. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. nt fertilizer, and this quan-tity applied to one or two acres of tumi,)8, beets, oats, corn, wheat,grapes, &c., will bring abundant returns. Another Cheap Fektiuzer.—Ammonia, 60 lbs.; nitrate of soda,40 lbs.; ground bone, 250 lbs.; plaster, 250 lbs.; salt ^ bushel; woodMhes, 3 bushels; stable m:inure, 20 bushels. Use the above quantityon 6 acres. La
. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. nt fertilizer, and this quan-tity applied to one or two acres of tumi,)8, beets, oats, corn, wheat,grapes, &c., will bring abundant returns. Another Cheap Fektiuzer.—Ammonia, 60 lbs.; nitrate of soda,40 lbs.; ground bone, 250 lbs.; plaster, 250 lbs.; salt ^ bushel; woodMhes, 3 bushels; stable m:inure, 20 bushels. Use the above quantityon 6 acres. Labor included, it will cost about $15, in some placegless, and is equivalent ia value to some fertilizers which cost $50 oi£10 sterling per ton. FARMEKS RECEIPTS. 55 To Pbotkct Sheep niOM the Gad Fly.—In Aujrtist and Sep-tember this fly lays its eggs in the nostrils of sheep, where they airehatched and tne worms crawl into the head, and very frequently eatthrough the braia. In this way many sheep are destroyed. As aprotectiou. smirch their noses with tar. Lay some tar in a trough oron a board, and strew fine salt on it The i^lieep •will fijiish the opera-tion. The tar will protect them, and what they eat will promote PORTABLE STEAM by Stilvm Power.—A 4 horse power Poitable Enginerith 6 inch cylinder ; of steam 45 lbs. per bquare , revo-ations 140 i)er minute, L.^s tltreshed, under f?. surroundings,.20 bushels per dav of 10 hours, coal consumed 3 c>vt. Another engine)f 5 horse power thrashed 400 bushels, coal consumed. 4 c^<t. Ano-dier of 6 horse power, threshed 480 bushel*, coal cwer threshed 800 bushels day, coal c<miume^6 cwt. Tlie economy of these pci-foiroances c^ evident at a glance, 56 FAEMEBS EECEIPTS. and even if much less work than the above were effected, it is e-ridentthat such an engine as the one represented above, ■would, if mountedon wheels, prove a most valuable acquisition to any nei
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