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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JUNE 14. 
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ual must decide which he shall choose. I make 
no comparisons of the different breeds of fine 
wooled sheep. Farmers have their preferences 
■ and are entitled to them. For the wool grower, 
however, I consider ewes, (Saxon or Merino,) 
that will weigh 80 to 100 lbs., and produce 4 % 
lbs. of fine wool, washed in the stream, to be, 
if not the best stock, still good enough. Farm¬ 
ers without advice will know how to reach this 
mark. 
As stock breeders, we are far from duly ap¬ 
preciating the influence of this tendency, or 
principle, “that like should produce its like.’’ An 
imported buck, of great beauty of fleece, whose 
ears happened to be only about three-fourths of 
an inch in length, so marked his progeny that 
by careful attention of the breeder, the entire 
flock, retaining his beauty of fleece, was ulti¬ 
mately bred with short ears. If so small a fea¬ 
ture was thus characterized, why should not 
any other peculiarity of form, limbs, joints, <fcc., 
be thus perpetuated ? 
The breeding of poultry, although considered 
by many, as of no value compared with the in¬ 
terests we have named, is certainly worthy of 
a passing notice. The native stock of the coun¬ 
try is greatly excelled by the imported breeds. 
The varieties, however, should not be intermix¬ 
ed. Their peculiar excellence and distinctive 
characteristics will be lost by crossing. It is 
even now somewhat difficult to find breeds pure 
as imported. Speculators without character, 
breeding without care, and buying from cob¬ 
blers and hostlers in the lanes and alleys of the 
cities, have done much to vitiate the purity of 
the various breeds. The varieties should not 
run together after the first of January. The 
effects of prior association are visible much 
longer than has been supposed. A breeder 
separated a feathered legged Bantam from his 
flock of clean limbs, as early as was considered 
necessary—but marks of his influence were vis¬ 
ible during the whole season. Another sepa¬ 
rated his Poland top-knots from the English 
Dorkings seasonably as supposed. But the re¬ 
sult was, not a brood of Dorkings during the 
season was considered pure. 
In conclusion, even at the hazard of being 
thought tedious, I will narrate a fact, illustra¬ 
tive of the opinions suggested above. The 
writer, traveling on the road some 300 miles 
from heme, was passed, with incredible swift¬ 
ness, by a man on horseback. A short distance 
ahead, the animal was noticed at the post of the 
tavern, in charge of a cattle purchaser and 
drover. It was a bay mare, young and of good 
size. The name and residence of the owner 
was ascertained, and a friend instructed to find 
and purchase her. The design of the purchaser 
was. to rear a pair of horses for private use, that 
should inherit the amazing speed and spirit of 
the dam. But she was deficient in the hind 
quarter—too long on the back, of course not 
right in the loin—sloping behind, and crooked 
hind legs. But from the loin forward, excel¬ 
lent—and no animal could move with more 
precision and mechanical exactness, and throw 
out the forefoot with a truer aim and better 
reach. A horse was found, unexceptionable in 
form, excellent in loin and hind quarters; cor¬ 
rect in movements, but moderate in speed. The 
result was, a pair of horses beautiful in form, 
alike in color, inheriting the speed, spirit and 
movements of the dam. Mild and gentle with 
the largest and most critical load, still needing 
no whip, but simply permission and the word, 
to roll off a mile in five minutes, or 12 miles 
within the hour. They could accomplish with¬ 
out injury, on good roads in September weath¬ 
er, 100 miles between sun and sun. In every 
particular the expectations and design of the 
breeder were literally and fully realized. 
Farmer D. 
THICK AND THIN SEEDING. 
Ed. Rural New-Yorker: —I have been a 
subscriber and a constant reader of your paper 
from its commencement, and considered it a 
pretty good paper. It gives short stories, so 
that I do not have to pore over it half an hour 
to find out what you wish to communicate, and 
there is much good advice to the young, both 
girls and boys, and the riddles always please 
the children ; but to tell the honest truth, I 
never thought it of much value to learn farming 
by. My father was a farmer, and when young 
I learned to plow and sow, to reap and mow, 
and do all kinds of farm work, and I really 
thought that I knew as much about farming as 
anybody, and far more than any editor could 
know. But now, sir, I frankly confess that I have 
found out my mistake, and I cannot do better 
than to state how it happened that I got my 
eyes open. 
I was always in favor of sowing plenty of 
seed, believing that farmers were generally too 
stingy of their seed grain for their own interest; 
and last fall when I saw Mr. Garbutt's commu¬ 
nication in the Rural stating that sprouted 
wheat would do for seed, I most sincerely re¬ 
gretted it, and could not help blaming him and 
you for publishing it—for, admitting that some 
of it would grow, it could not be expected that 
it would be all as good as sound grain, and of 
course it would increase the evil of too thin 
sowing. I examined several fields of wheat 
before winter set in, and generally found them 
what I thought too thin, which I felt confident 
was for want of a sufficient supply of seed. 
But, sir, on reading Garbutt’s article in the 
Rural of May 17, on the causes of thin wheat, 
it upset my views in favor of thick seeding, and 
I was surprised at my own stupidity, not to 
have realized the self-evident fact, that the thin¬ 
ner plants were on the ground, the stronger and 
healthier they would be. I went directly to 
my wheat field to examine the fact, and found 
that the spears in the thin-looking places were 
all yellow, weak and sickly, while the rank 
spots were dark green, strong and healthy. It 
was drilled. I followed the rows, and took the 
trouble to count the spears in the thin and 
thick-looking pieces, and often found more in 
the same space in the former than the latter, 
and I was convinced that whatever the cause of 
the defect might be, it was not for want of seed. 
A field of barley (well up) which had a va¬ 
riety of soil in it, some parts of it much stiffer 
clay than others, (yet it was all good wheat 
land,) has the same general appearance of the 
wheat,—the thin-looking parts being weak and 
sickly, the other strong, vigorous and healthy. 
After the field was planted I put on two loads 
of rotten manure # on one of the stifljst clay 
spots, at the rate of fifteen loads per acre, and 
harrowed it before drilling the barley, and the 
beneficial effect of the manure is astonishing ; 
although it was on the poorest part, yet the bar¬ 
ley is much better than on any other part of 
the field, which convinced me that manure 
would make grain grow much ranker than a 
great quantity of seed would do. 
Now, sir, I consider those suggestions of 
much more value to me than all the money 
which I have paid you for the Rural from the 
beginning; and I am now fully convinced of 
the importance of every farmer taking an agri¬ 
cultural paper, wherein each other’s views and 
suggestions can be examined and compared, 
and if we do disagree, it opens the way for in¬ 
vestigation and discussion—for it is a most val¬ 
uable truth that every farmer ought to be an ex¬ 
perimenter, and have those experiments correct¬ 
ly recorded in the Agricultural Journals, which 
is of great importance to the farming community. 
May 24,1856. 
A Monroe Farmer. 
ABOUT FARMS AND FARMING. 
Friend Moore :—In your valuable and wel¬ 
come visitor (the Rural) of March l5, 1 find an 
article written by H. T. B., on farming, who 
fain would make it appear that we farmers, as a 
class, are ignorant of our calling, or use little or 
no economy in the management of our farms. — 
But I would ask, are all farmers destitute of 
practical knowledge ? If not, why throw out 
such insinuations ? Yet, it must be acknowl¬ 
edged by all, that the farmer has not fully kept 
pace with the age. This is indeed an age of 
progression. Science is marching forward with 
wonderful strides. Your correspondent pre¬ 
sents many good ideas, yet some will not bear 
scrutiny. He asserts that no manufacturer or 
mechanic could survive a single year, if his af¬ 
fairs were managed with as little regard to ar¬ 
rangement and economy as farming generally 
is. Now is this intended to apply to the farm¬ 
ing community generally, or only to isolated 
cases ? If applied to the mass, I wonder how 
the farmer, (with all his lack of economy,) is 
able to meet the demands of life, and even ac¬ 
cumulate property, until it may be said that he 
is rich in this world’s goods. 
Again he says, the farmer, little disturbed by 
the march of improvement, makes his weary 
round with a pitch-fork in one hand and a flail 
in the other, climbing over four fences to feed a 
calf, and mounting six scaffolds to get provender 
for as many different varieties of gramnivorous 
animals, &c. All this he says is history and not 
romance! Whoever went through with all of 
these maneuvrcs ? In what part of the globe 
does this genius keep himself ? Pray let us 
know. What would be thought of a Lowell 
Company, (he says,) that should make a few 
shoes, a few hats, some shawls, some brass ket¬ 
tles, and now and then a paper of pins, and 
would compare the farmer with this company, 
as he says the farmer dabbles in everything 
that is going. Now I admit that the farmer is 
out of his place when he meddles himself with 
political life, or any other profession—i. e., seek¬ 
ing for office ; but I do not thus take the gen¬ 
tleman’s remarks; as he says that it is a life-long 
labor to become a good judge of a horse, and 
master the true principles of breeding and 
training him,—and further that a person thus 
accomplished, (which he says, will take a life¬ 
long,) should never waste his time upon sheep, 
to the neglect of his proper calling ! Are we, 
then, to understand, that if we raise horses, it 
would not be profitable also to raise sheep, cat¬ 
tle, swine, <fcc ? He says, farmers master some 
branch of business and stick to that (some part 
of farmiug I suppose.) I contend that it is ab¬ 
solutely necessary that we should attend to the 
different departments of the farm, both to the 
rearing of stock and the cereals. 
Brother Farmers, does not your experience 
fully coincide with the above, or is it yet a 
matter of doubt ? Take your pens and give us 
your observation and experience ; we will thus 
advance the more rapidly and surely in our 
vocation—not leaving all of our agricultural jour 
nals to be filled by those who are not practically 
acquainted with what they recommend to us for 
our guidance in the resources of agriculture. Let 
us strive to make the head save the hands as far 
as may be practicable. Good calculation is the 
sure foundation of success. Yet we must take 
hold with a strong arm and stout heart, fully 
determined to observe every obstacle that lies 
before us in life. Thus we may live, so that the 
world will be none the worse for our having 
lived in it, and we may be permitted to see the 
dawning of brighter days. e. b. w. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
ABOUT SWEET POTATOES. 
Eds. Rural :—That sweet potatoes can be 
successfully grown in Western New York, I 
have no doubt — that their cultivation can be 
rendered profitable, when the plants sell readily, 
I have not much doubt—but, that the quality of 
the tubers will be such as to render their culture 
desirable, I do doubt considerably. On the 30th 
of May, 1853, I obtained fifty plants, set them 
out in my garden—soil warm, sandy loam.— 
Nearly all lived—received good culture thro’ 
the season, and gave promise of an excellent 
crop. A frost occurred during one of the last 
nights of September, (if I remember rightly,) 
when we commenced digging, expecting a rare 
treat from sweet potatoes of our own raising.— 
The yield was not far from two bushels, and in 
size and appearance they would suffer none in 
comparison with the best “ Carolinas ”—but the 
taste was entirely lacking that peculiar rich 
flavor' which makes up a good sweet potato. 
After repeated trials of various methods of 
cooking, we gave them up as unfit for eating. 
I should be glad to hear from others on the 
subject; for, if good sweet potatoes can be raised 
here, it ought to be more generally known— 
but we want -those that are good to the taste as 
well as the eye. —W. Holt, Ontario, A 7 ". Y. 
RAISING BARLEY. 
Eds. Rural :—Last season I penned a few 
lines on the subject of unfermented manure, as 
producing most satisfactory results in the yield 
of this species of grain. The article referred to 
a preceding crop, since which time I have had 
more experience in testing the most profitable 
varieties, the two-rowed or the six-rowed. I 
am confidant that the six-rowed is the most 
luxuriant, both as to grain and straw. A friend 
of mine induced me to make the trial, and I 
was easily prevailed upon, from the fact that I 
assisted him in threshing a quantity, which 
yielded nearly fifty bushels per acre. As to 
the result of my own experiment, suffice it to 
say that I came a little short, from the fact that 
last season was more unfavorable than that of 
1853, the year in which ray friend succeeded in 
his first and last farming operations.—T. W. K., 
May, 1856. 
HELP US HEAD OR KILL THE EATS. 
Please give us your opinion on rats through 
the* columns of the Rural. We are greatly 
harrassed with the above-named vermin, and as 
yet have been unable to discover any remedy 
for the removal of the pests. We have tried 
“French Exterminator,” but they will grow fat 
on it,—and as for cats and traps, they are too old 
for the latter, and we are unable to find any of 
the former that are of sufficient size to handle 
them. Now, will you or some of your subscri¬ 
bers, please wake up to the subject of rats, and 
suggest some idea while yet there is time to 
save from desa-nction — A Subscriber, near 
Hard-Scrabble, tan Buren, N. Y. 
THE SHEER ' SHOW. — PREMIUMS. 
IPtal Holes Mtfr Items. 
Reports of Crops. —Good reports and evil 
reports of the success and the failure of crops 
are always to be found in the columns of the 
daily and weekly press, according as the hopes 
or the fears of men predominate. Every favor¬ 
able or unfavorable symptom as it appears is 
magnified into an enormous yield or an absolute 
failure. A golden mean between these reports 
is usually near the truth. 
An account of this Show, by one of our Con¬ 
tributors who was present, will be found on pre¬ 
ceding page. We subjoin the Premiums awarded 
at the Show, and at the Sheep-Shearing Exhi¬ 
bition which followed : 
Lest of Premiums awarded ai the Second Annual Fair of 
the Wool Growers' Association, held in Penn Yan on 
the ‘Nth, 28th and 29th of May, 1856. 
Class First— Sweepstakes—Fine Wooled Bucks.—1st 
Premium to Abel J. Wooster of Cornwall, Yt. ; 2d, Orlan¬ 
do Sheppard, of Urbana, Steuben Co.; 3d, H. W. Walker, 
Shorehain, Vt. 
Class Second— Sweepstakes—Best 5 Ewes. 1st Pre¬ 
mium to David Cutting, of Shoreham, Vt.; 2d, E. D, 
Bush, do. 1 
First Class— Spanish Merinos—Three year old Bucks. 
—1st Premium, Curtiss Powell, York, Livingston Co., N. 
Y.; 2d, Reed Burrett, Burdett, Schuyler Co.; 3d, Joshua 
Healey, Dansville, Steuben Co. 
Ewes and Lambs —1st Premium, Julius Stickney, 
Shoreham, Vt.; 2d, Aaron Y. Baker, Urbana, Steuben Co., 
N. Y.; 3d, Orlando Sheppard. 
Second Class— Bucks two years old.—1st Premium, E. 
D. Bush ; 2d, Julius Stickney ; 3d, Joseph Haswell, Hoo- 
sick, Rens’r Co., N--Y. 
Third Class— Five Ewes two years old.—1st Premium, 
Julius Stickney ; 2d, David Cutting ; 3d, Joseph Haswell. 
Fourth Class- Bucks one year old.—1st Premium, G. 
H. Wheeler, Wheeler, Steuben Co., N. Y.; 2d, David Cut¬ 
ting ; 3d, Julius Stickney. 
Fifth Class— Ewes one year old.—1st Premium, David 
Cutting; 2d, Tyler Stickney, Shoreham, Vt.; 3d, E. D. 
Bush. 
Long Wooled Sheep—Sweepstake prize to Geo. Miller, 
Markham, C. W., on a three year old Buck. 
Second Class— Three year old Bucks.—1st Premium, 
Geo. Miller: 2d, Walter Aikenhead, Lyons, Wayne Co., N. 
Y.; 3d, D. S. Peck, Benton, N. Y. 
Two year old Bucks.—1st and 2d Premiums, D. S. Peck; 
3d, J. H. Lapham. Penn Yan, N. Y. 
Third Class— Three year old Ewes.—1st Premium, D. 
S. Peck; 2d, Wm. R. Pratt, Pittsburgh, Steuben Co., N. 
Y.; 3d, J. H. Lapham. 
One year old Ewes.—1st Premium, George Miller; 2d, 
Wm. B. Pratt; 3d, J. H. Lapham. 
One year old Bucks.— 1st Premium, L. S. Wansey, Spen- 
cerport, Monroe Co., N. Y.; 2d and 3d, Geo. Miller. 
Middle Wooled Sheep—Three year old Bucks.—1st Pre¬ 
mium. E. M. Bradley, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y. 
One year old Bucks.—1st Premium, E. M. Bradley ; 2d, 
O. Howland, Auburn, N. Y.; 3d, E. M. Bradley. 
Two year old Bucks.—1st Premium, E. M. Bradley ; 2d, 
James Harris, Penn Yan. 
Two year old Ewes.—1st, 2d and 3d Premiums, E. M. 
Bradley. 
French Merinos—Three year old Bucks.—1st Premium, 
Reed Burrett; 2d, S. S. Sheldon, Brockport, N. Y.; 3d, 0. 
Howland. 
SHJ3EF SHEARING EXHIBITION. 
Class First— Bucks of any age—1st Premium to Ju¬ 
lius Stickney, on fleece shorn from two years’ old Buck, 
weight, carcass, 105%lbs., fleece 14% ; 2d, David Cutting, 
do. yearling Buck, carcass 90, fleece 14 11-16 lbs ; 3d, 
Julius Stickney, do. yearling Buck, carcass 81, fleece 12 
lbs.; 4th, Elisha Rich, do. 90, fleece 13 1-16. 
Class Second— Ewes of any age.—1st Premium to Da¬ 
vid Cutting, on fleece shorn from yearling Ewes, weight 
carcass 52, fleece 11 10-16 lbs.; Julius Stickney, do.carcass 
52 fleece 10% ; 3d, J.C. Taft, West Bloomfield, do. carcass 
68, fleece 12 14-16 ; 4th, Orlando Sheppard, on do. carcass 
55, fleece 9 14-16. 
ULASS TniRD-On Sheading.—1st Premium to Elisha 
Rich of Shoreham, Addison Co., Vt.; 2d, H. W. Walker, 
do.; 3d, Aaron Y. Baker. 
The Exhibition of Horses under the auspices 
of the Wayne Co. Ag. Society, at Lyons, on the 
5th and 6th inst., was very creditable. Though 
only present on the last day, we saw and learn¬ 
ed sufficient to affirm that the display of Horses 
was good, embracing superior animals in each 
class, and that the proceedings and general 
management of the Exhibition were satisfac¬ 
tory. The weatherwas unfavorable on the first 
day, and portentious on the morning of the sec¬ 
ond, yet from five to seven thousand persons 
were in attendance on Thursday. Among the 
judges and visitors, we observed many promi¬ 
nent farmers from different sections of Western 
and Central New York, the pleasure of meeting 
whom added interest and value to the occasion. 
Want of space precludes us from giving an 
extended notice of the Exhibition, and discuss¬ 
ing matters connected therewith. The trials 
of speed excited considerable attention—but it 
is proper to state that betting was strictly pro¬ 
hibited by the rules of the Society. Excellent 
order was preserved throughout, and we neither 
saw an intoxicated person, nor heard a profane 
word uttered—in all which the Exhibition was 
creditable to both Society and spectators, and 
specially noteworthy from the fact that many 
(and we are of the number,) have entertained 
doubts as to the propriety and expediency of 
such trials. But we cannot now remark upon 
this subject, though it is worthy the careful 
consideration of the managers of Agricultural 
Societies. 
We annex the decisions of the Awarding 
Committees: 
Premiums Awarded by the Wayne County Agricultural 
Society at their Exhibition of Horses on the Society’s 
Grounds, at Lyons, June 5th and 6th, 1856. 
Stallions— Four years old and over— Road.— 1st, Wm. 
H. Saunders, Rose, Wayne Co., Diploma and $20 : 2d, H. 
E. Knapp, Rose, $15 ; 3d, Samuel Sunderland, Palmyra, 
Wayne Co., $10. 
Three years old— Road.— 1st, J. B. Burnet, Syracuse, 
$10 ; 2d, Edward Jones, Clyde, Wayne Co., $5. 
Two years old— Road —1st. J. B. Burnet, $8 ; 2d, C. Mus- 
selman, West Junius, Seneca Co., $4. 
One year old— Road. —1st, Alfred Hale, Lyons, Wayne 
Co., $5. 
A very superior bay colt, 2 years old, was entered in 
this class by Robert Ennis, of Lyons, for exhibition only. 
Fillies— Three years old— Road.— 1st, Charles D. Miller. 
Peterboro, Madison Co., $8 ; 2d, E. N. Thomas, Rose, $5. 
Two years old— Road. —1st, John Kipp, Rose Hill, Sen¬ 
eca Co., $6 ; 2d, H. W. Dwight, Auburn, $4. 
The Judges were highly delighted with the fine show of 
Fillies on exhibition, and the apparent increase of thor¬ 
oughbred stock among us. 
Geldings— Three years old —Road —1st, M. W. Bige¬ 
low, Newark, Wayne Co., $8 ; 2d, George W. Snyder, Joy, 
Wayne Co., $5. 
Two years old— Road .— 1st, Geo. R. Faling, Lyons, $6. 
Single Geldings— Four years and over— Road. —1st, N. 
Thompson, Penn Yan, Dip. and $10 ; 2d, J. Scoville, 
Oran, Onondaga Co., $8 ; 3d, "Win. A. Lyon, Marion, 
Wayne Co., $5. 
Single Mares— Four years and over— Road.— 1st, John 
Blewfield, Auburn, Dip. and $8^ 2d, JolinS. Rich, Marion, 
$6 ; 3d, Jerome Davis, West Butler, Wayne Co., $4. 
A superb mare, owned by J. B. Burnet, could not be 
found by the Judges when other mares were examined, 
which is to be regretted, as they were favorably impressed 
with her style and appearance. 
Matched Geldings— Road. —1st, John Curtiss, Auburn, 
Dip. anjl $15 ; 2d, John Underwood, do., $10 ; 3d, .1. I). 
Langworthy, Onondaga, South Hollow, $6. 
Matched Mares — Road. —1st, G. Bowdisb, Waterloo, 
Dip. and $12 ; 2d, Addison H. Wheeler, East Bloomfield, 
$8 ; 3d, J. B. Ingersoll, Lock Berlin, $5. 
The matched horses were so numerous and so excellent 
that it was with great difficulty that the Judges could de¬ 
cide. A larger and finer show of horses is seldom seen 
together. We highly commend two very fine pairs of 
horses owned by Messrs. Denton and Moore of Geneva, a 
pair of chestnut colts owned by F. B. Green of Rushville, 
and a black team, gelding and mare, owned by Geo. Potter, 
of Williamson, Wayne Co. 
Stallions— Four years and over— Draft .— 1st, C. O. 
Brundage, South Sodtis, Wayne Co., Dip. and $15 ; 2d, 
John g! Hermans, Fairville, do., $10 3d, Lemuel Durfee, 
Palmyra, $6. 
Three years old— Draft. —1st, Henry Jennings, Phelps, 
Ont. Co., $8 , 2d, Wm. Green, Lock Berlin, $5. 
Two years old— Draft. —1st, John Bradley, Lyons, $6 ; 
2d, Samuel D. Westfall, Lyons. 
Geldings —Three years old— Draft. —Dennis Clark, East 
Palmyra, Discretionary, $3. 
YVe find but one horse on exhibition, and there being no 
competition, we cannot determine by comparison, but as 
the specimen exhibited was a very good one, we recom¬ 
mend a premium of three dollars. 
Matched Geldings — Draft.— 1st, Ira Austin, Arcadia, 
Dip. and $10 ; 2d, George Harrison, Palmyra, $8 ; 3d, Wm. 
H. Closs, Lyons, $5. 
Matched Mares— Draft — 1st, Robert Adams, Newark, 
Wayne Co., Dip. and $8. Benjamin P’owler exhibited a 
team, gelding and mare, which are highly commended. 
Trotting— Four years and under.—1st, H. Merick, Ly¬ 
ons, $10 ; 2d, Wm. Dodds, Rose Valley, $5. 
Four years and over.— Charles Underwood, Auburn, 
(Ned),$i5; J. Barney, Manlius, $15. 
The animals competing for this premium were so closely 
matched in speed that nothing short of an actual trial 
could determine it. The accident occurring at the begin¬ 
ning of the second heat, in which we are inclined to blame 
neither party, prevented such a trial. We therefore award 
a premium equal to the first premium to the horse of Mr. 
Underwood, and also to the mare of Mr. Barney. The con¬ 
test in this class was decidedly between these two animals. 
Pacing. —1st, Thomas E. Osbourn, Fulton, Oswego Co., 
$10 ; 2d, Wm. Smelt, Lyons, gelding “ Tom Hyer,” $5. 
Trotting —Open to all horses.—1st, Zebina Williams, 
Waterloo, mare “ Jersey Maid,” $25 ; 2d, Benjamin Ash¬ 
by, Auburn, $15. 
Trotting Stallions —Three minutes or less.—1st, Wm. 
H. Saunders, Rose, horse “ Long Island,” Dip. and $30 ; 
2d, H. E. Knapp, Rase, horse “ Young Ticonderoga,” $20. 
— The Wayne Society’s permanent Fail- 
Grounds, comprising some twelve acres in the 
village of Lyons, are well located and arranged, 
reflecting credit upon the people of the County. 
The fact that the town of Lyons alone contrib¬ 
uted $2,500 towards purchasing and fitting up 
the grounds, exhibits the enterprise and liber¬ 
ality of the citizens of that flourishing villrge. 
The example of the people of Lyons and Wayne 
county is worthy of imitation elsewhere. 
'HOB OUT YOUR ROW.” 
One lazy day a farmer’s boy 
Was hoeing out the corn, 
And moodily had listened long 
To hear the dinner horn. 
The welcome blast was heard at last, 
And down ne dropped his hoe ; 
But the good man shouted in his ear, 
My boy, “ hoe out your row 1” 
Altho’ a “ hard one” was the row, 
To use a plowman’s phrase, 
And the lad, as sailors have it, 
Beginning well to “ haze”— 
“ I can,” said he, and manfully 
He seized again his hoe ; 
And the good man smiled to see 
The boy hoe out his row. 
The lad the text remembered, 
And proved the moral well, 
That perseverance to the end 
At last will nobly tell. 
Take courage man ! resolve you can, 
And strike a vigorous blow, 
In life’s great field of varied toil 
•Always hoe out your row. 
Genesee Co. Ag. Society.— This Society field 
a meeting in Batavia on the 24tfi ult., and re¬ 
organized under the act regulating such associ¬ 
ations. The Society have purchased a perma¬ 
nent location for their Fairs, consisting of twenty 
acres, three-fourths of a mile from the village of 
Batavia. The following gentlemen were elected 
ofljeers :— President — Eden Foster, Elba. Vice 
President —John F. Plato, Batavia. Secretary — 
H. N. Wright, Batavia. Treasurer — Chauncey 
Kirkham, Jr., Batavia. Directors —G. Dickey, 
Elba; Bryam Moulton, Alexander ; Harry For¬ 
ward, Pembroke; N. B. Keeney, Le Roy; J. 
Reed, Oakfield ; Jason W. Duguid, Pavilion. 
Farinaceous Aliment Obtained from Straw. 
The attention of agriculturists in France has 
been recently directed to the discovery of a meth¬ 
od of converting straw into a kind of bran. This 
discovery has been claimed by two individuals. 
The first is a miller, near Dijon, who, it is said, 
on trying the mill-stone of a new mill, discov¬ 
ered the possibility of converting straw into a 
nourishing food. The second, M. Jos. Maitre, 
of Vilotte, near Chatillon. This distinguished 
agriculturist, known for the purity and perfec¬ 
tion of his breeds of sheep, conceived the idea 
of converting into farina not only the straw of 
wheat and other grains, but of hay, trefoil, iu- 
cern, sainfoin, etc. His efforts are said to have 
been perfectly successful, and his discovery ar¬ 
rived at, not by chance, bufby long experiment 
and research. The aliment which he produced 
is said to be a complete substitute for bran. It 
is given to sheep and lambs, who consume it 
with avidity, and may be given to all other 
gramnivorous animals as a grateful and sub¬ 
stantial food. 
Agriculture in Nevada Co., California.— 
From the annual report of the Surveyor Gene¬ 
ral, we perceive that the quantity of land <.inirn- 
ed 'in Nevada county, by actual settlers, is 
within a fraction of thirty thousand acres, val¬ 
ued at $192,375. Of these lands, four thousand 
three hundred acres are under cultivation, 
which were divided the past year as follows : 
Wheat.1,100 acres. 
Barley.1,500 “ 
Oats.3,500 “ 
Indian Corn. 60 “ 
Hay__—.—. 700 “ 
Potatoes. 300 “ 
Other Vegetables. 300 “ 
Total.4,300 “ 
The present number of fruit trees is 3,200, 
one-half of which is peach. Considerable in¬ 
terest is manifested in their culture. All kinds 
of fruit trees flourish well, particularly the 
peach, which often produces perfect fruit in 
two years. Grape vines, and various kinds of 
berries, are also being introduced to a consider¬ 
able extent. 
Erie Co. Ag. Society.— At a special meeting 
of this Society, held in Buffalo on the 3d inst., 
the old organization was dissolved, and a reor¬ 
ganization affected, agreeable to and under the 
act of the Legislature, passed April 13, 1855, 
entitled “ An act to facilitate the forming of 
Agricultural and Horticultural Societies.”— 
In accordance with this act, articles of as¬ 
sociation were formed, subscribed to and ac¬ 
knowledged, and the following Board of officers 
elected for the current year :— President — Geo. 
W. Tifft, Buffalo. Vice President— John S. 
King, Amherst; William Hambleton, E. Ham¬ 
burgh. Treasurer —George W. Scott, Buffalo. 
Secretary —H. C. White, Buffalo. Directors— 
Erastus Wallis, Aurora ; Myron Stilwell, East 
Hamburgh ; A. K. Humphrey, Holland ; Aarofi 
Riley, Aurora ; William Hambleton, E. Ham¬ 
burgh ; Austin Kimball, Amherst. 
CuARACTERfsTics of the Grass. — Observe 
that the peculiar characteristics of the grass 
which adapt it especially for the service of man, 
are its apparent humility and cheerfulness. Its 
humility, in that it seems created only for the 
lowest service—appointed to be trodden on, and 
fed upon. Its cheerfulness, in that it seems to 
exult under all kinds of violence and suffering. 
You roll it, and it is stronger the next day ; you 
mow it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were 
grateful; you tread upon it, and it only sends 
up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it re¬ 
joices with all the earth—glowing with varie¬ 
gated flame of flowers—waving in soft depth of 
fruitful strength. Winter comes, and, though 
it will not mock its fellow plants by growing 
then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn col¬ 
orless or leafless as they. It is always green, 
and is only the brighter and gayer for the hoar¬ 
frost.— lluskin. 
Miss Peggy Land, a young woman of Pickens 
county, South Carolina, about twenty-four years 
of age, after trying weaving, carding, spinning 
and sewing, went to farming last year, and 
made cotton which netted her $100 ; her corn 
crop was two hundred and fifty bushels, worth 
sixty cents per bushel, and she raised thirty- 
five bushels of wheat, worth one dollar and fifty 
cents per bushel! She accomplished this her¬ 
self, without assistance of hiring. She plowed, 
drove the cart, cut her wheat and cribbed her 
corn. 
Remember It.— In laying out your summer’s 
work, remember that American farm-work may 
be divided into‘two kinds—work that must be 
done in growing season, and work that may 
about as well be done at other times. In dis¬ 
tributing your work, let nothing be set down 
for May, June and July, which you can do be¬ 
fore, or which you can leave, without much det¬ 
riment, till after these hurrying months.— N. 
Y. Observer. 
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