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WiNTEK Baelet. — I saw in a late number of tlie Fanner, the subject of raising barley introduced, 

 and I believe the kind spoken of to be the spring variety. I have now growing over forty acres of 

 the winter variety, which looks welL In the fiill of 1850 I procured three and a half bushels of seed 

 from Ohio, which I sowed on two acres of land, and the yield was 140 bushels, or 70 bushels per acre, 

 of a very superior article, weighing 52 lbs. per bushel, sealed measure. I have sown nearly ninety 

 bushels, or about two bushels per acre, and the balance sold readily for one dollar per bushel. I 

 hope to exhibit a sample at your State Fair this year. B. S. — Logansport, Ind. 



Grubs on Melon Vines. — ^Year befoi-e last I was greatly annoyed by a grub that for several weeks 



made a deadly onset upon my melon vines; and after resorting to almost every stratagem that I could 



hear of to keep them away and preserve my vines, I finally resolved upon an extreme course, as I 



thought. So I went to a kettle where soap had been recently made ; the kettle not being covered, 



rain water had fallen in it, and the stench arising from it was very offensive. The sediment waa 



composed of bone dust, the bones having been boiled in lye till they were reduced very fine. After 



saturating the hills thoroughly with this sediment several times, I was not annoyed by the worms 



after. But that was not all the good resulting from it, for it acted like a charm on the vines, and it 



was never my fortune to raise such a fine crop of melons before from such a small niimber of vines. 



J. D. C— Locke, N. Y. 



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Recipe for curing Sores. — ^Take two and a half drams of blue vitriol, four drams of alum, and six 

 drams of loaf sugar ; or, we will say, blue vitriol the size of a walnut, alum a size larger, and sugar 

 the size of a hen's egg. Pulverize, and turn into a glass bottle. Add one pint of good vinegar, and 

 one table-spoonful of honey. Cork, and shake the mixture three or four times a day ; and wlieu 

 dissolved, it is fit for use. 



This wash will remove film irom horses' eyes ; will cure king's evil and most kinds of fever sores ; 

 will destroy proud flesh, and cause the sore to heal. It is great for hoof-rot in sheep, and may be 

 applied to any sore with safety. Tlie sore should be kept clean, and washed twice a day with the 

 mixture, till completely healed. For the eyes it may be diluted with soft water one-half, but shoidd 

 in all eases be used as strong as the patient can bear. For hoof-rot in sheep, add as much gunpowder 

 as vitriol ; pa^-e away all the affected part of the hoof, wash freely every few days, turn the sheep 

 into a fresh pasture, and you have a cure. R. R. — Center Lide, N. Y. 



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Potato Culture. — If convenient, break the sod in the fall ; if not, as early in the spring as possible. 

 Spread a good coat of old manure, and plow it in ; let the turf lie fifteen or twenty days ; if rougli, 

 roll and cultivate it well ; and plant as early as the weather will permit. I always cut my potatoes. 

 Have planted them in drills and in hills — three or four setts in a hilL As soon as four leaves are 

 seen, I always go through them with a cultivator, and stir the earth at every sett. Wlien six inches 

 high, I go over them in the same way ; and again when one foot high. I go through them twice 

 in each row with a plow. I give them a good, but a flat hill. In July my potatoes are fit to dig. 

 I plow the soil in narrow lands, not more than three rows on a laid, with a good furrow between 

 kept well hoed out. I have raised potatoes in this place for nineteen years, and have never had the 

 rot or bugs injure them. This I think is because I plant so early — generally in March. I think that 

 potatoes are struck with the disease by an east wind ; I have found that where they were planted on 

 the west or south side of a hill, they were not injured. N. L. C. — Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 



Virginia Land. — Three yeai-s ago I purchased a far:n here of 300 acres for $3 per acre. Tlie 

 improvements on it consisted of a comfortable frame dwelling liou^e and out houses. More than half 

 the land was in woods of heavy growth of timber. Only three small fields had ever been cultivated 

 to any extent, and there were two fields that had been cultivated for one or two years only ; and yet 

 this land had been in market five or six years, at $2.50 per acre. The owner asked me $3, and I 

 did not hesitate a moment to give it Last summer several thousand acres of unimproved lands, 

 entirely in the woods, were sold to citizens of the county, old men, bred and born here, at from 10 

 - K cents to $2 per acre. Some of my neighbors who have comfortable homes, good tracts of land well i r 



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