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SOWING RYE AND GRASS SEED AMONG CORN.—AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.—ETC. 
“ Do you not find them superior to those in Ken¬ 
tucky ?” 
“ Yes.” 
“ In what respects ?” 
“ They stand not only the cold, ! but the hot 
weather better than the native-bred horses here; 
have harder hoofs, and are more enduring; possess 
more power ; better wind and bottom ; and some¬ 
how or other seem to do their work quicker, easier, 
and more comfortable to themselves and driver.” 
“Have you had much experience in driving 
northern horses alongside of the western ones 
here ?” 
“ Three years.” 
“ To what do you attribute the northerner’s su¬ 
periority ?” 
“ Mostly in breed, but something in climate and 
food. The farmers here feed too much corn and 
rich rank pasture.” 
“ I should judge from their action your leaders 
would easily trot their mile in 4 minutes.” 
“ Yes, that they would, in less time with a light 
load ; for when I have had in my whole team of 
northerners, I trotted a mile with this great heavy 
stage in 4 minutes 22 seconds; which is at the 
rate of 14 miles an hour, and I can any time do it 
again.” 
Gentlemen may take this conversation for what 
it is worth ; but now that Macadam roads are per¬ 
vading Kentucky, if they would breed the proper 
sort of horses, adopt lighter vehicles, carrying only 
6 passengers inside and 3 outside, they might 
travel 8 miles an hour, with as much ease as they 
now do 5 miles. Railroads are out of the question 
there for a long time to come ; they can never pay, 
and it is to be hoped under these circumstances 
that greater attention will be paid to expediting 
their stage-coaches. We have always thought 
coaching much more useful, and certainly quite as 
exciting, as the course. Young men in the interior 
want something to stir up their blood and give life 
and spirit to a country life. Suppose then they 
get up a few driving-clubs, for four-in-hand hand¬ 
some match horses, put the driver in costume, 
mount one of their servants in the republican livery 
for a guard, and give him a French horn to occa¬ 
sionally enliven the road. The stage-coach of 
Kentucky would thus soon become in great vogue, 
and add much to the pleasure of a journey through 
this beautiful fertile country. 
SOWING RYE AND GRASS SEED AMONG CORN. 
From the 20th of the present month till the 10th 
of September, according to the latitude, is the 
proper time for sowing rye and grass-seed among 
corn, though we have known it sowed with good 
effect still earlier than the first period mentioned. 
So long as the com is standing, in order to have 
the rye take well, it must be hoed in, as the stalks 
will have grown too rank by this time to work a 
narrow harrow or cultivator among the rows. If 
the sowing is delayed till the com is cut up and 
shocked, as is common at the west, harrows can 
then be used without difficulty, and nearly all the 
ground will be covered except the spots where the 
shocks stand, and these can be sowed after the 
shocks are removed ; if in the fall, with rye or 
wheat, as the case may be ; if not removed till 
winter, with barley or oats the following spring. 
In that case, instead of mere patches where the 
shocks alone stand, it would be better to leave 
rows of the width of such shocks the whole length 
of the field. When rye is sown among the corn, 
and got in so imperfectly, a peck to a half bushel 
more seed should be used per acre than is gener¬ 
ally allowed in a bare open field. 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 
By reference to Dr. Gardner’s advertisement in 
this No., it will be seen that he proposes com¬ 
mencing a course of scientific agricultural instruc¬ 
tion, at the University in this city. We are 
heartily glad that he has embarked in this laudable 
underlaking, and need only add, that we think 
him well qualified for the task he has undertaken, 
and hope gentlemen will avail themselves of his 
course of lectures. It is high time that something 
was done by way of better qualifying farmers for 
their profession, and we are rejoiced that Dr. Gard¬ 
ner has at length consented to make a movement 
toward the accomplishment of it. It will be seen 
that the price of board is so cheap in the vicinity 
of the University, that any one from the country 
need not be deterred from attending the instruction 
here on account of the expense. 
The Forthcoming Show of the New York 
State Agricultural Society. —This great event, 
let it be borne in mind by our readers, will com¬ 
mence on the 18th of September, at Poughkeepsie, 
and continue three days. Wherever we go we 
find that the show is spoken of with much inter¬ 
est, and we notice that many of our farmers and 
mechanics in this vicinity are preparing for it. 
The right sort of spirit also pervades the river 
counties in the more immediate neighborhood of 
Poughkeepsie, and considerable preparation is on 
foot there for a grand display. The Executive 
Committee had a meeting at Poughkeepsie the 
past month for the purpose of making preliminary 
arrangements, and found themselves warmly 
seconded in all their wishes by the inhabitants of 
the place. Old Dutchess, we think, will not be 
lacking upon the occasion, but do herself honor 
during the three days of the show. Many gentle¬ 
men from the north and the south will be there, 
as curious gazers, and purchasers of stock, imple¬ 
ments, and seeds. Let those, therefore, who have 
such things to dispose of, be on the alert, and take 
care that they are well represented. We hope 
western New York will send forth her handiwork, 
and some of her fine animals. The distance, cer¬ 
tainly, is not too great for this part of the country 
to make a handsome representation of its products. 
Fac Similie of Washington’s Letters on Agri¬ 
culture. —We desire to call particular attention 
to the notice of this work under head of Editor’^ 
Table, page 222 of this number. 
