No. 2. 



Advantages of Soiling Cattle — Suggestions. 



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lecting the fruit, by resting ladders against 

 the branches, and thus bruizing the bark. 

 Apricots, plums and peaches, often suSer 

 much in this way. The remedy is to use 

 self-supporting ladders, constructed like a 

 common ladder, with either one or two ex- 

 panding legs of equal length, which serve to 

 support it witJiout any other prop. 



Eudding or inoculating should be performed 

 while the stocks are growing most rapid- 

 ly, or while the cambium or mucilaginous 

 substance under the bark is in the greatest 

 abundance. This cements the inserted buds 

 and makes them adhere the better to the wood. 

 Cherries and plums should be budded im- 

 mediately, but peaches may be deferred three 

 or four weeks lacer, if necessary. The gene- 

 ral rule is, budding may be performed suc- 

 cessfully at any time when the bark peels 

 freely. 



If the stocks are thrifty ; if the bark is 

 carefully cut and raised so as not to injure 

 the cambium ; if the buds are cut smoothly 

 off the shoot so that they may be applied 

 closely to the wood of the stock ; if the 

 bandages are bound so evenly that they may 

 just maintain this close contact between the 

 bud and stock; and if they are carefully re- 

 moved as soon as they begin to indent the 

 growing stock, there can be a little doubt of 

 success in budding. — Genesee Farmer. 



Advantages of Soiling Cattle. 



Von Thaer highly commends soiling over 

 depasturing, and lays down the following 

 facts as incontrovertible : 



" 1. A spot of ground which, when pas- 

 tured upon, will yield sufficient food for only 

 one head, will abundantly maintain four heads 

 of cattle in the stable if tho vegetables be 

 mowed in proper time, and given to the cattle 

 in a proper order. 



" 2. The stall-feeding yields, at least, 

 double the quantity of manure from the same 

 number of cattle ; for the best and most 

 efficacious summer manure is produced in 

 the stable, and carried to the fields at the 

 most proper period of its fermentation ; 

 whereas, when spread upon the meadows, 

 and exhausted by the air and sun, its power 

 is entirely wasted. 



" 3. The cattle used to stall feeding will 

 yield a much greater quantity of milk, and 

 increase faster in weight, when fattening, 

 than when they go to the field. 



" 4. They are less subject to accidents, do 

 not suffer by the heat, by flies and insects ; 

 are not affected by the baneful fogs that are 

 frequent in Germany, and bring on inflam- 

 mations ; on the contrary, if every thing be 

 properly managed, they remain in a state of 

 canstant health and vigor." — Com. to the. 

 Board of Agriculture, vol. \,p. 376. 



Our habits of farming take much from the 

 force of Von Tliaer's facts — for we neither 

 regard land nor manure ol any thing the 

 value they do in Prussia ; though if we 

 should run over less of the former, and bet- 

 ter husband and apply the latter, we should 

 undoubtedly be the gainers. Our farmers 

 are apt to boast of the acres they cultivate — 

 of the bushels they sow ; but it is very seldom 

 you can come at their nett profits, or the pro- 

 ducts of an acre. 



We copy the following article from the 

 Meadville Courier, considering it applicable 

 to the farmers of our section of country. We 

 hope they may profit by the advice contained 

 therein. 



" Taking a deep interest in the prosperity 

 of these and the adjoining counties, I would 

 make a few suggestions to our larmers, which 

 they may consider, and weigh how far they 

 are worthy attention. 



For some years past I have urged on my 

 brother farmers, the advantages they would 

 gain by employing additional laborers to as- 

 sist them in the cultivation of their farms, 

 and using greater exertions to increase their 

 crops. (Some individuals have informed me 

 that they profited by the hints, raised more 

 abundant crops, and have the gain of good 

 prices. Others replied, we can't afibrd to 

 hire, wages are too high. 



They were mistaken. They adhered to a 

 fixed opinion formed years ago, when wheat 

 would scarcely bring above fifty cents, and 

 rye thirty-one, in cash. 



I propose that every farmer should erect in 

 some corner of his wood land, a cabin house, 

 which costs but little; appropriate two or 

 tliree acres of wood land to it, and say to 

 some industrious laborer who has a family, 

 you shall have a lease of this at a low rent ; 

 you may take your fire wood oft' the land 

 without cost; you may raise your own pota- 

 toes and corn; the pasture of a cow in the 

 woods costs you nothing, and hay in the win- 

 ter but little; come work for me by the 

 month, week or day, as may be agreed on ; 

 you can always have provision for your family 

 in pay for your labor. The tenant who would 

 have a certain home, would be much better 

 off than the laborer on the canal, wlio nomi- 

 nally receives higher wages half the year, 

 and spends his money the other half in idle- 

 ness, destitute of a home. 



But how will it operate with the farmer? 

 He will soon find his crops and all the pro- 

 duce of his farm increasing by the assistance 

 of his tenants, in the busy time of sowing, 

 planting and gathering in. lie will find his 

 farm itself soon rendered more valuable, com- 



