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lP THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIsr Tor August
has been laid on our table. 1t is rich in inforrna
ton for Farmers. We copy the following Edito-
rial items


WEEps.-Now is an excellent time to destroy
weeds, as the rankest and most pernicous OF them
are in flower, and you thus prevent their seeding
your own and neighbor's land. If cut down close
to the ground in iull bloom, some KINDS wall DC
totally destroyed; others will not rise again That
year. or if they 90, 80 fcebly 10 do little injury
and there is 10 DANCE. of scarce any running u
seed The most efiectual means VIC have found
to destroy the harder weeds, such as mullens,
,histles, burdocks, &c. is 20 place half a table
sooonful Of salt upon each stem Immediately after
bepg cut close TO the ground. III there be great
number, after moving theT, scatter salt plentl-
fully upon the land, pasture sheep there and they
will most invariably be destroyed in season or
two The salt acts beneficielly with the sheep
dung III cnrching the land. To increase the
feed, plaster may be sown at the rate of ] ! to ~
bushels per acre.


PLASTER NO LONGER BENEFIClAL.-Whcn IN
Putnam county, and other places the past month,
we heard complaints among the farmers that
gypsum paster of Paris no longer acted benc-
fically upon their land The reason of this is
thus explained by Leibig:-


"Wlen we increase the crop OF grass in a mead
ow by means OF gypsum, VIC remove greater quan-
tty OF potash with the hay than can under the same
circurns tances be resored-hence it happens, that
after the lapse Of several years, the crops o grass
on the meadows manured with gypsum diminish,
owing to the deficiency of potash


From the above extract it will be seen that
nothing is wanted but the application OF ashes or
potash to the land, when plaster will again act
upon it with its former good effects Plaster will
also be found beneficial again after inanurcs have
been used for a few years, more especially when
made Of an intcrmixture Of swamp-muck or peat
oar;b