inCj Kjr£.IML,ai^l!j JPAIIMJIK. 



The publisliei- of a fnmily paper in lliis city is greatly 

 affected by ibe followiug few lines at the Lead of our ad- 

 Tertisiiig coliuiins: 



" The Fanwr has lar^e lists of subscribers in every 

 State and Territory, and m all the Britisii Provinces." 



He says this is "a transparent fib," because "there is 

 not a journal in all the loyal States which does or can 

 circulate in every State and Territory." If he had read 

 a little more carefully, he would have seen that we do not 

 say the Farmer " circulates" in every State, but that it has 

 "subscribers." We have subscribeis, who have paid for 

 the Fanner, in the Southern States, to whom we are un- 

 able to send the paper; but they are still "subscribers." 

 We oice them a certain number of papers, and we have 

 no wish to repudiate the debt. At the time the rebellion 

 broke out, the Genesee Farmer had the following list of 

 subscribers in the United States and Territories and in 

 the British Provinces : 



marked to us, a few months since, that " 



not take a single English, Scotch or French aghcult 

 or horticultural journal." 



IT^umher of 

 SubscHbers. 



Maine 151 



New liampshire, 16 



Vermont 3R3 



Massachusetts, 336 



Bhode Island, 13 



Connecticut, 254 



New Tork, 6372 



New Jersey, 878 



Pennsylvania, 3071 



Delaware, 27 



Maryland, 91 



District of Columbia, 8 



Virginia 1S3 



North Carolina, 79 



Soutti C. rolina, 30 



Georgia, m 



Florida 1 



Alabama, l.") 



Mississippi, 60 



Tfxas, 12 



Kentucky, 285 



Micliisan 73*1 



Wisconsin, 9.'i2 ] 



Louisiana, 48 | 



yitm?/er of 

 Subscribers. 



Tennessee, I3ii 



Missouri, 220 



Illinois 537 



• iliio I6il 



Indiana • 952 



Arkansas, 3 



Iowa, 292 



California, 87 



Minnesota, 75 



Oregon 53 



New Mexico, 1 



Utah 1.36 



Xebraska, 7 



Kansas 32 



Washington Territory,... 22 



Canada Fast So 



Canada M'-'st 41119 



New Brunswick, 79 



Nova Scotia, 2^ 



€rreat Rritaitt, 8 



Honolulu, 1 



China, i 



Let ns hear from our Cokuespoxdknts. — We h 

 several hundred communications from intelligeut farn 

 and horticulturists that we designed to' publish, 

 coming at a time when our columns were ciowded 

 laid tlietn aside for future use. We look at them i 

 with feelings of pain. We do not know what to do v 

 them. They contain a mass of valuable information, 

 it is a little out of date. We can hardly make up 

 mind to commit them to the flames. We have thou 

 several times ol taking them up separately and extr 

 ing some of the best thoughts out of them and pre.' 

 them to our readers. But this is a great labor. A 

 not our correspondents help us out of the dilemma 

 sitting down and writing out, as briefly as possible, tl| 

 more recent experience? What they have written-j 

 good, but what they can now write will be freshen 

 better. Let us hear from our correspondents. 



Tot,iI, 20.297 



If our family cotemporary win cast his eye over the 

 above, he will see that we have subscribers "in every 

 State and Territory and in all the British [North 

 American] Provinces;" and even yet we occasionally re- 

 ceive a letter from some of our old subscribers, who for- 

 merly resided in the Southern States, but who have 

 escaped North, saying that they paid fo/ the Farmer for a 

 year, but only received three or four of the first numbers, 

 and requesting us to send them the remainder. This we 

 do most cheerfully. We regard them as subscribers, and 

 ha^e no intention to repudiate. If, however, the para- 

 graph has the -appearance of a "transparent fib" to 

 our cotemporary, we wHl omit it, lest we make our 

 brother to oflFend. Perhaps we iifeffe erred in not taking 

 it out before, as we see from a recent number of his paj)er 

 that he is inclined to be a little loose in some of his State- 

 ments. For instance, speaking of a plant which some 

 seedsman states is attracting mach attention in Europe, 

 he says : 



"It is a little strange to men who see English, Irish, 

 Scotch and French agricultural papers we.'kly. that there 

 should have been such an excitement in Europe over this 

 'root,' and these papers have taken no notice of it. We 

 have seen no evidences of such ' excitement,' and r/et we 

 tu taid papers." 



It is a little strange to us, who take nine of the leading 

 agricultural journals of Europe, that we have never seen 

 % "weekly" French agricultural paper; and it is still 

 more itrange that a gentleman, who ought to know, re- 



Tting up Wool,— a correspondent of the Albany ( 

 tivator furnishes the following description of his metii 

 of tying wool fleeces, and of the box used for the p | 

 pose: 



"Make a square box, say two feet high— eighteen 

 cbes square at the bottom, with a gradual sloping 

 crease to the top, making it twenty-two by twentv-f 

 inches at the latter— have it well dove-tailed toi;ethe 

 no top or bottom. On the top midway of each side, 

 down three or four inches ; in these cuts place two stri 

 reaching to flic bottom (which should sit on a smo 

 surface,) crossing each other at right angles on the 1 

 torn, the ends liaiigiug over on the outside suliicientlv 

 tie. When the fleece is completely rolled up, place It 

 the box, step into it with your feet, pressing it dow 

 then bring out of the euti the ends of the twine x 

 fasten ocioss the fleece each way. Tiii'ii the box up: 

 down and press out the fleece. It will come out .squ 

 and compact, and will not need more winding to keep 

 in shape, if properly handled." 



DRAiyiNG ON A Large Scale. — The Prairie Farmer &i 

 that those who are acquainted with the land about t 

 man Station, at the crossing of the Peoria and Oquawl 

 and Illinois Central railroads, know that there is a lai 

 tract (several townships,) which is annually overflow 

 and rendered almost worthless for agricultural purpos 

 Recent surveys by the Illinois Central Railroad Conipai 

 have shown that it can readily be drained, but at a lar 

 expense, which they have decided to assume. The pi 

 involves nearly fifty miles of drains of various sizes, a: 

 will cost about $.50,000. Upon the results of this will 

 pend the draijiage of other large tracts iu the State th 

 need reclaiming^ 



"Under the Greenwood Tree" forms the subject of 

 beautiful Steele engraving in a late number of the Lond( 

 Farmer's Magazine. A coirple of thoroughbred mar 

 with their young colts are enjoying themselves, undei 

 noble old tree. It does one good to look at the quiet ht 

 piness of the mothers as the young colts frisk about C 

 the greensward. 



A correspondent wishes to know where he can getsoa 

 Dominique fowls. 



