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ROCHESTER, N. Y.,—FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1859, 
There 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
is, fortunately, a large variety of grasses, suited to 
different conditions and qualities of soil. Valuable 
things have been found out since the deluge, and 
it may be that we, here in America, may find out 
grasses better adapted to our necessities than those 
generally cultivated. 
Of the prevailing varieties, Timothy stands first. 
Clover, cut early, makes excellent hay, but is in¬ 
ferior for pasture, and does not last long, though 
it is well adapted to light, dry soils, and is invalu¬ 
able as a fertilizer. Red Top is well adapted to 
wet land, and as there is a good deal of such that 
will not get drained right away, though it needs it 
ever so much, this variety of grass should be pro¬ 
fits seed is seldom offered 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, 
With an Able Corps of Assistants and Contributors. 
pagated with more care 
for sale, and there appears to be little care in 
saving it. 
June Grass is not considered respectable, but “ it 
comes in itself,” and covers many an acre in the 
skirts of the woodland, by the road-side, and in the 
open field that would never be seeded except on the 
“voluntary principle.” Under favorable circum¬ 
stances it makes a very good growth, and is valu¬ 
able as early feed. Where it predominates in 
meadows, it should be cut by about the middle of 
June, or as soon as the seed is formed, and it makes 
exceedingly nutritious hay. 
How to get “a good catch,” and a good and 
permanent growth afterwards, is second in impor- 
Agitation 
tance to no other agricultural interest, 
should follow agitation on this subject in ceaseless 
succession. One-half of the meadows and pastures 
grand dam by a son of old American Eclipse.— 
Color, bay brown—lojfi hands high—weighs 1,050 
lbs. Philip Allen is a half brother of Ethan Allen, 
also of Lancet, and partakes of the style and speed 
of those celebrated trotters. lie has made 2.44 on 
a half mile track, and his owners claim that in 
perfectness of form and style and speed, combined, 
he surpasses any trotting stallion extant. 
— We congratulate the farmers of Livingston 
and adjoining counties upon this valuable acces¬ 
sion to their breeding stock, and have no doubt 
Philip Allen will be appreciated by those who be¬ 
lieve in propagating from the best. 
Above we give a portrait of the celebrated Black | 
Hawk Stallion “Philip Allen.” The portrait is said 
to be a very accurate and life-like one, with the 
exception of the head, which is smaller and far 
more perfect than here represented. 
Philip Allen is the property of Messrs. AsnLEY 
& Bkother, of Nunda, Liv. Co., N. Y., who pur¬ 
chased him last December for $2,000, and purpose 
to keep him for breeding purposes. He is six 
years old—bred by IIiram Peck, of West Cornwall, 
Vt. Sired by David Hill’s celebrated Vermont 
Black Hawk. Dam, Lady Morgan, sired by Bul¬ 
rush, and he by the original Justin Morgan; 
SEASONABLE HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS. 
can Colonies grow by ’ yo'ui*neglect;” if so, they 
took pattern from grass, seldom grows any 
other way. Neglect is whatfAeds on. A dress¬ 
ing of plaster, ashes, manure or earth, once in a 
year or two, with an occasional harrowing, would 
be of essential service—but neglect is the motto.— 
That stream which flows by freighted with fertiliz¬ 
ing agents, might be spread over the grass field, in 
some cases, with little expense, and generally with 
incalculable benefit—neglect is the policy. Gnawed 
bare in the fall and winter, and trampled to death 
in the soft season of spring, it yields to inevitable 
fate. 
But the difficulty generally begins sooner. It is 
strangled to death in its birth. As if it were a 
mere adjunct of something else, and worthy of no 
distinct or decent consideration, the seed which is 
expected to produce it, is buried deep or left un¬ 
covered, to grow feebly with some overshadowing 
crop. Grass seed should be sown early in Spring, 
or early in Autumn, on well pulverized and pre¬ 
pared land in good heart, covered lightly, and 
either sown alone or sown with wheat, rye, or 
barley— the wheat, Ac., beihy sown nery thin, and 
the grass quite thick, say eight or ten quarts to the 
acre. 
We can never do well in farming, till we learn 
to seed land down with the first or second crop, 
and when the stumps and roots are out of the way 
plow under a good turf. The cheapest way to en¬ 
rich land, raise a root or grain crop or two, and 
then seed down for two or three years, taking 
care of it when seeded.—n. t. b. 
labors of Spring and Summer. 
First, let every farmer decide, in view of all 
the circumstances, what he had letter do and what 
he can lest leave undone. It often happens at the 
end of the year that we discover our programme 
covered too much ground. We attempt what, 
with our means, can be imperfectly accomplished, 
and what, consequently, “ costs more than it 
comes to.” 
Having decided what to do, fix upon the most 
appropriate time for doing it—for every thing has 
its time, as it should have its place. The time for 
planting, hoeing and harvesting is fixed—each 
crop having its season will accept of no other. 
There are many other things that can be done 
when it is most convenient to attend to them; 
these, as a general rule, should be assigned to the 
winter and early spring, when vegetation is at rest. 
Let every farmer make out an inventory of work 
to be accomplished during the year, alloting each 
item to its appropriate season. Having done this, 
let him be sure and “come in on time.” Do not 
allow one branch of business to intrude on the do¬ 
main of another, on any consideration whatever. 
If the requisite help or facilities are wanting to 
accomplish this or that operation, procure addi¬ 
tional aid or resources that by some means the end 
may be attained. Let the thing be done in the time 
allotted to it; no procrastination should be allowed 
— no delay tolerated—no respite granted. In mul¬ 
titudes of cases crops pay nothing because they are 
attended to a little too late. Work done to a disad¬ 
vantage had generally better be left undone. If a 
farmer gets a little behind in the outset, one thing 
will crowd another out of place from the beginning 
to the end of the year, and there will be continued 
trouble, disappointment and loss; whereas if he 
had taken time by the forelock — had got a good 
start—he might have kept in advance and made a 
profit on every item of labor and capital invested. 
To use a plain illustration — if fencing runs into 
the time allotted to picking up stones, and picking 
up stones uses up the period assigned to getting 
out manure, getting out the manure will delay the 
plowing, and so on to the end of the chapter — one 
thing displacing another through the entire 
but with some also, who have farms, (farms paid 
for, too,) fields of waving grain, and land well 
adapted to grazing. 
Now, I consider this practice absolutely, utterly 
unjustifiable. It is easy to conceive of some excuse 
for the man that is poor, and has no land, but a 
family whose support is dependent upon his daily 
labor,—indeed we should vote it no great mime 
were he to turn his cow into our “ long pasture,”— 
but even then we must be allowed the opinion that, 
pecuniarily, it would be of no profit or advantage 
to him; for the time spent in looking her up, driv¬ 
ing her home, &c., would, if employed in some | 
useful labor, more than pay the expense of pastur- | 
ing, to say nothing of the increased quantity and 
quality of milk, and her improved condition. But, 
for the man who owns a farm, and has land well 
calculated for grazing, there can be no excuse 
whatever. He is in fact guilty of a misdemeanor— 
an outrage upon his neighbors, whose peace and 
quiet he contributes to destroy—an offence against 
community at large. 
I care not in how good repair fences are kept, 
in a section where this habit is practiced to any 
considerable extent, it will be a source of great 
trouble, and litigation. A drove of 
TREATMENT OE MILCH COWS, 
Friend Rural :—Being confined to the house by 
indisposition, I am inclined to think of my friends, 
hence you come in for a share. 
During the year past many have been the inqui¬ 
ries and answers in your columns in relation to 
cows, and the best mode of treatment, so as to pre¬ 
vent their having caked bags. Taking it for grant¬ 
ed that some people are yet milking some of their 
cows, I would say to them that, in drying off your 
cow, do it not in a careless manner, but take the 
milk away once in twenty-four hours, for several 
days, then on each alternate day, and then on every 
third or fourth day, until the bag is thoroughly 
wilted. In this case there will be no fever in the 
bag, hence no maturated milk,— neither strings 
nor slugs. Now then, you will have the glands of 
the udder in a healthy condition; and now to keep 
it so. Your cow is to pass through an important 
stage to calving time. I do not care in how high 
condition you keep your cow, by feeding hay, 
stalks, straw, roots, shorts, &c.,; but she should 
not be fed to a high condition of flesh with corn 
when in calf and giving no milk, as I deem corn too 
hot and feverish for the blood under such circum¬ 
stances, the cow giving no milk for relief. 
When the time arrives for a cow to “make or 
spring bag,” you may observe her milk vessels 
enlarge and swell, and if her blood is not in a 
healthy condition there will be more or less fever 
in the milk ducts and glands, which become tender 
and sore, causing the animal to flinch when milked 
and sometimes kick; and if the bag is not properly 
cleared, fever is followed by inflammation, and then 
the caked bag is apt to be the natural consequence. 
My method, which is founded on experience, is to 
' feed the cows, during the four weeks in which she 
is springing bag, about four ounces of saltpetre, in 
cator, or grass-ometcr. But we can only give 
a hint on the subject, having no space to amplify. 
Read the sensible and suggestive article of H. T. 
B. about Grass. 
The Orchard and Garden are seasonable topics 
not only, but require early attention. No farm, or 
ABOUT GRASS 
annoyance, 
famished creatures, which have eaten every spear 
of grass, and even weeds, attainable within the 
PASTURING IN THE HIGHWAY. 
Cultivate grass. By all means cultivate grass, ! 
—plow less, and “ seed down more.” 
It would seem as though the most indispensable 
and beneficent agents were least thought of—how 
much attention do we give to light, air, water, and 
other things that seem to come as a matter of 
course ? Happily, grass is beginning to be consid¬ 
ered. Its universality, its indigenous character, 
its wide adaptation, its hardiness, the economy of 
its production, all point to it as a leader in agri¬ 
culture. Its capacities have not been fully tested, 
and are not fully known. 
The quality of grass depends essentially on the 
character and quality of the soil upon which it is 
grown, and in general is susceptible of great im¬ 
provement. Grass upon mere vegetable mold, 
lacks “heart,” as it is popularly expressed. It has 
Messrs. Eds. :— I wish to subscribe to the doc¬ 
trine advanced by S. E. T., of Lake Ridge, in the 
Rural of the 12th ult., in regard to obstructions 
in the highway, although in certain instances I 
shall have to plead guilty of the violation of them 
May I not, however, be allowed 
to some extent, 
to approve of a doctrine or principle, which I do 
not practice in full, and then be found in toleralle 
good company? His article is very good as far as 
it goes. I agree with him that the “ highway be¬ 
longs to the traveling public,” but can see no great¬ 
er impropriety in piling up old sleds, wagons and 
other implements, by the road-side, than in turning 
loose a whole stock of cattle, sheep, horses and 
hogs upon it, to eke out a slender subsistence, and 
be a source of continual annoyance to the com¬ 
munity in which such pernicious habit is practiced. 
Domestic animals turned loose in the road for 
pasture, are as much, if not even more, of a nui¬ 
sance, as any obstruction of an inanimate charac¬ 
ter upon the way-side, which you may choose to 
mention. “ Pasturing in the road,” as it is called, 
probably originated in the necessity which some 
poor people have felt for turning a cow into the 
road to feed, not being able to pay for pasturing, 
and feeling also unable to dispense with the use of 
one; or, perhaps, when the country was new, and 
scarce any inclosures were made. But, be its origin 
what it may, it is enough that in this section of 
our “Empire State” the custom is quite prevalent, 
not only with those who own no land, and are poor, 
season, 
and finally crowding out what ought not and should 
not be omitted. 
That “ Procrastination is the Thief of Time” is a 
trite adage, but its truth cannot too often be im¬ 
pressed upon the mind. Every farmer should be 
fully “up to time” in all his labors — and espe¬ 
cially in preparing for the various operations of the 
season. Fields cannot be cultivated (under the 
American system,) until they are fenced, nor im¬ 
plements used to advantage unless they are in 
proper order. Indeed, there are many matters, 
olten neglected by farmers entirely, or until too 
late, which are almost as requisite to his success as 
are type and paper to us in printing the Rural. 
W e therefore enjoin all to “ make ready ” in season, 
to avoid waste of ammunition, or a “ flash in the 
pan when the word “fire” is pronounced. 
