Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-12

at this spare season Of the year; and tht
owner concludes, as a consequence, tina
winter pears are hard, tasteless and good
. for nothing. Instead of coming to this
summary Conclusion, he should plant
enough for a crop that peed rot be eaten i,
until it bad ripened up into its golden col
or, melting texture, and rich and excellent r
flavor. We have found nearly all long,
keeping Varieties to mature into all the
excellence OF which they are capable by
giving them good, cool cellar, and plenty
of time to ripen.
Among some of the best-which, so far
as our observation has gone, have uniformly
turned out of excellent quality-are the
Lawrence, Winter Nelis and Buerre Girls
dHiver. There are several other sorts that
ripen very nearly but not quite as well.
,fi Now, If we number our trees, according
to the length of season they are to fill
we should have as many of late sorts--to r
extend, say from the first of November to
the end of January, or later, as for all SUM
mer and autumR, from the first of August
to the first OF October, There should, in
deed, be more, for these autumn fruits have
now disappeared.-Ansertcan Farmer. e ~
A New AGRICULTURAL THEORY.---M.
Vile, an eminent chemist, recently an
nounced at the sOrbonhe, that all vegeta-
bes are to be found in the same elements,
Which arc lpuIJGeu Ill OTRdll-.
ic, and others mineral. M. Vile asserted
that Ire had attempted to rnauutacturevege-
tables, just as he would proceed to make q E
chemical compound. "In order that his
operations should be placed beyond sus-
piciOn, he took for his soil calcined sand;
that's to say, an inert matter possessing no .
element of fertility. After several expert
ments, M. Vile discovered that fertility
could be produced by the employment Of
four agents, ozone, phosphate of lime, lime
and potash, and that these agents applied
to any soil, no matter how barrer, would
render it capable of producing plentiful
crops" He exhibited, in the course of one
Of his lectures, samples of corn and sugar
caue produced on the principal of his The
ory. The result of the experiments went
to prove that only four of the fourteen ele-
ments mentioned were necessary tor fertili-
zation-the air and ground supplying the
remainder. These four agents mnst be
used in different proportions according to
the crop which is placed in the ground.
The principal agent for wheat is ozone;
whilst for turnips, it is phosphate of lime.
M. Vile recommended alternate crops: say,
the first year, turnips, with manure of
phosphate of lime; the next year, wheat,
with ozone; and the third year, clover,
with mixture of lime and potash; and the
fourth year, wheat, which 'wOnld need no
manure the four fertilizing agents being
sufficiently strong in the ground"
WHEN TO Sow PLAsTER.-The right time
to SOW plaster on the clover is in the fall,
say in October; after the clover sown in the
spring, or early the following spring, apply
a moderate coat OF plaster about Il barrel
on fifteen acres, think is sufficient. In
my first sowing of plaster applied it very
sparlagly on the iirSr two acres sOwn; on
the remainder of the field / put more
than double the quantity | put on those
two acres, yet the result seemed to be the
sam .; the crop of clover on the whole field
nearly all fAll down easily. ! think the ad-
vantage in sowing plaster early is to have
it surely melted or dissolved, and absorbed
by the ground; if it is fully dissolved on
the ground it will pay well, if either dry
or wet season. o.. .u 3 .f. ..'