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MOORE'S RtfRAL MEW-YO&EE&. 



SEPT. 24 



>s in the upper 



the busy workers. 



Earl/ in October. 



and if the beei hs 



■ aniinr il 



not already coustruded a 

 renter, for winter use, one 

 should be formed by the aid of a small but long- 

 bladed knife. J- P. k. 



SUBSOIL AUD DRAINIHG PLOW.-INQTJIEY. 



Most Excellent Rural :— Some of your rcad- 



instrument. The Plow advertised in Vol. X. Wo. 

 89] nu<l noticed favorably in tbo same Rural, pro- 

 poses great advantage to the buyer. Ho you think 



thing of tkt kind for a former to bo 

 it regard* easiness of draft, elrtngtb of form, 

 reasonableness of prion? 



Until wc have got abend somen hut in the 

 a oHndUjiaienblt iniprovi 



lachit 



I be k-f. with 



i beyond tbo reasonable tie- 

 rs. I must so believe from 

 n make among such farmers, 



experience in business 



rience in the practical w 



nety of ways outlays 



ptioaUd uud high c 



mands of small farm< 



and from my currcu 



well as from my OX pi 



of farming and tho 



hero needed. Our first improvements 



done with respect 1o the greatest protit for the 



least outlay. 



And as to subsoiling, and draining, wo know, 

 by the condition of our land, and the uncertain 

 growth of some crops, directly affected by surface 

 water and drouth, that this business must be done 

 or no profit be realized. Then, tho profits must 

 be so slow with that work performed with the me- 

 chanical aids necessary, as to leure such venture- 

 some farmer burdened with privation and pecu- 

 niary harrnssment. Will tho makers or the labor- 

 saving tools and machines look to this a little 

 more? — not strive to supply simply what wo shall 

 like to try, and may be pleased to want, but what 

 will best perform profitable labor for a price that 

 con bo spared for that particular branch of woik? 



But more directly of the Plow. Besides, giving 

 your opinion of the best, or tho certain practical 

 utility and economy of it, I desire to know if such 

 plow may with any advantage have a hole drilled 



, jviri 



...uj.hiH 



-shaped ball t 



sod and profitably drai 

 what uses would a plo< 



in tho ground end leave 



courses? Can wo bo su 



any of onr land, aud fo 



bo prepared be of vaiut 



large a ball and to what extent would that probabl 



increase the draft 7 w. n. ii. 



the pen c 



John Jodhbton, Esq., or some other person who i 

 practically familiar with every brunch of the sut 

 jeet The inquiries are important, and as correc 



trust Mr. J., and ethers competent from exper 

 CBce, will respond. 



MOWING AND MOWING MACHINES. 



-With - 



'■ICelch . it. 



u your permission I will give 

 s a sketch of my experience in mow- 

 ir, Dot feeling able to buy a machine, 

 bbor, who owns an old fashioned 

 offering me tbo use of his, on condi- 

 tion that I would mow bis grasB, I availed myself 

 of the opportunity, and mounted the machine as a 

 "raw bond." The grass was heavy, the "dead 

 furrows" very deep, end tbo meadows bad not 

 been properly prepared, by having all the small 

 Btones removed and tho large ones marked by 

 Betting a tall stake by tuem as signals, eo I found 

 ft great hindrance in consequence of the breaking 

 of "sections" and "guards." And in crossing 

 the furrows, the "finger-bar" would drop in sud- 

 denly, with a jar, and in rising out the knives or 

 "sections" would suffer from cutting the soil or 

 gravel. I procured three plates of an old buggy 

 epring about 18 inches long, and laying them upon 

 each other in the usual way.had them bolted upon 

 tbo " finger-bar " near the other end, so as to have 

 them drug behind, forming a kind of shoe for the 



ar o run on. This was a decided improveme 

 far better than a wheel or roller, as the tremhl 

 motion caused by a roller is utterly avoided, and 



the ha, hUots fl , r(1 , s [he ftlmm ftT0id ; 0g M ia 



jury (i. the kaiTM, by cutting the ground on tb* 

 pp si e si e, while the whole expense does nol 

 exceed ft cents. Nevertheless, the old machine 

 would somet.mes cloy, and 1 beard so much about 

 improvements, aud better machines, Ac, Ac., that 

 I got rather " sick of the old thing." and hoped I 

 could get abetter one by another season. "Times' 

 however, getting "no better pretty fast," I had ti 

 take the old machine again. 



A few weeks since I spent several days in nv 

 native town of Niagara, ond there attended a kini 

 of " social " mowing match. One of my old nc 

 quaintances had been tryiDg to find out tbe io 

 mochiue, in contemplation of buying one. Tin 

 "agents" finding out the state of bis mind cami 

 around y quite thick," and arguments ran higb 



' l of which was the said match. Thre. 



machines were on the ground, and party 



i up. I was much amused, nod reminded 



s gone by, (tho lime just before Major Jack 



e grass, 



I be r 



ajra i 



:, I hare 



not broke a single section or guard, while last 

 year I broke several every day on the tame fields. 

 For success, very much depends npon the prepa- 

 ration of the ground, and very, very much depends 

 upon getting tmtii to the machine, and knowing 

 how too keep it in order. Many a first-rate ma- 

 chine is abandoned on account of a want of ekill 

 in using it. T. Witmfr. 



ABOUT WINTEBING STOCK. 



said about the scarcity of fodder, I wish to give 

 the public, through your paper, a awe way to 

 "help it bold out." Ii has been my experience 

 that stock kept warm and dry, will thrive with 



fury of a waiter's storm." Now, brother farmers, 

 if you are short for fodder, instead of bujing hay 

 at exorbitant prices, to be fed out of doors and 

 perhaps trampled in tho mud, just expend a tri- 

 fling sum for lumber, and batten up all the crevices 

 about your stables, and make some good mangers, 

 and underpin your barn— making it, as the Bailors 

 say, "all taut,"— then keep your cattle in there 

 most of the time while tho snow is on the grouud. 



five dollars more for blankels for yoor horses, and 

 employ an idle hour in fastening on suitable 

 straps and buckles to keep them on, nod you are 

 rigged to brave a hard winter with thirty tons of 

 hay, where before you needed forty. But, to make 

 the thing sore, I will add that you'd belter get you 

 a good feed cutter, (if you hovo none,) and use it 

 ns muoh as you can. Don't say you can't aflord 

 it, or that it " won't pay." Take my assertions, 

 and figure up and see if it won't poy. And I dare 

 say I can find thousands within tbo circulation of 

 the Bubal, who will endorse my experience. But, 

 knowing that I am not advdncing any new doctrine, 

 I will not occupy any more room in your valuable 



Tornon, Oneida Co., N. T. 



Buubkb. — The above advice is orthodox and 



timely We have rarely published more good 

 sense in so little compass. Those interested i 

 do well to heed the suggestions. 



Kurd Spirit of the Press. 



A courespomdbkt of tbe Country Gentleman 

 makes the statement that it is more profitable to 

 fatten pigs than boga, and presents the following 

 facts and figures to prove the verity of big asser- 



Ilaving tried an experiment with both kinds tbe 

 past season, I ftm disposed to give yon the result, 

 hoping that others may 



i tbe c 



i oft 



GBAIN GROWING IN MINNESOTA. 



qualities of other States, I though 



be do more than justice to our , 



briefly notice her capacity in that r. 



The crops in Minnesota this seas 



They are bnsily engaged tbn 



i plump and whit 



corn was bitten by (he frost last week, so 



orn on low, wet grounds, that were planted 



ast spring, is Tery badly injured. I should 



judge that there is twice tho number of acres 



>r cultivation this year that there was last 



And, having a belter yield this year than 



if grain Bhould bring a fair price this fall, we 



shall come out all right. Wo are rather poor, 



acially, but taking into consideration our soil 



cli initio we are rich. Taking everything into 



account I think this Stale will rank with tho 



class of grain growing Stales. i„ u . 



BA08 with Conx. — Mr. Brooks, of Prince- 

 lass., at one of the Legislative Agricultural 

 Meetings in Bostou, alluded to tho practice of 

 planting cabbago among Indian corn. Ho knew 

 tlance where cabbage was planted in altcr- 

 ows with corn, aud the cabbage sold for $150 



dilf'creiil 



u,lv ■ 



BO flourished,) and if t 

 'Ught i 



>rda i 



e has arrived 



pruning books, 

 is altered into 

 ko.j and I have 



" Hurrah for Jaci 

 ™» for the XefaW'' , 

 no objection to the change, 



been lltoTj^ **« -I-rovemenU have 

 years, and it 13 „ r ; , (1 '7 h | in """ , "^he last two 

 tut, especially when weUaU t T*** **"* " lbc 

 yet I have seen noUe b B u B ,7v IMWagmtai 

 toil simple little sliding shoe _„ ■ im P roTed b J" 

 is certain, that my old mocbio 

 than I thought it was, for I m 



i four and five acres on a""" 3Cal ° 

 field, and got through at 11 o'clock A. \i '''.[, ',"'! 



uld be ii 



■ *nd odo thing i, 



ots decidedly bet 



vilhout sharpening the knives durii 



as, Ihad,earlyintho\pr m K 

 clean-d the meadows of all obstructions that could 



Iuf)uivic3 mil) Slnsmcrs. 



Cement Wateb Vti'K.~I,i'jutnj.-iij nelgbb< 

 'arks, appreciating too value of a eoustanl oni 

 enlontsupply of water for farm purposes, has con 

 . spring by means of wooden pipe, which answ 



year— and report through your paper. In tbia 

 way farmers may, through the medium of an agri- 

 cultural paper, increase their annual income more 

 than ten times the cost of such a paper. 



La September, 18r>7. I bought two pigs at $2 

 each, and kept them uutil December 14th, 1853, 

 which was tbe time they were butchered. Tbey 

 had been fed about 60 bushels of shelled 

 about one-half of it ground and scalded, tho other 

 half of it having previously been 

 The feed, other than corn, is in both experiments 

 offset against the manuro made by them. They 

 weighed respectively, when butchered, 

 344 pounds. On the 20tb of August, 1858 

 two pigs, bred by tho eamo sow, and at 

 price. They ware fed mostly upon aweot apples, 

 with a few raw potatoes and a few nul 

 corn, until December 15lh. I then com 

 feeding them upon corn boiled until soft, and fed 

 cold. This kind of feed was continued ab< 

 weeks, when it was changed to scalded meal 

 feed was continued until February 8th, when they 

 wero butchered. Their re9pectivo weights 

 237 aud 244 pounds. They bad been fed about 

 25 bushels of shelled corn, in forms as above dt 

 scribed. The old hogs were about seven tee 

 months, and tbe pigs three days less than seve 

 months old when killed. Valuing tho corn t 

 60 cents a bushel, and the pork at eight cents 

 pound, tho account stands as follows : — Old bogi 



Dr. S52, Cr. I 



Itwi 



while tbat of t 

 nothing of tho •: 

 care of the old o 



; P»g«, Dr 



; nnd trouble in taking 



n Stock Journal: a fai 



-lyi. 



> disposition. 

 - was highly 

 le weeks the 



of a very fine animal, of most 



When tbe farmer purcbused I 



pleased with bis bargain. Ft 



animal worked admirably; bu 



oame accustomed to tbe brute, his irritable temper 



would display itself, and occasionally in his anger 



ho would punish him severely for tbe most tr 



fault. In a few months the animal became i 



ble and balky, at times quite unrnly. The fai 



who could not see how mnch injury he was ( 



or fourth of 

 tho farmer who 

 beast, offered to 

 which were not 

 new proprietor v 



med hi 



tpectcd— a really valuable brute was 

 lecame nervous and dangerous. Tho 

 despair, and would have been glad 

 fouud a purchaser for him at a third 

 he gave for him. A neighbor of 



r how ho had maltreut 



1 1.1. - 



an of kind hut firm dispo- 









neatly closed over I 



o rod; a little d(r 





tier wailing a few 



od was drawn out, a 



rid the *ame thing 



tho pipes cracking 

 dirt, especla 

 How deep ( 



[\> Make a Lime- Kiln.— Will 6 

 d Intelligent readers of the Ku 

 in for biuldlr-jj a lime-kiln for b 



plenty of wood and the best of t 

 i put them together.— Ueiaii 

 •n Co., Texa*, 1M9, 



reached by reason. Tbe 

 horse, experiencing a difference between bis pros- 

 ent and former treament soon recovered his tem- 

 per. He ceased to fear and tremble at every one 

 who approached him, and iu less lime than it took 

 to epoil him, he was brougtit back to his original 

 docile disposition. His former owner learned for 

 tbe first time tbat more labor can be gotten out of 

 any animal by kindness than by brutality. But 

 whether it mended his irritable disposition or not, 

 we are unable to say. 



At a recent meeting of the "Harvest Club," 

 at Springfield, Mass., this eubject was # presonted 

 for discussion. From the report of the Springfield 

 Rrpuhlu-an, wo extract tbe following -.—Soiling, or 

 the summer feeding of cattle, was discussed. It 

 was believed to be tho most economical way, on 

 costly level lands, to feed cattle with greeu food 

 through tho summer in stalls. In this woy tbey 

 he fed more regularly, the manure is collected 

 and saved, and tbey will give more milk, except 

 weeks after the twentieth of May 

 when feed is freshest. A cow can bo kept on an 

 re of rich ground an entire year by this process, 

 this practice were generally ndopted, it would 

 re muoh division fencing. Corn, clover, barley, 

 millet and rye are the principal changes of food. 

 Fall rye Is the earliest greens procurable for this 

 purpose. Barley stands frost belter than so 

 tbe others. Millet and corn are better if wilted 

 before feeding. Two cows have been kept well in 

 this way, on one ond a bnlf rods of clover a day. 

 Corn will not produce as much milk as clover, bill 

 it will be richer. Pasturing is, of course, tbe most 

 natural way, and on this account soiling, exc< 

 a limited extent, Is not recommended for young 

 stock. Lands worth only $10 per acre bad bettor 

 be pastured. 



11km. m, Nbw Milk - '• • 

 gives the opinion that the heating of new milk to 

 near tbe boiling point, just after it is drawn from 

 the cow, is preferable to allowing it to stand for a 

 time before heating, aud ihiuks both butter and 

 checsoare improved in H.tvorby so doing, "because 

 the animal odors which are objectionable would bo 

 expelled;" and goes on to say that " tasteles-J and 

 leathery" cheese is caused by manufacturing under 

 too high a temperature rather than from high 

 heating bf/ore manufacturing. 



Does and Bell Shbep. — An Indiana sheep 

 farmer says, that a number of sheep wearing bells 

 in any flock, will keep away dogs— he would allow 

 len bell sheep to every hundred, or hundred and 

 fifty. When sheep are alarmed, tbey run together 

 in a compact body, in which act all the t»Ui an 

 rung at once, which frightens tbe dog. or makes 

 him think some one is on his track— so be loaves 

 without taking multon 





dent,) and we wero glad to learn ivm being somewhat 

 extonsivoly manufactured by J. E, Potton & Ca,of 

 Fallon. The display In the large lent do voted lo Fruits 



things worthy ol ipeelal t 



dclurcs, grains, vegetables, &c, 

 iuy county, while the display In t 

 Ino was peculiarly attractive, 

 isldo from a line variety of olhc 

 ilr. Geo. Tfem presented -15 rarle 

 if roses. The show of Stallions a 



ic[.|:,y II 



■ ■in I! 



-ij.-rl 



' It. & G. Burrltt, Noblo Cleveland, John Wood- 

 11. German, Luther Cleveland, Wm. Avers, 

 i, Sprowls. Our couuly Is behind nctghborh 

 tbe possession of good callle, and tho show 



regular Beeca«r effort, a 



aprlfiiltiirul f 



k.and^Tow/Falr'liCl'jmer 



following, (Oe 



, 0, 0.) 



Tits '■ Union 



Faih," betd at Medina last w 





cess. The Modma TV-town 





ce was very large, and tho 





ural Implements, useful Ii 





cimons of art, a,. , ,..,., ,.,,., 





of the kind ever wlim-med i 





•'. Ino (Mtljerlnc «.f I., niil,- 



f Orleans." 1 





he tola! receipts wore 11,800. 



s patent, which wo think 



will prove a lung-sought 



deratum fur sgrlouUura 



purposes, and «f wbiua 



at, LusUUog or a cose < 



f flowers, moss, Ac., per- 



\j dry and so preserved 





rs. Tbo process Is sold i 









euloua und apparently su 









0, portraits, ic,) was exh 





Syracuse Com. College 



we never saw in eqaal 



, especially for light 



rale ihem. Tho displays elsewhere— I ncl 



ire— were interesting and atlrncllvc. Bui 

 the Mexico Fair, the Tcoplo themselves i 

 t part of tho exhibition -and wc don't say 

 se they listened attentively nnd opprovlc 

 g address, and appreciated It above its ait 

 uuse wo admired Ibelr spirit, cordlolliy and 

 o. Wo were most happy to meet aud tail 

 d scores of thinking, enterprising aud pff 

 ii--iin.Ui.llDK a number of tbo fi 



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