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advanced. 

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i, but by feeding as above directed, a careful 

 person vill BOl R-e one turkey io rui-ing a hun- 

 dred If any should abow signs of drooping or 

 sii knees, increase "be pepper and ,ljc . v wil1 come 

 up all right Quit* young turkeys should be pro- 

 &B wet, as they ore very easily affect 

 ,,,] bj n— often fatally. Miss Kate A. Gbbbx. 

 Lancaster, Krie Co., N. V , 180e. 



M»-i:-. BH — tn the Ufral of June gljtfa, 1 

 noticed an inquiry ubout turkey raisiag. Now it 

 ia juat aa easy to " raise" a brood of turkeys as of 

 chickens, and (if raised for market) a great deal 

 more profitable. I will give the method "our 

 folks " have tried for the last three years and with 

 good success, not having lost a single turkey. — 

 Here goes. We put the eggs uuder a hen nnd 

 when "hatched" put them into a coop and fed 

 them well with oat-meal, and occasionally some 

 sour milk. We give no pepper. When they were 

 about six or eight weeks old they leave the hen to 

 scratch "on tbeir own book." We then led them 

 a little barley, say once or twice a day, till fall. A 

 nicer lot of •'Thanksgiving Turkeys" was not to 

 be found and thoy brought the highest price in the 

 Jail, liaising them with a hen prevents their ram- 

 bling off as they would with the "old turkey"— 

 and, again, corn meal is not good for turkeys — it 

 is loo "loosening." None of our neighbors who 

 have used it have haal good luck with theirs.— W. 

 0. Richbt, Mafoiu, Franklin (h., A'. 7., 1859. 



Eds.;- 



r to an inquiry by a 

 Reader of the Rural," I will give him my mode 

 ' Turkey Raising. In the first place I winter 

 rer the largest and best turkeys that I have, and 

 uke them lay and set in the barn, but not e 

 e roost, on account of tbe lice. When they c. 

 F tho nest I grease their heads with lard, ( 

 em a boiled egg two or three times, and wl 

 cad and new milk till they gel to be four or 

 ceks old. They do not like meal and I do 

 ink it is good for them when young, but after 



many accounts, pleased with the location, but still 

 the Farm has great capacity, and perhaps is well 

 adapted for the purposes intended. I regret thut 

 want of time precludes me from entering into de- 

 tails regarding the fulure of the College, It must 

 not now be allowed to falter or fail. 



Yours, p. 



RICE 



73. BEANS 





Tbit an antagonist 



cspintexra 



sin man is fully 



evident — that a similu 





ts in vegetables 



ia not eo generally k 





et, believing it 



does exist, we shall ol 







No country was eve 



settled by a 



people laboring 



under severer depriv 



and 



difficulties than 



New England. Tbe determination 



o succeed, alone 



carried them through 



the labor of 



making the des- 



ert to "blossom as 



the rose." 



The hardships 



endured by them wer 





ud thrilling be- 



vond description. Th 





rugged, uncul- 



tivated soil they were 



forced to b 



frugal in dress 



and diet Among th 



e vegetable 



found at their 



board we note one, ch 



ef in excellence and first in 



nth old, then 





two turkeys and 



have got thirtv-sii 





and that was caugb 



vks.-C. U Rexfo 



d, Madrid, A'. V. 



NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



-The 



■1'iij r, m:/>. 



cultural Collet 



the proceedings of t 



IheFni 



s attendant 

 Stone of tho Stale Agri- 

 werc highly interesting, 

 precluded from participating in 

 asiou and taking notes, 

 1 give you a brief account of the " transactions." 

 The ceremonies took place of course upon the 

 College Grounds. About 1 o'clock Gov. King, and 

 most of the Trustees, with many loading and uc- 

 ''■-- friends of tho College, formed n procession nl 

 to the platform 

 uy me citizens of Ovid, preceded by tho Geneva 

 Brass Bund, A large concourse had assembled, 

 numbering not less than four to five thousand- 

 people who, from their behavior and atlcntion 

 exhibited their deep interest in the proceedings. 



On orriving at tbe foundation of the Collegi 

 edifice. Gov. King called the assemblage to order 

 nnd an appropriate prayer was offered by the Rev 

 Mr. Hunt of Ithaca. Col. B. P. Johnson. Secre 

 tary of tho Board of Trustees, read the content; 

 of tho box to be placed in the Corner Stone a* 

 follows : 



i STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, 



Tbosters, Julj 

 B. P. Johnson, Henry Wager, Wi 



died October 23, 1&58. 



resigned June 30, 1S5S. 



1 Kelly, 



'. Bacon, J. B. Williams, ] 



The Bible, Trammel 

 Legislative Manual o 



(if A|,TI, llll, Ur, Jul,!) 



County Agricultural 



ISM, Llht ..i inii,. r.. 

 Reports of Trustees t 



((.'graph. Copy of 

 v.,., Hmnboldl on 

 e New York State Ai 



I, with t 





" York Slate Agricultural Society, ISM, at 

 ''■ Proceeding! at the Dedication of t 

 ■* ARncnitural Booms, February liih, 14 

 n«.-, i,» B P. Johnson, Samuel Cbeevi 

 •ra.Wnj n i:.-irt,Wm. KoUj.Gov. John. 

 ■»0J Byt.lwln. Addresses before Ibe Ne 

 la Aurieultonl Boclety, by Hon. Edward 



i; wiin am ., A , l)IJI0 s Lptiam _ Wm T ; 



™M»L List 



Oor. Kwo then 

 iver^.i eeenita] , 

 ince. Thuaddre! 



. P. Johnson'* 



laid tfa( 



■i 



Tli- i 



the people in atteud- 

 :ourse be furnished for 

 U. B. P*Tw«'or , o , ?* Were * ,i0,n * deb J 

 Owo.B.SSe^e,^^ 1 ; """ 



.d other,. Thi £S?V!" P " Job »- 



'^oft hescvera i 



lu "*'y «.nd n,l,reMi„,- 



^elebraleil , 

 Ovid by a very liberal display of tire m 

 Tbe New York Slate Agricultural Ci 

 nc a fixed fact, and its eonaplel 

 e contingency of a doubt. I „ 



importance as a nutritious, healthful food. Grown 

 upon their own soil by their own labor, and, withal, 

 being exceedingly palatable, it ia no marvel that 



Hi IS vegetable sin hi Id l.n-i it.: the put ton diet of the 



hardy l'uritans. It was not to gorge the appetite 

 with the enervating products secured by commerce 

 that they risked all in one throw for a home in the 

 rup^eil forests of the West. The wilderness is no 

 place for the gratification of an epicurean pulute— 

 at least it is not when men have the making of a 

 nation and a government before Ihem. To confess 

 the truth, it must be admitted that the fare of the 

 New Englaudera was seldom that to tempt the 

 appetite. It was rather promotive of sound heads, 

 strong nerves, aud smewy arms for labor and do- 

 fence. Hence, because first in value — prominent 

 among the gifts of Cbbis — Wfl record fit-am. 



This product entered very largely into tbe diet of 

 the early settlers, and was prepared in several dif- 

 ferent ways — prominent among which was bean- 

 soup— more commonly known as bean-porridge, 



To this invaluable aid, we attribute the manly 

 virtues, nnd strict morals, so long characteristic of 

 tbe New Englanders. At the period of which we 

 speak, this leguminous vegetable was so exten- 

 sively cultivated aud was so fully promotive of the 

 success and progress of the people as to deserve 

 being called the Era of Beans— or the uge when the 

 Yankees were emphatically above the reproach of 

 " not knowing beans !" The hoys and girls of this 

 period were hardy and vigorous, and could tell 

 " which side their bread was buttered " and 

 they came by it." Their wants, engender 

 such a regime, were neither fictitious nor difficult 

 tosatisfy. while the strength imparted is evidenced 

 in the changes produced by their labor in no 

 the Eastern States, but New York, Ohio, and the 

 West. 



of our political troubles is the prolific cause of each 

 and singular of tbe above— simply 

 longer know the patron diet of the 



The whole swarming throng of evils which have 

 come upon us like the murrain, and frogs, and lice 

 of Egypt, are but afflictions from a dispensing 

 hand to bring us mgai 

 peculiar interests by aci 



Our people have not 

 outward world— politics, finance, Ac. — but tbe body 

 and heart have become contaminated. R: 

 its able and efficient suppo 

 Cotton and Tobacco — has 

 grievous habits. And 



x knowledge of 

 y forgotten beans iu tbe 



. alone seldom 

 takes its abode in the human heart, soothers 

 in sickening detail, clinging like leeches to the 

 deluded recruits of ourArcb-Adversary until taken 

 as bosom companions, thus evidencing that *■» «"■ 

 worthy the reproach, as a people, of not fa 



0! ye deluded sons and daughters of the Puri- 

 tans ! acquire the habits and virtues, and adopt the 

 manners and dress oT your successful fathers, that 

 your liberties may be upheld, your good name 

 maintained, and your triumph insured. Think not 

 to acquire happiness by abandoning the teachings 

 of your worthy sires for those of to-day, and 

 remember thut, although "the wicked flourish for 

 a season, their end ia death." Harden not your 

 hearts like Pharaoh of old, but consider present 



the way, and ever after in national councils— in 

 politics, and finance, and morals, cling to the inter- 

 ests of your own soil in opposition, if 

 all all others, and let no antagonism of vegetables, 

 or lore of trade, blind you from knowing our true- 

 born, politic and sagacious counselor— tbe She- 

 kinah of our success and liberty— the Legui 

 Bean. W. H. G. 



Amboy, IU., 1959. 



HOW SHOULD HAY BE CURED? 



. Ru: 





homely diet begat no burning desir 

 ycd the e 



-Bpun 

 juppy "young folks." Wisdom 



genei 



i, heai 



of our nation out-grew their 



and the first 

 sunny locks 

 odoriferous soup kctth 



The War of Independence served 

 detract from the value and fume of beans. In fact 

 they seem to have joined in promoting the cause, 

 and contributed no inconsiderable items of aid in 

 times of necessity towards the final result. The 

 devotees of our hero looked for developments flut- 

 tering alike to their own labor and abstemious 

 diet at the close of the wur; nor were thev di 

 appointed. Cities arose,— commerce increased,— 

 wealth was sought and flowed in us a reward 

 their constant labors. Nor in trade, commerce and 

 the accumulation of wealth, were they alone sue 

 cossful— they maintained their rights in legislativt 

 halls, and commanded not only national respect 

 but the respect of all nations ; so that the repre 

 senlulives of (he "bean faction" were the messen- 

 gers of the government. 



But at length, after having enjoyed long and 

 uninterrupted supremacy over all other vegeta- 

 bles, a rival enters tbe hitherto unobstructed path 

 of our progressive hero. Cultivated byadifferent 

 race of people who neither possessed the soil upon 

 which it was grown, or were allowed the product 

 of their own labor, 7tf«' was at un early day offered 

 in exchange for tbe ingenuity of the partisans of 

 beans. Every argument which fancy could invec 

 — and every inducement which reason could offer- 

 were used in introducing this vegetable upon tli 

 tables of the Spartan followers of our "Hero < 

 the North." Its success was not immediate, but : 

 gained a foothold, and as a luxury, was occasionally 

 offered upon the same table with our vete 

 labor product. 



Inined in the begi 



an unfavorable result t 

 duct; but for some unexplained cause,— nil' 

 rice did not supply the place of beans as food 

 latter grew into leas and less repute, unti 

 found offered when an occasional day of 



i called for increased supplies of 



The result of tbe abandonment of beans has been 

 ^rtile in multiplied disasters. The wisdom of 

 idgment,— the energy of action,— the high aim 

 nd unswerving integrity of purpose,— which once 

 haracterized our representatives is no more. Our 

 artics are broken— our councils distracted— our 

 efforts feeble aud profitless. Bice has gained in 

 every onset, and if not apparently victorious, man- 

 ■s to recruit its strength in ever? struggle. Tri- 

 ,ph has followed triumph, until we behold the 

 antagonism of vegetables engaging the attention of 

 the highest intellects of the civil, zed world and dis- 

 tracting and rendering stormy and boisterous the 

 councils of ti great people. 



The poweis of wisdom, the labors of philosophv, 

 and the cunning of reason, have all been invoked to 

 saign the cause of our present position in the 

 inancial, Commercial and Political world, und 

 aeh has been bullied— the real cause remaining 

 idden. Our finances are deranged by ihe gratific- 

 ation at imaginary want*— ourcommerce through 

 ae derangement of our finances , while the cause 



number says, 

 "The process of curing (hay) should, if 

 be perfected in the cook," and he seems afraid of 

 the burning sun. This is a mistake. The true 

 way is to "make hay when the sun shines." I 

 have owned horses for the past twenty years, and 

 have never had one get the heaves. I attribute 

 their exemption to making the hay I have fed 

 them, by curing in the sun, without cocking. 

 Grass, with all its juices, particularly clover, will 

 soon heat and sweat. And hay that has ever been 

 sweated, let it be in cock or mow, must be dusty. 

 In fact, the hay is partially or wholly destroyed iu 

 proportion to the heating. I admit, : 

 mates, (like the English,) there is som 

 curing in the cock, but not the least in this cli- 

 mate. In drying by the sun the grass is cured by 

 heat, while cock-cured grass has, by 

 fermentation, to furnish its own beat, 

 i so at a great loss. Now, if we had 

 hang up our hay nnd 



: the bi 



in tbe same manner that t 

 medical r 

 way, but 



would think of putting tobacco, or any herbs for 

 medicinal purposes, when green, in heaps or cocks 

 to self cure by the beating and destructive process. 

 Then why persist in curing the food of animals in 

 that way? Caleii IVim.hi;. 



mural Spirit of tlje JJttSfl. 



A writer in the Prairit Farmer thinks pota 

 toes arc seriously injured by working when wel 

 with dew or rain, and relates the following experi- 

 ment tried last year :— " A part of bis potato field, 

 the whole of which was treated alike, aud a good 

 soil, he plowed and hoed once only, in the middle 

 of the day when the ground was perfectly dry, 

 leaving them untouched until dug in October. The 

 vines kept green throughout the season, and th 

 crop of potatoes was very large. The other port io 

 of the field was worked three times when the 

 ground was wet with dew. These blighted early, 

 gave but half a crop, and thai of an infei ioi qua! in . 



Tbes 





tph.t 



We clip the following from the Bos ton ■Jouru al 

 "A gentleman who has tried tin- jdan successfully 

 for five years, communicates tbe annexed method 

 of preventing horses from chafing under the col- 

 lar. He says he gets a piece of leather and has 

 what he terms a false collar made, which is simply 



singly, between the shoulders of the horse and 

 the collar. This fends off all the friction, as the 

 collar slips and moves on the leather, and not on 

 the shoulders of the horse. Chafing is caused by 

 friction, hence, you see, the thing is cutiiely pluu- 

 puts pads or sheep-skins 



indcrthe collar; tho; 

 is good, for they ai 







Now ICind or Cattle Food. 



The English beef breeders are always on the 



lookout for cheap and nutritious feed for their 



slock. They use up e very tin nu'ihui they can grow 



at home, and import millions of tons of different 



kinds of feed to supply the deficiency. More than 



100,000 tons of oil cake are imported nnnually into 



tin? island, the greater part of which is obtained in 



the United States. The London Fa ■ 



tint gives an account of a new species of cattle 



food which is beginning to be imported iu large 



o,uuiititiei, and used by tbe farmers. It is called 



the 'Locust," or locust beans. It is the fruit of 



the locust tree | CtratoMA SiUqva I which grows in 



Spain aud South of Europe. It states that in.Sicily 



the quantity gathered amounts to eleven or twelve 



thousand tons in a year. They have long been 



is cattle food in Spain, and are even relished 



by the inhabitants when fresh and ripe, from the 



reel pulp they contain. According to a careful 



ulvsis these Curole or Locust beans give 65 per 



nt. of sugar nnd gum, and about 25 per cent, of 



itrilious vegetable matter. 



ts of the 



Institntlon are fully se 



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