AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Rot ill Turifiips*—E. Ryder, of Putnam Co., N 
Y., complains of this disease in his neighborhood—thinks 
the Swedes are more liable to it than the Ruta Bagas. We 
have heard very rarely of a similar complaint; it is perhaps 
owing to the character of the seed. We have always 
found cabbage and turnip seed imported from England, 
to do much better than the same varieties raised here. 
This imported seed can always be obtained now at the 
large seed stores in the cities. If the Swedes do not suc¬ 
ceed well we would recommend Mr. Ryder lo try the 
White Sugar Beet, orthe Mangel Wurtzel. Roots should 
never be fed alone. Mixed with hay, or with meal, they 
give a much better return to the cultivator. If fed in 
Winter, the animals should be kept in warm stables 
and the roots never be given in a frozen state. 
Compost for Potatoes.—W. J. Delpuechy, of 
Sheshequin, sends the following compost for dressing po¬ 
tatoes: 1 bushel of ashes, £ bushel of plaster, £ bushel of 
lime, £ bushel of salt. Dose, a handfu 1 in the hill at plant¬ 
ing, and a handful around the vines after they are up. 
We have tried all these ingredients in potato culture and 
found them good. The ashes have the most value. 
Tape-Worms Isi Ganifos.—Dr. R. T. Gill, 
Dutchess County, N. Y., writes that “he has lost a num¬ 
ber of his largest and fattest lambs. They appear stupid, 
eyes blood-shot, or they run around in a circle. After 
death, tape-worms are found in their small intestines. I 
find nothing about the tape-worm in sheep, in any agri¬ 
cultural works at hand. You will oblige me by bringing 
the subject before the Farmer’s Club of the American In¬ 
stitute.”_We do not “patronize” the so called 
“ Farmer’s Club ” referred to, and therefore lay it before 
the larger, genuine Farmer’s Club who read the Agricul¬ 
turist. 
Corn Growl mg' Twice-Po u Itry Manure— 
Benj. Fessenden, Providence Co., R. I., writes that, “ last 
year he sowed corn in drills for fodder, manuring in the drill 
with hen manure, and dropping the corn upon it. The 
season was so wet that the manure proved too strong for 
the fodder, and it grew but two feet. He cut it and there 
was a second growth of over six feet.” The manure prob¬ 
ably injured the corn it came in direct contact with, but 
the wet season did more to retard its growth. It is better 
however, to mix a quantity of muck, or loam, and plaster 
of Paris, if you have it, with the poultry manure, before 
applying it in contact with seed. 
Cockroaches—“ It is said” that the green leaves, 
of the American Hellibore or Indian Poke weed, are a 
specific against cockroaches. Sprinkle a little molasses 
over the leaves, and place them near the haunts of the 
“bugs,” which will readily eat them and as readily die 
from the effects. Another plan is to strew cucumber 
parings in their haunts, which they eat freely, and are 
poisoned bythem. So it is said. 
It is said that the Havre (French) Courier, says that no 
fly will enter a room in which a wreath of walnut leaves 
is hung up. Is that so 1 
Gherkins-—D. Stebbms, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y, 
Plant and cultivate gherkins at the same time and simi¬ 
lar to cucumbers, which they somewhat resemble, al¬ 
though much smaller. They are used only for small 
pickles. 
Dwarf Pears.—Dr. Jarboe, of Kentucky.—It will 
pay to plant dwarf fruit trees, if you take care enough of 
them. 
Cutting' Timber for Posts.—E. Ilatnes, of 
N. J.. givesusthe details of an experiment in setting 
posts. Those cut in June and set green lasted fifteen yeais 
and over. Those set dry lasted only five. The time in 
which the dry posts were cut is not stated. It was pro¬ 
bably in Spring before the leaves started. We regard 
mid-Summer, as the best time, to cut timber for posts. 
The bottoms should be charred upon the outside. They 
should stand in the ground the top end downwards. The 
charring should extend a little above the surface of the 
around. 
Leaves in tlie ©rclaarjl.— A. R. Pierce, of 
Windham Co., Vt., alluuing to our advice last Fall, to col- 
ect tree leaves from the forest, roadsides and orchard, for 
not-beds and bedding, asks if it would not be better to 
cart leaves to, rather than from the orchard ? If all 
the leaves carted into an orchard would remain there, the 
case would be different, but so many blow away to be 
lodged under the fences, that they are of little account to 
the orchard. Better use them as absorbents of the li¬ 
quids which usually run to waste in the stables, and 
mixed with lime and muck, return them to the orchard in 
the form of a rich compost. 
Gas liime.—“ Whistler at the Plow” wants to know 
If we endorse the views of the Patent Office Report on 
gas lime. We should not like to endorse anything from 
that quarter. It will undoubtedly liberate the ammonia 
t-om guano. The compost he speaks of will be efficient. 
Convention ©it Agricultural Editors. 
In response to a circular of inquiry, sent out May 8th., 
there seems to be an almost unanimous concurrence in 
the opinion that it will be best, on the whole, to defer call 
ing the proposed Convention of Agricultural Editors, un 
til the meeting of the American Pomological Society in 
New-York city, on the 14th of September next, at 
which time it is hoped that, so far as practicable, the en¬ 
tire Agricultural press of the country will be represented. 
Arrangements for lime and place of a first meeting will 
be announced in due season. 
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New Books. 
Life Thoughts. —We have listened to but few sermons 
by Rev. II. W. Beecher, yet we have always carried away 
sundry notes of beautiful passages that seemed to lie im¬ 
bedded in the stratum of the discourse like nuggets of 
gold in the quartz rock. These notes we have afterwards 
repeated in the home circle and filed them away as trea¬ 
sured fragments. We were not a little surprised to find 
upon our table recently, a neat volume of 300 pages, en¬ 
titled “ Life Thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous 
discourses of H. W. Beecher, by one of his congregation,” 
which on opening we found to contain many of the very 
passages we had noted down, with hundreds of others 
new to us. The book is published by Phillips, Sampson 
& Co , Boston, (at$l). Whatever any one may think of 
Mr. Beecher as a man, or of his “isms” or politics, he 
cannot fail to be pleased with a book filled with glowing 
thoughts expressed “ in words that burn,” such as the 
following passages selected from a hundred we had mark¬ 
ed to cull from : 
“The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to 
symbolize the large way in which God loves to do pleasant 
things.”-“Many men want wealth—not a competence 
alone, but a five-story competence. Everything subserves 
this, and religion they Would like as a sort of lightning rod 
to their houses* to ward off, by and by, the bolts of Di¬ 
vine wrath.”-“ A helping vvord to one in trouble is 
often like a switch on a railway track—but one inch be¬ 
tween wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity - 
“ Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad 
where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they 
reach the sky ”-“ I can forgive, but 1 cannot forget, 
is only another way of saying, ‘ 1 will not forgive.’ A for 
giveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two 
and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the 
man.”-“In this world, it is not what we take up, but 
what we give up, that makes us rich.”_ 
The New Clerk’s Assistant is the title of a volume 
received from C M. Saxton, 25 Park Row, New’ Y'ork, 
Publisher. This w ork contains 600 pages, and over 1,000 
forms for legal documents of almost every conceivable 
kind required by bankers, merchants, auctioneers, me¬ 
chanics, farmers, and professional men. It embraces 
forms for mortgages, agreements,.contracts, notes, bonds, 
wills—in short, for any and every paper needed to be 
drawn up in legal form. It is adapted to New England 
Northern and Western States, and California. The vol¬ 
ume is bound in leather, and sold at $2.50 
Dictionary of Trade Products, Commercial, Manu¬ 
facturing, and Technical Terms and Words. This is a use¬ 
ful little volume of 422 closely printed pages, by the w ell- 
known P. L. Simmonds. F.R.G.S., F.S S., published by 
G. Routledge & Co., London, and 18 Beekman-street, 
New Y'ork. We find in it many definitions of technical 
rms—especially foreign ones—not included even in the 
unabridged edition of Webster’s D ictionary.... 
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Tlie Indiana. Farmer— 54 Home Papers.” 
We have just received from some one the April No. of 
the “ Indiana Farmer ”—This is the first we have seen of 
this journal, though the Agriculturist (more than double 
its size, but furnished at the same price) has been mailed 
to its address for a long time. In the number before us 
the Proprietor appeals to Indiana farmers : 
“To sustain a home Journal, published at theirown Cap¬ 
ital, and edited by one born and raised within the State, 
and of course better acquainted with its peculiar wants 
than one who never trod its soil.” 
A good text if well followed. In this April number we 
find nine articles taken from the Agriculturist —including 
our own leader for ' the same month. Of these nine 
articles, five are uncredited. Is this a fair sample of the 
numbers not sent us? The paper contains thirty-two 
2-column pages of (home ?) matter, of which, twenty col¬ 
umns, (or about one-third of the whole paper) is trans¬ 
ferred from the Agriculturist. We admire their judg¬ 
ment in going to so good a source—but our admiration 
would have been doubled had these articles all been duly 
credited—with the credit accompanying each ariicle, 
rather than a page of the cover. 
We are glad, too, to have such strong testimony that the 
Agriculturist is really a “ home paper” for Indiana fai m- 
ers, and in consideration of the compliment thus paid, 
shall make no appeal to our “ copyright .” 
Agricultural Exhibition Lists Wanted.' 
We wish to obtain, for publication, as complete a list as 
possible of all State and County Agricultural Exhibtione 
to be held the present year, in the United States and Bri¬ 
tish provinces, and we shall be obliged to those wliD will 
early send us in brief: 1st, name of State or County 
2nd. State ; 3rd, place; 4th, day of opening and day of 
closing. 
-—I. •— nna <pet—. . «.-- 
Boys’ and Girls’ Own Columns. 
SSillerent kinds off Type. 
Several of our young readers, and one “ old 
one,” thinks it would interest many readers 
if we would set up a few sentences in differ¬ 
ent kinds of type and describe them. Well, 
this paragraph is set in Bourgeois so far. 
The sentence we are now writing will be set 
in Brevier type, which you will see is the kind 
most used in this paper. It is a little smaller than 
that above, and our printer says it will not hurt 
the eye-sight of the young, and the old can read it 
without difficulty. 
This sentence is marked to be set in Minion type, 
the next in size to Brevier, but we use none of it in 
this paper-except in the present instance, for the pur¬ 
pose of showing the type. 
We now come to Nonpareil , which is the kind general 
ly used in the Boy’s arid Girl’s department. Twice as 
many words can be put on a page ot this type as in one 
of Bourgeois. It is not so good for the eyes of older peo¬ 
ple, and we use little of it unless much crowded for room. 
We now come to Agate type which is smaller still. This is 
used for the advertising panes. There are suit smaller sizes, 
called Pearl, Diamond, and Ruby, but we have none of i hem 
at hand. There are also larger sizes called Long Primer, Small 
Pica, Pica. English, Great Primer, &c. Books are most fre¬ 
quently printed in Long Primer. 
All the above are set up solid, that is the 
pieces of type are set together with nothi ng 
between them. This parah will be set 
in the above kinds of type, .lines of each, 
but leaded; that is, a thin sof type metal 
called a “ lead,” is put betwe;ch row of let¬ 
ters, or lines. The first four litre Bourgeois ; 
the second four are Brevier ; next four are 
Minion ; the next four are Nonpand the last four 
are Agate. You see how muchfLQJm -ityst- p,yvj--a;p- 
pear, and how much more pleasant to the eye. When 
much crowded for space an article or part of an arti- 
ticle is set in solid type like the first examples above, be¬ 
cause the leads take up room as you will see. Sometimes 
an article will not quite go into a column or page, and the 
man making up the page will take out a few leads from 
the bottom of a column. As above stated, these last lines are 
Agate leaded. You will see that while one lead is put between 
the lines of each kind, there are three leads put in to separate 
the different kinds of type. 
Prob. 30.—A Floral Enigma, containing 32 letters 
which spell the names of four beautiful Flowering Bulbs— 
the names being arranged in the alphabetical order of 
their first letters. 
The 14, 19, 3, 10. ;s the name of a farm implement. 
32, 29, 2, 6, 11. 15, 14, is an esculent root. 
23, 21, 25, 26, 27,12, 18, a girl’s name. 
14, 15, 25, 15, 8, a boy’s name. 
6, 1, 3, 28, 26, name of a living general. 
30, 9,5, 24,6, 22, 25, 31, 18, name of a State. 
11, 3, 2,10, 22, 2, a country in Europe. 
6, 10, 15, 18, 16, what no boy should ever do. 
7, 8, 29, 28, 4, 20, a support for old age. 
32, 31, 32, 32. 31.25, a certain kind of apples. 
14, 17, 15, what boys and girls love. 
Answers to problems (not before acknowledged )— 
3 F. Hunt Lee Co, Iowa, 27,28 29; Pendleton Maryott, 
Tioga Co Pa., 27, 29; Simon Warner, Chester Co Pa 
29 ; S. W. Stanland. Brown Co, Ill., 20; Jno S Y’oung’ 
Suffolk Co, N. Y., 29; E. I>. Lowe, Jersey Co] III, 27, 2#; 
Acknowledgements — Problems have been contributed 
which we can not find room for. at least not vet hv the 
following: C. Hoffman Jr., Dauphin Co, Pa ■ Danl C 
Hastings, Rush Co Ind ; O. W. D, Great Falls. New 
Hampshire ; A. B. L. Warren, Queens Co, N Y r • W 
Hazell, N. Y\ city; J. G. Sutphen, Somerset Co N J • 
Abraham Myers, Ovill Co, III.; J. F. Hunt, Lee Co, Iowa ’• 
Stephenson P. Sharpies, Chester Co, Pa. ;-Avest-1 
boro, (2); Jacob D. Shank. Clinton Co. Pa. (2); Wealthy 
R. Noble, Berkshire Co, Mass ; G IC. O., Rockingham 
Co. N. H ; II. C. Jones, Marion, Ind.; P. Mix, New-Ha¬ 
ven Co, Conn.; Jos P. Humble, Marlmville.N J • J G 
Guthrie, Decatur Co, Ind.: C.W. Bennett, Butler Co’ 
Mich ; F. E. Pearce, Washington Co, Ohio.; B. M F ’ 
Jerusalem Station, L. I.; Susanne. Kings Co, N Y • Jo! 
seph Anderson, Y’ork Co, Penn. : Solomon T. Bearinger 
Davis Co, Iowa ; Eugene Johl, Kings Co, N. Y r • H b’ 
Reist; Lancaster Co, Pa. 
