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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
APRIL 12. 
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son avoid the east Bide of a marsh or creek— 
this should be remembered. If settling on the 
prairie, keep away from the groves or “ timber 
islands,” where the trees are large, undergrowth 
heavy, and ground low and damp. Many eail} 
settlers suffered from living on the verge of such, 
tempted by the shade and shelter. It is 
healthier to go out on the open prairie and plant 
trees around you, where the pure fresh breeze 
invigorates. Groves on high ground, with trees 
less dense, are healthy and pleasant. 
Good water is of great importance. Of course, 
any man of common sense would seek a good 
spring or stream, if possible. In forests and 
openings these are more common than on the 
prairies. Clear, cold water—hard like ours in 
this region, but otherwise good—can usually be 
had, even on the wide prairies, by digging foi it. 
The early settlers scooped out shallow wells a 
dozen feet deep or less, and drank the water 
draining through from the surface, lull of veg¬ 
etable impurities—or made a hole near some 
« slew” and used the poor water thus easily ob¬ 
tained. Of course they suffered from sickness. 
What else could be expected ? A friend of 
mine on the great prairie near Bloomington, 111., 
has a well fifty-six feet deep, reaching through 
the blue clay subsoil to gravel and sand beneath, 
and well bricked up, from which he gets un¬ 
failing abundance of clear, fine water. His 
neighbors praise his well, are too lazy to build 
one like it, and shake with ague for their shift¬ 
lessness. 
Avoid overtasking your strength, especially 
when exposed to hot sun—a few minutes often 
open the way for long wasting sickness. Avoid 
reckless exposure to cold wind, wet, or damp 
night air. Errors in diet are the cause of much 
sickness charged to the climate. IV 6stern peo¬ 
ple, especially when first settling, eat fewei 
vegetables, less fruit, and more meat than in the 
East—often use more coffee. Let a good vege¬ 
table garden be a first thing, stocked with a 
wholesome variety. Buy fruit, green or dried, 
until you can raise it. It costs no more than 
many other articles of food, daily purchased 
without thought of their expense, often less 
tjian meat. Use these as you have been accus¬ 
tomed to do—(more would often be a benefit.) 
In the West, excessive use of meat—often in 
summer, fat and salted—and of strong coffee, 
clogs and stimulates the system, aggravates the 
bilious tendencies of the climate, and brings on 
fever and the terrible shaking ague. Meat, es¬ 
pecially if fat, can better be eaten in a cold than 
warm climate—witness the Esquimaux delight¬ 
ing in whale blubber and tallow. My advice 
to the western emigrant would be—always have 
vegetables and fruit in plenty— when the heat of 
summer comes on cat meat moderately —as winter 
draws near use more if you wish. Better use 
water and milk for drinks, but if you must 
have something clsfe, do be moderate about cof¬ 
fee and tea, especially the rank, muddy coffee. 
Observation and the experience of intelligent 
families fully convince me of the great impor¬ 
tance of this matter, and I doubt not a decrease 
of meat-eating, more especially in hot weather, 
and more liberal use of nutritious vegetables 
and fruit, would end a large proportion of sick¬ 
ness among western emigrants. Let every 
would-be-emigrant aim to provide something 
for his family—at least through the hot season 
—beside the everlasting fat pork, greasy gravy, 
and muddy coffee. As for whiskey and kindred 
beverages, if any man uses them as a substitute 
for poor water—an excuse poorer than any “slew 
water” I ever saw in a western mud hole—he 
must abide the terrible consequences, worse 
there than here if possible. 
Bear in mind that it is difficult in the West, 
especially in the country, to find female help, 
and look forward and plan not to have too great 
a burden of housework for women to bear.— 
Remember this kind of work is ever doing, 
never done, not well put off, and that it is not 
safe to overtax in a new climate. With decent 
care, I should have little fear in settling as far 
south as Central Illinois or Iowa—even farther, 
while in some parts of Michigan and Illinois, 
and in Northern Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnes¬ 
ota, it is very healthy. As a general rule, those 
disposed to bilious diseases are not benefited by 
going West, those with consumptive tendencies 
are often made healthier. 
By observing these few suggestions, and such 
others as intelligent judgment and experience 
will bring up, the fears of a new climate need 
not be formidable, and much trouble may be 
avoided. By wise industry and good care that 
intellect and heart gain in wealth, many a 
western home will grow happier amidst abun¬ 
dant fortune. If any word of mine shall aid 
others to shun danger and help to a healthier, 
wiser and better life in that beautiful region, I 
shall be well repaid. g. b. s. 
bottom ; serve all the pipes in the same manner, 
and you will see no further issue of matter until 
the diseased portion breaks loose and comes out 
Now adjust your harness so as not to rub the 
part affected, and set your beast at work if you 
wish, but do not over heat him, and no harm 
will result. After it breaks loose, which will 
be in from three to six weeks, cleanse it one 
day with soapsuds, and the next with a wash 
composed of one tea spoonful of white vitriol, 
one do. burnt copperas, one do. burnt alum, and 
one of gunpowder, in one pint of rainwater.— 
Oil the sore well after washing. This will 
prevent the formation of any new pipes, and 
cause the sore to heal rapidly. HfZ 
Fleming, N. Y. L. L. Wilkinson. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
HEMLOCK HEDGES vs. SNOW DRIFTS. 
In many sections of our country the drifting 
of snow into highways and yards, preventing 
travel frequently for days, and subtracting very 
much from the comfort of stock, is a subject of 
too general grievance to deserve description or 
comment. Occurring almost annually, any 
practicable remedy would prove a blessing to 
the country. 
Generally but short stretches of road are 
rendered impassable ; at these places the wind 
is slackened by some object, and drops the snow, 
or it slides over some bank or artificial obstruc¬ 
tion and rests—just where not wanted—in the 
middle of the road. The cause of snow drifts, 
at least nine-tenths of the time, is found to be 
artificial—fences, high banks, anything to break 
the wind partially. Any straight fence is bet¬ 
ter than a crooked one in preventnig snow 
drifts. A straight board fence without any 
space between the boards will act as a preven¬ 
tive, and if six or seven feet high, all the bet¬ 
ter. Very few roads would ever be badly 
drifted were such a fence placed on the wind¬ 
ward side. Stone walls are also a very good 
preventive. 
Instances of snow drifting from banks above 
the road should be treated differently from those 
on plains. In such cases the preventive should 
be situated far enough and high enough to in¬ 
tercept the snow, and not allow it to be pitched 
over into the road. Places of this kind are not 
unfrequent in this State, where snow drifts in to 
the road to the depth of twenty feet. And 
here, where it proves the greatest nuisance, it 
can generally be prevented with least labor and 
expense. 
I believe a yet better and more efficient pre¬ 
ventive of drifts than either the above named 
to be a hemlock hedge. Any evergreen hedge 
will do, but the hemlock is best. It is rapid 
in its growth—bark highly astringent, hence 
not liable to the gnawed by mice—and is a 
hardy, long-lived, ornamental tree. On most 
soils in this State a hedge of this sort would 
grow so as not only to stop snow, but cattle.— 
They have been tested as a hedge plant and 
found valuable—their utility as a preventive of 
snow drifts is yet more certain. We hope to 
see some means adopted by which we may be 
rid of this annual accompaniment of our win¬ 
ters, even if the remedy be to go without fences. 
Hornby, N. Y., Feb., 1856. W. H. Gardner. 
HEN MANURE FOR CORN. 
WOOD ASHES-AN INQUIRY. 
Ens. Rural :—Are unleached ashes, applied 
in the spring, beneficial to wheat or clover ? 
when is the best time to sow them ? what the 
proper quantity per acre ? will it pay to use 
them at five dollars per hundred bushels?—J. 
E. Ferguson, Jackson, Mich. 
Remarks. —The nature of the soil rather than 
the character of the plant to be grown should 
be considered in the use of ashes. They con¬ 
tain silica, phosphate and carbonate of lime; 
also alkaline sulphates, phosphates and carbon¬ 
ates. Wood ashes render clayey soils mellow, 
and give consistency to those that are light— 
are better suited to moist than to dry lands, but 
the former should be well drained. They can 
be used with advantage in the production of 
almost any crop, but particularly as a dressing 
for grass, millet and Indian corn. Their im¬ 
mediate effects are more perceptible upon legu¬ 
minous crops, as clover, peas, beans, Ac. As a 
top-dressing to grass lands they expel the 
mosses and promote the growth of white clover. 
Autumn is considered the best period for then- 
application, as the continued dampness of the 
atmosphere serves to carry the manurial ele¬ 
ments into the soil. From 15 to 20 bushels per 
acre is commonly used. Purchase all you can 
obtain at the price mentioned—provided your 
soil be deficient in the fertilizing material they 
contain—the effects of their use being often 
perceptible after a period of ten or fifteen years. 
—Eds. 
SPRING-HALT.—INQUIRY. 
Will you please inform a subscriber through 
the columns of the Rural, the cause and remedy 
if there is any, for the disease in horses called 
“ Spring-Halt,” as we have several very valuable 
horses in our neighborhood afflicted with it.— 
If any one can inform us of a remedy, they will 
much oblige a lover of good horses.—W. H. M., 
Fabius, N. Y. 
Remarks. —This disease is little understood 
by farriers, but it is supposed to be a partial 
paralysis of the nerves leading from the limb to 
the brain, and that the peculiar involuntary mo¬ 
tion observed, arises from that cause. Little can 
be done for it directly, as far as we can learn 
perhaps some of our readers know more on the 
subject.— Eds. 
HOW TO GROW CORN. 
Manure your corn in the hill, and I assure 
you that the result will be satisfactory. It 
takes but a few loads of manure to the acre, and 
produces a larger crop than three or four times 
the amount, put on in the ordinary way—thus 
making it quite an object for any economical 
farmer, as the rest may be used for oilier 
purposes. No farmer need indulge in the 
thought that a $x-c\ does not need manure of 
some kind, and every experience teaches me 
that barn-yard or stable manure will answer 
every purpose, provided you have enough of it. 
People who sell the products of their farms, or 
nearly so, and raise little or no stock, are 
cheating themselves, as experience will prove. 
—C. C., Henry Go., 0. 
Sural ftotes anh firms. 
International Fair. —Our Buffalo neighbors 
are making arrangements for an International 
Fair in their city—a capital idea, as the point 
is easily accessible to the people of Western 
New York, Canada West, and a good many of 
“the rest of mankind.” The Buffalo Republic 
says :—“ We understand, from the best author¬ 
ity, that a movement is on foot, headed by a 
large number of our most influential citizens, to 
hold an International Fair in this city some¬ 
time about the 8th of September next. A pre¬ 
liminary meeting has already been held, and a 
committee on subscriptions appointed, who will 
call upon our citizens in a few days and person¬ 
ally ascertain their views in relation to the sub¬ 
ject. It is proposed to offer prizes to the 
amount of between $10,000 and $15,000, for 
which the citizens of the United States and 
Canada -will be allowed to compete in all the 
aried and extensive departments of Agricul¬ 
tural and Mechanical Industry. One of the 
most attractive features of the fair will be in the 
contribution of Stock, principally of blood 
horses—arrangements for which have been al- 
eady perfected on the most extensive scale.— 
The matter is already sufficiently under way 
to prevent the possibility of a failure.” 
FISTULA —POLL EVIL. 
Eds. Rural :—One of your subscribers calls 
for the cause and cure of fistula on horses. Fis¬ 
tula and poll evil are both usually caused by a 
bruise, the former frequently by the improper 
tightness of the top of the hame, or collar ; the 
latter by receiving a blow on the top of the 
head or neck. The result is, that pipes are 
formed which discharge a glutinous matter very 
offensive, and keeping the animal in a low and 
almost worthless condition. The cure which I 
have practiced in my own and several other 
cases, and which, if thoroughly done, I will 
warrant not to fail, is as follows : 
Cleanse the sore with soapsuds thoroughly, 
take a goose quill or smoothly peeled apple- 
tree sprout and sound the pipe or pipes, finding 
their direction and depth ; take some stiff paper, 
roll it up in horn shape about the size of a goose 
quill; fill with arsenic, double over the ends, 
insert the pipe and push or drive it to the 
Eds. Rural :—In answer to the inquiry of 
C., “ Is Hen Manure good for corn ?” I will 
give my experience in its use. 
A few years since, in applying manure to a 
piece of ground I was about seeding down with 
a crop of oats, I scraped from under an old shed 
where my hens roosted, a small load and spread 
it on the ground in the same manner as other 
manure, and dragged in the seed. The oats 
came up where the hen manure was applied, 
stronger and darker colored, but lodged before 
heading out. The next season the clover and 
timothy cut the same caper on the same spot of 
ground. This led me to believe that there -was 
great fertilizing properties in hen manure. In 
1854 I collected two barrels, which being dry 
was put on the barn floor and threshed fine, 
mixing two bushels of leached ashes with it.— 
After marking out the cornfield, I dropped a 
small hand full of my home-made guano in each 
hill, then dropped the corn upon it and covered 
as usual. Hot one kernel in six came up.— 
What did, was not in immediate contact with 
the manure. Planted over again, and had a 
good growth’and sound corn. The remaining 
part of the field grew well. 
I have a quantity of hen manure, which it is 
my intention to apply to corn this spring, but 
shall cover the manure with earth before drop¬ 
ping the seed unless I hear of some better mode 
of application. A. Harmon. 
Cortlandville, Cortland Co., N. Y. 
OSAGE ORANGE HEDGES. 
Eds. Rural :—One of ycur correspondents 
inquires in regard to Osage Orange standing 
the winters of our latitude, or something to that 
amount,—my paper being lent that has the 
inquiry in. 
I have a hedge that was planted in 1854 -with 
two year old plants of Osage Orange, that have 
stood the two past very remarkably hard winters 
well. About a foot of the tops were killed a 
year ago, all under that was as green and sound 
as they were in the fall. Last spring they were 
cut down to within a few inches of the ground, 
and made a great growth during the summer. 
They are now to all appearance sound and 
uninjured, except the very out ends of the 
branches, which are very much shriveled up, 
and have turned almost black. 
The hedge in question is in a very exposed 
situation, on the west side of a ridge. Any 
plant or shrub that will stand the two past 
winters, in such a location, ought to be able to 
live anywhere south of Hudson’s Bay. 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. L. F. Crowell. 
HEAVES IN HORSES. 
S. Pettit, of North-East, Pa., thinks feeding 
horses and colts out of racks causes them to in¬ 
hale the seed into their lungs, and thus gives 
them the heaves. I shall differ widely with 
his opinion. I have had some little experience 
with horses, as I have raised and owned quite a 
number,—and I never had a horse get the heaves 
yet, though I have always fed out of racks, and 
prefer them if properly constructed. Some of 
the most prominent causes of heaves in horses 
as far as my experience goes, are :— Excess in 
driving, getting very warm, then taking a vio 
lent cold, and feeding on musty, dirty hay and 
grain.—W. Stancliff , McKean, Eric Co., Pa. 
TAPPING MAPLE TREES. 
I reside on a farm where I first tapped trees 
forty years ago, and of all the different plans, I 
think best of boring. I cut a tree last winter 
tapped forty years ago, and in working up the 
butt log, I found the tapping nicely grown over, 
without apparent damage to the timber. My 
father instructed me to use an inch augur. Af¬ 
ter the sap season was over, we took a nicely 
turned plug of pine, a trifle larger than the hole, 
and drove it in snugly, then cut it off smooth 
with the surface and covered it with composi 
tion similar to grafting wax. It is some labor, 
but it is effectual.— Storks Barrows, South 
Trenton, N. Y. 
POLAND OATS—THE OTHER SIDE. 
“Wellington,” in the Rural of April 5, has 
given us his experience in raising Poland Oats ; 
which proved to be rather a failure. Now for 
little on the other side. Two of my neighbors 
the past season, raised each an acre of Poland 
Oats, which measured respectively 100 and 107 
bushels. The land was prepared in the usual 
way and not over manured.—K., Wilson, N. 
Sweet Potatoes— Inquiries. —Having raised 
a few sweet potatoes, and wishing the coming 
season to enter more extensively into their cul¬ 
tivation, would like to obtain some information 
on the following points :—How and when should 
the vines be trimmed ? to what soil are they 
best adapted ? what period is best for planting ? 
how near together should they be set, and 
whether they may not be successfully grown 
from the eyes ?—C. C. Y., Henry Co., Ohio. 
Inquiry. —I have a chestnut tree near my 
house that is old enough and large enough, I 
think, to bear fruit. It is about one foot and a 
half through. It bears burrs, but the nuts in¬ 
variably blast. I shall be much obliged to any 
one who will tell how to make it produce nuts. 
—Wellington. 
Progression. —At no period in the Agricultu 
ral history of our country was progression among 
farmers so emphatically the requisite to success 
as the present. Labor-saving machinery in all 
the departments of farm economy is continually 
being presented for inspection, and thus a new 
field is opened for the exercise of judgment. 
Hands of iron and nerves of steel are waiting 
to do his bidding. Science stands ever ready 
to lend her aid in revealing the secrets of Na^ 
ture. To be the first in his profession is the 
privilege of every Agriculturist; to labor for 
such position is his duty. Old Fogyism, on the 
farm, is an intruder, and immediate measures 
should be taken for his removal. Get on board 
for Perfection in all matters pertaining to Rural 
affairs, and let each mile-stone on your journey 
be noted “ Progress and Improvement.” 
Keet the Best Stock. —We often meet with 
notices of good cows, and a large dairy com¬ 
posed of such would prove highly profitable.— 
Too often, however, dairymen keep some cows 
which are of no profit, but a loss in the end.— 
One of them tells the following story in the 
Waltham Sentinel: —“I have a dairy of 10 
cows, and by looking over my account of sales, 
and estimating the quantity used in the family, 
find my cows have averaged about 1,600 
quarts to a cow. The five best cows, I have no 
doubt, have yielded 2,000 quarts each, while 
the other five have not averaged over 1,200.— 
Two of the latter class are heifers with their 
first calf, and three are poor milkers, and should 
have been sent to the shambles. The milk of 
the five best cows has amounted to $80 to a cow 
for the year, while the other five have averaged 
but $48—the first five yielding a profit of $18 
each, while the loss on the other five has been 
$14 each. Had all my cows been equal to the 
five best, their milk would have amounted to 
$800—whereas I realized but $640—that is, by 
having five poor cows, I lost nearly all the profit 
on the dairy.” 
Does not this prove that “ farmers cannot af¬ 
ford to keep poor cows, or carry on their busi¬ 
ness with poor tools.” 
Paying Investments. —It has often been re¬ 
marked that the “ best bank for a farmer to in¬ 
vest in was a bank of earth,” and yet howi many 
agriculturists are robbing their farms for the 
purpose of “ adding a little” to a deposit in one 
of those expansive and explosive concerns mis¬ 
named “ Safety Fund.” How many of them, 
too, are dabbling in “Stocks” and “ Fancies,” 
subjecting themselves to the whims of brokers 
who will “cry up," or “down," as to “them 
seemeth good.” Remember, the farm you are 
now neglecting will pay large “dividends” 
provided it receives proper attention, and that 
the best stock you can be possessed of, is such 
as will convert the raw and refuse material from 
your lands into enriching and invigorating ma¬ 
nures. 
Waking Up. —The wool growers of the West 
are discussing the general features of the bill 
at present before Congress for the abolition of 
the import duties on foreign wool. At various 
meetings resolutions condemnatory of the pro¬ 
posed measure have been passed. Among pol¬ 
iticians it has almost become an axiom that 
“ nothing so benefits a dominant party as an oc¬ 
casional defeat.” In agricultural economy the 
same may be equally true. Let the farmer’s 
pocket bleed freely for a short time, that the 
impeded circulation of manufacturers and oth¬ 
ers may be accelerated, and a spirit of inqui¬ 
ry will be quickened among the “ tillers of the 
soil” that will terminate in benefit to the whole 
country. 
A New Feature. —The Executive Committee 
of the Board of Agriculture of Illinois, in the 
preparation of their List of Premiums, have offer¬ 
ed one for the best model of a High School and 
District School House, with the furniture appro¬ 
priate to each. Is not this worthy of imitation 
by similar associations ? The cultivation of the 
soil and the mind are labors co-equal, as upon 
a truthful and useful knowledge are based the 
principles of free government. Let the Ag. So¬ 
cieties promote the conveniences necessary to 
obtaining an education, as by its aid alone can 
farmers’ sons and daughters be fitted for the 
reception of science as applied to their pursuits. 
A Premium for Experience. —The following 
passage from Prof. North’s Address before the 
Oneida Co. Agricultural Society, is worthy of 
consideration : 
« It is to be hoped that the day is not distant, 
when our Agricultural Societies will be so re¬ 
formed that premiums shall be paid for imper¬ 
ishable ideas, as well as for perishable crops. 
A good yield of corn is less worthy of a prize 
than a good treatise on the best way to raise 
corn. Pay twenty dollars for a premium on the 
best orchard in the country, and only one man 
is encouraged by it. Pay twenty dollars for a 
treatise on the best method of managing apple 
trees, and the whole world of fruit-growers gets 
a benefit. There are precious volumes of agri¬ 
cultural knowledge hived away in the memories 
of farmers that never comes before the public, 
simply because it is never invited. Many a 
successful cultivator of the soil has died, making 
no sign, who might have bequeathed to society 
a legacy of valuable information. In place of 
offering the farmer five dollars for driving his 
pet Durham cow to the Fair, offer him double 
the money if he will bring also his budget of 
experience in the dairy business. Society will 
be thereby a gainer, and the dignity of rural 
pursuits will be fittingly vindicated.” 
“ The Workingman” is the emphatic title of 
a handsome 16 page quarto “ monthly paper for 
the Farmer and Mechanic,” recently commenced 
at Indianapolis, Ind.,—edited by Lewis Boll- 
man, and published by tlie Indianapolis Journal 
Co., at $1 per annum. The number for March, 
now before us, is exceedingly well filled. The 
editor is evidently a practical, progressive, 
wide-awake Hoosier, and capable of furnishing 
a spicy, interesting and valuable journal. Suc¬ 
cess to The Workingman, — and to all men, of 
whatever calling or profession, worthy of that 
noble title. • , 
The Monroe Co. Ag. Society is to hold an 
adjourned meeting at the Court House, in this 
city, on the 16th inst.,— at which it is expected 
important business will be transacted relative 
to permanent location, life memberships, Ac. A 
large attendance of members and others inter¬ 
ested in the reformatory and progressive move¬ 
ment, is earnestly desired and anticipated by 
the officers and friends of the Society. 
A Luxury for Animals. —It is related of Rev. 
Sidney Smith that when on his farm, each cow 
and calf, and horse and pig, were in turn visited, 
and fed and patted, and all seemed to welcome 
him ; he cared for their comforts as he cared for 
the comforts of every living being around him. 
He used to say,—“ I am for all cheap luxuries, 
even for animals ; now all animals have a pas¬ 
sion for scratching their back-bones; they 
break down your gates and palings to effect 
this. Look ! there is my universal scratcher, a 
sharp-edged pole, resting on a high and low 
post, adapted to every height lrom a horse to a 
lamb. Even the Edinburgh Reviewer can take 
his turn ; you have no idea how popular it is. 
I have not had a gate broken since I put it up. 
I have it in all my fields.” 
Worth Knowing. —Corn planted three feet 
apart each way, gives 30% hills to the rod, 
4,840 to the acre, and 48,400 to a ten acre field. 
Allowing 5% hills to the rod for the worms and 
crows, it would leave 25 hills to the rod, 4,000 
to the acre, and 40,000 to a ten acre field.— 
Planting four feet apart each way, gives 19 9-64 
hills to the rod, 3,063% to the acre, and 30,625 
to a ten acre field. Whether the crows and 
worms would find as many hills four feet apart, 
is not a matter for mathematical calculation, but 
supposing they should destroy 62% hills to the 
acre, there would be left 19 hills to the rod, 
3,000 to the acre, and 30,000 to a ten acre field. 
— Prof. Nash. 
Wheat and Oats. —In a recent conversation 
with Faoli Lothrop, Esq., of South Hadley Falls, 
he stated to us that he had derived great advan¬ 
tage from sowing spring wheat and oats togeth¬ 
er—the crop to be used for horse feed, whole or 
ground. He stated that the wheat kept the 
oats from falling, by which means they filled 
better, and that the mixed crop gave as many 
bushels as would have been obtained of oats, 
while the value was considerably greater. The 
proportion of seed is one-third wheat and two- 
thirds oats—three bushels of the mixture to the 
acre.— Boston Cultivator. 
Otsego is the largest hop growing county in 
New York. The total number of acres appro¬ 
priated to this cultivation is set down at 4,038%, 
and the crop of last year aggregates 3,121,464 
pounds. This product alone, even at' present 
rates, nets an enormous income. 
Potatoes in Ireland. —Extensive preparations 
are going forward in the northern provinces of 
Ireland, for the cultivation of potatoes the en¬ 
suing season, and in 1855 nearly 1,000,000 acres 
were planted. The crop of last year was a full 
one, there were few cases of disease, and the 
quality was superior to any before raised since 
the year of famine. The quantity now in the 
hands of farmers is greater than that of former 
years at this season, and the quality is excellent. 
—Irish Paper. 
Pork Trade of the’West. —According to the 
Cincinnati Price Current, the number of hogs 
slaughtered in the eight leading States engaged 
in pork-packing is 2,430,887—an increase on 
previous season of 342,845. The average gain 
in weight is 11 per cent., which, added to the 
accumulation in numbers, would make a total 
increase of 572,298. 
The prize crop of Indian corn in the State of 
Ohio, for 1855, was 162 bushels per acre. 
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