—even tho top remaining as green in tbo 
spring as it had been in the previous au¬ 
tumn. And, occasionally, a fallow doer for¬ 
feited his life by his boldness in depasturing 
tho wheat fields in the spring. 
Fruit trees now put forth their blossoms 
and fruit earlier in the spring, in conso- 
quenco of tho earlier and greater effects of 
tho sun’s rays in warming tho earth and air. 
Indeed, tho autumn season is sometimes so 
mild and genial, that the buds are brought 
forward, almost to bursting, and are, during 
tho winter, made the victims of a too con¬ 
fiding trust in the lurements of the delight¬ 
ful but precocious geniality of tho weather. 
But if the buds escape destruction during 
tho winter, aftor tho trees have put forth 
their blossoms, containing tho embryo 
fruits, there frequently comes “ a frost, a 
killing frost,” which destroys both blossom 
and fruit together—blights tho hopes of tho 
husbandman—and thus is rendered to him 
no return for his toil and labor in raising 
tho trees. Who cannot produce a poach 
orchard that will remain in full growth and 
productive vigor, for twenty-five or thirty 
consecutive years, as did those which were 
planted by the first settlers ?—I beliovo it 
cannot now bo done, even by tho most 
“ scientific” and thorough course of cultiva¬ 
tion. 
Tho potato crop, too, has become a very 
uncertain one. Tho Rot, which has caused 
the recent failures, is, undoubtedly, owing to 
tho greatly increased degree of heat from 
tho chango which I have mentioned. Tho 
more rapid tho growth of the plants, tho 
more tender are tho leaves and tops: and 
tho more likely to bo aficcted by excess of 
heat. A greater degreo of boat having oc¬ 
curred within tho last few years, than for¬ 
merly, tho plants have been stimulated to 
an exuberant growth. And just at tho time 
when they wore “filling out” tho tubers, the 
heat has been so severe as to kill tho tendor 
tops, leaves, and stems, in succession, and 
ferment (more or less,) the juices—tho tu¬ 
bers, being “ filled out” with tho aid of the 
vitiated sap, rotted in tho ground, as soon 
after being taken from it as sufficient heat, 
from any cause, was applied to them. 
Wheat also “ rusts,” by rupture of the sap 
vessels, from tho samo cause—the excossive 
degree of heat falling upon a very rank 
growth of tho plant,just as it is “filling 
out” tho grain, ruptures the distended sap 
vessels. Tho loss of the sap prevents the 
grain from being “ filled out,” and it is said 
to be “ shrunk.” ’Hiel. 
AGRICULTURAL MEMORABILIA. 
came blocked up with spectators, and the 
interception of other carriages. Great dan¬ 
ger was to bo apprehended. Tho East In¬ 
dia gentleman, above referred to, suggested 
to tho driver and his assistants, that if they 
would try the East India method of fasten¬ 
ing a cord to tho horse’s foro-foot, and cause 
a person to pull forward, tho animal would 
start right away. Tho suggestion was re¬ 
ceived with contempt. However, after all 
other efforts failed, a long cord was attach¬ 
ed to tho animals foro-foot, and the moment 
tho man gavo a strong pull tho horse start¬ 
ed off as if nothing had been tho matter.— 
The philosophy of tho case scorns to bo that 
the animal, thrown off tho contre of gravity 
by tho propulsion forward, is taken by sur¬ 
prise and obliged to start. Try it. 
N. D. Redpath. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
cows holding up their milk. 
It is woll known that many cows when 
they first como in, when their calves are ta¬ 
ken from them, will hold up their milk 
sometimes to such a degree as almost to dry 
themselves before they will give it down.— 
“A few years ago,” writes a correspondent 
of an English newspaper, “ I bought a 
young cow, which proved to bo very wild, 
and when I took away her first calf she 
would not give her milk. I had hoard it 
remarked that putting a weight on tho cow’s 
back would make her give her milk down. 
I accordingly drove her into a stable, got a 
bushel of grain and put it on her back.— 
While in this position, sho had no power to 
hold up her milk, for it came down freely. 
After doing this a few times, and afterwards 
putting my hand on tho back oi the cow, it 
would give way and sho would immediately 
give down her milk.” Tho rationale of this 
treatment appears to be that the weight 
counteracts tho upward tendency of the ani¬ 
mal’s muscular action. 
GRASS UNDER TREES. 
By sowing nitrate of soda, in small quan¬ 
tities in showery weather under trees, a 
most beautiful verdure will be obtained.— 
«I have used it under the beech trees in my 
grounds,” says a writer in tho Gardener’s 
Chroniclo, “and tho grass always looks 
green. Having succeeded so well on a 
small scalo, I bavo sown nitrate of soda 
amongst tho long grass in the plantations, 
which tho cattle never could eat. I now 
find that the herbage is preferred to the old¬ 
er parts of tho field.” Nitrate of soda can 
be purchased at less than throe-fourths the 
expense of rough saltpetre. If sown among 
clover or other artificial grasses, and har¬ 
rowed in, it will greatly assist the small 
seeds in gotting out of tho way of the fly. 
BALKY HORSES. 
Balky, or jibbish horses, are not only a 
source of groat annoyance, but too fre¬ 
quently endanger the property and peril 
tho lives of their owners. An East India 
gentleman one day took his seat in one of 
the omnibuses, in London, but at the time 
of starting all tho efforts of the driver 
proved unavailing, owing to a balky horse 
attached to tho vehicle. The poor animal 
became more and more restive in propor¬ 
tion to tho tortures inflictod upon him by 
the driver, and several other whipmen who 
assisted on the occasion. The street bo- 
A Plea for Dogs. 
Mr. Editor :—In the Rural of April 23d, 
53, we find an article over tho signature of 
Charlie Chestnut, on keeping dogs and bor¬ 
rowing newspapers. Now, if Phrenologists 
“say true,” our combatativeness is not largo, 
and wo know we are not disposed to quarrel 
with any body—moreover, wo concede with¬ 
out debate, that newspaper borrowing is 
utterly and entirely wrong, and should be 
condemned; but when it is proposed to 
choke dogs with newspapers borrowed, or 
lent, wo demur. 
Your correspondent asks two questions, 
viz., Do you borrow a nowspaper ? Do you 
keep a dog ? Both these questions we can 
answer in the negative. Wo don’t borrow 
a newspaper, don’t keep a dog,— never did, 
and besides are not particularly partial to 
dogs in general; but why all tho world and 
“ tho rest of mankind,” are growling at the 
whole dog creation wo cannot see. Why 
not lot every dog “have his day Sup¬ 
pose they do get mad sometimes and refuse 
to drink water. Do not men, or those 
“ who wear tho human form,” do the same ? 
Do they not bite, or in some other way in¬ 
ure or destroy thoir children, their wives, 
their best friends ? And aro wo not au¬ 
thorizing them so to do by licensing per¬ 
sons to sell rum ? Bad as some dogs are, 
wo had better be destroying tho “ serpent 
of the still,” than “ banishing ” their keep¬ 
ers, even though they are guilty of the 
“unpardonable sin” of borrowing news¬ 
papers. There have been many good dogs, 
(and perhaps there are sorno yet.) whose 
good deeds aro too woll known to be com¬ 
mented upon here. Wo have fallen, and il 
dogs have fallen with us, why not lot them 
take their chance with the rest of us. II 
man w r as as pure as ho once was, a look from 
tho “ human face divine” would bo sufficient 
to render submissive the most unruly cur. 
But men oboy not tho “ higher law,” and 
why should they expect dogs to oboy them ? 
Our sage Supervisors, too, have decreed 
that dogs must be taxed, and it unable to 
raise the money when tho collector shall 
call, they may suffer death. Imprisonment 
for debt was thought to bo cruel, but in this 
progressive age we go still further. Again : 
the good dogs are compelled to suffer with 
the bad ones, but to this we do not object. 
They should, and will, take care of their 
raco. All wo want is to have the matter ex¬ 
plained to them. Only lot some one of our 
numerous Attorneys — one of those who 
“ make the law at night more intricate than 
at the dawn”—“to-morrow farther from 
tho close than when the sun last sot”— give 
them tho “ modus operandi,” and they will 
pay tho tax even with their lives. They 
will.— Tim, East Varick, JY. Y., 1853. 
Prices of Fowls — Cochin Chinas in 
England. 
Mr. Moore :—Notices of large prices ob¬ 
tained for fowls appear quite frequently in 
your city papers, and I discover in some 
quarters a disposition to place the Brahma 
Pootras in advance of all other varieties; 
and they have been so puffed as to com¬ 
mand higher prices, in Western Now York, 
than any others. While I havo no disposi¬ 
tion to quarrel with this fact, it is worthy of 
note that in England, where the roaring of 
fowls has received far more attention than 
in this country, and whore tho Cochin Chi¬ 
nas have been longest and best known, the 
latter command higher prices than any 
other variety, and higher than any variety 
brings in tho United States. It was thought 
that prices could never go higher than they 
did last winter, at tho London Poultry 
Show, at which £63 was required for four 
Cochin China fowls, and 30 guineas were re¬ 
fused for a single hon. At tho same time, 
110 young birds, between three and four 
months old, were sold for £269, and one 
pair brought £49 7s. 
Those prices were regarded as enormous. 
I have however just recoived a letter from 
London, from a most authentic source, 
written the present month in answer to in¬ 
quiries in regard to fowls. Tho writer in¬ 
forms mo that Cochin Chinas, no hotter, 
judging from tho descriptions, than those of 
which you published portraits throe or four 
weeks since, cannot bo had for less than 60 
guineas I And by the samo mail I havo an 
account of the sale of one pullet, hatched in 
August last, and tho sale made in March, 
for the sum of 40 guineas. Two hundred 
dollars for a single young chicken is rather 
speculative. And yet I venture to express 
tho boliof that good Cochin Chinas will con¬ 
tinue to bring such prices for two or three 
years to como. Ontario. 
The Osage Orange. 
This recently discovered hedge plant 
seems to bo gaining favor, and deservedly 
too, in all parts of the Union. Questions 
aro frequently asked, does it sprout from 
tho root ? Will the tap roots grow ? My 
experiences is this :—It will sprout from the 
root, if the roots are broken by tho plow or 
otherwise, and the ends loft sticking out of 
the ground. Tho tap roots will grow if cut 
in several pieces and set with one ond above 
the ground. 
I regard the Madura Aurantica, or Os¬ 
age Orango as emphatically the hedge plant 
of America, yet the utmost care is neces¬ 
sary in its cultivation, or it is worse than 
worthless. Four thousand plants to tho 
mile is plenty for lopping, which I prefor, 
first, for its cheapness ; second, for its neat¬ 
ness and symmetry of form ; third, it saves 
ground ; lastly, it grows more vigorously.— 
The cost per mile, will not oxceod $50.—J. 
G. Fish, Warsaiv, Marathon Co., Ind. 
Teams should bo on tho ground as early 
as ton o’clock as plowing must commence at 
twelve o'clock precisely. As soon as plowing 
is concluded tho Society will adjourn to 
Tuppers, for dinner, after which tho pre¬ 
miums will be read, and paid the samo af¬ 
ternoon. A large show of stallions, fine 
horsos, cattle, shoep, and implements, will 
bo on tho ground for which premiums will bo 
awarded according to previous notico.” 
Information Wanted. —There aro many 
agricultural tools advertisod in your paper 
without any price attached, and wo farmers 
do not liko to travel forty or fifty miles to 
find out, and be disappointed. I think 
dealers and manufacturers would sell more 
if they gavo tho price of tho article. I have 
been asked about the sub-soil plow, and 
more particularly tho price of T. S. Sted- 
man’s Clover and Grass Seed Reapers,— 
this information inserted in tho Rural^ 
would bo thankfully received by many of 
your readers. tv. N. 
How deep do Roots Grow ? 
Mr. Editor :—I noticed in a recent num¬ 
ber, a pieco written by ’Hiel, purporting to 
be the correction of a great error—accord¬ 
ing to his phraseology — in regard to tho 
depth to which wheat and other roots grow. 
I observed some years ago, where a cellar 
was dug in a growing field of wheat, that tho 
roots, as washed by the rain, hung down tho 
side of tho bank at least four foot, and one 
of our farmers, in digging a cellar in a wheat 
field, states that ho traced the wheat roots 
five feet in a stiff soil; — this I call demon¬ 
stration. II.’s comparison of a seed deep in 
tho ground, and one with vitality, appears 
to me very absurd — a seed deep in tho 
ground, or a chicken in a new laid egg, 
needs no nourishment, but let vogetation, 
or incubation tako place, nourishment is 
thon required—and nature gives it power to 
seek that nourishment. In Prof. Mares’ 
Report to tho American Institute, ho states 
that ho plowed with common and sub-soil 
plows thirty-five inches deep, and says tho 
crops over his under drains woro tho best, as 
being yet deeper. 
In regard to trees, tho road that passes 
my house is dug from five to sixteen feet 
deep on the side of a steep hill, with an 
orchard on tho hill above, and I havo seen 
tho roots of those trees plowed up twonty 
feet from tho treos, and ton feet below the 
surface; but those treos are not “ forest 
treos,” and about one-third the ago that II. 
speaks of. I think II. has got one of thoso 
“ hard-pan” sections we have hoard so much 
of—and, if ho is a farmer, I advise him to 
get a sub-soil plow, and break that hard 
crust, which would expand his purse, his 
mind, and tho roots of his wheat.—W. N., 
Alabama, JY. Y. 
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Monroe Co. Plowing Match. 
In consequence of the very sovore storm, 
the Plowing Match was postponed, and is 
now appointed to tako place at Churchvillo, 
Saturday, June 4th, on tho farm of D. Mc- 
Naugiiton. The Secretary of the Society, 
H. C. White, writes us that, “thoro are 
strong indications that from forty to fifty 
teams will bo on tho ground, and that am¬ 
ple room, and good lands, will bo pi-ovidod 
for all who como. Plowing is a very im¬ 
portant part of husbandry, and all farmers 
should soo that it is done in tho best man¬ 
ner. To do this tho plow should be adapt¬ 
ed to tho work required. A trial of tho 
different kinds at a match, offers a good op¬ 
portunity to judgo of their merits. If tho 
farmers of Monroe County, como out with 
teams and plows, they may have tho bost 
plowing match ever held in Western New 
York. It is in contemplation to increase 
the promium list, which will make it over 
forty dollars. 
THE AGRICULTURAL PRESS. 
To Prevent the Potato Rot. 
We find tho following, from II. Penoyer, 
Western Saratoga, Union Co. Ill., in tho 
JY. Y. Tribune: 
Permit me to make known to the farm¬ 
ing part of tho community, a perfect cure 
and preventative of tho “ Potato Rot,” hav¬ 
ing tested it thoroughly four years with per¬ 
fect success. Take one peck of fine salt 
and mix it thoroughly with half a bushel of 
Nova Scotia Plaster or gypsum, (tho plaster 
is tho best) and immediately after hoeing 
the potatoos tho second time, or just as tho 
young potato begins to sot, sprinklo on tho 
main vines next to tho ground, a tablespoon¬ 
ful of tho above mixture to each hill, and bo 
suro to get it on tho main vines, as it is 
found that the rot proceeds from tho sting 
of an insect in tho vino, and tho mixture 
coming in contact with the vine, kills the 
effect of it, before it roaches tho potato.— 
Farmers would do woll to try it, as they 
would be well paid for their trouble by the 
increase of their crop as well as tho quality 
of the potato. Try it and see. I could, if 
necessary, furnish ample certificates to sub¬ 
stantiate” the abovo, but doom it unnecessa¬ 
ry, as it needs only a trial to prove it. 
Oxen vs. Horses for Farm Work. 
We copy tho following valuable article 
from tho Granite Farmer. It is well worth 
considering by our readers : 
Horse teams upon tho farm with good 
rigging make such a fine appearance that 
many tako a groat fancy to them. And 
such persons generally managoin someway 
or other to porsuado themselves that they 
are much more serviceable and more profit¬ 
able than oxen. On this subject tho ex¬ 
perience of our friend Mr. Dewey is well 
worth considering. 
First Cost. —In tho first placo, tho cost 
of a good span of working horsos, says Mr. 
])., is at least twico the cost of a good yoke 
of oxen. And the wagons, harnesses, and 
other rigging necessary, will cost more than 
twice as much as for oxen ; $326 will not be 
more than enough to purchase two young 
and good working horsos, with a wagon, 
cart rack, and other suitable equipments, 
while the sum of $160 will provido a choice 
yoke of oxen, and and a cart and wheels, 
and rack, and all olso necessary for them 
in ordinary farm work. 
Cost of Keeping. —Then the cost of keop- 
incr horses is well known to bo considerably 
more than the cost of keeping oxen, even if 
tho latter are over so woll taken care of.— 
Tho blacksmith’s bill is suro to bo twico as 
much upon the horse3, and then the wear 
and tear, and breaking of tools will go high¬ 
er still. Horses are liable to numerous 
casualties. They get chafed, lame, sick or 
something else, ten times whero a yoke of 
oxen is troubled once. It the horses are at 
all active and spirited, as they should be, 
thoy cannot well bo trusted to any but a 
choice, careful teamster. Besides, hands 
are very apt to make them go sometimes 
with much more than useful spoed. Now 
and then a horse is unharnessed from tho 
plow whore he has been hard at work in tho 
field, and put upon tho very top of his speed 
to tho store, a mile or two off, to got a pipe 
or plug of tobacco, or some such indispen¬ 
sable article. 
Service Done. —Oxen will do all kinds of 
farm work well, and many things altogeth¬ 
er bettor than horses. For instance, start¬ 
ing out manure, hauling rocks, getting out 
wood, Mr. D. says that a strong yoke of ox¬ 
en will do as much as a span of horses, if 
well kept, and oxen must bo well kept to bo 
profitable. Givo tho oxen tho same keep¬ 
ing as tho horses and they will follow them 
in plowing any length of time, provided the 
furrows bo of equal depth, and they will do 
this through any weather, except the vory 
warmest. The great fault of those who 
complain of the slowness of oxon, and thoir 
want of strength and endurance, is that they 
do not keep thoir oxen well. And another 
point of great consequonco is that tho oxen 
are put to work at a very early age, and bo- 
foro they havo had time to gain their prop¬ 
er sizo and strength. Horsos do not so of¬ 
ten havo their oarly growth checked in this 
way. Besides, calves aro ofton so meanly 
fed that thoy aro greatly stinted by that also. 
Keeping. —Thoy should bo kept so as to 
be always ready for tho butcher. Mr. D. 
has a farm of 150 acres, 40 of which is in 
tillage. He usos no other cattle for labor 
except one yoke of largo oxen. Thoy aro so 
kept and used that thoy are fit for the 
butcher through the hardest of the work.— 
During tho first part of the winter, till 
March, they get hay in tho morning, oat 
straw at noon, corn fodder at night. Later 
in the season thoy aro fed with a pock of 
meal per day, with chaff or chopped hay, 
sometimes moist, in addition, and a bushel 
of turnips twice a week. Tho meal is made 
from corn and cobs—two bushel of cobs and 
one bushel of corn on tho cobs, and perhaps 
a bushel in ton or twelve, of oats, are mixed 
ground togothor. Cattle do not feed so well 
on hay or grain alone, as on a mixturo.— 
Vegetables are of groat service to make 
them healthy. When Mr. D. fats cattlo he 
gives them daily a bundle of green corn fod¬ 
der in tho summor and fall till frost comos, 
and then green turnips and beets thinnod 
out of the field, and afterwards a bushel on 
turnips and a peck of meal, liko that above 
mentioned, till sold. 
The Profit. —Allowing well fed oxen to 
be just about as serviceable as horses, be¬ 
sides tho extra cost in the beginning, the re¬ 
pair of tools, tho extra expense of shoeing, 
risk of lameness and disease, and the great 
caro needed in managing, thoro aro other 
things, that increase tho profit of oxen.— 
The manure thoy make is more valuable.— 
Tho best kopt horsos will decrease in valuo 
$10 annually, take one year with another, 
while oxen will increase in value. Mr. D. 
nover buys a yoko of oxon till about six 
years old. If thoy do not provo just the 
team desired, ho sells them in a year and 
| gets another pair. They will do well till 12 
years old. His experience for tho last 20 
years is as follows : where is presented the 
first cost of the oxon, the number of years 
kept on the farm, and the price sold at.— 
And dui'ing that timo tho oxen havo been 
tho only team, for farm woi'k, and have not 
in all been turned out from labor for tho 
purpose of fattening, three weeks during 
the 20 years: 
Cost. 
Time kept. 
Sold 
$72. 
70.. 
.About 6 years_ 
....$116 
. “ 1 “ ... 
.... 95 
105.. 
« 5 « 
.... 96 
70.. 
. “ 1 “ ... 
.... 98 
85.. 
. “ 3 “ ... 
.... 112 
80. 
. “ 3 “ ... 
.... 110 
90.. 
i< J u 
.... 105 
— 
— 
$573 
$731 
Cost. 
.573 
Profit. 
....$158 
Fisher Ames on Orchard Grass. 
The Evening Post publishes tho follow¬ 
ing pleasant letter from Fisher Ames, taken 
from his work, edited, and about to bo pub¬ 
lished, by his son : 
FISHER AMES TO CHRISTOPHER GORE. 
Dedham, Nov. 7, 1852. 
My Dear Friend : —Tho vory hour and 
minute that I received and was reading 
your letter about Mr. Salisbury’s experi¬ 
ments on my orchard grass seed, pronounc¬ 
ing it, on philosophical authority, to bo 
coarse and unfit for pasture, my cows were 
in my house-lot eating it with the voracious 
appotito of ignorance. The Encyclopaedia, 
I find, says it is liked by sheep and horses, 
but is refused by cows. 
Tho poor things did not know that it was 
the “Datcylis glomoratus,” and was refused 
by cows. It is a shame to the very cattle 
to bo so ignorant. It was natural to expect 
dreadful consequences from this apparently 
fatal mistako. 
Tho arts and sciences, who had spoken so 
plainly in tho Encyclopaedia, one would 
think, would sond a witch to givo my cows 
the cholic. 
There was no temptation, and very little 
excuse for tho blunder, for in tho lot were 
other grasses in abundance. Tho lionoy- 
suckle, or white clover, tho May and spear 
grass, and the other various sorts, or gram - 
ina., as we, the learned, choose to term 
them. Yes, rejecting what was good and 
lawful, and preferring that which, it turns 
out, though I must insist they did not know 
it, was prohibited, thoy did prefor the afore¬ 
said “ Dactylis glomoratus,” against tho dig¬ 
nity of tho Royal Society and their botanical 
gardon, and in contempt of the common law 
and of the Encyclopaedia as before reitera¬ 
ted, and in very evil examplo to sundry 
other cows, who looked over my fence, de¬ 
siring to offend in like manner. I will not 
wholly vindicate this enormity—it is too bad 
for that—but I urge in palliation, that prob¬ 
ably tho “Dactylis glomoratus ” is as sweet 
as any grass that grows so rank, probably 
sweeter, for tho hay is preferred by my cat¬ 
tle. But I can scarcely doubt that the 
white clovor, and other small grasses, aro 
better pasture. But, as tho orchard grass 
grows very fast, whilo others stand still, and 
ofton form a tuft or hassock, in rich land, as 
largo as a peck moasuro, unless tho cattlo 
love it much better, they will not keep it 
down so close. For, in an oqual space of 
timo, it will be ranker than other grasses, 
and being the rankest will, of course, be loft. 
Yot, this very inconsiderable difference, 
supposing it to oxist in favor of other grasses, 
which is, liowovor, mere hypothesis, is an 
affair of trival account. As tho orchard 
grass is succulont and cattlo will eat it, their 
preference or taste is of no groat importance 
to your own cows ; if indeed you invite your 
neighbor’s cows to push down your fence 
and breakfast in your lot, you should on- 
tertain them on tho best. 
Tho grass and hay are highly nourishing, 
thoy are abundant, and, with manure, bring 
better crops on dry lands than any other 
grass, perhaps not excepting clover. 
Tho last spring I remarked my orchard 
grass grow thick and formed hassocks, whilo 
tho dry cold weathor kopt all other sorts 
back. 
On the wholo, this species of grass is. with 
me, boyond thegrado of experiment—it has 
tried oxcollonco, and I will stick to it. 
I havo a great deal moro to say to you. 
I am full of zeal about farming; cattlo and 
fruit trees aro my thomos, in prose. Poetry, 
if I had any, I would devote to my pig-sty 
and politics—two scurvy subjects, that 
should bo coupled together. 1 wish ex¬ 
ceedingly to get such cows as, being well- 
fed on the “ Dactylis glomoratus,” will give 
more milk than any othor cows. 
Tho Aldernoy brood is said to bo of that 
description, but being English, I make no 
doubt thoy would refuse tho “ Dactylis.”— 
Expect to hear from mo again very soon. 
Your affectionate friend, 
Fisher Ames. 
The Dispatch suggests that graduates 
fron tho Agricultural Colleges, now being 
started in this country, havo affixed to their 
names tho cabalistic lottors “ M. P.”—moan¬ 
ing “ Master of tho Plow.” 
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