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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JUNE 7. 
ed, I for one have been accustomed to look upon 
the Rural as remarkably free from the noisy 
insect mentioned by J. G. S., and the worst 
fault I have to find with it is, that the paper 
upon which it is printed is so tender, from a 
deficiency of sizing—or for some other reason, 
that by the time we have all read it through, it 
is so nearly worn out, from frequent folding, 
that it is hardly fit to bind—and I should like 
to have my copy bound, humbug and all. 
J. G. S. finds but one count in his indictment 
of the Rural, aud that is “ salt for corn.” “ The 
Rural is acquitted, not having highly recom¬ 
mended it without qualification.” But your 
present correspondent must plead guilty, hav¬ 
ing, about a year ago, over his own signature, 
communicated substantially, the same formula 
with which J. G. S. once experimented, viz., one 
part salt, two parts gypsum, four parts ashes.— 
But J. G. S. either did not read through the di¬ 
rections for its application, or in his haste to 
make his experiment, he forgot one very im¬ 
portant lesson, viz., “there is a time for all 
things." Now if J. G. S. will look up the copy 
of the Rural in which salt is “recommended 
without qualification as a fertilizer for corn, he 
will see that it was to be applied on top of the 
hill, immediately after planting, the same day, if 
practicable, or the next, and not “ as the corn 
first made its appearance” or after it had come 
up. 
I cannot say, with J. G. S., that “ I have 
raised from thirty to fifty acres” of corn annu¬ 
ally with an average yield of “ fifty bushels of 
sound, merchantable corn”per acre. But I can 
say, that for a period of about ten years past, 
more or less, I have planted annually from five 
to twenty acres of corn, and according to pres¬ 
ent recollection, have in no case omitted the ap¬ 
plication of the above mixture, at the rate of 
about three and a half bushels per acre. In 
one case I applied at the rate of seven bushels 
per acre, and found it to be too much, for rea¬ 
sons I have not time to give. I am satisfied 
that the lesser quantity is about right. Not¬ 
withstanding the extreme drouth of the summer 
of 1854, and the excessive wet of 1855, so that 
my corn got but one hoeing, I received an aver¬ 
age yield of seventy (70) bushels per acre of 
sound, merchantable corn. In some cases, with- 
iu the last ten years, I have had a much greater 
yield. Until I resorted to the use of salt, in ad¬ 
dition to plaster and ashes, I never could pro¬ 
duce more than fifty bushels per acre, if even as 
much as that. 
It is well settled that both gypsum and ashes 
increase the yield of corn, and was even before 
J. G. S.’s conclusive “experiment.” I am well 
satisfied by my experience that salt is at least 
equally beneficial. Indeed chemical analysis 
shows that soda, which is the base of common 
salt, is a constituent element of the corn plant. 
I prefer leached ashes to unleached, for the rea¬ 
son that, while there yet remains in it sufficient 
potash, there is just about enough moisture to 
settle the dust of the gypsum, and render the 
mixture pleasant to handle and to apply even 
in windy weather. The different ingredients 
should be thoroughly and equally mixed, and 
immediately applied, that the germinating seed 
may have the benefit of the gases that are lib¬ 
erated by the chemical action which takes place 
in the mixture when moistened by the dews or 
rains. This chemical action deprives the salt 
aud potash of their caustic properties, so that 
when the corn sprout reaches the top of the 
ground it is of that dark green color which the 
farmer loves to see, instead of the pale, sickly 
yellow which is so common. I plant the small 
eight-rowed yellow corn. 
For any injury done to corn by salt -applied 
according to the above directions, I am willing 
to be held responsible. Wm. D. Cook. 
Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y., May, 1856. 
GRINDING CORN IN THE EAR. 
INDIAN CORN-NO. V. 
Eds. Rural :—I have never been friendly to 
grinding corn in the ear, but yet have to do it 
to suit customers. Many of them concede the 
uselessness of the cob as provender, and yet 
continue to carry such grist to the mill. I can 
conceive no other reason than that they have 
been in the habit of doing so. I have my corn 
cracker so fixed that I can set it fine or coarse. 
When set coarse it just cracks the cob and 
cleans the corn therefrom, and then I put all 
through a fanning mill, which separates the 
corn from the cob. I can in this way shell and 
clean fifty bushels of ears per hour. We shell 
it gratis, and take one-tenth of the corn after it 
is shelled for grinding; when, if we crack it 
and grind it, we have the usual toll of every 
eighth bushel of ears. And yet many of our 
customers, after knowing they give more for 
grinding, and admitting the cob is useless, will 
have it all ground together. In this part of the 
country, corn in the ear is ground quite fine, 
as fine as any meal; if ground coarse it cannot 
be of any benefit whatever, and from the damp 
weather last fall corn did not cure as well as 
usual. In most crops many of the cohs have 
turned dark and musty and some mouldy, and 
when in this condition, and all ground up to¬ 
gether, it must make bad feed for horses. Many 
in this town soak corn for their horses, and like 
it better. They say their horses are in better 
condition, and less troubled with the heaves. 
If millers would fix their corn crackers as 
above stated, the cost would be but little, and 
they would find it a very convenient way of 
shelling corn. It works equally well if the 
ears are wet or dry, and last fall I shelled 
many hundred bushels in that way before it 
was dry enough to thrash or shell with hand 
shelters. If your fanning mill is conveni¬ 
ently placed under the cracker, and driven by 
the mill, it requires but little labor, and is a 
very expeditious way of shelling corn. 
Sterling, N.Y., 1856. W.K. 
Editors Rural As it is very essential in 
raising corn to have the rows planted true, or at 
equal distances, in order to cultivate the corn 
with ease and at the least expense, every farmer 
who raises this crop should take particular 
pains in planting. If sown in hills, too much 
pains cannot be taken to have the ground well 
marked out before planting ; there should be 
no guess work about this, because much time 
and labor can be saved by having the rows true 
both ways, and at equal distances. Where this 
is done, once in a row at each time of going 
through the corn with the right kind of a culti¬ 
vator, will do the work as well as twice where 
the corn is planted at hap-hazard, thereby mak- 
ng a saving of one-half the labor in cultivating. 
Drill-planting is preferred by many farmers 
in Ohio, and several of the Western States. One 
gentleman near Janesville, Wis., last season thus 
planted 185 acres. A man and horse did the 
planting in eleven days. I was informed by 
him that his drilled corn would yield one-fourth 
more to the acre than when planted in hills in 
the same field ; and several farmers in Ohio 
corroborate this statement. 
I know several farmers who worked their 
corn six times last season, or three times each 
way,— and the whole time spent was not over 
one day to the acre for one man and a horse.— 
Corn can be well cultivated, even in Western 
New York, at a Cost of about two dollars per 
acre, and do all the hoeing necessary if planted 
as it should be, and the farmer has the right 
kind of implements. 
Among the best implements for this purpose 
now in use, in my opinion, is the one known as 
“ Hyde & Weight's Cultivator Plow or Horse 
Hoe.” It is so constructed that it--runs near the 
corn without disturbing the hills, and works the 
ground thoroughly by going once in a row. It 
can also be used for hilling any kind of crops 
requiring it by taking off a part of the imple¬ 
ment, which makes it answer all purposes of a 
cultivator and hiller. Thousands of acres of 
corn and potatoes were worked last season with 
this implement without the use of the hand hoe 
in Western New York. They are manufactur¬ 
ed extensively in Rochester, N. Y., of the best 
kind of steel, ground and polished. They are 
very light—the whole implement weighing only 
about fifty pounds. Genesee. 
DOES FARMING PAY? 
Eds. Rural :—I take the liberty of sending 
you the following statement of the product of a 
field of mine the past season. It is not with 
the idea that it exceeds many others in the 
country, but my object is to demonstrate the 
fact that farming will pay, even on land at one 
hundred dollars per acre. The field contains 
9% acres. There are 13 trees in it, which 
diminished the yield of corn somewhat. The 
account stands as follows : 
Dr. . 
To manuring... $50,00 
Six days plowing.12,00 
Harrowing. 3,00 
Marking.2,00 
Ten days planting.10,00 
Twelve days cultivating.18,00 
Ten days hoeing..10,00 
Seed corn_ 2,00. 
Seed potatoes.2,00 
Digging potatoes__ 3,00 
Picking apples_3,00 
Cutting up corn... 8,00 
Husking corn.32,00 
Repairs on fence. 8,00 
Plaster.. 3,00 
Interest on land..66,50 
Total.$232,60 
Cr. 
By 1,050 bus. corn at 28cts. per bus.,.$294,00 
105 bushels potatoes. 32,00 
130 bushels apples. 20,00 
Four bushels turnips. 1,00 
Twenty-three loads stalks. 69,00 
Ten load pumpkins. 10,00 
Two and a half bushels beans. 4,00 
Eight bushels black walnuts. 2,00 
One bushel walnuts. 1,00 
S200,50 
From the above it will appear that I have a 
profit of $200,50, or more than 21 per cent, on 
the capital invested, which is rather better, I 
think, than some of our Railroad stocks. 
Mendon, N. Y., 1856. G. W. Wood. 
FARMING “ DOWN EAST” VS. “ OUT WEST.” 
Friend Moore :—It being very desirable in 
the present crises, that we should all lend a 
helping hand to promote the prosperity of the 
farming interest, I will endeavor to show what 
has been done and what can be done in the 
land of steady habits. Take the root crop, and 
I think we can compete with any State. The 
reports of our Agricultural Societies show that 
large and profitable crops of roots may be pro¬ 
duced in this State. I also think we can pro¬ 
duce as much grain to the acre as any of the 
Western States. The following is the list of 
prizes awarded on Field Crops, by our Society: 
A. Hart, Cornwall. 936 bu. Carrots V acre. 
A. Wadhams, Goshen.1344 
A. Beecher, Bethlehem...1416 
T. S. Gold, Cornwall.1184 
J. T. Andrew, West Cornwall. .1660 
J.T. Andrew, do, ..2102 
C. Post, Hebron... 106 
J. L. Phelps, West Cornwall.. 105 
This list plainly shows what can be done on 
a small piece of ground. It shows that by using 
the proper means we can obtain as much from 
one acre as some do from five. We must feed 
the soil, and we shall be benefited thereby; but 
if we starve it, we must expect poor crops. Our 
farmers might be content not to leave our shores 
for the “ Western Country,” there to endure the 
hardships and privations of a western life, if 
hey would improve their land to the best ad¬ 
Ruta baga 
long turnips 
: shelled corn 
vantage. Connecticut is a healthy and fertile 
State, and can be made to produce as large 
crops as any other in the Union. 
Now, I would say unto you Farmers of the 
West if you can hold out better inducements, 
if you can raise larger crops, if you have better 
advantages, if you can live by working three 
days in the week, I should like to have you 
write through the Rural. To make a paper 
increasingly interesting and valuable to the 
farming community of the whole Union, we 
must also give the results of our experience in 
fruit raising and field crops, experiments in ma¬ 
nures, &c., that each one may be benefited 
thereby. C. N. Beecher. 
Woodbridge, Conn., 1856. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
HERKIMER CO. CHEESE.—PREPARING RENNET. 
As I have not seen any answer to the inquiry 
of “ A Subscriber,” about making Herkimer 
County Cheese, I will answer one or two of the 
questions. I think the heat of the milk when 
ready for the rennet, should be from 84 to 88 
degrees. Use sufficient rennet to curdle the 
milk hard enough to cut in 35 to 45 minutes. 
I will leave the details of the process of cheese 
making for some abler pen. 
A superior way to prepare rennet for use is, 
to take ten rennets, and put into ten gallons of 
milk warm water ; rub them often for twenty- 
four hours; then take them out, salt and dry 
them for use again. Strain the liquor ; add all 
the salt it will dissolve and a little more ; add 
from 4 to 6 lemons, 2 ounces cloves, 2 ounces 
cinnamon, and 2 ounces sage,—it is a good way 
to put the cinnamon, cloves and sage in a small 
thin bag. Stir before dipping out. In this 
way you always have a uniform strength while 
it lasts. Keep in a cool place, in a tub or jar. 
It will keep any length of time needed.—G. 
Graves, Newport, Herkimer Co.,N. Y. 
%m\ flote aid Items. 
GETTING OUT MANURE. 
An article with the above heading appeared 
in the Rural of May 10th. The writer states 
that the ice is six or eight inches thick in his 
barn-yard. Allow me to say the ice is gone 
here, and my yard has been dry for several 
weeks; and, what is of more importance, my 
manure is all got out and plowed under. Please 
say for the benefit of those who are troubled 
with ice in barn-yards, at this season of the 
year, that the method to be adopted is, to have 
stabling for all the farm stock, and put all the 
straw under cattle, <fcc., for the double object of 
rendering the stock comfortable and converting 
the litter into manure. To avoid being troubled 
with getting out manure when the ground is 
soft, or when spring work is driving, I never 
fail of hauling my manure (which is thrown 
from the stables during winter in heaps) by 
sleighing, in March. The straw being mixed 
with the more solid parts of the heap, it is easily 
worked up with a common pick, ready for the 
shovel.—C. G. Smith, Massena, N. Y. 
A CHEAP BOARD FENCE. 
A cheap fence can be made in the following 
manner:—Take posts three by four inches, not 
set in the earth, but placed on stone ; three feet 
from each post a hole is made in the ground,in 
which an oak stake four inches square at the 
top and eight inches high is firmly driven with 
a beetle ; to this a board six inches wide is 
nailed, and thence to near the top of the post; 
another is nailed to the bottom of the post, and 
to the opposite side of the stake ; the boards 
are then nailed on as is usual. This fence 
stands firm. Much good fence is removed and 
new built in its place, merely because the posts 
are rotting off, which might with a little labor 
be made to stand as firm as when first built.— 
E. S. Buck, Elba, N. Y., June, 1856. 
DISEASE IN FOWLS.—INQUIRY. 
Eds. Rural. —Our fowls have got in the hab¬ 
it of plucking each others feathers off until 
some of them have become almost naked.— 
They commenced it some time in January. 
Will some one give me the cause and remedy 
by way of the Rural. —T. W. Peirce, Minne¬ 
apolis, M. T., 1856. 
Remarks. —Are not your fowls affected with 
a disease similar to that in other animals known 
as “ mange ?” Administer an alterative com¬ 
pounded of sulphur and nitre, in the proportions 
of one-fourtli part of each, mixed with fresh 
butter; a change of diet, cleanliness and plenty 
of fresh air should be given in addition. If all 
these fail why—“ off with their heads.” 
SPIKED ROLLER WANTED. 
Eds. Rural :—I have some patches of clay 
on my farm, which when plowed up for spring 
crops, are almost invariably in large tough 
lumps, in spite of what manure I have to apply 
to them, and I find it very difficult to pulverize 
them with a common roller or clod crusher. I 
hear that there is a roller in use with iron 
spikes driven into the surface of it, which I 
think would be just the thing wanted. If there 
is such a roller in use, will some one be so kind 
as to give me, through the Rural, the mode of 
construction and expense?—A Subscriber, Stoui/t 
Avon, N. Y. 
HOW SHALL WE PLANT THE OSAGE ORANGE ? 
Eds. Rural :—Having noticed several articles 
in your excellent paper in regard to the culti¬ 
vation of the Osage Orange for a hedge, I desire 
a little more information concerning the culti- 
| vation of the plant, the best mode of raising it, 
the time of sowing the seed, the way to prepare 
the soil, <fcc. I noticed an article in the Rural 
of April 5, from M. B. Batetram, in regard to 
raising and triming the hedge. Will he, or 
some one else, please tell us the best way to 
prepare and plait the hedge, or, in other words, 
how to set the plants ?—C. F., Marcellas, N. Y. 
The Sheep Show of the Wool Growers’ As¬ 
sociation of Western New York, held at Penn 
Yan last week, we were very unexpectedly 
prevented from attending. We learn that there 
was a very fine show of sheep, aud that the 
exhibition was well attended. A report of the 
Show, including list of Premiums awarded, <fcc., 
was expected from a friend who attended, but 
having failed to reach us in time for this paper, 
we are obliged to defer particular notice until 
next week. 
U. S. Agricultural Society. —A circular 
just received from Mr. President Wilder, an¬ 
nounces that the Fourth Annual Exhibition of 
this Society will be held at Powelton (Phila¬ 
delphia,) Oct. 7th to 11th,inclusive. Premiums 
from $25 to $200—amounting in the aggregate 
to over $12,000—will be offered for the various 
classes of Domestic Animals, Fruits, American 
Wines, Vegetables, Grains, and Agricultural 
Implements and Machinery. Extensive ar¬ 
rangements are beiDg perfected, which, with 
the material aid guaranteed and excellence of 
location selected, “ induces the expectation that 
the Exhibition of 1856 will be superior to any 
of its predecessors.” The Premium List, with 
the Regulations and Programme of the Exhi¬ 
bition, may be obtained by addressing Mr. 
John McGowan, 160 Cliestnut-st., Philadelphia. 
Maine State Ag. Society. —The Legislature 
of Maine, at their late session, enacted a law 
organizing a State Board of Agriculture, of 
which the following is a synopsis :—The Gover¬ 
nor and Secretary of State are members ex-offi¬ 
cio ; each county is entitled to one member, to 
be elected annually by the County Agricultu¬ 
ral Society. No member of the Legislature 
can be a member of the State Board of Agri¬ 
culture. Section 4 provides that “it shall be 
the duty of the Board to investigate all such 
subjects relating to Agriculture, Horticulture, 
and the arts connected therewith in this State, 
as they may think proper; and it is hereby 
empowered to take, hold in trust, and exercise 
control over, any donations, or bequests that 
may be made to it for promoting Agricultural 
education, or the general interests of husband¬ 
ry.” The salary of the Secretary shall not ex¬ 
ceed $800 per annum; and the compensation 
of the members of the board shall be the same 
as the members of the Legislature for a term 
not exceeding ten days. A sum not exceeding 
$1,500 is to be appropriated annually to defray 
all expenses, including salaries, <fcc. 
Kentucky' State Ag. Society. —The first An¬ 
nual Meeting of this Society was held in Frank¬ 
fort, (Ky.) May 21, when the following gentle¬ 
men were elected officers :— President— Brutus 
J. Clay’, Bourbon. Vice-Presidents — R. W. 
Scott of Franklin, L. W. Powell of Henderson, 
and Wm. Bell of Daviess. Treasurer —Wm. W. 
Mitchell of Bourbon. Cor. Secretary— Robert 
W. Scott of Franklin. Pec. Sec’y —Wm. C. 
Lyle of Bourbon. Secretary —J. A. Moore of 
Jefferson. Directors— H. Thompson of Clarke, 
L. J. Bradford of Bracken, Gen. Lucius Desha 
of Harrison, J. M. Sharpe of Warren, E. O. 
Hawkins of Christian, Richard A. Bacon of 
McCracken, J. B. O’Bannon of Jefferson, Dr. J. 
R. Hughes of Washington, and Daniel Jones of 
Boyle. The Board of Directors determined 
that the first State Fair should be held in Bour¬ 
bon county, at the Bourbon Fair Grounds, com¬ 
mencing on Tuesday, the 30th of September 
next, and continuing five days. 
Canaseraga Ag. Society.— This Society was 
organized January 26th, and is formed by the 
union of the Allegany and Steuben County So¬ 
cieties. The following gentlemen were elected 
officers :— President — Wm. White, Whitney’s 
Valley, Allegany county. Vice-President — G. 
S. Falkner. Treasurer— J. W. Lemen. Secre¬ 
tary— W. B. Bolten. Directors— G. G. Babcock, 
E. Beach, H. Hyde, Truman Hill, R. Weed and 
A. F. Weller. 
That Planter, or Gypsum, is a valuable fer¬ 
tilizer, and extensively used and appreciated by 
the farmers of this and other sections of the 
country, need not be stated in the Rural. But 
it may be interesting to many of our Western 
New York readers to learn where a superior 
quality of Plaster can always be obtained.— 
The advertisement of Vienna Plaster, in this 
paper, imparts such information —and also em¬ 
braces the analysis of a reliable chemist, show¬ 
ing its component parts and that it possesses a 
large per cent, of the most valuable property of. 
land plaster. 
Cisterns. —Every barn should have a cistern 
for the use of cattle in winter. A cistern is 
generally cheaper and better than a well, and 
as the distance to raise the water is so much less 
than from a well, a vast amount of labor is thus 
saved in pumping up the water. A cistern 10 
feet in diameter and 9 feet deep, will hold 168 
barrels. That is a very good size to make barn 
cisterns. If you want more capacity, make 
two. A cistern 5 feet iu diameter will hold 5% 
barrels to each foot in depth ; 7 feet, Ojz^bar- 
rels per foot; 8 feet, nearly 12 barrels; 9 feet, 
13% barrels ; 10 feet, 15% barrels per foot. 
The Annual Ployving Match of the Henrietta 
Ag. Society is to take place to-day, (June 7,) 
on the farm of D. H. Richardson, Esq., one 
mile north of East Henrietta, and about five 
miles from this city. Liberal premiums are 
offered, competition is open to the whole coun¬ 
try, and good plowing and a pleasant time may 
be expected. The match commences at 2 1. M. 
Millet as a Substitute for Corn. —While 
closing this number for the press, we received a 
very seasonable suggestion on this subject, from 
Mr. T. B. Lord, of East Bethany, N. Y. Mr. L. 
says there is much complaint in his section of 
corn not growing, in consequence of defective 
seed—and that some are procuring new seed 
and planting again. He thinks it uncertain 
whether the new seed will prove better, and 
considers late planting doubtful policy—and 
therefore suggests whether it would not be ad¬ 
visable to try millet, “ which will ripen a month 
earlier than corn, and produce a crop of from 20 
to 30 bushels of grain, and three or four tuns of 
good fodder per acre.” Mr. L. thinks that by 
sowing millet, farmers would be provided 
against a failure of the corn crop—securing the 
material to make pork, “ besides having double 
the quantity of fodder from the same land that 
corn would afford.” He adds that there is yet 
ample time to sow millet, as he sowed on the 
9th of June last year, (and had a good crop, 
ripening' the last of August,)—and thinks it 
would be safe if sown as late as the 20th.— 
“Sow broadcast, twelve quarts to the acre, and 
harrow in ; nothing more is required until har¬ 
vest. It is as easily harvested as a crop of corn.” 
— We thus give the substance of Mr. Lord’s 
suggestions for the consideration of those of our 
readers interested. 
Diversity of Soils. —Nature has rendered 
cold, retentive clay, and also sandy soils, when 
they are kept well stored with animal and veg¬ 
etable matters, quite as fertile, and in fact, more 
so, for the growth of such plants as are conge¬ 
nial with their texture, than is that happy mix¬ 
ture of the different earthy ingredients made 
artificially, which would seem to be favorable 
to every plant, but not particularly so to any 
one of them. Nature had something in view 
when she created such a diversity of soils, as 
they might have been all regularly formed by 
one texture; Yvliy then should we complain of 
the earthy texture of any soil, when it is evi¬ 
dent, that soils of every texture are fertile, un¬ 
less too much or too little animal and vegetable 
matters have been mixed with them. In either 
case, the remedy is obvious, but in the latter 
case much more labor and attention are neces¬ 
sary to supply the deficiency; while we have 
loud complaints, as soon as the farmer has re¬ 
duced his lands so much, that an excess of clay 
or other impervious substances oppose an excess 
of moisture, or sand, a deficiency of it, to the 
growth of his cultivated crops.— Selected. 
Large Yield of Carrots. —The Committee on 
the general condition of Agriculture for the 
Norfolk County (Conn.) Society relate the fol¬ 
lowing relative to the cultivation of carrots on 
the farm of Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, of Dor¬ 
chester :—“The carrots were in rows—with al¬ 
ternate rows of nursery pear trees intervening 
—at the distance of four feet apart. Half of 
them were of the White Belgian variety, and 
half of the Orange Red. The Yvbole space oc¬ 
cupied by the trees and the roots was 8,200 
square feet. The soil had been entirely ex¬ 
hausted by the previous use of it; and, in or¬ 
der to restore it to the highest tilth, was dress¬ 
ed, last fall, with 800 lbs. guano and six cords 
stable manure. It was then plowed deeply six 
times, and again, four times in the spring. The 
trees, of which they are 3,600, had made vigor¬ 
ous growth ; and of carrots there have been 
harvested 180 bushels, weighing, on the public 
scales, 9,000 lbs. This is equal to 956 bushels, 
or more than 21 tuns to the acre. Had the car¬ 
rots been sown in the usual manner—in rows 
two feet apart—the yield would have been 
more than 40 tuns per acre ; and at the present 
price of these roots, would afford the handsome 
return of $600.” 
English and French Agriculture. —In Eng¬ 
land, out of 50,000,000 acres cultivated, 10,000,- 
000 are sown to wheat or other cereal crops, 
while in France 50,000,000 are cultivated for 
that purpose. The average growth of wheat 
per acre in England is4 quarters,and in France 
only 1 3-5 quarters; while the produce of Eng¬ 
lish land is about £3.43 per acre, and that of 
French £1.25 per acre. The number of sheep 
grown in each country is about 35,000,000, and 
the wool produced about 60,000,000 lbs.; bub 
owing to the difference in average, there is 
something less than 1.42 sheep per acre in Eng¬ 
land/and only about one-third of a sheep per 
acre iu France. In the latter country, there are 
annually slaughtered 4,000,000 of cattle, the 
average weight of each being 2 cwt.; while in 
England the number slaughtered is less by 
one-half, but averaging 5 cwt. 
Farming Improves the Mind. —The great di¬ 
versity in agricultural employments is well 
calculated to enlarge\the mind and improve the 
judgment, for every season brings a different 
kind of work, and therefore the mind is con¬ 
stantly exercised and the judgment expanded. 
Facts aud observations prove that the minds of 
farmers of equal natural capacity, are generally 
superior to those of persons engaged in many 
other occupations. 
The French Emperor has purchased the an¬ 
cient domain of Fouilleuse, between Saint 
Clotid and Mont Valerein, where he intends to 
establish a grand model farm. He proposes to 
collect specimens of the best agricultural im¬ 
plements, and the most perfect races of all va¬ 
rieties of cattle. 
At an exhibition of flowers which took place 
at Manheim, Germany, a prize was awarded for 
a very extraordinary floral curiosity—the most 
notable item in the exhibition—a green rose.— 
The petals of the flower were green, and had 
somewhat the form of leaves. 
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