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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
that he has to clo?—does ho not in his pride 
and ambition to bo thought a good and 
thriving farmer, spend money for the grati¬ 
fication of this feeling, perhaps in the pur¬ 
chase of a fine harness to show off a favor¬ 
ite horse, or for a carriage in which the 
poor wife can never find time to ride ?— 
Would it not hate been better that a part, 
at least, of that money should have been 
spent for labor-saving implements of house¬ 
keeping? Does he occasionally offer a help¬ 
ing hand to lighten her toil ?—or, if she is 
obliged to ask his assistance, is it cheerfully 
and affectionately given? Is his evening 
reading selected with an eyo to her im¬ 
provement and pleasuro, as well as his own." 
Years pass on, and little, pattering feet 
cluster around the hearth-stone, and as each 
successive branch shoots forth from the pa¬ 
rent tree, the father hails it with pride and 
joy, while the mother can scarcely bid it wel¬ 
come, as in it she sees one more drop ad¬ 
ded to her already full measure of toil. 
Wealth has been steadily accumulating, 
but there is not yet enough to sparo, for 
any moro female hands than barely enough 
to accomplish the required labor. How, in 
the name of all that is reasonable, can that 
mother discharge her duties toward her 
children ? With health enfeebled and ener¬ 
gies impaired, sho can teach her daughters 
nothing but the inevitable duty of nursing 
the younger ones of the flock ; some of them 
probably born with sickly constitutions, per¬ 
haps to bo the innocent cause of distorted 
spine in the nurse. It is the prerogative of the 
boys to spend their time in the open air, in 
boisterous amusement, or light occupation, 
so that they may remedy their constitution¬ 
al defects, while their less fortunate sisters 
are doomed to a course of life which fos¬ 
ters their infirmities. I do not wonder tliut 
farmers’ wives an) froqcntly averse to hav¬ 
ing their daughters marry farmers. Not 
from any fancied ascent in the scale of so¬ 
cial position, would they prefer having them 
marry professional men, but because that 
condition presupposes exemption from se¬ 
vere toil, with time and opportunities for 
mental culture. 
All this the husband and fathersees with 
regret when it is too late to remedy the evil. 
While his mind was absorbed in enlarging 
his farm, building barns, granaries, and last 
of all, a house, how could lie have lime to 
mark the faltering motion of the main¬ 
spring in the domestic machinery, so long as 
he was met with the smile of affection, and 
his comforts never neglected ? Yet I would 
not say he was not a kind husband, in the 
common acceptation of the term. He loved 
his wife and children, but ho was so intent 
on providing for their temporal wants, and 
carrying out his plans, that he had no mind 
left for domestic sympathy and endearments, 
without which the iron of incessant toil will 
outer the soul and corrode the energies of a 
sensitive woman, though nature had endow¬ 
ed her with the most robust physical con¬ 
stitution. 
By this time his own health is broken 
down, and lie begins to feel the importance 
of laying some plans to alleviate his own bur¬ 
dens, and thoso of the wifo whom ho now 
finds time to appreciate. To this end his 
farm is disposed of, his children sent out to 
acquire an education hitherto neglected. 
With the recollections of homo in the mind, 
they aro not slow in acquiring habits of lifo, 
and tastes that unfit them for the real occu¬ 
pation of farming. 
The parents are resting from their labors, 
but bewailing the fact, that the sons feel 
above following the employment of then- 
father,—and the daughters, delicate youn 
ladies, wholly unfit to accomplish what, un¬ 
der the most favorable circumstances, may 
bo the dutios of A Farmer's Wife. 
Willow-tlell Farm, April, 1852. 
NOXIOUS WEEDS DESCRIBED. 
Messrs. Editors :—I have been looking to 
the different agricultural journals for de¬ 
scriptions of the various weeds that, infost 
the country, but have seen little on the sub 
TEETH OE HORSES. 
ESSENTIALS TO PRODUCTIVE FARMING. 
The following is copied from a little vol- | 
umo published thiry years since in Virginia: ; 
“ A horse that has arrived at an age fit for 
service, ought to have forty teeth, twenty 
four grinders, twelve fore-teeth, and four 
... • *i 7 TOUT HliJHlCHO. 
jeet. And hence, as this is a growing ovil, 1 j tuf .j. g Mares, however, have but thirty-six 
send you an account of some which 1 have 
met with in this section. 
There is a deceptive weed called the Cay¬ 
uga May weed, Acker clover, bull’s eye, white 
blossom, and other names, which has been 
suffered to insinuate itself into a great many 
farms, from its being thought only the com¬ 
mon May wood. If farmers had been warn¬ 
ed against it long ago, it would never have 
spread so widely. Any one by comparing 
it with common May weed, can distinguish 
the difference, and when the clovor weed is 
in blossom the May weed is hut cleverly up 
—floworing several weeks later. Observa¬ 
tion will soon enable one to detect it. 
When passing a farm last summer, 1 saw 
very thick about the house and garden, also 
in the fields near by, a weed that had the 
apparance of the dandelion, when gone to 
seed. I thought it a curious thing, and see¬ 
ing a man a little ahead, asked the name of 
it. lie said it was garden colt’s foot, called 
by some snap-dragon. It has a yellow flow¬ 
er, blossoms very early, and somo people 
plant it in their gardens and door-yards. 
There is a troublesome weed on my farm 
which I have heard no name for. When it 
first comes up it has the appearance of the 
dandelion, both in roots and leaves, and in 
the milky juice which they contain, but it 
has a stalk entirely different. It grows from 
ono to three feet nigh, and bears a blue flow¬ 
er resembling the morning glory. It can¬ 
not be killed by summer fallowing. Where 
the furrow is tough and hard I have known 
the root to keep growing under the sod un¬ 
til the time of cross-plowing, when there 
would bo a bunch of young sprouts like a 
cabbage head, and the part cut oil and loft 
in the furrow, would also send out a large 
number of sprouts. I have a patch in my 
meadow of about a dozen stools, which I 
havedug up every year, when in blossom, for 
four years, without reducing them at all, I 
dug them early last spring with better suc¬ 
cess. I should be glad to know the name 
of this weed, and how to got rid ot it. 
Uoneoy© Falls, N. Y., 1852. 8. K. 
DRY ROADS’. 
For a Rat Proof Granary, the sugges¬ 
tion of a friend seems to bo the thing. It 
has the advantage of being durable, cheap 
and effective, llavo your granary studded 
all round. Have ready a mortar made of 
gravel and lime—not sand, but gravel, and 
coarse at that. Then as you coil the sides 
of your granary, fill in this mortar botween 
tho weather boarding and coiling. If you 
have small stones or bits of brick, chuck 
them in also, and you liavo walls around 
your granary, that will defy tho teeth of 
rats or mice, for all time to come. If tho 
“varmints” are likely to find an entrance 
from abovo, stoutly coil over head, and then 
lay on a thick coating abovo tho coiling or 
between it and the scaffold floor, and you 
head them thero. These directions are for 
a common granary in tho barn. For othei-s, 
vary according to circumstances, t. e. w. 
How To Plant Potatoes —To obtain a 
crop of potatoes one month oarlier than in 
any other way, pursue tho following course. 
Cover up the seed in stablo manure. As 
soon as the germs appear, plant them, and 
the crop will ripen one month earlier than 
In the ordinary way. Several years experi¬ 
ence proves this. Success depends entirely 
upon planting as soon as tho germs appear. 
If the 170,000 farmers of tho Stato of N. 
York, spend on an average hut one month 
annually, in driving teams upon the public 
highways, the yearly cost ol teaming in the 
State amounts in the aggregate, at two dol¬ 
lars per day, to more than eight millions of i 
dollars—equal to tho original cost of tho 
great Eric canal. Is not then, the improve¬ 
ment of our public roads, in order to lessen 
as much as practicable this enormous ex¬ 
pense to tho farmer, a matter well worthy 
of his careful attention ? 
At the present moment wo wish to urge 
tho general adoption ot a single improve¬ 
ment, which appears to bo but little known 
or appreciated, although where it has been 
reduced to practico, it has proved ot great 
value. This is thorough draining ,—not by 
the usual shallow, open ditches, from six 
inches to a foot deep, on each side of the 
road, and so far from the travelled track as 
to afford it very little relief from the surface 
water merely. But wo mean a first rale 
underdrain, directly beneath Ike trac/c, which 
will speedily carry elf all the surplus water 
lodged both on and in the soil; and which, 
it made right, will be the means of reducing 
mud and miro to firmness and solidity in a 
wonderfully short period ot time. 
A large size tile-drain is undoubtedly the 
best for this purpose; but where tho tilo 
cannot bo had, quito as good a ditch, hut 
costing a little more labor, may be made by 
filling in with stones, placing the smaller and 
flatter at the top. and then covering the 
whole with a close layer of hard-wood slabs 
or boards, beforo tho inverted sods aro laid 
on, and the earth filled in. Tho usual mode 
of forming a small under-ground channel, 
by placing a row of stones on each side at 
the bottom of the ditch, and covering this 
with broader stones, before filling in with 
the smaller, must not be forgotten or omit¬ 
ted where much water is likely to be drawn 
off. And where the bottom is sandy, a lay¬ 
er of fiat stones or boards first placed upon 
the bottom to prevent the sinking of the 
stones, will save much trouble in future. 
If the soil is clayey, or in any way not 
readily pervious to water, tho stones should 
nearly fill the ditch beforo tho slabs are laid 
on. even if tile be used, or else tho drainage 
will not be speedy or perfect.— Jilb. Cult. 
Manuring Corn. —II. Jones Brooko, Esq., 
communicates to the March number of the 
Farm Journal, an experiment in applying 
manure, or “poudrette, ’ which costs thirty 
cents per bushel, to a patch of corn planted 
in a piece of poor soil. lie put about a gill 
in a hill, dropped the corn thereon, and 
found the following result in tho harvest.— 
On the first four rows manured, ho had 
twenty baskets full of well matured corn; 
on tho first four without manure, fourteen 
baskets of inferior corn ; on tho third four 
rows manured, nineteen ; on tho next four 
rows not manured, fourteen baskets of same 
quality as before, and so on throughout, 
which shows the irreat advantage of manur¬ 
ing corn in the hill. 
However little we may have to do, let us 
do that little well. 
except when they happen to have tusks, 
which is by no means common. 
It is by the fore-teeth and tusks that tho 
age of a horse is to be judged of, and as they 
are not generally put to service until they 
come three years old, (and indeed that is 
one year too soon,) we shall commence our 
description of the teeth at that ago. 
At three therefore, he will have four 
horso and eight colt teeth, which are called 
pincers, have a deep black hole in the mid¬ 
dle ; while thoso of tho colt aro round, solid 
and white. 
A short time before tho horse comes four 
year old. ho loses four middle teeth, two 
above and two below, which are followed by 
four moro horso teeth with black holes in 
tho middle, the same as the pincers. 
A few months before ho comes five, ho 
sheds the four corner teeth, two above and 
two below, which is his last colt’s teeth; and 
at five they aro replaced with horso teeth 
hollow as before described, and grooved on 
tho inside. At this age he also gets four 
tusks, tho two lower ones generally three or 
four months beforo tho upper. 
Some horses, however, never have any up¬ 
per tusks, but this is not common. Tho ap¬ 
pearance of the two lower tusks is tho most 
certain proof that the horse is coming five 
years old; even if some of his colt’s teeth 
still remain. 
When ho is nearly six, all his fore-teeth 
are full grown, pointed, and a little concave 
on the inside. At six, the grooves on the 
inside begin to fill up, and soon after disap¬ 
pear; the black holes in the middle of the 
teeth also begin to fill up, but are still very 
apparent. 
At seven, all the fore-teeth except tho 
corner ones, aro generally filled up smooth, 
though a black spot in the centre may yet 
appear. Between seven and eight, the cor¬ 
ner teeth also fill ami become smooth ; after 
eight, it is difficult, indeed by some held to 
be impossible, to judge correctly of the ago 
ot a horse; all the striking marks of his 
mouth having disappeared. 
After which period, recourse must he had 
to tho general aspect of its mouth. If the 
tusks he flat and pointed, and havo two 
small grooves on the inside, which you can 
readily feel with your finger, he assured ho 
is not old, probably not vet ten ; hut if you 
find only one groove within the tusk, you 
mav conclude that ho is approaching 12. 
After twelve, grooves generally disappear, 
and tusks become as blunt and as round 
within as without. The length of tho teeth 
is bv no. means a certain criterion to judge 
of the ago, though long tooth, projecting for¬ 
ward. certainly indicates an advanced age, 
as the teeth of young horses aro not so long 
and generally njp6t almost perpendicular. 
The lips of a young horso aro very firm 
and elastic, while thoso of an old one are 
soft, flabby, and hanging, and the tongue of¬ 
ten so large that the cavity of tho mouth is 
scarcely capable of containing it. 
The holes in the centre of the teeth some¬ 
times continue to an advanced ago. but when 
the tusks become round and blunt, the fore¬ 
teeth long and projecting forward, the 
tongue large and lips flabby, the horse is 
most certainly old. say from twelve to twen¬ 
ty. or upwards, notwithstanding any appa¬ 
rent marks to the contrary. 
Having noticed all the marks which serve 
to instruct us as to tho age of a horse, it is 
believed that a person of the most common 
capacity may, by paying attention to tho 
foregoing directions, ascertain the age of a 
horse with a considerable degree of certain¬ 
ty, at least until he is too far advanced to 
bo of much value.” 
REARING OE CALVES. 
Tiie following fifteen essentials for pro¬ 
ductive farming are from tho pen of the ed¬ 
itor of tho American Farmer, which is, wo 
believe, the oldest agricultural paper in the 
United States : 
1. Good implements of husbandry, and 
plenty of them, which should always be kept 
in perfect order. 
2. Deep plowing and thorough pulveriza¬ 
tion of the soil, by tho freo uso ot the har¬ 
row, drag, or roller. 
3. An application of lime, marl, or ashes, 
where calcareous matter or potash may not 
be present in the soil. 
4. A systematic husbanding of every sub¬ 
stance on a farm capable of being converted 
into manure, a systematic a protection of 
such substances from loss by evaporation or 
waste of any kind, and a careful application 
of tho same to the lands in culture. 
5. The draining of all wet lands, so as to 
relieve the roots of tbo plants from the ill 
effects of a superabundance of water, a con¬ 
dition equally pernicious as drouth to 
their healthful growth and profitable fruc¬ 
tification. 
6. The free uso of tho plow, cultivator, 
and hoe, with all row-cultured crops, so as to 
keep down, at all times, tho growth of grass 
and weeds, thoso pests which prove so de¬ 
structive to crops. 
7. Seeding at the proper lime, with good 
seed, and an equal attention as to time, with 
regard to the period of working crops. 
8. Attention to the construction and re¬ 
pair of fences, so that what is made through 
tho toils and anxious cares of tho husband¬ 
man. may not be lost through his neglect to 
protect his crops from tho depredations of 
stock. 
9. Daily personal superintendence, on the 
part of the master, over all the operations 
of tho farm, no matter how good a manager 
he may havo, or however faithful his hands 
may be, as the presence ot the head ot a farm, 
and the use of his eyes, are worth several 
pairs of hands. 
10. Labor-saving machinery, so that ono 
may render himself as independent as need¬ 
ful of neighborhood labor, as a sense ot the 
comparative independence ot the employer 
upon such labor begets a disposition of 
obedience and faithfulness on the part of 
the employed. 
11. Comfortable stabling and sheds, for 
the horses and stock, all necessary outbuild¬ 
ings, for the accommodation of tho hands, 
and protection of the tools and implements, 
as well as for the care of the poultry. 
12. Clover and other grasses to form a 
part of the rotation of crops, and theso to 
be at the proper periods plowed in, to form 
pabulum for succeeding crops. 
12. The clover field to be either plastered 
or ashed, each succeeding spring—I bush¬ 
el of tho former, and G of tho latter per acre. 
14. To keep no more stock than can bo 
well kept, hut. to be sure lojccep as many as 
the farm can keep in good condition, as it is 
wise policy to feed us much as possiblo of 
the crops grown on the farm, and thus re¬ 
turn to it that which has been abstracted 
from it. 
15. To provide a good orchard and gar- 
en —tho one to be filled with choice fruits 
of all kinds—the other with vegetables of 
different sorts, early and late, so that tho 
.able may, at all times, be well and season¬ 
ably supplied, and the surplus contribute to 
increase the wealth of the proprietor. 
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FARMS ALONG RAILR0AD3. 
A New Yore correspondent of tho Buf¬ 
falo Rough Notes says : 
It is a curious fact, though perhaps not 
at all strange, that tho opening of tho New 
York and Erie Railroad has equalized the 
price of poultry, butter, eggs, and many 
other articles at Buffalo and Now York.— 
Or rather, I should say, raised the price of 
those articles in Buflalo to about what the 
same articles are worth in New York. 
The citizens of Buffalo will not in future 
be able to buy fresh dairy butter at one shil 
ling or fifteen cents per pound, or fresh 
poultry at six cents, or beet-steak at tho 
same price. Theso times have gone by, 
and in future, housekeepers in your city 
mav expect to pay within a trifle, what tho 
same articles are worth in tho New York 
market. The fattening of beef cattle is to 
bo transferred from old Duchess and other 
counties in tho vicinity of Now York and 
Philadelphia to the hilly region of Cattarau¬ 
gus, Chautauquo, Erie, Wyoming, Stouben 
and Allegany counties, while the same re¬ 
gion is destined to vie with Orango and 
Herkimer counties in furnishing Now York 
eitv with gbod table butter, banners in 
Western New York will soon havo their 
eyes open to these facts, and no reason ex¬ 
ists why a grazing farm in either of tho 
counties I have named in Western Now 
York should not bo worth about tho same 
price per acre, as a farm in tho old county 
of Duchess. Yet- I believe the fact is, that 
farms are hold at four or five times the price 
per acre in tho latter. 
Carrots for horses and milch cows are of 
generally acknowledged utility. No horse 
has heaves while fed in part on carrots.— 
They give to horses a sleek coat and loose 
hide, assist digestion, and render tho cost of 
keeping much less than when fed on hay 
and oats alone. Milch cows in winter flour¬ 
ish well on carrots, giving improved quality 
of milk, and in fair quantity .—Working Far 
TOWN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
“ You need not instruct me about raising 
calves,” says ono ; “ I will challenge any ono 
to raiso better ones than I do.” No doubt 
of that; but the question is, whether, when 
your calves are three months old, they have 
cost you $1,00 or $6,00. This, among small 
farmers, is the question; large farmers can 
do as thoy choose. One cow that will bring 
up two good calves, would make during the 
time, if milked, at least eight lbs. of butter 
per week, for twelve weeks. Rather an ex¬ 
pensive pair of calves truly; they may prob¬ 
ably bo worth when the next winter sets in, 
$4 or $5 each. Another, perhaps, raises 
calves with a little less expense, but still 
they cost him more than he can afford; you 
will often hear him say, that he “ had rath¬ 
er buy, than raise them.” Ho feeds them, 
perhaps, new milk two or three weeks, and 
then as much skimmed milk as they will eat, 
tho remainder of the time. Ho has good 
calves but they are too costly. Although 
he has saved two-thirds of tbo butter, he lias 
fed them all tho milk, and unless he was 
able to feed grain to his hogs, they have been 
raising calves. Some are unwilling to do a 
little extra labor that they may save a few 
dollars in raising calves ; but they will work 
five times as long, and harder, to earn the 
same amount they might have saved. 
I have for several years raised calves in 
the following manner ; if others know of a 
cheaper mode, which is as good, I would liko 
to learn it. I take a quant ity of white beans, 
(say three pints,) scald them, pour off tho 
water, salt, and cook them just as I would pre¬ 
pare them for the tablo. When cooked suit, 
pour in water till a common dinner pot is 
nearly filled, then thicken it with Indian 
meal, and cook a few minutes longer. I cal¬ 
culate that tho skimmed milk of one cow is 
sufficient for two calves. Put in about ono 
pint of tho pudding to each calf. If it gets 
sour in warm weather before it is used up, 
it is none the worse for that. I generally 
feed sour milk tho last half of the time. It 
the food does not always seem toagreo with 
the calf, scald the milk. Beans that are 
damaged for market, are worth just as much 
to feed. Five pecks of beans, and a bushel 
and a half of meal, 1 believe to be quite 
enough for two calves, for three months.— 
If any should fool "disposed to laugh at skim- 
milk Indian-meal bean-porrige-calves ii they 
will give me a call, I will show them calves 
and young stock raised in that way, which 
will bear inspection, and prepare them for 
a hearty laugh, unless the fit should leave 
them. 
I have said more than I intended already, 
but as calves are calves till they are a year 
old, they need a little extra feed and care 
during the first winter. Ono well kept is 
worth $2 more when one year old, and $5 
moro when two years old, than one poorly 
kept. They can bo kept looking just as 
thrifty, and growing just as well, as in sum¬ 
mer. Roots are more natural for them than 
grain, and when fed on the former, there is 
no danger of tho disease called black-leg.— 
They are moro fond of the sugar beet, than 
of any other kind of roots. Ono bushel per 
month would be a good supply, and it lakes 
but a small piece of ground and a very lit¬ 
tle labor to raise them. Those who are al¬ 
ways afraid of a littlo extra labor in rearing 
stock, would do well to remember that it is 
not half tho extra labor to keep stuck in 
good condition that it is to ho lifting them 
up in tho spring, when they are in quito a 
low condition .—Wyoming Co. Mirror. 
Some years since, an enterprising and in¬ 
telligent farmer ot one of the interior towns 
of Connecticut, conceived the idea of bring¬ 
ing together his brother farmers ot the same 
town with samples ot stock tor exhibition. 
As somo inducement, he himself offered 
prizes to the amount of over $100, for tho 
1st and 2d best specimens of horses, cattle, 
&c. As might have been expected, from 
one of his enterprise, bo took the first pre¬ 
miums liiinseli; while the second were dis¬ 
tributed among his neighbors. Another 
year bo made the same generous oiler; and 
when the day of exhibition arrived, behold, 
a fellow-townsman carried off the first prizes 
on several kinds ot stock, which lie had im¬ 
ported within the year. A spirit oi com¬ 
mendable rivalry was thus aroused, and 
others sought stock whereby to compete 
with their neighbors. All joined readily in 
a town society for the promotion of agricul¬ 
ture, and tho result was, in a few years, that 
that town could boast of as good stock as 
any in the Union. 
From this town society, originated the 
county society, and eventually the State Ag¬ 
ricultural Society ot Connecticut. ’1 be stock 
bred by the enlightened farmer who origin¬ 
ated this associated effort for improvement, 
is sought for from every portion of our ex¬ 
tended country .—Geneva Gazette. 
MY FAVOAITE MANURES. 
An intelligent farmer, writing in a late 
number ot tho Albany Cultivator, decides 
in favor of horse manure and guano as the 
fertilizers of the soil. Ho says: 
Good horso manure and guano, in my 
opinion, aro tho only real general manures, 
applicable to all soils and anil all crops.— 
Thoy each contain all tho elements of 
trition in proper proportions for immediate 
use by plants. I havo said they are appli¬ 
cable to all soils; of course I mean to all 
soils that require manure. It would be 
folly to apply cither to a soil already sur¬ 
charged with nutrition. And wo have all 
soon soils that were not benefited by either 
of them. The reason is. they already pos¬ 
sess too much of nutritious matter; they are 
unable to digest it; thoy require a remedy 
for dyspepsia. Generally a free application 
of lime to such soils will render them high¬ 
ly fertile. It seems to stimulate the digost- 
ivo powers of tho soil, and then to render 
them capable of preparing the crude mat¬ 
ters contained in it as food for plants. 
WHITE CLOVER. 
We are satisfied that our farmers do not 
appreciate the white clover or white honey¬ 
suckle, as some call it, so highly as they 
ought, nor take so much pains as they should 
to cultivate it. In fact but very few sow it, 
when they lay down their lands to grass.— 
They trust to nature to supply them with it. 
When once seeded with it,the soil will re¬ 
tain it a long time, for the low short stems 
will bear heads full of seeds, and these bo- 
come scattered out into the soil, and thus 
the seed is kept in the ground and springs 
up whenever circumstances are favorable for 
its dovelopement. A moderately clayey 
loam is congenial lor it, and it this be dress¬ 
ed with an occasional dressing of plaster it 
will bring it out abundantly. It affords an 
excellent pasturage for bees, the best honey 
in the world being obtained by these little 
insects from white clover. 
It also affords tho host pasturage for cat¬ 
tle, especially cows from whose milk cheese 
is manufactured, as experiments have prov¬ 
ed that cows that graze upon this species of 
clover yield milk that contains casein, or 
cheesey particles, in greater abundance than 
they do when fed on tho common grasses. 
We throw these hints out for our readers lo 
think of. Four or five pounds, mingled with 
a due quantity of other grass seeds will bo 
sufficient for an acre, and it can be obtained 
at reasonable prices at tho agricultural seed 
stores .—Maine Fanner. 
GOOD GSNER’L MANURE. 
Those farmers who have not a sufficient 
supply may make a good and cheap general 
manure, bv dissolving bono dust, in sulphuric 
acid, mixing tho soluble result with guano, 
and then with charcoal dust, decomposed 
peat, or even head lands, and after lying so 
composed for- a few days, applying it to tho 
soil, 200 lbs. of guano, 5. bushels of hone- 
dust dissolved in dilute sulphuric acid; l 
half cord or less of charcoal dust or any 
other absorbent divisor. 
Such a manure can bo cheaply and readi¬ 
ly prepared at present prices, that no crop 
need be planted without a fair preparation 
of tho soil to receive it. For root crops, 
onions and many other crops, tho above is 
cheaper and better than an equal cost of 
barn-yard manure, and requiring much loss 
time and expense in carting, as the bulk is 
not ono-tenth as ereat .—Working Fanner. 
