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We notice in our exchanges, that in some sections of 

 the countrv, owing to the scarcity of fodder and the sever- 

 ity of the winter, cattle are in a state of starvation, and 

 some have even been compelled to sell their stock at 

 a great sacrifice to their more fortunate neighbors, who 

 had the means of keeping them. 



Now, if every one who keeps stock will make provision 

 for drouth, no mAttcr how good his pasture and meadow 

 lands may he, by sowing corn in drills to cut when just 

 forming the ears, there would not be such a complaint 

 another season. We must expect our seasons to become 

 more and more in extremes from year to year, consequent 

 upon the clearing up of our forest lands ; and no wise 

 farmer will hereafter neglect makikg ample provision for 

 soiling of cattle during the latter part of our summer, and 

 before the commencement of fall rains. We know of one 

 individu.al in a neighboring town who was not obliged to 

 feed out hay at all till near spring, simply for the reason 

 that between four and five acres of corn sowed for fodder 

 furnished him with an ample supply of forage for his 

 stock. 



Sate toub Sawbust. — Dr. Dodd, in a communication 

 to the Practical Farmer, writing from Cleveland, recom- 

 mends highly the use of sawdust as bedding for horses. 

 The livery-stable keepers of that city use it in preference 

 to straw. Among its advantages, he enumerates the fol- 

 lowing : It is a great absorbent of fluids, is easily removed 

 from the stall — what little may be attached to the hair of 

 animals is easily cleaned off with curry-comb and brush. 

 Also it is adapted for loaming heavy soils, causing them 

 to become more friable and porous, while at the same 

 time it takes the fertilizing atoms with itself for use by 

 the growing plants. 



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OuB river-twttom lands consist of a bed of pure sand, 

 over with five or BIX inches decayed vegetable matter. Would it 

 be advisable to make use of the subsoil plow, or at what depth 

 should such ground be plowed ? We raise corn on our bottom 

 lands equal in quantity and quality to that raised on the Scioto 

 and Miami bottoms, and if we were as good farmers as our brethren 

 of Ohio, I am ioclined to think that our Big Sandy Valley would 

 yield more per acre than any of their far-famed bottoms. At all 

 events, I am, for one, inclined to profit from the valuable contents 

 of the Farmer, as well as your private advice. C. T.—Coalg 

 Pike Co., Ky. 



In lands of the character described above, it will not do 

 to plow often, or expose them freely to atmospheric intiu- 

 ences. On the contrary, the roller is a valuable implement 

 on such soil, while lime and leached ashes never come 

 amiss. Those grasses which are naturally adapted to your 

 soil, and which make the firmest sod, will protect it from 

 w ..shing by rains, .ind enable you to increase your stock, 

 by whose aid you can in turn increase the fertility of your 

 land. 



To A SuBSCKiBER. — Wisner's Patent Wash Tub can be 

 had of Messrs. J. Bunker & Co., of Kochester, N. Y. 

 Price, $5.00. 



;. Editor ; — I wish to make an inquiry of you in rega 

 mprovement of a piece of worn out land. It hasconside 

 sorrel on it, and is a very dry, sandy soil. It has been cultii 

 with rye, two crops in succession, which has worn it down an^ 

 parently exhausted it. The reason for putting on two crops o 

 n consequence of the failure of seedmg with clover ir 

 spring Last year the yield of rye was about 10 bushels tt 

 acre. Many of the heads did not fill. Last spring I sowed n. 

 tno bushels of clover seed, which failed entucly. I propo 

 plow it this spring, sow to buckwheat, plow it in as a green 

 then in the fall cross-plow as summer fallow, &c., bow with 

 and next spring seed down with clover. Chatham. 



From the prevalence of sorrel in your land, there is 

 sumptive evidence that lime, at the rate of from twen 

 fifty bushels per aero would materially benefit it. On li 

 sandy soils plow as little as is consistent with keeping 

 land clean, and follow with the roller. Such soils req 

 to be made more compact, and any treatment that sec 

 this object is advantageous. Gypsum has an effect sin 

 to lime in clay and sand. Clay marls are of value al 

 particularly ashes, leached and unleached. When 

 you can induce a good growth of grass and clover, the 

 ficulty in their cultivation is mostly surmounted. It ii 

 advantage to keep sheep on sandy land, as their trea 

 tends to pack the soil closely, producing an effect sin 

 to that of the roller. 



A FRiENn wishes me to ask where the best guano can he 

 what it costs per ton, and how it can be appUed to the best a6 

 tage in a deep, gravelly loam, with a firm, clayey subsoil. 



See advertisement of A. Longett, in the present r 

 ber.— From S40 to $-18 per ton of 2,000 lis. Break u 

 the lumps with a maul, and mix thoroughly with chai 

 dust or dry loam — two parts loam to one of guano- 

 apply at the rat6 of 200 or 300 fts. per acre. Plow 

 with a plow guaged to run from four to six inches in dc 



Will you be so kind as to inform me through the columi 

 your valuable paper what manure would do the best to apply 

 piece of red clover sowed last spring with oats on opening 1: ^ 

 Soil loamy, mixed with sand. Lime can be had at eighteen < b 

 a bushel. Charles Stelv — JVaukeiha, Wisconsin. 



Sow a bushel of plaster per acre early in the spring i 

 your soil is very light, roll it with a heavy roller. S fe 

 advise top-dressing with long manure. Perhaps orcl 1 

 grass would be better adapted to your soil than clover 



I snoi-LD like to be informed through the medium of your i i- 

 able paper of some method of destroying the pea bug. It is o Ifi 

 march to the west of Canada, and is every year becoming mor( • 

 strnctive. This is the first year I have noticed them in my ] i 

 3.—Wetlealey, C. W. 



Will some of onr readers answer the above inquiry. 



Can you tell mc what will destroy a species of bug, or ra 

 louse, that inffsts tulip trees ? I have tried a decoction of tob 

 and snap, with but partial success. W. ^icn^^vs—Springn, 

 Champaign Co., Ohio. 



O.v some of the best land on my farm the wheat crop is half - 

 stroyed by ehickweed. Is there any remedy for it ? B. Ki; - 

 RochcMer. 



Will those of our correspondents who have had any - 

 perience similar to the above, please suggest a remedy 



