> 



fflOOKE'S ROKAI. BEW-YORKEK. 



by ertn pesos through which tbl 



fiilnc** ..f a Hung cau bo dmoDif'-" 



I 



,..■■ 



- i nwortby of the 



■ 



..... 



it "What wUljougiTe," 



. 



cue »boui buying much. Market's pretty full; 



mt of tuts war; 

 gnosi times ire going to bo pretty hard; **pecl 



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give i 



■ IhBJ 



i r..r ■ 





apparently indifferent i iow nil g U 



. ,.,vc what liUlo I've got," 



returned our Farmer. 



This preltj little b 1 h e ( > 1 ■■ ■ ion wo* duly 



iil.il ami delivered," and one of llio 



parlies roado a largo prolit, and the oilier a large 



law. Ut OS MO this transaction. To my 



certain knowledge this farmer "dropped" hi* 

 paper beotoM ho wanted "every cent he could 

 ;-,■'," pi ■■ ivuiilil'ni (i;i> lii couiu.uo it." Hence 



be dni »"i know that periods of 



generally produrc mli micd pneei 



, dope 



, («f 



Lfaongh rullowed by acqrrespono:iii- denj 



iU close, if not before^ but be might have been 



].i»U'il m 11.1 ■. >.-\ f lie had k »n what would 



■ . iai ..I lomothiDg !■■ 

 IbllowiDgpOrtiui] of hi* experience .. 



\ 1. ■.! ilii 1 nfler tlio "nell," bo met ■■■ im-libur, 



from whom ha leumcd (hat brother farmer had 



ill eight; cents a bushel, but con- 



,.„ld I 



,vlin 



on," Lost week bo feliso "worked up" 

 i', Hint bo burrowed a paper ftom another 

 '.'.. ■■ M irkots," discovered 

 orn stood ot ninety cento a bethel What 

 the profit-ability of taking u 

 [taper, (such as the one that ho borrowed,) 



knon noli but, '.. m 



.. Ithoul ana " 11 i'h 1 pay. in 



10 ol tin? deulcr.it did pay to know what wits 



on in I In.' ivui Id of trade nnd barter, and I 



. log that hi* paper is coutin- 



Thm much Tor au illustration drawn from QOtUO] 

 life, c loooroiog H10 working of thj ■ 



mi iiii.iniiiiiiiin, piMioy-wisi', poand- 



looli-lp, nun [...._■ 1. ■ ii ,■ |.i i.ni,.|.. Ii : , -i i-,-., i,, 



give ' 'in,, appreo n of the old adorn " Knowl- 



Power." There wore days when this 

 might bare been ravened, affording a reason why 

 the desired end of both (success,) whs not more 

 mi 'I. Dm the Present demands of him 

 who would win, a Steady step, side by side with 

 sweryreaJ improvement; & ihowngb study of the 

 great world in Which ho ]i>c-<, and a proper cotn- 

 blnofion of Theory with Practice. 



knowledge of what progreea the world is making 



in the v in ion* phases of it* manifested life, or who 



■ ing (comparOlftaly ODE 

 daily experience, must not be astonished if Lis 

 fellow beings outstrip him in the march of time. 



That Farmer who believes that it " Won't Par " 

 to take 11 good paper, Olid who depend* upon others 



SOIL ANALYSIS, 



i 1 iitors:— Tho article in tlio Rukal of 



May 7lb, cuiilled "A Peep into Modern Philoso- 

 phy" is replele with good things, and I think your 

 many renders feci obliged to the writer for attempt- 

 ing to expose some of the fallacies that obtain so 

 readily in this wonderful latter part of the nine- 

 teen th century. Afterdiscussing pretty thoroughly 

 the prevail itig doctrines of Agricultural l'l;emi-ti ^ 

 and Vegetable Physiology, he asks — "lias there 

 been one new idea established by soil analysis *" I 

 will answer 111 the must decided manner, — Yes sir, 

 thousand* of them. Tho analysis of soils is one of 

 the grandest achivementa in Agricultural Science, 

 nnd tho experiments iliat have been made by 

 Likdig, and other eminent Chemists, have opened 

 11 neb tin ne .it ngrioultura) knowledge, of which the 

 world «;!-. entirely ignorant It is well known that 



some sniN me nut congenial 1o eeiioiii crops, the 

 only difficulty being n lack of some of the elements 

 which enter inlo (heir r..n,uusilion, and in order to 

 ascertain the deficiency the soil must bu analyzed 

 and the diffioulty obviated by supplyingitho needed 



clement, whether it be lime, sand, potash, h 



dust or any other substance that can be easily ap- 

 plied to the soil. This has been done rmi ifeaVtf, 

 and by thil process many farms have been made 

 productive. Now, in order to raise ony grain 

 whatever, the tlemtnU of Mich grain must be in the 

 ground. Ileuce the utility of soil analysis, and 



I '. :■:.:■ il. il III.' lull 1.1 



renewed every seven years, or, in other words, that 

 it evaporates or passes nway by the sensible and in- 

 sensible perspirations. The writer says that, " phy- 

 loiophieuly ibis may he true, but practically it is 



" stupid non-tnith." Dut we think that be has 

 ailed to demonstrate tho proposition. lie soya 

 a tho scars aud other manifestations of the 



human i„„i, ,„„„„ tl|i> m#Q rf ]0(J yfan ^ ^ 



grave. Ttue.uli persons preserve (b. 



plex.on and ,dem, u -, „„ d B01Ile MV tbftt if „ ltf bodv 



""'• ■■'"' ■■■"n >,;„,, „ , )lu|lId ncrer 



grow old. 

 In 



sflntplao*. hi 



. Tin- 





B prevuiliug law of 



priaolplo, The (bod 



ual viBit r the body, 

 n all tkt 



that weeal sopplios Lba oi 



but iu order le 



tlrmtnU of wlneli the b.idy i- ei. u ,j,.„, .,| :A 



■ 



_ It is absorbed 



by the blood to all parts-i th 



•' ' » consUoUy going on in every p«,rt 



■ 





eplaeed by new i 



nfum in body I 1 onawei tl 



. imoilj 'be mflniti lj minute 

 iclet 01 atoms ol 



■ 

 ■ ■ 



olak«ib«tr exit from the body. By tok 



ingacalinrnrriii'o 1 !!■■ /'''<-'»' V^" 1 : 

 cannolfail to ace that it cannoi be ol 

 it wcro not so, mi n woold io a Bhort time woar 

 themselves out. Ho>» hng »ould n 1 ' 

 w.QTOut hit hand* m handling wood or stone?— 

 . ,:. outside skin or cuticle^ 

 and il ia as often r L uc»ed. Hrequircs but sixteen 

 weeks for the nails to grow from the roots to the 

 ends of llio fingers. The hair of the head, and the 

 beard, when shaved oil', or^oonstootlj repyd uccd 

 I will conclude with au extract from one or our 

 (Fell known Philosophers;— "The decay and do- 

 ,, ..(' animals aud vegetables en the sur- 

 face of the earth form the soil, winch dohi i-iie- Un 

 growth of plauts and other vegetables; nnd these 



3 their 





it 1 a 



Thu: 



is there a perpetual ahange from death to life, 001 



; |duces which the particles of matte 

 asaaae. Nothing is lost, and not a particle of mat 

 ter is struck out ufcxistcr.ee. The same matter o 

 which every living animal and every vegetuble iu 

 formed, before ibe flood, is still in existence. A. 

 nothing is lost, or annihilated, so il is probubli 

 ■ ,.- I, and linn wo 011 rn-1 IC- 

 ON composed of porlioles of mutter as old as the 

 creation." N. B. Asm 



"WHAT AEE WOLF TEETH LW HORSES V 



[Tin 



, by B 



. I'l.nii.i: iphlo, Pa ] 

 Ix answer to your correspondent C. II. W., in 



i.i. 1.1 1 . 1. ot.Mny Hih, 1 would say that what arc 

 called wolf teeth in horses, (so named probably 

 from their rescmblunco to the firsi molar teeth of 

 the wolf,) ore regarded by Veterinary Surgeons to 

 be two Miiall supernumerary teeth making their 

 nppeamnce on enliei side, immediately nnteiiorof 

 Ihc In -.-( uiiihir leetti o( iho upper jaw. Thegorma 

 of these teeth will bo found in the juw of ihe de- 

 veloped foal, and aie fully formed in the yearling, 

 ready lo work their way through the gums,— after 

 which, as a geuerul rule, they soon fall out; some- 

 tiniM, hnwevcr, they remain to uuadvuneed period 

 of life, during which time they undergo a change 

 in form and resemble mine closely tlio incisor 

 tecLh of man. Horsemen generally look upon 

 these teoth us injurious to the eyes, but such is not 

 the fuet, as the experience of all Veterinary Sur- 

 geons will prove, What gave rise to such opi 



majority of 



"I'l'f 



.ucli v 



■ the 



ives, most generally from the first to the fifth y< 

 If a horse has an attack of specific aphihatn 



ii "i..- looked foi (but 



and if found, of course they are supposed to be 

 (because of ihe disease and are at once knocked 

 out. This process bruises the gums, causing eon- 

 siderable uiuiiiiiriiatioii in the parts, which, acting 



from tho eye, the same as if a blister had been ap- 

 plied to some remote part, without disturbing 

 these teeth. I have beeu practicing the veterinary 

 profession a number of years and have yet to see a 

 single case where these teeth have been in any way 



In quoting "Every Man his Own Farrier," you 

 have given publicity to some notions which are not 

 founded upon the experience of the author or any 

 se, but are altogether imaginary. He says 

 they appear "half an inch, or an inch from the 

 grinders." Such is not the fact; Ihcy are situated 

 in close proximity lo the first molar on either side. 

 [ have my doubts if tho author of that valuable 

 work ever saw a wolT tooth, certainly not in the 

 jaw. Again, be says— "These teeth are seldom 

 iund in young horses." Wrong again, for young 

 horses are ihe very ones in which they are found, 

 Uc says they are " supposed to affect the eyes and 

 be removed," and recommends the filing of 

 them off even with the gums. If they are injuri- 

 bow is this filing process to benefit the borac? 

 roots yet remain, and if the teeth are injurious 



thors do more blinn than good by advancing fubc 

 tries that have not a particle of evidence to 

 ain them. This filing process could not be ac- 

 iplisbed, as the tooth would either pull out or 



break off in the effort to accomplish such an end. 



If you want the teeth removed take a common pair 

 itista forceps and pull them out. 



ABOUT THAT FOITR MINUTE CHUEW. 



Mn. Moonc :— In your paper of April 2d,I noticed 

 a hint from H. A. Coos, of Columbia Co., N. V., 

 relative to the " four-minute churn," and have seen 

 some reference to it before. We kuow nothing of 

 it in this region, but if it is what is claimed fur it, 

 we want it here. We have had many churns with 

 equal pretensions to Ihe one above named, most of 

 which have proved humbugs, rather than churns. 

 Now, if this is a new humbug, we would like to 

 have it remain among the rocks and scrub-oaks of 

 Columbia Co., where, in youthful days, wc used to 

 hunt rabbits. Hut, in order to test its real merits, 

 I will offer a premium uf ten dollars, 1 

 cd under the direction of a Committee appointed 

 by the Kalamazoo County Ag. Society for that pur- 

 pose),) foracburu lhal will answer the following 

 description, vix :— 1st. It must be so simple in its 

 ruction, and 50 convenient that it will be 

 adiijited to general WC. 2d. It must be durable, 

 and so cheap as to bring it within the reach of all 

 ho wish to use it- 8d, U must make from new 

 ilk as much butter, and of as good 

 hi be made from the cream of the somi 

 > it with as little labor as would bi 

 ■he u with the old-fushioned dash churn. 

 KalamuiKi. ilkh , IS.' 1 .'. M. IIktpkkrese. 



JACKSON'S mPBOVEMENTS ON MOWERS AND REAPERS. 

 Fon Description, Price, ate,, of Improvements above illustrated— intended to reduce Side Drafl 

 nd lesson Whole Draft of Mowers and Reapers — sec advertisement of S. E. & M. I'. Jacesc 



TO THE OLD HEADS. 



We do not mean, Mr. Moore, to uso this term, 

 "old beads," irreverently. Todoournelves insliet 

 it is proper to say we have been brought up tc 

 treat our elders with respect. Wo are in the 

 bubit of addressing men by their Titles, as Col., 

 Capt., Si|uire, Dr , Ac. Others who have not 

 these appellations, wc address by the general term 

 of Uncle, this being as courteous n» ony of which 



arc numerous. Dut to the old heads. 



Arc you putting your sous forward? If not, we 

 must take you lo task. Do you do all the running 

 to the store, Hie mill, Ac, V Wbeu you ride 01 

 do you bold ihe lines yourself, or put them ir 

 the hands of the sou who rides by your side t T 

 most successful farmer 1 know of here invurial 

 lets bis boys drive. He charges them with bu 



I he . 





boys are smart and amhi 

 a blessing to him. I saw him ride by to-day w 

 his youngest sun occupying this post of bom 

 The King of Heaven places bis Son upon the 

 right baud of bis tlnonf. OuiSavioh suid. ■' 

 my Father are one." It has always been cb 

 me why celebrated men do uot generally have dis- 

 tinguished sons. The presence of the parent over- 

 shadowed them so completely that they had uc 

 chance for self-reliant, independent development. 

 It is often the case that we see men upwards Ol 

 thirty, who, to all intents aud purposes, as fur 11,1 

 business is concerned, are boys still. They do 

 not spciik like men, understand like 

 like men in any sense of tho word. Now, the 

 fault, to my knowledge, is uot iu "theirs 

 themselves, but in their father's that ihey 

 derlings." Wc have known farmers to introduce 

 the parson or other visitors to their horses, cattle 

 and sheep, while tbeir children were kept entirely 

 in the background. Can their he anything nunc 

 chilling and deadening to the growth of manly 



We i.m g of you thou, facers, who bare families 

 growing up, to gtro them u little Min-hine. E'.t- 

 niil your sons now and then to put in a word edge- 

 wise when visitors come. Trust them to buy aud 

 sell, to pay out and receive money. Suppose they 

 make mistakes now and then; if you deal v, 

 honest men. they can be rectified. When you 

 passing down the declivities of this life, bav 

 care that your sons are pressing up. Let it 

 be when the stranger or parson comes, " my 1 

 tie " or " my horses," hut " my son, sir ." 

 Cambridge Valley. N. T., 16». U. Ii. 1 



lUimi Spirit of tljc press. 



r is not too late to try the following mode of 

 cultivating the Carrot, us stated by an Illinois 

 farmer in the rrauU Fan/ur:— " I have been very 

 successful for the past two or three years in culti- 

 vating the Carrot As a root for cattle and horses 

 I prefer it to any other. It is very prodrctivc, 

 yielding with us from five hundred in eight hund- 

 red bushels to Ihe acre. The whole process of 

 cultivating ia very simple and cheap, not costing 

 nore than six cents per buabel. To grow them 

 uccessfully requires a deep, rich soil, such as 

 vould produce the best corn, When the ground 

 s iu good order, > ay about ihe middle of May, plow 

 deep and narrow, leaving twelve or lifteen inches 

 fino mellow soil. I prefer leaving it in beds or 

 lands twelve feet wide. When plowed, if the land 

 is quite dry, pass over it with a roller before pbint- 

 Plaut in drills twenty inches apart. We use 

 , mark with a hoe, cover half an inch deep, 

 rcas the soil by treading on the rows. Tho 

 used of a seed drill would bo much quicker, and 

 probably bettor. With a hoe and line, two mcu 

 will plant about an acre a day. Sow thick enough 

 to insure a plant or two every inch. If all has been 

 done well thus far, the young plauts will make 

 their appearance loug before any weeds. As soon 

 as the plants get Urge enough to show well, or 

 before any weeds start, pass between the rows, 

 hoeing the ground over lightly. Let them remain 

 a week or two longer, aud pass up and down the 

 rows with a narrow hoe striking oot the plants, 

 leaving the hills from four to sis inches opart. A 

 few days after the hoe thinning, and after a second 

 hoeing of the spaces, probably the plauts will be 

 large enough to thin by hand. This is (he most 

 tedious part ot the work, and will require some 

 patience, but I think four ur fire men will thin au 

 acre a day. One plant is all that should be left in 

 a bill. After thinning, hoe frequently, ns it is 

 much easier to prevent weeda than to kill iheiu.— 

 Ifthefallts favorable, iberoo'swill grow ,.i,.- h.,h 

 after tho middle of September, therefore the need 

 of keeping them clean all through the season. 



7— This is o short job and may be 

 done quite late. Taken sharp hoe, or what is hol- 

 er, a lung Dutch shovel, commence next the deep 

 arrow, shaving the tops from the first row into it, 

 nosing tin oflj around the 1 ind. Follow with a 

 low, turning the soil from the roots on the tops 

 ■ii cut, now put the plow in deep 

 ud pass round the land again, turning the roots 



bottom up, draw them on one side with a potato 

 hook or hoe, plow two more furrows rouud and 

 shave tho lopB off the nest row, then plow the ro 

 out aud proceed ns before. Two men and a te 

 will plow them out as fast as two men and onot 

 team can haul them away. Tho seed we use it 

 ihe common yellow sort, never haviog tried 

 large white. The whole secret of success depei 

 having the land in lirst-rate order, und starting 



• phi 



• without any weeds." 



A writer in the Country Gmt. strongly nd- 

 vises the use of hay caps, aud says:— "Iu July, 

 1S55, I had ten tuns of hay cut on four acres, liy 

 Moiving Machines. It was put up, aud the second 

 day covered with 200 covers. I weighed several 

 of the cocks and they averaged 100 pounds. It 

 rained nearly two days, and the quantity of w 

 was two inches aud four-tenths. On the third 

 at 10 o'clock, I began to draw it in, only the bottom 

 being a little wet. This saved me one day opening 

 and spreading, and iu my opinion saved one-third 

 of the value of the hay. My caps 

 cost?5, and the hay sold for $12. 1 ton, aud this 

 s iv in g -,vi- i" thin- days' use of the hay cap 



we caunot speak ■ • triti entlreoerlaialy, but I bad 

 rather keep eren tho d tr off of mine." 



An exchange says Ihe manner of muking bi 

 cap3 ia as follows:— Purchase a piece of brov 

 cotton, a yard auda quarter or half wide, stretch 

 in pleasant weather along aboard fence, aud apply 

 o coat of linseed oil, with a paiut brush, mixt 

 with about one- quarter its bulk of spirits of turpei 

 tine, well stirred 111 wink both are warm. Let the 

 cloth bang till dry, aud it will bo ready 



Another, and perhaps a better woy, is to mit^wo 

 pounds of beeswax, a quart of Japan varnish' 

 a gallon of linseed oil together. Then apply with 

 a brush while moderately warm. When tho cloth 

 is dry cut it into squares, then have an evelet bole 

 worked ii 

 vfhich_nroto be i 



Sunn? people sow up small stones in bags, 

 tach them to the corners of the cups, which keep 

 them in position by their 

 would bo much handier if 

 books and kept sepnrati 





used. Hut ( 



e,„l^ 



The June number of the Am. Agrteutturht 



has these timely suggestions : — " It is by no means 

 too late to plant corn during the first week in June. 

 Some good farmers purposely delay their principal 

 corn planting until the last of May or first of June, 

 Their espeiie nee has I jugbt them thut, as a gene- 

 ral rule, corn planted June 1st is as forward by the 

 end of July, as that plauted May 10th. They say, 

 that when planted late, the ground is warm aud 

 quickly terminates the seed, aud starts it at once 

 into vigorous growth, and that it will soon over- 

 take nnd go ahead of the early planted. They also 

 argue that one hoeing is saved by the late working 

 of the soil previous to planting, as a large number 

 of weeds which have started, are then killed. This 

 year it is safe lo act upon this theory, where there 

 is a spare plot that may be used. The quick grow- 

 ing vane ties, like tin: Km ■■ J 'lull] p. are most desira- 

 ble for late pluuting, aud fur filling up vacant spots 

 iu that already above the ground. Of course, it 

 will uot do to mix in the different varieties where 

 pure seed is to be gathered." 



"Eun " writes to tho N. E. Farmer in this 

 wise :— " I am frequently asked what kind of Mow- 

 ing Machine had I better obtain for the cutting of 

 the grass on a farm of about one hundred ae 

 lifteen of which are upland mowing? A Mower 

 moved by one horse should be sufficient for such a 

 farm; though if two or more adjoining farmers 

 could unite in purchasing a machine lo bo moved 

 by two horses, the work would be better done. The 

 best way you can fix it, it requires power, and con- 

 siderable of it, to carry through a swarth three and 

 a ball or four feet wide, where there is a burden of 

 gross of two tuns to the acre; and no euterprising 

 farmer should remain satisfied wilh a crop less 

 than this, on laud of fair quality, I know that the 

 overage product, throughout ihe Stale, is less than 

 in to the acre ; but this doe3 not prove that it 

 ought not to be two tuns; it only proves that tho 

 present state of culture is far below'what it ought 

 to be. So many have practiced thinning thtir land, 

 by running the plow only four or five inches deep, 

 and tcrttnping il by dealing out their manure wilh 

 a small shovel- that the small crop mentioned is 





ohw tlowATT, of Kentucky, says 



[lii'uin, tin' pb'« in 



thus be exposeil to 



Ihe atmosphere, is considered as good 

 of additional manure in the growth oi 

 carrot crops. If that bo so iu the old 



Great 

 tbe fall, that it may 

 of the frosts and of 



. hen 



longer and tbi 



more deeply into the soil.- 



,: the V 



^nriniltimil iltisccllnnn 



irr.s i-on Honsw.— Kop-beM.r ind Me 

 Many Ono »prrimcns of the cquie rue. 



Moro.vs r_ Ki.vn, formerly of ibi» culinl)', lint n 

 New York, for tl,600; one tiy lloo. K. it. Boui 



Cruet purl, fur $ t,000, ami another by* hi, Hbausi 





fourth to Ouee-fbun 



