MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
land. The rolling may be done some time af¬ 
ter the barley is up, and is then beneficial in 
causing the soil to press the roots, and the 
plants to tiller, and it has been known to add 
one-third to the yield. 
The quantity of seed per acre is from 2 to 4 
bushels, but on good soil from 2i to 3 is suf¬ 
ficient, especially if sown by drill. 
Barley is an excellent crop to sow clover 
and grass seed with. It is less exhausting to 
the soil than oats, and frequently large crops 
of wheat are produced when it is sown on bar¬ 
ley stubble. I have harvested over 40 bushels 
to the acre, thus raised. On good soils barley 
tillers much, producing as many as 30 or 40 
stalks from one seed, and each stalk producing 
a head that has 40 or more kernels; this is not 
common, as that rate of increase would give 
more than a hundred fold. The produce va¬ 
ries per acre; a good crop should be at least 
40 bushels. In England they raise more per 
acre, and heavier per bushel, than we do. It 
is no uncommon produce there, of 60 bushels, 
each weighing 56 or more pounds per bushel. 
Time of cutting should be as soon as the straw 
turns yellow below the ear, and after cutting it 
should be secured as soon as possible from ex¬ 
posure to rains or dews, as they injure its mar¬ 
ket value. Care should also be taken in secu¬ 
ring the crop in stacks or the barn, to have it 
thoroughly dry, as it frequently heats, w'hich in¬ 
jures its malting properties and gives it a musty 
flavor. The straw of barley is well liked by 
sheep and cattle when free from must, but is 
considered by many to be of little value. 
Marion, April 27tli, 1854. I. A. CLARK. 
CHARRING POSTS, AGAIN.—COAL TAR, &c. 
Ens. Rural:—I have latterly noticed some 
communications in the Rural, on the merits 
and demerits of charring posts for their pre¬ 
servation, in one of which the writer advocates 
charring, whilst another condemns it, for the 
reason that it cracks the wood on the ontside, 
and causes it to rot sooner than it otherwise 
would. With the latter opinion I partially 
agree, as the inner part of those cracks cannot 
be sufficiently charred to be any benefit, I 
do not wish to enter into a discussion on the 
subject, but will proceed to give my plan. I 
char a portion of the posts, say 18 inches or 2 
feet, in such a manner, that.6 or 8 inches of the 
charred part will be above the surface of the 
ground when they are set, the balance being 
below, (not being particular about charring the 
extreme lower end.) When it is a little cooled, 
but not cold, I apply enough of coal tar or 
pitch to completely coat the wood in the cracks 
or fill them if possible. When dry, or nearly 
so, repeat the application, and then that part 
will be completely “water-proof.” Set them 
when dry. 
Coal tar, I consider of great value to the 
farmer. For plows, harrows, sleds, wagons, 
ladders, posts, board-fences, gates, &c., it is an 
excellent article, combining convenience and 
durability with cheapness—costing about one 
dollar per barrel, at gas manufactories. 
Directions for using it. —Provide yourself 
with a kettle or pot—put in the tar—set it 
over a slow fire and boil it completely, the 
more the bettor, taking care that it does not 
catch fire—after boiling provide yourself with 
a brush (a whitewash brush with a short han¬ 
dle is the very thing,) apply the tar tolerably 
hot with the brush—when dry or nearly so. 
give it another coat. If the wood has been 
previously planed or made smooth, two or 
three applications will fill all the pores and 
form a beautiful glossy black, not unlike var¬ 
nish. Don’t be afraid of it,—grease your 
hands before you begin, and it will come off 
easily, and don’t mind the smell, it will not 
last long, and if your extremely fastidious 
neighbors should have the olfactories some¬ 
what excited by it, and complain, just “go 
ahead ” with the consciousness that you are 
doing your duty in trying to preserve your 
labor, and from my own experience, I have 
no doubt you will be rewarded. 
Gr. W. Allen, j 
Washington County, Pa. 
CORN HILLING ys. FLAT CULTURE. 
Eds. Rural: — In your paper of April 29th, 
you ask for your reader's experience in hilling 
corn. Willing to contribute my mite in return 
for the many valuable hints I receive from your 
columns, I reply to your invitation. My ex¬ 
perience has uniformly been as follows:—1st 
Hilling corn produces a little diminution in 
the crop. 2d. It delays the period of maturi¬ 
ty from six to ten days. 3d. The little support 
it receives by way of propping up, does not 
compensate for the above named injuries. 
The reason of the above may appear from 
the following:—When corn (or other seed,) is 
properly planted, its roots naturally start out 
at just the right depth to receive the best in¬ 
fluence from the air and sun. This is a univer¬ 
sal law in vegetable physiology. The right 
depth will vary, according to the warmth and 
openness of the soil. After the roots have ta¬ 
ken their position in the ground, if a little earth 
is placed over them, of course they will be a 
little too deep, and will not perforin their of¬ 
fice quite as well as when in their natural posi¬ 
tion. If buried sufficiently deep, they will 
serve the plant so poorly, that new roots will 
be thrown out nearer the top of the ground, 
where their wants can be better supplied. The 
new roots absorb the vitality of the plant and ' 
those first formed gradually cease their growth. 
To make this change in the circumstances of 
the plant requires time, and its growth is re¬ 
tarded and injured. For a similar reason, when 
corn is planted very deep, a new set of roots 
will spring out above those first formed, and 
thereby delay the maturity of the crop. It is 
easy to make a difference of a week or ten days 
in the ripening of a crop of corn, by planting 
too deep. After the roots of a plant have be¬ 
come established in the ground, it hardly needs 
demonstration to prove that they would be in¬ 
jured by being broken off, exposed, or driven j 
out of their course by making the surface of 
the ground uneven. If corn must be hilled, it 
should be hilled before planting, never after¬ 
ward. L. B. Arnold. 
Fairfield, April 29, 1854. 
CHESS GRASS, QUACK GRASS, WILD GRASS. 
And a host of other cognomens are applied 
to a kind of grass which is infinitely trouble¬ 
some on arable land. It grows as high as 
timothy, with a head as long, or longer, and of 
a waving or chess like form. In mellow ground 
the roots will run two or three feet without a 
branch. When once in the soil, it is worse to 
exterminate than a Western squatter. Annual 
plowing seems only to accelerate its growth, as 
the roots grow so vigorously, that mellow soil 
is better for it to spread in than sward. Then 
again, the roots are so long that the neck of 
the plow, or the teeth of the harrow or culti¬ 
vator will carry them from one end of the field 
to the other, and wherever a root is dropped 
there a new patch is started. Let those hav¬ 
ing this grass, which they wish to destroy, be¬ 
ware of plowing too much, unless they gain 
some headway. I have found it better to plow 
when the top was somcivhat grown, and then 
cultivate thoroughly during the hottest and 
dryest weather. In moist ground it is more 
difficult of extermination. Small patches may 
be destroyed by covering with straw if covered 
thick enough, and kept during the whole sea¬ 
son. If one blade grows through the straw, it 
will reproduce the whole patch after the decay 
of the straw. 
I have pretty nearly subdued one field of 
this grass with a good deal of trouble, and I 
would be glad to hear of the experience of 
of others in regard to the easiest and best 
means of destroying it w. b. 
West Bloomfield, N. Y. April, 1854. 
Cultivation of Onions. —Having had some 
experience in the cultivation of onions, I ven¬ 
ture to answer R. B. E.’s inquiiy. Sandy land 
is unquestionably the best; I prefer the yellow 
variety; sow as soon as the frost is out of the 
ground, in rows 12 inches apart; weed as soon 
as up. I have raised onions on the same ground 
forty-one years with good success. Once in 
three years apply a good coat of stable manure, 
that has lain a year in a heap; plow the year 
the manure is applied; other years an iron 
tooth rake is sufficient. Under the last man¬ 
ner of culture I have raised at the rate of 1,000 
bushels to the acre. Harvest with the tops on; 
spread six inches deep on wide shelves, one 
above another, to the top of the cellar. I 
should have said that in sowing, the seed should 
be covered very shallow, and if sown by hand, 
boards should be laid lengthwise of the rows, 
and removed as you proceed, standing on the 
boards to harden the ground, and if sowed with 
a machine, by no means omit the use of the 
boards. The year the ground is plowed, I have 
practiced rolling the land with a common farm 
roller, but it must be done by hand, after the 
boards have been used. T. E. Miles. 
Watertown, N. Y., April 24, 1854. 
SHADE A FERTILIZER. 
That shade is a fertilizer, is a fact which has 
long been noticed, and much has been written 
to explain it. A few words will be sufficient 
for that purpose. Shade operates simply by 
preserving the ammonia which is in the soil, 
and which is continually furnished by rain and 
snow water, and also by manures, and which is 
rapidly driven off from a naked surface of the 
soil by a scorching sun. To preserve the am¬ 
monia the skilful farmer plows in his mauure 
shortly after it is spread upon the soil; and 
spreads his manure upon his meadows late in 
the fail, or in the winter, or early in the spring, 
so that the ammonia may be washed out of it 
into the soil, and prevent its evaporation by the 
sun. Ammonia is either food or condiment 
for most plants, which is necessary to their 
rapid growth. It has been ascertained by re¬ 
peated experiments in England, that the lar¬ 
gest crops of wheat can be raised by imparting 
to the soil an extra quantity of ammonia, 
either directly by spreading salts of ammo¬ 
nia, or by guano. Hence the greatest fertility 
of the soil will be more surely preserved by an 
alteration of crops, rather than naked fallow, 
from which a scorching sun drives off the am¬ 
monia rapidly. 
We should bear in mind the eloquent words 
of an English writer, that “ mighty nature re¬ 
news her strength, not by indolent repose, but 
by alternations in energy.”— Ohio Cultivator. 
BEANS NOT AN EXHAUSTING CROP. 
Can the bean be considered a fertilizing, or 
is it an impoverishing crop? It is commonly 
received amongst farmers that it is not at any 
rate an exhausting crop, that it is rather ameli¬ 
orating, and that it prepares a soil better than 
almost any other crop for wheat. And yet 
chemists show us that it takes off from the soil 
absolutely more nitrogenous matter than any 
crop of a similar kind—we mean corn, grain, 
and pulse. Thus a produce of 30 bushels of 
beans per acre will remove say 490 tbs. of ni- 
trogenisedYm flesh-forming substance, while the 
same quantity of wheat per acre will remove 
only 260 lbs.; of barley, 40 bushels will re¬ 
move 280 tbs.; of oats, the same quantity will 
take away 275 lbs. 
Though there have not been, that we are 
aware, any investigations into the organic 
composition of the bean-straw, there is no 
doubt that it is highly nitrogenous also. Pea- 
straw, a material of the same class, shows ni- 
trogenons matter about 8 times as great as the 
straw of wheat per acre, 10 times as much as 
oats, and about 15 times as much as that of 
barley. Hence, then, it is a de-azotising crop, 
both in the grain and in the straw, taken per 
acre—the most certain mode of calculating 
such articles of produce. 
Theory immediately says, chemistry there¬ 
fore has decided the bean to be an exhausting 
crop; and the reason why farmers so advocate 
it is just the same as induces them to advocate 
the growth of any corn crop which they know 
deteriorates the soil in its permanent effect, 
but puts money immediately into their pocket. 
But we are not prepared to subscribe even to 
this, plausible as it may seem; what we mean 
to say practically is this, that when properly 
cultivated, the bean is not an impoverishing 
crop, but the reverse. 
A very few physiological and practical facts 
will easily set us right on this point, and obvi¬ 
ate the great objection some landowners have 
to see beans cultivated even on soils where the 
clover has got worn out, and where the bean 
is used, and most successfully, as a substitute 
for that plant 
The bean has a large leaf system. Hence 
it derives a large portion of its element from 
the atmosphere. Treating leaves as the lungs 
of the plant, and knowing that the turnip, the 
clover, and others derive a proportion of nour¬ 
ishment from the atmostphere almost, we had 
said, in the ratio of a large or a small leaf de¬ 
velopment, we easily see how the clover, even 
when all mown off, is not much of an exhauster; 
while the wheat or the oats, having a small and 
feeble leaf system, will take most from the soil. 
Nor are we altogether to forget the benefit 
of the shelter of the bean leaves. The moist¬ 
ure or the ammonia may fall on the soil. In 
many cases, a hot sun may evaporate the one, 
and dissipate the other; the beans will, in the 
very reverse, shelter the soil till both are ab¬ 
sorbed. And these leaves fall off. It is known 
how planting even with trees, which take off 
tons of inorganic matter, will enrich a soil in 
vegetable constituents. The fall of the leaves, 
year after year, which are mostly formed of 
carbon and moisture, forms a superstructure of 
soil rich in vegetable matter. So the bean 
leaves fall off at harvest, by frosts or from 
ripeness; and these all, assist in improving the 
carbonaceous matter of tho soil, and so fitting 
it at least for some kinds of crops. 
The bean is a deep tap-root feeder. Corn of 
all kinds permeate the surface soil with fine, 
small spreading filaments of roots. Deeper, it 
is true, it might go, if the soil were deeper 
worked and pulverized, and there were more 
inducements; but in ordinary circumstances, it 
is a shallow spreading root-feeder. The bean 
is the reverse. Its deep feeding root strikes 
directly down, and it is only at the lower parts 
of that root that the spongeolaj are sent out.— 
It derives its food, in fact, from a different part 
of the soil, so far as the root is concerned; and 
therefore it may be said to have a mode of 
supply altogether different from the corn crops, 
which usually follow’ it 
But we must not be led away to forget the 
saving clause of proper cultivation. It is not 
the mere drilling or dibbling or broadcast sow¬ 
ing of beans we now object to, or recommend. 
If the bean is a deep feeder, it must be assisted 
to get food where the root really goes. Hence 
all good farmers ridge their beans and in the 
ridge put some fertilizing matter. All manures 
covered by the soil have a natural tendency 
downwards; and hence the bean root will fol¬ 
low the manure deposited in the furrow, and 
the bean planted above it. 
Not only so, but as the leaves are a great 
means of supplying the plant with food, they 
must have plenty of room to expand. Beans 
must be soicn in wide ridges. We have seen 
good—the best perhaps we ever saw’—at 30 
inches; we have seen excellent at 32 inches; 
1 ut they never ought to be less than 27 
inches, and if properly cultivated they will 
meet at these widths long before harvest.— 
But the soil between must not be neglected, 
otherwise it wiil grow w’eeds, which will not 
only impoverish the soil, unfiting it for a future 
crop, but injure the progress of the beans 
themselves. Hence the horse and hand-hoe 
must be liberally applied: or what is better, 
the grubber, or even the plow itself may be 
used with advantage. Here, there is both a 
crop and a fallow in the same year; the surface 
soil is being cleaned and pulverized, while the 
subsoil is enriched and growing a crop.— 
Hence the bean crop, when properly managed, 
derives its nourishment from the. subsoil, while 
the surface soil is being fallowed, sheltered 
and improved for the wheat crop. 
Practice steps in, therefore, and shows that 
mere closet chemistry can never unravel the se¬ 
crets of the true position of the bean crop.— 
Mark Lane Express. 
Hen Lick. —Lice may be killed on hens and 
chickens by oiling or greasing their heads and 
necks. But to save this labor let your hens 
have room enough, and all manner of dust to 
wallow in. A sprinkling of lye on their roosts 
and sleeping chambers will positively kill all 
the lice with which it comes in contact. This 
should be applied two or three times each year. 
^grtciiltural Hkfllaitg. fitpiri® art Custom. 
THE BRITISH WHEAT MARKET. 
We copy the following from the Mark 
Lane Express, the best British authority on 
the subject of the grain market. A quarter is 
8 bushels: 
The following return of the quantities of 
English Wheat sold at the towns which return 
the averages, during the first three months in 
1853 and 1854, affords a striking proof of the 
deficiency in the last crop. The sales were, 
January. February. March. 
1853 532,282 qrs. 345,329 qrs. 358,886 qrs. 
1854 266,477 “ 256,061 » 227,556 « 
The last weekly return is 36,628 qrs., against 
88,343 qrs. in the corresponding week of 1853. 
In comparing the total quantities sold during 
the three months as stated above, they will be 
found to stand thus —1,236,497 qrs. against 
750,094 qrs.; the falling off is therefore 486,- 
403 qrs. The same test cannot be tried in 
regard to the kingdom generally; but we see 
no cause to believe that the result would differ 
materially. The liberal character of the for¬ 
eign supply has, however, thus far, prevented 
the shortness of the home deliveries being 
very seriously felt, and there are still consider¬ 
able quantities of wheat and flour on passage 
from different quarters to this country; but can 
we expect that the importations during the 
time which must necessarily elapse before the 
next crop can be rendered available will be on 
an equally liberal scale? America has drained 
her ports on the seaboard to furnish what we 
have received from thence; and though we do 
not doubt that she has considerable stores in 
the far west, it will need high prices to cover 
the expenses of transporting the same to the 
east coast, and from thence to England. The 
northern ports of Europe have also been near¬ 
ly cleared of previous accumulations, and the 
war with Russia cuts off further supplies from 
the Black Sea and Azoffi We offer the fore¬ 
going for the consideration of our readers with¬ 
out further comment. 
IMPROVED SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
AYe clip the following from the Gospel Ban¬ 
ner, published at Agusta, Me. Brother Drew 
is a careful experimenter, and is not a “ constitu¬ 
tional enemy” of Professor Mares: 
We had nearly a ton of this Prof. Mapes’ 
Superphosphate of Lime, that cost us towards 
fifty dollars. We have lost the money; but 
the public shall have the gain of our experi¬ 
ment. We experiment sometimes, and often 
at our own cost, for the benefit of others who 
may gain their knowledge at our personal ex¬ 
pense. We applied the fertilizer to oats, to 
wheat, to corn, to potatoes, to grass, and to 
various sorts of garden vegetables. We ap¬ 
plied it at different times, from spring to mid¬ 
summer, and in different soils, as clay and sand; 
and in different weather, as wet and dry; we 
applied it generally in alternate rows or hills, to 
to ascertain what, if any, should prove the differ¬ 
ence between the dressed and the undressed 
crops; and upon our soul we cannot say that we 
could perceive in the growth of the plants, orthe 
amount of produce, where the superphosphate 
of lime was, and where it was not applied. In 
our case we set it down as a failure. 
How to get rid of Rats. —Prof. Dascom, 
of Oberlin, in a letter to the Ohio Farmer, says: 
“Would it not be well to call the attention 
of your readers to the ease and certainty with 
which they may be relieved from the annoy¬ 
ance of the large brown rat. This impudent 
intruder often visits my laboratory and other 
premises. As they come singly, I ‘take off” 
each, the night after 1 discover signs of his 
presence, in this wise:—I take half a tea-spoon¬ 
ful of dry flour or Indian meal on a plate or 
piece of board, and sprinkle over it the fraction 
of a grain of strichnine. This is set in a con¬ 
venient place; and I invariably find the cul¬ 
prit near the spot dead in the morning. The 
peculiar] advantage of this poison is, that it 
produces muscular spasms, which prevent the 
animal from reaching his hole to die and de¬ 
compose. It is needless to add that such a 
violent poison should be used with care.” 
Is the First Milk Poison? —A friend in¬ 
forms us that Mr. II. B. Wyman, of Sidney, lost 
a valuable sow not long ago, in consequence of 
giving her the first milk of a cow after calving, 
and asks if it invariably causes such trouble if 
hogs are fed on it? We believe that it does. 
We one year gave some such milk to a sow 
that was with pig. It made her sick and she 
cast her pigs before her time, all of which were 
dead. We were told that such would be the 
result if we fed her with it, but were faithless. 
The next year we fed it to another under the 
same circumstance, and the result was the 
same—all the pigs being dead. We found that 
rather costly experimenting, and have never 
tried it again. Last spring one of our neigh¬ 
bors, who had a very tine sow, fed her with a 
pretty generous portion of such milk; she im¬ 
mediately became sick and came very near dy¬ 
ing.— Maine Farmer. 
A Bio Farm.— The California Farmer 
say3 that the amount of wire fence around the 
farm of Messrs. Horner & Beard, but a few 
miles from San Francisco, exceeds, in the ag¬ 
gregate, eighty miles, and is worth one hundred 
thousand dollars. The two gentlemen have in 
cultivation 2600 acres of wheat, 750 acres of 
oats, 500 of barley, 1200 of potatoes, and acres 
upon acres of cabbage and root crops. In ad¬ 
dition to all this, Mr. Beard designs planting 
during the present. season, 10,000 fruit trees 
and a large number of vines. 
It is idle to expect cows to give rich and 
wholesome milk and butter, unless some atten¬ 
tion is paid to the requirements of the animal 
economy, and the raw materials furnished them 
from which only it can be manufactured. 
Red Hawthorn, Osage Orange and Carrots. 
—I wish to know through the Rural, either 
by the editor or some ot your correspondents, 
whether or not the wild red hawthorn, which is 
common in the Middle States, has ever been 
used for hedging, and if so with what result, etc.? 
Or what is the difference between it and the 
common hedge thorn, if any ? I have thought 
that the common hawthorn would make an ex¬ 
cellent hedge, by proper treatment, having ob¬ 
served some exposed brambles which have not 
greatly increased in height for many years, 
about the height of a good hedge, perfectly im¬ 
penetrable, very compact, and having thorns 
about two inches long, very sharp. I am of 
opinion, from some isolated specimens of the 
osage orange that I have seen, that they will 
grow too large for hedges, being what I would 
call trees, some 20 feet high ; but they might 
not grow so in a hedge ? What is the right 
time to plant carrots for a good crop?—G. W. 
Allen, Washington Co., Pa. 
Will some of our correspondents give their 
experience with the Red Hawthorn as a hedge 
plant? 
The Osage Orange is naturally a tree in ev¬ 
ery sense of the word. It is a thrifty grower, 
and when planted as a hedge in latitudes where 
the frost does not cut off' the young wood, and 
the plants are left to themselves, they make, 
as some one has facetiously remarked, admirable 
fishing poles. But it is vain to think of mak¬ 
ing a good hedge with any plants without 
constant trimming. We are such a fast people 
that we must have a hedge in a few months or 
a couple of years at the longest; we cannot 
bring ourselves to cut down four-fifths of the 
growth of a hedge every year, and till we can 
we must be content to forego the advantage 
and beauty of good hedges. Osage Orange, 
in this vicinity, when properly managed, suc¬ 
ceeds admirably as a hedge plant. We have 
nothing superior. 
The earlier carrots are sown after this date 
the better. See an article on the cultivation 
of carrots in the Rural of April 22d., for cur¬ 
rent volume. 
Guano for Wheat. —Would land which now 
by the use of plaster and clover, produces every 
other year 30 bushels of wheat per acre, be made, 
by the use of guano and leached ashes, to pro¬ 
duce 30 bushels per acre every year? If it will 
what amount would it be necessary to apply 
each time, and how should it be applied V You 
will pardon me for intruding on your time, but 
I am very anxious to learn the answers to the 
above questions.—J. A. Cowles, Oakfield, Ccne- 
sce Co., May 1. 1854. 
On such land as you describe, there cannot 
be the least doubt but that, by the aid of gu¬ 
ano and ashes, from 30 to 40 bushels of wheat 
per acre may be raised every year. Sortie 
500 lbs. of good Peruvian guano would be re¬ 
quired per acre each year. We would sow 
half of it in the fall and the other half early in 
the spring. The great practical difficulty in 
the way of growing wheat every year is in 
keeping the soil clean. In Mr. Lawks’ ex¬ 
periment, where he has grown wheat eleven 
years in succession, he drills in the wheat in 
rows a foot apart and hand hoes it twice pi¬ 
th rice in the spring. By such constant tillage 
the soil is apt to become too light for the 
wheat plant. But this may be avoided to 
some extent by sowing early and treading it 
with sheep in the fall, or by the use of a heavy 
roller, or Crosskill’s Clod Crusher. But will 
such a system of cultivation pay? We answer 
it will pay well, if wheat sells for $2,00 per 
bushel. It certainly will not pay with wheat 
at $1,00 per bushel. 
Barlet, Ashes, 3ec.— As the season has been 
very backward here this spring, and there is hut 
little barley sown yet, would it be advisable to 
sow much after the first of May ? Can you 
tell me what is the effect of ashes on clover, or 
on corn ? soil a black muck. — Addison, Feeds 
Corners, N. Y. 
It is possible that barley may do well sown 
the first or second week in May,but we should 
prefer to plant corn rather than to risk it. On 
corn, ashes have a good effect, especially on a 
black muck. Apply a handful to each hill 
before the first hoeing. Ashes would be bene¬ 
ficial on clover, but pay better when applied to 
corn; such, at least, is the general opinion. 
Pipe for Conveying Water. —Can you givo 
me the best and cheapest way to bring water to 
a barn, say sixty or seventy rods? Some advise 
wood, some stone or clay-burnt pipe, and some 
lead, and some water-lime. If clay-pipe is pre¬ 
ferred, where can it be obtained, and what prico 
per rod ? What size caliber is best. — J. Evans, 
,1r., Girard, Erie Co., Pa., 1854. 
Will some of our readers answer the above. 
Alvin Wilcox, West Bloomfield, Ontario Co., 
N. Y., makes clay pipes for this purpose. 
They fit into each other and are cemented, and 
answer well. 
A Curious Fact.— I have a sheep that gavo 
birth to two lambs, at two different times.— 
The first one was born March 29th, and owing 
to the severe cold it died. The last one was 
bom April 6th, and is yet alive and doing 
well.—N. Coai’Man, Hallsvillc, JY. Y. 
