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year, — about one hundred and twenty to one, 

 instead of seven to one, our average erop of 

 late years. 



In 1S6G, Ohio gathered but three bushels of 

 seed for every one sown. What is the use of 

 such culture ? The English farmers have a 

 saying that the worst weed for corn Is corn. 

 By corn they mean wheat, and the meaning of 

 the saying is that it is worse to have the wheat 

 too thick, than to have other weeds among it. 



If there is not In use at present, a suitable 

 cultivator for working between the drills, Yan- 

 kee invention cannot be long at fault in pro- 

 ducing one. If the wheat raisers call for one. 



In the business of farming, as in many other 

 things, men know better than they do. They 

 will not forsake the easy going practices of 

 their fathers till necessity compels them. 

 They will even hold on till necessity presses 

 hard upon them. 



We think that necessity is now upon us, and 

 we must give up our careless and wasteful 

 methods of wheat culture and commence a 

 reformation at once. 



MANURES AND HOW TO APPLY 

 THEM. 



At a discussion before the Farmers' Club in 

 Bedford, N. H., the chairman said that after 

 trying several ways, he prefers breaking the 

 sod early in the fall, not less than seven inches 

 deep. In the spring drawing out the manure 

 from the barn cellar, after It had been forked 

 over, placing It In heaps, making five heaps 

 from a cart body full, five paces apart each 

 way, spreading it and harrowing It under to 

 the depth of three inches. If to be planted 

 in corn or potatoes, chain it both ways, and 

 drop the seeds on the squares. If to be sown 

 for fodder, harrow In four bushels of oats to 

 the acre, and cut in the milk, which makes 

 superior feed for milch cows, nearly equal to 

 herdsgrass. After the oat crop Is harvested, 

 plough the stubble under across the furrows. 

 The next ppring, harrow ; haul from the barn 

 cellar the same. quantity of manure as was ap- 

 plied to the oat crop, about twenty-five loads 

 to the acre, spread as before, and cultivate or 

 harrow in to the depth of three Inches ; sow 

 on three bushels of barley, eight pounds of 

 clover and twelve quarts of grass seed ; har- 

 row with a light harrow and roll. You will 

 then get a good crop of barley, a good catch 



of grass, and a mowing field that will give you 

 good crops. But do not fall feed unless you 

 wish to i^poil your mowing fields, and be ob- 

 liged to take them up In three years. 



Mr. C. suggested the addition of two bushels 

 of salt, and three bushels of plaster per acre, 

 immediately after the manure Is spread, to be 

 harrowed In with It, to keep the ammonia from 

 the manure escaping. 



Mr. R. had doubled his crop of grass by 

 the use of one hundred bushels of leached 

 ashes per acre. 



At the close of the discussion the club voted, 

 twenty to one, that manure should be applied 

 to the sod after It had been turned over, and 

 as near the surface as It is possible to cover it, 

 not over three inches In depth. 



SALES OF SHOKT-HORN" CATTLE. 



The Conntry Gentleman furnishes the fol- 

 lowing notice of recent sales of Short-Horn 

 cattle : — 



H. G. White, South Framingham, Mass., 

 has sold to B. Fellows, Monroe county, N. Y., 

 the Short-Horn bull Marmadiile 5935. To 

 the Franklin Co. (N. Y.) Breeding Associa- 

 tion, the bull Tnimps 62G3. And to the 

 Massachusetts State Lunatic Asylum at Wor- 

 cester, the bull Protector 7156, by Autocrat 

 5334, dam Yarico 27th. 



Mr. G. T. Plunkett, Hinsdale, Mass., has 

 sold to A. G. Clark. Factory Point, Vt., the 

 bull Emperor by Gth Duke of Thorndale 4752, 

 out of Fleur de Lis, and the cow Red Lad;/ by 

 Rosy Duke G142, dam Rose Standi^h. Also, 

 to C. E.' Coffin, Muirkirk, Md., the heifer 

 L'inglet by Mosstrooper 5025, dam Rose Stan- 

 dish. Mr. P. has sold a South-Down yearling 

 ram to Albert Nevvhall, Greenfield, Mass. 



Mr. Jas. O. Sheldon, White Spring Farm, 

 Geneva, N. Y., has sold to S. \V. Bobbins, 

 Wethersfield, Conn., -ith Duke of Geneva, 

 from 7th Dutchess of Tliorndale, by Baron of 

 Oxford (2337L) for $3000. Also, io\Sfm. 

 S. King, Esq., of Minneapolis, IMinnesota, 

 bth Bake of Geneva from 3d Duchess of Gene- 

 va, by 3d Duke of Geneva (23753,) for 

 S3000. Also, to Mr. Josiah Fogg, Deerfield, 

 Mass., a fine roan bull calf from Brightness 

 by 10th Dnke of Thorndale. To Messrs. 

 F. M. Van Sicklen and J. A. Shedd, Burling- 

 ton, Vt., 2d Earl of Oxford, a promising 

 red bull calf from 3d Maid of Oxford, by 2d 

 Duke of Geneva (23752) ; the cows Penitence 

 by Royal Oxford, dam Peerless by Grand 

 Duke (10284); Magenta and heifer calf by 

 2d Duke of Geneva — Magenta by Grand 

 Turk out of Minnewawa ; the heifers Moselle 

 2d by Royal Oxford, from Mazurka 9th; 

 Laura by Imperial Oxford, dam Lady Laura, 



