MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER! AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSl’ 
I <Io not submit this plan to you or your 
readers as being any improvement on the 
draining tile; it is sufficient that it be equally 
durable and effective while I think it much 
cheaper. I do not know that there are any 
tile made in this county; but I believe the 
smallest size cost one cent per foot at the 
factory, without the bottom plate, or 1 J cent, 
with. Water, lime can be had at any point on 
our canals at from $1,25 to $1,50 per bbl., 
and the most of farmers have the requisite 
sand. I am not able to make an exac testi- 
mate of the relative expense, but I venture 
to say that the cement will cost less than 
half what the tile will, including first cost, 
transportation, arid breakage. 
I have tried both cobble stone and gravel. 
My objection to cobble stone is, that unless 
they are broken to about the size used for 
macadamising, the drain must have sufficient 
capacity to admit at least a loot square of 
stone, or the earth will eventually v wash in 
and choke up the drain Gravel of a suitable 
size would answer a good purpose, but if ol 
the ordinary size, it is too fine to admit a 
sufficient flow of water. Experience is the 
only true test of all such speculations, but 
I verily believe it to be worth trying. 
Should you come to the conclusion that the 
above will be worth an insertion in the liuKAO, 
active •>-; 
J: I 
IF,! 2M "A 
FORBES DEL 
PEIKHTM FARM OF D. D. T, MORE. 
In tho Transactions of tho N. Y. State 
I may at some future time give you my views Ag. Society for 1850, is recorded an in- 
of the cheapest and most durable method 8 (; ance of successful farming, under adverse 
PLAN OP FARM BUILDINGS, (D. D. T. More’s) Middlebrook Farm, Watervliet. 
oak, scattering hickory, poplar and sa^ keep-it separate. Tll ° acl^sweS ! pi,dapple wiSy Ti^fmnTrfcon° 
i - sx ss 
L 8 st“°by th“o h mh of i — •*&*£* 
dressing. 1 use much of my manure on my market principal 
of making fences. A Subscriber. 
ftcoitsville. Monroe Co., N. Y , Feb. 1st, 18o2. 
THE STINFLOWES. — A WORD TO FARMERS. 
“The sunflower is destined to be one of w j lom w as awarded tho second premium on 
our greatest agricultural products,” yet hut f ar ms by the above named Society. 
circumstances, which should be known to droS 8 i no -. I use much of my manure on my 
every cultivator in the land. We refer to ryc crop, in the following manner :—After 
•the farm management of D. D. T. More, tho grain is harrowed in, 1 apply from twen- 
Esq. of Watervliet, Albany county-to ty to twenty-five loads of manure, (double 
* iii \ • loads say thirty bushels each) spread even- 
whom was awarded tho second premium on oyer gu J ac0 j have never failed to 
f. -l\i» nlyAirn norrwifl ^ ^ . /» _ ml-. ^ i'o 
I sowed this year thirty acres 
of buck- I Iowa variety through them, with tho hope 
.i ~ ? of better success the next year. 
few know its value. I have raised and test¬ 
ed it, and think no farmer who has .much 
land should bo without it for feeding vari- 
This farm, situated two miles from A 
ny, has been made, as it wore within the 
six six years—for at the time it was ti 
nossession of by Mr. More, tho land 
ous animals, and the oil it produces. It has ggegg j on 0 f hy Mr. More, tho land was 
yielded with me, from 90 to 100 bushels per cons j dored « worn out.” On this point Mr. 
acre, manured the same as for corn. I plant jj 0WAKI)> 0 f tho Cultivator states that, “ it 
in drills, between three and four feet apart, bad bo0n f 01 . fif ty years subjected to an;ei- 
and scatter tho seed about six inches dis- j aaus ti n g courso, under the leases of various 
taut in tho rows—using from four to five tenants —the annual rent of tho whole farm 
quarts per acre. being one hundred dollars, and that docihcd 
When ripe, as the large heads begin to too largo a sum by the tenant—as the whole 
shell out, I cut it up, and leave it scattered amount of produce was only worth $400 to 
in rows to dry, and when thoroughly cured, a year. Mr. More, in fact, bought tho 
draw it into my barn, handling carefully and pi ace j n opposition to the advice of all his 
placing on an airy scaffold. When wanted f r i e nds, who deemed it impossible that the 
On this point Mr. covered with earth, to prevent as much 
On fifteen acres I sowed rye with the buck- | 
wheat, which looks well, and bids lair to be 
a good crop. 
I cultivated twelve acres of■ broom corn, 
on an island in tho Hudson river. In con- 
apniicni'n of the late snrimr freshet. I planted 
9. My moans of making manure are irom 0 n an island m the Hudson river, in con- ^ WJV , . .- 
the keeping of about thirty.head of cattle, sequence of tho late spring freshet, I planted j 'preserve ti ic ’color 
and from four to six horses, and mixing m the first week in June, ground plowed deep, j ‘ fr( ,J gholling- 8a | t in the 
various ways, all the straw that my farm well harrowed,rollod,and marked throefeet j ^ ^ ^ „ linr h K f tn t.lm load, 
produces. I make in this way about, three apart, and planted with Campfields Drill 
hundred loads of manure, and usually buy Barrow, hills eighteen inches apart, ten seeds 
as much more. in the hill; it was tended much the same as 
timothy and clover for pasture. 
19 . I mowed thirty-two acres this year, 
and averaged about ono and a half tons per 
acre. I cut clover when the heads begin 
to brown, and timothy when in full blossom. 
Cure as much in the swath and cock as pos¬ 
sible. To proservo the color and keep the 
leaves from shelling, salt in the mow, at tho 
rate of four quarts to tho load. 
24. I was in the milk dairy business till 
last October, when I sold out. For the last 
the seed will nearly all shell out by throw¬ 
ing down, and needs but little pounding.— 
Clean in a common fanning mill. 
land could afford him and bis family ‘a liv¬ 
ing.’ But notwithstanding tho soil was so 
much reduced, that, in Mr. M.’s language, 
much for the benefit of tho rye overflowed, the crop is much injured, and native urceu. 
... ° -- -7’ ’ ... ° fT . not so muen tor tnc Donent ui mu ovcriiowcu. me crop uuuuu.juu.mu cxneriment in the 
One hundred pounds of the scod yield 40 almost tho only crop ho could raise at fust &g fo] . thc c ] ()Ver< and future crops. I am will not Yield more than lour hundred and 1 y . c 1 ()f ( . utlr Have used for 
pounds of oil; ono bushel will make a gal- was white beans, his clear judgment and prac- satisfied that my land has improved rapidly ten pounds per acre. , firm wefrk horses mules and oxen. I pre- 
lon of oil. I had part of my seed made in- tical knowledge of agriculture, induced him from this mode; in fact at such a rate t ia One acre of corn sowee 01 < f 6 r mules for general farm purposes. Oxen 
to oil at a common oil mill, and used it for to make the purchase, at $00 per acre, and I shall not be able to follow it, so iar as the Sowed the »'Uni heTeclnd best. I consiJer Wo mules as 
burning in lamps and touted it well for the result has more than realized his antici- rye crop ^ of in . good, and will 
painting. Our bouse has been painted a pations. The benefit of his good manage- manur0 cheaper than by purchas- I cultivated two acres of melons; water- 1^°^'horses, besides saving much in sluxT- 
long time; and it wears fully equal to those ment has been of no small value in tlie pro- ing heing so near to Albany, where it can melons, citron melon and preserve citron. ftn( j cost i, 1;r no tbing for farriery ; they 
where linseed is used, and the walls are left motion of improvement in his neighborhood, be bought from twelvo to thirty-seven cents Planted tho first ol June. After the land WO fk when very old, and I could not 
more glossy as though a little varnish had Ilis ‘ good works ’ have stimulated others to per load. j was put in good order by deep P|°™ng,l bo induced to do without them. 
been 4p«U»0. • •*-”>“!> 0f ** ^ Lim© / a™ utXe^ls’W Soy 
Tho oil oako is nearly equal to an, other ing l.is, and winch, at tho commencement of 0 ,, J , top-dressu.fr. Have used manure in a hill. I planted at least twelve prmcipaHy and g ve them as much thc, 
... . ,1 • i. .it_i.„ i.^1_ -Cons in a similar condition. , ! • • ,1.7..j®._i. „ util ..l.nnt hen tliirdis Will eat. W atei 111 Uic siauiu. 
dition to tho impoverished state 13 j tille d this year one hundred and Fifty r0( i s 0 f asparagus, I cultivated as “‘jj? “J‘ r id of. 
il, and the dilapidated condition of forty-four acres, as follows: Ten acres of f 0 n 0WS: Sowed the seed, transplanted tho ‘ “ 7 , , „ n n; va t P( i f or 
buildings and fences—the buildings wheat, thirty-five acres of rye, twenty-seven thir( i year to tho bed for cutting. I pro- nr 3 l rp I n k S r<»und the trees and kee 
reckoned worth * 100 . (the dwel- S.”„ 1 red whh^eCS '^ ground covered with compost, when th 
the bed was thus prepared, I took a largo 
and produced eggs more abundantly than addition to tho impoverished stato 13 j tilled this year one hundred and 
usual on other food. The seed is well known of tho soil, and the dilapidated condition of forty-four acres, as follows: Ten acres of 
to lie good for horses, and is well worth 50 tlie farm buildings and fences—the buildings wheat, thirty-five acres of rye, twenty-sm on 
cents a bushel to the farmer. I hope they wore not reckoned worth $ 100 , (the dwel- corn, 
will tost this matter for themselves, and am n n g was sold for $50, to bo removed, and b] . oom J corn> one r acro of sowed corn, two 
sure they will find it profitable to raise their the barn pulled down,) while “the fences acres 0 f melons, fifty rods of asparagus, 
own oil, &c., as I have done. ] ia d all rotted down, or become nearly and one and one-half acres of strawberries. 
H. C. Adgate. worthless”—Mr. More lias labored under 14 , I have cultivated wheat more as an 
East Bethany, N. Y., Feb., issi. th sor i ous disadvantages. Much of flic experiment than anything else, as for the 
35. I keep the ground cultivated for two 
or three feet round the trees, and keep tho 
ground covered with compost, when the or¬ 
chard is in sod, which is not more than ono 
year in four. 1 endeavor to keep my or- 
“WILD GOOSE WHEAT.” 
had all rotted down, or become nearly and one and one-half acres of strawberries, hiehes deep, set my plants m tno bottom of 
worthless”_Mr. More has labored under 14, I have cultivated wheat more as an the furrow, about ten inches apart, cover, 
other serious disadvantages. Much of the experiment than anything else, as for the then struck tho second eighteen inches apart 
. iii i r 11 n • last few years it has been almost a total fail- from the first and so on until all aio set. 
time his health has been feeble, allowing ^ £ Section of the country. My man- Top dressed with well rotted barn yard ma- 1 ^^taj-ei^of^forstore^roo^n^^The^^upper 
him only a general supervision —yet his ner wa8 as follows : I sowed after potatoes, nure and salt. My asparagus was of an I feet taken . .1) 
-, , . mm omy a guuma, 7, . ner was as follows: I sowed alter potatoes, nuro ana salt, my asparagus w*- main building is devoted entiro- 
Friend Moore:—I have a sample of statement proves that “ the eye of tho mas- 8 p r i n g whoat of tho Black Sea variety, about extraordinary size and quality, teoitl $bJ,- l rooms . 
“Wild Griose Wheat” which was grown on t er will do more work than his hands.” Nor the 15th of April; harvested about the 4th 66 worth at eleven cents per bunch, besu os . f j s 30 bv 80 feet standing 
my father’s farm in Eastern New York, 20 haS he derived any benefit fren the labor • is taken from upon a side hill of gentle slope ; end towards 
years ago, and for aught that I can discover of his family. In Ins statement, ho says :- ^1 j gowod t ()f it after potatoes and the soil to produce twenty bushels of wheat, the hill; under the end where the ground is 
in its appearance, it is in a healthy state.— “My family consists of wife and fivo chil- & on a clovcr lay . 80 wed the last week I wish 1 could. lowest, I take off twenty feet 101 a ii(n,e 
Some of it is in tho head and some dressed. (] ren) the oldest child but fourteen, so that j n August and the first week in September, I have cultivated usually about an acre stable, ipalung 100 m or sev< 
It lias always been kept dry and in a bag my children have been of little assistance ono and a-half bushels to.the acre; harvMt- of strawberrios, with[Success and Ij™ t^rreimiiirin^forty feet is a cow stable with 
suspended from a rafter in tho corn house, to mo—tho balance of account being deci- e<l about the 15th onl^e^mn^one acre. My mode of cul- cisterns underneath- for catching all tho 
Yet, I havo not succeeded in getting the dedly against them.” And yet, notwith- hl 'j ured bya hail storm in tholaG tivation is to take a clean piece of land in water that falls on the building. My water 
first kernel to grow, though I havo planted standing all these obstacles—a worn out tc ‘ art 0 f June, to tho extent I think of good condition, plow it very deep, harrow cistern occupies about^ twenty-tour xeet im- 
it repeatedly. If you or any ono of the fra- soil, worthless buildings and fences at the e jght or ten bushels per acre. I did not thoroughly, and spread evenly from two to j der this stab e, am wi io. 1 sixteen 
ternity « put me in a way t„ revive and and feeble health and a young fami- dSoover much ,inference between the ma- three hundred bu.hcls of !».hod ae^8 to wa> 
cause this wheat to germinate, I think I can „ S i„ce-Mr. Mean has sucoeeded better S So tudno f, t.J, stables, the deer being 
produce a head that will take tlie pm 9 of- than do hundreds of farmers under most , p | owe d wider is about equal to a twelvo inches apart, in tho drills. I trails- caulked and pitched with a trough bohmd 
fered by one of your contemporaries, for the favorable circumstances. The secret of his dress ; n g 0 f manure. . planted in April, or early in May, I obtain- the cattle to conduct tlie 1 
greatest number of grains in a single head, success is good management —not only in I cultivated corn as follows: twenty-two ed no fruit the first year, of consequence. CIS '^ I1 ® n , b il(]ln2 . tbe c i 8te ms is 
This wheat, as I understand its history, wisely husbanding his resources, but an- acres en clever lay, part plowed in the fall I cult ^ o anJ th^ I ^ out the eartlfof the requisite 
was taken from the crop of a wild goose, nually enriching his soil. and part in the spring. After the clover gag* *^os' ru n together! W will shape ami dimensions, take cement and 
somewhere in the vicinity of Lake Cham- From tho volume of Transactions ro- IvoA; i CO vor the ground entirely by tho first of .coarse sand of 
plain, about 30 years since. My father, ferred to, we extract the following from Mr. bofch s throe and a half feet I August. I do nothing with them again un- to, and ^^^08 and on the 
tbout that time, was very successful with it. More’s answers to questions propounded to : rt , and planted from 4 to 6 seeds in a til the next s P" in ^® n bottom and cover lith planks with earth 
1 recollect one instance of his selling 1J competitors for premiums on farms : hill; planted the last days of May and first ; team and heavy ^IrThem A cistern olr the capacity ot 
bushels for seed, to a gentleman from the 1 . My farm consists of one hundred and June; as soon as I could ^ J® J 0 ^ | ciently thinneth this loosens the ground ono hundred hogsheads can thus bo built, 
oust fee *10 per buchfl. who wished it on ^-hveueves end a half of land. No ^eriUhrmighwith ail the weak plan,,. If ri.e jM.P = , complete, for less than twenty- 
and feeble health and a young taim- discover mucti clittercnce oeweon mu mu- tnree nunurou uubhow ui ‘ W is nV< nnied bv a cistern for collecting 
d —Mr. More has succeeded bettor Ured potato ground, and the c over lay, an acre, xnark the and m driBs three oe^ fuel ? t ^ !,o il^t beinl 
plain, about 30 years since. My father, ferred to, wo extract tho following tre 
about that time, was very successful with it. More’s answers to questions propoun 
I recollect one instance of his selling lj competitors for premiums on farms : 
till UI1“ tUI, aiiUL Djmxiu -- 
double thickness all round the sides, and on tno 
bushels for seed, to a gentleman from the 
east for $10 per bushel, who wished it on 
account of its peculiarity—having from throe 
1 . My farm consists of one hundred and 
eighty-five acres and a hall ot land. No 
waste or woodland. 
2. Soil, a sandy loam; subsoil, principally vator again, followed 
to seven heads united in one, on a single a coarso sand; am not aware of any lime- it perfectly clean, t 
tom. Yours, &c., I 
West Macedon, N. Y., Feb., 1852. 
I. W. Briggs. stone existing on the farm; no stones worth stalks in tho hill. 11 
, mentioning. r ' n J? ^ 10 ground as in 
- 3. I found the best mode of improving corn was about thre 
kiiig^cm account of tho^eve^e cold and deep iiberq, application of plaster, »ay 2 50 lb, ? 
^Xevperiencei.tloridedl.mfkvoref ^ttUy. Ifhnjhg^ , 1 
in time and get ready for the firs. •• run.” deep pb.wing-not 1„„ than eight inches. ^ ^ tTtt- e„”S,berries ono 5 my best crops. 
“1. Yellow a P nd white pine, white and black fttuTthe Uite yielded best, I did net I failed, however, entirely in my crop tins 
remainder of thc space, over my thrashing 
Iloor and cow stable for grain and 1 odder. 
Attached to my barn I have on the north a 
wagon house and tool shop, 18 by 50 feet, 
with room overhead for hay and grain, open¬ 
ing into the main barn. To the south of 
the main barn, attached in tho same way is 
