A gentleman standing by said that Mr. A. bad 
interfered in the original appointment of this 
Committee, and that a Mr. G. was at first appoint¬ 
ed, but was left off at the instance of Mr. A. 
I bad to leave with my family before the close 
of the day, but ascertained afterward, that, not¬ 
withstanding the bare trlcke of Mr. A., the ha- 
paitial Judges decided contrary to his wishes 
and determination. 
I will not at present intrude further on your 
valuable space, except to say that if Plow handle 
in his travels should come across Mr. A , he will 
do him a favor by poiuting out to him this 
friendly warning, as any further tricks, however 
sly, may meet with other and more public notice. 
Scarifier. 
CULTURE OF CLAYEY SOILS, &c. 
BUCKWHEAT FOR FATTENING STOCK. 
Eds. Ritual New-Yorker: — J. E. D. wants 
information regarding buckwheat as food for 
cattle, sheep, and hogs, and to know if it makes 
as solid flesh as other grain. Icantellliim. Ihave 
fattened many cattle, and far more sheep, on all, 
or part buckwheat for the last twenty years, and 
it will fat stock ns well, for the same amount of 
pounds, as any other grain. Both sheep and cat¬ 
tle can stand higher feeding with it than any 
other grain, perhaps oats excepted: ami I would 
much rather have half buckwheat meal than all 
corn meal to feed to three year old steers that 
have not been fed grain. As for the solidity of 
the flesh, I neither know nor care as long as it 
makes them fat. 
A friend of mine last fall had about S50 head of 
sheep, and some cattle, which he must fat; oil 
meal not to be got, and corn high. He consulted 
me, and I advised him to buy buckwheat. He 
hesitated; said a gentleman once told him he fed 
buckwheat to his sheep and their wool came all 
off, and they got poorer. 1 told him what I kne w; 
I was as sure I was right as any other man, hav¬ 
ing made as fat sheep with buckwheat as I ever 
did with anything else, and never had any disease 
among them, and was confident it would be the 
same with him if he managed right otherwise. 
VTell, he bought buckwheat, fed three bushels to 
the 100 sheep, daily, with straw for fodder and 
plenty for litter, and he made prime fat sheep, 
although many of them were lean when he com¬ 
menced feeding. I have probably as fat a heifer 
as is in the State. Her feed was buckwheat bran, 
last winter and spring, and pasture only since the 
Cth of May. 
Buckwheat is said to be poison to hogs. It 
may or may not he, for anything I know, but I do 
know it is good food to fat either cattle, sheep, or 
horses, and I further sayeth not. 
Yours truly, John Johnston. 
’S RURAL 1FRW-YORRRR. 
Friend Moore;— As the Clod Crusher has been 
the means of calling out quite a discussion on the 
best means to prepare clayey soils for a crop, I 
thought, by your permission, I would have a few 
words to say on that subject. 
If you plow with u wide furrow, and break your 
ground up in chunks about as large as two men 
can carry, perhaps the clod crusher would be the 
best thing you could use after that. I condemn 
that way of plowing altogether. Then to slice it 
off in three or lour inch furrows, is more, I think, 
than can be done; and if it could, and a man had 
forty or fifty acres of wheat to sow, he would want 
plenty of teams, or bo would want to sow wheat 
the year round. I think here we have the two 
extremes. Another says, ditch your laud. I will 
agree to that; for you may plow it or slice it, and 
get it as mellow as au ash heap, any way you 
please, hut if there comes a heavy rain, and the 
water stands on it two or three days, and bus to 
evaporate by the heat of the sun, your ground will 
dry about as hard as a brick, and you will have 
your labor for nothing. It must be ditched suffi¬ 
cient to take the surface wuter immediately off'. 
But then there is something to do after that; It 
has to he plowed, how deep I cannot tell you. 
There is no certain depth that bolds good every¬ 
where; that depends on what kind of land you 
have got, and what kind of subsoil there is. I 
plow nine or ten Inches deep, and would bo will¬ 
ing to plow two feet if I could; but I should want 
it done in the fall, and would risk but I would 
raise a good crop of anything that is raised here 
the next season. Haw wide a furrow ? Just as 
narrow as you cun, bo that it will turn over suffi¬ 
cient to not fall back on the edge, to cut off every 
Canada thistle root there is; get out your fast 
stoues, so there shall be no harbor for them; do 
your work thorough, and I will warrant yon will 
raise more wheat and a good many Jess thistles— 
try it. The latter part of the season is the time 
to kill Canada thistles, either by plowing or mow¬ 
ing; you can't do it In the forepart. 
There is a great deal said about the time to sow 
wheat, that I think is labor lost. There is no 
certain time that holds good everywhere. What 
is late sowing in one place fa early in another, 
and not more than six miles apart. It is so where 
I live; six miles east ol me they sow the last week 
in August and first in September, hut we think 
from the tenth to the twentieth of September our 
best time. a. b. 
Union Springs. Cayuga Co., N. Y., 1850. 
The next year I used the subsoil plow, and plowed 
about ten inches deep, which brought up some 
four inehoB of this poor, unproductive eaith, that 
11. N. speaks of. I think he will find hinm-lf' mis¬ 
taken when he has tried as many experiments as 
I have. The result of this plowing was that the 
oats, on an average, w ere four and a half feet high. 
It was the largest growth that I ever saw. It pro¬ 
duced a strong growth of straw; there was not 
enough of lodged straw upon the whole five acres 
to make one bundle, 1 think. The five acres 
filled a thirty by forty barn full from bottom to 
top, and a part of the barn floor. The straw r was 
so harsh that the stock had no inclination to eat 
any of it at alk 
I plowed another lot on the same farm about 
one foot deep, upon a flat. That was black sand, 
and the result was right the reverse — it nearly 
spoiled the land. Wm. D. Sheldon. 
Huron, Wayne Co., K. Y. 
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THE HYDROPULT. 
“ ANIMALS IN THE HIGHWAY.—THE LAW.” 
EXPERIMENTS IN SUBSOILING. 
Messrs. Editors:— In a late Rural, I noticed 
some remarks from H. N., of Tompkins Co., N. 
^ -i iff regard to subsoils. 1 think he has not had 
the experience that some have had in experi¬ 
menting upon the nature of subsoiL I will 
give you my experience in regard to the 
same, and if you think it worth while, you can 
publish as much of it as you think best. 
In experimenting with the Michigan Double 
Subsoil plow, I find that some soil* will bear deep 
plowing, while others will not. Now for the ex¬ 
periments. I purchased a farm, a few years ago, 
that had been worn out by constant shallow 
plowing. The first year I sowed live acres to 
oats, upon a ridge which had a gravelly hard pan 
some six inches below the surface, and the crop 
was hardly worth cutting. Tlowed it shallow.. 
An article under this head was published in 
the Rural of July 11th, signed H. G. W., in 
which that waiter states:—"The law already pro¬ 
vides a sufficient remedy for the nuisance of 
cattle running at large in the highway;” also, 
that "the pnblic have only a right of way or 
easement in the highway, and own nothing.” 
If this he law, our legislature and judiciary 
have committed somo gross blunders that should 
be corrected. It is true that Judge Cawden, iu 
an elaborate note to the case of Busti vs. Bkain- 
aup, (reported iu 1st Cowen’s Reports, page 7S,) 
suggested a doubt e.s to the right of the legisla¬ 
ture to confer on the electors of the several towns 
the authority to permit cattle to run at large on 
the highway. Chief Justice Savage again re¬ 
iterated the same suggestion in the ease of Hol¬ 
liday vs. Mausu, (3 Wendell, page 1-12.) Other 
Judges have expressed the same notions in cases 
subsequently reported, but none of these is au¬ 
thority, for there was no question before the 
Court calling tor a decision on this point iu the 
cases where the opinion was expressed. In legal 
phrase, all thus fur is obiter dicta. 
H. G. W. undoubtedly received his impressions 
of the law from these loose sayings of Judges 
who were not called upon or required to decide 
the question. Notwithstanding these sayings of 
Judges learned in the law had long been publish¬ 
ed and re-published as law, in 1*23, Hon. John 
D t ek, B. F. Butler, and John C. Spencer, as 
revisers of the Statutes of this State, reported to 
the Legislature this same power to town electors 
in more explicit und unequivocal language than 
iu former statutes, — omitting swine from the 
animals that should he permitted to run at large. 
This report was adopted by the Legislature in 
1830. 
Since 1830 the Supreme Court have had this 
question twice before them. First case reported 
is Griffin vs. Martin, (7 Barbour's Reports, page 
297.) Then it was decided, to confer this power 
on town electois was not in conflict with the 
Constitution. In the case of Habdknburgh vs. 
Lockwood, (25 Barbour's Reports, page 9, Ac.,) 
Justice Harris, who delivered the opinion of the 
Court, says:—"This power conferred on town 
electois, is not in conflict with the Constitution.” 
The usagr of pasturing the highways is as old as 
the history of our country, and the land taken 
for highways is presumed to have been taken 
with reference to this usage by the proper au¬ 
thority. 
Many questions are discussed that it matters 
but little how they are decided. If Paddy thinks 
St, Patrick is a bigger man than the Fourth of 
July, let him enjoy his belief; it injures nobody. 
But some serious consequences may follow a 
mistake as to whether H. G. W.’s statements, or 
the decisions of the Supreme Court, are the 
Higher Law. 
TAKING THE CENSUS. 
Well, the census taker* have been busy of late, 
and by and by we shall hear the results of their 
labors. Statistical men will foot up long columns 
of figures, and show with unerring certainty—for 
figures are always supposed to tell the truth— 
everything relating to our material welfare. 
Let na look for a moment at the way this abso¬ 
lute certainty is attained. The census man calls 
at the house of Mr. A., gets what information he 
wishes respecting the live stock, in-doors and out, 
and then asks the number of bushels of grain 
raised the past year. Mr. A. tells him the amount 
of wheat and barley—he knows what he paid for 
threshing them — but as for oats, he threshed 
some with horses, somo with flails, fed some un¬ 
threshed, and kept no account of the quantity, as 
he used nearlyall up at home. Corn, ditto. How¬ 
ever, he tells what there might have been—prob¬ 
ably within one or two hundred bushels, he fay*— 
and it is put down in black and white as so much, 
actual measure. 
Mr. B. is iu a back lot, three-quarters of a mile 
away, and his wife does the guessing alone. As 
the census taker does his work by the piece, he 
can’t aff ord to go into the fields in search of beads 
of families. Mr. C. and all his household are 
away from home, and a clever neighbor estimates 
the amount of his productions. Mr. D. is a new 
comer, and knows but little of what was raised 
last year on his place. 
Thus the work goes bravely on, and when it is 
finished, the guesses will be summed up—meta¬ 
morphosed into certainties—and men of facts and 
figures will point many a moral, and deduce 
many au instructive lesson therefrom. 
Publico. 
"What is a hydropult 7” That was also our 
query, reader, on first seeing the name, but we 
were not long left in doubt and daikness on the 
subject, for the parties interested forwarded usthe 
“ masheen ” above represented, as the article with 
the Greek cognomen. It is a double acting force 
pump — a miniature "fire unnihilator,” water 
sprinkler, Ac., which bids fair to become a very 
useful nnd popular "institution” in both town 
and country. It is light and portable, easily ope¬ 
rated, and apparently strong and durable. The 
one sent us operates admirably. We quote a brief 
description:—" The apparatus is a simple arrange¬ 
ment of two valves, so placed that whether you 
pull up or push down, they draw water from the 
pail or tub, and force it out of the pipe with a 
velocity proportionate to the force applied by the 
hand. A foot stirrup is attached below, and the 
apparatus is used us represented in the engraving. 
The implement is convenient, as it can be curried 
around with ft bucket of water, and be used at any 
point desired, for sprinkling gardens, trees, grape¬ 
ries, washing windows, etc., etc. It lacks the ap¬ 
plication of lever power, hut, this is not necessary 
for ordinary use. lty a quick, strong motion of 
the hand, we have readily thrown water upon the 
roof of ft two and a half story building, and even 
higher. It is well made, chiefly of brass.” 
— The various uses and advantages of the Hy¬ 
dropult are enumerated in our advertizing de¬ 
partment 
Rurai Spirit of tl)c $rcs8. 
The Eyes of Horses nnd Cattle. 
In the New England Farmer, a correspondent 
gives the following remedy, when horses or cattle 
injure their eyes so as to bring on a white sub¬ 
stance or film. He says:—Take fresh butter, 
newly churned, melt about a tablespoonful, and 
turn it into the ear opposite the eye injured, 
being careful to hold the ear tight together, so 
that they shall not, by a violent shake of the 
head, throw it out of the cur. This remedy, he 
S8y», may be Bafoly applied, if you do not use 
them when the film is coming off. 
Fall Feeding Grass Lmul, 
A writer in the Boston Cultivator says he 
Had two meadows. On one he turned his cattle 
shortly after mowing, each year, and fed it off 
close to the ground. The other, having some 
young trees on a portion of it, the cattle where 
kept out, and the after growth allowed to rot on 
the ground. The hay crop on the former con 
tinned to improve in quality and quantity each 
succeeding year till last year, when the crop was 
light, while on the latter it decreased year by year, 
and last year it would scarcely pay the expense 
of cutting. 
Tnlining Skins with (he Fur on. 
We are often queried as to this process, and 
give the following from the Scientific American :•— 
“ Nail the fresh skins tightly and smoothly against 
a door, keeping the skinny side out. Next pro¬ 
ceed with a broad-bladed blunt knife to BCrape 
away all loose pieces of flesh and fat; then rub in 
much chalk, and be not sparing of labor; when 
the chalk begins to powder and fall off, take the 
skin down, fill it with finely ground alum,w’rap it 
closely together, and keep it in a dry place for 
two or three days; at the end of that time unfold 
it, shake out the alum, and the work is over. 
Colic In Horses. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the Farmers Advocate, 
(E. S. Phelps, Jr.,) gives the following recipe for 
colic in horses: 
"I knew a horse taken with colic while on a 
tread-wheel to a carding machine, so that the 
owner thought he could not live. He got three 
veterinary surgeons, and they did what they 
could, and all decided that the horse must die. 
The man’s wife who believed and practiced 
hygiene, from the time the horse was taken, tried 
to persuade her husband to use a wet bandage, 
but be insisted it would do no good. After all 
had given up that the horse could no longer live, 
by her entreaties, (the doctor saying it could do 
no good or hurt,) he took a thick bed-comforter, 
bound it around the horse, went to the well and 
drew water, and poured it on till thoroughly 
soaked. It steamed like a pot boiling. In less 
than fifteen minutes from the t ime he commenced 
the watering process the horse was up and eating, 
to the great surprise of the horse doctor, who 
knew he could not live. The horse did good 
service afterwards. This recipe I gave several 
years ago, and it was copied into most—as I was 
told by an editor—of the agricultural, and many 
other papers of the United States. Many have 
tried and proved it. Try it, brother farmer.” 
Introduction of the Potato into France. 
M. Noel, a French Agriculturist, speaking of 
the introduction of the potato into France, says:— 
‘‘This vegetable was viewed by the people with 
extreme disfavor when first introduced, and many 
expedients were adopted to induce them to use it, 
but without sucoess. In vain did Louis NYI- 
wear its flowers in hia button hole, and in vain 
were samples of the tuber distributed among the 
farmers; they gave them to their pigs, hut would 
not use it themselves. At last, Parmcntier, the 
Chemist, who well knew the nutritive properties 
of the potato, and was most auxions to see it in 
general use. hit upon toe following ingenious 
plan:—He planted a good breadth of potatoes at 
Sablons, close to Paris, and paid great attention 
to their cultivation. When the roots were neaily 
ripe, he put notices around the field that all per¬ 
sons who stole auy of the potatoes would be 
prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the law, and 
gendarmes were employed to watch the field day 
and night, and arrest all trespassers. No sooner 
were the new roots thus forbidden, sb it were, by 
authority, than all persons seemed eager to eat 
them, and in a fortnight, notwithstanding^ the 
inquiries oni» ^Instocrs. 
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whole crop was stolen, and, without doubt, eaten. 
The new vegetable having been found to be 
excellent food, was soon after cultivated in every 
part of the kingdom.” 
Cotton-Scrul Cnkc for Feeding Purposes. 
The Mark Lane (London) Express has an 
editorial commending the best samples of this 
article, as "a valuable acquisition to the present 
catalogue of grazing substances,” and conclndes 
by quoting the following observations of Prof. 
Voelokcr on the result of a recent analysis of 
thin deoorticated American cotton-seed eake 
lately imported: 
1st. The proportion of oil in all the specimens 
is higher than in the best linseed cake, in which 
it is rarely more than 12 per cent., and 10 per 
cent, may be taken as an average. As a supplier 
of food, cotton cake is, therefore, superior to 
linseed cake. 2d. The amount of oil in the sev¬ 
eral specimens differs to the extent of 5J per 
cent.—say from No. 7, 13.50, to No. 2, 19.19. 
3d. Decorticated cake contains a very high and 
much larger percentage of flesh forming matters 
than linseed cake, and it is therefore proper to 
give to young stock and milch cows. The dung, 
also, Is very valuable. 4th. In comparison with 
linseed, there is much leas mucilage and other 
respiratory matter in cotton oake. This is com¬ 
pensated by the larger amount of oil. 5th. The 
proportion of indigestible woody fiber in decor¬ 
ticated cotton cake is very small, and cot larger 
than in the best linseed cake. Cth, and lastly. 
It may be observed that the ash of cotton cake 
is rich in bony materials, and amounts to about 
the same quantity as is contained in other oily 
cakes. 
IHniingcnicnt of the Colt. 
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 
gives his method of imparting an education to a 
colt, as follows:—In the first place, never entrust 
him to the care of a person of ungovernable tem¬ 
per. Secondly, he should be treated with kind¬ 
ness from the beginning until be is ready for 
labor. Since Mr. Rarey laid his method of sub¬ 
duing the horse before the public, I have made 
the horse and his diseases my study. The colt 
should be commenced with when quite young, 
and bandied carefully, as he is quick to resent 
an injury, I begin as soon as be is able to run 
about—get him so that he will not run away at 
your approach—get his head iu your hands—if lie 
wants to get away, let him—you can easily get 
him again. After handling the head so that he is 
not afraid, pass on to the side nnd limbs. The 
sooner he gets used to having his legs handled, 
the easier he will he to shoe when necessity 
requires it to be done. See that the dam gives 
plenty of milk. If she dots not, teach the colt to 
drink cow's milk; there is nothing better to pro¬ 
mote the growth. 
Great care should be observed in not using the 
dam so as to heat the milk, as a great many colts 
are rendered worthless by so doing. I should in 
no case let the colt remain with the mother after 
it is five months old, as it gives her time to get 
in good condition for winter, and it is also the 
best time for him to shift for bimsedf; do not let 
him remain out after the nights get cold and 
frosty, as it will do him no good, but much harm. 
There is plenty of skimmed milk at this time of 
year; give him all he will drink; it will not hurt 
him. After he is weaned is the time to commence 
halter-breaking him; the method, if desired, I 
will give in my next, and also the time of har¬ 
nessing and driving the colt 
3^riniltnral fHtsceliang. 
GitAss tor an Orchard. —We Are engaged in the 
Fruit business. Have eight thousand trees planted, and 
shall increase it to twenty or twenty-five thousand. Some 
of the trees are iu hearing, ana having been headed 
low, (the western plan of cultivating I it is impossible 
to cultivate them with a horse. tVe design sowing 
some kind of grors to keep the weeds down Which in 
the best kind of grass to sow * We design cultivating un¬ 
der the trees as hir as the limbs extend, with digging 
forks: then to cut the grass as lost bs it gets high euongn, 
and-mulch the tree t. How will it do? We think blue 
Grass will be the best, a« it will keep down a sort of wild 
grass that is verv troublesome. Please give us your 
opinion— Trio, Manchester, Ohio. 1S5U. 
We Lave often heard it urged as an objection against 
low headed trees, that they prevent culture under the 
hranches for the destruction of weeds, Ae, But it will be 
found that where the branches are to low and so thick as 
to make culture difficult, the weeds will not grow, and 
the culture needed will be little. Blue Grass may 
be as good as any for the purposes wished, and the only 
objection to it is, it makes a pretty tough turf. It would 
be better for the trees, we thiuk, to cuhivate a hoed crop 
between the lows, if anything, until they become large. 
If our correspondent determines to sow the grass, we 
would urge that he give the roots plenty of room, at 
letst six feet each way further than the branches extend; 
and even then we would turn under the sod every third 
year. 
Bee Sting.—N othing as an antidote to the poison 
of bee stings, is comparable to indigo. Keep it dissolved 
and apply immediately. —O. T, H., Randolph , Crawford I 
Co , Penn., 1S60. 
Be Careful with the Machines —Every season we 
hear of more or less paioful, and not unfrequently fatal, 
accidents caused by negligence or inexperience in hand¬ 
ling or using Bgricultural machines — such as reapers, 
mowers, thresher-', straw cutters, Ac. Young and able- 
bodied men of great promise and bright prospects are 
often maimed for life, by being deprived of legs or arms, 
hands or feet, almost instantly, through ignorance or 
carelessness in operating labor saving machinery. The 
serious accidents, and even the destruction of life, which 
occur from this source, nre annually augmenting, and 
should admonish all who have occasion to use reapers, 
mowers, and threshers, to exercise great care,remember¬ 
ing that " caution is the parent of safety." Thesurgeons 
and manufacturers of artificial lirahs way be incidentally 
benefited by these sad calamities, but we submit that it 
is far better to be prudent and save the members and 
muscles invented by the Almighty,in preference to beiDg 
compelled (by willful neglect) to use even the best of 
human “patents” and " impiovemeots” in that line. 
As this is the season for operating threshing machines, 
we would caution all, and especially the young and inex¬ 
perienced, to guard against accidents. 
The Ichneumon r$. the Wheat Midge.— We recently 
gave an account of the appearance (in Wheatland, this 
county.) of an insect supposed to be the Tchoeumon Fly, 
a natural and deadly enemy to the Wheat Midge. A 
correspondent of the Canadian Agriculturist notices the 
advent of a similar enemy to the midge. He says:—“I 
am rejoiced that this week I can announce the arrival of 
a deadly enemy to the wheat midge or tty. In the neigh¬ 
borhood of Sparta, Township of Yarmouth, the farmers 
have discovered some species of ichneumons which de¬ 
posit their eggs lo the larva. One of these is very small, 
black, and shining; the other is also black, with red feet 
and a blunt tall. These are often mistaken for the wheat 
fly, but as it has only two wings, while they have four, 
the distinction is obvious. To observe the proceedings 
of the Ichneumons, place a number of the maggots or 
larvae of the wheat Uy on a sheet of paper, and set a 
female ichneumon in the midst of them; she soon 
pounces upon her victim, and intensely vibrating her 
antennae, bending herself obliquely, plunges her oviposi¬ 
tor Into the body of tbe larva, depositing in it a siDgle 
egg. She w ill then pasa to the second, and so on, depos¬ 
iting a single egg in each. You will observe the maggot 
writhing iu seeming agony, when sometimes the fly 
stings them three times. These ichneumons appear in 
myriads on the outside of the ear; but as If Impatient 
of bright light, sheltering themselves from the sun's 
rays among the busks.” 
California Wheat.— A subscriber at Lancaster, Pa, 
(Mr. A. P ZoOK.) wishes information, through tbe Rural, 
whether there is auy California wheat in market, to be 
had for seeding, and how it is held. We presume it can 
be obtained in New York city, but know of none in this 
market or vicinity. Any one who has it for Bale can 
address Mr. Z. at) above. 
— Mr, L. E. SnuRTi.EFF, of Saratoga Co., sends ns 
several largo heads of wheat, of a bald variety, and says: 
“This is a sample of Wheat grown from seed which I 
brought from California last winter. I sowed three pecks 
the 17th of April; it is now (Aug. 12.) fully ripe, I have 
seen it grow 75 bushels per acre in California, but we 
eau’t expect as much here, (if you do, yon will be short 
some -10 to 50 bushels ] I distributed several pecks to 
different persona, and all agree that it is not to be sur¬ 
passed by auy winter or spring variety. I have seen it 
milted; 240 lbs. will make a barrel of superfine flour. 
[Such grain as the sample would hardly do that,] It is 
what we call, iu Calilornia, '■Australian Seed,' After I 
get iu the returns, I will send you the different amounts 
raised from each peck, so that you may see how it will 
yield. Please tell tne how it compares with ‘Dayton’ 
and 1 Mediterranean." [Not very favorably; hardly equal 
to either iu quality, though we presume it Will yield 
more ] In California we have no winter or spring sowing, 
but sow whenever we can from Dec. to March." 
Inquiries about Sheet and Shei p Driving.—I wish 
to make a few inquiries, through the columns of vour 
valuable paper, hoping to hear from some of your numer¬ 
ous readers. 1 want to buy about a thousand sheep, and 
drive them seventy-live miles west of tbe Mississippi 
river—on the line of the Dubuque aud Pacific Railroad 
—and keep them Oa the pr&lrie. What 1 wish lo know 
is, will sheep do well on the prairie? Must they have 
water? Will they winter well iti that country, with good 
care? What time next summer will be the best to buy 
uud drive them? Please answer these Inquiries, and 
oblige— David Morse, Litchfield Co., Pu , lb 50. 
Weed for Name. —Inclosed yon will find a plant 
which you will please to name. 'The flower resembles 
tbe White Daisy In shape, but the petals are yellow, and 
the middle of the flower is of a dark color, and more 
convex in shape than the White Daisy, The etslk, 
which grows trom twelve to eighteen inches in height, 
is covered with a coarse, hairy substance, and the leaves 
are also covered in like mariner. The root resembles the 
White Daisy. There are but few of these plants in this 
sectiou of country, but those lew seem determined to 
live in spite of all opposition,— U. C. Hitchcock, Paler¬ 
mo , Oswego Co., N i r , ISbO. 
This plant is the Pudbeckta hirta, (Rough Cone 
Flower) It is not very common here, but is cultivated 
in gardens, aud for sale at 6 ome of our nurseries. 
Index to the Rural.— In ordering a back number to 
complete his file, a subscriber in Delaware says:—“ Please 
state in your next issue whether yoa publish an index 
for each volume. If not, I wish to make one, as I intend 
to have mine bound.” Y'es, sir, we give an index at the 
close of each volume, and are happy to know that it is 
appreciated by thousands who annually preserve and 
bind the Rural for future reference. The index of the 
leading departments of our last (tenth) volume com- 
priaee o«,rr three thousand five hundred Articles, and 
three hundred and twenty-six Engravings ' This is 
exclusive of miscellaneous and news articles and items. 
New subscribers will please note that we give a Title 
Page. Index, &c, at the close of the year, rendering each 
volume complete and convenient for binding. 
WnEAT in New England —The editor of the N. E. 
Farmer says there are, in Tarious parts of New England, 
numerous fields of as fine looking wheat as he ever saw. 
“It is now, August 9, being harvested without any signs 
of midge, mildew, or anything else, to IcsBen its value. 1 ' 
A correspondent of the same paper urges the fanners to 
cultivate winter wheat— saying “it cau be grown for $1 
a bushel, or as cheap as a bushel Of rye can be raised— 
and that it should be one of the important crops of the 
New England husbandman.” We greatly doubt the wis¬ 
dom of this advice, for we believe our Eastern friends 
can produce other crops to better advantage, aud realize 
larger profits. 
Vermont Horses for Napoleon III.—It is said that 
five superb Vermont horses have recently been purchased 
for the stables of the French Emperor, and will be ship¬ 
ped to Europe in one of the Vanderbilt steamers. They 
are of a deep bay color, fifteen hands high, and co.-t from 
52,000 to $3,000 per pair. The Emperor’s stud of horses 
already include? several fine Morgans, purchased in this 
country two or three years ago, and a second importa¬ 
tion indicates that the favorite American breed of car¬ 
riage horses ia appreciated iu France. 
Tennessee Mat Wheat. — We last year gave an 
account of some Tennessee May Wheat, grown by Mr. 
Jab. White, of Wayne Co. Mr, W. now writes us that 
hi 6 Tenn. May, sown 23d Sept, last, after corn, was ready 
to cut as early ns his Mediterranean, which was sown on 
the 1st of Sept. He adds that “some of it, sown 1 st 
Oct., was struck with rust”—but says nothing about 
yield or quality. _ 
Broom Corn Press. —We are asked who manufactures 
the best. If any one who knows will advise us, we will 
answer—either through the Rural or by letter—inqui¬ 
ries on the. subject. 
Thb Provincial Fair of Canada West is to be held 
at Hamilton on the l3lb, I9tb. 20th. and 21st Sept. Tht- 
premium list is said to be equal in amount to $ 15 , 000 , 
and great preparations are being made for the exhibition. 
The Prince of Wales is expected to be present, and of 
course every department will be rendered as attractive 
as possible. 
Agricultural Patents.— During the last year no 
less than 029 agricultural articles were patented in this 
country. Of these, 117 were seed planters, 113 Laivest- 
er*, 58 cultivators, 43 plows, 42 churns, kc. 
Liberal Premiums. —The Livingston Co. Ag. Society 
offer two handsome prizes on Durham bulls— competition 
open to the United States and Canada—as follows:-! or 
best tliorougb-bred bull, 3 years old or upwards, $W0| 
best 2 years old, $-30. The Fair is to be held at Geneteo, 
September 25— 28 . 
The Michigan State Fair is to be held at Detroit, 
on the 21, 3d, 4tli, and 5tU of Ostober. Hon. Cassius M. 
Clay, of Kentucky, is to deliver the Annual Address. 
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