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MOOKE'S RUKAL EEW-YOREER. 



APRIL BO. 



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It md stirred. 

 * ;.■■ effectual as H || il.r hi raiefacd, 



CHEAP MOM OP OKDEBDBAIKniO. 



«» Hw,. . i« r ,h w make knowi** tho far 

 r r .mmuoilf. through Tour valuable paper, 

 Mp and effectual mode of underdraiotng. 

 mid premise hy UUlnj you that for tin lul ' 



imncu M p^iblc of the huge deposits which I 

 found •ocareuUipd around the bern*. This brine* 



. mi- to apeak ro-.re particularly of my farm. My 



! eve had first be-o attracted by » n 

 br.< rd in it, jutting boldly out into > fir.* sheet of 

 water. From tbe bluff at ibe point the ground 

 fall* away to-ard a plank road which intersects 

 the farm. leaving on the lake aide some lift ■■■en 

 acres of beautiful OMadow land. We bad Iau4> 

 bc«D read-tig I»NorEu.«w'a Indian romance, and 

 agreed to baptixo ibe place •'Muskoday,"— the 



I uow began a thorough examination of Hw BOil 

 ■ad tabtoil, and. greatly to mj amrtAotfon, (bond 



it much better than I had been led to expect. It 

 »n called a poor farm— a wet faun, fit fur DOlbiog 

 bm gra««, *c Indeed, ill niM.erfi.ial appoarmnco 

 JuUOedtfatiBOft milkTor»blBwtUci»OL Tbe high 



and dry pern were overrun wi'h Canada thistles. 

 On ihe mjadoira, the cultivated grasses bad run- 



uul. and been superceded by a dozeu varieties of 

 ibe coarsest sedge. Tbe orchard bad app: 







f draining a piece of 



core anj lh* Bolog lo thi| pn d 



broth in plaoeof lib « I had mr dtlcbrs cut Utne 



aamn manner a* fur tilra, with tbe regular draining 

 UoU, ud then laid in bruah cut in longlhl of four 

 or fire feet, from i inch to 8 Inche* Id diameter.— 

 On ibis I planed tbe amaller brush in bunches; 

 then, preulog ill dOwH light, I placed a layer ot 

 atraw. and filled in The land was then roadf for 

 UiO plow, tnd I rni-rd a fair crop of corn. Since 

 then a year baa elapsed, and Una spring the Rime 

 land ia already in ne'a and needed down. Having 

 occasion to pm in n bar l.mruli drain I in- tear, 



tiaininril the bid brush and found it n> ficsh and 

 good a* tbe day 1 put it in. 



Now, S.r, this bruah will last for al most twenty 

 yrar», and tny drama will have ttnlj 

 of digging. Ifnir, this expense line within the 



reach of e»ery farmer whnso land re roadrafl 



and flint land df>M DOt Ball for it. unices alight 

 loam on a gravel! r ■ ubsnil? Tlie «bj 

 baa been that t [i too expem ' 



l„...„ „ 



led by , 



ood. There was 



n lien in a man to improve bis 

 uonoi -I tbe 



wit year, I hove 



now continue to do so. One piece of four ncrca 

 thus done- would lour required IBO worth of tile. 

 This piece was an wet 1 could do DO thing with it; 

 bill il is DOW thoroughly ilruiucd, is dry its need 

 be, and lias been plowed unci waiting for the proper 

 time to receive tho corn, I may remark that I hud 

 heavily manured this pure of land, having hauled 

 my mnnurc on it in ft frozen condition, but ell this 

 would hn\ i been u'eles* if 1 bad allowed the water 

 the land. 

 If you think lho»c observations me worthy of 

 consideration, or a place in your roluabU paper, 



■oanaiy a fence 'hat would torn a cow of ID*, lent 

 .-ni. - r ] >■ i-i- Tlin-ir-li the misfortune rather than 

 the fault of tbe old owner*, the farm hnd barely 

 produced enough for years before to pay the taxes. 

 On examination I found that tbe higher part* of 

 the farm comprised some twenty acres admirably 

 adapted U> the culture of wheat. Tbe soil was a 

 loon gravelly loam, orerlying the " Marcellua 

 1 1 in|iidlydi*int<'i;rule from the wcitlb- 

 er, and break up easily under the plow. On this 

 bind I had two plows at Work during the recent 



I'ini! wculber, n'itl I find in g tbe leu* t obstruction 



lioio ntber frost or net. The rest of the farm I 

 found to consist of a rich vegetable mould with 

 ■Ubaoil of sand, easily worked, and us well adapted 



as any one could desire to corn, Tinea, r i,oi any 



ordniury ciiburc. That it wantt-d dniuiiiig it us 

 ob»ious. The water stood lale upOD II io spring ; 

 bin it nn« cii nail v plain, huth from the suil nnd tbe 



Il tborotlghlf. Two or three acres, lying by the 



bike .-I , almost swampy, I |..-,i..l to couaiat of 



heavy turf renting on a Tine grey beach sand , and 



i l n . I sit apart for a cranberry yard. So I had my 



oik before me, having spied out the actual naked- 



Mol the land, and ili potential ca[i.'il.ilHici. Bill 



is story has already DccoBlpd as tnoab space u l 

 a expect. If j-ur patience holds out, I may have 

 niftbing to say regarding my further experience 



that il ill tend to cnCOttrDgO 



fajming, whether clerical or lay. s. 



Uuskoday »"•"». N. Y. 



CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 



Ma. Moo in :— I do not observe in any of I 

 lisbed accounts that any person in Ibis !■ 

 iu the Eastern States, has yet succeeded in 

 sugar from this article, though, according 

 t Office Report, various persons 



you ntivy probably 





from m 





it. III! till- I.I.II 



Jttt of .lr.ioio B . 





peraoo 





roua of acting 



Illl. modp of dr.ininic 





■ft 



themselves by 



RiTiug IM n call. » 



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lioppy loshovr 





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Ac. 



W. L. I.ocia. 



Wllfora Farm. 8a 





N. T-. April. 





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iglit do 



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ma it I affirm 



ibat I bara laod II 





. only c 





mo 15 par aero 



d health -Imdu'l a 

 inc. I had consider- 

 f adapting myself to 

 11 whatever I should 

 middle life, and my 



!! 



CLEBICAX FABMING. 



I oita day came lo tho conclusion, like many other 

 of my brethren, that I must do something to eke 

 out an imidequati ■.salary, nnd provide for tho wauls 

 of a hearty, hungry family. 1 was running behind 

 •very yeor, and gelling In debt. I bud a couple of 

 Stout boys, old enough to be of n good deal of use. 



a passion for the country myself. I was born on a 

 farm Hut all my practical knowledge of Oeorgics 

 bad been confined lo the culiirntion of a parsonage 

 gardcD, and of Bucolics to the can Ol 

 single BOW. I enjoyed aoui 



ohir , mfldance in my powcrc 

 •, and doing w< 

 nndsrtake , and as t reached 

 hair came to be well streaked with gray, 

 yearning grew upon me to become an owi 

 ■Oil, and wrestle With Saturr for a bctlersubsistence 

 than my clerical labors during twenty pn 

 years hud ailnr.le.l me. 



Bo it «»' deoidi .I, aftei much deliberation 

 family, and earnest prayer lo that Gracious Power 

 who directs tbe steps of snob as wait upon lion, 

 purchase a farm; so a farm was found at aeon 

 nieul distance from the scene of i 

 labors, of conrciiic-.it aixo, and o 

 and just as March was going 

 most ferocious style, 1 packed my family and effects 

 into sleighs, and moved out over huge snow banks, 

 bstothj old-taabiOOsA low farm h. 

 the premises. I should say, however, that fr,.m 

 llii i ■ ■ i i i ■ 



"oram" myself most diligently will, agricultural 

 the Oral thing, (%o4 xon aU imclj 

 ■aknowladgvlooutdn'l hare done belter,) was to 

 r the Rmui. Niw-ITosjui 



1 Transaetiona " I could find, 

 i Agneuli 











i and genial enough t 



allth. 



I ■tadlad carefully tit. 



iM-SUta. . 

 thcr A B rie u |tural works, and pored upon 



them as ||„ K „ , 



Ihe exemplai 





«r»ca. 1 ought t 





i : Pi i 

 . The. i 



I great bc ,MU fr«m those 

 a composing the Farmers' 



"-'MThser'a 



l applicable to the preaei 



eulmi 



able to grasp broad principles, 



:ulation» and details. 

 ;rammedw.lh " book- tarn wg.'' 1 * ot *red 

 I practical experiences; and iurdly Wu 

 ring finished, before I had my team at a, 



Hi. Ihe upper joints ol 



ind will not make sugar, and the productiv 



r the crop, every year, depends upon the number 



I" joints ripened, and perhaps we might succeed 



ridtnll* contain a thicker and stronger juice 

 mn the upper joints ; which ure thin, less sweet. 

 ml consorlcd with starch, acids and gummy 

 latter, that are an absolute hindrance to chrya- 

 tallixation. 



All matter (and what is not matter ceases to be) 

 is composed of definite multilorm atoms — yea, 

 cicry auliHlance known in the material world, is 

 wonderfully endowed by this law, to form each its 

 separate duly and material. Tbe air. all gases, 

 water, the blood, all minerals and vegetables ond 

 their component parts, are formed by its peculiar 

 shaped alomt, invisible in most cases to micro- 

 scopic eye. The infloitoaltna) globules of butter 

 are so enveloped by the casein or curd, that great 

 labor is required to break tbe euchantmen 

 allow the butryaceous particles to congregate and 

 form butter. So with our cane juice, but slightly 

 supplied with saccharine matter, is so surrounded 



with tbe starchy, albuminous and mucilugin 



material in its unripe state, that it is impossible 

 for the atoms of sugar to separate and join Ibeii 

 congeners and ebryMullire. The lowcrondripeneiJ 

 joints might realize a different issue. 



A few years since the production of till was the 

 popular hobby, and hardly any family " with soul; 

 above buttons," but what experimented in thai 

 mania, which was ibe universal topic of conrersa 

 iion nnd ihe trumpeting* ol the public prints — nol 

 a paper, daily or weekly, but what made this sub 

 jeet a constant theme, utilii silk worms and multi 

 cuolte ruined thousands. Whero is the great 

 spcculstion now '—gone lo the tomb of the Copu- 

 lets. There is great danger of a like raanll (sir the 

 sugar cane. Its successful operation depends on 

 so many contingencies — so foreign to the hsbitj 

 and abilities of farmers io general — requiring 

 strong, well made iron crushing rollers and crop 

 orating pans differing from any thing is common 

 use, that well-grounded fears may be indulged that 

 ibis valuable addition to domestic comforts, ai 

 even as m prohiabh- crop, "ill be abandoned u; 

 sink into tbe dark waters of neglect and forgi 

 fulness. H . T . 



Slicwp. 

 I ha. a wintered twenty Now Leicester a 

 Cotswold ewes. Within tbe past two weeks th 

 have dropped 30 lambs — 10 pair of twins, and 10 

 single lambs. Two we lost by accident, one other 

 got chilled an i , percent, in- 



to ItsM, 36 ewes of the aame blood dropped 44 

 lambs— 16 pair of twins, 1 pair triplets, and nine 

 single lambs. Perhaps others may hare been more 

 anceeaafui. It so, I should be pleased to hear from 

 them,- Jo** B*naa, lft<vJi», -V F., «* ma., '59. 



<?oi.i)c.tscl) (Jorrcspoiilic.ue. 



rbat baa been said in the Remit, 

 aboutplowingdcep.andespeeiallyiothatoftbeUth 

 by brother O., which revealed bis troubles to his 

 friends snd culled upon tbem for help, I am in- 

 duced to relate a portion of my experience. When 

 boy, linng at home, I broke up about four 

 pan land in February, 







at all limea running on the hard-pan. leaving 

 the bottom of tbe furrow as blue as a whetatone. 

 In the spring, sowed to oats, and raised a fair crop, 

 ul rery high, and plowed in the stubble as deep 

 I tsro faoraea could plow, and continued to work 



ben the bard-pan had entirely disappeared and 

 ie oat« grew B0 large that it took me from sun- 

 so until 6 o'clock to cut tbem, and al that time my 



cradle could keep up with any in that ricinity. It 

 r twenty years sioce I broke up that field, and 

 tin ues to bear large crops of corn, barley aod 



grass. I am now on a farm composed of a stiff loam 

 urn 16 to 20 inches, with a hard-pan subsoil. I get 

 loluigcilcom by plowing deep io the lull and ndg- 

 g lightly in the spring, which keeps it dry and 

 arm iu the spring and causes it lo root deep, from 



stand the drouth in midsummer. My corn was 

 the only corn planted io this nay in this neigh- 

 borhood last year, and was affected less by the 

 cold, wet weather than any other. I shall continue 

 to follow Poor R.ciuito's saying.— S. P.. L., Wirt, 

 AlUgany Co., N. Y., 1853. 





i large 





s of Jerusalem 



nother a white 



is larger and yields most, while 

 the white is more nutritious. The yield of the icd 

 Turicty was about fifteen hundred buuhc Is per hoc, 

 and tho white ones yielded over one thousand 

 bushels per acre. I hare fed them to most kinds 

 of stock, and they are exceedingly fond of them, 

 particularly horses. Hogs will dig them, when the 

 ground is not frozen, for themseWcs and oiher 

 stock. They are not injured by freezing, and are 

 ■y easily preserved for winter use, nnd can be 



,-M ii 





bushel. They should be planted early in spring, 

 but will yield well if planted any tiino before tho 

 first of Mar. I plant them two by four feet, with 

 one piece iu a bill, and cultirute about the same as 

 corn, al though ilis not so much work to keep them 

 clear from weeds on account of their ahadc.— L, D. 

 Scott, Itititn, Ohio. 



As many farmers ore now fencing, I will 

 tion a kind of fence which ia thought very good 

 hereabouts. It i3 a combination of wall and board 

 fence. About two feet (or two and a half, is stone 

 wall, and tho top part boards. Tho posts ore 

 pointed and driven in tho ground, the wall built 

 around them, and two boards nailed on top com- 

 pletes the fence. Such a fence in Q frosty, windy 

 country, has many advantages over every other. 

 Tho pn«t» end ^roll mntrjally support cucb other, 

 and as to the topping it cannot blow off, Fence 

 made entirely of boards, atone, or rails, frequently 

 gets out of repair, while a fenco made as described 

 stands firm and unshaken.— H. K. F., Camhridgt 

 ValUy, JV. V., 1859. 



ilnquirics anb ^Inguicrs. 



Wb bare illustruled ond describe. I scver.il .Stomp 

 Miichines in former volumes including one 

 two patent ones— but arc not prepared to s 

 which is tho best and cbespest now obtainable 

 We have received several inquiries on the subject 

 within a few days, sud shall be glad to giro the 

 desired information from those who can speak 



W« haTe heard of, but not seen, tbe new inven- 

 tion. A friend, who is investigating tbe subject, 

 says tho new churn is evidently the long sought 

 desideratum. Do not thiuk it is yet offer 

 market, else it would be ad»crlised in the ag 







■ pie. 



i shall be glad to recede from some e 

 i apiarian, a good or the best plan foi 

 ting an apiary. As U> which is the boat 

 which the best book, doclov - 

 in hardly admit replies Irom inleresl.-d per- 

 -except in our advertising department. 



e good drain Ule are raa 

 nowo in the ItcasL we 



Rural Spirit of % Press. ^\gnmlturnl iNustdlami. 



I prcpa: 



r of the Ohio <\Uit<jt<x- say 

 . in eon ndsiM are — ti... 

 i, early and careful plautm 



.,,,1 de- 



umener through. If prompt and eocr- 

 i is important and necessary anywheie, 

 mphatieally so in a corn-held lint go 

 partment of labor, and who ariat! The 

 dulent, the careless t No 1 The Micaw- 

 .•o always waiting for "something to 





• waao Masox writes in the ilichigan Farmtr 

 >ws:— Il is a well established fait, that har- 

 [ and rolling wheat in spring, are very bene- 

 o the crop, and most destructive to those 

 i of the farm" which mar the hopes of tho 

 \ The pupa of those formidable insects, the 

 it" and " Hessian" flies lie, buried in the 

 near the r 



of the young plants, at the 

 depth of about one inch from the surface, when 

 up by the harrow, and expoacd pro- 

 cold weather, myriads of tbem are 

 destroyed. Besides the good done in this way, 

 harrowing breaks lumps, fills up the cracks aod 

 i tbe soil around the roots of 



SjibBoil Flowing. 



1st an orticle upon this subject, the editor of the 

 WorUn,/ Farmer calls the attention of his readers 

 to theadvaniagcsof tbe system, summing up thus: 

 " Tbe use of the subsoil plow does not elevate the 

 subsoil to the surface, aod thus removes the ouly 

 objection ever urged against its use. Il does per- 



tbe atmosphere to enter the soil to a greater 

 depth. It enables tho roots to travel through lar- 

 ger portions of the suil, nud thus come in contact 

 with n greater amount of food. It prepares the 

 subsoil for future elevation and admixture with the 

 surface soil, thus deepening all our soils. It does 

 away with sourness of soil. It prevents drouth, 

 by edhbling tbe moisture to come in contact with 

 the cold surfaces on which it will be deposited by 

 condensation. No well subsoiled field ever suffered 

 from drouth. No subsoiled meadows ever run 

 out. For until roots ore brought iu contact With 

 cold and undistuilii.d sub-nil, their crowns can 

 never cease to tiller, ond thus replace such crowns 

 as may be broken by cattle's feet while pasturing. 

 Old meadows may be subsoiled without turning 

 over the aod, lifting the wbole field half an inch, 

 suffering dead roots to decuy, and new ones to 



regenerating the growlh so that on ordinary top- 

 dressing may cause new rigor." 



From a rcccut number of tho Detroit Fret 



"The 



.,i|-..,( 



realized among the farmers of Michigan and other 

 States of the West. The repeated failure of the 

 wheat crop in this section of the country, ond its 

 low price during an abundunt season, hove been 

 causes for great disc nintgt- men I lo the agricultural 

 community, and bus compelled tbem to seek for 

 relief from impending ruin, in some other of tbe 

 gifls which Dame Nature lavishes so bounteously 

 on her industrious votaries. The attention of the 

 farmers of the Northwest having been fortunately 

 directed to the breeding of sheep, the experiment 



for the past three years, been a continually in- 

 creasing clip of wool sent forward to market from 

 the interior of Michigan, in the aggregate amount- 

 ing to some millions of pouuds. The prices, so 

 far, hare been higher, more uniform, and better 

 sustained than those of any other product of the 

 farm and, as the Paw Paw Fm Frit* remarks, it 

 is becoming pretty certain that wool is to be, at 

 least, one of the leading agricultural products. 

 The market for this article is rery brisk — the 

 manufactuiers have not a supply on band, and 

 importations to some extent have taken place tho 



Tnos. D. Atlsworth, of Herkimer Co., N. ' 

 (says the Trihunt,} has laid tbe hop growers uni 

 erca obligation to him for his invention of a si 

 Mimic for hop-poles, which have been so used 

 in hop growing districts that they aro onerou 

 expensive, and, as ia well known by all hop grc 

 cr.s, the labor of setting a large field of poles evi 

 cry great. This labor t 



cd with. 



a plan is 

 e or eight rods apart, in ai 

 II admit of Outhetopof 

 n, aud from it strings are carried to 

 a tbe ground by the bop r 

 be strings readily, and as 

 e is a great advantage gai 

 mles. When the hops ar 



n shaft with 



i little wire spring book 

 end, can be unbooked, aud as many 

 en down at one time as the picker de- 

 Itripped in the field, or severed from tin 

 ikes and carted to the barn. A small, 

 -iron clamp is attached to each post thai 

 ,nly is loosened 





, and io case of a wire breaking, i 



. space only will be prost 



c is altogether, both in economy ana use, 



cment worthy the attention of all hop grc 



hesameplaowilla! 



■ighi t 





■. Just I 



Spicclatioh in Ct-ovea BlaUV-^ Tho Cincinnati 

 Price Current says that with the belief that the 

 clover seed crop of lost year was a failure, specula- 

 tors went into the market and purchased largely at 

 high prices. The principal purehoaeB were made 



The bubble soou hursl, however, and it is now found 

 ibat tbe article is a drug at |a>7fi to «.', mid the 

 stock large. Prospective pntjtts doubtful. 



era were elected ■. — PrWttnt-Lvnitn 9 

 ,- President* -\f, P. Nottingham, Palmy 

 mans, Walworth ; Lorenzo llatlmway, far 



mpport for the phjel 



p Natwbs" are often r 



'■line to a mutual undemanding, 

 time, the other patlcntlj walling, 

 i by going round and round la a 





locations to library a 



pfed bj the 



8t»« Ao. Boeim's Paauiva I.i«t, *<-. — We aro 

 idebted toCoL Jonssos for paeapblet containing Pre- 



lUons, die., of N. V. Blati 

 Il8». Copies msT bo obtained al the principal !m- 

 Icmriil Warehouaei throttghoul Ihe Stale. 





I a sound and 









•bed a good 



wool and scratch badly In 







eight moniin 



acab Vi effect anj sensible Injury to tbe 



rrp men aerjuatoted with 



he scab give 



