The Washington union., 1857-04-16
AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

Union OF invitation received by this society TO send
representative to the scmicentennal celebration of the
ROYAL Imperial Agricultural Society at Vienna which is
to be held during the five days following the 10th of May
next The society has also received similar invitation
from the directors OF grand exhibition of Spanish agri-
cultural products which is to beheld at Madrid from the
oath of September to the 4th of October and where there
is to be national display of cattle, wine grain fruit
tobacco sugar, farm implements SC. The departure OF
Judge French having been delayed hopes entertained
by the government of the society that he will be able to
attend the Madrid exhibition and we have learned that
the representatives Of the United States at Vienna have
been requested send account of the exhibition there
TO the Agricultural Bureau Of the Department of the In
terror.
Hon, ID. Jay Browne, chairman of the committee APP
pointed at the late annual session of the society to sim
vestgate experiment and report the character and
economical uses of the Chinese sugar-cane, (sogma
ebasata Hand 30 furnish gratis seed sufficient 10 plant
hundred acres has forwarded hundred packages each
containing seeds enough for acre to different sections
of the Union. They are accompanied by a circular,
which gives full directions for planting and cutiyatng
the sorghum with blank schedule proposing twentysx
inquiries. This schedule is to be filed with such an
only apply to the personal knowledge of the
permenter" report based upon the replies to these
queries will be valuable acquisition to the agricultural
information of the country.
President Wilder at New York yesterday to super
wise the arrangements of committee who have in charge
the department of agricultural Implements at the Louis
vile exhibition. 1t is to be hoped that General Thigh
man, chairman Of this implement committee will not
persist in resignng on account Of proposed business
visit to Europe.
TIE cRopsAdvices from the South agree in represent
ing the weather unseasonaby cold The San Antonio
Herald of the 3st ult. says:
"a friend just in from the Cibolo informs us that not
wthsanding the dry weather. is looking quite well
The chief injury worked by the present drought is that
it prevents farmers from securing their stands where the
late severe frost has compelled rcplanting Corn that
is up would not suffer much
The New Orleans Delta of the 9Th inst says:
The late cold spell of weather. is feared has very
nurously affected the newly ypanted crops cotton and
sugar for 1857 II will probably set back the growth Of
the cotton for several weeks, if it does not destroy
the new planting altogether where it has been made;
while the planted in the ground and the rat
toon cane may be much disastrously affected An
intelligent planter this city, expresses his opinion
that above New Orleans since the late visitation of frosty
weather. not than one-third of the cane already
planted and the rattoons that growing could be
lied ON for another crop This taken in connexon with
the fact that the last sugar crop only about 7
hogsheads and that few planters able to plant
sufficient cane for full crop, presents somewhat dismal
prospect for the outcome OF the present years growth of
sugar in Louisiana We trust, however, that this pic
future reality viii justify.
At Tallahassee, Florida, there was a small frost on
Tuesday morning, the th inst and the Sentinel says
vegetation is badly injured 1t feared another visitation
the following night.
In Auburn, Alabama, it was still more destructive
The Gazette of the Sth says:
Monday and Tuesday of this week were as cold as it
is ordinarily during the winter months When the sun
about hour high on Monday morning last it com
menced to snow, and for fifteen twenty minutes il fell
very briskiy but it soon ceased, strong wind in the
meantime blowing from the northwest throughout the
day. About night the wind Gained, and on Tuesday
morning had heavy and destructive frost Our
gardens if not entirely ruined Mt least greatly dam
aged and the wheat in this portion of the State is
generally in the boot greatly fear that it is generally
killed"
The Huntsville (Ala) Democrat Of the sth saws:
During last Sunday and up to Monday morning
there rain snow scet and fine hail. and water froze
inch thick We fear most of the fruits and early
vegetables were killed AT this time Tuesday noon it is
still quite cold.
The Nashville Union Of the 7th has the following:
:. CoLD WEATHER Sunday night was the coolest night
occurring in the month of April within the memory of
the oldest nhabitant Yesterday morning, as late as
8 o'clock the thermometer indicated temperature of
only twenty three degrees above This very cold
rain following the rain and sleet Of Sunday renders it
doubtful whether any fruit will be left, all must be
swept away by the hard freeze Early vegetation must
also have suffered severely and fears entertained that
early wheat mas Deen heat that
begun to Joint has probably all been killed. though it is
hoped little has been far advanced the late dry
weather not being favorable to its growth We fear the
injury to fruit and vegetables has been very great
CUBAN GuAYo.--A letter dated Havana March oath
from correspondent of the New York Journal of Com
merce giving accounts of large discoveries of guano on
the keys of Cuba is severely criticised by intelligent
Georgia gentleman. He says:
Ihe substance of which he furnishes an analysis is in
respect guano. He says in 100 parts there 40
sulphate of lime, combined with chloride of soda 10
yield such guano birds must subsist gypsum which is
an alsidity. There IL per cent. of lime
stone (Which far from being found in any exceta and
only per cent Of organic natter which is about equal
to the mould in common soils. No ammonia is given
which is pretty good evidence that present for
every chemist knows its peculiar value fertilizer
while the parties interested in having the anays made
would hardly have been satisfied without direct search
for this volatile alkali.
"Ihc only substance of any importance discovered was
20 per cent of phosphaes, which, unless it be sep
arated from the other 80 per cent of comparatively
worthless ingredients will hardly pay for bringing to
Florida and Georgia. without bonus to government
Mineral phosphate of lime discovered some years
since in northern New York, and in New Jersey, which
contained 80 per cent of pure bone earth Efforts were
made to introduce it into England, where phos
pilates used by farmers than in all the world besides
but without success Nor is the article used to any ex
tent in the very counties where the beds lie One sample
lnaIyZed by DIR. L. G. Beck gave 92 per cent of
phosphate. [See Beck's Mneralogy of New York p. /
$40, for the composition of the mineral found in the
town of Crown Point
IL will be somewhat difficult to introduce the gene
raj consumption of fossil bone earth account of its
iow action as a manure. To convert the mineral, or
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