The Yazoo Democrat

The above is one of the experienced gardener's common practices, Farmers seldom undertake the task which is deemed by them too tedious to pursue.

Uses of Salt In Agriculture. We have several times invited the attention of our readers to the article of salt, to be mixed with manures, to be spread broad cast, or to be applied to the hill of corn or potatoes. It is now time to be stirring in this matter—to be preparing for summer—to be guarding our potatoes against worms, and rust, and rot.

From numerous statements made by farmers from different quarters, it seems that salt is useful to protect potatoes against the fungus that appears on the vines, and probably causes the disease that has been so much talked of. If this is true we ought not to delay one day to provide salt to be used on the ground in some mode or other. Coarse-fine salt may be mixed with ashes and plaster and put on to corn or potatoes soon after they come up. Plaster is good, ashes are good, and it is well known that salt is good to keep off the worms. It is good also to attract moisture, the want of which is more detrimental to potatoes than to any crop. Let us try salt in various ways that we may be able to tell each other where it succeeds best.—Massachusetts Ploughman.