Agricultural illtsccllam) 
like that of grass, picks off every particle. The 
water that runs over either wheat or grass eight 
rods, becomes as poor in ammonia as wood; 
while much of that which runs over plowed 
ground, if a soft-water soil, remains as rich in 
ammonia as when it dropped from the clouds, 
until it reaches some plants or material to pick it 
off. That which falls sufficiently slow for the 
ground to soak it, of course is retained for the 
growth of plants. Again, the winter wheat gets 
such a start in the Spring that it covers the 
ground before there is any drouth to affect it. 
The best variety of Spring wheat that I have 
ever seen is the variety known in this section as 
the China Tea. There are many names for the 
same wheat, it is necessary to give a description 
of the variety that there shall be no mistake. It 
is a white chaff, bearded, and grows (on good 
land) very late. The head is very long: kernels 
not very close together; berry large; a good 
variety to mix with the Canada or Milwaukee 
Club, either of which grows six or eight inches 
shorter. When sown together they ripen at the 
same time, and yield 4 or 5 bushels more to the 
acre mixed than sown separately. 1 have just 
threshed 45 dozen sheaves of the mixed, which 
yielded a bushel to the dozen, or 30 bushels to 
the acre, and neither of the varieties will yield 
alone more than 25 bushels to the acre, sown on 
equally good ground, and equally well cultivated 
on a part of the same field. 
And now, Mr. L. G. D., If you will tell me what 
the weather will he In July and August, 1 will tell 
you what time to sow' your wheat to escape the 
rust,—for if the weather bo clear and cool from 
the time your wheat heads out until it is out of 
the milk rust, will never injure it Two or three 
bushels of salt to the acre, sown broadcast, is a 
good preventive,—if sown on the wheat when a 
foot high, or on the ground after the wheat is 
sown. 
To escape the midge is my apology for sowing 
Spring wheat. After learning their instincts, 
habits, and fashion of wintering, I ask no favors, 
and show them no quarter. 1 not only plow late 
in the fall, where 1 sow wheat in the Spring, but 
for everything else I sow or plant, and if once 
broken up In their winter quarters in cold 
w (father, they are quite too frail to make new, or 
repair their old ones. If the w inter proves favor¬ 
able T only use a cultivator and harrow for putting 
in my seed. II there should not he snow to lay 
long, and the ground should freeze and thaw so 
much as to settle down so hard that I cannot 
make it in order with the cultivator, I then use a 
narrow plow with a straight moldboard that 
shoves the furrow off without turning any portion 
over, so its to save the ammonia on the top, 
which is sojmportuiit for the manuring of wheat, 
and makes the soil soft and deep for the roots to 
get moisture, A. B. Dickinson. 
Hornby, N. Y., Dec., 1869. 
HIGH FEEDING AND MANURING. 
Testimonial to John Johnnton. 
In noticing what it denominates a “Tribute to 
the Great Tile-Drainer,# the JV. Y. Tribune of late I 
date says:—“ It may be of general interest to know 
that a number of our most respectable citizens, , 
personally interested in our State Agriculture, , 
have united in an appropriate and well-merited 
testimonial to the venerable farmer of Seneca 
county — Mr. John Johnston. Mr. J. is now 
abont 70 years of age, and has long been in the 
habit of communicating valuable information on 
farm topics to the agricultural journals. He has 
kept up a correspondence, to the extent of more 
than one hundred letters auuuallv, with strangers 
addressing him from all parts of the country. Bet¬ 
ter than all this, however, he has shown by many 
years of actual demonstration that tile-draining 
is profitable, * * and that a man can begin 
farming with little or no money, and reach an 
independence. A testimonial of respect to such 
a man as this is eminently proper; and one from 
snch men as have united in this instance has a 
greatly enhanced value. * * The testimonial 
consists of a massive silver pitcher and two gob¬ 
lets, on all of which are engraved and embossed 
appropriate agricultural emblems. On one shield 
of the pitcher is represented a reaping field a3 it 
appears in our day, on another a mowing machine 
at work, and the third bears the following inscrip¬ 
tion: 
Presented to John Johnston, in recognition of his ser¬ 
vices to the Agriculture of New York, by his fellow 
citizens. 
John A. King, Luther Tucker & Son, 
B. P. Johnson, Samuel Thorne, 
Henry Wager, Kraatus Corning, Jr., 
A. B. Conger, I). D. T. Moore, 
William Kelly, A. P CuniiDgs, 
James J. Mapes, A O. Moore, 
Lewis 0. Morris, James S. Wadsworth, 
B. N. Huntington, C- A W. McCammon, 
Janies 11. Sheldon, Addison Gardiner, 
J. B. Williams. Henry S. Olcott. 
The goblets bear the representation of men lay¬ 
ing tiles for drains, a diteb-digging machine; tile 
machine, and all manner of small tools used in 
‘the stupid burial of crockery’—as an English 
lord was pleased to term tile-draining a few years 
ago.” 
“MingoU Bacon.” 
Thomas Nash, an enterprising packer in 
Chicago, lia3 lately brought out a new feature 
in the Provision trade of this country—singing 
the hog after slaughtering instead of scalding. 
The editor of the Chicago Tribune says that the 
prime object of Mr. Nash just now, is filling 
English orders for this class of provisions. The 
bogs are carefully selected of the same size, about 
one hundred and sixty or one hundred and eighty 
pounds weight each. After the knife, the car¬ 
casses, in liiimhcr twelve at a time, are covered 
with straw and this is burned upon them. They 
are then turned and the process of burning is 
again repeated leaving them perfectly blackened. 
This dark coat scales off before the Bcraper and 
the hog is found to be perfectly cleaned of bristles. 
Each is then dressed, cut in half, head and legs 
cut off, blade and backbone cut out, the whole 
neatly trimmed w ith the knife, and the sides then 
laid in tiers, skin side downward, the meat surface 
plentifully strewn with salt—this is the pickling 
process, and in abcuttwo weeks, or less, the whole 
process is completed, ami the singed bacon ready 
for shipment, in boxes, direct to Loudon by steam 
from Portland or from New' York. Mr. Nash will 
ship about a thousand hogs this packing season on 
English orders. The leading reason of the intro¬ 
duction of this modification of our usual pork 
uuring process is that it is an old and favorite 
mode in some parts of England, and this singed 
bacon is sent over to compete with the home pro¬ 
duct of “John Bull.” There is a claim that seems 
well sustained, that the singing less affects the 
firmness of the fibres ol the pork, than the action 
of hot water in the tub, aud several of our experts 
in provision matters concede that this advantage 
compensates for the increased trouble and expense. 
Premium Crops in Ohio. 
Thk State Ag. Society of Ohio, together with 
the Board of Agriculture, met at Columbus on the 
5th and tith ult. A Committee from the latter 
made a report upon Field Crops, in which they 
regret that more applications for premiums have 
not been made in conformity with the rules. 
They find that Juo. Loughey of Adams county, 
raised on two acres of ground 6 tuns and 1,209 
pounds of hay, for which he is entitled to a pre¬ 
mium of $10. 
That Samuel Scott of Morgan county, having 
raised on one-half an acre of ground, 159 bushels 
and 51 pounds of potatoes, is eutitled to the pre¬ 
mium of $20. 
That John Kelley, of Cuyahoga county, having 
raised on one-half acre of ground, 159 bushels and 
51 pounds of potatoes, is entitled to the premium 
of $20. 
That John Kelley, of Cuyahoga county, having 
raised 2G7 bushels and 2J quarts of onions upon 
SwwiA for the People. 
Ali. our readers will recollect what an excite¬ 
ment was created by the belief that in the Sor¬ 
ghum was found a plant that would enable the 
fanners of the north to supply their own families 
with all the syrup arid perhaps sugar they would 
need. Others were elated at the idea of becoming 
growers and manufacturers of syrup, and it was 
confidently prophesied that enough could cheaply 
be grown by northern farmers to furnish the 
market. We will not undertake to say how far 
those hopes have been or may be realized, but we 
do say that almost every section of our country 
can supply itself with the most delicious sweet 
ever provided for the use of man. It is scattered 
all over the land, in the forest, on the prairie, on 
the mountain, in the valley, in the garden and the 
field. It needs no crushing, no manufacturing, 
no cleansing with lime or eggs or blood, but is 
grown pure, and to be bad for the gathering. 
Nature, too, has provided workers for gathering 
this sweet, that will work if only invited, and 
treated decently, without pay, and board them¬ 
selves; so that this delicious sweet can be had 
almost “without money and without price.” 
Honey enough is wasted in this country every 
year, by being left uugatbored, to supply every 
family; and we saw a careful calculation made by 
a gentleman, which went to show that enough 
might he gathered in the State of New York to 
pay its taxes. If honey is so plenty, and the keep¬ 
ing of beoB so profitable, it may be asked why this 
interest is so sadly neglected? To this we will 
briefly reply. 
1st. Those who are not acquainted with bees 
think them vicious insects, laying in wait to inflict 
pain with their terrible sting on every one who 
comes near them. They approach their hives 
with fear and trembling, ready to start and run at 
the first sign of an attack, and if a bee approaches 
them singing ever so gently and peaceably, they 
arc ready to retreat, fighting as they go to keep off 
the enemy, and it is not strange if the little bee 
gets enraged at the insult, and they thus bring on 
themselves the evil they were so anxious to 
avoid. 
If bees were without stings, like flies, every far¬ 
mer would have u number of hives, they would be 
seen iu every garden, and every table would be 
well supplied with honey each day in the year. 
Now, the majority of people never taste honey, 
and with the few it is a luxury to be enjoyed only 
occasionally. We cannot, of course, extract the 
sting from the bee. nor would it be desirable to do 
“ A Hai-pt New Visas” to all Rural Friends,—Corres¬ 
pondents, Subscribers, Readers, and even borrowers. To 
each of these classes we hare something to say, but no 
space for an appropriate address to either—this No. being 
already so full that we are obliged to defer a page or two 
of matters intended therefor. Please, therefore, take the 
will for the deed. Gentlemen all, and consider yourselves 
respectively addressed in the most becoming manner. 
AGUicrr.Ti:RAL Societ*.KH. —Annual Meetings .—The 
Eighth Annual Meeting of the U. S. Agricultural Society 
Is to be held at the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, 
on Wednesday neat, (Jan. 11th,) when officers will he 
elected for I860, and the location of the next Fair be des¬ 
ignated.-The Annual Meeting of the N. Y Cl tat e Ag. So¬ 
ciety is to be held at the Agricultural Rooms, Albany, on 
Wednesday, tbe 11 tb of February.-That of the Mon¬ 
roe Co. Society at tbe Court House in this city on Wednes¬ 
day next, Jan 11th-That of the Tonawanda Valley Ag. 
Sociely, at Attica, Tuesday evening, Jan. 10th. (Address 
by D. D. T. Moon ) 
— Secretaries of Ag. Societies will oblige u* by furnish¬ 
ing brief abstracts of proceedings of annual meetings, as 
we wish to publish their most important transactions, and 
especially lists of officers elected. 
The Weather of the post two or three weeks has been 
quite uniform for the season,—with general good sleighing 
over a large region of country. In this section there has 
been just snow enough, and the temperature generally 
favorable for out-door operations. Sleighing has been 
improved to good advantage by fanners and others. We 
never knew so great a crowd of teams from the country, 
in December—bringing pork, &c., to market—as during 
the past two writs, (we write tins Dec. 30.) Tbe “cold 
snap" of tbe past two days—the Thermometer 7 deg. 
below zero yesterday morning—checked operations some¬ 
what, hut the weather is more moderate to-day, and busi¬ 
ness people aud pleasure seekers who follow the merry 
bells, are again on the top wave. 
years ahead, even if you do not expect to live to 
sec those years. Rome one will ho tempted by 
your example, if a good one. 
Asa proof that high feeding and high manur¬ 
ing is the true course to follow, T will state that 1 
can with moro certainty calculate on three tuns 
of hay per acre, now, than T could on one thirty- 
six years ago, and I can safely calculate on one 
acre in pasture feeding more stock und much 
better, than three would have done at that 
time, while J can almost always make one- 
half more grain of any kind than I did then— 
of oats or corn far more than double. High 
feeding aud high manuring did all this. Now, my 
dear sir, if 1 can only put the right faith in you, 
you will make a shining light to the farming com¬ 
munity, and you have only to think over and pon¬ 
der well these remarks. Think, reason on the 
subject, and you will gain knowledge, so that yon 
will he satisfied that sheep and cattle can never he 
profitable to the owner when they are not gaining 
in value in Some way; what they consume is a 
dead loss, and the labor of attending them is lost 
also. Now, what becomes of him who is making 
them worse, daily, from November until the mid¬ 
dle of May or later? The fact is, that way of 
keeping stock is absurd nonsense, and I know 
if men could he induced to reason on the subject 
there would soou he no such cattle or sheep in 
the State, 
1 am never afraid to feed grain when high; if 
corn is high, beef and mutton are always high. 
I fed 24 tuns of oil meal last year to 501 sheep and 
got pay for cost of sheep, pay for the oil meal, 
interest of money on cost of sheep, interest of 
raoney paid for oil meal, and $745 over, to pay for 
forty days’ hay for tile sheep. Now, I have often 
done far hotter than that 1 have fatted more or 
less sheep or cattle for over thirty years, and I 
never lost money hut one season; sometimes made 
but little clear profit, hut always on the l ight side, 
except one year, And when I kept a regular stock 
of sheep. When 1 fed hay all winter I al ways led 
grain or oil meal. I often fed 100 Iambs (Merinos) 
during winter, and either sold iu April or at 
shearing time, and some five to seven years ago, 
for a few years they netted me $5 each. It don't 
take much grain or oil meal to make a lamb fat if 
in good condition when winter sets in. I have 
had them average 110 to 115 pounds after being 
shorn. I don't think 100 wethers, 3J years old 
last fall, eould have been found on any one 
farm west of this in this State that would weigh 
100 pounds,—1 mean Spanish Merinos, such as 1 
raised. Good keeping did it all with me. 1 have 
only got a little over 100 acres, or will not have 
after the first of April; indeed I have no more 
now, my tenant having sold out his fodder, corn 
and oats to the gentleman that has purchased 
about 200 acres of my farm. He is now on it with 
his family, has got on some 350 slice)) which lie 
is making fat for spring market: has also plenty 
of cattle and horses, and I have no doubt will 
make, or rather is, a very progressive farmer. 1 
have 200 sheep making fat daily, and eiglit head 
of cattle, hut have not enough stock to consume 
my stuff. True, 1 might sell my hay and grain, 
hut then my farm would feel the loss of it bye-and- 
bye. I never sold hay, corn or oats since 1 came 
here, and I have raised as high as 1,400 bushels of 
corn in a season, and fed it all to cattle and sheep, 
excepting to make as much pork as rny family 
needed, and always got as much us it would bring 
in market, and sometimes twice that, one year 
excejjted. JOHN JOHNSTON. 
Near Geneva, X. Y.. Dec. IT, 1859. 
Hints on Feeding.— Good Steers .—In a recent letter 
to U8, John JounStos writes:— 11 Mr. 11. T. B. says 1 a sue- 
cessful Livingston Co. fanner, largely in tbe wheat busi¬ 
ness, used to buy steers in iaz times, (Jan. and Feb.) 
winter through on straw, pul them in good pasture, and 
sell them in tbe following summer or fall, at a good profit. 
The steers were lean when bought,* Ac. Now, if the‘sue- 
cessful Liv. Co. farmer, had fed the lean steers ten bush¬ 
els of corn from Jan. to Feb., until he could turn them 
to good pasture, 1 have no doubt whatever he would have 
been more successful, because the animals would have 
been good beef by the end of June or early in J uly, when 
beef is -generally much higher than in fall—aud their ma¬ 
nure would have been worth a groat deal more. But per¬ 
haps they don't use manure iu Livingston Co.— if they do 
not. I know they ought to. I have some steers now, that 
gained between the 12th of May last and the 17th of De¬ 
cember, iust., fithD-i lbs. each;—yea, five hundred ninety- 
two and a half pounds each, iu seven months aud five days! 
They had nothing but pasture from 12th of May until the 
2d of Dec., when I commenced feeding them meal. Can 
any of the Livingston Co. fanners beat that?” 
State Acrktltcral College.— We are indebted to 
the President of this Institution for a document which 
we cannot at present more appropriately notice than 
by quoting what the Southern Field says of the same, 
us follows:—“ We have received a pfunpblet containing 
the Act incorporating the New York State Agricultural 
College: a brief history of the Institution, the names of 
the tr ustees and other officer*, and the plan of. its c<j|!e- 
giute studies, and farming operations The whole subject 
han been msturely considered, and from our knowledge 
of the gentlemen who have the interests of agricultural 
education in eharge, we cherish the belief that tire far¬ 
mers' college will soon take rank as a model establishment 
of tbe kind Major M. It. Patrick, its President, is a 
graduate of the government school at West Point, a man 
of talent, energy, and firmness, a capital disciplinarian, 
yet genial, courteous aud conciliating, and, withal, an ex¬ 
cellent practical fanner. Ho will command, at once, the 
entire confidence of tbe Board of Trustees, professors 
and students. Tbe college is located on a large farm near 
Ovid, in Seneca county, between Cayuga aud Seneca 
Lakes." 
WINTERING CALVES.—HAY vs. GRAIN. 
cicnt to keep them gr owing 4n good shape and 
condition. For winter quarters I assign them an 
acre lot adjoining the barn, with :t low, open shed, 
made very tight and warm on three sides andover- 
head, kept well littered with straw, in one corner 
of said lot. A rack or manger, so constructed 
that they c an not waste the hay, is freely and regu¬ 
larly supplied with good, bright, tender hay, cut 
before harvest, in such quantity that Said manger 
is never entirely empty, except when a little brine, 
sprinkled on the orts, induces the calves to eat 
them clean. Water at will. With this care my 
calves have always kept growing and thriving 
through the winter, and if they have good pas¬ 
ture through the ensuing summer, und good keep 
the next winter, I can scarcely ever keep them 
longer than the month of February, because 
butchers passing by will offer such high prices 
for them that it would he folly to do so. 
The question whether grain is necessary in 
wintering stock, depends for its answer very much 
on the quality of the hay provided. In some sec¬ 
tions of the country whore I have been, good, 
choice hay is almost unknown. You may visit 
twenty different barns at chore-time without see¬ 
ing the article. A hard, ripe, wiry, late cut and 
pale-colored commodity, called hay, certainly 
needs some grain as an accompaniment. In these 
sections of country advocates may be found for 
late cutting of meadows. Cause why—the hay 
goes further. Ro would a stone fore-stick iu the 
fire-place last longer than one of hickory. 
I once worked a pair of farm horses for several 
years on grass in the summer, and hay in the win¬ 
ter, with less than the contents of a barrel of grain 
per annum. They were in good health, desh and 
spirits. T sold one of them at fourteen years of 
age, which was soon re-sold for eight, his actions 
and appearance corresponding with that age. 
In the spring of the year, when sheep’s appetite 
for hay somewhat fails, and the springing grass is 
unsubstantial, I think grain may be fed to great 
advantage. P. H* 
Milan, Erie Co., Ohio, 1859. 
Profitable Bkk-Kkepinu. —One of our sub¬ 
scribers in the town of Parma in this county, pro¬ 
cured six swarms of bees in the spring. He now 
has fourteen good swarms, and sold during the 
summer honey which brought him $100. 
Ohio State Ag, Society. —The annual Meeting of tbe 
Ohio State Board of Agriculture was held at Columbus on 
tbe 5th ult. The Treasurer's report showed a balance on 
tbe wrong side—an indebtedness of $217. An animated 
discussion was bad upon a resolution in favor of perma¬ 
nent location of the State Fair; but it was so amended 
as to direct the Board to “ consider tbe propriety of lo¬ 
cating the Fair at one point for two consecutive years." 
Officers of the Board for the ensuing year were elected as 
follows: President—J M Tjumiu.k of Highland Co.— 
Treasurer —John Rebel of Fairfield Co. Secretary —C. 
T. Jones of Delaware Co. Gw. Secretary —John H. Klip- 
part of Columbus. 
Ventilation. —Do hives that arc placed in 
the cellar during tbe winter need any ventilation 
other than the opening at the bottom where tire 
bees enter?—R- T„ Trumans burgle N. K, Dec. 
1859. 
An opening at tbe top of the hive, to allow the 
vapor to pass off, is more necessary than the 
opening at the bottom. 
Cortland Co. Ac. Society. —At the recent annual 
meeting of this spirited Society the following excellent 
board of officers was elected for I860: President —XV. P. 
Randall, Fire President-- T.T. Tallman, Treasurer— Mor¬ 
gan L. Webb, Secretary —Alonzo D. Blodgett, Fzecutive 
Committee —Samuel Babcock, Norman KiDg, Richard S. 
Van Hooscu,OeorgM Conable. John Corp, Lyuian Hubbard, 
Alfred L Chamberlain, Henry McKevitt. Martin Luce^ 
Andrew E. Kingsbury, Francis H. Hibbard It is the in¬ 
tention of the Society to erect pennant ut buildings du¬ 
ring the ensuing year upon their new grounds. 
Inquiries onb 3nsincrs 
Corns on Horskh.—I would like to know what causes 
corns on horses* foot; tbe symptoms attending them; the 
cure.if any; or. whether tlioy can be cured or helped. If 
you will answer, you will greatly oblige your bumble 
servaut.—S, Wheaton, Prullsburgh. IS. 1'., Dec , 1859. 
iMPRUl'ER shoeing, it id supposed, is the cause of corns. 
Dr, White says:—The only mode by which a corn can he 
oltiroY cured or palliated, is to take oil all pressure from 
the diseased parts; and this not only for a short time, hut 
till the injured part lias lost its tenderness, and formed 
born of sufficient strength to enable it to bear pressure. 
When a horse becomes very lame from a corn, it will be 
advisable to leave off the shoe for a short time, aud apply 
a large bran poultice. W hen tenderness is perceived 
about the coronet, and a little matter is seen oozing out 
from the horn of the heel, it should he pared away, that 
the mutter may escape freely. The exposed part may be 
dressed at first with a solution of blue or white vitriol; 
afterwards with tincture of myrrh 
SPRING WHEAT-MIDGE AND RUST. 
Editors Hi rat. New-Yorker: —L. G. D., of 
Morrisville, asks some of your correspondents 
to name the best kind of Spring wheat, the host 
time for sowing to escape the midge, and also the 
rust, on the hills of Madison County. There are 
but two reasons for sowing Spring, instead of 
Winter wheat in Madison. The first is, to escape 
the midge. Late fall plowing, after the ground 
commences freezing, is sure destruction to the 
most of these pests. The only other reason that 
any rational man can assign, is the want of 
means to drain iris land,—for if the land he 
thoroughly drained the frost will not heave it 
sufficiently to injure the wheat It is the water in 
the soil that causes the frost to draw out the roots 
of the wheat. 
Wheat sown sufficiently early in the fall to get 
a good top, if not disturbed by the midge, on the 
same soil, with the same treatment, will yield from 
three to eight bushels per acre more than wheat 
sown in the Spring; first, for the reason that 
wheat sown in the fall lias six months the advan¬ 
tage in accumulating ammonia from the atmos¬ 
phere, the rains and snows. The wheat plant. 
Beardless Baulky. —For the benefit of my self and 
some of my neighbors, 1 take the present occasion to 
make tbe inquiry in relation to a variety of grain that 
bears tbe mane wf Beardless Parley. We hear much of 
its merits from abroad, but practically we know but little 
of it- qualities. Is it well adapted to tbe soil and climate 
of Western New York: Is it a spring or fall grain 1 What 
yield does it produce to the acre: ('an the seed he ob¬ 
tained in quantity in your section? H so, what can it be 
bought lor per biishe.l? Any information to the above 
inquiries will be gratefully received by one of your sub¬ 
scribers.—A Young Fakvikp., Attica, JV, F , Dec... 1859, 
Beardless Jlurley is n spring grain. 11 is not only 
beardless, but without .he strong skin of the common 
barley, and has somewhat the appearance of wheat, or 
rather prepared barley, s,leh as is generally called peurl 
barley, and for sale at the stores for soups, &c. It yields 
well, but vie have only grown small quantities by way of 
experiment. Perhaps some of our readers cam answer the 
inquiries us to cost, &e. 
sensibly, and aro substantially lined withal. As a sample 
of many like unto it, we quote a remark or two from one 
just received from Mr. E. S. Bartholomew, of Chautau¬ 
qua Co., containing a remittance for ninety-two subscri¬ 
bers, Mr. B. writes—"I hope to yet extend iny list to 
one hundred, which you may consider a large circulation 
for next year, as a great many have got to labor to 1 save 
the Union' by taking rabid political papers and mixing up 
iu tbe whirlpool of excitiDg political strife — saying and 
doing much to the injury of a sound political brotherhood 
that might bo sustained if the Rural was read more, in¬ 
ducing more calm thought, 1 consider it a highly con¬ 
servative paper, both morally and nationally. Its ob¬ 
jects and aims are to elevate and ennoble, to make man 
what he should be —a productive boin^. instead of a 
leech upon society, to debase and derange. I wish it could 
be in every house in our country.” 
MAKING CHEESE IN WINTER. 
There may be truth in the saying that there is 
“nothing new under the sun,” but 1 should like to 
know if anybody ever made cheese in the winter. It 
seems to me that the present practice of making 
it in the summer is both absurd and expensive. 
The winter is by far the best time to make cheese, 
because the milk is richer, more easily managed, 
and there is no danger from flies, or souring of 
vessels. There is also more time, and milk can 
be produced cheaper, and of a better quality than 
in summer. 
$o also with butter; and it is only flora lack of 
proper knowledge of well authenticated facts that 
farmers generally adhere to the custom of making 
it in summer. T. Crums. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y., 1859. 
Broom Corn. —A correspondent wishes to know how to 
prejmro the ground, the best variety, the best fertilizer; 
also, for what purpose the seed is most valuable; if the 
stalks are of value for any- purpose; the aggregate cost of 
growing an acre, tbe prod uct, and the price for which the 
brush generally sells. Ho re jj a chance tor some of our 
broom-corn growers to im part a good deal of information. 
Those of our readers interested in extending the circu¬ 
lation and benefits of the Rural are requested to read 
the Publisher's Notices on advertising page. 
