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'iiiE Ciioi'S. — It giver US great pleasure to stale that 

 the prospect of wheat and most other crops in "Western 

 New York ia better than an average. The season is not 

 forward, and wheat may yet sufTer from attacks by the wee- 

 vil, so-called. Should it escape, the harvest the coming 

 summer will richly reward our enterprising farmers. 



The Coontry and the Chops. — "We do not recollect 

 a season for many years, when on the first day of May the 

 country has looked so beautiful, or the growing crops of 

 wheat, oats, and grass so thrifty, as they do now. Not- 

 withstanding severe cold weather continued until the tirst 

 week in April, and farmers were feaiful of being unable 

 to get half the grain planted that they had been calcula- 

 ting upon, the plowing and planting season ia greatly ad- 

 vanced. The three or four weeks of deligluful weather, 

 ending in April, were improved greatly, and probably one- 

 third more land was plowed than ever before in Northern 

 Illinois, during tlie same corresponding period of time- 

 Spring wheat is all in and up so as to cover the ground 

 with its beautiful green verdure. The amount sown is 

 fully one-fourth larger than ever before, and the prospect 

 could not look more favorable. Oats are also harrowed 

 down, and in some cases above ground. The amount put 

 in i.s not probably more than was put in last year. Corn 

 has not been planted, but farmers are rapidly plowing for 

 it. and. if the weather continues favorable, they will prob- 

 ably close their planting by the 15th instant. How much 

 more ground will be covered with corn this year than last, 

 depends much upon the weather. The high price of the 

 article gives the producer a confidence in the future, as a 

 profitable crop, and no exertions will be wanting to increase 

 the number of acres to be cultivated. 



The grass crops promise well. AVe never have seen clo- 

 rer, timothy, and the wild grasses more advanced this early 

 in the season. During the last few days, grass has grown 

 as if by the power of magic, and if the weather prove as 

 favorable during the next as it has during the past four 

 weeks, the crop will be one-half heavier than last year. 



It is scarcely necessary to say that with such flattering 

 prospects before them, the farmers are in the best of spirits. 

 --KnoxvUie {lit.) Journal, May Vth. 



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InquixitB anb ^ns^ixs, 



J. W. BnuMBADon will find an account of bloody mur- 

 rain, or red-water, on page 2(jS of the Farmer for 1854. 



It is a very fatal disease, and seldom curable. Our wri- 

 ter states that he has seen large flukes taken out of the 

 liver, 'resembling the common leedi, which abounds in 

 many of our swampy lands. In Alleii's Domestic A/cimals. 

 It is recommended to put equal portions of salt and slaked 

 lime in one trough, salt and ashes in nnother, and salt and 

 brimstone in a third ; and it is also added that farmers who 

 had lost stock by the disease previously, have entirely es- 

 caped its ravages by the above practice. 



It CoFPSRAS of any value as a ferUlixer, or only as a deodorizer r 



An answer through the Gesesee Fabuer will be thankfidly 

 ceived. S. Fny^i—Terryville, Ct. 



On most soils, tJie application of copperas (sulphate 

 iron,) would be followed by no benefit whatever. "Whe 

 there is carbonate of lime, and a lack of sulphuric ac 

 the sulphate of iron might be decomposed and form gy 

 sum in the soil, which is a well known fertilizer ; but wh 

 the cost was counted, it would be found that gypsum fori 

 ed from co]>peras involved an outlay two or three tim 

 larger than would have sufficed to purchase an eqt 

 amount of gypsum in the market. 



In short, the iron in copperas is not needed in any of t 

 soils of this country, with perhaps one or two rare exce 

 tions, while the oil of vitriol is cheaper in the mineral ca 

 ed sulphate of lime, (gypsum,) than is any other fori 

 Copperas water is one of the best deodorizers known to 

 used in the vaults of privies, in manure tanks, and on coi 

 post heaps ; for the iron parts readily with its acid 

 form an involatile aulphate of ammonia from its volat 

 carbonate. 



[^I Ft EL obliged by your kind attention to my request with respi 

 to the notice of the price of Italian rye grMS seed, and the pla 

 where it may be obtained. I would now trespass on your lime a 

 attention so far as to ask if you can give any information as to t 

 origirrand treatnaent of a disease in horBea here called' (he big bei 

 I have seen no mention of it in any of the farrier books whi 

 have come under my notice. 1 wish I was able to give a more s; 

 isfactory description of the progress of the disease. The seat of 

 seems tj be in the nasal orgar, about midway between the eyes a 

 nostrils, where iu the first stage a hard lump or swelling appea 

 which gradually enlarges, accompanied with a Blight running 

 the nostril. The lump is quite hard, as if an ossification were [ 

 ing on. The horse has his appetite, and appears (so I am told, 

 I have not seen this effect,) to become stiffened in all his lim 

 The usual practice, I believe, is to blister, or rub with strong li 

 ment, though a cure seema very uncertain. It seems to be cons 

 cred not infectious, though I imust "confers I feel some doubV 

 that point. An the disease progresses, the whole head becon 

 greatly increased in size, and in the end death ensues, though 1 

 the animal may linger a long while. I should be glad to kn* 

 what work on horses, cattle, &c., you would recommend as t 

 most generally useful to one who like myself keeps a horse a 

 two or Ihree cows. I think I have seen Raxdall's, Spooxe] 

 Youatt'p, and Br. Dadd's favorably mentioned in your E0ti& 

 neither of which i have seen. Perhaps the diaeafle I have nam- 

 may be described in one or all of them. 



I would not have troubled you with this communication, hac 

 known where to look for a notice of the disease which threate 

 to destroy the usefulness and lives of many valuable animals, 

 should remark, perhaps, that among our people generally an opi 

 ion prevails that the frause of millet, as fodder, causes the diseoi 

 and on that account the growth of millet has fallen into dism 

 Joux BEtiSoy—Rosebank, Peoria. 



In the April number of the Faiimer, I saw an inquiry in respt 

 to chickweed. The best remedy I know of is deep plowing. I 

 wheat the present year occupies two fields; The fiist was put 

 early in September, looks well, and is free of the weed. The •€ 

 nnd, when we commenced stirring in the usual deep way, the la 

 side came off the plow, and rather than stop the labor while 11 

 Urgi' plow was repairing, we to( k a small corn plow to stir wit 

 ^vhich, owing to its lightness, could not he got to plow as deep . 

 desired. The consequence is that where we jdowed shallow, thei 

 is cliifkweecl. and where it wjir plowed deej', it is free. IToweve 

 line thing is ce.tain, if there is no weed, deep jilowing, I think, 

 much the best* H. R. Cotfikld— itferwr Co., Pa. 



