MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
having its homo among the leaves and flow¬ 
ers. Its song is indicative of the approach 
of autumn, and to some a begetter of mel¬ 
ancholy reflections. 
The Cicada canicularis, called dog-day 
liarvest-fly, and Locust, was first hoard on 
Thursday, the 22d. This insect is common- 
! ly heard for the first time, about the 25th 
of July. Says Dr. Harris in his report on 
the insects of Massachusetts, “I have heard, 
during many years, with only one or two 
exceptions, this insect on tho 25th of July.” 
It is a general time of health and pros¬ 
perity among the rural population. The 
causes of insanity among farmers, as pub¬ 
lished a few weeks ago in the Rural from 
an exchange, do not prevail hero, for they 
live on the first fruits of their labor.—W. 
tVare, Mass., July 26, 1851. 
IS PRODUCTION OF WOOL ON THE 
INCREASE! 
This is au important question to the farmer and 
to the manufacturer,— and very important to the 
great mass of people who dwell in cities and 
large towns. It is important to the farmer as 
enabling him to make his calculation for future 
operations on his farm,— whether he shall plow 
more or mow more,— whether he shall produce 
less grain, and more grass. To manufacturers it 
is of very great importance, as it will determine 
them whether to continue business with moderate 
profits, or shut down their gates. 
For six years I have taken the utmost pains to 
make myself thoroughly acquainted with the sub¬ 
ject of wool growing over the whole globe. It is 
but little after all that one can learn, even in that 
time, sq scant every where are agricultural statis¬ 
tics. Yet a safe result may be approximated 
from the little that is known. 
There has been no increase in the production 
OF WOOL DURING THE LAST SIX YEARS,-NOR WILL 
THERE BE FOR AS MANY YEARS TO COME. If We 
look to Europe, we find that the imports of wool 
into the great nations of Great Britain, France 
and Germany, have steadily increased; and we 
find that in each, wool growing has reached its 
utmost limit. The imports of wool from Australia 
for the same time, show but a very moderate in¬ 
crease. From South America and the countries 
bordering upon the Mediterranean there has been 
increased imports, but they have been more the 
exhaustion of old stocks than any increase of 
production in those regions. The very condition 
of the inhabitants precludes the possibility of any 
large increase of flocks or herds. In the United 
States there has been a very moderate increase. 
Still nothing to what we had a right to expect 
from the natural increase of sheep where properly 
cared for. I was disappointed in the result of the 
last census, for it did seem to me that upon the 
most moderate calculations, we ought to have full 
thirty millions of sheep, and an annu&l production 
of wool to the amount of at least Seventy-five 
millions. The annual quantity of wool grown is 
only about fifty-five millions. The annual con¬ 
sumption of sheep’s wool, in the Union, is now 
about one hundred and fifty millions of pounds, 
of which we grow fifty-five millions, or a trifle 
over one-third. We import in the staple, about 
twenty-five millions, and the balance, amounting 
to about sixty millions, is supplied to us by the 
foreign manufacturer in cloth. The annual in¬ 
crease in demand, in this country, is equal to three 
millions of pounds. We find one strong evidence 
of the over demand for wool, in the fact that cloth, 
both in this country and abroad, has not increased 
in price, while wool has every where advanced ; 
and in this country there has been established a 
permanent rise, equal to ten cents per pound. 
Things will remain in this state until the profits 
to the manufacturers become so small that he can 
not afford to keep his mill in operation, when he 
will stop or put up his prices. The price of wool 
cannot materially decrease, for as has been shown 
this year, the competition among buyers has kept 
up prices in the face of a determination of dealers 
to keep them down. 
The production of wool cannot materially in¬ 
crease for many years to come. The great con¬ 
quest which labor is rapidly achieving every where 
over capital, as especially in Australia, and this 
country, operates in two ways against the increase 
of wool growing;—first, by creating a greater 
demand for better living, requiring an additional 
amount of animal food,— and secondly, by turning 
the attention of innumerable small sheep breeders 
to a more profitable business than raising wool has 
heretofore been. The increase in the consump¬ 
tion of animal food in this country is immense 
and the efforts are very sensibly felt throughout 
the country. Pork and beef have nearly doubled 
in value, which has led to such a consumption of 
mutton, as to preclude the idea of any large in¬ 
crease of sheep for a very long time. The facilities 
for reaching the great markets are so great now, 
that every point of the Union can be easily reached 
in a short time, so that prices cannot be very high 
at one point and very low at another for any 
length of time. 
The demand for wool must increase constantly, 
while the supply will as constantly decrease, until 
a point is reached that will set every body to 
growing .sheep. We do not believe mere is so 
profitable a business for the farmers every where, 
at this time, as. wool growing, or one that will be 
as permanently profitable.— Wool Grower & Stock 
Register for August. 
Weeds should never be permitted to ma¬ 
ture their seed on a farm, but be pulled up 
or cut down as often as they show ihem- 
sel ves, such being the only effectual method 
of eradicating them. To ensure this rosult 
tho ground should be planted in corn, and 
that kept clean. 
All permanent improvement of lands 
must look to lime »s its basis. 
WOKEN AND AGRICULTURE. 
Allen, tho farmers’ book-maker, in his 
Rural Architcture makes the following sen¬ 
sible remarks, says tho Prairie Farmer, upon 
the necessity of ladies indentifying them¬ 
selves with agricultural pursuits and attain¬ 
ing a knowledge and taste in tho business 
which their husbands, fathers, and brothers 
are striving to elevate, to make profitable 
and ennobling. We bespeak for him an at¬ 
tentive ear from our lgny readers. 
“Nor is this laudable taste confined to 
men alone. Females of tho highest worth, 
and domestic example, both abroad and at 
home, cultivate a love for such objects, and 
take much interest in the welfare of their 
farm stock. We were at tho annual State 
cattle show, in one of our large States but a 
short time since, and in loitering about the 
cattle quarter of the grounds, met a lady 
of our acquaintance, with a party of her fe¬ 
male friends, on a tour of inspection among 
the beautiful Short-horns, and Devons, and 
tho select varieties of sheep. She was the 
daughter of a distinguished statesman, who 
was also a large farmer, and a patron of 
great liberality, in tho promotion of fine 
stock in his own state. Sho was bred upon 
the farm, and, to rare accomplishments in 
education, was possessed of a deep love for 
all rural objects; and in the stock of the 
farm she took a particular interest. Her 
husband was an extonsivo farmer, and a 
noted breeder of fine animals. She had her 
own farm, too, and cattlo upon it, equally as 
choice as his, in her own right ;■ and they 
wero both competitors at the annual exhibi¬ 
tions. Introduced to her friends, at her re¬ 
quest, we accompanied them in their round 
of inspection. Thoro wero the beautiful 
cows, and the younger cattle, and the sheep 
—all noticed, criticized and remarked upon: 
and with a judgment, too, in their various 
properties, which convinced us of her sound 
knowledge of their physiology, and good 
qualities, which sho explained to her associ¬ 
ates with all the familarity that she would 
a tambouring frame, or a piece of embroid¬ 
ery. There was no. squeamish fastidious¬ 
ness ; no affectation of prudery, in this; 
but all natural as tho pure flow of admira¬ 
tion in a well bred lady could be. At her 
most comfortablo, and hospitable residence, 
afterward, sho showed us, with pride, tho 
several cups, and other articles of plato, 
which her family had won as prizes, at tho 
agricultural exhibitions; and which she in¬ 
tended to preserve as heir looms to hor 
children. 
This is not a solitary example ; yet, a too 
rare • one, among our fair countrywomen. 
Such a spirit is contagious, and we witness 
with real satisfaction, their growing taste in 
such laudable sources of enjoyment; contra¬ 
ry to the parvenue affectation of a vast 
many otherwise sensible and accomplished 
females of our cities and towns—comprising 
even the wives and daughters of farmers, 
too—who can saunter among the not over 
select, and oquivocal representations, among 
the paintings and siatuary of our public gal¬ 
leries ; and descant with entire freedom, on 
tho various attitudes, and artistical merits 
of the works before thorn ; or gazo with ap¬ 
parent admiration upon the brazen pirou¬ 
ettes of a public dancing girl, amid all tho 
equivoque of a crowded theatre; and yet, 
whose delicacy is shocked at the exhibition 
of a cattlo show ! 
Such females as wo have noticed, can ad¬ 
mire the living, moving beauty of animal 
life, with the natural and easy grace of pu¬ 
rity itself and without the slightest suspicion 
of a stain of vulgarity. From the bottom 
of our heart wo trust that a reformation is 
at work among our American women, in tho 
promotion of a taste, and not only a taste, 
but a genuine love of things connected with 
country life. It was not so, with the moth¬ 
ers, and the wives, of the stern and earnest 
men, who laid the foundation of their coun¬ 
try’s freedom and greatness. They were 
women of soul, character, and stamina; who 
grappled with the realities of life, in their 
labors ; and enjoyed its pleasures with truth 
and honesty. This over-nice, mincing del¬ 
icacy, and sentimentality, in which their 
grand-daughters indulge, is but tho off- 
throw of the boarding-school, the novelist, 
and the prude—mere ‘leather and prunella.’ 
Such remarks may be thought to lie beyond 
tho line of our immediate labor. But in tho 
discussion of the collateral subjects which 
have a bearing upon country life and resi¬ 
dence, wo incline to make a clean breast of 
it, and drop such incidental remarks as may 
tend to promote the enjoyment, as well as 
instruction of thoso whose sphere of action, 
and whose choice in life is amid the pure at¬ 
mosphere, and the pure pleasures of tho 
country.” 
Turnips. —As this has become a very dif¬ 
ficult crop to preserve from the ravages of 
the fly, we would advise that earlier sowing 
than usual be resorted to. Instead of wait¬ 
ing, as is too often the case, until the mid¬ 
dle of August, we would adviso their being 
sown as early as possible. Should the first 
sowing fail, then there will bo time enough 
to bow again. We recollect having two 
crops successively destroyed by the fly in 
the year 1839, and to have succeeded with 
the third, on tho same ground. Now had 
we delayed planting until the usual late pe¬ 
riod, we should have failed entirely. Pru¬ 
dence taught us in that instance to be pre¬ 
pared against tho worst, and wo would here 
enforce upon our readers tho propriety of 
acting from similar motives. 
Every husbandman should carefully read 
and digest matters connected with his busi¬ 
ness ; his success being as dependant upon 
a full knowledge of its principles and de¬ 
tails as is that of the lawyer or physician, 
with a knowledge of the science of law or 
physic. 
FALL TURNIPS. 
We are satisfied that farmers grow theso 
roots foo sparingly, and that, if they were 
to turn their attention to their cultivation, 
they would thereby greatly promote their 
interest, besides adding much to the com¬ 
fort of their stock. If grown as cattlo feed, 
it would be well to cultivate the mo 6 t hardy 
kinds—among these stand pre-eminent the 
Rutabagas ; but unless they be Bown in tho 
beginning of this month, it will be too late 
to grow them with any prospect of succeed¬ 
ing in making a heavy crop—next to this 
variety, may, perhaps, bo ranked Dale’s Hy¬ 
brid, and Yellow Aberdeen, and Yellow 
Stone. They are hardy, and koep well till 
spring. For table use, the Red-top is our 
favorite—the Norfolk will however yield 
more. 
New ground, it is generally conceded, is 
best adapted to the growth of turnips, prob¬ 
ably because of tho abundant supply of 
potash it finds therein; the best crop we 
ever grew was upon an old pasture, which 
had been, used as such for tho space of 12 
years. Tho soil was a deep sandy loam, and 
had at the same time a pretty fair share of 
grass upon it, which, after broadcasting- 
over it a liberal dressing of manure, wo 
plowed in fully eight inches in depth, har¬ 
rowed and rolled, then applied a lighter 
dressing of well rotted barn and stable ma¬ 
nure, then plowed it in four inches deep, 
harrowed and cross harrowed, rolled, sowed 
the seed, top-dressed with a mixturo of 10 
bushels of ashes, 1 of plaster, and 2 of salt 
per acre—harrowed tho seed in lightly with 
a light one-horse harrow, and completed the 
work by rolling. 
When the piants first came up wo sprink¬ 
led them over with fish oil every morning, 
early, until they got into tho rough leaf.— 
When they had bottled, as the phrase is, and 
tho roots had got to be about the size of a 
walnut, we ran tho cultivator through them, 
with the double purpose of working and 
thinning them. In a week or ten days, we 
worked them with the hoe, thinning them 
out so as to stand from 9 to 10 inches, and 
in about the same length of time, gave 
them a final working with the hoe, taking 
good care to eradicate tho weeds and grass, 
and stir the ground well, without covering 
the roots. The variety was tho Red-top ; 
time of sowing, 25tli of July ; product largo ; 
turnips among the sweotest and best flavor¬ 
ed we ever recollect to have tasted. 
Quantity of Seed per Acre. —If the 
sower be skilful, 1 lb. of seed will bo amply 
sufficient; but perhaps with the view of 
guarding against accidents, it might bo best 
to sow 1 J pounds. 
Mode of Sowing. —Drilling the seed in 
with a drill is tho best method ; but broad¬ 
cast sowing will answer very well, if care 
be taken in their culture, and pains in thin¬ 
ning them out. Wo have grown them both 
ways, but prefer the first, it boiug the neat¬ 
est, and we know, when grown in that way, 
will produco the largest crops.— American 
Fanner. 
SAVE IT ALL. 
All your grain, and hay, and straw, and 
all the other kinds of fodder, we mean.— 
Don’t think, because your grain and hay 
are plenty, there is no need of saving. Of 
all kinds of slovens, a slovenly farmer is tho 
worst. A whistle may be made of a pig’s 
tail, and a slovenly farmer may be a success¬ 
ful one; but the rule is that slovenliness 
tends to poverty and unhappiness, and it 
certainly establishes habits in children who 
witness it, which in the next and next gen¬ 
erations tend in the same direction. Then 
let us say to farmers, let your first rule be 
“ Neatness and Order in all my farming op¬ 
erations.” And during haying and harvest¬ 
ing you will find abundant occasions for put¬ 
ting this rule into practice. 
In the first place when you go into the 
hay or harvest field, let your scythes be 
sharp, that they may not require a quarter 
of your tiino to whet them, and slip over a 
quarter of tho grass at that. “ O but, wo 
haint any grindstone, and it’ll take so long 
to go to neighbor B.’s to grind, that I guess 
we’ll let them go this morning.” No grind¬ 
stone ! Botter get one before you go anoth¬ 
er step, and not depend upon neighbor B. 
After your hay and grain is properly cut and 
dried, do not let them be wasted in the field. 
It is an easy matter to shell out a bushel of 
wheat to the acre, and to leave two bushels 
more in tho heads, scattered oyer the field. 
Here is three bushels to the acre thrown 
away; and wo venture the assertion that 
there is that amount of waste in many and 
many an aero of wheat that is harvested 
throughout tho country; and we venture 
the assertion also that it would not cost the 
price of one bushel more to save the whole. 
In fact, work may generally he neatly done 
with less labor than if done in a slovenly 
manner. The grain should be cut clean, be¬ 
fore it is ripe enough to shell, and laid 
straight in tno swath; and the raker and 
binder should not he in such a hurry to 
“ keep up,” that he cannot rake’it clean and 
bind it tight and strong. Thon in pitching 
on to the load, and on to the mow or stack, 
it should not be handled as if an attempt was 
made to see how much threshing it would 
bear before its time. After all this, if wheat 
heads still remain in tho field, a few hours 
work with ono of Davidsons’ horse-rakes 
will secure tho whole. “ Pshaw ! ” says some 
farmer, “ thero’s no uso of being so particu¬ 
lar ; what I leave in tho field the hogs will 
get.” Wo do not believe it is a profitable 
way of feeding hogs. 
So of hay. There will doubtless ho 
enough left this year in the fields, in tho 
corners of fences, around grain fields, &c., 
&c., to keep tho stock several weeks in tho 
winter. Hay is so plenty this year that 
probably a great deal will ho wasted ; and it 
is so plenty that farmers will very likely 
take but little pains in saving their coarse 
fodder. It should not be so, for fodder is 
always of sufficient valuo to more than pay 
for saving; and it is a common thing to have 
a great scarcity in the spring, after a great 
plenty in the fall, just because of this indif¬ 
ference and slovenliness in saving it. Wo 
say, then, save all your grain, and all your 
fodder; for this very saving will make a 
large share of the profits you will realize.— 
Wyoming Co. Mirror. 
IMPROVEMENT OF THE DUNGHILL FOWL 
Every one is aware of the fact that, gen¬ 
erally speaking, the fowls kept by our farm¬ 
ers arc small in size, and, usually, but indif¬ 
ferent layers. Neither their inferiority in 
sizo, nor their poor egg-laying qualities, is, 
however, to bo attributed to the kind of 
food they receive, (for farmers’ fowls gen¬ 
erally fare well) nor to any want of atten¬ 
tion ; but to tne fact that in very many 
cases, the stock is never changed, or if 
changed at all, so seldom as to be product¬ 
ive of no good results. Thousauds of mis¬ 
erable, weak-minded people, idiots and lu¬ 
natics, attest the evil results of marriages 
botween blood relations. If such bo tho 
consequences resulting from breeding in and 
in from tho human family, will not the 
principle apply to fowls. Will not a stock 
of fowls degenerate from year to year, both 
in size and in other good qualities, if no ad¬ 
dition from other varieties or from other 
premises are made ? Look to the condition 
of tho chickens usually known as “ dung 
hill fowls,” a variety more generally had 
than any other kind in the United States, 
and which, although now small, and com¬ 
paratively worthless, were doubtless at one 
time in overy rospect equal to those for 
which such enormous prices are now asked'. 
Why this degeneracy ? It is very easily 
understood. The idea of improving the 
breed of fowls rarely visits a farmer’s mind, 
and in the multiplicity of duties rosting up¬ 
on him, he does not think it a matter of 
sufficient importance to change “ crowers ” 
with his noighbor, or to kill off his old ones 
and purchase new. But this is a great error, 
as I shall endeavor to prove, by facts gath¬ 
ered from my own experience. 
Several years since, convinced that by 
changing my plan of breeding chickens, I 
could very materially improve them in some 
very essential particulars, I purchased twen¬ 
ty of the finost duug hill chickons I could 
find—eighteen hens and two cocks, paying 
attention to sizo and form only, color being 
disregarded. The oldest chicken in the 
flock was not more than soven months. I 
purchased them iu the fall of the year, pro¬ 
vided comfortablo quarters for them during 
tho winter, fed them well, and received in 
return a fair supply of eggs. 
From this flock I raised, during tho ensu¬ 
ing summer, about two hundred chickens. 
The young cocks wero either 6 ent to mar¬ 
ket, or served up for my own table. I did 
not retain a single ono of them. Tho old 
ones wero also disposed of, and an entire 
new supply of young cocks, of tho best size 
and form I could find, purchased. The en¬ 
suing spring tlio same system was pursued, 
and 1 thought the progeny of tho second 
year somewhat superior in size to their pro¬ 
genitors. Their laying qualities wore cer¬ 
tainly botter. The year following, tho cocks 
of the previous year were discarded, and 
their places filled with new ones. The two 
year old hens wore also put aside, or retain¬ 
ed merely for hatching. Tho third year I 
had the satisfaction of beholding tho results 
I had anticipated. 
My chickens were not only greatly im¬ 
proved in appearance, but I received nearly 
double the quantity of eggs from the same 
number of fowls. I still pursue this plan, 
and cannot but commend it to tho attention 
of some of our farmers. My fowls are one 
half larger than formerly, and cost me no 
more feed or trouble than the smaller ones, 
and when sent to market they command a 
much better price. 
I do not believe it necessary to change 
tho cocks every year, although I have done 
it with advantage. Every second year 
would perhaps answer as well; but changed 
they should bo by all moans, if larger fowls 
are desired.—Cor. Pa. Farm Journal. 
LATE OATS FOR FODDER. 
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Though the mowing season is probably 
over with the most of our agricultural 
readers, yet perhaps it is not too lato for 
gome of them, whose meadows have been 
alllicted with tho drouth this Bummer, to 
profit by tho exporionco givon below, from 
a Maine paper : 
“ A good substantial farmer recently in¬ 
formed us that several years ago his hay 
crop ivas short, and on a portion of ono of 
his fields that was high and dry land, the 
grass was light and had to bo mowed early. 
As soon as tho hay was secured he spread 
what manure ho had upon two acros of it, 
and plowed it and sowed it with oats. They 
headed and tho kernel formed before tho 
frost came. Ho cradled them and dried 
them what he could in the field—then bound 
them in small bundles and put them in his 
barn. During tho winter ho found them a 
valuable auxiliary to his hay. He said that 
what he obtained from tho two acros was 
fully equal to throe tons of tho best hay he 
had in his barn.” 
If your crops aro all in and you have a 
piece of land that looks rather barron, and 
does not promise a good yiold of hay, take 
your team and plow and turn it over and 
sow on oats and harrow it. Put more seed 
to tho aero than you would on rich, well- 
cultivatod land. As soon as the oats are 
full in the milk, mow them and put them in 
the barn for feeding the cows that give milk 
during tho winter. Your cattle will eat up 
tho straw clean, and one ton of oats cut and 
properly cured at this stage of maturity 
will bo worth two tons of the host hay you 
cut on your farm. A cow fed on oats thus 
harvested, the coldest month in winter, gave 
nearly one-third more milk per day than 
sho did before or afterwards, when fod on 
good hay.— Family Journal. 
LAYING DOWN GR0UND3 TO GRASS. 
There is no better time than August to 
plow and lay down old glass land, or to re¬ 
claim swamps and meadows. It requires 
but a single year to change the most incor¬ 
rigible land into a productive field, if too 
much is not undertaken at once, and the 
right procoss is adopted. The work is usu¬ 
ally attempted with plows too light and 
teams too weak. In trying to gain a suffi¬ 
cient depth, one gets broken and tho other 
tired, and then comes the contest of doubts 
whether it will ever pay to reclaim an old 
meadow or plow deep and subsoil the up¬ 
land. Well, this is just as tho mason ope¬ 
rates, who builds a thin, cheap wall, and 
finds it tumbling down upon himself, per¬ 
haps, before ho is fortunate enough to get 
away from it; or tho farmer who erects a 
cheap house, and in tho course of a twelve 
month goes to patching and altering, and 
subjects himself to an expense much great¬ 
er than it would have been to do tlio work 
thoroughly at first. Now, in reclaiming 
lands, the first care should be to put in* 
plows and teams strong enough to turn a 
furrow ten or twelve inches deep and cut 
all small roots without straining either team 
or plow. Thoro is no wear and tear of spir¬ 
its in this, and your good nature will hold 
out until tho last furrow is turned in such 
an operation. It is cheaper, too, than to 
hagglo with it, fret the team, spoil tho fur¬ 
row, and find tho work at length only half 
done ! 
When tho land is properly plowed, roll it 
with a heavy roller, spread fine manure 
freely, and then follow with a light, sharp- 
toothed harrow, drawn by horses, and urge 
them into a lively walk. This* operation 
will cut an immense number of roots, and 
bring tho surfaco into a fine, deep tilth, al¬ 
together unlike that effected by a heavy 
harrow dragged along at a snail’s pace by 
oxen. 
There is one point in laying down grounds 
of sufficient importance to merit a separate 
paragraph—and that is the quality of tho 
manure applied. Tho smaller tho seeds to 
be sown, the finer should bo tho manure.— 
It ought to bo old, thoroughly decomposed 
and pulverized; and whero such is freely 
applied and incorporated with tho delicate 
tilth made by the quickly-moved and sharp- 
toothed harrow, little complaint will ever be 
heard of grass being winter-killed. In a 
soil thus prepared, tho minute seeds find 
all things necessary for a quick and healthy 
germination and rapid growth. The air, 
light, bent and moisture are admitted in 
such proportions as tho seeds requiro to 
give them a sure and early start. Thus, by 
deep plowing, fine manure and thorough 
cultivation, little or no loss is sustained in 
seed, whilo a good crop is quite certain, lot 
the succeeding season be either wet or dry. 
Land in corn may bo laid down by sowing 
the seed at tho last hoeing, and covering it 
with tho hoe or the hand rake. w <> L»vo 
laid down land in this way with excellent 
results.— jv. jEJ. Farmer 
HIGHWAYS AND STY-WAYS. 
There is nothing in our American system 
of farm management, which requires more 
thorough reform than tho practice wo have 
of allowing animals to run at largo in high¬ 
ways. It is a practice wasteful, offensive, 
slovenly and injurious, both to the habits of 
animals themselves and to tho owners. It 
ought to bo broken up. In overy system of 
good farming, the manuro of an animal is 
made to pay a good share of keeping him. 
Yet, whero animals run in the highway, this 
is, of courso, all lost. Some dairymen 
make a practico of using tho highway as a 
milking yard for their cows. When this is 
done, the road, in front of tho house, be¬ 
comes filled Avith filth, so as seriously to 
annoy passers-by, and render tho labors of 
tho housewife anything but agreeable.— 
Such farming is a disgrace to the name. 
Again, some farmers mako a practico of 
allowing their hogs to run in tho highway. 
This animal is, of all others, tho most disa- 
greeahlo and unmanageable when allowed 
to run at large. If there bo a holo in a 
neighbor’s fence, which, by crowding and 
rOoting, can be made large enough to admit 
a hog’s body, he is sure to find it. Roadside 
shado trees aro endangered, and side-Avalks 
rendered impassable. Wo have known 
trees of soveral years standing nearly killed 
by these unruly animals seizing them -with 
their teeth and stripping oft - tho bark.— 
Then, hogs running at largo are very liable 
to bo Avorried and mangled by dogs, set 
upon them to keep them out of mischief, 
detracting, of course, very much from their 
value. No man who does not own or hire 
ground enough to confine a hog should un¬ 
dertake to keop one. It is tho height of 
swinishness to inflict his keeping upon tho 
public. 
Cattlo, again, aro sometimes pastured tho 
season through in tho public highway. Noav 
it can bo little profit to keep animals in this 
way. Aside from tho risk of losing them, by 
their straying off or being taken off by dro¬ 
vers Avith their droves, the feed they get 
must bo scanty, and thoy can hardly gain 
enough from year to year to pay tho ex¬ 
pense of Avintoring. Then thoy usually bo- 
como unruly from tho facility thoy acquiro 
in finding better feed, and this detracts very 
much from thoir value. It is a wasteful, 
quarrel-begetting practice, and a stop should 
bo put to it. 
Now is tho time for farmers to destroy 
noxious weeds, boforo tho seed ripons. Ono 
day spent in this way, immediately, will on 
some farms, save a week’s Avork noxtsoason. 
Path-masters should attond to this business 
in tho highways under thoir charge. 
To preserve meadoAvs in their produc¬ 
tiveness, it is necessary to harroAV them 
every second autumn, apply top dressings, 
and roll them. 
