AGRICULTURAL.
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WINTER " HEAT, TO PREVENT NTNTEf hHLiNG.-Winter whear'Was formerly raised very well in this vicinity, and can be now on '' burnso or new land recently cleared.- We attribute the difference 10 this fact, that in new lands, there is covering of loose mould, or seuH, which prevents this elevation by the ifosts, and, therefore, the crop suc- ceeds

 Mr Mellen's observations are to the same effect. We quote the following from his re- marks; "The question recurs, can fail sown wheat he successfully raised on old land in the regions where il ioutishcd when the lands were new: ] maintain it can, and will give the results of my observations. Many years since, l knew q farmer in the county of Sara toga, to succeed well in cultivatng the crop oilallsown wheat, when his neighbors wholly failed and abandoned the crops, by reason ol it's freezing out. This successful farmer pre- pared manure from his barnyafd, the straw, scraPiBgs of the yard, Sc, and put these in gradients into compost heaps. He summer fallowed or sufficiently ploughed his land ; from which he had taken crop, and then smoothed the funoWs with the harrow. He then drew out his compost manure, twenty five to thirty loads to the acre, and evenly spread 1t over Inc surface, sowed his wheat on the same, and then narrowed 1t in, incor- porating the surface of the soil and manure together. The result was that he always succeeded with his crops of winter wheat when his neighbors, who pursued different culture, failed. His wheat, illus treated, was never winter killed.o

 Mr. Mellen relates many other experiments of a similar kind, which always resulted in success. Some experiments formerly tried by Chas. Vaughan, Esq, corroborate the above statements. He sowed oats with win fer wheat i'll August or September, so that it would come up pretty thick Before winter the eats became killed, and falling upon the wheat, afforded very good protection to il. We think that, by observing the above rules, winter wheat might, at least, be grown as successfully with us as winter rye.

 .Naiae Farmer.