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MOOSE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JUNE 5. 
We have, we think, given all the information 
necessary on this subject If, however, any of our 
readers desire instruction on any other point, we 
shall be happy to impart it We do not suppose 
we shall induce one in a thousand of our readers 
to grow a hedge, but we hope that those who pro¬ 
pose so to do will be enabled to count the cost, and 
go to work intelligently, with a fair prospect of 
success. We have seen a great many poor Osage 
Orange hedges, but we never saw one where we 
could not charge the failure to bad treatment 
CANADA THISTLES-SPRING WHEAT. 
Messrs. Eds.:—I notice some inquiries in the 
Rural for a mode of destroying the Canada thistle. 
I remember some 45 years ago, when the first patch 
of Canada thistles was discovered in the neighbor¬ 
hood where I was brought up. In a few years an¬ 
other lot was discovered about a mile from the 
first Since then they have been (the greater part 
of the time,) rapidly on the increase. At present 
I think I do not over-estimate, when I say, on those 
farms where extra pains have not been taken to 
keep them subdued, they occupy one-eighth of the 
surface of all the improved land. 
To destroy them only one thing is necessary and 
then a diligent application of the remedy for one 
season. It is generally understood that the roots 
of all such plants cannot live if the tops are kept 
covered up and cannot make growth in their sea¬ 
son. I presume I have destroyed fifty patches, on 
a few acres of land, by the following simple means. 
When I find a few stalks get rooted I take a good- 
sized stone (flat or round,) pound the stalks down 
and leave the stones on them, examine them as 
often as once a week, and keep every stalk covered 
up. By the middle of July they will be found rot 
ten and not a stalk will grow the next season. I 
have destroyed patches where it took a wagon load 
of boards to cover and batten the cracks on the 
patch. Every stalk was kept under the boards and 
they were removed in autumn. The next season 
not a thistle grew on the place. 
Now for the remedy where they are too numerous 
for the foregoing treatment. Select a piece for 
spring wheat the next year. Give it thorough cul 
tivation as a summer fallow. In all efforts to kill 
thistles commence operations the latter part of 
May, or the forepart of June. Plow clean, with a 
jointer plow on the beam to turn all the tops of the 
thistles under the furrow,—in a few days harrow 
thoroughly. As soon as the thistles begin to ap 
pear plow again and then harrow smooth — keep 
repeating the plowing and harrowing, and if you 
don’t let a thistle spread a leaf to the sun’s rays all 
summer you will be sure next season to take off 
a crop of wheat that will not have a thistle stalk 
among it. This is thorough cultivation and it pays 
the best. I have been blessed the two past seasons 
with good crops of spring wheat, and no injury by 
the midge, owing to late sowing. Last season I 
sawed the 18tli of May, too late by a week—not a 
midge, was there found in it — straw enough for 35 
bushels to the acre—injured by the rust—yield ‘20.i 
bushels per acre. One year ago last season sowed 
the 6th of May—but three of the midge were found 
—a light growth of straw, but very heavy in graiD, 
yield 78 61-GO bushels on four acres — the hand¬ 
somest spring wheat I ever had — weighed GO lbs. 
to the bushel. The two past seasons convinces me 
that when the spring is early, sow from the 4th to 
the 8th of May, or when the spring is late, as was 
last spring, sow from the 10th to the 14th of May, 
and the midge will be gone before the wheat is for¬ 
ward enough for them to injure it I think it will 
be a little more subject to rust as it makes its 
growth more in the heat of summer. 
West Bloomfield, N. Y., 1858. Alvin Wilcox. 
LETTER FROM KENTUCKY. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
WAGENER’S SEED HARVESTER. 
We give a cut of this machine, as patented in 
May, 1855, (with improvements to 1858,) by Jeptha 
A. Wagener, of New York city. We have not seen 
this Harvester in operation, but man}’ practical 
farmers who have used it, testify that it is the best 
machine for the purpose to which it is adapted that 
has ever come under their notice. Mr. W. says it 
simply gathers the clover Beed or heads from the 
stalks, which may easily be hulled by another ma¬ 
chine of his invention.— the “Clover Seed nuller 
and Grain Scourer.” He states that a three feet 
Harvester, with a horse and boy, will gather five 
acres of seed per day — that a four feet one, with 
the same help, will gather eight acres per day—and 
challenges the world to excel it in utility, simpli¬ 
city, durability, and ease of action, warranting it to 
do its work in the best manner. For further infor- 
I mation, address the patentee as above. 
INDIANA.—FARM PRODUCTS, &c. 
ABOUT “OLD IRON.” 
Eds. Rural:— Perhaps a few lines from one at 
this point, in the land of limestone and subterranean 
wonders, will not be altogether unacceptable to 
the many readers of the Rural. I have recently 
received a package of your paper, which of all 
others of its class is most cheering to the eye, and 
instructive and refreshing to the mind. During a 
six month's sojourn in Southern Kentucky, I have 
scarcely seen a copy of the Rural among the 
people—a circumstance rather to be wondered at 
than otherwise, inasmuch as it is quite a farming 
and stock growing community, among whom its 
pages, so replete with instruction and interesting 
matter, could hardly fail to be a source of great 
improvement and profit Those into whose hands 
I have placed it for examination and perusal, have 
expressed themselves highly gratified and pleased. 
I could wish that it were generally known and cir¬ 
culated in this and other portions of the South, 
and shall be happy, if during the short time I re¬ 
main in this region, I can do anything to extend 
its circulation and interests. 
The season is rather backward for this latitude. 
We have had considerable cool, rainy weather of 
late, so much so that the farmers have hardly 
finished planting their corn and potatoes. The 
wheat looks well, and promises a good crop. 
Fruit in this region, particularly the peach, (al¬ 
though injured somewhat by the frosts of April 
27th and 28th,) will, it is thought, be abundant and 
good. Peaches are about as large as a robin's 
egg, and growing rapidly. The varieties of fruit 
are not extensive here, particularly the apple, the 
most common kind of which, and perhaps the best, 
is the Jannetting. I think if they had a few kinds 
from your Rochester Nurseries, it would make a 
decided improvement in their present stock. But 
it is difficult to get trees here uninjured, at present, 
from the fact that they are too long on the way. 
When the railroad between Louisville and Nash¬ 
ville, now in course of construction, is completed, 
I think it may be undertaken with more safety and 
profit. 
Strawberries are just begining to ripen, and 
should the weather continue pleasant, and as warm 
Eds. Rural:— In fulfillment of a promise made 
you a few months since, and for the information of 
your numerous readers, especially those who de¬ 
sign to migrate to the State of Indiana, I send you 
the following brief description of my new home 
among the Iloosiers, together with a statement of 
the products of this region, and such other matters 
as may prove of general interest. 
It is a fact that most of those who leave New 
York, and the New England States to seek homes 
in the West, if they do not stop in Michigan, pass 
on to the great prairies of Illinois, W isconsin, 
Iowa, or other Western States or Territories, and 
forget, or rarely call to mind, the beautiful and rich 
State of Indiana, lying immediately south of the 
road from Lake Erie to Chicago, with its small, 
rich prairies, burr oak and timber oak openings. 
The timber is of several kinds—maple, beach, white, 
black and blue ash, basswood, hickory, whitewood, 
and black walnut, the two latter of enormous size. 
The products are those which are common in 
Ohio. The prairies yield the largest corn—the oak 
openings grow the best wheat,— the timbered lands 
are best for grass. The openings and timber lands 
can be plowed with cast-iron plows; steel-plate 
plows are in all cases required for the prairies. 
Lands in Indiana, of like quality, are much 
cheaper than in Michigan, with the same facilities 
for exportation. The Ohio river, the Wabash, the 
Wabash and Erie canal, the numerous railroads 
now in operation, with the advantages of lake nav 
igation from Michigan City, afford ample mean>- 
for export from any part of this State. 
My farm and cottage is on the south side of 
«Pretty Prairie,” which is two miles across each 
way. Two miles east of my place is a small ravine 
with a good road, and then comes the west side of 
English Prairie, which is three miles in width.— 
Two and a half miles west of my residence, we ar¬ 
rive at the southeast corner of Lima Prairie, which 
is tw r o miles across each way. These prairies are 
all under pillage, and well fenced. The Pigeon 
river runs through the northern part of this county 
from east to west, affording good mill sites, most 
of which are occupied. 
The railroad, now being made from Fort Wayne 
to Lima, and thence to Sturges, in Michigan, Kala¬ 
mazoo, Grand Rapids and Grand Traverse Bay, will 
farmers in this State great advantages, by bringing 
plaster from Grand Rapids; also, pine lumber. 
Indiana is a progressive State. The population 
at this time is about 1,300,000, with 100,000 farms 
and plantations,—and in 1850, had 314,299 hors;:.- 
714,GGG neat cattle; 1,122,493 sheep; 2,263,776 
swine,—and in rank about the fifth State in .he 
Union for horses, cattle, sheep and swine. She 
produced G,214,458 bushels of wheat; 52,9G4,3G3 
bushels of corn, — being the sixth State on wheat, 
and fourth on corn,—12,881,535 pounds of butter,— 
which is fourth in number for quantity in the 
States,—935,329 pounds of beeswax and honey; 2,- 
921,192 pounds of maple sugar, and 180,325 gallon- 
of molasses,— New Y'ork, Vermont and Ohio, only 
exceeding her in sugar making. 
I moved from Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y., in May, 
1854, to this place. My health and that of my 
family, has been generally good. I have no desire 
to return to New York. We raise our products 
easier here than there, not one acre of corn in live 
hundred is ever tended with the hoe,—it is all done 
with horses and corn cultivators. 
The experiments made here last year, in making 
molasses from the Sorghum, or Chinese Sugar 
Cane, were very satisfactory. One acre of cane 
with a common yield will make 200 gallons of mo¬ 
lasses, and is as easily tended as our field corn, and 
can be grown and made for twenty-five cents or 
less per gallon. Grapes grow well in this State—in 
the south part, wine is made to some extent for ex¬ 
portation. It is a fine country for fruit of all kinds. 
I have seen and eaten as large and fine flavored 
peaches, grown on the border of the prairie where 
I now reside, as I ever saw in the city of New York. 
I am in latitude 41° 45’ North, (about the range of 
Poughkeepsie on the Hudson river.) The climate 
is favorable for health and the products of the soil. 
Jonathan Edgcomb. 
Lima, La Grange Ce., Ind., 1858. 
Prolific Corn.— I saw in the Rural an account 
of a stalk of corn raised on the “Genesee Flats”— 
the garden of the State—which had six ears mea¬ 
suring 43 inches. I should not dare to tell a bigger 
story away up here in Allegany, if I could not prove 
it. I have a stalk of corn now on hand which has 
eight ears on it — the four longest measuring 32.^ 
inches, and the four shortest 15, making 47£ inches. 
The corn is the King Philip variety, grew very tall; 
I should think it would average eight feet high.— 
The seed came from Chautauque county. There is 
Messrs. Eds.:—A short time since I observed an 
article in the Rural entitled “Sham,” in which 
the writer wished to convey the idea that in former 
times people made iron work and, in fact, every 
thing else much better than they do now. This 
may be true; but twenty years experience teaches 
me that there is as much bad old iron as good, and 
the same may be said of all other branches of man¬ 
ufacture. The secret is here;—the smaller a man 
is in his deal with a mechanic, the poorer his iron, 
and so with all other things. The close-fisted man 
might be always complaining of poor iron and al-j 
ways have a sufficient stock to complain about 
We live in a time when men are put upon the 
scales and weighed — if a maD, in all his business 
transactions, is “good weight” he will generally 
receive full value for what he pays; but should he, 
like Belshazzar, be found wanting, he will doubt¬ 
less be heard exclaiming “bad iron /” In the 
“ good old days that are past” the squire and the 
minister were looked upon by the community as 
the end of the law, but “ think for yourself,” and 
“act for yourself” have put a different aspect upon 
affairs. If putty and paint does more for selling 
wares than durability, mechanics have found it out, 
and if a good article is valued at five dollars by the 
manufacturer, and purchasers will only pay four 
dollars, they must take such as have defects gkms- 
ed over and hidden. 
When a man orders anything from a mechanic, 
let him employ one that is honest and upright, 
telling him that he will pay whatever the article is 
worth, and I will venture to 6ay that, in nine cases 
out of ten, he will be satisfied with what he re¬ 
ceives. This is the way to get “good iron” be it 
old’’or “ new.” J - *>• 
Tomh&nnock, Bens. Co., N. Y., 1858. 
HEAVES—REMEDIES THEREFOR. 
Bloat in Cattle.— “ Wellington’s” theory is 
by no means new to me. I have seen a piece of 
fat pork forced down the throat give relief.— 
Another cure is to put a cord round the tongue 
and draw it out as far as possible; this opens the 
throat and allows the air to escape. Another is to 
put a straw rope in the mouth and draw up the 
animal’s nose as high as possible.—A. N. A., Shak- 
opee, Minnesota, 1858. 
Remedy for Knots in Cows Teats. —As many, 
heretofore, have given their remedy, here is mine. 
None but young cows have them, (at least so far as 
my experience goes,) therefore, there is no danger 
in cutting them out. Take a sharp pointed knife 
—make an incision at whatever part of the teat 
the knot is situated—and then cut it out Be care¬ 
ful to sew up the gash and put a plaster of sticking 
salve on it In ten days your cow’s bag will be 
nearly well Mind and wash it freely in cold water 
every time you milk. I have tried this method and 
found it just “ the thing.”—L. D. Olnet, Rutland, 
N. Y., 1858. _ 
Information Wanted. —I have a valuable cow 
which is likely to loose the use of a teat Before 
calving I noticed a thickening of the udder just 
above the teat, which prevented the milk from 
coming down. There has been no inflammation 
nor tenderness perceptible, and it is now shrink¬ 
ing and drying away. If you are in possession 
of any knowledge of a cure for such a difficulty, 
or if any of your readers can give a remedy, a 
publication of it in your valuable paper would be 
of great service to many of your subscribers, 
especially in dairying sections.—W. D. Robbins, 
Copenhagen, Lewis Co., N. Y., 1858. 
Black Toora in Swine. — Crows Pulling up 
Corn. —As there have been several recommenda¬ 
tions for the treatment of pigs for the black tooth, 
staggers, vomiting, &c., in the Rural, I take the 
liberty of sending my experience. The operation 
of punching or drawing the teeth having proved a 
failure, I was recommended to catch the pig and 
bleed in the mouth, by cutting across the third rib 
in the roof (lengthwise with the rib,) with a pen¬ 
knife. I have tried the remedy and seen it tried 
among my neighbors without a failure. 
Also I send you a preventive against the depre¬ 
dations of the crows. Make a strong solution of 
rock salt and saltpetre, in which soak the corn be¬ 
fore planting 24 hours. I have tried it and am 
satisfied. They will pull up a few blades here and 
there, and after tasting will quit to seek sweeter 
ain. ’Tis getting rather late for this last to be 
tried, but if you think these suggestions worthy of 
your notice, or a place in your valuable paper, for 
the information of others my end is accomplished. 
J. Bawden, Pascack, Bergen Co., N. J., 1858. 
Diseases of the Eye in Cattle. — The Haw.— 
Could you or some of the subscribers to your use¬ 
ful paper, give me any information through its 
columns regarding a disease which appears in the 
eyes of cattle? It is a whitish skin or substance 
that is growing in the corner, extending about a 
, quarter of an inch over the ball of the eye,, and 
i si ms to cover the natural membrane. I nave 
heard it designated the “Hooks” and that it would 
The Weather has been quite unpropitious for 
the past few weeks—cold, wet, and decidedly un¬ 
favorable for farming operations, over a large ex¬ 
tent of country. The unusually pleasant and balmy 
weather of March and April, however, gave farmers 
an excellent start, so that, though their work and 
crops have been somewhat retarded of late, the 
prospect is not very discouraging. The last days 
of May were quite warm, and as it is not yet too 
late to plant or re plant, none should despair of the 
promised seed time and harvest, but cultivate well 
and trustingly await the result 
Exhibitions of Horses. —Several of our Western 
New York Ag. Societies announce Shows of Horses, 
to take plaee during the present or fore part of the 
ensuing month. The Cayuga Co. Society's Show is 
to be held in Auburn, June 9th and 10th. The Pal¬ 
myra Union Society is to exhibit about the 1st of 
July, we believe, and the Wayne Co. Society the 
week following, at Lyons —though we have no 
official announcement as io time. The Maple 
Grove Association” is to make a display at Water¬ 
loo, July 1st, 2d and 3d, as stated in our advertising 
department. The Monroe Co. Society proposes to 
celebrate Independence Day, by making an exibi- 
tion on the 5th of July, and will strive to render it 
attractive and interesting — a source of instruction 
and recreation to all disposed to attend. The List 
of Premiums, Regulations, Ac., are given on our 
seventh page. 
County Ag. Societies in Conn. —According to 
an article in The Homestead, the County Ag. Socie¬ 
ties of Connecticut are in a prosperous condition. 
It states that the Hartford Co. Society has quite a 
large surplus—receipts for the year, $1,59G. The 
New London Co. Society paid $1,300 in premiums, 
and has still a surplus. Windham and Litchfield 
have each been investing in real estate, tents, etc. 
The Fairfield Co. Society has $100 in the treasury. 
The Tolland Co. Society has a surplus, and con¬ 
templates purchasing ground for permanent loca¬ 
tion, etc. The Middlesex Co. Society was never 
more flourishing, and is moving to secure perma¬ 
nent grounds. These facts are highly creditable 
to the farmers of Connecticut—proving that though 
less favored than their brethren in many other 
regions, they are imbued with the right spirit, and 
contribute liberally to promote improvement. 
Eds. Rural:—A correspondent inquires what 
can be done for a horse that has the heaves. Allow 
me to tell what I once did, in about as bad a case [m , j llce death if not attended to. If I could re 
a*. 1 ever saw I made a barrel of lime-water and -e any information, as to its cause and cure, it 
, ’ , . T , , , , « , ,uld confer a favor upon one of your subserrbers. 
placed in the stable with a lancet in. I fed dry °° n EEMI Br J lford) C . W., 1858. 
straw and grain (dry) sufficient to keep the horse i ^ 
in good order. 1 gave a tablespoonful of ginger II km arks. Cattle have a contrivance for cleans- 
in the grain once, twice, and sometimes, three times ng the eye from annoying substances, termed the 
Every time I watered, I drew from one to baw, a flat piece of cartilage, of a semi-circular 
a day. 
This 
two quarts of the lime-water into the pail of wa- f °rm, situated witlnn the corner of the eye. 
ter; and never gave more than two-thirds of a pail portion of the eye is disposed to disease. The lit- 
of water at a time. This course was regularly pur- tie portion of fleshy substance towards the inner 
sued until I had given five pounds of ginger, and edge of the cartilage, and the caruncle, or sma 
by this time the horse was completely cured, so fleshy body, placed at the corner of the eye to 
that afterwards I fed hay aDd grain as to anyhorse. 
I know of no injury that ginger will do, except to 
take away the appetite. Should it have this effect, 
of course it should be given less frequently. A 
mash was given occasionally to keep the bowels in 
proper condition. Oats and corn, ground and fed 
wet with cut straw, would undoubtedly be better 
than what I gave. But do not feed too much mill- 
feed, for I believe it vill kill any horse that eats it 
for a long time.—P., Niagara Co, A. 3. 
Messrs. Eds:— Noticing an inquiry in a late Ru¬ 
ral for the best method of treating a heavey horse, 
and thinking that any information on the subject 
might benefit scores of readers, I will give my 
method of treating that disease which I have found 
very effectual. In the first place feed the animal 
no hay but plenty of corn fodder, and straw as a 
substitute-when corn fodder is not to be had. Feed 
out straw, mixed with any kind of meal. Take 
smart weed and boil it and mix a quart of juice 
with their feed once or twice a week. I hope our 
inquiring friend will try it and report through the 
Rural. —L. H. S., Potter, Ptnn., 1858. 
A GOOD AND CHEAP ROLLER. 
as now, (82° in the shade,) I think we may expect another variety of King Philip corn about here 
an abundant supply of this delicious fruit. 
Bowling Green, Ky., May 14,1858. J. W. C. 
To Prevent Crows Pulling Corn.— Pouring 
boiling hot soap on your corn about one pint to the 
half bushel, or enough to wet the corn, then dry 
with slacked quick-lime just before planting. The 
corn should be stirred while pouring on the soap. 
—H. Cass, Manlius, N. Y., May, 1858. 
that grows quite small,—the seed was brought from 
the East. —Abel L. Blowers, Cuba, Allegany Co., 
N. Y., 1858. 
Rotation of Crops. — Query for “ Young Farm¬ 
er —Will you please allow me to ask the “ Young 
Farmer” on Rotation of Crops, if he expects the 
wheat sown after barley will succeed and become 
a good crop?—X. Y. Z., Litchfield, N. Y., 1858. 
Eds. Rural:— Having noticed in a late issue of 
your paper, an inquiry for a good and cheap plan 
for a roller, I thought mine would answer that de¬ 
scription. I made one three years ago, of white- 
wood, in the following manner:—Take a log 30 or 
40 inches in diameter—have a slab cut from two 
sides, of considerable thickness, then turn and slab 
the other two sides, which, you see, will be square 
edged. Be sure to lay out the log before sawing 
and make the slabs so that they will go together as 
they were on the log —the wain edge pinned onto 
the square one, with 3-4 inch pins. Y r ou now have a 
square for the heads which should be fitted in tight, 
of hard wood, lj inches thick, with journals of 2 
inches in diameter, with a flat head, say G or 8 inches 
in diameter, and four holes for half-inch bolts, bolt¬ 
ed on the head before putting in. Put the head in 
its place and fasten with 3-4 inch pins, through the 
slabs into the head; frame in the usual way—side 
pieces 3 by 4 inches—bore in with 2 inch auger for 
journals about two-thirds through. When framed 
give from 1 to 1J inches play, a small hole over the 
end of the journals to receive oil. If the slabs are 
oak and likely to be too heavy, dig them out as you 
would a trough before putting together. It re¬ 
quires no genius, if a man can make a pin he can 
make such a roller. He wants a saw, a two inch 
and a 3-4 inch auger, one-inch chisel, and a narrow 
axe. The lumber got from the square will pay the 
expense. T - 
1 Pleasant Farm, Plymouth, Mich., 1858. 
give a proper direction to the tears, take on inflam¬ 
mation from sympathy with the eye generally, or 
from injury, dust or gravel; they swell prodigious¬ 
ly, and the haw is protruded over the eye, and can 
not return. Ulceration appears, and a fungous 
growth springs up. Every means should be adopt¬ 
ed to save the haw, for the removal of it will tor¬ 
ment the animal as long as he lives. 
if the disease is connected with inflammation of 
the eye generally, it will subside with that inflam¬ 
mation, and this may be hastened by the applica¬ 
tion of a Goulard wash, or diluted tincture of 
opium. If it is a disease of the part itself, zinc 
lotion must be used (two grains of white vitriol 
dissolved in an ounce of water, and the vitriol 
gradually increased to four grains; the application 
of it confined as much as possible to the part, and 
the liquid not being suffered to get to the sound 
part of the eye) When it loses its power, a lotion 
of corrosive sublimate may be adopted, first of half 
a grain to an ounce of water, and gradually in¬ 
creased to two grains. 
If it becomes necessary to extirpate the part, the 
beast must be cast; keep open the eye with the 
fingers; a crooked needle armed with strong silk, 
must be passed through the cartilage, by means of 
which the part may be drawn out as far as possible; 
and then, with a pair of crooked scissors, the haw 
may be neatly dissected out If the ulceration ex¬ 
tend to any of the parts behind, or to the neigh¬ 
boring tissues, they also must he removed. Con¬ 
siderable bleeding will probably follow the opera- 
taion, and some inflammation of the neighboring 
parts; but they must be subdued by proper means. 
If fungus sprout, it must be touched with caustic; 
there is little danger attending the operation. 
The Homestead is one of the neatest and best 
conducted Agricultural Journals in the Union. It 
is always rich and readable,—and, emanating from 
the “land of steady habits,” we have hitherto con¬ 
sidered its quintuple corps of editors remarkable 
for sobriety. But, in regard to its prescription 
for a severe headache, we don’t know. Fear the 
remedy is worse than the disease—and yet, when 
one has a severe headache, and the printers are 
crying “ copy,” desperate remedies are allowable. 
The remedy, which our contemporary records “for 
the benefit of fellow sufferers,”—especially com¬ 
mending it to editorial brethren, “if they have a 
headache when the printer wants copy, and they 
are ready to measure means to the necessity,”— is 
as follows:—“Take a good sized wineglass of best 
French brandy, add to it a large heaped teaspoon¬ 
ful of strongest black pepper,—drink it at one 
swallow; rinse the mouth with water but swallow 
none, conscientiously. A cure follows (at least it 
followed) in five minutes.” 
Ag. Societies in Wisconsin. —The Legislature 
of Wisconsin has recently and wisely passed an act 
for the formation, protection and encouragement 
of County Agricultural Societies. It empowers 
one Society in each County to sell and convey real 
estate—exempts land and other property owned by 
a Co. Society from taxation—appropriates $100 an¬ 
nually to each Society which holds a Fair during 
the year, and receives an equal amount—and makes 
other wise and salutary provisions. The Badger 
State is progressing. 
TKRRA-CnwruRE “Still Lives.” —We olvi«:^..J^JL 
that somebody is eulogizing the renowned “ Prof." 11 S 
Comstock, and his system, yclept “ Terra-Culture,' 
in the Ag. Department of the Baltimore Sun. The 
learned and astute “Professor” is styled “a gen¬ 
tleman of much scientific research,” practical 
ability, and all that sort of thing —which will 
be news to the people of this and the Western 
States where he has endeavored to “ disclose the 
disclosures.” He is a genius, is the “ Professor,” 
but evidently not destined to die young. His 
theory may answer for the Eastern Shore of Mary¬ 
land, but don’t take root where there is a good soil 
and progressive cultivators. Quer-y —Wonder if 
the “ Professor” didn’t ivrite or pay for (or both) 
the “ first rate notice” in the Sun (which “ shines 
for all.”) 
Sales of Short-horns. —We learn from the 
Journal of the State Society, that Mr. Samuel 
Thorne, of Dutchess Co., is making very satisfactory 
sales of his fine stock. It states that he has sold 
cows, “ Cypress ” and “ Constance,” to A. II. Beach, 
of Connecticut, and “Lady Millicent,” to J. H. 
Thomas, of Vermont—all imported; “Inca,” a 
young bull, to R. Jackson, of Ohio, and “ Argyle,” 
by 2d Grand Duke, to G. W. Coffii* of Dutchess 
county; bull“Altorf,” by “Neptune,” dam, “Anges,” 
to Cooper Sayre, of Oaks’Corners, Ontario county; 
and cow, “Elgentha,” to Hon. A. B. Conger, of 
Waldeburg, Rockland county. 
The Dioscorea Batatas. —This subterranean ex¬ 
otic is receiving many back-handed compliments 
from the press, and is not probably making much 
progress—even toward China. In copying a recent 
“ drive ” at it from the Rural, the N. Y. Observer 
saysWhen men tire of surface culture, this pro¬ 
duct might afford amusement underground. Grave¬ 
diggers could grow it to advantage on their pros¬ 
pective ‘ diggings.’ ” Other journals, in quoting 
the same article, are equally or more facetious, and 
we reckon the Dioscorea’s race—“ into the ground” 
—is about finished, as it appears to be on the “home 
stretch.” Requiescat in pace ! 
Sowing Beet Seeit. —“ A neighbor of ours,” says 
the editor of the Granite State Farmer, “when 
sowing his garden seeds, marks out the rows aross 
his bed with a marker, and then cross marks, in the 
same manner, though not so deep. At the inter¬ 
section of these little furrows he places a seed, and 
leaves them temporarily to their fate. In this way 
he uses no unnecessary seed, and his beds are more 
easily hoed. He considers this a great labor-saving 
plan, for which he asks nothing.” 
IIiGn Price for a Yearling Colt.— Mr. May¬ 
nard, of Bradford, Mass., has sold for $1,500 the 
yearling colt which took the first premium in the 
roadster class at the Mass. State Show, last fall. 
He was just one year and three days old at the 
time of sale. His sire was Trotting Childers by 
Black Hawk, dam, Cleopatra by Black Hawk. So 
says Bro. Howard, of the Boston Cultivator, good 
authority, who adds —“ He is the best trotter we 
ever saw of his age.” 
Kentucky State Fair. —The time of holding 
this Fair has been changed from the first week in 
September, to Sept 2Stb, 29th and 30th, and Oct. 
1st and 2d. It is to be held at Louisville. 
