New-York daily tribune., 1854-09-06
PUBLIC MEETINGS..

Judge 1EIGs read leiter RON OH. - vhaat IL ~
aiming an estimate per acre ylea" "rea' T1 ~ 'ns
I6epeses Valley, which he gave IN 81 e'9sn's OF
= I@yisnltnre.8 at l2I bushels, which Col johnson
Eoksnres him is 10 bushes. .u..;, H. ;,s
Es N RoBrssos said thai in esnna'ing tne yieio
all ,rops so far as his observstcn extends acres
a, arc Taped are the only ones counted, while thou
Esends OF acres are sown tnat nevg insure crop,
Il "A should be counted in esmatngne ye'd peT acre
/ IN wheat Al sown, not what reapcd shouio
10 into the estimate OF arabic F'VuuoVs Vi any
6ountTy. 90 =. s.,.
Nc bon ght the estimated yield per acre was generally
Friyen TOO high. Ii was nov rated lzz busneis per
scre in the State Of New-fo ork-H was once. 80
,eheIe. NJ n period, too not very remote, the Mo
LhapL Valley farmers used to make strolie to haul the
manure away from their barns to throw into the river.
IN AUSTRALIA.
h Tbe Secretary introduced Mr.. j. G. SAwKIss, late
I from Australia, who made some remarks upon that
f,opnt,y. Wool is the great staple A class called
souatters rent land Of the Government at ten shl-
l;nos square mile aud stock II with five, ten i-
teen thousand sheep, originally brought from Ger
,osoy They increase here at the rate OF IS per cea
II q vasr Some men occupy sixty miles OF land, and
30, rich enough in few Years 70 retire, selling out
ther 6ock and land claim TO some other adventurer.
Factors furnish supplies and sell the cup as they do
+ The celton planters IN this country hence they re-
ouIre great bank accommodations, owing 10 the time
A Consumed In VOYAGES The bank capital of the
try Is f3 o7O 060 and discounts 25 per cent advance
on that Lerge herds of cattle are kept under care of
Il berdsmen. They are branded in curious way They
are driven through narrow d1veways between yards,
and men on the fence each side provided with hot
irons. aix the mark they pass Wheat in latitude
90 s. Yields 35 bushels per acre Christmas is hsr-
vest time The country is volcanic; much of the
iar still smokes and all the rivers run inland 10 the
reat desert, never trayersed oy white men. Coal is
nnd AZ the sea level and 2. 400 feet above. There
lave been four uphesvals The great farming region
is on the Hunter river. have irayersed one river
200 miles that rises l2 miles from the coast aud runs
s interior toward the west.
HAaD-REARIsG CALyrs.
i A. A. Moss of South Norwalk, Conn.,, exhibited
4 simple plan for rearing calves. Agutta percha teit
il affixed to tin can, filed with skim milk, hay tea,
or other food which, being hung up IN the calf pen,
is taken naturally az though twas the teat OF the
cow With the use of this little misunderstanding
perhaps couple Of dollaTs-the 1000 calves weekly
sacrificed in this City before they squire age enough
10 make food fit for human stomahs. can be saved,
without loss of milk to those engaged in dairy busi-
ness and thus save vast number OF animals for
beeves, now wholly lost to the wohd.
LIMA BEANS.
Prof MAPRs exhibited specimens of lima beans
grown by the use of nitrogenzed Phosphate, that s,
by grinding dried blood with his mprov super phos
phAte of ne He only allows hls vines to grow .
sces high-thiuking il unreasonable TO compel gill
of sap to go through vine 40 feet long to make
A bean-pod which will never perfect its fruit,
when the whole of that strength can be applied near
} the root to the production OF bels which will be
doubled in quantity, and all get rle before frost
FLAX MACHINE
Prof MAPEs said that 80, 600 mns of fax straw is
4 wasted in Ohio where it is gro~ and threshed for
j seed. A. H. Carryl has invents a machine which
4 doer not cost over 5000, by vich he can make
4 500 bs of lint per tun, worth slA The Fail River
4 Flax Company can use up ali this grown. There
is great demand for these machinsbr making lint Of
tangled fax straw. 1t would bnvaluable TO the
psper-makers.
IMPROVING POTATws
DIR. WATERBURY-Ihad the blsoms from an acre
Of potatoes pinched of. 1t gray increased the
yield, and quality, and preventedsrot
A LARGE GALE
Mr.. f. SMITH, Agent of the Ste Society for pre-
pairing Hamton.squaro for the hr, said that he
lately saw calf at the farm of w. Brush Green
wich, n. T., months old, thatseighed 600 lbs.,
girted feet II inches, and meored feet on the
back, from horns TO rump.
FLOWING CLAY SIS.
Prof MAPS made the follows exceedingly in
teresting remarks: Although clay soils are more
retentive of manures than any 9th, from the power
of aumina to retain ammonia, ansDot, as is sorne-
times supposed, from the iTnpery0eharacter of clay
IN passing water freely, still tes Soils from their
peculiarly OF texture, present dfies for general
use, and in the fallplowing il shsi be performed
in such manner as 10 correct thtaechancal faults
Of such soils; nor will the reDders of clsyey soil
puly erulent at all interfere vi its power to re-
tain ammoniacal vapors: on the cerary, in an am.
eliorated clayey soil these vspors IN pass between
Q greater number of particles, and nee come in con-
tact with greater amount of the surfaces for ab.
sorption. Clayey lands should btidged and back
furrowed in the fall, that the rface NAV repre-
bent succession Of letter As wis letter V in err
venng between them. Throu. these furrows
Represented by the letter v the sso plow should
be deeply run; and If the lifting bsoil GLOW should
be used. ii will have nearly the eff of anderirars
Before the ridgibg and back furrong manure may
fbe placed the surface and thu!oubling the sur
face soil in ridges from the two dsctions will cause
the manures TO be incased withinsese ridges. The
) frequent freezings and tbawngsnripg winter will
dsintegrate the portions represeni by the letter A.
rendering them puverulent by spsg while the con-
sequeDt admission of atmosphere u produce all the
conditions for the decay of the Rure SO encased;
that portion which assumes the geous form will be
absorbed and retained by the rids soil while those
portions which are rendered soluk will pass into the
shaped furrows, and be receiI and retained by
the soil which has been rendered nverulsut by the
use of tho lifting subsoil plow. AsD 80 treated may
IN early spring be again render level aud ready
Tor immediate culture, by psssis two.way plow
through the centre Of these ridgeshrowing them in
The two directions into the furroN The cross sur
lace blowing should then follow tbury the manure
exposed from these ridges, and trender the whole
surface OF the soil homogeneous Ii before the cross
piowlDg, and after the use of theSo. way plow the
lifting subsol pow be repeated e full depth in the
rack OF the twoway pow, il wilsnder the depth Of
olSDtegraton between the pas represented by
tne noges and by the furrow like. A clayey
soi' 30 treated will in the folowlr summer work as
kiholy as one OF a more loauu character. When
charcoal dust, lod charcoal hearn or even swamp
muck can be procured, it may blsid in the fall in
these burrows between the rdges;ae effect of winter
viii complete its disintegration, nile il viii act on
the soil beneath il a mulch amin rho snrnp plow
ls ulsis.pn lnrougn the SOIL ethe splitting Of the
noges' ana .ne oross piowing WI prevent the aggre
sa.ioh ~ amer yeets oi osyey soe and thus provsa
with the inorganic elements Of pksts ana thay ofen
contain vegetable matter that has boz been fully acted
on by the atmosphere from the acnIiar tepaoity of
the surrounding particles, and Aerefore the treat.
inent we have recommended is heAly cslcnlated 10
present conditions necessary for assa amendments
When clayey soils are properly amended, they are