damp cellar-dairy house for a week or ten days. They are then taken to a dry, dark, airy room, 

 where for some time they require turning every day to prevent their molding on the side next 

 the floor. 



B. The practice very generally prevailing in Western Xew York of making butter only, must he 

 anything but econoTnical. 



A. It is a shameful waste. The milk from which we get 100 lbs. of butter contains at least 75 

 lbs. of casein and 75 lbs. of sugar of milk. I do not know from actual experiment, but I think we 

 should get twice the weight of chee.=e that we now do of butter. The whey of course is not so 

 good for hogs as the sour milk, but it is nevertheless good food from the large quantity of sugar and 

 lactates it contains. 



B. I think we might do as you say the English farmers do — ^take off the cream that would rise 

 in 12 hours, and then make cheese from tlie skimmed milk. In this way we should get superior 

 butter and tolerable cheese that would bring five or six cents per lb. 



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The Ruta Baga. — A Pkofitaele Crop. — As the season of planting has come, the question is to 

 agriculturists timely and important, whether the cultivation of roots is not worthy of increased 

 attention. With the hope of directing the attention of my brother farmera to this subject, I will 

 present the result of my experiment last season with the Euta Baga. 



The land selected — one-fourth of an acre — was adjoining that on which I had raised in the pre- 

 ceding year sixteen hundred and sixty-six bushels per acre. Geologically it is primitive, rocks 

 principally granite, and natural limber oak and maple. The soil is somewhat heavy, but free fi'ora 

 Btan<ling water; it was an old meadow, and had become unproductive; in the preceding year it 

 had been broken iip and planted to potatoes. It was cultivated for the Paita Baga crop by removing 

 all rocks and stones, well manured and plowed as deep as possible with a common plow. After a 

 few weeks it was manured again, and plowed one-half as deep as before, and thoroughly harrowed- 

 Previous to the fifth of June it was plowed and harrowed the third and fourth times. Furrows 

 were then drawn two feet apart, into which were drilled four loads of the richest composition of 

 barnj'ard manure. The furrow was then replaced with the plow, and on the top of the ridge a 

 slight channel was made with the hoe. In this channel and directly over the manure tlie seed was 

 deposited by hand some half dozen in a place ten inches apart and covered with a rake. When 

 the plants appeared, all but the best ones were removed. They were carefully hoed at intervals of 

 a week four times, when they became too large to work among without injury. The manure used 

 was sheltered barnyard. They were planted June 20, and gathered early in November. The 



expense was — 



To removing stone, ^ $1.50 



Plowing and harrowins; four times 4.00 



Sixteen lonils of manure, .^S, lialf charged, 4.00 



Forming riilLces, rtiUing, and planting, 1.25 



Weeding and thinning, 1.50 



Hoeing i'uur times, 8.00 



Harvesting 2.t)0 



Kent of land 50 cts., seed Vi}^ cts., G2;^ 



I had a largo qttantity of tops worth $2, and over three hundred bushels of roots at the low price 

 of 16c — $48 — making an income from one-fourth acre $50; leaving a profit of $82.12^. The cost 

 per bushel was five centa John T. Andrew. — West Cornwall, Conn. 



Corn. — Flat vs. Hill Culture. — In your last number under the head of " Spring Work," you 

 express a desire to be informed as to tlie "relative advantages of hilling up corn, or letting it 

 remain as planted, merely keeping it clean by liorse and hand hoeing." After experimenting both 

 ways for some time past, I iiave not the slightest doubt as to which mode is preferable. The 

 planting being in rows at right angles, I simply use the Corn Cultivator crosswise, and thus leave 

 the field mellow and level. This may be done as often as necessary ; but, as it is easily done, I 

 do it three times, and at each time let a man follow up with a hoe to repair injuries, which is done 

 in a short time, and also to destroy the suckers at the last time. A ten acre lot can thus be easily 

 and thoroughly dressed very soon, compared with the tedious hoeing and hilling system. It is 

 obvious that this method d(;cidedly economises both trine and labor, as the horse and driver do nino- 

 teuths of it on a walk. But this is not all. The stalk, having but one set of roots (whieli are long 



