New-York daily tribune., 1854-03-15
AMERICAN INsTIrUrE-FARMERs' CLUB.

4 AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUB
TUESDAY. March l4-Judge LIVINGSTON in the chair Mr.
xegs read letter from Mr Townsend Of Sksneatela'
rbo cent lot Of gratis with samples of new seeding mp
Je large handsome fruit something like the Cayuga
4 -dstretk.
letter from Mr. Ernst of Cincinnati reports very f.
rorsbly upon the value of the japan pea az an Aean
d crop The report Of all who have tried ia that the
,td enormous, and the peas, more properly beans
ue good food when matured but not in the geon ss'e
Tie plants may stand all winter and the fruit keeps
st ougb easily separated from the huk by thfeshng
Professor Ward of Ohio thinks Mr Teschemacher is
nistaken in calling the Japan pea caGHus as that plant
I, not so woody and like tree this. Mr. Ward thinks
belongs 10 the genus ptGseolus, which is in this
when dry it would be as unpaatabe to cattle as pea
brush.
niums offered for fat cattle In France at the shows 70
come of in April, amount TO Sl3730. They give two
classes TO native cattle and one to foreign stock The
price Of beet has fallen per cent lately in France
Dr. GRAHAM that owing TO the high price OF Hour
Of wheat that Of beans has been more largely mixed WIN
wheat this and by experiment proved that bean
four contains double the amount Of nutriment -,
An insect resembling and probably Identical with our
wheat weey has become very destructive 10 the gram 10
An experiment has been tried of running The grain
through mil similar 10 our smut machines, which en-
tirely destroys the weevl This experiment is worth
tial in this country particularly in the southwestern
States whore this insect is very destructive.
INDIAN CORS.-Mr Megs read a statement thata va
ety of corn from the north side of the Pyrennes had
been maured in England in forty days This seems very
sathered in October
CARRoTs -Ex xperiments have been made which prove
bat bushe Of carrots and bdshel of oats, fed together
10 horse. worth than two bushe OF oats yet
sn acre of ground which will yield forty bushels OF oa!s
will produce a thousand bushels of carrots.
Mr. RoBERT l. PELL, said he had grown thousand
bushels Of carrots 10 the by subso powng and high
psnurng sandy loan soil his farm in Ulster County
lie soas the seed SO hours in brine and rolls in plaster
ANY light iable rich soil will grow carrots soil not
destitute of any OF the mineral compounds that plants re-
Qure for their growth has been cropped than $50
yea in England in succession without and has
always produced fn9 crops At last Club stated
hat gentleman in Europe had grown crops without
manure by plowiDg and pulyerzing the soil The res
that the ground be the
necessary mineral compounds Lands not very remote from
he Hudson yor have not produced their owners an i'll
rest on twenty five dollars per acre. still thoy may ia
uany be made to yield crops paying interest
un sO by the application Of potash soda perhaps Lime
not costing S3 so per any other substance
that may be deficient in the SOIL either naturally or by
cropping All natural soils bear crop, but soon bs
come exhausted Of some of the eleven necessary in
redents and for the want of that all the othes are
eess There pie enty of land covered with five finger
vnes. that once productive and would be again
| some cheap mineral constituent restored to it.
Mr.. PAUL STILLMAE OF the Novelty Works, who has
stsy returned from California, sent twenty packages OF
choice melon seeds from tho ranch of Capt Edward
Perne near Marysvile, many Of which quite new
there and will be entirely here portion Of these and
other seeds distributed to those present. and
others will be at the next meetings which are to DO
holden now every Tuesday at noon Visitors are re-
guested to bring in seeds for exchange.