AMEERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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the land is very open, they penetrate so far 
into the soil that they have been found on a 
very rich, deep loam, in the neighborhood of 
Farnham, to the depth of twenty feet.”— C. 
L. Flint's Second Annual Report to the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Board of Agriculture. 
(To be Continued.) 
Breadstuffs in the Interior. —That the 
price of breadstuff's, more especially Indian 
corn, will largely decline in the spring, when 
the western rivers and lakes are freed from 
ice, cannot be doubted. The drouth of the 
past summer was limited to a belt of country 
extending from Iowa to Tennessee. North 
of the center line of Iowa the crops of corn 
and potatoes were good—quite equal to those 
of former years. The whole of that crop 
and a part of that of the previous year are 
still there awaiting transportation. One of 
the first effects of the drouth was to impede 
the navigation of the Upper Mississippi and 
the Illinois rivers, and, by raising the charge 
for freight, prevented the corn last fall from 
being sent to market. Of the previous year’s 
crop, only a portion was sent forward for the 
same reason (low water), and also because 
the farmers, being able to do so, held por¬ 
tions of their crop for an anticipated rise of 
price. 
We heard the quanityof old corn on hand 
last fail on the Illinois river alone estimated 
at three millions of bushels. 
In Iowa and Northern Illinois there is a 
very large quantitty oflndian corn and wheat 
which will be sent to market as soon as navi¬ 
gation opens. 
Wefhave conversed with persons from 
Iowa, who state as a fact that around Iowa 
City, and at other points in the interior, the 
price of corn this fall and winter was fifteen 
cents per bushel, and that on the river could 
be purchased for twenty-five cents. 
If these figures are correct (and we have 
no doubt of the truth of them), it is obvious 
that when navigation opens a part of this 
grain must reach this market and be sold at 
a price below that which it now rules. 
Louisville Journal . 
any previous 3 'ear. The winter has been 
exceedingly favorable, and if we should be 
blessed with our extraordinary spring, Illi¬ 
nois will have an amount of wealth in that 
single crop, which it would be difficult to 
estimate.— St. Louis Democrat. 
Cattle Dying. —The Abingdon (Va.) Dem¬ 
ocrat states a distressing mortality exists 
among the cattle of that part of the State, 
caused by the want of food. Several gen¬ 
tlemen in Russel county have lost forty or 
fifty head. Others have preserved the lives 
of their stock by felling peculiar kind of trees, 
the twigs and branches of which the cattle 
feed on. 
“A little humor now and then, 
Is relished by the best of men.” 
man’s eyes glared fury, as he demanded the 
reason of such an insult, and threatened to 
resent it unless a proper apology was offered. 
“ I shall offer no apology for my language,” 
said the noble-hearted conductor, “ neither 
will you resent it; for a man who deems 
himself injured by having applied to him the 
same language he has disgraced himself by 
applying to a lady, is too little of a gentle¬ 
man to be apoligized to, and too much of a 
coward to dare to resent it!” 
Where’s the Skulemaster 1 —The Boston 
Transcript gives the following as a specimen 
of the literature of one of the new officials 
of Massachusetts. The note was addressed 
to one of the Directors of the House of In¬ 
dustry, by one of the new-elected overseers 
of the poor. It is possible that his pen was 
out of order. Here is the note : 
Boston feb 12 , ’55. 
Mr.- 
PARODY- 
’Tis the last cake of supper. 
Left steaming alone, 
All its light brown companions 
Are buttered and gone. 
No cake of its kindred, 
No cookie is nigh, 
To steam on the platter, 
Or near its mate lie. 
Sur, Mrs-wishes to Go to the 
Horspittle. She was Born in Boston 
Respect yours 
overseur of the 
Poor ward- 
The “overseur” in his turn ought to apply 
immediately for permission to enter “a pri¬ 
mary skule.” 
A COLD PUN. 
I’ll not leave thee, thou lone one, 
To meet a cold fate, 
Since thy mates are all eaten, 
Come lie on my plate ! 
Thus kindly I’ll butter 
Thy steaming sides o'er, 
And think on thy sweetness, 
When thou art no more. 
Thus all cakes must follow, 
Three times every day, 
When breakfast is ready 
They vanish away. 
When hunger is mighty, 
And sickness hasflo>vn, 
No cake can inhabit 
The table alone. 
A certain wit declared of late 
That every acting magistrate 
Was water in a freezing state. 
—That is, Just-ice. 
a tandem. 
The correspondent of the Detroit Adver¬ 
tiser thus poetically describes Louisville : 
“ This town does very curious seem, 
For boys run loose at random ; 
And when the folks want a splendid team, 
They hitch two jackasses before a dray and Ret a 
big nigger with a red shirt on up behind to drive ’em tan¬ 
dem.” 
Sheep Dying. —The sheep in some of the 
western wool-growing regions have suffered 
severely during the past winter—the great 
drouth of last autumn having destroyed 
their pasturage. The Cleveland (0.) Leader 
of Monday week, says : 
The farmers of Carroll County have lost a 
very large number of sheep. One man’s 
flock in that county has suffered a diminution 
of 500 head. 
Almost every sheep-grower has sustained 
loss. The clip of the great wool region of 
Ohio will be considerably reduced from that 
of last year. 
Crops in Georgia. —From Atlanta, north, 
as far as Dalton, in this State, the grain 
crops are said to present flattering prospects 
for a bountiful yield the coming season. The 
country generally appears to be in a high 
state of prosperity. Notwithstanding the 
high prices ruling at present, especially for 
grain, there seems to be no complaint for 
want of money with which to purchase, as 
was the case but a short time back.— Savan¬ 
nah Republican, March 15. 
The Wheat Crop—The Coming Season.— 
We learn from the Alton Courier, the editor 
of which has recently made a trip across the 
central portion of Illinois, that, however 
short the crops might have been last year, it 
has not deterred the farmers of the State 
from seizing every portion of favorable time 
during the fall for sowing their wheat, and 
the result shows that there is at least twenty 
per cent more acres now in wheat than in 
A MERITED REBUKE. 
Among the good things that pass before 
us, we have rarely found anything better 
than the following merited rebuke, told by a 
western correspondent. He says : “ At La¬ 
fayette, a well-dressed man, accompanied by 
an interesting-looking lady, evidently his 
wife, and two~sweet little children, entered 
the cars. He was short of stature, with a 
short, turned-up nose, a short, thick lip, 
small eyes, and imperceptible eve-brows. 
The lady had a pleasing expression on her 
pale countenance, that bore the impress of 
suffering patience. Her younger child ap¬ 
peared sick, and tossed fretfully on her 
wearied knee. The other soon grew tired 
of the irksomeness of the car, and became 
fretful and impatient. The man, for I can 
not call him a gentleman, lay lazily reading 
a paper, lounging on a whole seat he monop¬ 
olized to himself, though other passengers 
were standing. At length, the lady perfect¬ 
ly unable to attend to the two little ones, in 
a tone of gentleness that had something of 
fear in it, besought him to attend to the 
wants of the elder. She was answered in a 
loud and abrupt tone that attracted every¬ 
body’s attention : “ Don’t bother me !” Her 
eyes dropped ; a look of mingled sorrow and 
shame came over her face, but she said not 
a word. A few moments afterwards the 
conductor, Mr. Paul, came along, and the 
man inquired of him the distance to Michi¬ 
gan City. With a tone modeled to the life 
after that previously used by his interrogator, 
Paul hissed out, “ Don’t bother me !” The 
“ Madam, has your piano an moliati attach¬ 
ment V' asked Sam, the other night, of the 
wife of a man who appeared to live up to if 
not beyond his income. 
“ Hush,” whispered Seth in his ear, “ it has 
a sheriff’s attachment!” 
Sam dropped the subject. 
“Never pull out a gray hair,” said a gen¬ 
tleman to a daughter, “ as two generally 
come to its funeral.” “ I don’t care how 
many comes to the funeral if they only 
come dressed in black.” 
If you put two persons in the same bed¬ 
room, one of whom has the tooth-ache and 
the other is in love, you will find that the 
person who has the tooth-ache will go to 
sleep first. 
A Wit’s Epitaph on Richelieu.— Benserade. 
the Court Poet., wrote the following epitaph on the 
great Cardinal: 
Here lies, his life and labors through, 
The far-famed Cardinal Richelieu ; 
But what brings forth my tears and sighs, 
Is that my pension with him dies. 
“ Do you think you are fit to die V’ said a 
step-mother to her neglected child. 
“ I don’t know,” said the little girl, taking 
hold of her dress, and inspecting it—“ I guess 
so—if I ain’t too dirty.” 
The fellow who slept under “ the cover of 
night,” complains that he came very near 
freezing. 
