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Agricultitral Books ani> Papers for Premiums. 

 • — The Ohio State Agricultural Society have resolved to 

 award several hundred copies of the Ohio Farmer and 

 Ohio Cultivator as premiums at their next exhibition. 

 Many of the county societies in the different States include 

 considerable numbers of agricultural periodicals in their 

 prize-s and the Clinton county (N. Y.) Society has adopted 

 as a rule that one-half of all its premiums 'shall be paid 

 in books or papers — the books and papers to be selected 

 by the persons to whom the awards are made — that is, 

 where a prize of $10 is awarded, $5 will be paid in cash, 

 and $5 in agricultural, horticultural, or mechanical books. 

 The Brooktield Agricultural Society, JIadison county, N. 

 T., ofiFers copies ol the leading agricultural journals. 



The Putnam County (Indiana) Agricultural Society of- 

 fers a very large number of agricultural journals as pre- 

 miums ; and an old friend there writes us — "The Gene- 

 see Farmer has been well remembered by our agricultu- 

 ral society. 



Water Pipes. — A correspondent wishes to know if any 

 cheaper pipe than lead can now be had for conducting wa- 

 ter from a spring to his house. We once saw an excellent 

 earthen pipe, so made, that the ends were placed one inside 

 of the other, and then cemented. It was made at Bloom- 

 field, in this State. Who can give the desired information. 



Dansville. — We paid a visit to this beautiful rural vil- 

 lage the past month. Corn and potatoes look very fine, 

 and the oats never were better. Maxwell, Ramsden & 

 Co., have just commenced a Nursery in this place, and 

 their young stock looks exceedingly fine. 



Millet. — We see small patches of Millet growing in all 

 sections of the country. On its value, information is needed. 

 We hope some of our readers will give us their experience 

 this fall. Ascertain how much you raise on an acre, and 

 then its value as compared with other crops. 



Lunar Influnnce. — The New England Agricultural 

 Journals are pretty generally discussing the influence of 

 the moon on the growth of plants, tSsc. If they produce 

 any more light on the subject, we will give our readers its 



benefit. 



TuE Enolish Skv-Lark. — Some ten years since, an 



English gentleman released a pair of sky-larks, on Long 

 Island, and they appear to have survived our rigorous win- 

 ters, as their notes are now occasionally heard on the island. 



Elijah Stark, Esq., of Versailles, Indiana, writes as 

 follows, on the l6th of July : — " We have just passed 



through our wheat harvest, and tlie yield is fine for this 

 country. Our prospects for good crops generally, are very 

 flattering at this time." 



One pair of Pigs, according to Allmutt, will increase 

 in six years to one hundred and nineteen thousand one hun- 

 dred and sixty nine — taking the increase at fourteen times 

 per annum. A pair of sheep in the same time would be 

 but sixty-four. 



Farming in Wisconsin. — A gentleman in Walworth 

 Co., Wisconsin, writes us as follows : 



The pages of the Farmer are interesting. They already 

 begin to open up to me (a novice in Agriculture) the hid- 

 den mysteries of "thriving by the plow." Having been 

 engaged for nearly twenty years in a laborious and confin- 

 ing practice of the legal profession, and tiring of its drain 

 upon the physical energies, and its excess of mental efibrts, 

 without a corresponding exercise of the body, I have left it, 

 purchased a farm, and am trying to engage in the " more 

 ennobling'* pursuit of a farmer ; therefore your publication 

 is a welcome visitor. I have already seen many sugges- 

 tions in it by which I design to profit. 



1 am located in Walworth, Walworth Co., Wis., and it is 

 probably one of the finest agricultural sections of the West- 

 ern country. The soil is rich, yet I fear it is beginning to 

 deteriorate from the truant system, or science, which many 

 of our farmers evince in the management of their faimes. 

 It seems to me that every farmer should look upon his 

 farm as an indulgent friend, from which he may always 

 liherally borrow, but must ever bear in mind the necessity 

 of promptly restoring the principal in due time. It is the 

 most natural thing in the world that our crops should an- 

 nually decrease in quantity, when the life-giving principle 

 is not annually returned to the soil. The Chinch bug is 

 hurting our wheat in this section of the country very much. 

 Corn, though rather backward hitherto, is now recuperat- 

 ing, and promife? a good crop. Oats are abundant. 



Yours truly, H. AV. Clarke. 



Two Acre Farm. — The article recently in the Farmer 

 giving an account of a "one acre farm," has led me to 

 think I might possibly make a statement of facts that 

 would be valuable, and I forward the same to you, hoping 

 you will use itjust as it deserves. 



Nine years ago last spring I came into possession of a 

 two acre farm, and at that time it was barely possible to 

 get one ton of hay from the whole of it, such was the state 

 of cultivation it was in. It was all in mowing at the time, 

 except one-eighth of an acre that I sowed oats on, and 

 they were so small that a good stout grasshopper could 

 eat the heads off by standing on tiptoe. Circumstances 

 prevented me from making much improvement on it until 

 1849 or '50, and now for the results of the past dry season; 



2^i totiR hay, at $3 per ton $20 00 



12 bashols corn, at 80 cents per bush _ 9 60 



Corn fudder 1 00 



21oads pumpkiDS 1 00 



21 bush, potatoes, 30c _. 6 30 



2 bush, beans, $1.50 3 00 



38 bush, carrots, 30c 11 40 



32 bush, turnips, 20c 6 40 



10 bush, graft apples, 50o 5 00 



Garden sauce 5 00 



Growth of 140 standard apple, plain, cherry, and 



pear trees, inc. each _ 14 00 



Growth 250 nursery trees, 2d year, 5c. each 12 50 



" 1,100 « 1st year 3c. each 33 00 



« 1,000 seedlings, >ic. each 5 00 



Total l.$133 20 



Perhaps some may think it is impossible to have so much 

 on so small a surface. I would just say that my beans and 

 carrots grew amongst the nursery trees, and the most of 

 the turnips amongst the potatoes. On one small patch I 

 raised a good crop of green peas, potatoes and turnips ; 

 the peas were planted in the hiUs with the potatoes, and 

 the turnips set both ways between the hills, getting three 

 good crops on the same land in the same season, and nei- 

 ther crop appeared to injure the other — at least they all 

 did well. 



Now if this will stimulate another two-acre farmer to 

 do the like out of nothing. I have my reward. — New Eng. 

 Farmer. 



Peaches. — The peach crop in New Jersey, says the 

 Newark Mercury, it is expected will be heavy in propor- 

 tion to the number of trees ; the trees are, in fact, too full. 

 Many trees, it is said, were killed last winter, and there are 

 not, probably, one-half the peach trees in the State there 

 were four or five years ago. 



