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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN" ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
AGRICULTURAL, LITKRARY AND FAMILY JOURNAL, 
mire, is swamp muck or peat, in a dry state.— 
Used thus, it is converted into manure itself— 
one cord of fresh manure mixed with two cords 
of dry muck being fully equal to three cords of 
the unmixed manure treated in any other man¬ 
ner. Some such article ought in all cases to he 
employed. A plenty of strawy litter will act 
partially in this way. Leaves, sods, the wash 
of roads and streams, saw-dust, and even loam, 
are valuable for this purpose. 
We next propose to consider the methods of 
treating manure before applying it to the crop 
—a subject of much importance to the farmer. 
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WITH AN ABLB CORPS OP ASSISTANT EDITORS. 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS: 
H. T. BROOKS, Prof. C. DEWEY, 
T. C. PETERS, L. B. LAXGWORTIIY, 
H. C. WHITE, T. E. WETMORE. 
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beautiful in appearance, and unsurpassed in Value, Purity 
and Variety of Contents. Its conductors earnestly labor 
to make it a Reliable Guide on the important Practical 
Subjects connected with the business of those whose inter¬ 
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interspersed with many appropriate and beautiful Engrav¬ 
ings, than any other paper published in this Country,— 
rendering it a complete Agricultural, Literary and 
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For Terms, and other particulars, see last page. 
AGRICULTURE AND ITS NEEDS. 
How Agriculture stands in public opinion, and 
what it needs to place it in a proper point of 
view, are questions worthy of frequent and care¬ 
ful consideration. Though a subject we have 
before spoken upon, yet deeming it worthy of 
occasional recall, we now take it up again. 
The life and employment of the farmer has 
never lacked its eulogists, indeed it has been 
lauded from the earliest times until now, beyond 
all other occupations which men follow for a 
subsistence. The members of other active busi¬ 
ness callings, seem to look upon it as a pursuit 
rich in varied charms and ample rewards, and 
often picture to themselves a farmer’s life, as 
I free from the cares which vex them now, and 
sigh for the time when they may retire from the 
anxieties of law, merchandize, medicine, or pol¬ 
itics, to enjoy the elysium of a farm of their own, 
in some pleasant rural neighborhood. Mr. 
Sparrowgrass, has many counterparts in real 
v life. They have a kind pf poetized idea of 
farming, very different from the experience of 
the practical agriculturist, and little dream of 
going earnestly to work themselves, or of de¬ 
pending on the products of their own labor for 
support, as the working farmer must do ;— but, 
having made money in other occupations, they 
now propose to themselves a leisurely enjoy¬ 
ment of agricultural felicity. What the result 
often proves, we need not repeat. 
Another class—men who have had one sort of 
experience in the matter—look with very differ¬ 
ent eyes upon the pursuit of agriculture. We 
have met such men,—Farmer Makedo was one 
of them—who have toiled for long and weary 
years, always working hard, and yet, who are 
now but very little in advance of their starting 
BARN-YARD MANURE, 
PREMIUM SHORT-HORN COW, IIILPA IV. 
Above we present a spirited portrait of Mr. 
Chapmans “Hilpa IV.,” a fine Short-horn, 
which took the first prize at the State Fair at 
Rochester, as a calf, and the first at Utica as a 
yearling. Her pedigree is as follows : 
__ Roan, bred by George ' v^., Lsq., of Troy, 
X • Y > the property of S. P. ChApmax. Clockville, 
Madison Co., N. Y., calved !lth April, 1851 ; got 
by Duke of IV ellington 55 (3654,) (imported by 
Dam j stock-breeders, as the prizes taken at the last 
Esq., | State Fair prove, viz., Diploma on “ Halton” as 
5ates a 1st prize of former year, 1st prize on bull calf 
C. d., “ Duke of Oxford. Cows (home-bred,) 1st on 
Rose “ Duchess,” 2d on « Ruby II.,” 1st on yearling 
L5;) heifers, and second on heifer calves. Imported 
“ 1 on know that loamy ridge field, on the 
back end of my farm,” said he,—“ it is a long 
way to draw manure, even if we had more than 
is needed nearer the barn,—how shall I man¬ 
age to bring at least five hundred bushels of 
shelled corn from that ten acres, next season ? 
It is a clover sod, now—so far, a good prepara¬ 
tion, but to ensure a heavy crop, (I want at least 
seventy-five bushels, per acre, from the richest 
of it,) what is my best course of procedure ?” 
Our friend may be thought to aim high, but 
it is an old maxim, “ the higher we aim, the 
higher we rise,” and he will be more likelv to 
come up to fifty bushels, per acre, than if heonlv 
vine to otner farmers, and because we were mueh 
interested in the topics and conversation,_of 
which we shall probably take up other points 
in future. Our friend would he thankful for any 
hints which the farming reader may give on this 
and other questions in practical agriculture— 
aud the Rural is just the medium, through; 
which thousands of readers may confer with, 
and assist each other. 
SHELTERING MANURE. 
“ VV ill manure sheds pay, where the manure 
is all hauled out early in the spring,” asks a 
subscriber in last week’s Rural. We will try 
and throw some light on the subject, though we 
hope those of our readers who can do this from 
experiment, will give us their aid. We think 
such sheds will pay, if used at the same time as 
shelters for stock. 
One of our correspondents, Levi Bartlett, of 
U. H., in a communication to the Boston Culti¬ 
vator, gives some experience right to the point 
on this inquiry. Some years ago, he built a 
a shed at the end of one of his barns to protect 
his manure from the rains, Ac. The manure 
from a stable where ten head of cattle were kept 
in winter, was, with the litter, urine, Ac., thrown 
undei the shed, but he says “ the best way he 
could fix it, the mass would heat and fire-fang 
excessively, and the escaping gases, at times, 
tainted the air for many rods around.” This 
heating process, no doubt, very much lessened 
the value of the manure. The same would be 
the case with horse manure treated in the same 
way, but to a still greater extent. 
'lo remedy this, Mr. Bartlett has adopted 
another plan, in which his manure is sheltered 
and the fermentation almost entirely prevented. 
He uses the lower story of a barn, 24 by 30 feet 
in size, as a manure room, and employs dry 
muck, saw-dust, Ac., as an absorbent, and bed¬ 
ding for his stock. His horse and stock stables, 
and hog-pens, surround this barn, so that it is 
convenient to place the manure from each of 
these, therein. He does this daily, levels it 
TALKING OE A CORN CROP. 
“ How can I improve my farm—how can I 
increase its fertility, symmetry, and capacity 
tor profitable cultivation,” are questions every 
progressive farmer has proposed to himself— 
questions which receive his frequent and care- 
He studies the condition of his 
improvement, with an 
ful attention, 
farm, and its facilities for 
eye to putting it into the highest state of pro¬ 
ductiveness within his means and reach. He 
looks to its adaptation to different products, and 
to tho best means of preparing for the same, not 
in the twilight of tradition alone, but in the 
sunshine of modern agricultural literature—an 
aid to which he gratefully acknowledges his 
obligations. Every farmer should study thus— 
should earnestly seek to make the best of the 
means and opportunities he possesses. We did 
not set out, however, to urge this upon our read¬ 
ers, but simply to speak of a talk with a brother 
farmer, about his plans and projects for the com¬ 
ing season. 
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