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Russell, Ky.—After having quit farming for twenty years, I returned to my place 
three years ago. By using the manure from the barn-yard, and by deep and thorough 
la Iam raising at least 50 per cent. more grain than was produced before I came 
O 1t. 
The Cumberland (Virginia) correspondent mentions a notable case of 
improvement of badly worn, apparently worthless soil. In a twenty- 
acre field were four acres “ perfectly bare, except stunted bunches of hen- 
grass.” On this’ he spread refuse tobacco-stalks, and in the autumn 
scattered five bushels of lime per acre, and plowed under, and sowed 
winter oats, one bushel per acre, harrowing to a fine tilth. In spring, 
after applying lime in quantity as before, the oats were plowed under, 
and one month later peas were sown, five pecks to tie acre, and again, 
when the ground was well covered with vines, an application of two 
bushels of lime and one of salt was made, and the pea-vines turned under. 
On the 20th of September wheat was sown, five pecks per acre, with one 
gallon of clover-seed. The result was 60 bushels of wheat, or 15 bushels 
per acre. The pecuniary result was as follows: 
EXPENSES. 
Plawine.(oU cents per day foriplow) -ii2ece Sees ea Le sees $8 00 
TAIT ST Ss Ee AE a I ee tae a ee A et Seg a 4 00 
Seed oats, (4 bushels, at 50 cents per bushel)..........----.....-.. aise 14 2200 
Seed peas, (5 bushels, at $1.50 per bushel)......-.-.2.---. .-2.------ ---- 7 50 
Lime; (48 bushels, at 124 cents per bushel) .-.-...-.2.--22. 2.2022 seen 6 00 
Seed wheat, (5 bushels, at $1.50 per bushel)..--...--..---.-..-..0-.---. 7 50 
AVesbin Serop:) (ab olir oper, acre) |: S5o Os a eee oll bodies bee 7 00 
Peirannino (ab OLeenbs perwbusnel)),. . . <5 Uudsea so etens <stece ice cece cee 5 40 
Six hundred pounds Aber’s guano, (150 pounds per acre).-.....-.-.------ 18 00 
$65 40 
RECEIPTS. 
Credit by 60 bushels of wheat, at $1.80 per bushel---....--..----..----- 108 00 
PHO OL OS ELA UO CMA a 2 ho 5 acjoic.«, «se sige Ribs siegheRetas Oasis asc xia i2 00 
——120 00 
LERREING LA SS SAE De ee Poe Pn. SS SN ee es RT OPSET Bocas eI $54 60 
The farmers of the portions of Texas subject to drought are canvass- 
ing for a remedy, and a correspondent makes the following suggestions : 
Atascosa, Tex.—I have one suggestion to make, i. e., to plow the land in the early 
fall to the depth of one foot or fifteen inches; subsoiling will still be better. I wish 
some of our northern neighbors would invent some plow to suit our dry seasons. We 
have many plows, but none to suit.our soil or seasons. We very much desire a plow 
high in beam, very heavy in moldboard, cast with steel points. Unfortunately our cast 
plows have been badly furnished with points, and many are laid aside for this want 
of points. 
TRANSPORTATION DIFFICULTIES. 
The excitement relative to high and discriminating rates for railway 
transportation is intense throughout the West, and the subject claims 
the attention of correspondents of nearly every State. The watering 
of stock, the fictitious increase of capital by numerous dishonest expe- 
dients, and the assumed necessity of paying dividends on this spurious 
capital, meet the severest denunciations of farmers who deem them- 
selves plundered by an interest that could not exist without the pro- 
ducts of agricultural industry, and which was itself built up through 
the aid of the Government, and for the development ¢f national 
resources. The feeling is generally one of indignation at manifest in- 
