MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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and it was a point that ought to be decided 
fairly and honorably ‘ without fear or favor. 
Mr. Smytiiers took the first premium at 
the Royal Ag'l Show at Oxford in 1839, 
with a Hereford—the only time the different 
breeds were allowed to compete against each 
other. There was a strong competition of 
Hereford and Short Horns—the latter took 
the second premium. My opinion is that 
the Ilerofords will produce more butter for 
the food they consume than any other breed. 
On this point I shall always be ready to 
test it. This is the only one on which Short 
Horn breeders contend for superiority and I 
hope they will try ife. 
I think it but just for me to say that I 
have imported upwards of forty rams from 
the flocks of Messrs Hewer and Cother, 
an 1 as many ewes. Mr. Smytiiers sent me a 
pair of Herefords, a yearling bull, and a 
three year old heifer, exactly the same blood 
as those of Mr. Corning’s importation. The 
heifer has just brought me a fine heifer calf, 
which I prize very highly. 
In 1839, I brought to this country a year¬ 
ling colt “ Sampson,” from Mr. John Hewer 
Gloucestershire, which colt wan laughed, at 
and ridiculed by a few Americans. I see 
now that colts from that horse are highly 
prized by the community; many of them 
having won first premiums as the best farm 
horses. They begin to see that a light, 
baulky team will not answer for deep plow¬ 
ing, a very essential practice. 
I bought from the Messrs. IIewes in 1838 
and 9, 24 head of the best Hereford cows 
and heifers they had to dispose of. In 1840, 
I went purposely to purchase the well known 
Hereford bull “ Major,” that took seven first 
prizes for all ages in England, and in my 
opinion he was tho best bull I ever saw of 
any breed; hut unfortunately wo had the 
most boisterous passage I ever witnessed, 
and lost him coming out with a Short Horn 
cow and several Cotswold sheep. This was 
an arduous and risky business: such as has 
done the community much more good than 
it has myself, in a pecuniary point of view. 
But I hope tho Lime will come when the 
Hereford, Cotswolds, and Draught Horses 
will be appreciated as they ought to be. It 
has caused me many a sigh to see them 
“ abused ” as they have been by tongue, pen 
and print. It takes all kind of animals to 
make a world, and they vary very much in 
disposition and shape. 
SlgtUiilturul $oriftirs. 
WISCONSIN STATE AG. SOCIETY. 
The first Annual Meeting of the Wiscon¬ 
sin State Agricultural Society was held in 
the Senate Chamber, at Madison, on the 
evening of Jan. 21st, 1852. After the read¬ 
ing and acceptance of reports, &c., tho So¬ 
ciety proceeding to elect officers for the 
preceding year, with the following result: 
President —Hon. Henry M. Billings, of 
Iowa county. 
Vice Presidents. —N. B. Clapp, of Keno- j 
sha: Orrin Densmore, of Rock» Martin j 
Webster. of Dodge—being one from each | 
Congressional District in the State. 
Cor. and Her.. Secretary — Albert C. Ing¬ 
ham, of Dane. 
Treasurer — ChauWCEY Abbott, of Dane. 
Tlxccutive Committee — Messrs. Waiiren 
Chase, of Fond du Lac ; E. B. Dean, Jr., of 
Dane; S. S. Daggett, of Milwaukee; Jacob 
D. Merritt, of Grant, and II. B. IIawley, 
of Jefferson, were chosen members of the 
Executive Committee, in addition to the of¬ 
ficers above named. 
A resolution was passed authorizing the j 
Secretary to procure the printing of the 
Transactions and correspondence of tho So¬ 
ciety for the past year—a volume for which 
we shall look with much interest. 
RENSSELAER COUNTY AO. SOCIETY. 
At the Annual Meeting of this Society — 
held in Troy on tho 27th ult.—the following 
officers were chosen for the current year: 
President— Richard J. Knowlson. 
Vice Presidents. —George Vail. John H. 
Willard. Benjamin Starbuck, and Win. Gur¬ 
ley, of Troy; B. B. Kirkland, Grecnbush ; 
J.’ E. Storms, Schodack; Seth Hastings, 
Nassau; David G. Maxom, Petersburgh; 
Mr. Hubbard, Stephentown; Winants 
Younghans, Sandlako; Mathias P. Coons, 
Lansingburgh; Horace Herrington, Bruns¬ 
wick; J. Wilton Davidson, Grafton; George 
Chase, Hoosick; Jacob Y. Kip, Pittstown; 
I. T. Grant, Sebaghticoke; Jacob Mi nick, 
Poestenkill; Egbert B. Bull, Berlin. 
Secretary. —Win. Hagen. 
Treasurer — Abram Van Tuyl. 
.Executive Committee. — Hugh Rankin, 
Henry Warren, W. S. Sands, John B. Ford, 
John W. Mott. 
STRAW.-FEEDING CATTLE, SHEEP, &e. 
Slgrirulttmil Slbhrrssrs. 
The principle you have; the mode of ap- 
i plying that principle may bo varied as cir- 
I cumstances shall require. 
,, , , ] n ! Much improvement maybe made in farm 
thoughts and figures managemel * t by keeping only tho best speci- 
which should be heeded by the farmers of mens 0 f each variety of domestic animals. 
New York and adjacent States. We extract No observing man can have failed to sco 
them from the excellent address of Enoch that some animals are much more thrifty 
Annexed arc some 
, Yours Truly, Wm. H’y Sotham. 
I’iffardiuia, Livingston Co, N. Y., Jan., 185*2. 
WIRING FENCE STAKES. 
Ens. Rural: —Please inform W. W. H., 
in No. 5 of your present volume, that his 
fence staking is till right, excepting that he 
should use wire (No. 9 or 10) with the ends 
merely hooked together after being drawn 
to the proper tightness around tho stakes, 
instead of wooden caps. He will find that 
wire costs less than good oak timber and is 
worth more for a cap, besides saving the 
trouble of getting them bored, and shaving 
down the stakes so the caps will fit them. 
He can always draw the wire so as to make 
the stakes stand in tho precise position de¬ 
sired, while the holes in a cap may he so 
near together that he cannot get them on, 
or so far apart as to leavo the stakes loose 
from the rails. I have fence thus made 
which has stood three years, where the frost 
would heave out tho old fashioned cross 
stakes, and the April winds invariably dis¬ 
place the rails. 
When the fence is laid in the usual man¬ 
ner, five rails high, and the stakes set in the 
corners both on the same side of tho fence, 
on, not in the ground, I approach with my 
coil of wire—with a hook made at the looso 
end with a pair of pliers, which I carry for 
that purpose—and pass it around the stakes, 
drawing wire not yet cut from the coil, to 
fit tight and snug to the stakes through the 
hook at the end ; then bend it back, which 
forms another hook fastening the ends to¬ 
gether, and then two or three cuts with a 
triangular file and you may break it off with 
case. Thus you form a good, durable and 
cheap cap, sooner than I can describe the 
process. 
W. W. H. may add to his reasons why 
this mode of staking is preferable to cross 
staking, that the fence occupies less room ; 
that there are no stakes in the way of plow¬ 
ing, and he can, as every farmer should do, 
mow tho grass (and especially the weeds) 
without obstruction. I get better paid for 
mowing corners of fences than for any work 
on my farm. I count it at four times,— 
once in hay—once in preventing the rank 
grass and weeds from rotting my fence— 
once in preventing a growth of weeds to 
seed mv fields,—and more than once in the 
satisfaction of looking upon the neatnes of 
their appearance. J. w. 
Wayne Co., N. Y., Feb. 2, 1832. 
To double the crops on most farms, about 
all that is necessary is for our agriculturists 
to sell off one-half their land and with tho 
proceeds buy manure for the other. The 
largor the farm, the less a man grows to 
tho acre. 
GENESEE COUNTY AG. SOCIETY. 
The Annual Meeting of this spirited So- j 
ciety, was hold in Batavia on tho 13th ultimo, j 
when the following officers were elected for j 
1852 : 
President — Franklin D. Kingman, of | 
Bergen. 
Vice Presidents —7k:"o S. Terry, ot By¬ 
ron ; Jason W. Duguid, of Pavillion; C. R. 
Brinckeriioof, ol Batavia ; Stebhen Crock¬ 
er, of Stafford. 
Secretary —Chauncey Kirkiiam, Jr., of 
Batavia. 
Treasurer —Merrill G. Sober, of Ba¬ 
tavia. 
Executive Committee — Byram Moulton, 
of Alexander ; Samuel Heston, of Batavia ; 
Cyrus Pond, of Alabama; Wheaton S. Mil¬ 
ler, of Byron; Zalmon Greene, of Bergen; 
Daniel Deshon, of Bethany; David J. Lee, 
of Darien ; Alonzo Ilulett, of Elba; William 
Morgan of Le Roy ; Clitus Wolcott, of Oak- 
field ; Eli Ellinwood, of Pembroke; George 
Radley, of Stafford; Henry II. 01 instead, of 
Pavillion. 
Among others the following timely and 
judicious resolution was passed : 
Resolved, That tho Show and Fair of tho 
Genesee County Agricultural Society for the 
year 1853. shall" be held in the town which 
shall contribute the most liberally to the 
funds of the Society during the year 1352. 
hut no contribution paid in after the first 
day of the Fair, in 1862, shall bo taken into 
account in determining which town has paid 
the most money. 
ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY AG. SOCIETY. 
Some weeks aao wo made brief mention 
of a movement for the organization of an 
Agricultural Society in St. Lawrence county 
—and now have the pleasure of announc¬ 
ing a favorablo result. 
At a meeting of delegates from different 
towns, held at tho Court House in Canton, 
on the 28th ult., the “ St. Lawrence County 
Agricultural Society” was permanently or¬ 
ganized by the adoption of.a Constitution, 
election of officers, &c. Fifty persons en¬ 
rolled their names as members, and paid the 
initiation fee of one dollar—a good begin¬ 
ning, truly—when the Society proceeded to 
elect officers for the year, as follows : 
President —Henry Van Rensselaer, of 
Ogdensburgh. 
Vice Presidents — Uriel H. Orvis, of 
Massena; Jonaii Sanford, of Ilopkinton; 
Hiram S. Johnson, of Canton. 
Secretary — Henry S. Foote, of Ogdens¬ 
burgh. 
Treasurer —Ebenezer Miner, of Canton. 
Town Corresponding Secretaries —Jchiel 
i Stevens, Brasher; Elijah N. Clark, Canton ; 
John Pierce, Colton ; George Lyon Dekalb; 
Alanson Tuttle, Depeyster; Justus B. Pick¬ 
et, Edwards; Daniel Truax. Fine; Thomas 
J. Hazleton, Fowler; Calvin F. Keyes, Gouv- 
erneur; Josiali Toller, Hammond; Dr. S 
Thatcher, Hermon; Jonah Sanford, Jr., 
Ilopkinton ; O. F. Shepard. Lawrence; Ira 
Wallace, Lisbon; Levi Miller, Louisville; 
Russell Coveil, Macomb ; Alfred Goss Mad¬ 
rid ; Silas Joy, Massena; Henry Hooker, 
Morristown ; E. M. Shepard. Norfolk ; Chas. 
Lyon, Oswegatchie; Allen Whipple Parish- 
ville; Asaph Green, Pitcairn; A. A. Cramp- 
ton. Pierpont; Charles Dart, Potsdam ; Reu¬ 
ben Nott, Ilossie; Rollin C. Jackson, ltussol; 
D. P. Rose, Stockholm. 
The following resolutions were adopted : 
Resolved , That while we are in favor of a 
fair appropriation of the public funds for 
the promotion of agriculture and tho inter¬ 
ests connected therewith, wo are opposed 
to its expenditure in a central location for 
tho establishment of an Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, or any similar institution. t 
Resolved, That this meeting recommend* 
to the farmers of each town, to form clips 
for the purpose of taking and reading agri¬ 
cultural papers. 
The value of straw as food for cattle do 
pends somewhat upon its growth, and the 
cleanness of tho crop—a rank growth being 
inferior to a medium ono, and a very clean 
crop giving less nourishment than one con¬ 
taining grass and succulent weeds. Cattle 
j fed on straw alone cannot thrive, but cut 
into chaff and fed with turnips and other 
roots it is beneficial—correcting the watery 
nature of the roots and tending to tho health 
and good condition of the animal. Pea 
straw, when cut early and well-cured, is 
equal to hay.. Bean straw is thought by some 
farmers of equal value. Buckwheat con¬ 
tains little nutriment, and is thought to bo 
unwholesome for sheep. 
Turnips will feed store pigs, hut they will 
not fatten on them. Carrots and parsnips 
arc excellent for horses, and, when boiled, 
will fatten hogs. Ruta buga is liked by 
horses; it makes their,coats lino, but must 
not be given in too great quantities, or it will 
gripe them. • 
In feeding, great care is requisite. Every 
one knows that a certain quantity of food 
is required to keep an animal alive and in 
health. This is called the necessary ration 
of food. If he has more, he will gain ilesh, 
or give milk or wool. Growing animals re¬ 
quire more feed and should never be sfinted. 
An ox requires 2 per cent, of his live 
weight in hay per day ; if he works ho re¬ 
quires 2J per cent.; a milch cow, 3 per cent.; 
a fatting ox. 5 per cent, at first, per cent, 
when half fat, and only 4 per cent, when 
fat, or 41 on tho average. Sheep grown up 
take 3^ per cent, of their weight in hay per 
day, to koep in store condition, 
Hanover, Fa., Jan. 31, 1852. 
Marks, Esq., of Geddes. (late President of 
the Onondaga Co, Ag. Society,) before the 
Cortland Co. Agricultural Society. 
EASTERN AND WESTERN FARMING. 
As agriculture and its kindred subjects 
are fit themes for the present occasion, let 
us give a few thoughts to those subjects in 
general. 
We have seen that progress is the order 
of the day, that nothing can remain station¬ 
ary and maintain its fonder relative stand¬ 
ing. and though progress 'in the past has 
been great, yet greater progress in the future 
than others, which consume the same quanti¬ 
ty and quality of food. Every dairy keeper 
knows that some cows give more and richer 
| milk than others, while all are fed alike. 
Wool growers also have found that somo 
; sheep furnish far more weight and value of 
! wool. than others under similar circumstan¬ 
ces. Experience in breeding horses shows 
\ that while one grows worth -* ; 50, another, 
at the same age and cost, will, command 
three to five times as much. How impor¬ 
tant then that great care should L'e used in 
: selecting our domestic animals. But do not, 
I pray you, think because you have select 
animals, that they may be starved or other¬ 
wise ill-treated with impunity. To be most 
profitable all animals must bo kept in a 
may be anticipate! _ __ _ ... 
In raising and marketing the products of i, c;l ithy and thrifty condition, and the more 
.. ... . .. comfortable they are made, the easier they 
the farm, we not only compete with each 
other, but we have now tho great, growing, 
and almost inconceivably fertile Western 
States to compote with us in the Eastern 
and foreign markets. Our advantages over 
them are. more abundant capital and labor, 
and more immediate proximity to the princi¬ 
pal markets. Their advantages consist in a 
fertile soil at nominal cost, abounding with 
excellent pasturage ready for the plow, and 
very easy of cultivation. Capital is each 
year becoming more abundant, and tho 
facilities for reaching the seaboard markets 
are rapidly increasing. Wool can now bo 
transported from Iowa to the cily of New 
will be thus kept. I rejoice to beliove that 
on this subject public sentiment has made 
great progress. 
SUPERFICIAL FARMING. 
A prominent cause of small profits and 
poor success in many of our farmers, is the 
parsimonious application of capital, in ma¬ 
nures, implements, physical force, and con¬ 
venient buildings. In their eagerness to 
save at the tap, they waste at the bung.— 
They remind us of the cultivator who can¬ 
didly admitted his unprofitable system of 
York for less than two cents per pound, farming; “but,” said he,“lam not yet rich 
and fat oxen from Chicago to Brighton - lor enough to be economical.” We observe by 
$14 per head. Corn has the present season a late number of the Mark-Lane Express, 
been sent from Fort Madison. Iowa, down that the present medium estimate in England, 
the Mississippi river to tho mouth of the of the capital required to carry on the busi- 
Illinois river, up to the western termination ness of a farm, is £8 (about 40 dollars) per 
of the Illinois canal, there re-shipped, sent acre, “and no prudent man ought to rent 
to Chicago by canal, and thence to New York more than lie has that amount, at least, of 
by way of-the lakes, our canal and the Hud- available capital to go on with; fora smaller 
son river and there thrown in competition possession, with ample means to manage it, 
with corn raised in this State. 
will yield better returns than a large quan- 
To those unacquainted with the western • tity ot land inadequately stocked. Now, 
country, a few remarks, which are the result some of our best farms can be bought for 
of personal observation at different times, ; about the same sum that the English farms 
may not be uninteresting. are rented, and if the above remark is ap- 
The prairies, which constitute a major , purchasing, instead ot renting, it 
portion of the land, are destitute of timber, ‘ wlU constitute excellent advice to Americans. 
J. S. G. 
CULTURE OF TOBACCO.-INQUIRY. 
Friend Moore : —I desire to get through 
tho medium of your paper, somo informa¬ 
tion on the culture of tobacco ; the time for 
starting the plants; expense and mode of 
cultivating, also of curing and packing; and 
the average nett profit per acre. Such in¬ 
formation may bo beneficial to many of your 
subscribers throughout the land. 
Yours, a. T. B. L. 
NoVlh Noiwi' li, N. Y., J:in 31, 1852 
Remarks. —Any of our readers who pos¬ 
sess the desired information will confer a 
public benefit by sending us the same for 
publication.— Eds. Rural. 
MANAGEMENT OF FIGS. 
Farmers loso much by neglectful manage¬ 
ment of pigs. They are too often kept in 
dirty pens, in out of tho way places, under 
tho eaves of barns, and with tho only bath¬ 
ing place in summer a repulsive mud hole. 
And being treated as an altogether degraded 
animal, they soon become so—who would 
not ? Instead of this, give them clean, com¬ 
fortable and dignified quarters, and they be¬ 
come quite respectable. A pig does not 
plunge into a pool of muddy water, because 
ho has any fancy for being dirty; but a cool 
bath in hot weather, is quite essential to his 
comfort, and have it he will at whatever 
cost. If mud is mixed with it, that is not 
his look out. 
Keep a pig clean—or in other words, do 
not compel him to live in dirt—and he will 
get fat all the faster for it. The experiment 
was made of regularly currying a part of a 
herd of hogs, and leaving the other part un¬ 
earned ; the former were found to become 
fat the most rapidly. Independently of 
this, a farmer who takes good care of his 
hogs, in a comfortable building and yard, 
will he most likely to take good care also to 
feed them well. But he who thrusts them 
as outcasts into a rubbish yard, will hardly 
take more pains in feeding; and irregularity 
and neglect will be tho usual result.— Ex. 
Productions per Acre.—R. Buist, of 
Philadelphia, thinks that with proper culti 
ration ten acres will yield as much'as thirty 
tilled in tho “old way;” that nothing loss 
than 3 tons of hay. 35 bushels of wheat, 80 
bushels of corn, and from four to six hun¬ 
dred bushels of carrots, parsnips and man 
gold wartzels, should satisfy us. “ It is many 
vears -since I was favorably impressed with 
the benefits of subsoil plowing, but tho past 
season put a climax on all my former ex¬ 
perience. Land that was subsoiled was 
more moist, the crops of a better color, and 
more luxuriant, so much so, that I have de¬ 
termined to double-plow ten or more acres 
of my land every year.”— Pa. Farm Jour . 
and are covered wit!) a luxuriant growth of 
vegetation of tho most nutritious kind, and 
of which, cattle, sheep, and horses are ex¬ 
tremely fond, and which fattens them with 
great rapidity. This herbage is so abundant 
that not one-tenth of it is eaten, but the bal¬ 
ance is each year burned, the ashes enrich¬ 
ing tho soil, and the new- crop springs up 
fresh and free from former growth. The 
climate is so mild in many parts, that little 
or no feeding is necessary during winter.— 
Corn of the most abundant growth and yield, 
is raised many successive years on the same 
field, with no culture hut plowing, much of 
it being raised without the use of tho hoe 
even for planting. The period of harvesting 
can be extended during the entire winter 
This is a subject for a large volume; and 
we have only spaco now to say, that if tho 
land owner has not suitable buildings, tho 
value of the grain and fodder wasted in 
consequence, would soon pay for them; and 
the food and flesh wasted by exposed and 
shivering animals would soon pay for thc-m 
a second time. Tho want of manure will 
prevent the value of crops from rising high¬ 
er than the cost of cultivating them; and 
tho want of heavy crops, to feed animals, 
will preclude keeping enough to make plen¬ 
ty of manure. In other words a poor and 
badly cultivated farm will re-act, and only 
support a poor and badly-fed race of animals 
and men,—just in the same way that a fertilo 
and thoroughly tilled piece of land will sus- 
and spring. In May last we saw corn being ! tahl animals enough to manure it and keep 
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larvested in good state of preservation 
We feel quite sure that wool may he raised 
in the most favored parts of tho west and 
sold in New York or Boston market for less 
than one-fourth, and beef for one-half what 
it would cost if raised in central New York 
Railroads are projected, most of them 
located, some of them built, and all of them 
will soon be completed, connecting the Miss¬ 
issippi river at Rock Island with Boston 
and New York, by way of Chicago and the 
southern parts of Lake Erie. 
The great West will then not only have 
better facilities to send her wool, grain and 
provisions to market, but she will send many 
articles which she cannot now,.beeauso of 
their perishable nature in warm weather, 
and the slow mode of conveyance. 
How shall we prepare to successfully com¬ 
pete with the West? for do it, we must, or 
our property will depreciate in value, and 
we he distanced by the rapid progress of our 
western friends. The question is asked that 
you may consider it. 
Your humble speaker will not attempt to 
answer this momentous question. It is a 
subject worthy of your candid attention, and 
perhaps those only who have visited those 
western States duly appreciate its impor¬ 
tance. 
That our land may bo rendered far more 
productive than it is now, is apparent to 
every observing farmer. We have a great 
variety of soils, and their defects are various. 
Tho wet land should be made dry by thor¬ 
ough draining, or never plowed—for stir¬ 
ring a wot soil materially injures it, and no 
profit is obtained. If the subsoil is hard 
and retentive, break it with the subsoil plow, 
for the deeper the ground is made looso and 
friable, the deeper will the roots of plants 
seek for nourishment, and tho extremes of 
wet and dry will less affect the soil and grow¬ 
ing crop. If the soil is poof, manure direct¬ 
ly from the barnyard or compost heap, or 
indirectly from vegetable matter fed upon 
tho land, must bo applied. Grass seed 
should bo plentifully sown that grass may 
occupy the whole ground. No weeds should 
bo allowed to rob the growing crop of need¬ 
ed sustenance; and as the inquiry is often 
made how to rid tho soil of various weeds, 
allow me here to give a general rule, which 
if strictly followed, will destroy vegetable 
growth of any kind. It is simply this, pre¬ 
vent its growth for one entire season, and 
death is sure to follow. Tho principle is 
this, leaves are as necessary to vegetable, as 
lungs are to animal life. 
Neither can live without the functions 
which each performs. If the most healthy 
tree in yonder forest were to bo doprived of 
its leaves so fast as they appear during one 
entire season, when nature was pushing its 
energies lor growth, death would surely 
follow. 
i 
up its fertility, and men enough to give it 
thorough tillage.— Albany Cultivator. 
REMARKABLE LONGEVITY. 
A correspondent of the Lowell Courier, 
writing from Scituato, chronicles the death, 
on the 22d ult., of Mrs. Sarah tho wife of tho 
late Simeon Pinson, of the same town—and 
tho last revolutionary soldier in it—who 
died March 22d, 1850, aged 9t> years and 8 
months. It will be observed that their joint 
ages make precisely two centuries—200 
years. They were both born on the 22d day 
of tho month, and both died on the 22d.— 
At tho time o’f the death of the husband, a 
great interest was excited in this aged couple 
by the publication of paragraphs in several 
of the papers, relative to their manner of 
life, &e. The writer of the letter above re¬ 
ferred to, says upon this point: 
“As the question will naturally be asked 
j how they lived? it may be said that they 
j were ‘temperate in the use of all things.’ 
j They lived on simple viands; almost entirely 
on the products of their own farm. Mr. 
! Pinson, the last thirty years of his life used 
| neither spiritous liquors, tea nor coffee.— 
j Mrs. Pinson never used spiritous liquors, 
but used tea very moderately. They both 
habitually accustomed themselves to con¬ 
stant, though moderate labor, till they were 
more than 90 years of age. They were in 
comfortable circumstances through life ; and 
probably as free from griping avarice as 
persons could he in this world of tempta¬ 
tions. Their dispositions .were truly kind 
and affectionate—and it seemed the delight 
of their soul to see others happy. They 
lived contented, and both died without a 
single groan. They "wore married and lived 
together seventy-five years in peace and 
harmony.” 
Great Crop of Grass.— Mr. Clapp, of 
Greenfield, in remarking on the Plow, at 
the late meeting of tho Mass. Board of Ag¬ 
riculture, said that ho had cut four tons to 
the acre after common plowing, and six tons 
after sub-soiling, in both cases mowing twice 
in the season. The land manured and 
treated in the same manner in both instan¬ 
ces with the exception of sub-soiling. Deep 
plowing is gaining many new advocates. It 
is found to be one of thoso excellent rules 
that works well both ways, either in a wet 
or dry season. If too dry, the roots seek 
moisture in the earth loosened by Cue sub¬ 
soil plow-—if too wet, the water settles into 
it, leaving the roots to seek supplies as they 
are needed.— JY. E. Farmer. 
Burdock leaves will euro a horse of the 
slavers in five minutes. Lot him eat about 
two leaves. I have tried it many times with 
good success."— Exchange. 
Little, and often fills the crib, 
