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Notes kkom Minnesota. — We have hud a coUi, back- 

 ward spring. The fiinners have but just completed their 

 needing. Our soil, however, is so warm and quick that 

 we expect good crops. But little fall wheat was sown; 

 that looks well. The spring wheat already shades the 

 yround, and grows finely. Considerable of the corn is 

 already up, but some has only been planted for a few d4ys. 

 Tlie Dent corn is mostly raised here ; I have planted a va- 

 riety of the Dent, and some of the Dutton. More oats 

 have been sown this spring than last, but not enough to 

 supply the home consuuiiition. They do well here, sixty 

 to eighty bushels per acre being a common crop. All of 

 the grains are scarce here now. Wheat, corn, oats and 

 [Wtatoes are each selling for over one dollar per bushel. 

 Our spring wheat makes as good and as white flour as 

 tlie best Genesee ever did. Our wives make snow-white 

 bread with it. I would like to give some of the Monroe 

 county people a sample. 



It is true that our winters are cold, but the sumn ers and 

 autumns are delightful. E. Hodges. 



Ma'iou, Olmsted Co.. Minni^sota, Miy SO, 



Api'LTixG Manuue on the Surface in the Au- 

 tumn. — Our esteemed correspondent, John Johnston, 

 in a private letter, says : •' I like your friend B., of Niagara 

 Co. I am much pleased that he is going to try my plan 

 of manuring. I know fall manuring will have a hard 

 struggle to get into use ; but it is like any other improve- 

 meat that does not coiTespond with the notions of old fo- 

 gies, theorists, and of professors of agricultural science, 

 falsely so called. I would rather have two loads of ma- 

 nure applied to the surface in the fall, than five plowed 

 under." 



A Psodtfm:; Sow. — T have a sow, three years old last 

 March, which, in nineteen months, or a little more than a 

 year and a half, has dropped 70 pigs, of which 3-i have 

 lived, as follows : In September, 1855, she had a litter of 

 13, of which 10 lived ; in April, 1856, a litter of 23, of 

 which 4 lived ; in Septemqer, 185G, a litter of 12, of which 

 10 lived ; in April, 1857, a litter of 22, of which 10 lived ; 

 and she is now with pig to drop the last of August. Her 

 pigs are large, healthy and vigorous. II. Harris. 



Jackson, Pa. 



Profits of Rhubarb Culture. — The Boston Culti- 

 vator is informed that a noted cultivator on Long Island 

 sold this season from four acres of rhubarb, two hundred 

 dollars worth per day, for four weeks, and would probably 

 average a hundre.d dollars a day for two weeks more. The 

 variety was the Linnean, which, we believe, originated in 



England. 



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New Advertisements. — H, E. Hooker & Co. offer 

 Quince Stocks for sale, at low rates ; Robert Sears wants 

 Agents to sell his Pictorial Bible : Dunham & "Wood can 

 supply thorough-bred Stock ; T. J. Paterson will supply 

 all orders for McCormick"s celebrated Reaping and 

 Mowing Machines ; and 0. 11. Seymour will furnish one 

 of the best Seed Drills that we are acquainted with. 

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The Boston Cultivator .says it has been observed that 

 Umber exposed to the elements in the South, will decay 

 »RO years earlier than the same kind of timber equally 

 aK{iosed in the Northern States. 



A Good Cow. — The Rural Intelligencer, published at 

 Augusta, Maine, says there is a cow ownlid by Capt. Paul 

 Brown, of that city, wliich, from ftlay 1, 1850, to May 1, 

 1957, suj)plied his family of three pei-sons with all th« 

 butter, cream and milk wanted for the year, and enabled 

 him, in addition, to sell four hundred and twmty pound* 

 of butter. Bro. Drew, of the Rural, asks, " Who among 

 the great breeders in Kentucky, Ohio. Pennsylvania, Nevr 

 York or Massachusetts, can produce a better cow thao 

 that?" The cow had no extra feed. 



Dii. Dadd recommends equal parts of salt, sulphur and 

 charcoal for the hog cholera. A table-spoonful per dftjr 

 should be given in the food. 



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Inquirus anir anjstotr*. 



(G. A. F., Virginia.) Egyptian Clover. — We are not 

 aware that this clover has been tried in this country. If it 

 has, we should be glad to hear from those who have had 

 experience with it. In Egypt it is universally cultivated, 

 and forms the best and principal fodder for cattle. It i* 

 an annual. It is sown when the ground is wet, either 

 from artificial irrigation or from the overflowing of the 

 Nile. When cut for fodder or for soiling, two or three 

 crops are obtained in a season, from eighteen inches to 

 two feet high. When raised for seed, only oT;e crop is ob- 

 tained, and the usual practice is to sow it with wheat, 

 harvest and thresh both together, and separate the clover 

 seed by means of fine selves. Some years ago this clover 

 attracted much attention in Great Britain, and in 183;; the 

 Messrs. Lawson, of Edinburgh, imported a considerable 

 quantity of seed, but, on trial, it was found less produc- 

 tive than had been anticipated. In the warmer sectiona 

 of this country it might prove valuable on our river bot- 

 toms, and we would advise you to give it a trial ia 

 Virginia. 



(J. R.) Tour suggestion is not new. The fact that ves- 

 sels engaged in the lime trade lasted a long time has been 

 observed, and the experiment of impregnating wood with 

 lime-water, in order to increase its durability, has been 

 tried ; but, according to Dupin, {Ann. de Chbnie. t. xvii., 

 p. 286,) the result did not answer expectation. In fact, 

 the timber treated with lime did not last the usual time. 



(S. K., C- W.) Mr. Adams simply quoted the phrase 

 " Benighted Canadians " from the communication of one of 

 our Canadian correspondents in the preceding number of 

 the Farmer. Mr. A., we are certain, did not intend to 

 give offence. 



How should Lime be Applied. — I have a farm of 

 good land, part beech and sugar tree, and mixed with wal- 

 nut, cherry, buckeye, &c., in the richer part.s. I think, 

 from short grain crops, and other indications, that there is 

 a deficiency of lime in the soil. I cannot obtain lime at a 

 less distance than thJrty miles, at twelve and a half cents 

 jier bushel, or pay at Mai,stieki, to which place it is brought 

 by railroad, twenty-five cents. I \\M\ to apply a tew 

 loads of lime to a field or two this fall, and if 1 find it pays, 

 lime in succession all. but do not know how best to apply 

 it. Some of my neighbors talk of scattering a load or 

 two on the manure in tlie barn-yard ; but I tiiink I have 

 read somewhere that tliat mode of applying it causes a 

 loss by chemical process, (of ammoQia, perhaps,) — at any 

 rate, that it was injurious. If you have any knowledge on 

 the subject, will you please inform me, in *be Genesee 



