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tions, apparently minor ones, but really not 
so—such as the keeping the conduit pipes 
from being stopped up with the matter passing 
through them — the bursting of these pipes, 
and in the event of repairs being required, the 
diverting of the sewerage to other channels.— 
The application of sewerage manure to the 
soil as it leaves populous places, by any sys¬ 
tem of irrigation, must therefore on good 
ground, be regarded as futile, especially in the 
case of the most populous cities. 
[Concluded next week.] 
©»• Serial Contributors. 
LONDON—FAltMING IN CANADA WEST. 
This London of the New World is the 
county town of Middlesex county, 0. W., 
and contains a population of 10,000—English, 
Scotch and Irish, with a strong sprinkling of 
the “ universal Yankees.” Its streets are wide 
and regular and cross each other at right an¬ 
gles, which, as the place is on a broad table 
land and very level, appear very finely. The 
public buildings are the Court House, Royal 
Exchange, Covent Garden Market, City Hall, 
and some excellent Hotels, the leading one— 
Robinson Hall—being kept by a Down Easter. 
Few' cities can boast of a better City Hall or 
Market. The town has recentiy been lighted 
with gas, and only needs a supply of good 
water to render it a first class inland city.— 
Mercantile business is extensive, supplying a 
large extent of country, back to Lake Huron. 
Previous to the completion of the Great \\ est- 
ern Railway the whole commercial business 
was done at Port Stanley, on Lake Erie, dis¬ 
tant about twenty-five miles. The building of 
the railway has been of much benefit, inducing 
increased trade, additional and better buildings, 
and enabling the traffic to be continued through 
the winter months, heretofore impossible. The 
enterprising citizens have in course of con¬ 
struction the London and Port Stanley Rail¬ 
way, which will enable them to reach the Lake 
in some twenty-five miles, and bring them in 
cheap communication with Buffalo, with which 
city they now trade largely. 
It is not the city alone that deserves men¬ 
tion, for around it, on every side, is spread out 
a farming country of great beauty and fertili¬ 
ty. Wheat, both -winter and spring, is grown 
to a large extent and w ith good success. Some 
of the samples are as fine as the best Genesee. 
Farmers here are not particular in growing 
only one kind of wheat in the field, but mix 
the white and red together, to their own dis¬ 
advantage when seeking a market. Good 
winter wheat commands $1,50, spring $1,25, 
oats 3734 cents. Vet 7 litt!c corn is scen > frora 
which it may be inferred that little is giown 
except for home use. Here, as well as else¬ 
where in Canada, attention is given to breed¬ 
ing good cattle and sheep, and fine horses.— 
The beef in market for the holidays is supe¬ 
rior, and the fat. mutton can hardly be excelled. 
The sheep most in favor are the middle-wooled, 
South Downs and Cotswolds, and their crosses, 
with the natives. Agriculture is still in its 
infancy, and many of the farms at the north 
are new and only partially cleared. I he laud 
toward Lake Huron is represented as very fer¬ 
tile and rapidly settling. Toward IAke Erie 
it lias been longer tilled and is of a very supe¬ 
rior character. 
In some respects the Canadian farmers are in 
advance of those in the States. Having come 
from England, whore high and systematic fai fil¬ 
ing has received more attention, they the more 
readily adopt improvements which promise 
good results. They are large growers of the 
different root crops, and find them of gr at 
value. They have plow's modeled after the 
Scotch, with which they plow deep an.I well, 
far better, as a general thing, than New York 
plowmen. Sub soil plowing is beginning to- 
attract attention and will be found very bene¬ 
ficial. as much of the soil is stiffly tinctured 
with clay. Draining is also receiving much 
thought. A company has been incorporated 
for the purpose of making and putting down 
drains, upon a large sca’e. It is proposed to 
do this upon a farm, and allow the proprietor 
to pay for the improvements made in annual 
instalments, with interest, something in the 
manner of a mortgage or lease upon the pio- 
perty. The head-quarters of the company are 
at Hamilton, and it embraces many of the in¬ 
fluential and w'oalt.hy men of Canada Aest. 
Horticulture receives very general encourage¬ 
ment, and few are the farmers of note who 
cannot boast of good fruit, and, indeed, choice 
and rare flowers and shrub3. Nor are these 
things neglected among the small/armors.— 
Many a one, on his humble farm far away to¬ 
ward Lake Huron, is familiar with the best 
apples, pears, plums, and other fruit, and not 
a few have obtained the best trees of the C0i.c- 
brated nurseries of Monroe county. I rom 
Buffalo, tco, they have drawn a liberal supply. 
Few c .untries of equal extent give better 
promise of the future than Canada VYc>t. It 
is dotted over with flourishing villages, and is 
fast being interlaced by well constructed rail¬ 
ways, which, when completed, will greatly en¬ 
hance the measure of her prosperity. We pur¬ 
pose t.o know her better, and say more of dif¬ 
ferent parts of the province, at a future time. 
London, C. W. O. 
CDommnnitaiioits. 
ROTATION OF CROPS. - MANURING. 
There can be no scientific farming without 
a regular rotation of crops. And there is no 
method, perhaps, which suits this section of the 
country so well as that of plowing up green 
sward in the spring, and planting it to corn or 
potatoes—sowing barley or oats the succeeding 
year,—and then finish by putting in a crop of 
wheat, and sealing down with clover for pas¬ 
ture, or meadow. When this method is follow¬ 
ed, the manure may be applied to the corn, in 
the spring, or reserved to promote the growth 
of the wheat, at the option of the farmer. But 
for two reasons it is generally usal on the for¬ 
mer crop; one is, the mistaken idea that the 
farmer receives more benefit from it when thus 
applied : and the other, and the strongest, per¬ 
haps, is, that it is more convenient for him to 
haul it in the spring time than after harvest. 
But common barn-yaad manure requires 
much decomposition before it can be highly 
beneficial. And this does not take place very 
rapidly during the summer months, unless the 
season is wet, which rarely happens. And it 
is generally conceded among farmers, that 
not the corn, but the succeeding crop absorbs 
tho larger portion of the manure, and receives 
the greatest benefit. But if a severe drouth 
happens to prevail, the coarse manure that was 
plowed under in the spring, is not only no ben¬ 
efit to the corn, but is a positive injury. For 
that together with the sod is not as good a 
conductor of water as the earth, and conse¬ 
quently prevents the moisture which is in the 
ground below, from passing up towards the 
surface. 
The better method is to pile the manure in 
the spring, mixing with it whatever muck and 
other materials may be collected, and add a 
few bushels of plaster and ashes. Shovel it 
over as often as possible during the summer, 
and after the ground has been plowed for 
wheat, in the fall, spread it on and turn it un¬ 
der to the depth of four or five inches with a 
gang plow, or it may be turned under with 
the stubble at the first plowing. Til's would 
save labor, but would not give the wheat so 
good a start in the fall. The ground which 
has been somewhat exhausted by the two pre¬ 
ceding crops, is thus invigorated and prepared 
to bring forth an abundant harvest. Besides, 
as the wheat will not absorb all the manure, it 
will place the soil in a much better condition 
for the ensuing crop of corn, and it is very 
probable that the corn receives more benefit 
from manure thus made and applied, than it 
does when drawn out coarse from the barn-yard 
and plowed under with the turf. 
Another reason why it should be applied to 
tho wheat, is, that the two most important 
crops receive the benefit, whereas, if put on in 
the spring, the middle crop, which is of less 
value than the others, draws the greatest nour¬ 
ishment from it, and the decayed turf, also. A 
top dressing of manure for wheat, although it 
is highly beneficial to the crop, yet is a very 
wasteful method of application, for a large por¬ 
tion of it rises into the air, and passes off when 
decomposition takes place. g. f. w. 
Perrinton, N. Y., Jun., 1854. 
Remarks. — Our correspondent gives one 
view of the question—but one we think, which 
will be contested by others. Our columns arc 
open to appropriate replies.—Ecs. 
WHEAT AND CORN—THE CHEAPEST CROP. 
Mr. Rural :—1 am pleased to observe, that 
my views on the subject of the value and im¬ 
portance of Indian corn I'or use as bread, and 
also the economy and necessity of its increased 
production, meet with the endorsement of so 
many thinking readers. I am so thoroughly 
convinced of its entire adaptation to human 
nutriment and subsistence, that 1 do not wish 
to sec the subject dropped, until the farming 
community, and all those who have any interest 
in living cheaply and well, shall be effectually 
awakened to the subject. I am happy also to 
observe that some of your correspondents arc 
not a shamed of Johnny-cake Philosophy, nor 
so thin-skinned as to fear the sneers of being 
classed as corn-fed bipeds, or for having a taste 
and liking to the warm brown loaf. But I 
must demur to the ground taken by “ Z. A. 
Maize,” on the point that wheat is cheaper 
made than Indian corn. He bases his belief 
on the great requirement of manual labor ne¬ 
cessary to make it. I will admit it all, but 
permit me to set forth the manual—the actual 
hand labor and liftings, and the mileage re¬ 
quired in the production of every bushel of 
wheat. 
In the first stage the seed is lifted into the 
wagon to take to the field and again is lifted 
£&t—the sower lifts it, the cradler, the binder 
and the shocker lift it, and the pitcher, and 
the unloader and the mower away, lifts it. In 
threshing, it is lifted from the mow, and the 
band-cutter and the feeder lift it, the banker 
and the winnower, the measurer and the bag¬ 
ger lift it, and again the loader and uulcader 
when taken to market. The bare hand labor 
results in actually lifting—overcoming the 
vis inertia of more than 2,000 lbs. lor every 
bushel raised; add to this one or two extra 
piowings and harrovvings, and the travel ol 
both men and teams from the first plowing to 
the marketing, and it remits in a great odds 
in favor of the corn production. Even the 
mileage made in perfecting a bushel of wheat 
at Congressmens’ rates, would make a fearful 
hole in in the profit—to this add the fact that 
the average production per acre, is nearly or 
quite two bushels to one in favor of the corn, 
and I *think I have made out my case ; that 
the corn crop, when properly managed, 
better remunetates tho labor o: its production 
than wheat. 
Gentlemen of the jury, what is your verdict? 
Prompter. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
value of vegetable matter to soils. 
Messrs. Eds A farmer who has this rain 
less season harvested fifty bushels of shelled 
corn to the acre, attributes his success, in his 
present crops of corn and buckwheat, to the 
mucky character and consequent absorbing 
power of the soil. Another fanner who got 
750 bushels of shelled corn from fifteen acres, 
made a heavy timothy and clover sward 
answer the. purpose of vegetable mould or 
muck. His soil was a clay loam; it was deep¬ 
ly plowed and the sod inverted last fall, and 
planted last spring before the 20th of May.— 
Had the field been deprived of the mechanical 
aid of the decaying sod, methinks no concen¬ 
trated fertilities could have compensated for 
the loss. While it is admitted by all farmers 
that vegetable matter is necessary to make a 
clay soil tillable and capable of holding neces¬ 
sary moisture, there are others who contend 
because it is tillable, that a sandy soil requires 
nothing but fine conceutratal manures. But 
as you have ijell said, “ although sand may 
destroy tenacity, it gives of itself little absor¬ 
bent power without the aid of the carbonate 
oflime and animal and vegetable manures.’/?) 
Hence while sandy soils may be much benefit¬ 
ed by the plowing in of stiff sward or green 
clover, such treatment is only still more in¬ 
dispensable to a heavy tenacious soil; but to 
make up for this adhesive property of calcare¬ 
ous clays, they are so economical of the car¬ 
bonate of ammonia, that the coarsest and least 
azotised of manures suffices them, while sand 
need' vegetable matter to enable it to retain 
moisture, and a large intermixture of clay and 
calcareous matter to enable it to retain ammo¬ 
nia.— S. Williams, Waterloo, Oct., 1854. 
A CHEAP DOOR-YARD FENCE. 
Eds. Rural ’Take a fiat stone G inches 
thick_12 by 24 inches, or thereabout (the 
bottom should be flat, the upper parts are of 
no consequence;) drill a hole 1 in. in the centre ; 
put these stones about 8 feel apart flat upon 
the surface of the ground. Now take %- 
round iron 3 feet long, and insert one end into 
the hole in the stone; drive a nail into the 
hole at the side of the iron, so as to make 
your post upright. 
Now take rails 2 by 3 in.; bore 2% in. 
holes, the same distance apart that you have 
placed your stones ; slip the rail over the top 
of your iron post, so that the bottom rail will 
lay upon the stone—the top of the upper rail 
even with the top of the iron post. Now take 
pickets 4 feet long, 2% to 3 in. wide by 1 in., 
and nail them upright upon the rails, 3 in. 
apart; give the top of the picket any shape 
you like, and you will have a neat and peima- 
nent fence. The cost will be, for 20 pickets, 
25 cts ; 2 rails, bottom 2% by 3, top 2 by 3,14 
cts. ; nails, 5 cts; round iron, 24 cts. ; drill¬ 
ing, 5 cts.; stone, 21 cts. ; labor and team¬ 
ing, 28 ;—making per rod, $1.22. 
You may give any form to the pickets you 
like.—A. B., Ilallowell, Me. 
squashes, again. 
Now that the subject is up, let us see who 
can tell the largest story on squashes. A cor¬ 
respondent (John T. Charlton, of Canada 
West,) writes:—“The sweet potato squash 
seeds you sent we last spring all grew, but four 
of the vines were destroyed by a small bug, 
which devoured the roots. From the remain¬ 
ing vines I picked twenty-six squashes, all of 
which were ripe and weighed twenty pounds 
each. As to their quality, they so far exceed 
the pumpkin in common use in this part of the 
country, that they will forever banish the lat¬ 
ter from my premises. Enclosed you will find 
two dollars, for which please send me one pack¬ 
age each of the following seeds,” &c. 
These squashes are not large, but what they 
lack in size, is made up in quantity and qual¬ 
ity. I once raised from a single plant five 
hundred and twenty-five pounds of squashes, 
as much inferior to the common pumpkin as 
these are superior, and they were large. But 
our northern neighbor has got “some pump¬ 
kins” of real value. “We rest.”—I. W. B. 
Profitable Poultry. —Mrs. Botsford, of 
this town, from twenty-three hens raised 250 
chickens, and sold 840 eggs. Her hens were 
Dorkings, Shanghais and Cochins. She gives 
Dorkings and Cochins the preference.— G. Hos¬ 
kins, Meridian, N. Y., Jan., 1855. 
A Btg Hog, —Joseph Simonds, Esq., of 
Northfie’d, Vt., killed a hog ! ast week, 20 months 
old, weighing 742 lbs. ihis was a real demo 
cra’tic hog. and no mistake ; and if any one can 
produce his superior, let him speak.— Patriot. 
THE FARMER'S HOME. 
U. S. Agricultural Society.— The Third 
Annual Meeting of the United States Agricul¬ 
tural Society will lie held at Washington, D. 
C., on Wednesday, February 28.1855. Busi¬ 
ness of importance will come before the meet¬ 
ing. A new election of officers is to be made, 
in which it is desirable that every State and 
Territory should be represented. Lectures and 
interesting Discus&ions are expected on subjects 
pertaining to the objects of the Association, by 
distinguished scientific and practical Agricul¬ 
turists. The various Agricultural Societies of 
the country are requested to send delegates to 
this meeting ; and all gentlemen who are in¬ 
terested in the welfare of American Agricul¬ 
ture, who would promote a more cordial spirit 
of intercourse between the different sections of 
our land, and who would elevate this most im¬ 
portant pursuit to a position of greater use¬ 
fulness and honor, are also invited to be pres¬ 
ent on this occasion. 
Vermont State Agricultural Society.— 
At the annual meeting held at Middlebury, on 
the llthinst., the following gentlemen wereelect- 
al officers:— President — Frf.d’k Holbrook, 
of Brattleboro’. Vice Presidents. — Edwin 
Hammond, Henry S. Morse, Henry Keyes, 
Solomon W. Jewett, Corresponding Secreta¬ 
ry —J. A. Beckwith, of Middlebury. P\.ecord- 
ing Secretary —Charles Cummings, of do.— 
Treasurer —Edw. Seymour, of Vergennes.— 
Auditor —Fred. E. Woodbridgc. Additionvl 
Directors —George F. Hodges, E. B. Chase. 
J. W. Vail, John Gregory, A. L. Bingham, 
David Hill, John Howe, Jr., J. M. Colburn, 
B. B. Newton. 
Seed Wheat from the East.— Our drago¬ 
man at Constantinople has sent to the Patent 
Office for the public good one hundred bush¬ 
els of superior flint wheat from the vicinity of 
Mount Olympus, which will be distributed this 
winter and spring for experiments in different 
parts of the country. There are also expcctal 
seedlings of the famous wheat from the farm of 
Abraham, at the foot of Mount Carmel, and 
the celebrated Cassabar melon seed. 
The California Farmer)-, published in San 
Francisco, advertises for “ Cones of the Native 
Pines, Acorns from our Mountain Oaks, Seed 
of all our Mountain Shrubs, and of every spe¬ 
cies of valuable tree or shrub; for these the 
full price will be paid, if satisfactorily labeled, 
classified, and arranged, at our office.” 
FARINACEOUS ALIMENT FROM STRAW. 
The attention of agriculturists in France 
has been recently directed to the discovery of 
a method of converting straw into a kind of 
bran. This discovery has been claimed by 
two individuals. The first is a miller near Di¬ 
jon, of whose name we are not informed, who, 
it is said, on trying the mill-stone of a new 
mill, discovered the possibility of converting 
straw into a nourishing food. The second, M. 
Jos. Maitre, founder of the fine agricultural es¬ 
tablishment of Yilotte, near Chatillon. 
This distinguished agriculturist, known for 
the purity and perfection of his breeds of sheep, 
conceived the idea of converting into farina, 
not only tho straw of wheat, and other grains, 
but of hay, trefoil, lucern, sanfoin, tic. His 
efforts are/aid to have been perfectly success¬ 
ful, and his discovery arrived at—not by 
chance, but by long experiment and research. 
The aliment which he has produced is said to 
be a complete substitute for bran. It is given 
to sheep and lambs, who consume it with avid¬ 
ity, and may be given to all oilier gramniver- 
ous animals, as a grateful and substantial food. 
M. Maitre, with the view of bringing the 
process to perfection, has ordered a mill for 
its manufacture, and he is preparing to com¬ 
municate a report to the Royal Society of Ag¬ 
riculture on the advantages in rural domestic 
economy to be derived from this preparation. 
We are not at the present moment informed of 
the nature of this process. It it be a simple 
grinding of the straw or fodder, and a sepai a 
tion of some of its fibrous matter, we can easily 
imagine the advantages that may result from 
it. We know in this country that the mere 
chopping of straw adds greatly to its powers, 
by facilitating mastication and digestion.— 
We may believe that a more perfect communi¬ 
cation of its parts will produce a correspond¬ 
ing effect, and extend very widely, the uses of 
straw and other fodder, as a means of feeding 
our domestic animals .—Quarterly Journal of 
Agriculture. 
Prebarisg Wood. —Some farmers have not 
yet learned, that in piling wood for seasoning 
they should not expose the heart to the weath¬ 
er. Nature designed the bark of the trees as 
a protection, and it serves as well when a tree 
is cut and split, if properly piled, as when on 
the stump. The bark should always be up¬ 
permost. In this way, the water runs off 
readily and the wood is not colored by expo¬ 
sure to rains. 
When there is a large amount of it piled in 
one place, the different tiers should be some¬ 
what removed from each other, that there may 
be a free circulation of the air among the wood. 
If this precaution is not taken the interior 
courses will become mouldy and will be seri¬ 
ously injured. 
Now is the time to cut wood for the year if 
it is not already completed. Wood cut now, 
will season better and be of more value than 
when cut in the spring or summer .—Granite 
Parmer. 
What signify all the improvements in agri¬ 
cultural processes, which are constantly urged 
upon the acceptance of farmers, if the farmer’s 
Home is what it ought not to be ? 
Deep cultivation, draining, drawing, ditch¬ 
ing mulching, composting, tec., are all impor¬ 
tant, as a means ; but the proper end to be ac- 
complished is not the multiplication of dollars 
and cents—not the laying up instore of “much 
goods ;” but that most desirable of all earthly 
ultimates, a pleasant, attractive, nappy Home. 
The farmer's Home should not be so much 
his castle, as his sanctuary. Over its thresh¬ 
old, disorders and discontents should never be 
allowed to step. Harmony, order, love and 
peace, as well as plenty, should reign within the 
farmer's abode, making it a paradise, as little 
marred by gross and corrupting desires as may 
be ; where the intellect, the taste, and the af¬ 
fections may seek and find their appropriate 
and full gratification. What desolation, nay, 
what wants abound within those walls, where 
merely animal desires are cloyed with material 
profusion, to the exclusion of that higher food 
of the spiritual nature, which is, in fact, ihe 
“ bread of life!” There, the physical man may 
grow, and fatten, and rejoice in its ease, and 
its indolence, with a sort of porcine satisfac¬ 
tion ; while the inner life, and manhood, the 
God-spark, faints, famishes, and dies. 
The fields are the places where the head, 
aided by the strong arm, should triumph in 
material achievements. In the true Home, 
the heart, aided by the head, should emulate 
the industry of the bee, in storing its treasures, 
aud like the treasury of the bee, those of the 
human Home should be of honeyed sweetness. 
Wealth may build palaces to shelter gilded 
misery. Poverty, by making a true home in 
an unpretending cottage, hallows itself, and 
shames the power of gold. 
It is astonishing with what facility the cul¬ 
tivated spirit changes even material objects in¬ 
to high spiritual individualities. A tree, a 
shrub, a flower, nay, a stone, may have its his¬ 
tory—a history, the recital of which shall pal 
pitate the listener’s heart with joy, or blur his 
eyes with tears of sadness. Inanimate objects, 
(only so, perhaps, to our thinking,) may speak 
a language, which the heart shall hear, and 
feel, and answer. Around the true home, sa¬ 
cred as were held the household duties of olden 
times, cluster these objects of man’s asthetic 
nature. They make him better, happier and 
wiser ; opening up to him, even here, a mani¬ 
fold life, and enable him to read sermons in 
stones, and to behold good in everything. 
Verily, we are sorry to say it, but so it is, 
verily, the farmer's Home needs improvement 
more than his plow-shares, his threshers, or 
his reapers. It needs more than improvement; 
it demands a new creation, fashioned on a 
plan of such beauty and harmony, that it may 
be a temple worthy to be tenanted by beings 
who have spirits as well as bodies. Then, 
what follows in the way of even unlimited im¬ 
provement in modes of material production, 
for the farmer’s Home will be what it ought to 
be.— Ohio Farmer. 
Manure the Best Investment. —A farmer 
“ well to do ” in the world, asked us the other 
day what we considered the best stock in 
which to invest his surplus funds, whether 
Railroad, Bank, or State Stocks? We told 
him he had better apply his surplus funds to 
the manufacture of a good manure heap, and 
let Railroad, Bank, and State Stocks alone.— 
We consider it the height of folly for a farmer 
to meddle with fancy stocks when he has any 
waste or unimproved land, or buildings, or 
fences that need repairing, with which to use 
his surplus money. This dabbling in stocks or 
interest money has always been the result of 
short-sightedness on the part.of the farming 
community, especially when the money might 
be more usefully employed in hiring men to 
improve and put their lands in the highest pos¬ 
sible state of cultivation, instead of half or 
quarter tilling them, as the vast majority of 
farmers do at present. Our agricultural 
friends need waking up on this point, and to 
be thoroughly aroused to the tact that it don't 
pay to work after the manner in which their 
grandfathers did before them, for “ old fogy- 
ism” is as unprofitable to them as any other 
class of community. Wake up, and see if it 
isn’t so !— New Brunswick Fredonian. 
Corn Fodder. — I intended last fall to com 
municate to the Farmer what amount of corn 
fodder I took from a square rod, but cold 
weather and snow came on before it was per¬ 
fectly dried through. Still it was so near 
dried as not to mould in the bundle and injure' 
it. My cows have eaten this winter without 
20 lbs. waste, what came from an acre and 
one fourth, excepting what was cut and fed 
out green before November. I have bright 
clover, and English hay, red-top, &c., but 
nothing that is likal as well by cows giving 
milk, as cow-corn. They eat it “ all up clean.” 
and give more and better milk than when fed 
on hay. 
My cow-corn when sowed is the best white 
flat I can get, and from as far south as Dela¬ 
ware, the farther South the better. Rows, 3)4 
feet apart, from 40 to GO kernels to a foot in 
the drill, sowed with a machine of my own 
construction. The fodder from one rod square, 
we : ghed 225 lbs. when taken to the barn—a 
more perfect drying of the stalks, would have 
raluced the number of pounds some, how much 
I know not.— Cor. Granite Farmer. 
Large Profits. —Samuel Jones, of Somer¬ 
set county, Maryland, made, last year, $1,523, 
from his farm of seventy acres. His receipts 
were $180 for rose water, mint wa'er, and 
peach water, and $200 from ice, strawberries, 
butter, milk, cream, and soap. His wheat 
crop realized $593; his corn, $3u0; and his 
potatoes $200. 
Full complements of tools and implements 
of husbandry are intimately connected with 
the success of the husbandman. 
In feeding with corn, sixty pounds ground 
goe 3 as far as one hundred pounds in the kernel. 
