MOORE'S RE&jSlL EEW-YO&KE&. 



MAY 14. 



perhaps ncrer queued by decaying »*g«Ubl« 

 matter under any other eircum-'- 



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ling deeper. 



t decreases, and be 

 a color and tenure much re- 

 sembling floe-cut tobacco. consiMing of separate, 

 distinct particle*. *•'* »l«>le curiously threaded 

 ■rill) the trtundeceyedTeinaof leares; and, lower 

 ■ till, of almost Tclrety softness, lici the finest, 

 cleaned, amoothmt, prettiest dirt imaginable, if 

 thai can be railed dirt which Cogent of the moat 

 delicate touch experience a sensation of real pleas- 

 ure in handling. 



If \hr MtpIOtVT, after pursuing Im inrpsligationa 

 thus far, c*pcriencea anything of lbs aTOndtf Utd 

 admiration I anticipate for bim, and poaaesaes, in lbs 

 ■mllul dtgret, tho icol of a curiosity hunter, he 

 1 iliu wiah to carry away a specimen of 

 Ins new found trraaure ; and if nothing more con- 

 venient to gather it in be at band, he will carefully 

 collect and tie up in bia pocket-handkerchief a fow 

 bandfula wherewith to puiile and surprise those at 

 home who»n ip;noronee of Ibis substance is proba- 

 bly as great as his own was an hour before. Then, 

 after pawtiDg it round fore lamination, if he remem- 

 bers to here read of its good effect on grupe »ine», 

 atrawberry Tines, blackberry mid raspberry bushes, 

 Ac, ha will »n»sl likely bestow his sample on some 

 brorlti plant and determine to improve the first 

 Opportunity to go with his learn and fetch home, 

 for the benefit of his young trees, vines, bushes, Ac, 

 a quantity of thi* ..aid to-bccicellcnl : and certainly 

 most interesting fertilizer. 



Bo mm b beauty as lies hid in one of these rich 

 deposits of mold ought not to be unmasked with- 

 out plenty of appreciative eyes to witness it. Es- 

 pecially, bo sure to hove the ohUdlfD present when 

 the precious heap is opened. Tho revelation of its 

 contents, accompanied by some account of tho 

 slow utid curious process by which the wonderful 

 pile accumulated, would afford them heartier de- 

 light than many a novelty they nre carried miles to 

 see, while lha BMrotM of helping collect in baskets 

 thia aubslnnee, which, considered in its origin or 

 in itself, is as beautiful and as surprising na a mir- 

 acle, would yield a vast amount of innocent and 

 healthful enjoyment. There need be no difficulty 

 about a provision of implements for taking out the 

 contents of thin sylvan laboratory; children would 

 04 soon pick up acorn cups, chestnuts, walnuts, or 

 applet, with a pair of tongs as gather such pretty 

 stuff as leaf mold with any other tools than hands. 



Individuals or parties visiting the woods for 

 rural enjoyment, may make an examination of one 

 of these neglected leaf banks n most pleasant and 

 instructive incident of their excursion. They will 

 scarcely find, in the course of n day's ramble, any- 

 thing better worth their attention, or longer to be 

 remembered, Even tho curious inquirer into Na- 

 ture's secrets is here presented an interesting sub- 

 ject for investigation. A common observer could 

 give only n rough guess (it would probably fall 

 quite below the murk,) concerning the length of 

 linn- ii particular mold bed bu been forming ; but 

 Hi.' nice, i i itu u!, scientific searcher goes carefully 

 to work, separates and removes, with caution, each 

 successive layer, as distinguished by the different 

 stages of decomposition they have reached, end by 

 his skillful anatomy, arrives at n tolerably accurate 

 estimate of the number of years through which the 

 dead leaves showering down from the surrounding 

 trees have driflr.l u^.uiist the huge log where they 

 lie, each frr.ili dOpOlli btuylno deeper its prcde- 

 ■ii, in turn, the lubjoot of like sepul- 

 ture, and transformed by time oud damp into ttie 

 very poetry of decay. Truly, there be some things 

 belonging to Earth that never lose their beauty, 

 and leave* are of them ; we do not know when to 

 admin- itum nm.t in life, in death, or in ili-iolu- 



THE TWO ENDS OF THE HORN. 



I'ns, Ki rii 1 lately ventured into a piece of 

 extravagance, vii,, subscribed for the Rriui, and 

 w you invite farmers to write to you, I thought I 

 would send you a few items of my experience — 

 showing my poor success in thai ennobling and 

 glorious employment in relation to which orators 

 "in! i.i. men moke to many profound and Bun- 

 combe speeches, ami editors, political, literary, and 

 agricultural, sny so inauy beautiful things. If suc- 

 cess is sounded forth, aud by means of the press 

 publi-ln'il I.. Hi.' emit of the earth, should not want 

 of succcs* I ■ ..led. that tho 



world may strike " the happy nedjoml" 



If the (hot iimi the lion. a. d.'i ooirhodtfro 

 beautiful Durham qoItoi at a birth, which he 

 promptly refused to sell for WOO, goes the round 

 of the papers, ought not the conflicting fact to be 

 published as well, that Hon. A. D.'a neighbor J. 

 10. , after feeding out all bis fodder, tried m vaiu to 

 get his cow up May hill, and all he could save was 

 her hide, which he sold to the tanner, lest all the 

 nVt|Ud go to raising calves under the 

 that they can sell them for JJJoO apiece? 

 If the papers publish the statement. thatC. Cj.ei.La, 

 Esq., from 4 parent birds raised 19 pairs of Brsm- 

 shsng chickon*. which brought him 

 and also supplied a small family with eggs — mt- 

 ■ , . 

 11 . not also to publish Farmer 

 smphatic statement that his BO imported 

 >a curse to hini — that the "UrnaJ cri 

 lets" eat themselves up four times In tho cour 

 of a wmler, vcqu^ing a bushel of corn per week 

 that they .cr., cUc4 lip , wo ^^^ b|]]l _ 



nor egg* 



fowl, a 



down tht, c i 



lime— thai he ha. »„„ ft cl)i 



enough lo paj I 



a ( . 





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pig ten mono 



weight, would il not be a» *Hl t« bL"^n^A 

 the fact that Mr. Kwr.on the adj.. - 

 day killed i 



old, averaging MS lbo.1 If A cuu a Rohan p oUu , 

 n pieces, and raises half a bttahd of n- 

 i pout. 



i blow it broadcast, should tbey not 

 li the eqoally conclusive and proc- 





kiI c 





if B. who 



bushel of the same kind and harvested 100 bushel 

 of inferior potatoes* 



f. PaorrxDtccs, having sowed a plat of 

 highly manured land, three yards square, with a 

 foreign variety of wbeat, and baring guanoed and 

 plastered the same, finally reaps and threshes it, 

 and by nice measuring and figuring triumphantly 

 demonstrate* lhal it has yielded at the rale of ~l% 

 bunbcls per acre, and immediately sends to Con- 

 ic for a cargo of the same for seed, has 

 i, experiment and speculation heralded 

 abroad for the public good, — for the same reason 

 ought Dot the subsequent experiment of Farmer 

 a like publicity, 







He i 



•rof. P.'s experiment, receives I'rof. IVs circular. 

 tela excited, takes to figuring, buys SO bushels of 

 P.'e wheat at J5 per bushel, sows it, and takes to 

 dreaming — dreams of harvests both of grain and 

 dollars and cents. The laod is ordinary, the sea- 

 ordmarv, the harvest less than ordinary.— 

 -lis dream is over. He now takes lo think- 

 ing. Thinks he is a fool-, thinks Prof. P. is a 

 knave; thinks farming is a bore. 

 Let us hear both sides. If there is sunshine, 

 ere are shadows; if there is honey, there are 

 inble stingers to defend it; if there is fruit, bo 

 c there thorns; if there are ups, so oro there 





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IsHaruu.— If Mr. East's initial blast is a fair 

 ox of his promised "experience," Run.ti read- 

 insy eipeet some items lending to enable them 

 tt ike "the happy medium." But wo submit 

 that, notwithstanding his fine exordium, it is al- 

 lys wise to " breed from the best " — to lake jour 

 w to tho best male bovine — aud that care in tho 

 lection of sires and seeds, as well as a little extra 

 penditure in securing them, (with correspond- 

 g pains-taking in breeding and culture,) will 

 generally pay large dividends. The cases cited 



II await his conclusion, and see which end of 

 )rn is the largest. 



BRUSH BNDERDHAINS.-THi; OTHER BIDE. 



F"UHD Moons:— I ban» been un ardent friend, a 

 mstuot reader, aud I suppose my name has been 

 i your books as a subscriber for your valuable 

 Rural for eight years. I have read accounts of a 

 cr of experiments mudc by correspondents 

 me year's trial, which have proved their ex- 

 perience or conclusions to be erroneous. They 

 jump ai conclusions in the outset, whereas they 

 should " wait u little longer," or uutil they know 

 ore positirely whereof they affirm. 

 In the Rural of April 00, our friend \V. L. jTtocib, 

 under the head of "Cheap Mode of Underdraw- 

 ing," says that for the want of tile he made use of 

 brush, After his drain had loin for one year he 

 examined the brush, found it as fresh as when first 



moat twenty years, and my drains will have 

 only cost the price of digging." 



Now, sir, I call this jumping at conclusions— for 

 sixteen years at least. Six years ogo I laid about 

 eighty rods of brush drain, the same way as Mr. L. 

 I have a field of five acres, sloping to the south at 

 about 6 inches to the rod — wet, spongy, the soil 

 mostly producing grass. Having plenty of brush, 

 I tried the experiment of brush draining. I cut a 

 ditch two feet wide and IS inches deep. Com- 

 menced to put in brush at the mouth of the drain, 

 but-ends foremost, the lops resting on the buts 

 of tho others. Tho thickness of the brush was ten 

 inches, covered with a coot of straw, put inverted 

 turf on the straw, then filled in withcarth thrown out 

 of the ditch. I plowed deep; the season was dry ; 

 plowed no more, but cultivated olten. Sowed to 

 wheat, Sept. 4th ; harvested a good crop. 



I felt as much overjoyed as does W. L. L. at his 

 success in cheap draining, and put about Ifl rods 

 in each branch, draining into a large open ditch. 

 The first and second year it worked well. The 

 third year, however, the water made its appearance 

 through my brush drains, on the top. I examined 

 them ; found them pressed together, and the earth 

 from the top filled into the brush, completely 

 choking the drains. The fourth year I dug them 

 out, and let the water have free course. W. L. L. 

 soys you may probably hear from him again nn the 

 subject of draining. With due respect I advise 

 him to wait six years, and then report progress. 



Stafford, N. T„ May, ISM. E. Bixnv. 



MOON FARMTNG.-AN INQUIRY. 



Rrc 



e recently become a l'Ciidei 

 and consequently nn admirer of the Rural. I cot 

 sider it one of tho " institution," of the 

 farmer. One of it* bopplett and uio.-.t i 

 features is the interchange of thought it elicits 



giving each an opportunity to benefit hU brother 

 farmer by his own experience. It is emphatically 

 the people's paper, the farmer's instructor, and as 

 I an one of your pupils I bog the j . , 

 ing a plain question through its columns. It is 

 this— Wkt timt •• i.i tht moon " tvU>i 



It is held by many good and WUM people, that 

 sowing the seed iu the " wrong of the luoon " has 

 a disastrous effect upon the crop ; if this is so it is 

 time we all understood the theory and 

 of the fact. If Mrs. LvMl smiles upon 

 day, and frowns upon it the next, it behooves us 

 all to study her disposition. Again— It IB laid this 

 very fastidious old lady is immoderately particular 

 about her diet, especially pork, "shriVchng it np 

 in the pan," if it is not killed jiu& the lime her 

 fancy dictates. Soap is also ondei : 

 care, and obstinately refuses to " come " except at 



Bditor, I ask this question scriouslv, 



,;, lemma. I have heard that certain 



U> IN Mini cither iu the lull or old of 



i that it would cither come up or rot, 



— 1 bare forgotten which. Will some of your kind 



*v*»deta pleoae tell us bow we can call down the 



blessing*, and avoid tho curses, of this crop, pork, 



Md soap rvguUtor. Mrs, Lisa? 



PORTABLE STEAM ENGINE. 



Thb above cut represents a Portable Steam En- 

 gine, as manufactured by A. N. Woon A Co., of 

 Eaton. Madison Co., N. Y., whose reputation as 

 builders is well established throughout the coun- 

 try. Tho uses to which these engines may be ap- 

 plied upon a farm, oro various. Upon a large 

 farm or plantation, where much grain is threshed, 

 wood sawed, Ac, they ore considered almost indis- 



pensable. They are convenient for steaming milk 

 for dairy purposes, and feed for fattening stock — 

 for running a grist mill, grindstone, washing-ma- 

 chine, corn-shcller, sausage-cutter, Ac- The steom 

 may also be used for heating shops, tanneries or 

 buildings where stoves ore not safe or convenient. 

 See announcement of the manufacturers in our 

 advertising department. 



lUival Spirit of i\\t Press. 



having taken a lesson from the calves, states that 

 in every case a cow may he made to let down her 

 milk by striking tho udder with the clenched fiBt. 

 He says:— "When a boy, my business was to 

 suckle tho calves night and morning. I noticed 

 after the calves were of some size, and when first 

 admitted to the cows, and after, when the milk 

 was nearly exhausted, particularly if the supply 

 was scant, that they made a most vigorous bul- 

 ling of the cow's Ikil".. cuu-iiiiK them to kick about 

 lustily." From this he took tho hint, and has 

 never failed, by a judicious use of his fists, to 

 bring the milk speedily down from the most ob- 

 stinate holders up. 



S. P. Joslts, of WailsficM, Vt., sends to the 

 Ntv> England Fanner the following method of 

 preparing dairy salt :— " Take the best crystol salt, 

 wash it, dissolve, strain, settle, and turn off; boil 

 it down in some perfectly clean iron vessel, skim 

 as boiling; when stirred off dry, it will produce 

 fine salt, white as the drifting snow, which, if stir- 

 red up iu a glass vessel of water, will produce no 

 sediment, aud will be distinct from any mineral 

 or other possible impurity. Salt is offered in the 

 country markets for from one and one-fourth to 

 one and oDC-bnlf cents per pound, which looks 

 like tho model of perfectnesa. After the above 



I of I 



Fort 



years past we have manu- 



fiictured suit in this way for the produce of about 

 three tuns of butter each year." This mode was 

 introduced to Mr. J. as being practiced by an ex- 

 perienced Scotch dairyman, and such fuith is 

 placed in the purity of the salt after preparation, 

 that Mr. Josltn, after his two years' experience, 

 purposes to continue the experiment. 



A> Ohio correspondent of the Prairie Farmer 

 gives it as his opinion that "what is done on o 

 small scule, with ordinary menu/, may bo done by 

 the acre." To sustain this position he remorks 

 that, "on a square rod of land, occupied for the 

 second year only as a garden, and OODBBquently 

 well manured, o neighbor raised, last year, nine 

 bushels of carrots— or at tho rate of more than 

 fourteen hundred bushels per acre." Tuking this 

 os bis text he gives us the following brief dis- 

 course: — "Did anyone ever fully appreciate the 

 value of a single bushel of carrots to a cow giving 

 milk and making butter in winter? If so, such a 

 one may understand the benefit which may be de- 

 rived from a herd of twenty cows, the whole of 

 which receive a half bushel per day each all win- 

 ter from a crop of fourteen hundred bushels. If 

 worth twenty-five cents a bushel in saving hoy, 

 improving the condition, and increasing milk and 

 butter, the whole crop would be worth $3. r >0. Yet 

 the cost of raising need not bo $100, at ordinary 

 prices of manure in most localities. 'High farm- 

 ing' in some matters will not pay, but it will emi- 

 nently do bo in this ; and ono of the great points 

 of ikill in successful farmers, is to know when it 

 will, und when it will not." 



We are indebted to 2?felW BnuAeld WbnU 



for the following description of the process pur- 

 sued in the manufacture of butter by the best 

 Dutch Dairies :— " There tbey come, the milkmaid 

 and the boy, The bt>y is towiog a little hoot along 

 the canal, and the moid, with her full blue petti- 

 coat and her pink jacket or bedgown, walks beside 

 him. Now they stop; she brings from the boat 

 htf copper milk pails, as bright us gold, and. with 

 a cooing greeting lo her dear cows, sets down 

 her little stool on the gross, and begins to milk. 

 The boy, having moored his boot, stands beside 

 her with the special pail, which is to hold the last 

 pint from each cow ; the creamy pint which comes 

 lut, because it has risen to the top of the udder. 

 Not a drop is left to turn sour and fret the cow. 

 The boy fetches ond carries the pails, ond moves 

 as if he trod on eggs when conveying the full pnils 

 to the boot. When afloat, there IS DO shaking at 

 all. Smoothly glides the cargo of pails up to the 

 very entrance ol "the dairy, when- the 

 appropriate to this "meal" of milk, arc ready— 

 cooled »iib cold water, if it is summer, and warm- 

 ed with hot water if the weather requires u 

 When the time for churning comes, the Dutch 

 woman takes matters as quietly as hitherto. She 

 softly tastes the milk iu the jars till she finds 

 therein tl>e doe degree of acidity; and then she 

 leisurely pours the whole — cream and milk to- 

 gether— into a prodigiously stout and tall upright 

 I ist eiert herself, however, if she is 

 to work that plunger. She work it!— not she! 



She would as soon think of working the mills on 

 the dykes with her own plump hands. No — she 



dog into a wheel which is connected with the 

 plunger; and, as the animal runs round, what a 

 splashing, wolloping, and frilling is heard from 

 tho closed churn \ Tho quiet dairymaid knows by 

 the changes of the sounds how tho formation of 

 the butter proceeds; when she is quite sure that 

 there are multitudes of flakes floating within, she 

 stops the wheel, releases the dog, turns down tho 

 churn upon a large sieve, which is laid over a tub, 

 and obtains a sicveful of butter, in the shape of 

 yellow kernels, while the buttermilk runs off for 

 tho benefit of tho pigs, or of the household 

 cookery." 



inquiries anu QnswtvB. 



country a 

 r.l.y plar. 



you so Justly complain of In m« 



of not being explicit enough, Is 



treated? Will they produce injury If let atone?— C. II. 



Ths teeth described nre colled Wolf teeth by 

 some, and by others eye teeth. Dado does not 

 mention them — neither does Yopatt — but in 

 "Every Man His Own Farrier" they form the 

 subject of a very brief chapter. It soys: — "This 

 is a smoll tooth appearing on the upper jaw, at 

 the distance of about half an inch, or on inch from 

 Sometimes on one side, and at other 

 limes on both sides. These teeth are seldom found 

 . irsesj but old horses are sometimes 

 subject to them. They are supposed to affect the 

 eyes a' different times: they must he removed 

 either bv Die iij.|ilic.itiou of u hammer und chisel 

 made for the ] ■ "i down level 



with (be gums." 



CiTTLB SriTiSTicaP-In 1858 [lUnoIa sent to the 

 \"ew York market 68,464 head of cattle, while the 

 Stales of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Miehigun togeth- 

 er, only sent ,, t | ie gram^t 

 grass growing State in the ' 



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in Coax — "lUadtn 





ean giro a remedy for the wire worm 





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potatoei were badly pierced with 















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» season ready for the campaign. 





eforc tt la planted, certi 





If, with black wing* and golden n.* 













able to deteel 1 itogta 





. and my young radlihes. What wIL 





meetly. Not ono per* 





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deatroja the vitality of 

 of heat long ecnflnnod, 

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practiced NieceSBfully bj a m 

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