The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-04-10
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SALT.

The London Quarterly Journal vf Sci
ence contains valuable paper on the use
ofsalt as manure. 1t has been found to an
swer the most sanguine expectations for
barley, oats, potatoes and turnips.
Windsor Beans. Soil with any manure
produced 135 l-2 bushels per acre. Soil
dressed with 90 bushels of salt per acre a
week before sowing, produced 2l7 bush
els per acre.
Onons.--Soil manurcd with 90 bushels
ofsait and 10 tons farm-yard manure, pro-
duced tons l2 cwts. 3 qrs. and IL lbs. !;
soil with l2 tons yard manure, produced 9
tens 10 cwt. 2 ours. and 10 lbs.
Early Potaioes.-Soil without any ma
nure, produced 2O8 bushels. Soil with
go bushels Of salt, produced 584 bushels.
There is not better and more hearten-
ing food for horses than carrots, if given
them with discretion. They need have no
corn, and much less hay than they would
otherwise eat. have all my, ,,lifes heard it
said, that carrots were exceeding good to
make horses long winded and some jock
les will, | have been informed, feed brol
en- winded horse some little time with car
rots before they sell him, when he may be
well passed off for horse that is only u
little thick winded horse some little time
with CARROTS before they sell him, when he
may be very well:s passed, off forsa horse
that is only little thick winded.
A horse dealer in the neighborhood,
when he buys poor, halcstarved beast,
ifhe has youth on his side, always fats him
up with carrots before he takes him to
market, and this practice he finds answers
very well, as the horse is sooner got into
flesh with carrots than any food and they
are besides wholesome, breeding in him no
foul humors. \
All the danger seems to be to the pur-
chaser, who, if he imprudently pu. the
horse to too hard work, is in manner sure
to break either his wind or his heart for
as the horse was very suddenly got into
flesh, his strength is not proportioned to his
buii', till l.A has been kept some time. ON
dry meal.
Mustard Seed havc'often been sur
prised that this article so easily raised,
should not be mere extensively cultivated;
it would certainly pay well, as believe
the Flour of Mustard is now retailing at
rs cts per lb. 1t is altogether surprising
that we should still be importing this arti-
Gle in itsvmanulacturcd state.
Rearing of .Apple Trces.-A horticultu-
rist in Bohemia has beautiful plantation
of the hestisort Of apple trees (which have
neither sprung from seeds nor from graft
ing. HIS plan is to take shoots from choic
est sorts, insert each ofthem into a pota-
toe, and plunge both into the ground, leav
ing but an inch or two ofthe shoot above
the surface. The potatoe nourishes the
shoot whilst it pushes out roots, and the
shoot gradually springs up, and becomes a
beautiful tree, bearing the best of fruit
without requiring to be grated.
A CURIOSITY. An ingenious piece
of workmanship was lately manufactured
in Philadelphia. 1t is pitcher or cream
lug, which holds about half a pint, made OF
wooden slaves hooped with silver and a
glass bottom. The slaves were taken
| from the tree under which William Penn
made his treaty with the Indians. We ex-
pressed some surprise, says the editor OF
the Democratic Press-when we we're
told that the pitcher had been taken to pie
ccs to decide wager Of twenty dollars,
and that one housrl,d and sir stares were
counted in it 1t was made by Mr. JOSH
ua Pcddle, and is the property Of Mr..
John Johnson.