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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
NOV. 1. 
dUmnunncatioits. 
SENDING POULTRY TO NEW YORK. 
Mr. Moore As I receive numerous inqui¬ 
ries from the country for information as to the 
method of preparing poultry for the New l’ork 
market, I infer that among your hundred thou¬ 
sand readers in the farming districts there are 
very many, perhaps, who may like to know 
something about it, too. Of course, I presume 
the most of your subscribers to be quite as well 
informed on the subject as I am myself. 
It will pay to send live turkies, chickens and 
geese to the New Y r ork market, if the distance 
of transportation is not over 150 or 200 miles, 
and they are forwarded by an Express Co., 
whose messengers are careful of them. Thou¬ 
sands of those entrusted to the ordinary freight 
conveyances, either die of thirst, starvation and 
rough usage on the way, or are the next door to 
dead when they arrive. Consequently, the 
profits, if not the entire consignments, are lost. 
Live chickens, in good order, are sold by the 
jobbers to the retailers at from 62% to 81 cents 
per pair ; live turkies at from 75 cents to $1 25 
each ; live geese at from 50 to 75 cents each.— 
Feed and drink should accompany every coop ; 
and care should be used to place the water cup 
so that it may be easily filled from the outside, 
without any trouble, and it should be secured 
from the possibility of being upset. A merer 
ful man will think of these “ trfling matters ;’ 
the speculator ought to do so for his own inter¬ 
ests. It is painful to see the thousands of 
chickens that arrive here with their mouths 
wide open, and gasping for the want of water 
On one consignment which I received not long 
since was this inscription—“ Please feed us, if 
you have time; hut give us water whether or no." 
It was not a bad idea, and undoubtedly more 
than one person en route took the hint. Another 
coop came from a farmer who must have had a 
poetical wife or daughter, for upon it was in¬ 
scribed in a lady’s hand, the following appeal 
as if from the fowls themselves : ^ "~- 
“ Cluck ! Stranger, whoever you are, r " 
If fond of nice chickens and geese, 
One thought give, we beg, to our fare,' 
And give us some drink, if you please !”' ~~ 
Another of a ruder sort, but none the lessjffo 
the pint, read : 
“ Stop, old cock, you know you oughter; 
Stop, and give ns some cool water I” 
These ingenious devices to save the fowls, (fee., 
from choking with thirst in transitu, are always 
successful, for mankind are naturally benevolent 
to such dumb creatures, when reminded of their 
wants. 
So much for live chickens ; now for the killed 
and dressed. 
Many people send poultry to market so badly 
dressed, that it will not sell for more than three- 
fourths of the regular market price. I had tuns 
of such poultry consigned to me last winter, 
and sold it at 12% and 13 cents per lb., when, 
if it had been suitably plucked and prepared, 
it would have commanded quick sales at from 
14 to 17 cents. The “Bucks County” poultry 
has a great reputation, simply from the manner 
in which it is dressed. Possibly it may be partly 
from better fattening, but I think it owing 
.mainly to the care used in plucking. 
The highest prices are paid for fat poultry, 
which has not been scalded in order to be 
■plucked. An unbroken skin, and a corn-fed, 
yellow look, are regarded as desirable in dress¬ 
ed poultry. Scalding a fowl, in order to dress 
it for market, renders the skin so tender, that it 
is easily bruised and torn by contact with oth¬ 
ers in the same box or barrel, in the course of a 
long transportation. There be fowls, it is true, 
which all the scalding in the world would not 
make tender ; and it is equally true that large 
numbers of these find their way, in their old 
age, to New York, in whole skins—skins that 
would delight a taxidermist—but they are not 
popular and will not be until fuel is cheaper ; 
for they have to be boiled before they can be 
roasted. This, by the way, is no hyperbole.— 
Many persons in this city first boil these tough 
fowls and then roast them into a condition to 
be masticated. 
It sometimes happens, in (boarding houses, 
that after the tough old cock has been boiled, 
he is placed upon the table, and the young gen¬ 
tlemen are afforded an opportunity'to cut him 
up, if they can. He is as impregnable as Gib- 
ralter, and they give it up—little dreaming, how¬ 
ever, that it is a pleasant little joke of their 
shrewd landlady ; and that it is her purpose to 
roast the rhinoceros on the morrow. The next 
day, the boiled rooster makes his appearance 
in the character of roast fowl, and cuts up, un¬ 
der a muscular wrist, pretty tolerably tender.— 
Thus, by an investment in one fowl, the land¬ 
lady obtains the credit of two. 
The less a chicken or young turkey is scald¬ 
ed, for plucking, the more likely is it to look 
well, after a long journey. The best looking 
are those which are not scalded at all. 
Much of the Western .poultry comes to the 
New York market minus heads, crops, entrails 
and feet. Even the heart, liver and gizzard are 
missing, though they are wanted for use in the 
preparation of gravy. Y The New York dealers do 
motlikeit in that way; they want nothing removed 
bat the feathers. My own notion is, that the 
crops ought to be taken out, before marketing. 
The Bostonians would insist, also, that the head, 
crop, entrails and gall ought to be removed. 
The prices for poultry are good, though I have 
known them to be better. Dressed Ahickens 
sell at from 12% to 18% cents per lb.; dressed 
turkies at 14 to 18% cents per lb.;”’dressed 
geese at from 9 to 12 cents per lb. This has 
been a warm day, and not cool enough to keep 
poultry well, but in a week or twoj hence, the 
weather will do finely. 
If I were a consignee, (instead of a Commis¬ 
sion merchant,) I should by all means send 
poultry by Express ; for when forwarded by the 
ordinary transportation lines, it is not only 
plundered en route, but is delayed on the way 
long enough to make the trip five times over. 
: (If these suggestions should meet with your 
approval, perhaps your readers may like to see 
them. Your Ob’t Serv’t, A. L. Stimson. 
Franklin St. Market, New York, Oct. 20, 1856. 
AWARDING PREMIUMS AT AG. PAIRS. 
Ens. Rural :—I see from accounts in some 
papers that the old complaint of “favoritism" 
and “partiality" against committees in award¬ 
ing premiums at former Fairs is still continued 
and applied to some County Ag. Fairs. I have 
belonged to the Genesee County Agricultural 
Society forty years, and have never believed 
the accusation to be justified if the true facts 
in the premises were known at the time. 
In preparing for our late Ag. Fair in Genesee 
County under the new organization, we took 
special pains to correct this evil, if it existed. 
The Board of Managers appointed candid men 
who were good judges and qualified to act in 
the several classes assigned them, who, when 
organized, received special instructions on this 
point not to “ judge men ” but to judge the mer 
its of the animal or article, and report the No. 
of the card attached—that they were not to 
kuow the name of the owner or exhibitor—that 
the No. of the card would correspond with the 
No. of the exhibitor and class on the book of 
entries, <fcc. Also the same course was taken 
for the Plowing Match, and the Committee were 
not allowed to leave the Fair Ground, which 
was one hundred rods from the plowing ground, 
until all had left the field. But notwithstand¬ 
ing all these precautionary steps, we still hear 
the same old story, “favoritism," “partiality,” 
<fec. One thing was a little amusing. Before 
the awards were rendered some complained 
that the committees did not notice their ani¬ 
mals or articles, that they passed by them and 
did not look at them, <fcc.; but on reading the 
report it turned out that they received premi¬ 
ums—some of them the first premium. 
Now I ask what more could have been done 
to remedy the supposed evil complained of, 
viz:—“Favoritism” and “Partiality” of com¬ 
mittees in awarding premiums at our Fairs. 
There never was a better selection of men for 
judges adapted to the several classes than there 
was this year. And in fact there never can be 
a set of judges appointed that can please all— 
especially those who think that whatever they 
exhibit is a little the best, (which is natural to 
the human family.) If the evil can be traced 
to the Board of Managers, the members of the 
Society have a remedy. They must commence 
the reform by judging men themselves, instead 
of accusing committees of judging men. 
The members of our Agricultural Societies 
must attend their Annual Elections and judge 
of men who are best qualified for Officers and 
Directors, who form a Board of Managers. It is 
the Board’s duty to judge mew best qualified for 
committees in the several departments. Much 
depends on the qualifications of committees.— 
For instance, committees on horses ought to be 
composed of men whose taste and practice run 
in that direction—who have been in the habit 
of judging horses ; and so ol men best adapted 
to each class of Animals, Mechanical Arts and 
Household Industry. For Painting put on 
Artists, who are judges of such matters, and 
not put them on a plowing committee. 
Yours respectfully, Enw. Foster. 
Batavia, Oct. 20, 1856. 
$400, and the same or more every 15 years af. 
ter. As soon as the young trees get out of the 
way of the cattle, it will furnish very good 
pasturage. Let every farmer who has any 
waste places set out as many yellow locusts as 
he can, and set them in all the vacant places in 
his wood lot. By doing so he will soon find 
that he has a fine lot of very valuable timber 
growing that has cost comparatively nothing.—p 
|lural ftates aitii ftm 
ABOUT HOGS. 
YELLOW LOCUST. 
A correspondent asks for information rela¬ 
tive to the cultivation of the Yellow Locust, I 
often wonder more attention is not paid to the 
subject, especially in those sections of the coun¬ 
try where wood is scarce, or growing so. It is 
the most important as well as the most profita¬ 
ble wood that can be grown, and if any farmer 
would devote his waste land which is dry to its 
growth, or put out from one to ten acres of it, 
according to the size of his farm, he would 
make a better investment than in anything else 
he could do. 
Seventeen years ago I set out a row of trees 
along the top of a sliding bank or side hill, 
which could not be cultivated. The whole time 
employed did not exceed two hours. The roots 
spread, and soon filled the hill to the bottom 
with thrifty young trees. Probably I could 
cut off from seventy-five to one hundred dollars 
worth of posts, and in 10 years more than double 
that quantity, and this too upon land that oth¬ 
erwise would have been entirely unproductive. 
The cultivation is simple, and once in the 
ground, the roots remain for all time. Gather 
the pods this fall or in the spring from the trees 
and get the seeds. Prepare the ground for 
your nursery as you would for onions or other 
roots, and when the danger of frost is over, take 
your seeds and put them into a vessel and pour 
hot water over them. After standing twenty- 
four hours pour off the water and pick out all 
that have swollen—perhaps one-third may be 
thus ready—plant them in rows about three 
feet apart, and three or four inches in the row c 
Pour water over those that remain as before, 
and go through with the same process. Keep 
the ground free from weeds and the young trees 
will be fit to set out the next spring. Prepare 
the ground as for any other crop, if possible.— 
Mark it out into squares of a rod and set a tree 
at each angle. About the third year run a fur¬ 
row between each row of trees about ten inches 
deep. Keep the cattle out, and you will have 
a locust grove which will last as long as seed 
grows and water runs. An acre of locust at 20 
years from the seed would yield not far from 
Your “special,” H. T. B., is practically face 
tious on the hog question. Allow us to give a 
few items of our experience—an experience 
going back some six months only as an owner 
and breeder of the genus Sus. 
We had eight hogs in our orchard until after 
harvest this summer. They did the best they 
could, but they did not half root it over, 
think they spent too much time waiting for ap¬ 
ples to fall off, and loitering round the trough 
looking for buttermilk. Then, too, they didn’ 
like to root where it was most needed. We 
shall have to try the Curtis before we get the 
orchard plowed properly. 
We can give them the credit of behaving 
well, generally, for the fence was low, and en 
terprising hogs wouldn’t have stayed there.— 
They were peaceable, and grew finely, and 
after harvest, we turned them into the wheat 
stubble—two sows among the number. They, 
too, they were gentlemanly. 
Our “herd of swine” increased to 21, and 
then we turned sows and pigs back in the 
orchard. What a thing a pig is for mischief! 
They flourished finely—for there are six cows 
on the farm ; good ones, too—and soon began to 
make excursions into corn field and door yard, 
and tried digging potatoes and husking corn 
for themselves. But they grew—how they did 
flourish and extend, both in weight and mis¬ 
chief! We couldn’t stand it, so we just shut 
them up, and now are mostly engaged in trying 
to keep them from squealing. Properly appor 
tioned, it does not take a great deal to do it, 
and we let them amuse themselves making 
composts, and taking lessons in rooting when 
out of other occupation. 
The old hogs are in comfortable quarters.— 
As near as we can judge, they have got consid¬ 
erable labor before them in the eating line, but 
we shall cook their victuals, and keep them 
supplied, for there are people who will appreci¬ 
ate tneir virtues after we have done boarding 
them. We like them now, but in ham and 
steak, and boiled victuals, they will have 
closer claim on the affections. 
A word as to fattening management. Why 
is not boiled corn just as good as scalded meal 
for fattening ? Put it into the kettle with the 
potatoes, apples, and pumpkins, and it will be¬ 
come soft as soon as they do. Let the whole stand 
and sour, and then feed it, and the hogs will 
do well on cheaper food than raw corn,—as it 
is, too, generally manufactured into pork. We 
would like to hear from those who have experi¬ 
mented in cooking grain, unground,—our trial, 
so far, has been satisfactory. But we will not 
be tedious, besides we are too busy now-a-days. 
October 18th, 1856. a. h. b. 
FALL SEEDING. 
Eds. Rural :— Encouraged by your “ Re¬ 
marks,” I seeded my five acres to timothy on 
the 27ih ult. I am glad to hear from J. P. B., 
of Madison, Ohio, in the Rural of Oct, 18th, of 
his uniform success in fall seeding, and beg 
leave to say to him that the six acres sown first 
(Sept. 23) are coming up finely, though the 
weather remains dry—too much so for its best 
growth this autumn. I have three acres seeded 
to clover with barley in the spring, which is 
rather a poor “ catch.” I intend to give it more 
seed in March, as I feared it would winter-kill 
if sown this fall, and shall then apply a dres¬ 
sing of plaster. I, and I am sure many others, 
thank J. B. P. for the information he has given 
us—let every one add to the general stock, and 
the Rural will be the true Farmers’ Paper.— 
B. F., Oct., 1856. 
YIELD OF GRAlii FROM ONE KERNEL. 
Eds. Rural :—While I was cutting my spring 
wheat I took the trouble to count the wheat in 
several stools ; they are like this :—First head, 
58 kernels ; the second head, 55 kernels; the 
third, 50 kernels; the fourth,44kernels—mak¬ 
ing in all 207 kernels from one. Second stool— 
first head, 55 kernels; second, 53 kernels; 
third, 45 kernels ; fourth, 36 kernels—in all 189 
kernels. Third stool—first head, 52 kernels; 
second, 50 kernels ; third, 47 kernels ; fourth. 
35 kernels—in all 184 kernels. In my oats I 
counted one stool—first head, 337 kernels; 
second, 256 kernels ; third, 221 kernels—mak¬ 
ing in all 814 kernels from one. Who can beat 
this ? Let all try.—J. H. J., Columbia, Brad¬ 
ford Co., Pa., Sept., 1856. 
Manuring Grass Lands. —Is autumn the best 
time for manuringgrasslands? An experienced 
farmer says that a dressing of fine manure ap¬ 
plied in October will start a good coat of grass 
and prove the best preparation for corn the next 
season which can be given. It has been thought 
that manure thus applied would be subject to 
large losses from exposure to the weather. Can 
any of your readers give facts throwing lighten 
this view of the case, and also in regard to fall 
manuring permanent meadows?—A Young 
Farmer. 
The great rule in relation to animals holds 
perfect in its application to vegetables; breed 
only from the best animals ; defects and imper¬ 
fections have always a tendency to propagate 
themselves and are always in a greater or less de¬ 
gree transmitted. 
Pleasant Interviews. —It has recently been 
our good fortune to meet and visit somewhat 
with two very sensible and amiable friends and 
contemporaries of the Agricultural Press—gen 
tlemen who are, like many others of the same 
calling, widely known and highly esteemed.— 
Some two weeks since Sanford Howard, Esq. 
of the Boston Cultivator, who has long been con¬ 
nected with the Ag. Press, and is especially 
noted for his superior ability as a judge of, and 
writer concerning, the various breeds of Do¬ 
mestic Animals, tarried awhile with us on his 
return from a month’s tour in the Western 
States. During his limited sojourn here Mr. H. 
visited several of our prominent Nurseries, and 
we more than suspect that his previous im¬ 
pressions relative to the superiority of the soil, 
climate, cultivators, <fec., of Western New York, 
as compared with those of any other portion of 
the Union, were confirmed. But of these mat 
ters perhaps he has or will make mention. Mr. 
Howard is, we believe, about fifty years of 
age, though much younger in appearance. In 
form, size, feature and manner he is comely, 
substantial, intelligent and dignified,—a repre¬ 
sentative man physically, and a very sensible 
and well posted one, (especially on all Rural 
topics) personally. He—but we are no artist, 
and desist. Mr. H. has acquired an enviable 
reputation as a man of sound, practical judg¬ 
ment, and an able writer. LoDg may he live to 
continue his highly useful and beneficial labors. 
During the past week we had the pleasure of 
calling upon our young and enterprising friend, 
Thos. Brown, Esq., of the Ohio Farmer, in his 
recherche sanctum. We found him, as usual, in 
excellent and hopeful spirits—agreeable and 
sociable. Were glad to learn that his excellent 
Farmer was progressing finely, and acquiring a 
good portion of the large success it merits.— 
Regret that we had not time, during our limited 
call, to answer brother B.’s pertinent inquiry as 
to “ how we managed to give the Rural so much 
greater circulation than his Farmer, when the 
latter was just as good a paper ?" Will endeavor 
to explain satisfactorily at our next interview 
—meantime wishing him and his journal, what 
they certainly deserve, eminent prosperity.— 
There is “ample room and verge enough” for 
all, and we most heartily rejoice in the success 
of every well-conducted journal devoted to the 
promotion of Rural Improvement. Mr. Brown 
is thirty-five years of age, “six feet high and 
well proportioned” — quite prepossessing in 
personal appearance, and altogether amiable, 
sociable and companionable. May success 
crown his efforts in the good cause. 
The Boston Horse Exhibition, held last week, 
seems to have attracted considerable attention 
and proved measurably successful. The trot¬ 
ting matches or “trials of speed” between cel¬ 
ebrated horses were the most attractive features 
of the exhibition, drawing immense crowds of 
spectators. Though held under the auspices of 
the “ Boston Agricultural Society,” the Tribune 
and some other journals characterize the show 
as unworthy the name—as a race course instead 
of a place for the exhibition and comparison of 
the merits of horses for draught and agricultural 
purposes. The highest premium awarded for 
draught on farm horses, was, we believe, $30— 
whereas the prizes given for matched, fancy- 
match teams, and “ fast” horses, ranged from 
$25 to $1,000. Speaking of the opening of the 
Show, Mr. Howard of the Boston Cultivator says 
there were upwards of two hundred entries. 
“ The cavalcade on Tuesday probably embra¬ 
ced the greater portion. Of these there was 
not a large proportion of good animals. In this 
respect we thought the show was decidedly in¬ 
ferior to that made on the same grounds last 
year by the U. S. Ag. Society. There are, how¬ 
ever, some very noted horses here; but they 
were not shown in the cavalcade. The fast- 
trotting stallions ‘Ethan Allen,’ ‘Hiram Drew,’ 
the trotting mares ‘Flora Temple,’ ‘ Lady Mos¬ 
cow,’ ‘Cleopatria,’ the pacer ‘Pocahontas,’ and 
the trotting gelding ‘Lancet’ (formerly ‘Know- 
Nothing,’) are here and will probably exhibit 
their speed before the show is closed.” 
In the match for $1,000 between “ Ethan Al¬ 
len” of New York, and “Hiram Drew” of 
Maine, (on Wednesday.) the former came off 
victorious. On Thursday at least 30,000 people 
attended the Show, and the exhibition of road¬ 
sters, saddle horses and matches is said to have 
been very fine. The great attraction was the 
trot in the afternoon between “ Flora Temple” 
and “Lancet” for $1,000. “Flora” won the 
purse in three straight heats. Time : 2:36%, 
2;40, and 2:42. It is said that “ Lancet” broke 
badly on each heat.” 
Evidences of Good Farming. —The requisites 
and evidence of good farming have thus been 
enumerated by good authority :—“ A good soil, 
well tilled, and kept free from various weeds; 
lots well fenced, and suited in number to the 
size of the farm ; substantial and convenient 
barns and stables of sufficient dimensions to 
contain the produce of the farm, and to com¬ 
fortably house the cattle kept on it; a judi 
ciously arranged dwelling, in a neat condition, 
with a well, and filtering cistern ; convenient 
buildings to facilitate the economical manage¬ 
ment of the farm—such as a wood house, a 
wagon and tool house, a workshop,granary and 
corn house, a convenient piggery, an ice house, 
ash and smoke house—all secured against decay 
by being well raised from the ground and 
neatly painted or whitewashed; convenient 
yards attached to the barns and stables, so ar¬ 
ranged as to prevent waste of the liquid 
manure, well sheltered from the blasts of win¬ 
ter, and provided with water for the cattle ; 
door-yards laid with grass and flower-beds, 
and shaded by ornamental trees, indicating the 
dwelling of taste, health and comfort; a kitchen 
garden highly cultivated, and containing the 
various species of vegetables raised in our cli¬ 
mate, with strawberry and asparagus beds; a 
fruit garden or orchard, where choice apples, 
cherries, plums, raspberries, gooseberries, black¬ 
berries, currants, <fec., are found.” 
Chinese Sugar Millet. —The Calhoun (Ga.) 
Statesman states that Mr. J. Peters, of that 
place, has made about 320 gallons of good syrup 
this season from the juice of the Chinese sugar 
millet. Sixteen stalks yield a gallon of juice, 
and five gallons one of thick syrup, by evapora¬ 
tion. The stalks are simply run through be¬ 
tween a pair of heavy rollers, the juice receiv¬ 
ed into tubs, and then boiled down into syrup 
or molasses. In Georgia, the Statesman asserts 
that with proper cultivation 400 gallons may be 
obtained from an acre of millet. 
The Boston (Mass.) Traveler states that J. 
F. C. Hyde, of Newton Center, has cultivated 
some of this millet this season, and has made 
a quantity of excellent molasses from it. It 
is stated that it can be cultivated as success¬ 
fully as Indian corn in Massachusetts, and that 
both syrup and sugar can be obtained from it. 
This is a question which should attract the at¬ 
tention of our farmers. Not one or two experi¬ 
ments, but a great number are required to decide 
whether or not this plant can be cultivated with 
economy, for the purpose of extracting syrup 
or sugar from it. The warm regions of our 
globe now furnish our saccharine matter ; it yet 
remaining to be proved whether colder cli¬ 
mates can furnish a cheap supply. 
A CiiEAr Ice-House. —Any person, in the 
country, where timber is cheap, can erect an 
ice-house at but little expense. All that is re¬ 
quired is to put up a strong frame for the size 
of the house required, and board it up close, in¬ 
side and outside, with a space between, all 
around. This space is stuffed close with straw 
or dry saw-dust. The roof is made in the same 
manner, and the house is then complete. Straw 
and saw-dust are cheap, and good non-conduc¬ 
tors. The house should be situated on a dry 
spot, and should have a drain under the floor. 
It should also be convenient, to be filled easily. 
The walls of stone and brick ice-houses should 
be double, as well as those of wood. Great 
care should be exercised in packing ice, — all 
the blocks should be clear and solid, and about 
the same thickness, so that they may be packed 
close logether, and frozen into a solid mass. In 
favorable situations, good ice-houses may be ex¬ 
cavated, like caves, in the face of a hill.— Scien¬ 
tific American. 
Granite as a Manure. —According to chem¬ 
istry, some varieties of granite (those lichest in 
mica and felspar) contain as much potash as the 
same weight of wood ashes —hence it has been 
proposed to use crushed granite as a manure.— 
Experiments going to show its value would be 
interesting ; and the question has been started 
in the N. E. Farmer. If this rock has a come- 
at-ible, and paying manorial value, New Eng¬ 
land may soon become a very fertile country, 
for she has as much granite as good soil. 
Leaf Manure. —If you have a large pile of 
leaves, which you would convert into manure, 
adopt the following process:—Slack fresh lime 
with brine till it falls to a powder. Turn the 
leaves with a fork, and sprinkle this powder 
evenly among them, at the rate of four bushels 
to a cord of leaves. Turn the heap now and 
then, and you will soon have a noble manure. 
Nothing is better applied to fruit trees. 
Beech Hedges. —In Belgium beech hedges 
are not uncommon, and it is worth the atten¬ 
tion of those who are trying to find a hedge 
plant suited to the climate and soil of America 
to try the beech. It is true that in its natural 
state it grows to a tree, and so does the Osage 
oraDge, and so does the cedar. By planting 
two young trees a few inches apart, and bend¬ 
ing and interlacing them together, the tendency 
to grow into trees is checked, and being a very 
hardy, strong-wooded tree, with good roots, 
they bear this kind of treatment. A seedbed 
of beech plants may be easily made by gath¬ 
ering the nuts, and as soon as dry, packing 
them in dry sand, for transportation, with twice 
as much sand as nuts. The seed should be 
planted as soon as possible, as it is apt to lose 
vitality if kept long. The young jilants should 
be carefully watered the first summer. The 
wood of beech trees is nearly equal to hickory 
for fuel, and is very rich in potash. 
The stallion “ Henry Clay, Jr.,” exhibited at 
the recent Monroe Co. Fair by Mr. Henry 
Sayles, of Scottsville, is a superior animal, and 
was much admired. We presume he would 
have leceived, as good judges considered him 
entitled to, the first premium in his class—Stal¬ 
lions for Road or Carriage — had he not been 
awarded the first prize at a previous Fair of the 
Society. 
Fattening Ducks — Ducklings intended for 
the table should be confined in a warm house, 
never be allowed to swim, and have unlimited 
supply of food. A mixture of three parts 
of Indian corn meal and one part potatoes, 
moistened slightly with the washings of dishes, 
the liquor in which meat has been boiled, or 
milk, with a few uDground grains of barley 
once daily, iatteBS them quickly. 
The hopping, or grinding of grain to be fed 
to stock, operates as a saving of at least twenty- 
five per cent. 
