Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-02-10
TUESDAY, February 10, 1929.

1 tlCe mas Deen 10 sow III harCn, OF early hPlh,
and. if practicable, upon light snow. When sown
late, and dry summer ensues, its benefits are fire.
quently not perceptibe, probably from the crcum-
stance gifts not having been dissolved followed
the example OF the two great pioneers IN the improve
ment of American husbandry, the late Judge Peters
and John Taylor. in sowing it for Indian corn and
POTATOES before the last ploughlng. considered
the benft in this method more certain, and the la
bour less than srewing it the hills Of the grow
ing crop
The experience of practical men seems to have
fixed the proper quantity at from to bushels the
lacre.
Plaster appears partially to have lost its efficacy
in some parts of Pennsylvania, where 1t has been
longest and most successfully used. It is said, tot
adopt the common language, that the soil has become
tired of it. | suspect too much reliance has been
placed upon it; and that it has been used as sub
stute rather that an auxiliaryor old fashioned barn
yard dung. There is another way Of accounting
for its apparent failure. Was not the soil become
tired of the plants which it aids and which may have
exhausted it of some other constituents In the Nor
folk system of alternate husbandry, it was not long
ago ascertaned That clover could not be sown to adj
vantage oftener than every second course, or once
in eight OF ten years, and other grasses were conse-
/, quently alternated with it The practice in Penn
svlvania has been, l believe, to continue sowing
clover every four or five years.
The preceding view of the subject and my per-
tSOnal experience, IIuuCe me u olltr ult
rules for the consideration of the farmer.
/. That plaster may be applied to pasture and
meadow lands, not absolutely wet, with strong pro-
II liability of proft-as it undoubtedly furms constl
tucnt Of many of the grasses, increases their vigor
and thickens the soil.
Q. That it may be applied, with equal prospect of
success, to the maize and potato crop, and think,
to egumes, such as peas, beans. &c. These being
sown, as good husbandry implies upon lands natu-
rally from surface water. rendered DY
ing.
8. that its benefits are greatest upon sands, gra-
vel, and light loans and that these benefits dimn-
ish in proportion the soil becomes rich, either ma
turally, by the application OF dung.
f. That plaster never can become a substitute
for dung, but may be rendered valuable auxa-
Iry-beneftting crops directly, and all remote
lly, by increasing the volume of vegetable matter,
which ultimately becomes the food Of plants
$. That from one to two bushels per acre is a suf
icient annual dressing for lands.
6. That upon grass it is most probably sown ear
y, that the vernal rains may render it soluble and
3: upon titled crops before the last ploughing that the
moisture in the soil may perform this office in sea
son. in both cases. to benefit the summers growth
And, finally, that its can be best regulated by
the farmer himself carefully noting its effects upor
different crops, soils. &c. always leaving STRIP
upholstered upon crops which it is supposed tt
heneft, and plastering strip upon those on which
its benefits are doubtful. J. BUEL.
Albany Nursery, Nov. "a.
BETTING.-A note of law case on wager APP
pears in the Aurora and Pennsylvania Gazette-
: Stephen Ives, on the l4th May, 1921 bet one hun
bred dollars against fifty with John Philips. tina
cd Bonaparte, who then prisoner on the lslant
is, of ST. Helena, would within two years, be reno
a. we'd or escape from the Island. Bonaparte die.
le within the two years, at the end of which Philip
We brought his action for the hundred dollars. TIL,
Gil following is given as the opinion OF the majority
re, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the case
the Chief Justice and Justice Smith dissenting.
Use Nat Int.
sa- "Every bet about the age, or height, or weight
OF or wealth, or circumstances and situation Of an
me person, is either malicious indecent, or indel
cd cate all such bets are illegal and that no CouI
etc ought, in any case, to sustain suit on such wa
Sc ger and this, whether the subject of the bet wa
MS man, woman, child, married or single, nativ
ain or foreign, in this country or abroad. | can pei
rs ceve no principle of law orjus'ice, which will re
ne quire or permit the time of the country, and tn
'ur Courts to be wasted to crafty the malice cur
'op osty, of the unthnking and impairment. Their
Is are many things which politeness would not mer
as ton, and charity would conceal and | would ne
hat assist folly malignity in making them public
at' would not man, and will not as Judge.
ing hold no bet of any kind about any human being,
'ao1 recoverable in Court of Justice"
lies CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTE.
When DIR. Gutenberg, (the Prussian traveller
the was in Egypt, be said to peasant suppose yo
,cts are quiet and happy the country looks like
oh, garden, and every village has its minaret." Go
Up IS great" replied the peasant " our master give
ten with one hand and takes with two"
Die. %
IDS, The Duchess Of 81. .dlbmas agaia,-The ne'
ing Mayor Of Lincoln gave splendid entertainment .
itch coming into his office, Michaemasday, which wa
attended by all the nobility in the neghbourhood
ter, amongst whom were the Duke and Duchess OF 5