AMERICAN AGRIGULT GRIST. 
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ety, at the rate of 2£ bushels per acre ; and 
upon threshing, I found the two -rowed pro¬ 
duced 715 lbs. more than the four- rowed. 
These are facts, which I thus hand out for 
the benefit of practical farmers, hoping it 
may meet the eye of some one who has tried 
similar experiments, and induce them to give 
us the result of their operations. C. 
Langsville, N. Y. [Country Gentlemen. 
MILLET CULTURE. 
I am happy to give you all the informa¬ 
tion I can in relation to the millet crop. It 
has, indeed, been a favorite crop with me, 
for the last five or six years. This year I 
have less of it than usual, and am very sorry 
for it. There is no kind of hay that to my 
stock, of all kinds, prefer to millet, and if the 
land is rich, and it is well put in, and good 
seed, it produces well. I have had as much 
as four tuns to the acre. After it is taken 
off in the fall, the land is in good order for 
wheat, by being once well plowed, not yield¬ 
ing quite so heavy a crop as a summer fal¬ 
low, but quite good. 
I plow early in the spring, at the time that 
I plow for oats or corn—harrow once—then 
after oats are sowed, corn planted and other 
work done up, say from the 1st to the 
10th of June, plow the ground again, har¬ 
row well, and sow about twelve quarts seed 
per acre ; harrow well again, and it should 
be rolled, in order to make a smooth surface 
for mowing. It comes up slow and fine, but 
grows very rapidly in hot weather, say July 
and August. It is fit to cut in September, 
when the seed is out of the milk, or pretty 
solid. It does not hurt by standing, till even 
frost comes, except that it loses seed. 
Some folks cradle and bind it in sheaves, 
but I prefer to mow it, and put it in cock 
green ; let it cure in cock ; it may want air¬ 
ing, but put it in cock again to undergo the 
curing process. If it should rain and get wet, 
open the cocks till dry, and put it up again. 
It is a very rich, nutritious feed, in conse¬ 
quence of the abundance of seed, which all 
kinds of stock are fond of. 
I am feeding, this winter, some drilled 
corn, which I like very much. I drill it in 
rows three feet apart, and six or eight stalks 
to the foot. Cut it up, and put it in good 
shock when ripe, and let it stand till winter 
when wanted for feed. It keeps better that 
way than anyother and is much less trouble. 
A. Y. Moore, Pres. Mich. State Agr. Soc 
Schoolcraft, Feb. 3, 1855. Country Gentleman. 
TO MAKE GOOD BREAD- 
I am a farmer’s wife, and have been a 
housekeeper for more than twenty years: 
raised a family of children, and the greater 
part of that time have personally presided 
over my household affairs. I have there¬ 
fore not found much time for publication, 
but seeing in your excellent paper several 
items on bread-making, and believing I am 
pretty well posted in that department, I 
will give you and the readers of the Cul¬ 
tivator the benefit of my experience. Truth 
will bear twice telling. 
In order to have good bread, an indis¬ 
pensable ingredient is good yeast. My mode 
of making yeast is as follows : To three 
pints of water add one handful of hops, boil 
well together, strain and put the liquor into 
4he pot again, then take three large sized po¬ 
tatoes, wash and pare and grate them, and 
stir into the liquor while boiling, then add 
one table-spoonful of salt, one teacupful of 
sugar or molasses, and thicken with a spoon¬ 
ful of flower ; pour it out, and when cool 
enough add yeast sufficient to rise it; when 
light, set it in a cool place for use. 
To make bread, pare and cut two quarts of 
potatoes, boil them in water enough to mix 
one gallon of sponge; when well boiled, 
mash and strain through a cullender, stir 
in flour while hot, when cool enough stir 
in a teacupful of yeast, then set to rise, and 
next morning make up your bread in the 
usual way ; when light, mold it into loaves 
and let stand until fit to put in the oven. 
This is my way of making good bread, 
and I know of none better. Aunt Derby. 
Ohio Cultivator. 
THE WHEAT CROP. 
The Sandusky Commercial Register states 
“ that in the State of Ohio, at least the 
northern half of the State, the quantity of 
wheat sown is not more than half of last 
year, estimating by the number of acres oc¬ 
cupied. Some who have given the subject 
attention, say not more than one-third.” The 
editor further says, “ a gentleman of great 
observation and ample means of informa¬ 
tion assures us that on the line of one of our 
most important railroads, for adistance equal 
to one hundred miles south from this place, 
there will be no surplus for export till every 
acre sown shall produce a fair crop. 
Messrs. Deane & Brown, of Richmond, 
Va., sold, on Saturday last, to the city mil¬ 
lers, a large lot of white wheat for two dol¬ 
lars and a half per bushel. The present 
price of ordinary white wheat, $2 40«$2 45, 
and prime wheat, $2 50, has not been 
equaled in that section, we think, for the past 
40 years. 
We regret to notice in our Virginia ex¬ 
changes very discouraging accounts of the 
wheat crop in different localities. In Lou¬ 
doun county, according to the Leesburg 
Washingtonian, the length and severity of 
the winter, the unusually dry spring, and the 
prevalence of high winds have materially 
injured the crop. The Piedmont Whig 
brings a similar account from Fauquier, and 
the editor advises the farmers to endeavor 
to make up the deficiency in some other 
way. The Fredericksburg Herald has ac¬ 
counts from the valley of the Rappahannock, 
which indicate that the growing crop of 
wheat, is anything but promising. 
The Toronto Globe, of the 7th, says it is 
estimated that 100,000 bushels of wheat are 
stored in that city for the United States mar¬ 
ket. Messrs. Johnson & Carrington, of Os¬ 
wego, have purchased about twenty-five 
thousand bushels, ten thousand of which 
have already been shipped in the Grace 
Greenwood. Mr. W. Ross has about 15,000 
bushels stored in Jarvis’ new warehouse. 
Mr. T. C. Barrows, agent for Messrs. Vur- 
bank & Langton, has purchased some 20,000 
bushels, and is daily increasing his stock. 
Sugar Prospects. —The Louisiana papers 
contain gloomy accounts of the prospects 
for a good sugar crop in that State. The 
Opelousas Patriot says the sugar crop can 
not, under the most favorable circumstances 
of weather and season, reach another year 
within thirty-three per cent of the crop of 
the past, and that shows at least twenty-five 
per cent of a falling off from the crop of 
1853. 
The same paper says : “Touching the cot¬ 
ton and corn crops, a large pitch has been 
made, and with a favorable season a far 
better yield may be anticipated than that of 
last year.” 
Strawberries. —The New-Orleans Pica¬ 
yune of the 9th inst., says : 
Our market yesterday gave charming proof 
of the speed with which spring is opening 
the way for summer’s fruits. Already she 
showers her own treasures on us with a 
bountiful grace, strongly emulous of her sis¬ 
ter’s coming days. The beautiful strawber¬ 
ry decked the stalls in the earlier part of the 
morning, with what might almost be called 
profusion. 
Alfala. —This plant, sometimes ealled 
Peruvian clover, is beginning to be appreci¬ 
ated in California. It can be cut several times 
a year, and affords a very heavy ciop. In 
deep soil the roots penetrate so far that 
drouth does not prevent its growth, like or¬ 
dinary grass or English clover. It should be 
cultivated here for soiling cattle. 
[The above we clip from an exchange but 
know nothing definitely of the plant referred 
to.—E d.] 
ffartirultral gepr fitted. 
BROOKLYN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION. 
The Spring Exhibition of the Society 
opened on Wednesday April 11, at the Brook¬ 
lyn Athenaeum, and ended on Thursday even¬ 
ing. No better proof could be given of the 
flourishing condition of the Society than the 
excellency and completeness of this exhibi¬ 
tion. The arrangements had been made with 
great care and taste, and as might be ex¬ 
pected, large numbers of visitors were pres¬ 
ent to enjoy the festivity. The display of 
green, and hothouse plants was exceedingly 
fine, including some new and beautiful vari¬ 
eties. Other plants of the more familiar 
kinds, such as Azaleas, Hyacinths, Roses, 
Fuchsias, Verbenas, Cinerarias were out in 
great beauty and perfection. Whoever 
compared these creations of Nature with 
those gaudy shop-window imitations of flow¬ 
ers, could see full well how wretched are 
even the best devices of art. Wax and wire 
done up ever so fancifully could avail noth¬ 
ing here—absolutely nothing. 
Interesting and instructive addresses were 
delivered before the Society on Thursday 
evening, by the President and the Rev. Dr. 
Vinton. 
We are glad to learn that the efforts of the 
Society to establish a Botanical Garden 
are so successful. The bill passed the As¬ 
sembly on Thursday. Messrs. Hunt, Lang 
ley, and Kent^have made an appropriation 
of land for this purpose, comprising about 
16 acres and valued at $25,000. Mr. Hunt 
gives $50,000 towards the endowment, from 
whom the Institution is to be named the 
Hunt Botanical Garden. The whole amount 
of stock is to be $150,000, of which more 
than $100,000 is already subscribed. The 
shares are $25 each. 
Below are the Premiums awarded, which 
give an outline of the articles exhibited, and 
from the judgment and care exercised by 
