The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . ch, which havethus been accumulated during the leisure ofwinter, convenient for carrying abroad, bothas top and corn-dressing, by a person who issetting an example worthy imitation — andall his information has been derived frombook-learning! his corn-crib exhibiting clear-ly the value of such kind of knowledge, fornowhere do I see ears so well filled towardsthe ends—a mark of good management whichI always seek for. T. Mellar. Fob. 22, 184-2. P. S. It would give me sincere pleasure tocome into personal contact with Subscriber—judging from his hand-
The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . ch, which havethus been accumulated during the leisure ofwinter, convenient for carrying abroad, bothas top and corn-dressing, by a person who issetting an example worthy imitation — andall his information has been derived frombook-learning! his corn-crib exhibiting clear-ly the value of such kind of knowledge, fornowhere do I see ears so well filled towardsthe ends—a mark of good management whichI always seek for. T. Mellar. Fob. 22, 184-2. P. S. It would give me sincere pleasure tocome into personal contact with Subscriber—judging from his hand-writing, such a manwould be worth knowing. Wood and Water.—It is estimated that acord of wood contains, when green, 1,443 water. So that a farmer who brings intomarket a cord of trreen wood, has no lessload for his team, than another who shouldput on the top of his cord of dry white-oak,three-quarters of a cord of seasoned pine, orone hogshead and two barrels of water.—IBrowns Sylva Americana. No. 8. Grafling and Budding. 257. GRAFTING AND BUDDING. From Affleclis Far. and Gard. Almanac. Althovgh it is generally belter for a farm-er to go to a nursery, and there select theyoung trees he may require, yet every oneoujrht to have a knowledge of grafling andbudding—with this view a sketch descriptiveof the process has been prepared, and is hereoifered. Stocks for grafling or budding are producedeither by sowing seed, or from layers, suckersor cuttings; but*the stock must be of thesame natural family as that to which thegraft belongs, or have a close affinity to use others—as the sycamore for the pearand apple, the walnut for the peach, &c.—may do as a matter of amusement or experi-ment, but can be of no permanent and realadvantage. In grafting, mere propagationshould not be the only object, for to secure apermanent union between the stock and graftis of far more importance. For apples, seed-lings of the apple and the crab. Pears, thoseof the wild species
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