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The Rdrai Aknual and Hokticultdral Directo- 

 IV. — We have been unexpectedly delayed in isBUing this 



ork. We expect to hare all the orders now on hand 

 iUed by the 15th of October. We shall say more of this 

 ittle work, and pcrh.ips give an extract or two in the next 

 lumber. It is just the book all tree-planters shonld have, 

 'rice, 25 cents, sent to any part of the country free of 

 )ostage, $2.00 per dozen, $12,50 per hundred, five hundred 

 or fCO.OO. Send in jour orders. 



Aciiiicui.TL'BAL Schools. — We wish the officers of the 

 everal agricultural schools throughout the country would 

 end us immediately a brief statement of their respective 

 nstitutions. The studies pursued, expense to students, &c. 

 I\'e liave several inquiries from young men on this subject 

 hat we can not answer. Our friends who are engaged in 

 his good work must not hide their light under a bushel. 



Tiiou ART TEIE Man." — Yes, in pursuing your occupa- 

 ion the present year, if you are an observing and thinking 

 lan, you have learned something that the rest of the world 

 on't know. Send us the information, thenj^ and we will 

 pread it far and wide on paper wings. Give us the sim- 

 le facts, regardless of writing or grammar, and we will 

 ress up your production in a respectable rig. and send it 

 ut into the world so good looking that you will be proud 

 3 own your offspring. 



An Exfeuimlnt in Raising Bean Poles. — A gentle- 

 aan in Seneca Falls, N. Y., last spring planted some Li- 

 la beans. Not being provided with poles, he supplied 

 aeir place by planting in each hill a sunflower, trimming 

 p the stalk, so that it served the purpose of a pole. For 



time all went on well, till at length, the sunflower, grow- 

 ig so much faster than the beans, the latter were abso- 

 ately drawn up by the roots. A very easy v/ay of raising 

 •eans, we should think. 



Turning GRASsiiorpERs to good account. — The ed- 

 :or of the California Fanner gives the following : " In 

 nr rides in the grasshopper country, we saw thou^nds 

 if deep holes which had been dug in the earth by the In- 

 lians to entrap their luxurious (?) food. These holes con- 

 ain about a bushel and a half, aud we believe we saw 

 loles enough in Yuba, Butte, and Sutter counties to have 

 lollected fifty thousand bushels of grasshoppers. The In- 

 lians will grow fat this winter. 



Peacres. — For the first time in many years, our peach 

 crop this year entirely failed, owing to the extreme cold 

 of last winter. It may be readily supposed, then, that a 

 basket of fine peaches was no ordinary treat. Just as we 

 were leaving our sanctum one evening, the express mes- 

 senger called, with as large and luscious a basket of 

 peaches as we ever beheld. Without knowing the boun- 

 tiful donor, or perhaps being sufficiently anxious on this 

 point, with the assistance of our friends, we had eaten our 

 way pretty well down, when the following note was re- 

 vealed to our gaze. It had been all smothered in peaches : 

 RocKViLLE, Ohio. 



Dear Sir; — I have sent you a present of a basket of 

 such peaches as I have this year. The red ones are Old 

 Mixon Clings, and the yellow ones are Crawford's Late 

 Melocoton. Peaches are very plenty this year in the Cin- 

 cinnati market, and of course very cheap. In general 

 they are very small. I have got up to this time near an 

 average of two dollars per bushel. 



John Loughey. 



This explained the mystery. Our best thanks, friend 



LOUGIIEY. 



The Sandwich Islands this year will raise wheat enough 

 to supply the Islands, and of a very superior kind. They 

 have got an agricultural society there, from which SGOO 

 were paid in provisions, IJCOO added to sinking fund, and 

 ^-ijlSO were received in one year. 



Good Horse Provender. — The best provender that 

 we ever gave to a horse was a mixture of two-thirds oat 

 meal and one-third corn meal. The oat meal has been 

 thought by some physiological chemists to contain much 

 muscle, or flesh-forming matter, and the corn meal to con- 

 tain much fat-forming material, and therefore, when com- 

 bined together, we get both principles combined. Our 

 experience with this feed corroborates the above theory. 



A writer over the signature of W. W. B., in the Rural 

 New Yorker of the 21st, recommends a mixture of oats 

 and rye for horses. We think his plan of raising the two 

 together pretty good, and we therefore copy it. 



" I had," says he, " a conversation w ith a man lately, 

 who was an experienced farmer, having farmed both in 

 this State (N. Y.) and Ohio, and his manner of r.aising 

 horse feed was this : I take about two and a half bushels 

 of oats, and mix with them one bushel of rye, and sow 

 this amount to the acre. The rye will support the oats in 

 case of a heavy growth, and prevent lodging. In this 

 manner I have i-aised sixty, seventy, and even eighty bush- 

 els per acre." The soil must have been very strong to do 

 that, but the mixture is about in the right proportion. 



Canada Thistles. — Few of our farmers are perhaps 

 aware that there is a law standing on our statute books 

 since 1841, imposing a penalty of SIO on any persons al- 

 lowing this noxious weed to grow on their land or on any 

 road adjoining the same. If tlie seed should mix with any 

 other seed, and that seed is offered for sale, the penalty is 

 $20.— O/iiO Capital Fact. 



Orders fob Trees, &c., received, which will be at- 

 tended to in due season : — J. S. J., Greenoistle, Ind. ; I. B., 

 Kalamazoo, Mich. : O. S., Grand Rapids, Mich. ; R. T., 

 Hamilton, C. W. ; T. N., Dutchess Co., N. Y.; R. V., 

 Hartland, N. Y. ; H. C. P., New Independence, Mo. 



