MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
APRIL 4, 
A wild cow can hardly 1)6 cored of the bnl-it of 
starting or running during milking, by continuing 
to milk her in a largo open yard or by a fence.— 
If cornered by a fence, she will soon learn the 
habit of going there, and cannot be milked away 
from it. This is not desirable, and such ft habit 
should be avoided. We have always found the 
following pi(in successful, and would recommend 
it to all who have wild cows: — Prepare in some 
convenient place, adjoining the milking yard, a 
good, well-fenced pen or enclosure, about one rod 
square. It. should be furnished with a pair of bars 
or gate, so ns to be handy. Into this, drive all 
wild cows, one at a time, and after putting up the 
bars, milk them. Do not corner them up, hut milk 
them in the middle of this little place, and use (hem 
gent, y and i ogularly for a few inonhs, and they will 
forget all runaway habits, so as to be milked any¬ 
where that you may chance to come up to them 
with the pail. This plan is hut very little trouble 
and it will teach the wildest cow the habit of 
standing during milking, for they caunot get away. 
It is very seldom the milker need strike or whip 
an old cow, they cannot understand for what you 
whip them, and generally for every whipping, you 
will have to treat them properly for a week longer 
to cure them of its ill effects. The whip should 
only be used in driving. 
Having said thus much of curing bad habits in 
old cows, we cannot forbear adding a few words 
on forming good habits in young ones, and on the 
principle, that “an ounce of prevention is worth 
a pound of cure;"’we would advise all who have 
young heifers to be learned to milk, to arm them¬ 
selves with an abundant supply of patience in the 
commencement. The usual custom of tying 
young heifers up by the head, or of cornering them, 
or holding them is only calculated to frighten and 
alarm them. This should never be done. They 
should never be treated in any way different from 
what is desirable to learn them as a habit. We 
have Taith to believe that the wildest and rnostuu- 
tractable animals can be made gentle and submis¬ 
sive in a lew weeks. Our plan is us follows:—Put 
the heifer and call' in the little “prisonyard,” be¬ 
fore described — here yon are constantly within 
reach of your animal, and if you are gentle and 
do not hurry things too fast you will soon have 
her accustomed to your presence. I)o not, if she 
cut 1.11 l ist. Whether lie is a “ constant reader” or 
not, ( cannot say, but he is certainly a subscriber 
to a very good agricultural paper, not weekly, but 
monthly—that, is frequent enough for him; the 
Rural comes too often to suit his ideas. He often 
waxes eloquent over the improved methods of 
farming now in vogue, and wonders all do not 
adopt, them. The wise man of old looked on the 
Hcene before him and received instruction. I hope 
I was equally fortunate. 
If a iy of the readers of the Rural know such a 
man as is here spoken of, 1 wish, for the sake of 
pence and harmony, they would not tell him he is 
published, for fear the coat would fit more persons 
than could be accommodated with such a garment. 
Publico. 
lads rt&gstslim. $utal ptCS aittl |fctttS. 
The Potato Bug.—E. T., of Mecca, Ohio, wishes 
information in regard to he striped Potato Bug, 
which eats potato viues and turuip tops, and—as 
he might have safely said—cucumber find water¬ 
melon viues, which are generally affected, and 
often entirely ruined, by this reptile in bug shape. 
A preventive, and, as experience testifies, a sure 
preventive of the works of this insect, is to sow 
buckwheat, a handful 10 a hill, with the seed, and 
let it grow and rum uu until the plant has assumed 
its fourth leaf. This will allow the plant to obtain 
strength and vigor, and escape the ravages of the 
insect. If ihe buckwheat is allowed to remain 
this length of time, the insect will rarely ever 
Flower Seeds. —We are indebted to B. K. Bliss 
& Haven, of Springfield. Mass., for a bountiful 
package of choice Flower Seeds. These gentle¬ 
men have adopted a very good plan to supply 
community with genuine seeds, by mail, for which 
they are entitled to the thanks of all interested. 
See their announcement in this paper. 
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The Sun-Flower is a plant of vastly gr. ater 
value tliau most people h ive heretofore supposed, 
if, as is more than indicated in the able and very 
practical and suggestive article of Lieut. Maury 
on preceding page, it-i culture will prevent a dis 
KING FNILIF AND CANADA CORN, touch the plant alterward.— S. F. Tooley, Alar- ease which prevails extensively in many sections 
Eds. Rural:—I f those who write forthe Rural, 
giving their experience in the cultivation of dif¬ 
ferent crops, would state the kind of soil upon 
which they grew, it would be more satisfactory to 
many readers, and besides, might be the means of 
avoiding many mistakes, lor undoubtedly the same 
plants will not do equally well on all kinds of soil. 
The past season the writer procured one bushel 
of the " King Philip Corn,'' for which he paid $2, 
and planted it the 23d of May, in a sandy loam,' 
with some gravel intermixed. Said Held was a 
clover sward, and had been pastured ouc year 
Notwithstanding the season was very dry, it yield¬ 
ed over thirty-five bushels to the acre, many of the 
ears being between nine and ten inches long by 
actual measurement, and no guess about it. I 
consider it a valuable variety for my soil, and shall 
cultivate it as long as it does as well as last season. 
The forage is very superior, the stalk being thickly 
set with leaves and suckers. The eight-rowed yel¬ 
low variety was planted the same day, by the side 
of said King Philip, and was treated in all respects 
the same, grew about one foot taller, but did oot 
yield as well side by side. Being ten days later, it 
suffered from the early frost; would probably have 
yielded about the same if we had not had so early 
a frost. 
The writer brought into this country fifteen 
years ago, the Canada variety of corn, which is 
still grown in the town of Sodus by Jerry Mitch- 
Z ZlZ , \ Z ' 1 p e uce - 10 DOt ' U Bbe ° a that has some hemlock mixed with 
* ’ in any urry or make any quick other timber, which produces from forty to fifty 
R wilulk^vlUr ^" n V , ber geDtle ' bush6ls ,0 thc acre in favorable seasons. Said 
, .. / UT In * c » tll 0 u gh> but little more and C oru is as eaily as the King Philip, and would 
oil ' U T’N'm U l ) C a ^f te - a8 bytbe probably do better than the latter ou some soils, 
vour hand i "vLi Wm3 ‘ • 1 ecd tla ' mfrom The Canada corn is a dark yellow, with now and 
vou will linin 1 ° 'tl iQS ' coaxiDg and P ett * n S» then a red blaze, eight-rowed, and not as large 
,U' Jh J?? • m f custonjed ^ y ou r a,,- kernel as the King Philip. The writer considers 
- •. , ' ' 1; ' oae p,nn gamed—and soon you both of those varieties valuable, having grown 
" mi K anywhere in the little yard both kinds, and seen the Canada matured in Icsb 
3 tome up to them. Continue this for than ninely days, on a warm, gravelly soil. Iam 
rnrnom rf S ) °* a,1 ' mal ia enou ? h ac ' confident these two kinds are better calculated for 
ti t * 1 h° nu “ ed > not t0 be worried or high manuring than the larger varieties. Anyone 
disturbed by the process It will be well if vou i -n * i 4 ® ^ 
have but one to learn at a time, to keep the ani ^ r f 11D8 . t0 f P^ae Dr Salisbury s 
mal in the pen for several day. * ana,ys,B °, f , V 8 , ‘f 168 of lDd,aQ cora - Wll > 
mu* P J „ . perceive that the smaller varieties were much 
ml Vfovpr 1 w h t? , man T a are more P roIific in the y* eId of grain than the larger 
ed V 1 , ' ' , • 1 'V ,1L ' '! 6 , bave . 9een p ractic * varieties, where high manuring was resorted to. 
cd. If the animal is always to be milked in a sta- Newark, N. Y, t 1$57. A. G. P . 
ble, it may do to learn them to milk there. But if, P. 8 .-The writer has no seed-corn for sale, and 
as is the common practice, they are to he milked the above letters are bis true initials. 
wherever you chance to approach them, the above -—- 
plan is the best, for whan turned in the yard with IMPROVED BREED OP TUKKET 8 . 
the cows, they arc used to being approached when „ „ ~ 
at liberty, and there will he far fewer exhibitions EdS .‘ RrKAL: 1 have lbou S bt lt mi ght be tn- 
of auger from the milkers-fewer runaway cows teresting t0 *' 0UI * elf aad y° ur numerous readers, 
and fewer milking tools flying through the air. It !° ba . Ve “ e * ay a ™ da ^ my manner of 
may be well 1 a add that the same individual should bratdin& * c, | ^ pi ' odut0 lba extraordinary large 
have the whole training of the animal throughout and , beaatlfa Jui-keya which are now attracting 
the process. And now, to all icachers of the brute 8U ° b mald:ed a «enuon, trom the admirers of fine 
creation, let us abjure you to let your reason guide “ poult1 ^’ a | l over the countr y- 
and prevent you from abusing your innocent un- bome >earS B1UCe 1 l “ ade a sclcctlon frora dlffer - 
taught charge. Use no violence, save in defend- ent , parts <* "“f b «rgcst 
iugyoursdt, and prove that you, by superior Intel- aad fmest tu,Ke J 8 lhat could be fouad i among 
ligence, arc capable of forming correct habits in T f®®, tbat were part w,ld blood 5 a *‘ d 
the brute. We have frequently heard it said that ^ * ? r / 'T'V* * V'™™** 
it is as much as some animals are worth to HrJ 7 °* 1 ° 0W v " f ° r ^ bta ‘ ,ty ° f 
them.” Pursue the above method - keep the ani plamR6e * and bard, “ BB * are ” ot ^nUedia th S or 
mal always within reach and under your power ‘ ♦ °l " t0 
, , , . J pwer, tkat ol the wild turkey, very dark and ol a rich 
and you will make no such complaints. , ,, , ,, , , 
Uliooii, Jan, 1857. , 1 . Saxfield. chan « eab,e color-green, gold and brown. The 
shut/, Midi., 1857. 
Your correspondent, “E. T,” of Mecca, Ohio, 
appears to have suffered some by a visit from the 
“Potato Bugs.” When they have once settled up 
on a potato-patch or garden, there is an end to all 
hope of vegetables for that year, unless they arc 
driven off. We have tried dusting the vines with 
soot, lime, etc, but they will eat the leaves in spite 
oi the seasoning —in fact they rather like it. The 
only way to get rid of them is to take a brush and 
drive them njf. Muster every man, woman, and 
child about the place, armed with green boughs, 
form a line, and drive them with the wind. —P. R. 
R., Des Moines Co., Iowa, 1857. 
Breeding Sheep.— Much has been written, 
and more might he written, upon the subject of 
careful breeding of Sheep. The Silesian, Span¬ 
ish, French and Saxon have their good prop, 
erties, but there is no one variety that possesses 
all the good properties of the different varieties. 
Cau this bo obtained? Can we, by crossing the 
different breeds above, obtain all the good quali¬ 
ties in one, and breed out the inferior qualities.— 
Will 30 U, Mr. Editor, or some ot your numerous 
readers, give their views and experience on this 
subject.— Wool-Ukowek, New Athens, Ohio. 
Remarks.— This is the aim of all good breeding 
—to secure the good qualities and “ breed out” 
the bad ones. It is not a work to be accomplished 
iu a da 3 % It will require skill, care and patience. 
Some of our readers, perhaps, will give us their 
experience. Experience, alter all, is the great 
teacher. 
Beet Root Sugar. —Can you, or any of the 
tbousunds of readers of the Rural, give the man¬ 
ner of cultivation and process of manufacture of 
sugar from the beet? As the article of sugar now 
commands such high prices, I thought that a 
knowledge of culture and manufacture might 
prove available at this particular time.—L. Shep¬ 
ard. Chelsea, Mich., 1857. 
Remarks. —We gave a lengthy article on the 
subject in the Rural of Feb. 3, 1855, (Vol. VI, No. 
5.) Our present impressiou is that beet sugar can¬ 
not he manufactured profitably in this oounti' 3 %— 
In Fj ance, where its culture and the machinery fur 
manufacturing have been brought almost to per¬ 
fection, and labor, Ac., is very cheap, the manufac¬ 
ture of sugar from the beet la being abandoned.— 
It is now grown tor disliifation. 
of the Union. The suhject, as developed by our 
contributor, is worthy of special consideration and 
careful experiment. The date of Lieut. M's arti¬ 
cle—“Observatory, Washington, D. C.,”— was un¬ 
intentionally omitted by our printers. 
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Dedication. —We are indebted to the Secretary 
for a pamphlet copy of the proceedings had at the 
Dedication of the New York State Agricultural 
Rooms, at Albany, in February last It contains 
a fine engraving of the building, heretofore given 
in the Rural, a brief history of the locality from 
its organization in 1832 to the present time, and 
an excellent address by the President, Hon. Sam¬ 
uel Cueevkk. Also, short addresses delivered 
on the occasion, by W. H. Bogart, Esq., Hon. T. C. 
Peters, Hon. William Kelly, Governor King 
and Hon. H. Baldwin. 
The Orleans County Ao. Society has recent¬ 
ly purchased twelve acres of land, very favorably 
located in the village of Albion, for Exhibition 
Grounds. It is proposed to improve the grounds, 
and erect at least oue Hue building thereon, during 
the present season. The Society was re-organized 
under the new law last October, since which it is 
making commendable progress under the auspices 
of an enterprising board of management. 
— The purchase and filtiug up of Permanent 
The Wool Grower and Stock Register.—N ot 
long since the A. Y. Tvihune thus noticed the dis¬ 
continuance of our monthly: 
“This elicitp, good, useful agricultural monthly 
journal, lately pulili.-hod at Rucheeter, litis been 
Oisconiiuncd lor wniil, of support. Ir. is a quesiiun 
that we cannot solve, how farmers are to learn 
"’hut great improvement* are made and making in 
their business if t, ,ey will not rend anything but 
Tim veriest partisan newspapers and politicul slang- 
whang. 1 1 . is also .1 question whether uny monthly 
paper mrets the wants ,,/ this Just, age, or Whether 
ally journal denoted solely to agricultural sn/rjects, 
published only one ,0 a monili, can get. patronage 
enough to keep ils editor from starving his own 
stomach and his readers heads, except by an enor¬ 
mous expenditure ot itiuiivj for advertising, or by 
some, other extraneous inilueme. If papers fail 
lor want of support, it may he at least one-half 
their own fault.” 
All which is, in the main, eminently sensible and 
suggestive. The iruth is, as the Tribune inters, 
that monthly journals, “devoted solely to agricul¬ 
tural subjects” arc not adapted to the wants of the 
people of this age of progress. Our experience 
in publishing monthly, semi-monthly and weekly 
rural journ Is is conclusive on this point, and 
hence the discontinuance of the W. G. A, . 8 . It. and 
the concentration of our eflorts upon the Rural. 
Indeed, wo found that the Rural was almost uni¬ 
versally preferred to any agricultural monthly, and 
hence it was very difficult to retain subscribers to 
the W. G. & S. R. iu places where the former was 
fairly introduced. For example, there ore many 
post-offices in this region at each of which from 
30 to 75 copies of monthly agricultural journals 
were taken seven years ago, but where they are 
now scarcely known—the Rural having been sub¬ 
stituted iu almost every instince. In truth, we 
could easily nnnje scores oj places in Western and 
Central New York at which monthlies were gene¬ 
rally taken a few years ago, but where this journal 
now has clubs of from thirty to over two hundred 
subscribers. These facts prove a revolution in 
public taste and sentiment which it is impossible 
to gainsay, and which wc at least have no inclina¬ 
tion to stem by attempting lougcr to publish an 
exclusively agricultural monthly. 
— Let us not be understood as saying aught 
Fair Grounds is becoming the rule among County against our monthly contemporaries, tor we only 
and Town Ag. Societies, many of the most efficient 
societies in this and other States (especially in 
Michigan) having adopted the plan recently. 
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Superior Maple Sugar.— The present season 
has been quite favorable for the production of the 
delicious extract of the maple. Mr. G. W. Pater¬ 
son, of Parma, in this county, has favored us with 
ft very superior sample of fine-grained Maple Su¬ 
gar. In color and grain it is not distinguishable 
from a good article of Muscovado sugar, but pos¬ 
sesses the rich flavor of the maple. 11 was grained 
by adding about one pint of milk to sufficient 
syrup to make 40 lbs. of sugar, and boiling iu the 
usual maimer. We have also received a rich cake 
of Maple Extract from Mr. Bryant White, of 
Barre Centre, N. Y. “Thanks, sweet friends!” 
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American Horses in France.— We have here¬ 
tofore mentioned instances in which horses were 
purchased in this State for the Parisian market, 
and now have another item on the same subject. 
The Paris correspondent of a New York paper of 
recent date, Bays:—" The Emperor has now in his 
stables six very line American horses. The two 
horses he drives himself, in his phaeton, are Amer¬ 
ican, and, in France, arc considered superior trot¬ 
ters. Mr. Charles Astor Bristed, (“Carl Benson,”) 
who has already brought a good many fast trotting 
.-tate facts, and partly in explanation of our dis- 
continuance of the W. G. A S. R,—a course which 
lias been very generally and widely regretted by 
its subscribers. The monthly journals have ac¬ 
complished a vast amount of good, and are still 
useful auxiliaries in the cause of Rural Improve¬ 
ment, hut the da 3 T s of their greatest usefu'uess 
havo passed, especially in the older and moro 
populous sections of the States and Territories 
north of Mason and Dixon's line. 
oimq 
LETTERS FROM YOUNG- READERS. 
Ouuy’oung friends will see that we continue to 
give notes from their Letters. The first is from 
ayounglady in Jackson, Michigan . Thousands, like 
her, have been agreeably disappointed in reading 
tho Rural: 
“Altuoui.h I have seen but four numbers of your 
much valued “Rural New Yorker, ” 1 am very, 
much interested in it. 1 think I should not ven¬ 
tured to write, had not conscience, that “ still small 
voice,” whispered—yon owe an apology to the 
paper, or its editor. 1 must tel! you of its recep¬ 
tion at “our house.” I wished father to take au- 
other paper, and was much disappointed when, one 
The Cuinese Sugar Cane.—Will it Grain?— recent date, Bays:—" The Emperor has now in his 11JU( . h valued “ Rural New Yorker,” i am very 
I see that there are some doubts as to whether stables six very fine American horses. The two much interested in it. 1 think I should not veu- 
grainrd sugar can be made from the syrup of the horses he drives himself, iu his pha:ton, are Amer- tured to write, had not conscience,that “ still small 
Chinese Sugar Cane. Can you inform your rend- ican, and, in France, arc considered superior trot- voice,” whispered—you owe an apology to tho 
e,s wbetlwr «* U ft. U*,-*L u,«. Mr. Carte. Bri.ted, t - 0,1 1 
Remarks.— On this subject there seems to be but «' ho bas already brought a good many fast trotting other paper, and was much disappointed when, one 
little light. It is an important question, and yetis horses to France frora the United States, has just evening he observed that ho had subscribed for 
avoided by most writers on the subject. We sup- arrived from New York with eight magnificent tho “Rural.” /quietly nuidtupmymuid ,that /, for 
to”*™. “ ™»M K fnpoMlbto lo make trotum Some of thoso in the Emperor's smites 
sugar from the common sugar cane with the ordi- w ere brought over by Mr. Bristed.” 0 f « a poor innocent cow” and a cluster of tduok- 
nary laciliLies possessed by the farmer, so as to berries, (which I said were only to be found in im- 
show its manufacture profitable. The lea«t error <Phk Chinese Sugar Cane.— Weare oftenasked agination, and—the “ Rural,”) concluded tbat the 
in boiling will cause a great loss. A slight burn- our opinion on this Bahject-whelher it is not a paper was devoted exclusively to agricultural pur- 
...til , 4 .i, ... .... humbug—another Monts Muitlcaulua ooeraiinn suits; and w ith the impatient exclamation of— 
since, I now have a breed that for size, beauty of iug will prevent crystallization, and the product bumbu S another Morus Muitlcaulua operation, 8 7’u it a® fiddle-sticks "'Fthrew the tiioei 
..i«—... j i ...i:.—. . ii i . * . . i ii._ i mi. _• * i , Ao_ It. is fortunate that tlii* inatipi- .on nr. v v * . . . * I 
A FARM-YARD IN SPRING. 
A certain wise man of olden time once “ went 
by the field of the slothful, and the vineyard of the 
man void of understanding,” and we all know 
what an instructive record he gave us of the ob¬ 
jects he saw there. The other day, T, in like man¬ 
ner, went by the field of toy neighbor, and the 
farm-yard-not of the slotblul, hut of'the man 
well-to-do in the world, who has money at interest 
and iB considered unusually cute at a bargain. He 
generally sells his produce at a good price, and if 
anybody can cheat him oat. of ten dollars, he must 
be a little smarter than common quacks. I will 
tell you what I saw there on a warm day in the 
last week of March, in the year of grace 1857. 
A Reaper and Mower (Manny’s patent, with 
Wood’s improvement.) was in a conspicuous place 
against the fence by the road-side, and had been 
there since last harvest. Had I not known the 
date (1855) to be correct, I should have thought it 
a good deal more patriarchal. Plows, harrows, 
wagons, a grain drill, and other implements, pos¬ 
sessed the same advantages for preservation. 1 
looked over into his barn-yard. He w.sn't troubled 
—as Borne of your correspondents are—to turn his 
coarse fodder into manure. He had scattered hay 
around the 3 -ard lor his stock that morning, but 
owing to the fact that his straw stack bad disap¬ 
peared a lew weeks before—combined with the 
plumage, and hardiness, are not equalled in tins nr 
any country. The color is a near resemblance to 
that of the wild turke 3 ’, very dark and of a rich 
changeable color—green, gold and brown. The 
3 -oung are very strong, and as easily reared as 
Chickens. My young gobblers, at Christmas, weigh, 
on an average, from 21 to 25 lbs., alive, and the 
hens from 34J to 17 lbs. ; and when fully matured 
gobblers 30 to 34 E>s., and hens 17 to 21 lbs. The 
enclosed extracts from the N. Y. Tribune, Inde¬ 
pendent, and Banner of Liberty, will give you an 
idea of what the press think. Other papers no¬ 
ticed them, two and three years ago, when they 
were exhibited in New York city. 
I have another cross, producing a very hand' 
some bird. Each feather is black and white; they 
are of equal size and by many liked as well.— 
Wherever I have exhibited 1 have taken all the 
premiums. I don’t write to advertise them, f r I 
have none to sell, bift hope next fall to be able to 
supply' a few of the numerous orders I now have 
on hand. Being a subscriber to y our valuable 
paper, 1 thought I would through it let the farmers 
of our couuty know what had been dono in im¬ 
proving our native (I say now Naticmul) bird, the 
Turkey, and hope they will all go and do likewise, 
or better. 1 shall own heat when beaten. 
H. H. Avery. 
WnmpBville, Mndison Co., N, Y., March, 1857. 
Remarks.— Like a good many other Ruralists, 
oar correspondent Beeura to be a progressive, and 
certainly reports decided progress os regards 
Turkey in America, His success only shows what 
may he done by wise forethought and judicious 
action. The extracts alluded to relate that Mr. 
Avery lust full had a magnificent turkey which 
is principally molasses. The juice of ihe sugar 
cane contains about 18 per cent of sugar. John¬ 
ston says that in the West Indies, only six per 
cent, or one third, is manufactured into crystal¬ 
lized sugar. 
Growing Clover S*Bb In Illinois.— As some 
of our Rural friends speak rather lightly of rais¬ 
ing a crop of hay or clover and then a crop of 
seed in one season, 1 will stato what we do in Illi¬ 
nois. Thu last week in June and the first week in 
July last, I cut and stacked seventy large loads of 
hay from twenty acres of ground. In September 
1 cut Over the same piece of ground for seed. I 
have threshed and hulled it, and had eighty bush¬ 
els of as nice seed as you ever saw in market.— 
The hay is worth here $8 per ton, and putting 
those seventy loads down at 50 tons, which they 
Ac. It is fortunate that this matter can be so 
easily and so cheaply tested. Did it require an 
expensive outlay', we should certainly give a cau¬ 
tion on the subject. No farmer, however, need 
mortgage his farm, dr run very badly in debt, to 
purchase a dollar’s ivorth of tho seed, and give it 
a trial. Thc Sorgho, however cannot be fairly 
tested, in regard to sweetening qualities, without 
proper rollers for crushing the stalks and extract¬ 
ing the juice. Farmers iu a neighborhood could 
club together, and purchase necessary machinery'at 
a small cost. We hope the subject will receive care¬ 
ful attention from farmers, who are tho very men to 
practically test its value. That it contains ft large 
per cent- of saccharine matter, any one who has 
chewed well matured stalks will readily grant._ 
That many persons in different portions of the 
United States, and as far north as Massachusetts 
"rii’RAi, iiuuie-suLhi-. i uiruw me paper irom me 
wishing for once that lather would ilo as I wished! 
But oh! how happily disappointed I am. As I read 
attentively each article, they cast an Influence over 
me not to be resisted, ami 1 write merely to say to 
you that I am grateful lor its genial Influence.— 
Go on, silent messenger of truth, peace and love— 
cheer the weary hearts of my fellow-travelers, shed 
Ihy light along their gloomy way attended by their 
blessings, as by mine, 1 already love some of your 
writers, surely they must l.e good and pure, who 
breathe such sentiments, “Marion,” “Viana,” 
“ Winnie,” “ Carrie,” all—you have my best,—my 
kindest wishes.”—G ennie. 
Our aim is to unite pleasure and profit, and it is 
gratify ing to know, by scores and hundreds of such 
letters, tbat our efforts arc appreciated.- The 
next is from Canoga, N. Y.: 
“ I think from what I see, and from what I hear 
old farmers say, that there have been great im¬ 
provements in farming, as well as in other things, 
warm , , , , , avnni lunu imu a iua B uiui.cm, umtv wniujl 
M an 0 | ( , f,.j, ? n , 00 f d about as inviting we jghed 34 lbs., which he intended ns an inaugu- 
»■!“ p— to MM Fuksiont. But M 
as an old-fashioned brick-yard, when the clay was 
about the consiBteney of soft putty. Some of the 
hay was eaten, but a good share of it was trodden 
under foot. The oattle and sheep, tired of such 
quarters, were roaming abroad through tho fields 
i i search of something better—bars and gates 
being left conveniently open. Some of the cattle 
were in a wheat field. I shall probably hear of a 
poor crop there next harvest. 
A small brook flowed along close by the barn¬ 
yard, to which the stock go to drink. The water 
looked nearly the color of lyc, “strong enough to 
bear up an egg"—owing to the manure near by.— 
Twenty rods back the stream Isseveral feet higher 
than the burn-yard. If the proprietor figured as 
closely in this matter as in some others, he would 
endeavor to find out how much he thus loses every 
year. Yet my neighbor is quite a scientific agri¬ 
tbere was no President Fremont, the turkey was 
sold, at a dollar per pound, to a Democrat, “ who 
took him to Washington for the successful candi¬ 
date, where his splendid appearance attracted great 
attention, and saved his neck from the knife, and 
he now display's his gigantic proportions in the 
grounds of the presidential mansion.” 
Trotting at Ao. Fairs. — The Hillsborough 
(N. H.) Agricultural Society has resolved “That it 
is not for the interest of the farmer or breeder oi 
horses, the mechanic or manufacturer at our coun¬ 
ty fuirs, to countenance or allow in any trial of 
horses, a faster rate than a mile in four minutes, 
the trial to be made singly or in pairs banie.-sed 
together. Any horse driven at a faster rate shak 
be ruled out in all premiums.” 
the same piece of ground in one year?—H. U., 
Kant Co., III., March, 1857. 
Pea Nuts. —Seeing a piece in the last Rural 
about raising pea nuts, and wishing to know 
more about it, as I iutend to raise a patch 
the coming season, I desire t.o make the following 
inquiries, to be answered through the Rural, viz: 
—In what manner and at what time should the 
seed be put into the ground, and the average yield 
per acre?— An Old Siusckireu, Tulkvitle, N. Y. 
Remarks. —The time for planting would be thc 
time for planting corn, depending, of course, some¬ 
what upon the season. In tho South they are 
sometimes planted in hills, some three or four feet 
apart each way, with four or five nuts iu the hills, 
aud sometimes in drills, the drills four feet apart. 
The Norway Rat.—I wish to know, through the 
columns of the Rural, the best method of destroy¬ 
ing that troublesome little animal called, with ua, 
the Norway Ilat, which is annoying us in this lo 
cality very much. If any of the numerous readers 
of your truly valuable paper know of any effica¬ 
cious manner of destroying them, 1 would be 
glad to hear from them.—S amuel Ferguson, 
Winchester, Guernsey Co., Ohio. 
Coarse Plaster.—I n answer to your corres¬ 
pondent, I will Bay that I consider coarse plaster 
almost worthless, as compared with tine. I would 
almost as soon sow sand as coarse plaster.—A 
Subscriber, Alexander, Genesee Co., N. Y. 
benefit, to all parties, particularly while sugars 
command so high a price. The molasses has been 
pronounced equal to first quality New Orleans and 
cooks white. We may not now succeed in grain¬ 
ing it to a great extent, buc very much will be ac¬ 
complished if it supplies the place of a portion of 
tho molasses yearly consumed. While we would not 
advocate any headlong, speculative operation in 
this line, we suggest to farmers the propriety of ob¬ 
taining seed and planting enough to enable them 
to fairly test its value for sweetening, and as forage, 
green and dry, for cattle. In selecting seed much 
care must he exercised. The seeds of a plant 
known as coffee or chocolate corn closely resemble 
those of the “Sorgho.” Indeed many have pro¬ 
nounced them identical. Attention was first called 
to this fact through the Rural by Mr. I. W. Briggs, 
of West Mueedon, whom wo esteem one of thc 
most careful and reliable seedsmen, and from whom 
wc received samples of both seeds. Since that 
time we have received from lion. T. Barnes, of 
Newark, N. Y., a box of the coffee corn seed on 
the stalks, and have compared it with the Sorgho 
seed raised iu Georgia and that imported for Mr. 
Briggs, from ViLuorin, Andkieux & Co., of 
Paris. There Is a dilh-rence, but it is slight, and 
the chocolate seed might be imposed upoiiuuy one. 
It is our design to recur to tills Suhject again, 
giving a condensed view of the kuown facta con¬ 
cerning its cultivation and manufacture, and hope 
our readers will, each for himself, test its value 
the coming season. 
le su"am communion with nature, I think must love, and 
" ‘ long to know more of thc Great and Holy One, 
bas been w jj 0 j n y s wfadom, has provided a ‘seed time and 
leans and harvest.’”—C. A. W. 
in grain- Q n t j, e v-,^ of agricultural papers, there can 
ill be ac- ^ JJ0 (joubtj on the influence of the farmer’s ocou- 
lortionof p U tjon in leading his mind from the effec t to the 
vouhl not Cause, there should bo none.-The follow- 
ration iu f rom a boy in Hackensack, New Jersey, contains 
oty ot ob- Bomo ver y important thoughts; 
“ To be In tho light of the sun, to hear the merry 
is torage, ft | n gj n g 0 f the birds, to feel the bracing effects of 
:ed much the‘cool north-easter,’and the sooth lugs of tho 
' a plant zephyrs, is, metliinks sufficient to oil-set any dis- 
resemble advantages incident to the fanner’s calling. Then 
ours is no dishonorable calling; the most consoi- 
tavo pro- eol | 0 U 9 can engage in it. we have few of the 
ret called temptations to do wrong, and misrepresent, or hide 
.Briggs, the truth that besets the merchant at every turn. 
,,, 0 j- t ( 10 Wc have the gratification of knowing that we are 
, pursuing an industrious calling, aud that we can 
mi whom a( j jeaue with God and man.”—H. IT. 
tice that , „ , „ , 
akneb, of Tlli8 thought of our youthful friend, is an 
seed on all-important one. We all pray to be “ delivered 
0 gorgbo from temptation,” and yet how many engage in 
1 for Mr. pursuits that place them under constant tempta- 
Co. of tlon - strongly is the merchant tempted to 
ighVand a I,,ore tban tl10 trutb wil1 wai >ant iu 
i any one, praise of his goods, and tho trader to “cry down ’> 
ct again, any thing he is purchasing. Stern unbending in- 
acta con- tegrity is sufficient for this trial in many cases — 
md hope hut Iu many the temptation proves to strong tor 
its value resistance. Our young friends will please make 
their lettcrB practical.—Tell what you see aud do. 
