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MOOSE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
perior to our native breeds in laying propen¬ 
sities. With reasonable care, and under suit¬ 
able and proper circumstances, they will lay 
the year round, except a short peiiod while 
under the influence of moulting. In produc¬ 
tiveness, therefore, they may be considered 
worth double the value of the native fowl.— 
Add to this the increased size of their eggs, 
which are from 12 or 15, to 80 or 35 per cent, 
larger than those of the common hen, and 
their superior value compared to the common 
fowl can be realized in a moment. 
Now. “ progress and improvement,” is the 
order of the day. With the farmer it is em¬ 
phatically the order of the day, in relation 
both to the quantity and quality of his pro¬ 
ducts ; and also in relation to his stock,—to 
his cattle, horses, sheep and swine. And why 
should it not extend to his poultry also ? It 
is, to be sure, a small interest compared with 
those just named ; but for the capital invested 
and the labor and expense bestowed upon 
them, there is no stock in the farmer’s own¬ 
ership equally productive. And it is just as 
easy to obtain as many 50 cent pieces for his 
Asiatic birds, at the merchant’s counter, as it 
is 25 cent pieces for his common fowls. 
Do we hear it objected, that the Oriental 
bird impoverishes his granary ? Well, no 
doubt, a very large bird eats more than a small 
one. The largest Oriental bird of the writer, 
weighing 12 pounds, doubtless eats more 
than a native one of 4A pounds. But we do 
not ask or desire to have one exceed 8 or 9 
pounds; and a hen 6 to 7 pounds ; and if wc 
notice any differ; nee in feeding the Brahma 
and the Chittagong of 6 pounds, (our favorite 
breeds,) and the native hen of 8 pounds, it is 
that the native is the most voracious, and con¬ 
sumes the most food. 
If these suggestions are correct, we respect¬ 
fully submit, whether it would not be wise for 
every farmer to substitute, as soon as practic¬ 
able, the best Asiatic breeds for his common 
fowls. It can easily he accomplished, and at 
small expense. The foreign breeds will have 
been multiplied, during the present season, to 
such extent that the best birds for stock will 
probably be obtainable, in some localities, at 
about the price they would be worth for table 
use. It woul d be but a small affair, therefore, 
fortlie farmer to purchase, at the market price, 
a few desirable birds this fall for next spring’s 
use. A small number would stock his poul¬ 
try yard during the next season. We make 
no comparisons of the different breeds. They 
are all good. They all have their advocates and 
admirers. Although they differ in value, they 
are greatly superior to our native fowls, and 
no farmer of spirit and enterprise should pass 
another season without having them in his 
possession. 
One rule, however, we beg, in this connec¬ 
tion, to press unconditionally. It is this—to 
keep but one variety. Whatever this may be, 
whether it be black, or white, or buff Shang¬ 
hai, buff Ccchin, or Chittagong, or B;ahma— 
whichever kind it is, keep only one kind. If 
common hens are needed and retained, add to 
the number of roosters, hut let them be all 
of one kind, so that the stock from the Asiatic 
hens shall be pure and genuine. If two breeds 
are kept on one farm, crossing will inevitably 
ensue ; and crossing will produce mongrels, 
and will impair the beauty, the purity, and in 
a measure, the excellence of genuine bloods. 
On this point, we ‘‘speak not without book,” 
for we have given to this subject, for some 
years, a careful, attentive, practical observa¬ 
tion, and of course “ we know whereof we af¬ 
firm.” 
No fanner deserves success, in this line, who 
neglects to provide a warm, convenient room 
for his fowls during the severity of the winter 
season. They are as much entitled to accom¬ 
modation and comfort as the horse, the ox, the 
Durham cow and the Saxon ewe. And, in 
their place, and in their way, will make as 
grattful acknowledgments. 
Now, in view of the suggestions above, and 
of the fact that not a single farmer through¬ 
out the length and breadth of the land omits 
to keep fowls; and, also, in view of the fact 
that an outlay wholly insignificant in amount 
will accomplish this purpose,—will so improve 
the character of the flock as to enhance its 
value fifty or an hundred fold,—whether it is 
wise so to do, let the farmer who has a speck 
of intelligence and enterprise consider and de¬ 
cide. Farmer D. 
LETTERS FROM THE WEST—No- 2- 
Perhaps I may as well commence this letter 
bv replying to some queries from E. C.,in the 
PtURAL of July 21. Although he applies his 
inquiries only to Illinois and Iowa, they are 
applied by others to Wisconsin. The reritirg 
of farms is much more common in the South¬ 
ern part of this State than in either of the 
others Earned. The enstomory terms are as 
follows : The land alone draws cne-third, the 
renter famishing his own team, tools, house, 
etc. Where the owner finds team, tools house 
rent, fire wood. e:c , &.d half the seed, he re¬ 
ceives ore-half in the half bushel. Tiffs gives 
the man who has no capital as good a chance 
as he can ssk. One man with a good team 
can cultivate from forty to fifty acres. Tiue, 
hs cannot do it in the thorough manner re¬ 
quired iu the worn out la-ds of the Eastern 
States, but he can do it so as to obtain, in a 
common season, an average of from 1G to 20 
bushels of wheat per acre, frem 40 to 70 of 
corn, and from 40 to GO of oats. Surely such 
a prospect offers strorg inducements to a poor 
man ? for, if ha is industrious and economical, 
in a short time he can purchase a farm of his 
own. These facts, together with the cheap¬ 
ness and fertility of the lands, and the facilities 
for market, which are daily increasing, are 
what have caused our unexampled increase in 
population, having reached near 600,000, and 
doubled in a little more than five years.— 
Farms here are usually rented in the fall, and 
that season, or the winter, i3 probably the best 
time to come for health, a 1 though there is no 
sickness here to deter any one from coming — 
for it is as healthy as any country that emi¬ 
grants can come from. When you find a 
healthier country than this, you will proba¬ 
bly find one that people do not want to leave 
at all. 
The Southern part of Wisconsin presents 
an inviting field to the man who has sufficient 
capital to purchase an improved farm, the 
price of land ranging from $15 to $30 per acre. 
South of the Wisconsin river, in the West¬ 
ern part of the State, and of the Winnebago 
lake in the Eastern, there is but little Gov¬ 
ernment land, although Grant and Iowa coun¬ 
ties, in the South-West, still have considera¬ 
ble. These counties are rich in minerals, and 
at the same time have as rich and fertile a soil 
as any in the State. The tide of immigration 
is now setting to the north and we3t of the 
Wisconsin, and north of Lake Winnebago. 
The section between the Wisconsin and Mis¬ 
sissippi rivers is rich and fertile, well watered, 
and much more heavily timbered than it is 
South. The prairies are dry and rolling. The 
soil is somewhat sandy but mixed with a red- 1 
dish, marly clay, and vegetable mould. It is 
quick, warm and highly productive. The 
average quantity of organic matter, which is 
generally deemed the measure of the value of 
the soil, as ascertained by analysis of samples, 
from different localities, is about 12.5 per cent., 
being nearly double what it is in AY estern 
New York. Throughout this whole region as 
far north as 451A degrees, which is as far as it 
has been fully explored, the soil is first rate. 
Indeed it is hard to imagine how it can be im¬ 
proved, except in the pine regions. Of the 
crops so' far as can he ascertained from the 
Agricultural reports, 30 bushels of wheat, 50 
of corn and oats, and from 100 to 200 of po¬ 
tatoes are considered an average yield. 
Some parts of thi3 country are rich in lead 
and copper, bat agriculture is, and always will 
be, the chief resource. The markets are good, 
and also the facilities for reaching them — 
Prairie Da Chien is the western terminus of 
the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad, while 
the Milwaukee and La Crosse road terminates 
at La Crcsse. Thus, produce can be sent to 
St. Louis by the Mississippi river, cr eastward 
by the YYriseonsin and Fox rivers, or by rail- 
read. Besides this, the lumber trade, the 
mining interests and the rush of emigration, 
will for a long time consume nearly all the 
surplus produce, except wheat. 
The timber throughout this region, consists 
of maple, walnut, oak and pine, and is inter¬ 
spersed with rich and handsome prairies. The 
remarks concerning this section will apply 
equally well to the country east of the Wis¬ 
consin and north of Lake AYunnebago, except 
there is not as great a proportion of praiiie, 
and the soil, a 1 though equally fertile, is differ¬ 
ently composed. The timber of this part con¬ 
sists of sugar-maple, beech, oak, elm, birch, 
etc , with extensive pine forests. All of this 
country is well adapted to the growth of wheat, 
rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, Indian corn, po¬ 
tatoes, flax, hemp, etc., but perhaps grass i3 
the most natural to the soil, and hercs it is 
peculiarly fitted for stock raising and grazing. 
As for fruits, but few countries can raise bet¬ 
ter apples, pears, plums, cherries and other 
hardy kinds, but the peach, quince, Ac., will 
not do well. Choice locations of Government 
land are abundant, but they are goirg fast. 
Thus we find in these localities all the in¬ 
ducements that a farmer can ask, viz.: good 
land at Government price, plenty of water and 
timber, lumber close by and cheap, ready mar 
kets, and a country as healthy as can be found 
between the two cceans. p. r. l. 
Mi 'ton, Wis, August. 1S55. 
Topfixg Cork. —Is it a fact, as stated in 
the Rural cf Sept. 1st, that “ the weight and 
bulk of grain are depreciated ten per cent, by 
topping?” I have always practiced this 
method, and supposed my corn was really bet¬ 
ter—more sound, and sooner fit for the crib. 
The stalks are better cared, and more easily 
handled, and there is no waste. What re¬ 
mains, makes goed piekirg for stock late in 
the fa 1, end what is not eaten is already in 
the field, and can be easily turned under by 
the plow. I notice that these who practice 
cutting up at the root, have a great quantify 
of long sta'ks mixed with their manure in the 
spring, which adds to the labor cf loading, 
! and are with a fficulty plowed under. I am 
' not very tenacious of the practice of topping 
corn, but believe it has its advantages. I do 
not believe that there is ary depreciation in 
the weight, bulk, or quality cf the grain.— 
There may he less bulk cf fedder, but a very 
little less of what is really eaten. The stalks 
which are topped will all be ea'en, wli le tho-e 
cut at the root will he left, the leaves and 
i husks merely picked off.— C. Thurston, 
1 Athens, Pa. 
Pratt’s Ditcii-Digoinq Machine.—^ ome 
weeks ago we received the following inquiry : 
Editor Rural I saw in our village paper 
an extract frem Chambers' Journal , concerning 
the ingenuity of Americans in inventirg lab r- 
saving machinery, and among other inven¬ 
tions, is a partial description of “ Pratt’s 
Pat nt Ditch-Digger.” I’he inventor is said 
to be Mr. R. C. Pratt, of Canandaigua. N. Y. 
1 do not find the machine advertised ia the 
Rural, and as I have lately c. mmencei farm¬ 
ing on a farm that needs ditcli’ng, I should 
like to know through the Rural, whether 
there is an improvement upon Irishmen in 
that branch of business.— E. Sears, De Ruyter, 
Madison Co., N. Y. 
At the time of its receipt we were unable 
to respoi d definitely, never having seen the 
machine in operation. Now, however, we 
are belter posted on the subject, and answer 
for the information of our correspondent and 
others interested. 
On Thursday week, we had the pleasure of 
witnessing a trial ol two of Pratt’s Ditch 
Diggers on the farm of John S. Bates, Esq., 
near Canandaigua. They were operated upon 
a hard clay soil—the most difficult of all sois 
to ditch — and performed admirably. The 
drains were made about one foot wide and 
two-and-a-lialf deep, (ihe machine can cut three 
feet deep, if required.) The machine cuts from 
2 to 4 inches deep (according to hardness cf 
the soil) in each passage across the field. In 
this instance less than three inches was cut in 
crossing, and yet each machine ditched (the 
ditches being 2% feet deep, and completed,) at 
the rate of 75 to 100 rods a day. This is of 
course a great saving over hand ditching, 
which costs from 15 to 20 cents a rod in 
Western New York. The machine operated 
well in all respects, and apparently to the en¬ 
tire satisfaction of the several experienced 
gentlemen who were present — among whom 
were Messrs. John Johnston and R J. Swan, 
of Seneca, (both celebrated fir the “progress 
and improvement” they have achieved by 
draining ) Hugh T. Brooks of YY yoming. J. 
J. Thomas of YYkiyne, C N. Bement, for¬ 
merly of Albany, lion. Gko. C. Bates of Cal¬ 
ifornia,— and Messrs. Hildreth, Granger, 
Munson and other officers of the Ontario Co. 
Ag. Society. Mr. Johnston, whose experi¬ 
ence in di'chirg and draining entit’es his 
opinion to great weight, remarked that he 
saw no reason why the machine should not 
succeed a 3 now perfected, an opinion in which 
we believe all present concurred. 
YY T e purpose giving a cut and description of 
the machine in a future number. It consists 
of a wheel of revolving shovels with casing 
and cutting point attached. The earth is 
broken up by the cutting point (or small plow) 
and carried up by the revolvirg shovels. The 
whole is easily operated by a single team — 
one man managing both team and machine. 
AY~e can assure our correspondent that it is a 
decided improvement upon Irishmen. Indeed, 
during the operation of the machines as above, 
an Irish laborer came into the field and accost¬ 
ed Mr. Bates in this wise :—“ AYell, Misther 
Bates, an faith an ye think ye’ve found a way 
to kill the Irishmen, now — an ye have!”— 
And he was right, if the lives of Hibernians 
depend upon digging ditches. 
French Ag. Implements, Ac.— A friend 
who has just returned from the Taris Exhi¬ 
bition, writes us in this wise :—“ I have been 
spending the summer very agreeably in the 
dominions of Emperor Napoleon and Queen 
Victoria. Had I the time 1 should like to 
give you a description of their doings in the 
matter of Agricultural tools, Ac. My friend 
Crapo is so much in want of a few ‘ live 
Yankee’ Agricultural dealers, with their tools, 
that an invoice of our implements, Ac., would 
be a paying business. Had I the means I 
would take a large assortment of such traps, 
and open an Agricultural Warehouse in Pa¬ 
ris—and calculate considerable could be done. 
The tools generally used by French farmers 
are fifty years behind our time, and of the 
most awkward description.” 
Shrunk Wheat for Seed. —A correspon¬ 
dent (whose inquiry we have lost or mislaid) 
wishes to know whether shrunk wheat is good 
for seed. Though unable to answer from ex¬ 
perience, we are assured by some of our best 
grain growers, who have tested the matter, 
that shrunk wheat is good for seedirg. Mr. 
John Johnston, near Geneva, informs us that 
in 1828 he sowed wheat which was badly 
shrunk, and obtained as geed a crop as he 
ever h r vested—since which he has never hes¬ 
itated as to usii g a shrunk berry for seed 
A Cattaraugus Countv friend writes:— 
“ Our County Fair is to be held at Little 
Yalley. Sept. 25:h and 2G’.h. The potatoes 
are rottir g very badly in this section. One 
week since my potatoes were apparently 
sound ; now four fifths are wortli'ess, aud 1 
hear the same complaint from all my neigh¬ 
bors. Other crops have been abundant.— 
You may expect an addition of one hutored 
to your Rural subscription list in this town 
for the next year.” 
ANOTHER AMERICAN TRIUMPH, 
Notwithstanding the inquiries of certain 
E’gish and Canadian journals a3 to the 
whereabouts of Brother Jonathan at the 
French Exhibition, and their jeers at the 
paucity of the display from the United States, 
it appears that the “Universal Yankee Na¬ 
tion ” lias achieve! a glorious triumph over 
the c mibined mechanical skill of all Europe ! 
It is r-enrded that at the great trial of Agri- 
cult iral Implements, held at La Trapps Farm, 
near Paris, on the 14th nit., be p ore the com¬ 
mittee a~<d jurors of the French Exh'bition, 
and thousands of strangers and Parisians, 
eve) if American machine entered for trial 
proved far superior to any cf European man¬ 
ufacture—and that, amid the shouts of the 
multitude, the stars and stripes were run up 
in attestation of the American success. The 
triumph of our Reaping and Threshing Ma¬ 
chines was most signal, and their speed aud 
power astounding to all who had never wit¬ 
nessed the operation ot similar American ma¬ 
chinery. The following facts and figures are 
from the Tribune's account oi the Trial: 
The net results of a half hour’s earnest werk 
by the rival threshers, and by six men with 
flails, (estimate! as a force equal to one of the 
machines ) is as follows : 
Six threshers with flails.•. 60 litres of Wheat 
Pitt’s American Thresher. 740 “ “ 
Clayton’s Fnglish Thresher. 410 “ “ 
Dunoir’s French Thresher. 250 “ 
Pinet’s Be'sUn Thresher. 150 “ “ 
[The French litre i3 a little less than a 
quart; 36 litres make a bushel, very nearly.] 
Assuming, in the absence of data, that these 
machines are of equal cost and are w r orked 
with equal force, and that the average expense 
of threshing and winnowing wheat in the old 
way is ten cents per bushel, the^ Belgian 
thresher is about four cents: the Freach to 
three ; the English to two ; ar d the American 
to bare y more than one cent per bushel, or 
one-tenth of the cost of flail-threshing iu the 
old way. This year's crop of Wheat, Rye 
and Buckwheat, in the U nited States, can 
hardly fall below 200,000,000 bushels, which 
could only be separated froth the s+raw and 
chafi in the old way at a c°st of $20,000,000. 
The Belgian thresher, if in common use, 
would reduce this to $8,000,000 ; the French 
to $6,000,000 ; the English to $4 000,000 ; 
and the American to same $2,500,000—a 
clear National saving of $17,500,000 per an¬ 
num in the cost of threshing and winnowirg 
our small grain alone! And the saving 
Frare3 from the substitution of Pitt’s thresh¬ 
er for the be 3 t of our own invention can hard¬ 
ly be less than ten millions of dollars per an¬ 
num ! 
So with regard to Reapers. The time re¬ 
quired for cuttirg equa’ portions of heavy 
and badly lodged Wheat, by the several Eu¬ 
ropean machines, ranged from ha'f an hour to 
an hour and a half, while the three American 
machines cut an equal area as follows : 
Huskey’s, (with Wright’s improvements ) in IS min. 
Manny s, (an Illinois machine ) in 16 minutes. 
McCormick’s (operated hv McKenzie,) in 10)$ minutes. 
We venture to say that this last was the 
quickest time ever made in cutting grain, even 
though we assume that the area cut was not 
moie than two thirds of an acre. And with¬ 
out at all detracting from the merit of the vic¬ 
torious machine, we believe a la'ge share of 
the credit is due to J. C. McKenzie,—a tho¬ 
rough Yankee, who won the triumph for 
McCormick in England, at Mechi’s farm, in 
lg5t_and "who, as~a manager and operator 
of this Cass of machinery, has no superior.— 
There are probably not five men livirg who 
could have raked eff the cut grain into sheaf- 
armfuls at the unprecedented speed of McCor- 
uffek's reaper in the recent trial. 
It thus appears that, in the public official 
testiBg of both reaping and threshing ma¬ 
chines^ open to all the world, and in which all 
the good machines of Europe must necessarily 
have been represented, every American ma¬ 
chine entered proved immensely superior to ev¬ 
ery European machine. That is to say: of 
our four reaping cr threshing machines sent 
to Paris to compete with the thirty or forty 
machines of Europe, each one of our four 
proved superior to the best rival machines 
that Europe could produce ! So complete a 
National triumph was never before achieved 
in ary world wide area of Industrial competi¬ 
tion. __ _ 
“Union is Strength.” —We learn from 
Mr. E. N. Plank, of Wolcott, that the 
friends of Agricultural improvement in the 
towns of Wolcott, Butler and Huron, (YY'ayne 
Co., N. Y.,) have organized a “ Union Agri¬ 
cultural Society,” and design holding their 
first Annual Fair in the village of Wolcott, 
on Thursday, the 27th inst. 
Grinding Plow points. —Funny title, is it 
no t? — grinding plow points ! Yet suppose 
you p ess a new point to the surface of your 
grind stone for a few rounds, and you will not 
be apt to be troubled with d'rt sticking, ar.d 
h udering you, when you ought to he plowing. 
Try it.—w. e. c. k. 
Geo. W. Payne, of Farmirgton, Conn., 
has a lot of Minnesota rice growirg upon his 
farm “ fall eight feet h'gh, and promising an 
abundant yie d.” lie thinks it equal to the 
Sou’h?rn rice, and is confident that it can be 
profi'ably raised in that meridian. It is sown 
on swampy laud unfit for other cultivation. 
Wheat roots have been traced four feet,— 
Farmers usually plow four inches. YVell, let, 
the other three feet eight inches take care of 
itself! A man must be in small busine-s to 
be fu=sing ozer a place/or wheat roots to ran ! 
The fact is they have no business to run so far. 
STATE FAIRS FOR 1855. 
New York, at Elmira.Oct. 2, 3, 4, 6 
Ohio, at Columbus.Sept. 18, 19, 20,.21 
Pennsylvania, at Fiarrishurgh.Sept. 25, 26, 27 
Michigan, at Detroit.Oct. 2, 3, 4, 5 
Illinois, at Chicago.Oct. 9, 10, 11,12 
Iowa, at Fairfield,.Oct. 10 
Missouri, at Boonville,.Oct. 2, 3, 4. 5 
Indiana, at Indianapolis.Oct. 1,6, 17, 18,19 
Vermont, at Rutland.Sept. 11,12,13 
New Hampshire, at Manchester,.Sept. 12, 13, 14 
Rhode Island, at Frovidcnce,.Sept. 11 to 15 
“ “ Horse and Cattle, do.Sept. 11 to 15 
New Jersey, at Camden,.Sept. 19, 20, 21 
Connecticut, at Hartferd.Oct. 9, 10, 11, 12 
Virginia, at Richmond.. 
do (Western) at Wheeling.Sept. 26, 27, 38 
Maryland, at Baltimore.Oct., last week 
Georgia, at Atalanta.Sept. 10, 11,12 
North Carolina, at Raleigh,.Oct. 16, 17,-18, 19 
Alabama, at Montgomery,.Oct. 23, 24, 26, 26 
Tennessee, atNnshvillo.Oct., first week 
do (East) at London.Oct. 23, 24, 25 
Canada East, at Sherbrooke.Sept. 11, 12, 13, 14 
Canada West, at Cobourg.Oct. 9,10, 11, 12 
County Fairs are to be held in this State, 
dur'mg the ensuing four weeks, as follows : 
Albany, at Albany.September 25 to 27 
Cattaraugus, at Little Valley,. “ 25, 26. 
Cortland, at Homer,. “ 25 to 27. 
Clinton, at Plattsburgh,. “ - 
Delaware, at Hobart,. “ 19, 20. 
Dutchess, at Washington Hollow,. “ 25,26. 
Franklin, at Malone,. “ 19 to 21 
Fulton & Hamilton, at Fonda’s Bush.. “ 19. 
Genesee, at Batavia.October, 9 to 11. 
Herkimer, at Frankfort.September 27, 28. 
Jefferson, at Watertown. “ 19,20. 
Livingston, at Geneseo,. “ 27,28. 
Lewis, at Turin,. “ 28, 27. 
Monroe, at Spcncerport. “ 20, 21. 
Niagara, at Lockport.October 19, 20. 
Onondaga, at Syracuse.September 19 to 21 
Ontario, at Canandaigua. “ 25, 26. 
Oneida, at Rome,. “ 25 to 27 
Oswego, at Mexico. “ 26, 27. 
Otsego, at Cooperstown,.October 10, 11. 
Putnam, at Carmel,.September 18, 19. 
Queens, at Flushing,. “ 20. 
Rensselaer, at Lansingburgh. “ 18 to 20. 
St. Lawrence, at Canton . “ 26 to 28. 
Steuben, at Bath. “ 26 to 28. 
Seneca, at Farmersville,.October 10 to 12. 
Tompkins, at Ithaca.September 27,.28. 
Washington, at Cambridge,. “ 5, 6. 
Wyoming, at Warsaw,. “ 26, 27. 
Wayne, at Lyons,.October 9 to 11. 
Live Stock by Rail.—A Buffalo paper of 
the 10 h inst. says :—“ Yesterday morning, as 
we learn, there were ten trains of live stock— 
cattle, sheep and hogs—sent east from this 
city over the New York Central Railroad.— 
In one train there were 20 cars, and in each 
of the others about 16. One train of heavy 
freight. about twenty cars, also arrived at 
noon, drawn or propelled by four locomotives. 
The amount of livestock arrivirg here, both 
by lake aud rail, and sent hence east by the 
above road is immense, and exceeds what any 
one could imagine who was not acquainted 
with the facts. A large number of the cattle 
change hands at the regular pasturing yards 
before re-shipment, on speculation for the 
New York, Albany and Boston markets, and 
this kind of trade is rapidly increasing — 
Eastern dealers in many instances find it de¬ 
cidedly for their interest to stop here before 
going further west. 
No Beauty without its Use—T he utility 
of shade trees, say s the Manchester Mirror, was 
manifested at the late fire in this city, to such 
a degree that people who never saw their use 
before were compelled to see it then. The 
heat in the vicinity of Hill and Cheney’s sta- 
b’e and house and by the Hanover Street 
church was very great, and at times threaten¬ 
ed to igni'e those buildings ; but the thick 
green foliage of the thrifty trees which adorn 
the streets, afforded a strorg barrier, and ren¬ 
dered them&ffe. YY r e remember a similar in¬ 
stance at the time of the burnirg of the steam 
mill on Manchester St., a few years ego. If 
there is no other utility in the growing shade 
trees than this, it is worth attention for this 
alone 
Starch, Sugar, Carbon.—T welve pounds 
of starch contain five pounds cf catb n. A 
person of sedentary habits throws off about 
five ounces of carbon in twenty four hours— 
a haid laborer twelve. To supply this he 
must eat sixteen ounces of starch or suga r .— 
If he take it in the form of wheat bread, it 
will require one pound and three-fourths—if 
in the form of potatoes, seven and a half 
pounds, to supply what is lest by breathing 
alone. A horse, or cow, will give off from 
four to to six pounds daily. The amount of 
food, to supply this loss, will be proportion¬ 
ately greater. 
YYhf.at after Corn.—L ast year in this 
vicinity, a large amount of wheat was sown 
after corn. YY'e have watched the result, and 
find that the wheat thus put in is universally 
good, and will average better, than the crop 
got in any other manner. As a general 
thing, it is less injured by the insect, doubt¬ 
less owieg to its being sowed later, and it 
stauds very clean from foul stuff. YV e recom- 
merd to cur farmers to try again this tall, 
sowing wheat after corn.— Shiawasse (Mich.) 
Democrat. 
Valuable Stock—M essrs. Mcllardy, of 
Ca’edoLia, in ihis county, have b en offered 
fourteen hundred dollars for one cow and two 
calves, which they intend taking 1o Northern| 
Illinois, be.-ides some fifty head more of choice 
stock. Mtssrs. Brooks <fc Sackett have select 
ed one hundred head of choice stock which 
they propose to take to YYrisconsin. These cat¬ 
tle have been seechxl with great care, from 
the purest stock in the Genesee Y’al.ty .—Lima 
Gazette. 
The Chinch Bug.—YY r e hava seen it stated 
by these who profess to speak from experi- 
I ence, that guano sown on wheat laud, has 
j proved an effectual destroyer of the chiuch 
bug. YY’e hope this exoeriment will be more 
fully tried in the rep i ms inflated by these 
troublesome insects .—Ohio Cultivator. 
