AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Farming in New IIampshirf.— According to tbe 
Man Chester (N. IT.) Democrat a change is taking 
place in the Rural industry of that, State. It says: 
“The tendency of tilings seems to be to make New 
Hampshire more exclusively a graziug 
immense 1 
TIMELY HINTS ON CORN PLANTING. 
Ens. Rural: —There’s time enough to plant corn 
yet. The spring has been so exceedingly wet and 
cold that, farmers are very much belated with their 
spring’s work; therefore I think they need a little 
encouragement from some source to induce them 
to plant the usual quantity this season, especially 
in Western New York. 
Actual experience and doae observation has in¬ 
duced me to believe that from the 16th ot May to 
tbe 1st of June is early enough to plant corn any¬ 
where in this locality. Premature planting is often 
the sole cause of the rotting of the seed, and lays 
the foundation for many unjust charges against 
worms. Corn put into the cold, wet earth the 1st 
of May is about as Bure to rot as if it were put 
there for that purpose; it is an easy way to ac¬ 
count for the missing hills and the yellow, feeble 
looking blades. I planted last season a field of ten 
or twelve acres witb corn, about tbe 10th or 12th | 
of May. About two acres of the corn did not 
come up, and the 3d day of Jnne I planted it over. 
The result was that this was one-fourth better corn 
than grew in any other part of the field. 
Now then, I would say to those farmers who are 
so much behind with their spring’s work that they 
have almost given up planting, that if they can get 
ready by the 10th of June, plant. AVe have several 
kinds of corn that will produce well and will get 
ripe if planted any time between the 1st and 16th 
of June. Those kinds are to be had, and arc raised 
in all parts of the State—such as the small eight- 
rowed, Jackson hen-track, and King Phjlip. All 
of these kinds have been planted in June, and 
ripened and produced good crops. So, farmers, 
don't be discouraged, but plant corn, if it is late, 
PomnTiBlltmrn. N. Y.. Mav. 1857. 0. .C. 
as the plants appear sufficiently to he easily seen, 
they hoe between each, and as soon as the plants 
get strong they thin them, taking a moist day; it 
there is any deficiency they fill it up with those 
pulled out. ' - 
between them two or 
mer, 
ing all kinds of seed sown broadcast. Wherever 
introduced it is rapidly superseding other Gangs 
and Cultivators, and needs only a trial to show its 
superiority.” 
Those of our readers desiring further informa¬ 
tion relative to this implement can obtain circu¬ 
lars with lull description, references, &c., on appli¬ 
cation to Hildreth & Charles, Lockport, N. Y. 
• ‘ ' • ; State. The 
„_number of yonng men who have songht 
the more fertile fields of the West, or some other 
avocation at home, leaves a scarcity of productive 
labor. We presume a less uumbev of acres will be 
appropriated to tillage than formerly; yet the pro¬ 
ducts will not be essentially diminished: while a 
much larger breadth will he appropriated to graz¬ 
ing. Many of our hill farms have been assigned 
bodily to that purpose; and portions of nearly all 
farms are gradually and properly taking the same 
direction.” Horses and cattle are very scarce, and 
command high prices in the Granite State. 
Prolific Cow. —A correspondent of the Mon¬ 
treal Gazette sava:—“On the 26tli of last month, 
Devon Herd Book.— The American Editor, Mr. 
Sanford Howard, of Boston, is now engaged in 
preparing the third volume of this work, which he 
hopes to have ready for delivery in July ensuing. 
The after-culture consists in plowing 
three times during the sum- 
harrowing each time after plowing. 
Carrots, turnips and parsnips are treated in the 
same manner, with the exception of the seed, 
which ia sown thicker. Some cultivators, instead 
of opening drills for the Mangold Wurtzel, have a 
marker, with short teeth, nine to twelve inches 
apart, and deposit the seeds in the holes. The 
Mangold is esteemed better than either turnips or 
potatoes for producing milk and batter, and also 
for beef. They are also good food for store 
pigs. I wish my friend “B. F.” would try the real 
Mangold Wurtzel. He will find it to grow much 
larger than the White Beet. '*• 
Troy, N. Y., 1857. 
BROOM CORN 
Western New York have 
As many farmers in 
from necessity discontinued growing wheat, they 
desire a knowledge of other crops promising re¬ 
muneration and whic-h are within their means.— 
Lar*e portions of the Mohawk flats, and other rich 
alluvial Boils, have been for years devoted to the 
cultivation of Broom Corn, with good profit, and 
there are unquestionably many acres over the other 
portions of the State that might be thus profitably 
employed. 
Though rich alluvial soils are best adapted to 
tbe growth of broom corn, it thrives well on such 
soils as are considered good for Indian corn, 
especially a rich loamy land not liable to late or 
early frosts. A very common practice, yielding 
good results, is to plant on green sward turned up 
late in the fall, that the action of the frost may 
kill the worms and assist in making it loose and 
friable. Clay lands have been found unprofitable 
for this, as they are, to a considerable extent, for 
Indian corn. Manuring and thorough culture are 
the great auxiliaries of broom corn. Horse and 
sheep manure are the best, though any other relia¬ 
ble fertilizer may be used to advantage, il it does 
not cost too much. 
There are different kinds cultivated in different 
localities. The smaller sort, grown along the 
Hudson river, is ordinarily the best crop, being 
some days earlier than the other varieties. It 
usually yields from 700 to S00 pounds of brush to 
the acre. The New Jersey, or large kind, usually 
Improved Stock at Public Salk. —The atten¬ 
tion of breeders and progressive farmers is direct¬ 
ed to the advertisement of James Gowen, Esq., 
President of the Penn. State Ag. Society, who of¬ 
fers a choice herd of Short-horns at public sale on 
the 10th of next month. Also, to that of the sale 
of Tnos. Gould, Esq., of Aurora, N. Y., who pro¬ 
poses to Bell his herd of Short-horns, a number of 
Suffolk and Berkshire hogs, and two young Black 
Hawk stallions, on the 11th of June. 
Messrs. Editors :—In the Rural of the 9th inst 
J. H., of Decatur, Mich., makes some inquiries 
about the above named bug. HavingsnfTered much 
loss in some particular seasons within the past 
twenty years, by their ravages iu my mowing 
fields, I have been led to study, somewhere, the 
history of this “ pest, of the farm.” In the sum¬ 
mer of 1S54 they were very abundant on my own. 
and other farms in this vicinity. The grass on 
some of my mowing fields all died out, caused by 
these grubs cuttiugoffthe entire roots of the glass 
as though done by the sharp coulter of a plow; the 
turf could he turned up like a carpet In the 
month of September I raked up a number of cart¬ 
loads of the dead and dry turf and threw it into 
my hog yard. The raking off the turf left thou- 
TURNIF taste in milk and butter.—remedy. 
Eds. Rural:— Many are deterred from feeding 
turnips to their cows in winter, by the unpleaB8Dt 
taste they are liable to impart to the milk and but¬ 
ter. This disagreeable taste may be entirely over¬ 
come by dissolving a small quantity of saltpetre 
in the milk —say half a teaspoonful to a large 
bucket full, more or less, according to the intensity 
of odour. My plan is to throw a small quantity 
into the buckets before milking, and if tbe milk 
appear very strong, to add a little more on strain- 
sands of the worms exposed, and being near the 
bam, my fowls soon found them and bad fine 
picking. 
The next spring, heavily manured about one and 
a half acre of the turf-eaten land, and planted with 
corn. Soon after the first hoeing, I noticed one or 
more of the plants, in almost every hill, was wilt¬ 
ing, and searching for the cause discovered from 
one to four of the worms in most of the hills, feed¬ 
ing upon the roots. I commenced digging them 
out, hut soon found the “remedy as bad as tbe dis¬ 
ease,” for I injured tbe roots of those plants un¬ 
touched by the grubs, bo i' 
and 1 gave up the hunt. 
and I have come to the con- 
TREATMENT OP FARMERS’ BOYS. 
Mr. Editor:— As I am a farmer's son, though 
older than many who write for the Young Rural- 
ist, I think, with your permission, I may claim the 
privilege of talking with those farmer’s sons who 
are heads of families. I wish to say a word in be¬ 
half of the boys, for I think hoys are sometimes 
over-tasked, even when the father or ward con¬ 
scientiously thinks that he is doing the best he 
can for his children. Let us take a review of the 
past —go back to the days of boyhood, and look 
at the events of our life. Reader, do you recollect 
that they wilted badly, 
The result was a very 
light crop of corn, 
elusion, for the future, to give up to the sole use y< 
and benefit of the worms, all such land, rent free, 
as long as they wiBh to occupy it, which is three tf 
years. The first season the grubs are small, and , T 
do not much injure tbe crops; the second year h 
they cut the grass roots entire; the third they are p 
still ravenous till past midsummer, when they ob- tl 
tain their growth, descend deep into the earth; 
change to the crysalis, and the following May and 
June, emerge from the ground the perfect winged 
insect. The grub is a white worm, with a brown¬ 
ish head, aud when fully grown, is nearly as thick 
as the little finger. This comparison is rather in- ^ 
definite, I admit. 
Tbe parent of the grub is called the May-hug or 
3eetle bug. It is of a chestnut brown color. Its ^ 
iverage length is rather less than an ineb. The 
Beetle in its perfect state feeds on the leaves of 
trees. Soon as evening approaches they begin to 
Ely about, moving irregularly, darting hither and ^ 
thither with an uncertain aim, and hitting against ^ 
objects in their way witb a force that often causes , 
them to fall to the ground. Their seeming blind- ^ 
ness and stupidity have become proverbial iu tbe 
expressions “ blind as a beetle,” and “ beetle-head¬ 
ed.” They frequently enter houses in the night, 
attracted,’as well as dazzled and bewildered by 
the light. In some seasons they are very annoy¬ 
ing and troublesome in the evening from the mid¬ 
dle of May till late into June. The beetles deposit 
their eggs during this period, and then die. The 
young grabs hatch the next spring, and commence 
their ravages as above described- Some soils 
seem particularly adapted to this kind ot worm.— 
Others, to the brown cut-worm, and still others to 
tbe wire-worm. 
To lessen their numbers, it has been proposed to 
build fires in the fields, at dark, in seasons and sec¬ 
tions of the country where they abound. The 
light of the fire would doubtless attract them iu 
great numbers, aud from their heedlessness, they 
would rush in and be burned. Buch a practice 
might somewhat lessen their numbers, but there 
might be danger from fires spreading. The better 
way is, to encourage the increase—aod not the de¬ 
struction—of skunks, weasels, bats, foxes, crows, 
night-hawks and fowls. All these animals, and 
birds, have wisely been appointed to check the 
ravages ol these insects. 
In plowing a greensward, last week, I occasion¬ 
ally turned np the full grown beetle, the crysalis— 
the full sized grub, and the juvenile grub of less 
Levi Bartlett. 
straight, and compact, when it is cut off, leaving i 
the stalks 3 to 12 inches in length, which are then 
put up in convenient sized bales-making an im¬ 
portant article of commerce, always marketable, 
and bringing good prices. Thousands of tuns are 
grown in Ohio aud shipped eastward to New \ ork 
and New En ,laud, and there is no good reason 
why, at this present juncture, farmers in New York 
cannot find the cultivation of broom corn profit- 
able. 
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mangold wurtzel. 
Eds. Rural:— In a former number I gave you 
my experience in the cultivation of Carrots and 
Mangold Wurtzel in this country, and as it. has 
been favorably dealt witb, and also commended by 
B. F., of Niagara Co., let me, through your paper, 
"ive your readers a short sketch of the mode 
practiced in raising root crops “ ayant” the Atlan¬ 
tic. I admit that there are many inconveniences 
in our cold winters that they have not in England, 
but on tbe other hand, we have many advantages, 
and some of our inconveniences may, witb a little 
expense and foresight, be removed. One great 
inconvenience is removed in our modern built 
barns, or I might more properly say model 
barns, which have a root cellar under the gram 
department, and a cellar for manure under the 
animal department, with a stairway inside from the 
root cellar to the place allotted for the animals. 
In Great Britain root culture is carried on ex- 
scouring- When obtainable, rock salt in large 
blocks is preferable; but where this is not to be 
bad, common salt may he placed in a box (after 
being we tand then dried, thus making it hard) 
at convenient points under cover, and cattle, horses 
and sheep will help themselves without danger ol 
“taking too much.” AVe are not aware that the 
quantity given has any influence on the butter 
made from milk of cows, though it may increase 
the quantity of milk temporarily, by inducing the 
use of large quantities of water. 
Bloody Murrain.— Please inform yonr readers 
whether there is any preventive or cure for the 
bloody murrain in cattle, and oblige—A Subscri¬ 
ber, Cotiesus, IV. Y., 1357. 
Remarks. —In a treatise on the Diseases of Cal tie 
by Youatt, we find the following remarks on this 
subject:—"The early stage of murrain is one of 
fever, and the treatment should correspond with 
this—bleeding. Physic should he cautiously yet 
not timorously resorted to. Small doses of purga¬ 
tive medicine, with more of the aromatic than we 
generally add, will he serviceable, effecting tbe 
present purpose, and not hastening or increasing 
the debility which generally is at hand; but if the 
bowels be sufficiently open, or diarrhma should 
threaten, and yet symptoms of fever should be 
apparent, no purgative must be giveD, but the se- 
yonngest, ruu to the spring and get us a jug oi 
cool water, while we rest a minute;” while, per¬ 
haps, you was the most tired one in the company? 
Aud again, when the work was over in the field, 
your father said, “come, Jim, go fetch the cows 
and milk them; then take tbe horses and turn 
them in the pasture?” Now you had all this to do 
while your father aud older brother, or hired men 
was sitting in some cool place, talking over the 
news of the day, or smoking their pipes. It was 
after dark before you had your chores done, and 
when yon got to bed, you felt so tired that you 
could hardly move; and when you awoke In tho 
morning, the sun was shining full in your face, 
and your father called out, “ come, come, Jim, you 
lazy lubber, get up, you ought to havebeeu up two 
hours ago.” 
Then you remember that old scythe, hung on 
that crooked stick cut in some neighboring laurel 
patch, and what work yon made in using it; some¬ 
times cutting oil' the tops of the grass, and again 
running it half the length in the ground. AVhat 
peals of laughter it brought from the men, aud in¬ 
stead of taking hold to show you, they called you a 
w.imVmimil and *aid von would never learn to do 
Barley after Buckwheat.— “We wish to in¬ 
quire through your columns whether buckwheat 
will so come up as to injure barley, the ground 
having been plowed late last fall. As but little 
time intervenes between this and barley sowing, 
an earlv reply will oblige some of the farmers in 
Riga.” 
— In reply to the above inquiry, would say that 
we do not think the buckwheat will so come up as 
to injure the barley,—but, if we are correctly in¬ 
formed by those who have tried the former after 
the latter crop, the rotation or succession is not 
advisable. A farmer at onr elbow as we write, 
(Mr. N. Farncm, of Lockport,). says he last year 
had ten acres of barley after buckwheat, and the 
crop was a failure. The ground was well plowed 
in the fall, and the seed well put in, on good soil— 
yet, as old farmers prophesied, his barley crop was 
non est, not producing ten bushels to the acre 
when be expected twenty. Other and no better 
ground, adjoining, produced twenty bushels and 
nowards. Can any of our correspondents give ub 
_a_- 
than half an inch in length. 
Warner, N. n , May 14, 1867. 
There are mauy other awakward and clumsy 
tools which boys aud men are sometimes set to 
work with, that I shall not undertake to enumerate 
here; but boys are many times made careless and 
destructive by giving them tools to use that are 
not suited to them or their work. They will take 
an opportunity, when there is no one looking at 
them, to break their tools, so us to get more suita¬ 
ble ones, their lathers thinking they did not know 
how to use thorn, or that by some awkward move, 
they had broken their tools, will take pains to get 
still heavier and stronger ones, while those of one- 
third the weight, and made of suitable material, 
would answer the same purpose, and would ho such 
as the hoys would he proud to take care of. Now 
boys are not fools; they want to be shown how to 
work, and to be furnished with suitable tools to i o 
thoir work. They arc not governed by instinct, 
but reason, and should not ho expected to know 
as much as a man of forty, beforo they are twe \e 
i, j McLean, 
years olu. m 
Colon, St. Jo. Co., Mich. 
At tbe height of 2i or 3 feet pass between the rows p e confined to the ulcerated parts alone, nut 
ivith a plow that will turn against the canes to should be plentifully sprinkled over and about the 
"dash down” the weeds, (covering them of course) i, eas t; an d the infected animal should be irnme- 
and at the same time supporting the stalks that diately removed from the sound ones. Foradnnu- 
otherwise would fall with the weighty flower-head tftli0 BW eet spirit of nitre, half an ounce; lauda¬ 
to Hie earth. num, half an ounce; chloride of lime, in powder, 
The yield of seed will be in ratio to strength of two ounces; prepared chalk,.« ■™ Bub them 
soil. 1 have cultivated them solely for my hens to well together, and give them with a P^otwarm 
eat in the fall as they ripen sooner than corn. If gruel. This may be repeated ev ery s . • 
the “birdB” have free access to them they will til the purging is considerably abate ; u mu 1 
need but littie grain to prepare them for voting a no t be co ntinued until it has quite st opped, 
“supply bill” Of eggs during winter. I seldom gg C KOi-.-Mr. Charles J, 
gather more than I want for seed, as the win ei . Massachusetts Board of 
Im not the*. I think in thl. climate the f ^“ho a'.nnni 
>eed should be left upon the „t»lks until latent “JJ* of United State,, to 
December. Wu. Bollard, Charloltt, Mom. . , ,L w i n ,, lB uot leas than $300,000,000. 
Maple Sugar Crop op 1857.—The Albany Argus 
estimates the maple sugar crop of this State at 20,- 
000,000 tt'B., the value of which, at 224c. a tt>., ft low 
estimate, la $2,600,000. The same paper estimates 
the whole crop of the Union at 08,500,000 lbs., val¬ 
ued at $8,5G'2,o00—making the quuutity and value 
very nearly equal to one-half the cane product of 
1 nnt tioov _anrl r. ontrihntiuc. in a very important 
