway, in the city of New-York. Contributions from exhibitors will be received on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the previous week. To insure the most favorable locations, and the advantages of competition, the products of the Manufacturer, Mechanic and Artisan must be delivered and entered on the books of the Fair, on one of those days. The chance of a good location will be in favor of those who come the first and second day. Fruits, Flowers, &c., form an exception. The proper time for entering them will be specified in the agricultural and horticultural circular, or notices hereafter to be issuued.

On Thursday, the 9th day of October, a National Convention of Farmers and Gardeners, and Silk Culturists will be held. Circulars, with questions prepared, will be issued. Washington's Home Department of Agriculture, recommended by the Institute, and unanimously approved by a National Convention held last year, will again be urged.

For the second week, has been assigned the show of cattle, horses, and other live stock, and the plowing and spading matches. To accommodate those interested in the cattle show, a beautiful plot of ground has been secured between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, near the intersection of Broadway and the Fifth Avenue, with commodious rooms on the premises for accommo"Of Improved Cattle, my first effort was with the cele-modating the committees. The plowing and spacing orated "Dairy Maid," still owned by me. Her first calf, matches will be held in New-York, or its vicinity. For LEANDER, by Whitaker's PRINCE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, particulars, see agricultural circular.

crops.

be in Niblo's long promenade, superintended by eminent horticulturists. Great varieties of rare seeds have been, the last year, scattered by the Institute over our country, with the express understanding, that a portion of their products be brought to the Fair, to swell the beauties of the display.

was reared and kept by me, for breeding. DAIRY The anniversary and other addresses will also be deliMAID's calves alone, exclusive of Leander, have alreadyvered in the course of the second week. The horticulsold for more than $500. It would be curious to trace tural exhibition of vegetables, fruits, flowers, &c., will her profit at this day, by stating an account of her first cost, her keep, and that of her son Leander; crediting her by sales of her own calves and grand calves; deducting for the portion of the capital which was invested in the dams that produced the grand calves. To do this, would extend this paper to an unusual length-suffice it to say, that Dairy Maid has long since paid for herself, and that those who laughed at me for giving $540 for one cow, may turn this statement over in their minds, and think, whether since 1838 any investment of theirs, to the same amount, in any other branch of husbandry, has paid so well.

But there is a satisfaction beyond that of the pocket, and that is, that Dairy Maid's breed will be of infinite service to the country. Her calves and grand calves, are pretty well scattered already-and I make no doubt, but wherever found they will demonstrate the high charac-| ter of the parent stock.

My sales for the last two years, exclusive of Dairy Maid's calves, amount to over $2000. The stock now on hand is about 40 head, principally Durhams. The butter sold for the last two years exceeds $750; this is a respectable item, when the calves that were reared, and the supply for my family are taken into view. From early fall to spring, the butter averaged 70 lbs. per week -the quality highly appreciated abroad, as well as at home.

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"In the hog line, I have been quite successful, at least in bringing the animal by judicious crossing, to great perfection. I fatted off my old Lincoln, and Berk.

The best new and useful inventions will be objects of the highest honors. Also, establishments affording large varieties of specimens of well constructed agricultural and horticultural machines and implements; but in no case, for want of competition, or other cause, will any article be entitled to premium, if adjudged intrinsically not deserving particular commendation.

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pens, cattle and sheep-yards, should be covered with a layer of it to take all the urine and the soak of the manure. Where there are barn cellars, it should be kept under the cattle and horse stalls. It will answer a good purpose in many cases if applied by itself, but it is better to use it as mentioned, or mix ashes with it. Lime is also useful CHARCOAL.-B. S. (and others.) That from hard||in ridding it of acids, noxious to vegetation, which it

RIBBON HOUSES.-T. C. (Sullivan, N. Y.) We are not in possession of any more particular information in regard to this kind of buildings, than we gave in our Feb. No., (page 42 of this vol.)

wood is considered best for agricultural purposes, and we believe that from maple is as good as any. Pine and hemlock make lighter coal-whether the same weight of it would be worth as much as that from hard wood, we cannot tell. Try both kinds, and you may then know. ICE-HOUSE. "What is the most approved plan of constructing an ice-house, where the springs at certain seasons of the year, are within four feet of the surface of the ground?" Query by "B. S." If any one will answer it, we shall feel obliged.

BURNT CLAY.-B. S. We should think unburnt clay would be best for a sandy soil, because by burning it loses in a great measure its adhesiveness, and its attraction for water, which constitute its value for sand. We have no personal experience in burning clay, though we have partially witnessed the process. It can best be described in the language of Mr. Rham, in his "Dictionary of the

Farm:"

sometimes contains. (Get Dr. Dana's "Muck Manual.") SUBSTITUTE FOR WHITE LEAD.-P. (Uniontown, Pa.) From experience, we are unable to say what recipe would prove best, but prefer the following to any we at Present recollect:

Take one bushel of unslacked lime, and slack it with cold water; when slacked add to it 20 lbs. of Spanish whiting, 17 lbs. of salt, and 12 lbs. of sugar. Strain this mixture through a wire sieve, and it will be fit for use, after reducing with cold water. This is intended for the outside of buildings, or where it is exposed to the weather. Two coats should be laid on wood, and three on brick. A whitewash brush may be used for laying it on, and each coat must be dried before the next is applied. This may be made any color you please. For straw color, instead of the whiting use yellow ochre; for lemon color, ochre and chrome yellow; for lead or slate color, lampblack; for blue, indigo; or green, chrome green.

LAWRENCE'S LEVER BUCKLE.-The depot for the sale of this article is CORNELL & BROTHERS, 269 Pearlstreet, New-York.

"To burn clay, it is dug out in lumps and dried; heaps are made of these at regular distances in the field, with MACHINE FOR LOADING STONES.-G. B. (Frederick a small cavity in the centre, in which dry furze and Co., Md.,) wishes to learn whether there is in use a brush-wood are introduced. This being lighted, the fire simple, cheaply constructed machine, suitable for loadis allowed to burn slowly, and the smoke kept in by add-ing stones of four or five hundred weight, that one or ing a sod or clod wherever it bursts out. When the two hands could work. heap is once burning, more clay may be added, even without being dry, and the combustion goes on without other fuel. It must be so managed as to bake the clay without heating it too much; and when the heaps are cooled and opened, the whole should appear pulverized, and of a red color, if oxide of iron exists in the soil. A coat of two or three inches thick, spread on a field and plowed in, will greatly improve its texture; but sufficient animal or vegetable manure must be added to make it fertile."

SOAKING SEED-WHEAT.-A. W. (Huntington, L. I.) The length of time the grain may safely remain in the solution, depends much on the degree of temperature in which it is kept. Mr. Campbell soaked his seeds in muriate and sulphate of ammonia, from forty to sixty hours, in a temperature of 70 degrees. We presume there would be no risk in soaking wheat twenty-four hours at that temperature.

SULPHATE OF AMMONIA.-C. F. (Morristown, N. Y.) Sulphate of ammonia is often used instead of muriate, in steeping seeds. Experiment only can decide which is the best. We do not particularly know about Dr. Feuchtwanger's compound of sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, &c.

SANDY LAND.-A. W. The soil would probably be improved by spreading on clay or any good soil of a more compact nature than that of the field. We are not aware of any objection to the use of lime where ashes have formerly been applied. The lime had better be kept near

the surface.

"Hooks."-L. F. S. (Highgate.) The only remedy we have ever heard for this disease, is to cut out the gristly substance which grows in the eye. We believe this is done by the use of small hooks and sharp scissors. CASTOR-OIL BEAN.-T. H. (Troy, Miss.,) wishes to be informed of the proper mode of harvesting this plant, and of manufacturing and clarifying the oil.

HUSSEY'S CORN AND COB CRUSHER.-The proprietor of this article is requested to give information through the Cultivator what speed per minute the machine should have, and how to prevent the steel cutter from choking so as to stop the machine.

THE POPPY-OPIUM.-A SUBSCRIBER, (Petersville, Md.) We are unable to say how many pots of opium can be produced per acre. The somniferous poppy may be readily grown in this latitude-indeed several varieties of it are common in flower-gardens-but the narcotic juice which it affords, is said to be much less potent than that produced in hotter countries. We do not know whether it could be profitably cultivated in the latitude of Maryland.

INJURY TO AN OX's EYE.—A. L. (St. Joseph, Mich.) Treat the eye as you would your own, if it had received the same injury. If a film grows over it, some fine table-salt blown in through a quill, will probably take it off.

SWEET SCENTED CLOVER.-A. L. It is not worth much for fodder.

of Seward's machine, (mentioned in the April number) SEED SOWER.-J. F. A. (Zanesville, O.) The price is $10. It would sow mustard well. There are several other machines, varying in price. The Boston agricultural warehouses would be likely to furnish an assortment of such articles. Lewis' machine is highly recommended, and is undoubtedly one of the best. It is for sale in Boston.

SILK CULTURE. "A Subscriber." We know of no

periodical" at present published on this subject. If a treatise is what is wanted, a copy of Whitmarsh's Manu

al can be had at this office.

We suppose it is the seed of the Scotch Larch that is SEEDS OF THE LARCH.-J. B. (Van Buren, N. Y.) wanted. They could not be had in any considerable quantity without importing them. The best way would probably be to import the young trees from Scotland. We cannot say what they would cost. If any one in this country has them for sale, they would do well to inform us.

"MOWING MACHINE."-J. S. (Prospect Hall.) The machines used for cutting wheat are commonly called harvesting machines. We are not aware of any reason why they may not cut oats as well as wheat.

SWAMP MUCK, CHARCOAL, &c.-B. N. (Ipswich, N. WOAD.-J. D. F. (Schuyler, N. Y.) As it is too late H.) Swamps should first be drained. The wild growth for any information in regard to culture to be useful this should then be subdued. and they may be sown with season, we only give from the "Flemish Husbandry " grass-seed, or cultivated, as may be deemed most profit-some remarks on curing. The leaves begin to be fit for able. One of the best modes of using muck is to mix it gathering when they turn down, and turn slightly yelwith animal manure, especially to absorb urine. Hog-low. A dry time is necessary for gathering, which is