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the stick, an inch or more ; an iron upon tlie other end, fastened in 

 the same manner, projecting enough to allow the circingle to pass 

 through, completes the arrangement. Put the lialter on first, with 

 the stick attached, as described above ; pass the stick between the 

 forward legs ; put the circingle through the iron on the back end of 

 the stick; buckle it round the cow. It will give her a good deal of 

 liberty with her head, and does not injure her. In some cases it will 

 break the habit. 



"Wheat axd its Cultivation. 

 Hon. George Geddes, Fairmount, Onondaga county, N. Y. — 

 "Wherever good wheat can be produced, the flour made from it, will 

 be the material most used for making bread. The more advanced in 

 civilization any people may become, the more certain it is, that they 

 will use this material for bread ; and thus it happens that countries 

 whose soil and climate do not favor the production of wheat, if the 

 inhabitants have sufficient wealth, will import largely their bread- 

 stuffs from more favored regions. There is no substitute for the 

 wheaten loaf, to him who has once become habituated to the enjoy- 

 ment of it, and there is no grain, with the exception of rice, that is 

 so extensively used as food for man. The almost universal demand 

 for wheat flour, and the fact that but a small proportion of the earth 

 is well adapted to its perfect production, renders it certain that choice 

 wheat lands will continue in the future, as in the past, to be held as 

 of great value. Communities that raise a surplus of wheat beyond 

 their own wants, will generally be found to be every way prosperous, 

 refined and cultivated, just about in the degree that this grain is made 

 their leading staple. It would be difficult to assign too high a value 

 to first-rate wheat lands ; and in a national point of view, it is likely 

 that the possession of great districts of country that are well adapted 

 to the production of wheat, will continue to produce a marked influ- 

 ence on the habits and prosperity of the people. Nations that eat 

 bread made from wheat, will reach and maintain the highest plane of 

 civilization. Anything that leads to the more economical production, 

 and to the extension of the profitable culture of wheat, aids not only 

 in promoting individual and national wealth, but is a blessing to the 

 great mass of men, and especially to the poor. We want cheap wheat, 

 that is produced at a profit. The object of what foUov/s, is, if possi- 

 ble, to aid in bringing about this desirable end. 



