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,A piece of cliurooal, placod upon a 

 burn, it is said, vrill offoct a cure iniuicdi- 

 atcly. 



)lg^The National Horse 81iow is to tnlce 

 place in Sprinirficld, Mass., between tlie]4tli 



and 17th of next September. 



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B@L„Bcans can yet be planted for fall u.-~e, 

 by selecting Early Newinpton, Early A'alen- 



tinc and otlier early kinds. 



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B^^Bects for winter can be sown now. 

 The Early Bassane is the best variety fur this 



purpose. 



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JB@*A good deal of stock has been killed 

 by excessive heat on treeless pastures in 

 Wayne county, Ohio, the present season. 



J8@»Tho "Floral and Fine Art" fair at 

 Chicago, on the 22d, 2od and 24th of June; 



Tfas \cry successful. 



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Tlie Llama.s broughi from South 



America to Now York, have since been sent 

 to Scotland. 



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J{S®"We have a pamphlet eontaininir des- 

 criptions, pedigrees, &c., of fine stock, cuttle, 

 phcep and hogs, belonging to B. W. Scott, 

 near Frankfort, Ky. 



You can sow turnip seed yet with a 



fair prospect of .success. Turnips are good 

 food for man and beast. J*rcpar(>the ground 

 well, put on plenty of seed .-o that there will 

 be some plants for tlie flies, and roll the 

 ground after the seed is sown. 



JJ@°'Onion seed for "pips" next sprintr, 

 can be sowed now. Sow thick and in tlie 

 fall take them up and dry them in tlic shade. 

 If you choose, you can plant ."-cnK^ <.ut in 

 Novenib'^r for an early s[)ring tro}/ — throw- 

 ing some straw over thcui lor prott'ction in 

 winter. 



■Your asparagus bed.-* will suuu rcpurc 

 at^'ontion. These have fed you, . mo vi.n now 

 must feed them. In the fall dig up iln^ bods 

 well and coverthem with rich manure. TIk' 

 rains will carry the food down to tlie roots. 

 and you may expect a renewal of the delicate 

 and delicious vegetable food the next spring. 



B^^If we desire good fruit, whether it be 

 apples, pears, pisaches, apricots, plums or 

 quinces, we siiould ])lant out the trees which 

 cast the fruit where it cannot be picked up. 

 In all cases, if the fidlcn fruit, in wiii ! aii' 

 insects, is suffered to remain on the "round, 

 you make provision for an increased croji of 

 insects the )icxt year. 



JB^'Tlie blackberry will soon be ripe. 

 We suggest to those wdio would cultivate 

 good varieties in their gardens, to notice 

 plants in their neighborhood on which tKe're 

 is go(|il fruit, mark thcui, aud take them up 

 and transplant them the coming fall. The 

 blackberiy is greatly improved by cultiva- 

 tion. 



Wheat for .Market. — It is quite cer- 

 tain, that in future, the best cleaned wlieat 

 will bring the best prices in market. Few 

 farmers will be able to afford to lose on wheat 

 to be brought to market this SviasuU, if mixed 

 with cockle, che.ss, shrunk wheat, dust and 

 chaff. la pjvpaving wheat for market, we 

 suggest to make it perfectly clean, — if you 

 expect the highest market price for it. 



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IIiRED TIklp fou Hauvust. — The lazy 

 idlers, who loa^ about the towns, ati^ want 

 double prices when they work in the harVcst 

 field'!, — are miserable help When they get 

 there. What is to be done? The Beaper 

 and Stacker v>fl'ers some relief Our farmers 

 cannot g>'t along without agricultural ma- 

 chinery, and those machines which require 

 the fewest hands to tond them, are very like- 

 ly to be the best. 



— The f.ower garden can still be render- 

 ed very bt autilul, with care. Eemoveall the 

 stalks of i)lants Avhieh have done flowerin<?, 

 trim roses into .shnpo, as also flowering shrubs, 

 keep the walks clean, cut the grass, tie up 

 llowering plants which are disposed to fall 

 u])on the ground. And it would be well to 

 save such flowor seeds as you desire fJener- 

 ally y"u shoidd jilnck the seed vessels from 

 tlie plant before they are so dry as to open 

 and lose the seed — place them wliore they 

 will ih-y witluHit injury. The seed of the 

 Pansy, I'eiunia, Phlox, and many other 

 l)l-int^ may be saved in tliis way. 



Jgft'-"'l\ini)ing v,-as bcld to be one of the 

 mo--t hom-rablc proi'osions in ancient Bomej 

 liut the size of farnis was viry .'•m;dl coaqwired 

 to farms now-a-days. Marcus Curias Denta- 

 tus, thri'C times chocen Consul, the hiirhest 

 office in Home, on being olVored inore land 

 by the government, refused it by .styinu; — 

 "ife is an and)iti'ius and dangerous perscin, 

 who {■= not conti'ut with uiu\ should desire 

 more than scvoii jugera," (about 4A acres.) 

 The farm of Lucius QuintusCincinnatus, Con- 

 sul of |{ome 4.")r> years before Christ, consisted 

 iif oidy two and ii (piarter acres. TIic farms 

 of thi' lomnioners only consisted of "seven 

 jugera," — {4A acres.) These acres were 

 managed with skill. It must have been so 

 to make the jtroduce of them sup{»ort a fami- 

 ly. The oldest work on agriculture was writ- 

 ten by Cato. 



Frye's Oanq PloWs.^— There Was a pub- 

 lic frial of these "ploWs near Tacusa station, 

 Illinois Ceiilral Railroad, on the 15th ult. 

 it. Hinchley writes to Emery s Journal a 

 very flattering account of the trial. Two 

 medium sized horses moved a two gang plow, 

 cutting thirty-four inches, with gl^al '^^^■ 

 The gang-plow!^ cutting one htth'drbdaiid t^ 

 inches, were moved by ten yok^e 'of icaltle — 

 four yoke moi^3 thAii absolutely necessary. 

 The W»ii, in all cases, was done well. The 

 ploWs have achieved a grand triumph. A 

 new trial will soon take place. 



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Pot Plant.s. — If the ladies desite to in- 

 crease the number of thetf ^labts, how is th^ 

 time. T.ak«? jmnf cutting, insert it in ti p'o't 

 filled with a light soil, of Which %, cottBidera- 

 blc portion is sanvl, cover tlie plant with a 

 tumbler. Water dally, and wipe out the mois- 

 ture in the tumbler daily, place the pot out of 

 the way of the sun — and you will be likely 

 to succeed in niaking your cutting live. 

 When the plant has started well, take off th^^ 

 tumbler at night, being careful to replace it 

 in the morning, unti? t^ie plant has become 

 hardened to the atmosphere. Plants in pots 

 should never be exposed to the full heat of 

 the sun. The pots, in such case, become so 

 warm as to scorch the roots of the plants, and 

 thus cripple or kill them. 



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B^Jjiarden amateurs can very oFteh im 

 prove their vegetables with a little pleasabl 

 care. Is there a bean stalk among your ear- 

 ly beans th«»t ir-i much forwarder than the 

 rest? liy all means save the seed from that 

 stalk? Do you find a tomato on your vines 

 ri[)ening much before others? You should 

 save the seed of that tomato. Does a cu- 

 cumber vine show a disposition to fruit ver.y 

 early? Save a cucumber from thftt vilte for 

 seed. And this principle runis through all 

 vegetables. You may not only in this way 

 make your vegetables come earlier, but if you 

 arc particular to select your finest specimens 

 for seed, you will improve their size and ex- 

 cellence. "Like produces like," is a general 

 law of nature. 



fica/i'be Sixth Fair of the U. S. Agricul- 

 tural Society will be held in lUchmond, Va., 

 on the 25th, 2<Jth, 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th 

 of October next. The last U. S. Fair was 

 nearly a failure on account of the early time 



in the season it was held. 

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Cashmere Goats in Ohio. — We learn 

 from the Scioto Gazette, that the flock of 

 Cashmere or Angora goats sent to that county 

 by Hon. John P. Brown, of Constantinople, 

 have been increased by the addition of four 

 kids, which were dropped this spring. All 

 the flock are doing well so far. 



