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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JAN. 2. 
hold it — the animal gets it under foot, where it 
becomes unsavory and worthless. Box mangers, 
sufficiently capacious, will hold fodder if you don t 
let them get too full. Many racks and mangers are 
mere pretences; the feed might as well be put un¬ 
der foot in the first place, for it is sure to land 
there. The expense of making a good, permanent, 
capacious manger, in a way that cattle can t get 
their food out of it, except by eating it out, is not 
large and is well expended. 
The time of feeding stock is material. Whatever 
the time is, it should be uniform. “Hope deferred 
maketh the heart sick"—and I may add, in this 
connection, the belly empty. Waste is apparent 
when the animal is running about or standing in a 
state of expectancy. Animals should not be dis¬ 
turbed in the morning till they have taken their 
rest and incline to move; then they should be fed 
at once. This in general will ;be about daylight— 
except in the case of certain vociferous roosters 
who may need a lunch before. 
In case of small herds the trouble would exceed 
the advantage, but if a person has a good deal of 
stock he will do well to feed several times a day.— 
A fresh morsel is always more desirable, but of 
course frequent feeding implies light feeding which 
brings me to the last head of my discourse. 
The amount fed. This should be so much as will 
be eat up clean, if the material is good; or, if poor, 
the valuable or eatable portions should be all con¬ 
sumed before the next supply is given. Of course 
cattle are not to be starved into eating damaged 
and unpalatable food, but they will sometimes se¬ 
lect a part while compelled to reject the rest — in 
this case the herdsman needs to observe carefully 
and remove the refuse material as soon as the valu¬ 
able portions are consumed. He should be able to 
discriminate nicely so as neither to waste food or 
“pinch” his stock; in fact he needs to be as acute 
a hair-splitter as a Kansas debater. Feeding too 
much at a time, is a prevailing error. I have had 
more trouble to restrain my men in this particular 
than in anything else. Borne people are never sat¬ 
isfied unless they can pile in so much that the ani¬ 
mal is forced to pull it under foot to get rid of it, 
after picking it over and breathing upon it till it 
was stale and unpalatable. 
Be careful, then, to feed in the right place, feed 
at the right time, and feed just enough. I will add 
that we have no assurance of fodder next spring, 
whatever may be the appearances now. Our corn 
stalks and straw, and, to a considerable extent, our 
hay is of poor quality and cold weather will sweep 
them off rapidly. Beware of appearances of plenty. 
Economy and caution are always in order.— h. t. b. 
CAN YOU REPORT PROGRESS? 
Another year has gone to the “tomb of the 
Capulets,” and we stand upon the threshold of a 
new cycle in the age of the world. The present is 
a fitting period for a review of time past—for the 
critical examination of the transactions and opera-. 
tions of the brief twelve months that have gone 
forever—and we hope that our readers will call up 
their experience and make a comparison of their 
position and standing with that attained at the 
commencement of 1857. Man is not a stationary 
b e i U g —if perpetual motion can be applied to any 
complicated piece of machinery upon the earth’s | 
surface, he alone can lay just claim to the solution 
of that puzzling enigma; backward and forward 
he travels, and must do so until “ dust returns to 
dust” To wear out may be the inevitable fate of 
one who gives no relaxation to the mental or phys¬ 
ical organism until the tension becomes so great 
that the cords of life are snapped asunder, or the 
burdens under which abused nature struggled are 
so cumbersome that they bear her down to earth; 
but just as certain will the viper Rust cat up and 
utterly destroy the one who limits body or mind to 
a mere existence. 
The farmer is not exempt from the general natu¬ 
ral laws that govern all mankind. There is no such 
thing as standing still. We may profess following 
in the “glorious paths our fathers trod;” but the 
fact is, if those who, “life's fitful fever over, sleep 
well,” should come from the graves, and could dis¬ 
cern no advancement, they would be compelled to 
stamp old-fogyism upon all whose only glory is in 
the mantle their ancestry left them. The whole 
matter resolves itself into Progression vs. Retro¬ 
gression —which is it’ 
Can you, as a tiller of the soil, report one or ad¬ 
vanced steps taken in performing the labors of your 
vocation? Can you dispel any of the darkness 
that enshrouds so great a number of the operations 
of the agriculturist? The land you till, do you 
know its needs any better to-day than a year ago? 
The variety of fertilizers and modes of application, 
with the additional opportunities afforded by the 
past, can you use them more understanding!}- and 
with fuller assurance that the light obtained is not 
calculated to mislead? The domestic animals in 
your keeping—have you sought for knowledge 
concerning their capacities and necessities?— 
.Throughout all the varied minutise of farm-life, can 
you report progress? 
The farmers of the Rural must collate for them¬ 
selves a weekly “ feast of reason” as well as a “ flow 
of soul,” and we throw out these queries, hoping 
that each and all who have been benefited by the 
experience of the past, will bring forth the knowl¬ 
edge obtained, and share these good things with 
their fellow-laborers. “Let us reason together,” 
and thereby we shall all acquire the information we 
so mueh want—our light will not burn the dimmer 
because we have used it for lighting the torch of 
our neighbor. 
Fall Seeding to Grass. — In the last volume 
of N. Y. State Transactions, Wm. M. Holmes, of 
Greenwich, Washington Co., thus describes a trial 
of fall seeding to Timothy. He “divided apiece 
of land in the centre, and sowed half of it with 
seed and oats together, the other half sowed oats 
alone—and turned it over shallow after the oats 
were off, and sowed half a bushel of timothy per 
acre. This was about the 1st of Sept., and it gave 
more fall feed than the spring seeding. The next 
summer, the spring seeding was full of weeds, 
while the fall seeding was all clear timothy. Equal 
amounts of land gave:—Spring seeding 3,840 lbs. 
fall 5,004 as., and the latter was worth $3 more than 
the former.” The seed produced by that which 
was left until ripe, was very fine and abundant.— 
The season in which this experiment was tried was 
a wet one—if the usual summer drouth had prevail¬ 
ed, we fear it would have been far less successful. 
LEWIS F. ALLEN’S STOCK BARN. 
Editor Rural:—“A new hand at the bellows,” 
signed “Chautauque,” in your paper of 12th ult., 
asks—“Can it be possible that Lewis F. Allen still 
retains poles over his barn floor from bay to bay? 
Tell him to re-place them by good substantial 
scaffolds,” &c. Yes, I do “still retain poles,” and 
intend to retain them, rude as they appear, until I 
find something more to the purpose, at less cost. 
I'll tell you why; and I think when your corres¬ 
pondent is more familiar with filling up my barn 
with hay and grain, than his question would seem 
to imply, he will see a very simple reason for my 
practice. I take it that he has seen my barn as it 
now is, stored from ground to peak—all except the 
floor—with two hundred tons of as good hay, and 
oats in the sheaf, as ever went under cover, or he 
would not have asked the why and wherefore. My 
floor runs through the whole length of the barn, a 
hundred and sixteen feet, with a bay on each side 
eighteen feet wide. When we commence filling 
the barn, the bays are occupied first, and we keep 
piling on the hay, or grain, until it reaches the roof 
on either side—the sides of the bays next the floor 
being carried up perpendicularly as long as the hay 
will lie to advantage. This, of course, leaves the 
entire area over the floor, and up to the peak of the 
roof, open to receive more hay, or grain, or both, 
to about one-third the extent of the whole storage 
of the barn. 
Now, if there were “good substantial scaffolds,” 
by which, I suppose, “Chautauque” means permanent 
ones—plank, of course—and only nine feet above 
the floor, which floor is fourteen feet wide—he will 
find that the loads, as they went into the barn under 
the scaffold, for pitching into and on to the bays 
when built up above the level of the scaffold, would 
be rather small loads for farmers to haul in from 
the field at harvest time; so that such permanent 
floor would be much in the way, besides being 
obliged to have large and frequent scuttles in them 
to pitch through, requiring a good deal of extra 
pitching to store it away. Besides this, no ordinary 
plank of two inches thick, and fifteen feet long, the 
shortest, that would answer the purpose — would 
sustain the great weight they have to bear. There¬ 
fore, having the whole space over the floor open 
while the bays are filling, gives plenty of area for 
the loads as they come in. Then, when we com¬ 
mence filling over the floor, we begin at the farther 
end of the barn from where we drive in, and lay 
half a dozen poles, which are fifteen feet long and 
four to six inches in diameter. These are placed 
about two feet apart, and on them are laid, longi¬ 
tudinally with the floor, boards, slabs, planks, or 
any cheap and rough lumber at hand. The team 
is driven in until it gets under this incipient scaffold¬ 
ing, when the first load is thrown on to it Succes¬ 
sive loads are thrown on and piled up, until the 
scaffold already laid, is too narrow to receive more, 
when the other poles and boards are added, and so 
on until we arrive near the hither end, when the 
scaffolding is again commenced at the hither end, 
and laid on towards the one already filled, until 
only an opening is left sufficient to receive a good 
ork full. Thus the barn is filled to its utmost 
capacity of storage. 
As the hay and grain are removed, and the 
scaffold is emptied, the boards and poles are either 
pushed up together on the girts, or taken down and 
carefully stored away until again wanted; and if 
“Chautauque” can invent any more convenient or 
economical way than that, I shall be happy to have 
him show me. As to the looks of the poles, I care 
nothing about it, and 1 guess my “nice Devons” 
care quite as little as I do. I take it the quality 
and quantity of the fodder they get, concerns them 
rather more than the looks of the scaffold. 
Now, if our friend “Chautauque” will come 
down to Grand Island, and help me through next 
haying time, I fancy I will get a cognovit from even 
his fastidious eye, that he can’t much better my pres¬ 
ent plan of a scaffold. I have made too long a 
story of this, I admit, but I chose to explain the 
whole matter to his understanding. l. f. a. 
APPLES FOR MILCH COWS, 
Somf. trial of apples for feeding our cows in 
1845—“the great apple year” of this section— 
convinced me that they were of considerable value 
for this purpose. Since then we have used them 
more or less, and as the present has been, in some 
sections, a fair fruit year, it may be of sendee to 
others to refer to the subject. 
Chemical analysis, it is claimed, shows that ap- | 
pies are of little value as food for animals. Well, 
then, we are presuming enough to think either 
chemistry is at fault or the deductions drawn from 
the analysis imperfect Though the apple may 
give less ash than the turnip, it does not follow that 
it possesses less nutritive value. It is an old say¬ 
ing that “ there is no blood in a turnip,” a remark 
which has never been applied to the fruit which 
tempted Eve. 
“There is is a great prejudice,” says an experi¬ 
enced New England dairyman, “existing in the 
minds of many farmers, against feeding apples to 
milch cows. Apples, they say, ‘ dry them off.'— 
This erroneous conclusion is the result of misman¬ 
agement Apples fed in too large quantities at 
first operate like a surfeit of all other kinds of 
food which produces inflammation, and thereby 
decreases the quantity of milk. Four quarts a day 
for a cow is sufficient to begin with. This quantity 
may be gradually increased up to a bushel per day 
for each cow, with profit. By way of experiment 
we fed five cows six days with a mixture of sweet 
and sour apples, a peck to each, night and morning; 
and during the six following days they received 
an allowance of three quarts of meal each per day; 
and the yield of butter was about equal in both 
cases.” 
This extract is an epitome of our own opinion 
and experience. We think apples not alone valua¬ 
ble for producing milk, but equally so for fatten- 
ning beef and pork. Horses and sheep like a few 
occasionally. We would not confine any animal to 
apples alone, but in connection with other food, 
would use them liberally during the milder por¬ 
tions of winter. Apples, pumpkins, roots of all 
kinds, as well as cooked meal, cannot be employed 
to any advantage in feeding stock when the tempe¬ 
rature nears zero. Not, at least, unless in under¬ 
ground stables, or those warmed by fires, or unless 
the food is first well warmed—a precaution few 
have the will or means to take. J. h. b. 
Royalton, Niag. Co., N. Y., 1857. 
EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE, 
Eds. Rural: — Michigan, though oue of the 
younger in our family of States, has achieved the 
high honor of first opening a College for the in¬ 
struction of her youth in the Science and Practice 
of Agriculture. It is located near Lansing, the 
Capital, with a good domain of seven hundred 
acres for its material basis, and an endowment by 
the State of $20,000 per annum for two years, which 
will probably be continued and increased, should the 
Institution justify the reasonable hopes of its foun¬ 
ders. This it may do at first, but agricultural sci¬ 
ence and systematic instruction, are yet so crude 
and infantile, that without the energy and perse¬ 
verance required to rear it from infancy to strong 
manhood, a partial failure may follow the first at¬ 
tempt. Should this be the case, that it will event¬ 
ually succeed, and be a blessing and a glory to the 
State, not even the most incredulous have a doubt 
The good results flowing from its successful work¬ 
ing are apparent to every one. 
A farmer should be a Chemist he may not be an 
analytic chemist, but he should be familiar with 
those laws, the observance of which is indispensa¬ 
ble to his safety and success, and the violation of 
which is destruction. This science teaches the 
value, qualities, nature and application of manures. 
The question of fertilization or sterilization of the 
earth is here involved. A periodical renovation 
of the soil is not only the base of agricultural suc¬ 
cess, but in fact of all political economy. How 
vast the difference between leaving the value of 
fertilizers to mere vague conjecture, or making it 
the subject of positive analysis and actual demon¬ 
stration under the hands of the chemist 
Physiology opens a wide field of study to the 
farmer, for on the observance of its laws depends 
the healthful existence of all animal and vegetable 
nature. The study of this science teaches that it 
is a law of growth that like produces like, the best 
produces the best in vegetable life, and that the 
soundest and most symmetrical animals only per¬ 
petuate a like progeny, and that it is actually cheap¬ 
er to raise a good crop, a good ox, or horse, or 
sheep, than a poor one. Embraced in this study 
are the wide questions of adaptation of food, its 
amount, quality, preparation, &c.. to the nature and 
structure of animals. 
A farmer should be familiar with the Veterinary 
Art, for there are but few farmers, who have not 
under their supervision, one or more valuable ani¬ 
mals, and a knowledge of this art might many times 
prevent the entire loss or ruin of such. The coun¬ 
try is full of horses that have been rendered worth¬ 
less through ignorance that might be reclaimed to 
usefulness, a majority of them at least, by any one 
that understood their treatment. 
These are Sciences with which every farmer 
should be familiar, without which he cannot expect 
to elevate his condition, in a social point of view, 
to that position which it so justly deserves. But 
where are we to get our educated farmers, unless 
from this or similar institutions, for what graduate 
of our high schools, or colleges, thinks of choosing 
the avocation of a farmer? Certainly not one, 
their education, or talent, they think, befits them 
for some more lucrative or less laborious life. In 
the condition which v^find agricultural science 
at the present time, perhaps they do well, but let 
other States follow the example of Michigan,and they 
will soon perceive their error. A revolution is al¬ 
ready taking place. Agricultural Science is making 
such strides towards perfection, that the time is not 
far distant, when it will be one of the proudest pro¬ 
fessions that man ever adorned. M. L. Shafer. 
Paris, Kent Co., Mich., 1857. 
WINTERING BEES 
Eds. Rural:— There are doubtless many of your 
readers who keep one or more hives of bees, and 
in many instances these have not provided them¬ 
selves with a sufficient supply of food for the win¬ 
ter. A few words upon oaring for swarms thus 
placed will, we hope, be q>p riate. 
Honey that is not candied, is the best food, but 
is not as cheap as cane or Muscovado sugar, which 
will do very well. In order to feed the latter, it 
should be reduced to a fluid state by adding water, 
boiling and skimming. It should be fed in old 
comb, or in some manner so as to prevent the bees 
getting stuck fast and perishing in the liquid.— 
Cheap sugar is as good as the best quality. The 
j liquid can be fed in any convenient dish introduced 
| under the hive by placing a perforated float in the 
dish for them to work upon. If the weather is cold 
i they may be carried to a vtarm room and warmed 
into activity, in which case they will generally pro¬ 
ceed with great diligence to carry up and store 
provision*. Practically, bees should lie fed in the 
fall while they are active. They and their food 
should be confined so that rubbers from other hives 
may not steal it. 
I consider it of doubtful, utility to feed weak 
colonies of bees; I think it better to unite two or 
more weak swarms into one, for it is well known 
that a strong colony of beds is worth more than 
three or four weak ones in the spring. A strong 
colony does not consume as much honey in propor¬ 
tion to the number of befs it contains as does a 
w'eak one. 
With our severe winters; many swarms of bees 
perish with plenty of honey in the hive. The 
theory is this:—The bees always cluster into a cir¬ 
cular or globular form aroilnd their queen. They 
commence to eat their honey in the fall from the | 
bottom of the hive and sir work upwards in the 
centre. If the colony is Teak, the cold weather 
prevents the bees from going to the outside and 
corners of the hive to getitheir food, so it is left 
behind. When they have strived at the top of the 
hive they die from starvation, while there is yet 
honey in the sides and corners; for it does not 
require very cold weather tdstupify bees that are un¬ 
protected; I have heard it i marked that bees would 
winter better in an old hoUow log than in a board 
or square box hive. If it |s more natural for bees 
to be in a round hive or hjllow log, it must be ow¬ 
ing to the form of the ch.iter which enables them 
to consume the honey cles4 as they move upwards. 
! The above argues plainly tiat a round hive is best 
to winter bees in, and that its probable diameter is 
about 12 inches, and height about 20 inches, which 
gives it the capacity of a little more than one bushel, 
and who is there that woiild say that a bushel of 
honey would not winter a Jwarm of bees? 
Truxton, N. Y., 1857. | B. Hibbard. 
INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. 
Young America Corn Sheller. — (S. W. P., 
Jamestown, N. Y.)—They are manufactured in this 
city by Badger, Acker & Co., for persons who have 
purchased territory. 
Hungarian Grass Seed.—Geo. G. Lobdell, of 
Wilmington, Delaware, wishes to know where seed 
of the Hungarian Grass can he procured. Who 
will enlighten us on this matter? 
To Prevent Cows losing their Milk. — Francis 
Van Doren, of Adrian, Michigan, had a valuable 
cow that lost much of her milk and found a pre¬ 
ventive in placing an India rubber ring around the 
teat after milking. He says this is found effectual. 
The Best Farm Gate. —E. B. R. Sackett, of 
Meadville, Pa., wants to know the best method of 
making a good, durable and cheap farm gate. Also, 
the best plan for a barn-yard that will preserve the 
manure without becoming knee deep with mud.— 
Many others would like the same information. We 
will wait a week or two to hear from some of our 
readers, before giving a few hints on this subject 
Corn Moulding in the Crib.— S. W. Parks, of 
Jamestown, N. Y., writes us that much of the corn 
is moulding in that section, in consequence of the 
wet condition in which it was put into the crib, and 
the exceedingly mild weather following the cold of 
November. He says:—“From the statements of all 
with whom I have conversed in this section upon 
the subject, certainly not more than half of that 
which was cribbed as sound corn, is now fit to pass 
as such. In many instances a large portion is 
nearly worthless, and should the alternating changes 
of weather continue much longer, as they have for 
a few weeks past, very little can be saved in a con¬ 
dition fit for market” 
Sewing Machines for the Farmer's Family.— 
“ A Lady” wishes to know if “ it will pay for our 
farmers wives and daughters who have a good deal 
of work and but little help, to purchase Sewing 
Machines.” It will pay well. With one of these 
machines the farmer’s wife can do double the 
amount of sewing she has done in the old way, 
with greater ease, and have time enough left to 
read books and papers, visit her friends, or help her 
poor neighbors. They are a great blessing for wo¬ 
men, mentally and physically. There are several 
good kinds. We will give an article on this sub¬ 
ject before long—for we believe that while the men 
have reapers, mowers, &c., the women are entitled 
ot labor-saving machines. 
RESULTS OF SORGHUM EXPERIMENTS. 
C. B. Maxson, of Westerly, N. Y., planted a piece 
of sandy, stony ground, 20 by 60 feet, in drills, 3 
feet apart. It was planted quite late, and killed 
early in the fall by frost He obtained from the 
cane raised on this piece 10 gallons of thick syrup 
of excellent quality. G. H. Babcock, who carefully 
noted the experiment, and measured the cane and 
syrup, sends us this report. 
D. Mosher, of Union Springs, N. Y., obtained one 
ounce of seed from Georgia, and planted 64 hills, 
3£ feet apart each. The cane grew to a good size. 
Expressed the juice as well as possible, with a 
common sugar mill, aud obtained fifteen gallons, 
which made 1.1 gallons of excellent molasses, with 
no unpleasant flavor. 
J. M. Stillwk: l, of East Troy, Wisconsin, thinks- 
very truly, ih it some of the reported experiments 
may mislead. To press out half a pint of juice 
from a stalk, and then calculate how many stalks 
may he grown in a hill, and the number of hills to 
the acre, is, indeed, a very poor way to calculate 
the product of an acre. He also thinks some per¬ 
sons report a wonderful sweetness in the syrup, 
that will not be sustained by careful experiments. 
He raised 18 rods of good cane, and pressed out the 
juice with an imperfect mill, made by himself, and 
propelled by horses. Found that 8 gallons of juice 
would make 1 of syrup. Tried the canes without 
suckers, and with suckers, but the result was the 
same. Took 130 of the main stalks, the most 
matured, and run them through twice, the result 
being 37 quarts of juice and quarts of thick 
syrup. Cut five of the best hills that could be 
found standing together, which made 10 quarts of 
juice, but taking them as they average, it would 
take 7 hills. From the 18 rods, made 17 gallons of 
syrup; about one gallon being wasted. This would 
be about ICO gallons to the acre. Thinks about 
one-fourth was lost by imperfect machinery. The 
quality of the syrup is excellent, equal to the best 
“ golden syrup.” Ripened some seed, but knows of 
no other ripened in that section. 
Joseph Holmes, of Athens, Ohio, pressed, on the 
16th of October, 400 canes, which yielded 26 gal¬ 
lons of juice, and 4$ gallons of superior syrup. It 
is equal to molasses made from the purest Orleans 
t sugar. The canes were mostly ripe, and fully two- 
thirds of the seed will grow. Had 4J rods planted, 
which yielded 9.j gallons of syrup, and this is about 
the usual yield in that section of country. 
STOCKING CORN. 
Eds. Rural: —I have been somewhat interested 
in reading the different modes advocated by your 
Michigan and Chautauque correspondents in set¬ 
ting up or stooking corn. From my own door the 
past fall I have witnessed an exemplification of the 
two systems, viz., tying four hills at the top as stays 
to the stook, or setting up without any support.— 
From the necessities of the case, 1 followed the 
former practice, while a neighbor of mine followed 
the latter course; the consequence was, during a 
gale of wind mine stood like an anvil to the beaten 
stroke, while in my neighbor’s cornfield there was 
a complete windfall. 
But as a set-off for your Chautauque correspon¬ 
dent, his system might answer for the pennyroyal 
variety raised up in Chautauque Co., N. Y. Had 
Chautauque visited me the past fall, I could have 
shown him corn which, after being cut up, it be¬ 
came necessary to climb to the fourth round of a 
j ladder to tie the tops. To talk about stooking such 
I corn without support, to my mind would lie talking 
| wildly. "Would it not be advisable for Chautauque 
| to stick to his butter and cheese, while the South 
! and West grow the corn and pork. w. a. 
1 Fairfax C. H., Va., 1857. 
Premiums for Architectural Designs. —In 
order to give new subscribers an opportunity to 
compete, we re-publish the premiums offered two 
weeks ago, for the purpose of obtaining the very 
best plans of Farm Houses and Barns in the 
country, for publication in the Rural, as follows:— 
Premiums for Farm Houses .—1st. For the best plan of 
a Farm House, with ground plans, elevations, &c., drawn 
to a Beale, and with alPnecessary information as to cost, 
manner of construction, &c., we will give a premium of 
Twknty-Five Dollars. 2d. For the second best plan, 
furnished as above, Twenty Dollars. 3d. for the third, 
Fifteen Dollars. 
Premiums for Plans of Barns. —1st. For the best plan 
of a Barn, furnished with all necessary plans, information, 
&e., as required for Farm House, we will give a premium 
of Twenty Dollars. 2d. For the next best, Fifteen 
Dollars. 3d. For the third, Ten Dollars. 
All plans must be received before the first day of 
April, and the elevation drawn so as not to occupy 
over two columns, in width, of the Rural. The 
competitors should state any advantage claimed 
for any improvement over the usual arrangement 
or manner of building. All plans submitted, to be 
at our disposal, to publish or reject. The plans 
will he carefully examined, and the premiums 
awarded by a competent Committee, the names of 
the persons composing which will be hereafter 
announced. 
The U. S. Agricultural Society will hold its 
Sixth Annual Meeting in the Lecture Room of the 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, on Wednes¬ 
day, January 13, 1858. The election of officers will 
then be held, and other business transacted as re¬ 
quired by the Constitution of the Society. State 
and other Agricultural Associations are invited to 
send delegates. The Transactions of the Society 
for 1857, will be delivered to Members of the Society. 
Important Agricultural topics will he discussed— 
including “The Chinese SugarCane;” “The neces¬ 
sity of having a more perfect knowledge of the 
mineral necessities of our own crops developed;” 
“Meteorological observations for the benefit of Ag¬ 
riculture;” “Manures and Fertilizers;” “The dis¬ 
ease known as Hog Cholera;” “The improved 
Kentucky Sheep;” “Agricultural Colleges and Farm 
Schools;” and “The Agricultural Politics of our 
Country.” Propositions for the location of the next 
Annual Exhibition will be received and considered. 
A remittance of $10 to the Treasurer, Hon. B. B. 
French, Washington, will constitute any person a 
Life Member of the Society, and entitle him to all 
its privileges—among which are: free "admissions 
to all Exhibitions, the annual volumes of Transac¬ 
tions, and the large and elegant Diploma, 
• - 
The N. Y. State Ag. Society will hold its next 
Annual Meeting in Albany, on the second Wednes¬ 
day (10th) of February ensuing. The Monroe Co, 
Ag. Society's Annual Meeting is to be held at the 
Court House, in this city, on Wednesday, Jan. 13th. 
— As the Annual Meetings of most Agricultural 
Societies—State, County, and Township—are to be 
held during the present and ensuing month, we 
would remind all interested, that it is far better to 
attend and participate in their proceedidgs, than to 
absent themselves, and then complain of action 
caused by their neglect “A word to the wise,” Ac. 
We shall be glad to receive and publish lists of 
Officers, Ac., of all the principal Societies, as soon 
after the holding of their Annual Meetings as 
convenient. 
Omo State Board of Agriculture.— The regu¬ 
lar Annual Meeting of Delegates from County Ag. 
Societies was held at Columbus, on the 9th and 10th 
ult, — sixty-three counties being represented. A 
proposition to permantly locate the Fairs of the 
State Board, was voted down. Officers and Members 
were elected for the ensuing year, so that the new 
Board is constituted as follows:— President —J. M. 
Mii.likin, of Butler. Treasurer — Lucicn Buttles, of 
Franklin. Recording Secretary —N. S. Townsliend, 
Lorain. Corresponding Secretary —J. H. Ivlippart, 
Members —Luther Smith, of Logan; Abel Krum, of 
Ashtabula; Alex. Waddle, of Clark; T. S. Webb, of 
Stark; John Iieber, of Fairfield; John M. Trimble, 
of Highland, and L. Q. Rawson, of Sandusky. 
New York Agricultural College. —At a meet¬ 
ing of the Trustees, Dec. 10, iu Albany, the plan and 
specifications for the College buildings presented 
by S. E. Hewes, architect, formerly of Syracuse, 
were adopted, and the premium, $250, awarded for 
the same. To H. E. Wilc,ox, architect, of Buffalo, 
and Rev. H. B. Taylor, Fort Edward Institute, 
Washington County, $100 each for the plans pro 
sented by them. The Trustees are said to have di¬ 
rected the Executive Committee of the Board to 
take immediate measures for procuring materials 
for building, and to enter into contracts for the 
construction of the same as early as practicable.— 
From the foregoing it would seem that we are soon 
to have this much-needed Institution in operation. 
The Terra-Culturist “Still Lives” — As is 
“disclosed” by this caustic squib from the Ohio 
Cultivator:—“Prof. Comstock, of Mahhettsville, N. 
York, so he writes it, having waited twenty years 
for an ungrateful people to give him a hundred 
thousand dollars to disclose the mysteries of terra- 
culture, has finally gone where the devils did when 
they left the possessed among the tombs, viz.: into 
the swine; and now he proposes to Disclose a Dis¬ 
closure upon Hog Cholera. Twenty-five thousand 
dollars is about the figure lie sets upon this mystery. 
Individual rights, $5 each. If the animals should 
behave on this occasion as they did in the first in¬ 
stance, and carry the Professor along with them, the 
world would be rid of a very great bo(a)re.” 
Saratoga Co. Ag. Society.— The following gen¬ 
tlemen have been chosen as officers of this Society 
for 1858:— Presided — Oscar Granger, Saratoga 
Springs; Vice Presidents —Lewis E. Smith, Isaiah 
Blood; Corresponding Secretary —John A. .Corey, 
Saratoga Springs; Recording Secretary —E. J. Hu- 
ling, Saratoga Spa.; Treas. —R. S. Burtis, Half Moon. 
Cayxga Co. Ag. Society. —The Cayuga Co. Ag- 
Society have elected the following officers for 1858: 
—President — Henry D. Dwight, Aurelius; Vice 
President —H. S. Dunning, Aurelius; Secretary —L. C. 
Mann, Auburn; Treasurer —H. T. Cook, Auburn. 
