MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
year, and cattle, horses and sheep will eat 
the bushes. The Michigan and other climb¬ 
ing roses are very beautiful trained in this 
way, but are liable to the latter objection. 
If you or any of your readers can give 
the information desired, they will much 
oblige one who is experimenting on fences, 
and would like to adopt something of tho 
kind as door-yard fence. Pigeon Hill. 
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
We refer again to the proceedings of tho 
National Agricultural Convention, in order 
' to copy the Constitution, &o., and the List 
of Ollicers for tho present year. The Busi¬ 
ness Committee made tho following report 
which was unanimously adopted : 
The undersigned, in order to improve the ag¬ 
riculture of the country, by attracting the atten¬ 
tion, eliciting the views, and combining the effort 
of that great class composing the agricultural 
community, and to secure the advantages of a 
better organization, and a more extended useful¬ 
ness among all State, County, and other Agricul¬ 
tural Societies, do hereby form ourselves into a 
Society, aud for its government adopt the fol¬ 
lowing 
CONSTITUTION. 
Sec. 1.—The name of this association shall be 
“The United States Agricultural Society.” 
MEMBERS—DUES. 
Sec. 2.—The society shall consist of all such 
persons as shall signify to a»y officer of the so¬ 
ciety a wish to become a member, and who shall 
pay two dollars to the treasurer of the society 
and a like sum hereafter; of delegates from, the 
State agricultural societies in the States and Ter¬ 
ritories and District of Columbia, who may be 
appointed to attend the annual and other meet¬ 
ings of the society, aud who shall pay the like 
sum, and also of such honorary members as the 
society may see lit to elect. Each member shall 
be entitled to receive a journal or publication of 
said society, containing an account of its pro¬ 
ceedings and such additional matter as shall be 
deemed worthy of publication, free from any ex¬ 
pense except. postage. Twenty-live dollars shall 
entitle any one to the privileges of life member¬ 
ship aud exempt him from any aunual taxation. 
OFFICERS. 
Sec. 3.—The officer.* of this society shall be a 
President, a Vice President from each State and 
Territory in the Union and from the District of 
Columbia, a Treasurer, a Corresponding Secreta¬ 
ry, a Recording Secretary, and a Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, t<> consist of three members from each State, 
Territory, and the District of Columbia, to be 
appointed by the Executive Committee of the 
societies of such States, Territories, ifcc., and where 
there be no such State Societies, to be appointed 
by the Executive Committee of this society.— 
The President of the society shall be, ex officio, a 
member and President of this board aud of the 
Executive Committee. 
DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 
The President shall have a general superintend¬ 
ence of all the affairs of the society. In case of 
Ills death or inability to discharge the functions 
of this office, tho Board of Agriculture shall se¬ 
lect a Vice President to act in his stead, and 
clothed with the same power, and shall perform 
the same duties as the President until the next 
annual election. 
Vice Presidents. —It shall be their duty to ad¬ 
vance all the objects of this association, in their 
several districts ; to explain to the agriculturists 
the character and objects of this association, and 
endeavor to gain their co-operation and support; 
to watch the advance of practical agriculture, and 
to make known the results of the same by report 
or otherwise, from year to year. 
Hoard of Agriculture.—1\ shall be the duty«of 
tliis Board to watch the interests of agriculture, 
as they are or may be affected by the legislation 
of the country, and to make such reports, memo¬ 
rials and recommendations as may advance the 
cause of agriculture, and to promote and diffuse 
agricultural knowledge ; lo examine, and when 
necessary, report upon the practicability of estab¬ 
lishing agricultural schools, colleges, and model 
farms ; to set forth the advantages of agricultural 
and geological surveys, and to show fhe impor¬ 
tance of the application of science to agriculture: 
to represent through their reports the relation of 
our agriculture to that of foreign countries and to 
endeavor to obtain information from such coun¬ 
tries, to point out the advantage of introducing 
any new staples, seeds and plants, to obtain, so 
far as practicable, annual statistical returns of the 
condition of agriculture throughout (lie different 
States—all which information shall be published 
by said society, and form part of its transac¬ 
tions. 
The Executive Committee shall transact the gen- 
real business of the society ; it shall consist of 
five pe sms, who shall designate the time and 
place of exhibitions, regulate the expenditures, 
and take such supervisory charge of the business 
of the society as may best promote its interests. 
This body shall elect its own chairman. Three 
members shall constitute a quorum. 
Treasurer. —The Treasurer shall keep an ac¬ 
count of all monies, and shall pay bills only af¬ 
ter they have been audited by the Corresponding 
and Recording Secretaries, and a member of the 
Executive Committee, and countersigned by the 
President of the Society or Chairman of the Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee. 
Corresponding Secretary. —The duty of this of¬ 
ficer shall be to correspond with persons inter¬ 
ested in agriculture; at each stated meeting he 
shall read such portions of his correspondence as 
may be of general interest; and it shall be his 
duty to carry out and advocate the views of the 
Board of Agriculture in obtaining, arranging, and 
publishing any information they may desire to 
have laid before the agricultural community. 
The Recording Secretary shall keep a record of 
the minutes of the society and of its Ececutive 
Committee. 
Sec. 4.—The annual meetings of the society 
shall be held at the city of Washington on the 
first Wednesday of February, in each year, when 
all fhe officers of the society for the ensuing yea- 
shnll be elected by ballot. The Executive Com¬ 
mittee, however, shall be competent., with tlieapr 
probation of the society, to appoint occasional 
meetings to be held at other points. Fifteen 
members shall constitute a quorum for business. 
See. 5.—This constitution may be altered at 
any annual meeting, bv a vote of two-thirds of 
the members in attendance, provided not less 
than fifty be present. 
OFFICERS FOR THE PRESENT YEAR. 
President. —Marshall P. Wilder, of Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
Vice Presidents. —Ezekiel Holmes, Maine; G. 
W. Nesmith, New Hampshire; Henry Stevens, 
Vermont. : B. V. French, Massachusetts; Josiah 
Chapin, Rhode Island; S. D. Hubbard, Connec- 
HAYING AND HARVESTING. and bread and coffee, and so oiff from one 
year's end to the other. When we reticct 
One of tho greatest inconveniences the that it is mostly inconvenient to got a sup- 
farmer suffers, is the want of help in haying ply of fresh meat, and that therefore salt— 
and harvesting. The number of laborers i and hog meat at that—is in constant use, 
necessary for tho work of a farm at any j who should wonder they would go crazy ? 
other time of year, is not sufficient to secure j Oh, yes, there is another important article 
the grass and grain at the time they should j 0 f a farmer’s diet, cucumber-pickles at all 
bo secured. This has led farmers to pay times, and preserves when there are stran- 
I higher wages at that season of tho year, as gers. 
an inducement to those engaged in other These do not greatly improve tho health- 
employments to assist in gathering in the ful qualities of the food, and farmers and 
crops. And yet, with all the help that can their families are not generally healthy.— 
be procured in this way, tho farmer fre- Milk is fed to the hogs, and by them con- 
queiitlv sustains great loss by not being able verted into human food; apples, corn and 
to cut his hay and grain just when they potatoes share the same lace, and all re- 
should be. quired to pass the digestive process of a 
IIow is this trouble to be remedied ? The pigs stomach before being rendered lit for 
only way in our opinion to entirr.li/ remedy table use. In perhaps a majority of farm 
it, is by tho uso of machines. We have no houses, milk is scarcely seen upon the table,. 
doubt that within a few years mowing ma- but is poured by buckets full into the swill 
chines and reapers will be so improved as barrel, hundreds ot bushels ot apples lie 
to each do the work of twenty men; and rotting on the ground, and not a dish full 
we should not be surprised should steam be baked tor dinner. 
applied as a motive power, on old and We remember when we commenced farm- 
smooth fields; and when this shall be the ing, how proud we were the first summer of 
easo, one machine may do tho work of fifty our abundant supply ot early vegetables, 
or one hundred men. " Then it will bo only and with what care we began preparing our 
necessary for a farmer to watch his bay and harvest dinners, aud with what chagrin wo 
grain, and when the day comes in which found our dishes ot boot sauce, peas, pota- 
tboy should bo cut, to put tho machine a toes, beans, baked apples, &c., &e., left al- 
going. most untouched, while any kind of bread 
But this agricultural millenium is proba- and meat would be devoured by the dishful, 
bly a good way off, especially for some sec- or as much pastry as wo could muster, van- 
tions of the country; and tho question is, ish like snow in June, 
are not the farmers losing more than is ab- We were quite taken by surprise to find 
solutely necessary, by not cutting their a pitcher of nice cool milk standing on tho 
grain aud grass in the proper season ? table without a customei*Mmong a dozen ot 
It is now generally conceded, that in al- hard working men, and tour gallons of hot 
lowing grass to stand till the seed is nearly coiiec swallowed in a gitfey, when the ther- 
matured, there is a great loss of nutrient mometer stood at ninety in tho shade. 
A WHITE bjaAiS GHAI COCKEREL. 
- _ a great measure witnarawn, or useu up m 
Tiieee is no disputing the contagious- I resents a White Shanghai Cockerel, owned t | 1G perfection of the seed. Hence many of 
ness.—popularity, if you please,—of the j by Mr. D. P. Newell, of this city. We | )GS t fanners now cut grass when in 
“ hen fever.” People will “catch it,” and j give tho cut to show tho prominent “ foa- blossom, or soon after that time. So we 
(especially if they have high notions of roy-| tures ” of a superior specimen ot the varie- believe it is now the general opinion that 
alty, fashion and music.) run after the j ty of fowls named. The \\ liito Shanghais wheat harvested very soon after the berry 
matter, as the juices which enter into the With such, diet, and the general inatten- 
wholo composition of the grass, are then in tion to bathing, it is little wonder that their 
a great measure withdrawn, or used up in natural advantages arc counterbalanced by 
tho perfection of the seed. Hence many of their artificial disadvantages 
the host farmers now cut grass when in -—-— 
blossom, or soon after that time. So we FLOORS FOR FOUNDER! 
FLOORS FOR FOUNDERED HORSES. 
Foundered horses, could they but speak, 
Shang- 
gong, 
are so 1 
table, t 
by man 
howeve 
by many,—and a conservative who should, They are certainly large, and il accounts bio to obtain help to securo these crops very still—their incessant stepping—taking up 
however modestly, intimate to a fowl-fan- are true, very profitable fowls. They par- rapidly, how many farmers are there who tho fore feet constantly, and feeling as it 
cier that any of them wight belong to tho take of the general characteristics ot other allow their grass to stand till the seed is were, with them, for an easy place to stand. 
hum-bird class, would at once be wished, if Shanghais—but, though pronounced supe- mature, and tho stalk nearly dry, and their This constant pain operates not unlike tho 
not placed beyond the pale of chickendom. rior, by some fanciers, to the colored vario- wheat till the berry is hard and ready to tooth ache in tho human family. By it the 
Such being the case, it will hardly "do for us ties, we have no figures sustaining the as- dr0 p f r om the head at the rough handling 
to be severe on the “biddies”*—and indeed sertion. Mr. Burnham, a Boston fowl fan- 0 p ^h e cradle, and then bluster and storm 
we have no desire to harm eh%:r them or cier, (speaking we suppose, ot pure Shang- about almost in a rage, bccauso help is so 
rest is broken, and the health greatly im¬ 
paired. 
But, if tho founder cannot bo cured, tho 
their owners, if well-behaved and honest,— hais, without regard to color.) says :—“For scarce and so dear and their crops about to condition of a foundered horse may bo 
yet wo shall bo very likely to call things by all purposes of a really good fowl, whether be wasted! much ameliorated. I have a foundered 
their right names, .whenever speaking of I speak of beauty of model, good size, or The better way, in our opinion, is for the horse, and many times it seemed almost im- 
Poultry, and wo intend to devote a page or laying qualities, I deem tho thorough bred farmer to know, long beforehand, whether possible for her to get out of tho stable.— 
so to the subject in each number. Wo can j Shanghai among the host and most proi.ta- p e | l;is a || the tools he will need for haying The elasticity of her legs was gone, and it 
only briefly notice one variety,.this month, j ble of domestic birds .”—JVool Grower and a]ld harvesting, and whether all are in per- was “ miseryation” to see her walk. I put 
The above portrait, drawn from life, rep- ' Stock Register. 
ticut; Henry Wager, New Y r ork ; Thomas Han- and grass in particular. This certainly will 
coek, New Jersey ; Frederick \V atts, Fennsylva- encoU rago the few who havo triedit, stib 
ma; Peter F. Causey, Delaware; W. D. Bowie, f . , , .... 
Maryland ; G. W. P. Custis, Virginia ; Henry K. t0 continue a method that will in a great 
Burgwyn, North Carolina ; John Witherspoon, degree enable the crops to withstand th 
South Carolina ; Thomas Stocks Georgia ; Rich- effectg of w hat is generally called an unfa- 
aid Jones, Alabama; Alexander H. Bequees, ,. ° . . , 
Mississippi; A. B. Roman, Louisiana ; Frederick vorable season. Wheat is now neailynpe. 
Kensman, Ohio; Robert Mallory, Kentucky ; and harvesting will bo commenced this 
John Shelby, iennessee; John L. Robinsi.n, In- wee i c and a bountiful crop of first rate 
diana; Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois; It. Atchi- . , , ,, , , , 
son, Missouri; T. B. Flurnov, Arkansas; James wheat will be gathered by all who have done 
degree enable the crops to withstand (he p G inaY tell what length of time ho may- 
effects of what is generally called an unfa- need for cutting tho whole. After deter- 
fect order; so that there shall be no loss of her on a fioor of earth—but found it was 
timo in that direction. Then, by a careful too cold and wet for her health. I then 
examination of his grasses and grains he laid a floor of plank directly on the ground, 
may pretty nearly calculate at what time leaving an opening for the fore feet, about 
each field, or patch, will bo in a suitable six inches wide, aud eighteen long. During 
condition to cut, and from that calculation most of tho time she would stand in this 
ho may tell what length of time ho may opening. As the floor was laid on a calca- 
L. Conger, Michigan ; Simmons Baker, Florida ; their work well. 
Thomas A. Rusk; Texas ; W.F. Coolbaugh, Iowa; . , . 
James D. Doty, Wisconsin ; Killburn W. Boggs, (several reaao 
Several readers of the Rural hero have 
California; J. F. Callan, District Columbia: S. inquired why I gave Smith’s little plow a 
M. Baird, New Mexico ; Alexander Ramsey,Min¬ 
nesota ; Joseph Lane, Oregon ; Joseph L. Hayes, 
Utah. 
Executive Committee. —C. B. Calvcrl, Maryland ; 
new name in the. Rural. It is of little con¬ 
sequence, and all there is about it, is, that 
you have called tho letter that I meant for 
James A. King, New York; Alfred L. Elwin, a a P, making Pointer instead of Joint- 
Pennsylvania; W. B. Newton, Virginia; J. D. er as Mr . Smith, the inventor, named it. 
Weston, Wisconsin. ’ • ’ 
Corresponding Secretary. —Daniel Lee, Georgia. In haste, yours, hms Cone. 
Recording Secretary. —Bobeit C. Walker, Penn- Tr0 Y> O akland C'., Mah , W 1852 - _ 
sylvama. IFOEING COHN 
Treasurer. —William Selden, District of Co- __ 
lumbia. _ . Some ask how many times it is best to hoe 
The following is tho Resolution adopted corn and other crops. The best answer to 
unanimously, after the long discussion men- that question was given us a few days since 
tioned in our previous notice: by a farmer whom we had observed often at 
Resolved, That this Convention respectfully re- work in a field of corn in sight of our win- 
quest Congress to take action upon the subject of dow. In going over tho piece with bun and 
agriculture, and afford such efficient aid as in their remarking the remarkable growth, we asked 
wisdom shall bo best calculated to advance the him how many times he usually hood his 
- the amount of a field of wheat by letting it 
Some ask how many times it is best to hoe stan j ono w00 k too long, it is a matter of 
rn and other crops. The best answer to considerable consequence to the farmer, 
at question was given us a few days since Jf thege sugsestions are 0 f any value to 
a farmer whom we had observed often at Qur farmi “eaders at the present time. 
>rk in a held ot corn m sight o our win- h are W£ J como t0 them ; if not they may 
w. In going over the piece with him and { them ^o.-lVyoming Co. Mirror. 
EDUCATION OF OXEN- 
great interests of that branch of industry. 
“ Why,” said he, I do as I was 
Votes of thanks were then passed to brought up by my father to do. He never 
Prof. Henry for tho use of the hall, and to 
the officers of the Convention ; mutual' ex¬ 
planations were made and the utmost har¬ 
mony and brotherhood of feeling were re¬ 
stored. 
bad any particular number of times but v i s i ter to an Eastern lunatic asylum express- ordinary work. We annex a part of bis 
need for cutting tho whole. After deter- reous, retentive subsoil, she soon made mud 
mining those points, he will of course know in this hole. In a short time her legs began 
whether lie must employ extra help or not; to assume their wonted elasticity, and many 
and if ho find ho must have extra help, lot times no appearance of founder could bo 
him engage it beforehand. After making discovered. 
theso calculations and arrangements, lie The object of having a plank floor with a 
should be sure to begin upon his haying and hole in it, as described, is twofold. One is, 
harvesting in good season; for if there is the horse may have all the benefit of a floor 
any loss in cutting too early, it is doubtless of earth, and yet not be in danger ot being 
much less than it would be by allowing exposed too much to a wet and cold stall.— 
these crops to stand too long. But we bo- Another is, it is a great relief, after stand- 
lieve that if farmers will make and carry ing in this mud a sufficient length of time, 
out their .arrangements systematically, and to stand on the floor; and when they lio 
begin their haying and harvesting early, down, their bed is dry. , 
nearly all their crops may bo cut at the If thoso who are so unfortunate as to 
right time, and that too with their own help havo foundered horses, will construct this 
or that which may be easily obtained. And kind of floor, they will soon discover a great 
if there may be a loss of one-third of the improvement in the traveling ot their horses 
nutriment of a field of grass by allowing it and and also in their health and fleshy cen¬ 
to stand two weeks too long, or of a fifth of dition .—Albany Cultivator. 
If these suggestions are of any value to A “ Clenhurn Farmer,” in the Bangor 
r farming readers at the present time. ^ hl S- contends that, the piacttco o fe t n 
ey are welcome to them ; if not they may the merits ot working oxen at cattle shows, 
st them aside .—fVyoming Co. Mirror. by the mere ability to drag the hea te t pos- 
_ ” _ sible burden, is unsatisfactory and unsafe, 
FARMERS AND INSANITY- as not exhibiting the most valuable quali- 
_ ties of the animals, nor showing their most 
In one of our exchanges wo find a late useful capacities in the performance ot their 
hoed it all he. could. I find it grows faster 
and stands dry weather better the oftenor it 
is hoed.” 
This is the true philosophy of culture, 
stir the ground. The directions to be given 
It was voted to invite a co-operation from ! for early and good crops after the proper 
ing surprise at tho large proportion of farm¬ 
ers, amongst the insane, and adds : 
“ It would naturally bo supposed that til 
ling the soil, and being exposed to the pure, 
invigorating air, would tend to regulate in¬ 
stead of to disarrange tho balance-wheel of 
one’s intellect.” 
all the other kindred societies and institu- previous preparation would be to stir the ono » g intellect.” 
tions of the country. ground. Drops are like animals, they need WQ p 0 permitted a guess on tho 
. - — -__ petting and care. A friend was remarking subject, we would say that the causes of in- 
SEASON AND CROPS IN MICHIGAN. to us last evening the difference in the growth san j ty are more frequently physical than 
of melon vines in a neighbors garden and mental A sound rnilK i can not dwell in an 
The season here, up to the first of July, in his own, side by side of the same kind of unsound fiodv, and the body must become 
,s remarkably dry and cold. There lias so ^ and both rich, with the samo kind of diseased before the manifestations of mind 
J J nmnnrfftinn tor tlm k pah and thn Rpp.d sown v 1 'iu. __ 
sensible remarks: 
“ I would suggest that at tho next trial of 
oxen at the Society’s Show, it would be upon 
a judiciously loaded cart, and that the exer¬ 
cise should consist of drawing, turning and 
backing. What the public want in regard 
to working oxen is, an exhibition of the best 
trained cattle for farm purposes. Nor is 
SEASON AND CROPS IN MICHIGAN. 
was remark:; 
seldom if over been so exeat a drouth in P re P arat,on for the seed and the seed sown aro disordered. Wo were once credibly in- —* ."" y ? , 
seldom, it e'er, been so giea a ou at the same time. The neighbors melons f ovmed of a case of a woman taken by her the premiums to good oxen, one halt at least 
tho month of June. I lus has so letarJed wore in blossom, while his own he said were p u sband ravine mad to tho Columbus In- should go to good drivers. No driver, bow- 
vegetation, that spring crops and grass will but three or four inches in height. This sano Asylum. The Faculty detained him ever, should receive a premium for himself 
generally bo light. Wheat suffered much difference had been produced by the con- during the night, extracted one or two rot- or oxen, however good they may bo. who 
from tho whiter This together with tho stant ! abor and , care ; of the gardener, in stir- ten teeth from tho jaw G f tho patient, who uses profone language during the exhibition. 
, , , ‘ , . ’ ring the ground and regulating the amount th PrP hv so much tranouilized that the A rule of this kind would have changed the 
drouth, has so checked its growth, that the gun am | shade, air and moisture they re- secon d day she returned with her husband direction of more than one premium at tho 
frequent and heavy showers and hot weath- ceived.— Granite Farmer. to her homo, and never after exhibited any late trial. 
er that occurred the first of this month, --- sign of mental derangement. But install- “ Good teamsters aro worth from five to 
gave it such a start, that I apprehend much Honduras Silk Grass. — Wo lately saw ces of insanity from apparently slight cau- ten dollars a month moic trail pool °j) ea * 
wheat on clayey soils will bo materially in- a handkerchief made from the silk grass of ses are too numerous to require more than and yet with this a, “«ron®o mi pne 
jured by the rust. In a field adjoining mine, li^ w^ & “^auTe advantages enjoyed by ^ XLand, poo‘r ones for one good emeu 
it appeared a day or two since, but the ex- haye ey01 . J en It is ono J a numbor farmers, of air and excercise, it is notorious No man can bo a good teamstei who s not 
tent of the damage cannot bo ascertained. made in L ondon f rom a sample of this very to all who have examined tho case, that as a gentleman, lie must be gpntie.kimA 
Now, while the effects of an unfavorable common grass in Honduras, Yucatan. &c.. a class they are wofully inattentive as to the U ' 0( ? 0 f^ r v waste of "strength or to 
winter and dry, cold weather has so mate- sent there by the gentleman who exhibited laws of health. We know no othercU« *™^%*$* by ^^ 0 ?® goad 
. n , . , „ it to us as an experiment. The grass is a people who use so little fruit and vegetables unnecessary pain uy wa & 
rially diminished tho wheat crop, and all finer variety of tf J at from wh ich the ham- as regular articles of diet as do farmers— stick or brad. —Wisconsin dormer. 
other crops where tho shallow system of moebs Central Amerca aro made, and it Bread and meat and coffee is tho American --~ 
cultivation prevails, yet on all deep and well is thought, can be made an article of con- farmer’s diet, and by w r ay of variation he Memories of nappy hours are like tho 
tilled clayey soils, crops will be good—wheat siderable export.— JY. O. Picayune. takes coffee and moat and bread, then meat cordials pressed from flowers.— Cooke. . 
If we might be permitted a guess on the trained cattle tor farm purposes. Nor is 
„_bject, we would say that the causes of in- this all. Wo want to see the man w o 
sanity are more frequently physical than trained them, and his niaimei o ' oin S 1 • 
mental. A sound mind cannot dwell in an We want an exhibition of good teamstei as 
isound body, and the body must become well as good teams; for very much of tho 
seased before the manifestations of mind merit of a yoke or team of cattle belong o 
e disordered. Wo were once credibly in- the teamsters. And instead ot giving all 
rmed of a case of a woman taken by her the premiums to good oxen, one halt at least 
at the samo time. The neighbor’s melons formed of a case 0 f a woman taken by her the premiums to good oxen, one half at least 
were in blossom, while his own he said were p us p and ravino- mad to tho Columbus In- should go to good drivers. No driver, bow- 
hut three or four inches in height. This Asylum. "The Faculty detained him ever, should receive a premium for himself 
