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obtained a tolerable article of hay. The effects 
of the palpable neglect to adopt an alternating 
system, and bring into use, the grasses, will, I 
fear, have to be endured, to some extent, by the 
third and fourth generations. 
But, thanks to the agricultural press gener¬ 
ally ; its improvement is working its way into 
the rustic cabin of the western settler; and in 
justice to the western farmer, it must be said, 
that as sure as he reads, he awakes to effort, 
and casts about for a better system, and as far 
as his means will permit, he launches into 
schemes for improvement. 
Clover does nobly on all our western open¬ 
ings by the application of a little gypsum. This 
is to be obtained, mostly, at Granite Rapids, in 
this state, where it is worth $1 per barrel. It 
costs us, adding purchase price, $2.50, and $3 
to get it here. It appears to me that our eastern 
friends might make money by sending plaster 
into Southern Michigan, and Northern Indiana. 
There is an increasing demand for it. 
Were it not that it would extend this article 
to an inadmissible length, I would write a few 
words about the drill method of sowing wheat. 
I think that will soon, to a great extent, super¬ 
cede the broadcast method. But I will close by 
inquiring the price of your wheat drills, (as I 
suppose you have them,) and also whether you 
can send implements with safety, to Hillsdale, 
the western terminus of the Southern Railroad, 
or to some point on the Central Railroad. 
Charles Betts. 
Burr-Oak Farm , Mich. 
The price of our wheat drill is $100. It is 
made in a superior manner, sows seven drills 
at a time, and is worked by one horse. Imple¬ 
ments and seeds of any kind can be shipped 
as desired by our correspondent, we presume, 
and go through with entire safety. 
BURNING GAS FOR FUEL. 
An apparatus, which the inventor calls the 
atmopyore, is noticed with commendation in the 
London Lancet. The principle of the invention 
really consists in burning the oxygen of the at¬ 
mosphere, by a small outlay of gas, so as to pro¬ 
duce an intense heat, applicable for heating 
apartments or raising steam. The consumption 
of two cubic feet of gas raised the temperature 
of a room, the cubic contents of which was 
8,557 feet, five degrees of Fahrenheit in seven¬ 
teen minutes. Twenty-five feet per hour of gas 
burnt in the atmosphere produced steam suffi¬ 
cient for a one-horse^power engine, The heat 
engendered by burning gas in this way is in¬ 
creased one hundred per cent, over the same 
quantity burnt in the ordinary way. 
THE THOROUGH-BRED HORSE. 
The horse, from the earliest ages to the pres¬ 
ent day, has been universally regarded as an 
animal of the highest interest and importance 
to man. In the Scriptures, in history, in ro¬ 
mance, and poetry, he occupies many a glowing 
page, and no felicity, or elaboration of thought or 
language is spared to illustrate and portray his 
usefulness and beauty. As our servant, compan¬ 
ion, friend, and protector, most of our necessi¬ 
ties, comforts, and amusements are more or less 
dependent upon him. Without him, the severe 
battles of the Canaanites could not have been 
maintained; nor could the holy expeditions of 
the Crusades have been carried on. Much of 
the renown of Alexander is identified with his 
favorite Bucephalus; and the glory won by 
King Richard at Bosthworth Field would, with¬ 
out his gallant White Surrey, have been less 
brilliant. Tamarlane, deprived of his Arabian 
cavalry, never could have subjugated Persia, 
India, and Syria; nor could Suwarrow, without 
his noble Barbs, have won such undying fame 
by his victories in Poland, Italy, and Turkey. 
Joan of Arc, divested of her dashing courser, 
would probably never have astonished the world 
with her martial deeds; nor could Bonaparte, 
without his well-trained cavalry, have achieved 
his dazzling triumphs at Austerlitz, Jena, and 
Lodi. Wellington, shorn at Waterloo of his 
dragoons, could not have added so much lustre 
to his fame; nor could our own immortal Wash¬ 
ington, without his equestrian auxiliaries, have 
given peace and freedom to his country. The 
farmer, deprived of his faithful horse, could 
make but little progress in husbandry ; and the 
sportsman and gentleman of leisure would suf¬ 
fer many an abridgment of their pleasures, did 
not their prancing steeds impatiently wait a 
summons to be mounted. The tournaments, so 
vividly described by Sir Walter Scott in his im¬ 
perishable novels, would have been dull and 
insipid divested of the share which the high- 
mettled horses bore therein; and Diana Vernon 
would certainly have appeared less lovely, had 
we not seen her in the fox chase so gracefully 
bounding through bushes on her beautiful “jet-, 
black Phoebe.” Painting would have been shorn , 
of one of its happiest triumphs, had not the no-, 
ble charger of Washington occupied the fore-, 
ground of Trumbull’s admirable representation 
of “ Crossing the Delawareand Poetry would. 
