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COURTS IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
(Corrected 1872.)

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. LAW
TERMS.-Two terms are held each year
on the 1st Tu. of June and the 1st Tu. of
Dec., both at Concord.

of May. Deerfield, Frid. after 1st Tues. of Aug. and Dec., and Frid. after 3d Tues. of May.- STRAFFORD Co.: Dover, 1st Tu. of Jan., Mar., May, Aug. and Oct. Rochester, 1st Tues. of July and Dec. Farmington, 1st Tues. of Apr. and Sept. Som

SUPREME JUDICIAL Court. TRIAL TERMS.-At Portsmouth, 3d Tues. of Oct., and Exeter, 3d Tues. of January andersworth, 1st Tu. of Feb., June and Nov. 2d Tu. of April, for Co. of Rockingham. At Dover, 2d Tues. of Feb., and 1st Tues. of Sept., for Co. of Strafford. At Gilford, 4th Tues. of Mar., and the 4th Tues. of Sept., for the Co. of Belknap. At Ossipee, 3d Tu. Ap. and Oct. for Co. of Carroll. At Concord, 1st Tues. of Oct., and 1st Tues. of April, for Co. of Merrimack. At Amherst, 1st Tues. of May, at Manchester, 1st Tues. of Jan., and at Nashua, 1st Tues. of Sept., for Co. of Hillsborough. At Keene, 1st Tues. of April and 3d Tues. of Oct., for Co. of Cheshire. At Newport, 4th Tues. of Jan. and 1st Tues. of Sept., for Co. Sullivan. At Haverhill, 3d Tues. of Mar. and 3d Tues.of Sept., for the West. Jud. Dist., and at Plymouth, 1st Tues. of May and Nov. for the Eastern Jud. Dist., Grafton Co. At Colebrook, 1st Tu. of Feb. and 3d Tu. of Aug., for North. Jud. Dist. of Coos. At Lancaster, 4th Tu. of Apr. and 1st Tu. of Nov. for South. Jud. Dist. of Coös.

PROBATE COURTS. ROCKINGHAM CO.: Exeter, Wed. next after 1st Tues. of Apr., Wed. next after 3d Tues. of Feb. and Mar., and Wed. next after 2d Tues. of each other month. Portsmouth, 1st Tu. Nov., 3d Tu. March, and 2d Tu. Jan., May, July, and Sept. Kingston, 1st Tues. Aug. and Dec., and 3d Tues. May. Derry, Wed. after 1st Tues. Aug. and Dec., and Wed. after 3d Tues. May. Chester, Thurs. after 1st Tu. of Aug. and Dec., and Thurs. after 3d Tu.

BELKNAP Co.: Gilford, 3d Tues. of every month, except April and Oct.; Gilmanton Iron Works, 3d Tues. of April and October.— CARROLL Co.: Conway, 1st Tu. Jan., May, and Sept.; Tamworth, 1st Tu. Feb., June, and Oct.; Ossipee Corner, 1st Tu. March, July, and Nov.; Wolfeborough, 1st Tu. April, Aug., and Dec.-MERRIMACK Co.: Concord, 4th Tues. of every month. HILLSBOROUGH Co.: Manchester, 4th Tu. of Jan., Mar., May, July, Sept. and Nov. Nashua, 4th Tues. of Feb., April, June, Aug., Oct. and Dec. Hillsboro' Bridge, Frid. after 4th Tues. Jan. Francestown, Frid. after 4th Tues. April, July and Oct. Amherst, Frid. aft. 4th Tues. Feb., June, Sept. and Dec. Peterborough, Frid. aft. 4th Tu. of May and Aug. Mason Village, Frid. after 4th Tues. of March and Nov.

CHESHIRE CO:: Keene, 1st and 3d Tu. every month.— SULLIVAN CO.: Newport, last Wed. of Feb., April, June, Aug., Oct. and Dec. Claremont, last Wed. of Jan., Mar., May, July, Sept. and Nov.-GRAFTON Co.: Lisbon, 3d Tues. of Ap. and Oct. Plymouth, 1st Tu. of May and Nov. Canaan, 3d Tu. of June and Dec. Haverhill, 3d Tu. March and Sept. Bristol, 3d Tu. July. Littleton, 3d Tu. Jan. Wehtworth, 3d Tu. Feb. and Aug. Lebanon, 1st Tues. March and Sept. - Coos Co.: Colebrook, 1st Tues. of Feb. and Sept. Lancaster, 1st Tues. of Jan., March, May, July, and Nov.

COURTS IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT.

(Corrected 1872.)

SUPREME COURTS.-1st District (Hart- and 3d Tues. in Nov. At New London, ford and Tolland Cos.)-4th Tu. in Feb., 3d Tues. in Jan. and 2d Tues. in Sept.; and 2d Tues. in Sept. 2d District (New at Brooklyn, 1st Tues. in Jan., 3d Tues. Haven and Middlesex Cos)-1st Tues. in April, and 2d Tues. in Nov. 3d District (N. London and Windham Cos.)-2d Tu. in March, and 4th Tues. in Oct. 4th District (Litchfield and Fairfield Cos). At Bridgeport, last Tues in Jan. and 2d Tu. in Oct.; at Litchfield, 2d Tu. in June. The place where each term of the Court shall be held, in each judicial district, is designated by the chief judge.

in Apr., 4th Tues. in Aug., 1st Tues. in Nov.; at Litchfield, 4th Tu. in Jan., 2d Tues. in April, 3d Tues. in Sept., and 1st Tu. in Nov.; at Middletown, 1st Tues. in Feb., and 1st Tues. in Dec.; at Haddam, 2d Tues. in April, and 2d Tues. in Oct.; at Tolland, 1st Tues. in Feb., 2d Tues. in April, 1st Tu. in Sept., and 1st Tues. in Dec.; at Danbury, 1st Tu. June, 4th Tu. Aug., and 3d Tu. Oct.; at Bridgeport, 3d Tues. in Feb., 1st Tues. in Mar., 4th Tu. in Aug., 3d Tu. in Oct., and 2d Tu. in Dec.

SUPERIOR COURTS.- At Hartford, 2d Tues. in March, 1st Tues. in July, 4th Tues. in Sept., and 3d Tues. in Dec., COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS, at Hartand for crim. business only, 4th Tu. in ford and New Haven, 1st Mon. in each Aug. and 1st Tu. in Dec. and March. month except July and Aug. Fairfield At New Haven, 1st Tues. in March, 2d Co.-At Bridgeport, 1st Mon. Mar., June, Tues. in May, 1st Tues. in Sept. 21 Sept., Nov., and Dec., and 1st Tu. April; Tues. in Oct., and 3d Tues. in Dec., and at Danbury, 1st Mon. Jan., Feb., May, for crim. business only, 1st Tu. in Jan., and Oct. New London Co.-N. London, April, July, and Oct. At Waterbury, for 1st Tues. of April, Aug., and Dec.; civil business only, 1st Tu. in Feb. and Norwich, 1st Tues. of Feb., June, and June. At Norwich, last Tues. in March, Oct.

COURTS IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.
(Corrected 1872.)

SUPREME COURT.-At Newport, 3d
Mon. in Mar., and 3d Mon. in Sept.
Providence, 4th Mon. in March, and ist
Mon. in Oct. South Kingstown, 3d Mon.
in Feb., and 3d Mon. in Aug. Bristol, 1st
Mon. in March, and 2d Mon. in Sept.
East Greenwich, 2d Mon. in March, and
4th Mon. in Aug.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-At Newport, 3d Mon. in May and Nov. Providence, 1st Mon. in Mar., June, Sept., and Dec. (Mar. and Sept. terms are for criminal business only). 8o. Kingstown, 2d Mon. May, and 1st Mon. in Nov. Bristol, 1st Mon. in May, and last Mon. in Oct. E. Greenwich, 2d Mon. in April and Oct.

SUPREME JUD. AND SUPERIOR COURTS IN MASSACHUSETTS. (Corrected 1872.)

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASS. SUPERIOR COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS.—
JURY TERMS.-For Barnstable and Dukes For Essex Co., (civil) at Salem, 1st Mon.
Counties, at Barnstable, 1st Tuesday of of June and Dec., at Lawrence, 1st Mon.
May. For Berkshire Co., at Pittsfield, 2d of March, and at Newburyport, 1st Mon.
Tues. of May. For Bristol Co., at New of Sept.; (crim.) at Lawrence, 1st Mon.
Bedford, 2d Tues. of Nov.; also at Taun-of Oct., at Newburyport, 2d Mon. of May,
ton, 3d Tues. of April. For Essex Co., at and at Salem, 4th Mon. of Jan.
Salem, 3d Tu. of April and 1st Tu. Nov. For Middlesex Co., (civil) at Lowell, 2d
For Franklin Co., at Greenfield, 2d Tu. of Mon. of March, and 1st Mon. of Sept.;
April. For Hampden Co., at Springfield, at Cambridge, 1st Mon. of June, and 2d
4th Tues. of April. For Hampshire Co., Mon. of Dec.; (crim.) at Cambridge, 2d
at Northampton, 3d Tues. of April. For Mon. of Feb., and 4th Mon. of June; and
Middlesex Co., at Lowell, 3d Tues. of at Lowell, 3d Mon. of Oct.
April; also at Cambridge, 3d Tues. of For Hampshire Co., at Northampton,
Oct. For Nantucket Co., at Nantucket, (civil) 3d Mon. of Feb., 1st Mon. of June,
1st Tues. of July. For Norfolk Co., at and 3d Mon. of Oct.; (crim.) 2d Mon. of
Dedham, 3d Tues. of Feb. For Plymouth June, and 3d Mon. of Dec.

Co., at Plymouth, 2d Tues. of May. For For Franklin Co., at Greenfield, 3d Mon.
Buffolk Co., at Boston, 2d Tues. of Sept. of March, and 2d Mon. of Aug. and Nov.
and 1st Tues. of April. For Worcester
Co., at Worcester, 2d Tues. of April.

For Hampden Co., at Springfield, (civil) 2d Mon. of March and June, and 4th Mon. of Oct.; (crim.) 3d Mon. of May, and 1st LAW TERMS OF SUPREME JUDICIAL Mon. of Dec. COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS.-A law term For Berkshire Co., at Pittsfield, (civil) of the Supreme Judicial Court shall be 4th Mon. of Feb., June, and Oct.; (crim.) held at Boston on the first Wednesday of 2d Mon. of Jan. and July. January of each year, which term may be For Norfolk Co., at Dedham, (civil) 4th adjourned, from time to time, to places and Mon. in Apr., Sept., and Dec.; (crim.) times most conducive to the despatch of 1st Mon. in Apr., Sept., and Dec. business and the interests of the public; For Plymouth Co.,at Plymouth, 2d Mon. and there shall be entered and determined of Feb. and June, and 4th Mon. of Oct. therein questions of law arising in the For Bristol Co., at Taunton, 2d Mon. of counties of Barnstable, Dukes County, March and Sept., and at New Bedford, 2d Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, and Suf-Mon. of June and Dec.

folk; and also all questions of law arising For Suffolk Co., at Boston, (civil) 1st in other counties where special provisions Tues. of Jan., Ap'l, July, and Oct.; (erim.) are not made therefor.

And law terms of said court shall also annually be held as follows:

At Salem, for Essex Co., 1st Tu. of Nov. At Pittsfield, for Berkshire Co., 2d Tues. of September.

At Springfield, for Hampden Co., 3d Mon. after 1st Tues. of Sept.

At Greenfield, for Hampshire and Franklin Cos., Mon. next after 2d Tues. of Sept. At Worcester, for Worcester Co., 4th Tues. after 1st Tues. of Sept.

At Plymouth, for Plymouth Co., 3d Tu.

of Oct.

At Taunton, for Bristol Co., 4th Tu. Oct.

1st Mon. of every month.

For Barnstable Co., at Barnstable, Tues. next after 1st Mon. of April, and 2d Tues. of Oct.

For Nantucket Co., at Nantucket, 1st Mon. of June and Oct.

For Dukes County, at Edgartown, last Mon. of May and Sept.

For Worcester Co., (civil) at Worcester, 1st Mon. of March, Mon. next after 4th Mon. of Aug., and 2d Mon. of Dec.; and at Fitchburg, 2d Mon. of June and Nov.; (crim.) at Worcester, 3d Mon. of Jan., 2d Mon. of May, and 3d Mon. of Oct.; and at Fitchburg, 2d Mon. of Aug.

COURTS OF INSOLVENCY IN MASSACHUSETTS.

There is in each county a Court of Insolvency, held by the same judge as the Probate Court, at such times and places as the judge appoints.

While the Bankrupt Law of the United States is in force, the Insolvency Law is suspended as to new cases, but not as to those previously commenced.

PROBATE COURTS IN MASSACHUSETTS. (Corrected 1872.)

Jan., Ap., Oct., and 2d Fr. July. Nantucket. At Nantucket, on Thu. aft. 2d Tu. of ev. mo. Berkshire. - At Pittsfield, 1st Tu. Jan., Feb., Mch, Ap., May, June, Sep., Oct., and Dec., 3d Tu. July, and Wed. af. 1st Mon. Nov.; Lee, Wed. af. 1st Tu.in Jan., Ap., and Oct., and Wed. af. 3d Tu. July; Adams, Th. aft. 1st Tu. Jan.

Suffolk.-At Boston. every Mon. in ea. mo., except July. Essex.-At Salem, 1st Tu. of ea. mo.; Lawrence, 2d Tu. ea. mo., except Ap., May, July, Aug., and Oct.; Gloucester, 2d Tu. Ap. and Oct.; Newburyport, 3d Tu. ea. mo. except Mch, May, Aug., Sep., and Nov.; Haverhill, 3d Tu. May and Nov.; Ipswich, 3d Tu. Mch and Sep. Middlesex. - At Cam-and Oct., Wed. af. 1st Tu. Mch., and Th. bridge, 1st, 2d, and 4th Tu. ea. mo. except Aug.; Lowell, 3d Tu. of Jan., Mch, May, July, Sep., and Nov. Worcester. At Worcester, 1st and 3d Tu. of every mo. except Aug.; Fitchburg, 4th Tu. of Ap. and Sep.; Milford, 2d Tu. of Ap. and Sep.; Templeton, 2d Tu. of May and Oct.; and Barre, Wed. next after 2d Tu. of May and Oct. Hampshire. -At Northampton, 1st Tu. of every mo.; Amherst, 2d Tu. of Jan. and Aug.; Belchertown, 2d Tu. of May and Oct.; and Williamsburg, 3d Tu. May and Oct. Hampden.—-At Spring field, 1st Tu. Jan., Feb., March, Ap., May, June, July, Sep., Nov., and Dec.; Westfield, 3d Tu. Mch, June, Sep., and Dec.; Monson, on the 2d Tu. June; and Palmer, on the 2d Tues. Sept. Franklin.- At Greenfield, 1st Tu. in every mo. ex. Nov.; Northfield, 2d Tu. May and Sep.; Orange, 2d Tu. Mch and Dec., and 3d Tu. June; Conway, 3d Tu. May; Shelburne Falls, 4th Tu. May, 2d Tu. Feb., and 4th Tu. Oct. Bristol.-At Taunton, 1st Fr. Mch,Jun., Sep., Dec.; New Bedford, 1st Frid. Feb., May, Aug., and Nov.; Fall River, 1st Fr.

af. 3d Tu. in July; Gr. Barrington, Wed. after 1st Tu. in Feb., May, Sep., and Dec. Plymouth. At Plymouth, 2d Mon. of ev. mo., ex. July and Aug.; Wareham, 4th Mon. Oct.; E. Bridgewater, 4th Mo. Feb. and Dec.; Hingham, 4th Mo. Mch; Middleboro', 4th Mon. Ap. and Jan., and 2d Mon. July; Abington, 4th Mo. May, Aug., and Nov.; Hanover, 4th Mo. June; Bridgewater, 4th Mo. Sep.; North Bridgewater, 3d Mon. Apr. and Oct. Barnstable.- At Barnstable, 2d Tu. Jant, Feb., Mch., Aug., Sep., Dec., and 3d Tu. Ap. and Jun.; Harwich, 2d Mo. af. 1st Tu. May, and Mo. af. 3d Tu. Oct.; Orleans, 3d Tu. May and 4th Tu. Oct.; Wellfleet, Wed. af. 3d Tu. May, and Wed. af. 4th Tu. Oct.; Provincetown, Th. aft. 3d Tu. May, and Th. aft. 4th Tu. Oct.; Falmouth, 3d Tu. Nov. Norfolk. At Dedham, 1st and 3d Wed., Quincy, 2d Wed., Hyde Park, 4th Wed. ev. mo. exc. Aug.

Dukes Co. At Holmes' Hole village, in Tisbury, 3d Mo. Ap. and 1st Mo. Sept.; Edgartown, 3d Mo. Jan. and July, and 1st Mo. Mch and Dec.; W. Tisbury, 1st Mo. June and 3d Mon. Oct. Courts in Massachusetts.

Judges of Probate
Suffolk Co., Isaac Ames, Boston.
Essex Co., Geo. F. Choate, Salem.
Middlesex Co., Geo. M. Brooks, Concord.
Worcester Co., Henry Chapin, Worcester.
Franklin Co., C. C. Conant, Greenfield.
Bristol Co., E. H. Bennett, Taunton.
Plymouth Co., Wm.H.Wood, Middleboro'.

Barnstable Co., Jos. M. Day, Barnstable.
Nantucket Co., James M. Bunker, Nant.
Dukes Co., Joseph T. Pease, Edgartown
Hampden Co., W. S. Shurtleff, Springfld.
Hampshire Co., S. F. Lyman, Northampt.
Norfolk Co., Geo. White, Needham.
Berkshire Co., J. T. Robinson, No.Adams

DISTRICT, MUNICIPAL, AND POLICE COURTS IN MASSACHUSETTS.

DISTRICT COURTS are held as follows: For the towns of Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Florida, and Savoy, at Adams, crim., daily, 9 A. M., civil, weekly at north village of Adams, and 1st Wed. of each month at south village. For the towns of Dalton, Hancock. Hinsdale, Lanesborough, Peru, Pittsfield, Richmond, and Windsor, at Pittsfield, crim., daily, 9 A. M., civil, weekly. For Alford, Egremont, Great Barrington, Monterey, Mt. Washington, New Marlborough, and Sheffield, at Great Barrington, for criminal business, daily. at 9 A. M.; for civil business, every Sat., 10 A. M. For Palmer, Brimfield, Monson, Holland, Wales, and Wilbraham, on and after July 1, at Palmer, crim., daily, 9 A. M., civil, 1st and 3d Sat. of each month. For Sturbridge, Southbridge, Charlton, Dudley, Oxford, and Webster, crim., at Southbridge, Mon., Wed., and Fri., and at Webster, Tues., Thurs., and Sat., 9 A. M.; civil, at Southbridge, Mon., Webster, Tues., weekly. For Blackstone, Uxbridge, Douglas, and Northbridge, on and after Aug. 1, crim., Blackstone, every Mon., Wed., and Frid., Uxbridge, every Tues., Thurs., and Sat., 9 A. M.; civil, at Blackstone, every Mon., at Uxbridge every Sat. For Milford, Mendon, and Upton, on and after July 1, at Milford, crim., daily, civil, 1st and 3d Wed. of each month. For Worcester, Milbury, Sutton, Auburn, Leicester, Paxton, W. Boylston, Boylston, Holden, and Shrewsbury, on and after May 1, at Worcester, crim., daily, at 9 A. M., civil, every Sat For Northborough, Southborough, Westborough, and Grafton, on and after July 1, crim., Westborough, every Mon., Wed., and Frid., at Grafton, every Tues., Thur., and Sat., 9 A. M.; civil, at Westborough, every Mon., at Grafton, every Tues. For Ayer, Groton, Pepperell, Townsend, Ashby, Shirley, Westford, Littleton, and Boxborough, on and after July 1, at Ayer, crim., daily, 9 A. M., civil, 1st Mon. of each month. For Randolph, Braintree, Cohasset, Weymouth, Quincy, and Holbrook, on and after June 1, at Quincy, crim., daily, 9 A. M., civil, every Monday

MUNICIPAL COURTS are held at Boston, crim, daily, 9 A. M., civil, every Sat.; Boston, Southern Dist. (Roxbury), crim., daily, 9 A. M., civil, every Sat.; Dorchester (Ward 16 of Boston), crim., daily, 9 A M., civil. every Saturday; at Worcester (until May 1), crim., daily, at 9 A. M., civil, every Sat; at Taunton. crim.. daily, at 9 A. M., civil, every Monday.

POLICE COURTS are held daily at Cambridge, Charlestown, Chelsea, Chicopee, Fall River, Fitchburg Gloucester, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Lee, Lowell, Lynn, Milford, New Bedford, Newburyport, Salem, Somerville, Springfield, and Williamstown. (Corrected 1872.)

Compost for Grass Lands.

THE production of grass and hay is the great leading specialty of New England agriculture. Anything, therefore, which bids fair to increase this crop is worthy of the careful attention of every farmer. It is also conceded that, as a general rule, the farm cannot produce manure enough to continue and increase its fertility as long as we keep up the practice of selling milk and other produce, or hay, as is often the case, so that, where these sales take place, the farmer will be under the necessity of buying fertilizers to make good the constant removal of the elements of fertility from the soil. We ought, therefore, to study the wants of plants, and to be able to supply them with the greatest economy.

Different plants require different elements, some requiring a food of one kind, and others of another. If we wish to raise a particular crop, no matter what, it is not good economy to apply those materials which, though they may be of the highest importance to some other crop, are quite useless for that. If we knew exactly the composition of every plant, we should know just what elements it required to meet its wants. We could then supply those elements, and produce that plant in the greatest abundance, giving it a strong and healthy growth, with out the cost of adding other, and, for that plant, quite useless elements, to remain in the soil for an indefinite length of time, with the loss of interest on the original cost of application, till a plant for which it was just adapted were put into that particular soil.

Now, a special manure for grass must consist of a mixture of elements. Grass requires nitrogen or ammonia to promote its growth, and it cannot succeed without it. But ammonia, if applied alone, is altogether too stimulating a fertilizer, and if applied alone, a comparatively small amount will be an overdose. It will cause a wonderful luxuriance of growth, with the richest deep-green color, but it will not be a healthy growth. It will possess the conditions of premature decay. Its quantity will be largely increased, but it will be at the expense of its quality. It will not produce the best and most nutritive food for stock. The extremely stimulating fertilizer used will have the same effect as a too stimulating diet for man, - give it a tendency to gout.

Grass requires, also, phosphoric acid almost as much as it does ammonia, but if this alone were applied, the result would be very similar to that from the application of ammonia. It would stimulate the plant to a certain extent, give it more of one kind of food than it actually needed, but it would not give it that strong and healthy growth which we want. Grass needs potash, also; and if it does not find it in the soil, it must be applied artificially, if we would produce a satisfactory growth. Neither one of these substances-ammonia, phosphoric acid, or potash would constitute a good grass fertilizer in itself. It would be defective in certain essential constituents, and so would fail to give entire satisfaction.

A first rate special fertilizer for grass, therefore, must contain all these constituents in fair and requisite proportions. Other and less important elements in the composition of grass usually exist in the soil in sufficient abundance, but these must be artificially supplied in some form or other. Most stable or barnyard manures contain them in varying proportions, and such as contain them all in sufficient proportions may be regarded as almost perfect manures for grass lands; and if we could produce or obtain such manures in abundance, it would not be necessary to resort to the purchase of artificial compounds.

For the sources of supply of these great essential elements we must look to commerce. Nitrate of soda will furnish us with the ammonia. That is found in a crude state in vast quantities on a desert called Atcacama, in Chili and Peru; and as it comes in this form, it is known as "Chilian saltpetre," the common saltpetre being the nitrate of potash. Phosphoric acid we can get from bones, or bone phosphates, or most commonly by the addition of superphosphates in the requisite proportions. The discovery of the phosphate beds of Charleston, S. C., are, therefore, regarded as invaluable to the interests of agriculture. These deposits are practically inexhaustible, and treated with sulphuric acid, they become soluble and available as a fertilizer. The potash is obtained most cheaply and easily from the great potash salt-beds of Stassfurth, in Germany, and is now being imported to a very large extent into this country.

Green Fodder Corn.

MOST farmers have now adopted the practice of raising a liberal supply of green corn to cut up for fodder during the usual drought of July and August. It is difficult to know what we should do without it, though some think that it is much less milk producing than millet. If there is any doubt on this point, it ought to be settled by practical experiment. Take, say half an acre- or if that is too much, a quarter of an acre of each, and give them equal advantages as to land and manure, estimating the comparative cost of labor applied to each, and then feed out in the same way. It will be easy to see which produces the best result. The labor of raising the millet will probably be found to be less, and if the results are equal, it will decide the question in its favor. It is worth trying carefully, and we shall do well to govern ourselves by the result of the experiment.

Hungarian Grass.

THIS is a variety of millet that was originally introduced into cultivation in France as early as 1815, and has since been introduced and cultivated in this country, where it is regarded as a very useful addition to our forage plants. Its value has been more fully appreciated within the last three or four years, on account of the severe droughts and the open and severe winters, which have greatly injured our mowing lands, killed out the true grasses in many places, and reduced the yield very generally, making it necessary for farmers to adopt some plan, late in the season, to meet the exigency of a short crop of hay and high prices in prospect for a coming winter.

Hungarian grass, or as the French call it, Moha de Hongrie, or Hungarian millet, is the Panicum germanicum of Linnæus, and differs from common millet in appearance by having a close and upright head or panicle, while that of common millet is open and diffuse or spreading. It is thought to be more nutritive, also, while the yield is quite as abundant, and by many thought to be much more so. Hungarian grass is an annual, and requires to be sown every year. It is best adapted to light lands, and endures our droughts remarkably well. It should be sown late. The first of June is quite early enough, and it will do as well as late as the tenth, fifteenth, or twentieth of that month. This gives an opportunity to turn over any "bound-out" old sward land, or to use any piece of land that could not be planted with corn. It requires good corn weather and good corn land, and does not make much growth till the warm nights come. If sown early it will come up, but will not make any growth to speak of till the season is well advanced, and then it will grow with great rapidity, and may be cut in the milk in July or early in August, so that it occupies the land but a short time. If the land is ploughed early in spring, and allowed to lie a little while, the weeds will start, when a thorough harrowing, and cross harrowing occasionally, will destroy them. It operates as a fallowing, and by repeated surface cultivation the soil is mellowed and the weeds destroyed. We have found the Shares or the Nishwitz harrow very excellent for this work. They do not tear up the old sod as much as the common tooth harrow. Upon sod land turned over in the fall or early spring we use the Shares harrow first, after the weed seed, if there is any in the land, has germinated. Then, a few days after, we harrow crosswise with the Nishwitz harrow. That has a series of sharp disks, that cut and chop up the weeds most admirably, leaving the ground mellow and in good tilth, without making the surface rough and unmanageable by turning up the sods.

It is easy to see what effect a repeated cultivation of this kind, which does not take much time or expense, has. It destroys the weeds. That is of great importance. It gives a mellow surface for a seed-bed, and the work comes after the planting season and the great hurry of spring work is over. If the manure has all been used up on the corn, potatoes, and roots, use some concentrated fertilizer that contains a enty of ammonia, phosphoric acid, and potash. Ward's special grass fertilizer gave excellent results last year, and we know of nothing better. Four hundred pounds per acre of this article ought to insure a satisfactory yield.

A half bushel per acre of Hungarian grass-seed is a heavy seeding. If it is all fresh and good, fourteen quarts is abundant, but we always make a little allowance for poor seed and loss by birds, too deep covering, and other casualties. It is to be harrowed and brushed in just as is common with other grain crops or grass seed. The time to cut is soon after the blossom has passed, or when the seed is in the milk, and it is excellent feed for milch cows and horses. It is good, also, to cut green, as fodder.

Improvement of Land.

THE improvement of soils is to be effected chiefly by mechanical means,- by drainage, deep ploughing, clearing of rocks, and similar processes, and by the application of the coarser, organic manures, like those of the barnyard. The idea which some farmers have, that the application of artificial fertilizers may contribute to the permanent fertility of soils, even if they do not see the benefit of them in the If the weight of the crop to which they are applied, is undoubtedly fallacious. farmer does not get his money back in the increased weight of the crop, the first or the second year, he may as well make up his mind that he is so much out of pocket, and charge it off to profit and loss. If such fertilizers are not immediately taken up and appropriated by the crop, they sink down into the subsoil, or go off in the drainage water, and are lost. They do not remain to add to the fertility of the soil. They are useful to promote the rapid growth of the present crop, but they must be applied often and with judgment, with a view to getting a return for them the first year.

Artificial fertilizers ought to contain ammonia in the form of nitric acid, nitrate of soda, or some similar substance, but ammonia, after its application to the soil, undergoes rapid changes, and if it is not lost by washing into the subsoil, or by drainage, its fertilizing power may be lost or impaired. The object, therefore, in the use of these fertilizers, should be to benefit the present crop alone, and not to increase the permanent quality of the soil; and if the weight of the present crop is not increased to such an extent as to pay back the cost of the article, the application will never pay.

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