„^. J .,.i,.n i i*>tn,n.inm(nir\.P.(',0\,n,r<,0.<nenn.r<U r *t T ' 
n.,,un,’\, noninin, >ufnininoun,f\.fnoono\i'\.n.inrun l 
■niW»’\M<il<lMiNiA« , U'UnilJ 
Of February—and kept there until about the 10th 
dav of April. When in durance they are well fed 
once a day with corn, and allowed Huilident water 
all along to drink, Once a week they arc allowed 
to got out for one hour to wush themselves, and 
are then abut up again. While thus confined they 
lose the inclination to breed, and do not assume it 
while they are kept, shut up; but in eight or ten 
days alter they are ret at liberty the disposition 
returns and they commence laying. 
When first hatched, the goslings are of a very 
delicate and tender constitution. My father’s gen¬ 
eral practice Is to let them remain in the box m 
which they were hatched for twenty-four bouts 
after they leave the shell; but ho regulates this by 
the weather, which, if fair and warm, may tolerate 
the le tting the goslings out an hour or two in the 
middle of the day, when they may wet their little 
bills, and nibble at the grass. They ought not to 
be out in the ruiu at, any time during the first 
month. A BhftUow pool dug in the yard, with a 
bucket or two of water thrown into it, to suit the 
temporary purpose of bahting,ifl flufljcicnt during 
the period named.” 
There are several v rlet es ol the Chinese geese, 
ditferlug, however, principally In color. There is 
a Gray variety with a horny knob on the bill and 
forehead; its prevail ng color Is gray with a deep 
brown stripe ruuniDg down back ot the neck. 
The legs of this sort are red, aud they are some¬ 
times erroueou-ly called the Poland (loose. 
The Black l-egged Chinese Goose has a knob 
Bomcwhat like the gray, and usually with a white 
edging around It he plmmige ol this goose is 
gray on the back, and darker—almost black—on 
the buck Bide of the neck; front and under sldo of 
the neck lighter and 'ingo with a fawn oolor; 
wings and lail feathers dark and under Bide of 
body light gray. Feet, legs and bill dark slate 
color. The ganders are rather quarrelsome In 
their disposition, and it is difficult to keep two in 
the same flock. T e note Of this bird is very loud 
and Hhrill, and they give an alarm Buffi tent to 
awaken a whole family on the approach of an in¬ 
truder, and on this account are as useful as a 
-watch dog. They have a lint, erect carriag . The 
principal objection to them i their habit of early 
laying, as they will often commence in the <: oldest 
weather of winter. 
The White Chinese Goose is far the most beaut • 
ful und attractive; is larger in size, hat not quite 
ho erect In its carriage us the darker varieties. It 
is of pure and spotless white with a bright orange 
colored bill and a large orange colored knob at its 
base, and is beautiful either in or out of the water. 
They are prolitio layers, but the eggs are of small 
oi'/.i* enmnaret! with the size of the liird. i 1 or the 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKE R 1 AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSI’AIER. 
Ilutal flotcs anti Items. 
OCT. 3 
SOEGHUMANIA, 
THE SORGHUM. 
lewis county. 
size compared with the size 
engravings accompanying thiB article, we are in¬ 
debted to Bcmmt's Poulterer's Companion. 
SOME OTHER THINGB AHl) 
F.D8. lira A),: —In reply to sundry thrusts at the 
climate of “Old Steuben,” allow mo to say that up 
to this 2(ltb day of Sept, we have had no frost to 
injure vegetation. Even the much talked oi Hu 
gar Cane “ still lives,” and now has” full panicles 
of bright seed bursting the upper joint” of some 
of the stalks. Great as <>nr “altitude” ia, Indian 
corn is ripe, and Lima beans are in lull perfection; 
but alas for the Sorghum 1 With continuous warm 
weather it will hardly perfect its seed before the 
finale of that momentous 11 crisis” which politicians 
already begin to talk about. 
AH experiments are in order just now, I must, tel 
you mine. With acommon pocket knife 1 whittled 
oil the hard outer rim from u piece of stalk some 
12 inches in length, the pith of which, pressed up¬ 
on a smooth board with my wife's rollmg pin, 
yielded about one table spoonful of the “cl ar 
nuill.” How much "very" thick syrup that would 
have made, could have been accurately ascertained 
by boiling. . . 
How to express the jolce from the cane Is just 
now the question. From all quarters comes the 
importunate cry. Be patient all, and rest assured 
the sale of crushers is a pari oj the speculation.— 
Any quantity of them will be oll'cred and adver¬ 
tised in the market cheap, at $10 to $00 each. This 
whole thing is evidently to have a a real shanghai 
rim! There is no stopping it. Speculators docrce 
it, the people want some fun, and will pay the hill 
Possibly tbc more timid will wait and buy crush, 
ers, evaporators, Ac., at second hand. There will 
doubtless be lots of old wares to be had at any 
price In a year or two. Meanwhile, would it not 
be well to try tapping, after the manner of the 
sugar maple, when, if this juice of fabuloussweet- 
ness shall find the holes and rou, it will be well to 
attend sharply to the boiling. 
Seriously, why need we make fools of ourselves? 
When we con successfully and profitably grow 
Bilk in New York, or sweet potatoes that are sweet 
in Canada, or tea in Carolina, it will be in time to 
be all awake to the cultivation of sugar cane in 
latitudes where the Arctic King reigns supremo 
one half of the year. You may boast of stalks 
14 feet in height—may even matarc Boed in more 
favored loealities-may get so many drops or so 
many quarts of Hynip from a given number of 
canes,—but those who expect to reverse natural 
laws and make the frost king answer the place of 
the “ king of day,” will find in the end it is no go. 
The cereal in question belongB to a warm climate, 
and no prophetic ken is needed to foretell the re- 
ault of efforts to introduce its cultivation in high 
latitudes. Bo careful, friends, about investing 
money in cane crushers. w. B - p - 
Prattsburgh, N. Y., 1867. 
Kdb. Rural:— Having recently taken a tour 
through this County, (Lewis,) I will, by your con¬ 
sent, give the result of my observations and in 
quiries respecting the cropB, dec., through the 
Rural. . „ 
Wheal —Although by proper management we 
can grow fair crops, aud though the ravages of the 
midge are comparatively trifliug, yet there is not 
half enough rat-ed to supply our own consump¬ 
tion. The crop tills seoson is pretty good, and has 
been secured in good condition. 
Oats— Were never better. The present dry 
weather afihrda a favorable opportunity for secur¬ 
ing them. 
Corn— It) some instances is being harvested and 
experiments, and their teachings. 
Messrs. Editors:— Having learned some things 
from a few experiments recently made by myself, 
I am indnoed to write of them, in hopes that, they 
may be not without profit to some of your many 
reader*. I have headed my article Experiments, 
and their Teachings. The first lesson learneq 
from the experiments referred to, was the advan¬ 
tage of doing at once, what, one is convinced ought 
to he done. 
To illustrate my meaning—a piece of ground 
had been cultivated for several years with great 
difficulty and expense, and little profit, it being 
specially liable to bo greatly iojured by either 
drouth or wet. The remark was many times made 
during these yeais that that piece of ground ought 
to be drained. Three years ago it was drained, 
and the result, in the appearance of the soil, in 
wet, seasons and iu dry, (for we have had both in 
that time,) and in the crops it produces, surprises 
all who had observed the land and its products in 
former years. How much better it would have 
becu, had what it was known ought to have been 
done, been done ten years ago, or fifteen, it may lie, 
rather than three. 
The second lesson learned was the advantage of 
doing things well This was shown in two experi¬ 
ments. Two years ago last spring T put out an 
Osage-Orange hedge. A portion ol the ground 
was so stiff and poor, that in order to make it as 
nearly like the other as possible, it was trenched 
deeply, and thoroughly manured. The result has 
been each year Bince that that part of the hedge 
is altogether the best of the whole, while a portion 
of it, which was hurriedly done, with little or no 
manure, and only one spit deep, as the English 
gardeners say, is a failure-the plants living to be 
sure, but weak and worthless. 
The other experiment teaching the same thing 
was with Strawberries. Home good Strawberries 
can be procured with almost any kind of culture, 
and indeed, us is not unfrequently the case in some 
parts of the country, with no culture at all; but ii 
they are to lie cultivated it pays best to do it, well. 
A plot of ground, deeply dug and enriched at the 
bottom, continued to afford ample dividends on 
the investment for three years, and perhapB would 
have done so longer, but it was thought best to 
withdraw the stock and re invest. Another plot 
dug one spit deep, and only moderately manured 
gsve a tolerable crop the next year, and was con¬ 
demned to be dng nnder the year after. 
The third lesson was the ad vantage of doing things 
right. You advised ub Mr. Editor, last spring, 
to sow onions In a hot-bod and transplant. You 
gave us the modus operandi by which you assured 
us from personal knowledge we should get a good 
crop. The bed planted by me was weU wyiked 
and tilled. But for the sake of other plants in the 
hot-bed, I did not give the onion plants so much 
air as yon recommended, and I moreover put them 
out several days earlier, whieb, as the season has 
been, was altogether too early. The result l.as 
been, though all the plants lived, or nearly all, a 
total failure of a crop, the product being small 
and worthless. . 
The same leBson was taught in experiments wi 
grape vines. There is a right way to trim and ar¬ 
range them upon the trellises, so as to occupy the 
whole trellise with strong fresh wood, aud yet 
have no part crowded. There arc wrong ways 
enough of attempting to manage grape vines. A s 
in all other case-, the right way is infinitely best, 
j am aware, M . Editor, that these arenl old le^ 
sons, but iu Agriculture, as in regard to «vtry 
oiln r irooil thing, old truths mu*t ho> repeated, 
again and again. The world are then lull slow to 
learn. , 0 „ 
Hudson, Ohio, Sept., 1857. 
CORN 8TALKB V8. SORGHUM. 
Eds. Rural:— Yesterday I cutup the corn grow¬ 
ing on one square rod of groud, husked off it ouc 
bushel ears, took away the blades and tassels from 
the stalks, and ran them twico through ft wooden 
crusher, whence exuded some four gallons of 
clean, sweet juice, from which 1 succeeded in 
making half a guilun of beautifully dear molasses 
of Excellent quality—a sample of which I send you. 
This ia my fourth experiment, in each of which 
there was a like result, as to quantity; as to quality, 
the last is the best. The process of manufacturing 
is simple, but, most arbitrary, and when striclly fol 
lowed success is certain every time. Aud to muko 
ig generally good. 
Grass— To the joy of our farmers, as it is their 
most Important crop, is first rate. 
Potatoes .—Mach complaint of the rot. Borne 
fields will, no doubt, be hardly worth digging. 
Rye —The growth of this is mostly confined to 
the eastern tier of townships. It is excellent. 
Butter and Cheese —By reason of an abundance 
of rain, pastures have been better this season than 
usual, and the weather having been cool withal, an 
unusually large amount will be mado, especially of 
the former, and of a superior quality. 
Fruit,, _We have ft poor variety, and an insuffi¬ 
cient. supply at tho best; but this season there will 
be far Ibbs than comtmin- 
Canada Thistles .—Judging from the acres which 
I saw of them, I almost came to the conclusion 
that they are one of the Btaple productions. They 
arc doing a flourishing business indeed. Iu pass¬ 
ing a certain farm, the highway was literally 
crowded with them. True there waH a passage 
tlirough, but it was so narrow that, unless one were 
an adept in “toeing the mark," it would be diffi¬ 
cult for him to walk in It. Really, the operation 
of “ turning ont,” when teams meet there, must be 
extremely disagreeable to the poor animals which 
perform the task, by reason of the thousand min¬ 
iature darts which goad them at every move. 
These thistles wore allowed to ripen, as they no 
doubt have been heretofore; and the result of this 
Hhameful neglect was woftilly apparent in the ad 
joining fields. First was a field that had been in¬ 
tended for a meadow; but the thistles entirely pre¬ 
dominated. Next was a field of wheat so over¬ 
run that no attempt will he made at harvesting.— 
Hut the saddest of all wzb to see the pure air dot¬ 
ted with thousands of winged gems,—each a plague 
in embryo,—floating on a mission of woe to the 
inhabitants of the earth. Buell negligence should 
bo punished as a crime. 
Tho Rural is doing well here, wherever it has 
taken root. It proves itself a perenniiH—perfect 
ly hardy. Its leaves when thoroughly digested, 
have a striking tendency to enliven the intellect- 
storing the mind with useful knowledge. If I 
mistake not it is destined to become one of the 
indispensables of every family in LewiB. 
Grelg, N. Y., 1857. Wm. Aiibxy. 
Trk Weather— Crops.— With tho exception of 
two or three days during tho Equinoctial St orm 
(which reached its height about the 20th tilt., in 
thiB region) the weather of the psHt month Iirh 
been exceedingly favorable. Tho Corn crop of 
the whole country is probably out of danger- 
having nearly matured without, any serious injury 
Horn frost Tho weather of the past week has 
been warm and pleasant ior the season-unusually 
favorablo for ripening Corn, Grapes, Ac. Indeed, 
up to this (late, (Sept. 29.) we have had nothing 
more damaging than white lrosts, and the Fall 
weather has thus far been mostly flue for out-door 
operations. Considering the backward Bpring 
and comparatively unfavorable Summer, we are 
constrained to congratulate the farmers through¬ 
out the country upon the general abundance of 
their crops, and the present favorable season. 
— The N. Y. Tribune ol Monday thus speaks of 
the Corn and other crops:—“The Com crop of 
the whole country is virtually safe. Perhaps a 
hundredth part of It haB been injured by early 
fiOHts iu the deep valleys of the Middle and North¬ 
ern States, but the Iohb is not material. In op¬ 
position to the tenor of our letters of advice, we 
consider the general yield a moderate one. The 
Bummer was wet throughout the old States, and 
there will be a smaller proportion of grain to stalk 
than in dry seasons. We do not believe the crop 
ol this State will average twenty-five bushels to 
the planted aero, while a majority of tho fields 
will range nnder twenty bushels. Still the yield 
of Grass has been so largo, and tbat oi Bye, Oats, 
und Roots (Potatoes excepted) is so good, that the 
aggregate produce of the year muotboa full ave¬ 
rage, while that of Ncw-England must be excel- 
h ut The Southern and Middle Slates have also 
been prospered, though Cotton is still backward 
aud Sugar (from Cane) ia likely to fall short of 
early expectations. Texas has soil red severely 
from drouth; so has Kansus, and some other por 
ttons of the West. Michigau has, all in all, by far 
the best harvest she lias realized within the last 
four years- Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota have 
at least fair crops. On the whole, except in 1 ruit, 
which is deficient in quantity and poor in quality, 
the labors of our husbandmen have been fairly re¬ 
warded this year. How their produce is to bo sold, 
is still a question.” 
—- ++* -- 
MOLASSES.— Wo 
Hungarian Grass. — A few weeks since tho 
New York Tribune denounced this grass as a hum¬ 
bug, an rl called it “millet of the very poorest kind.” 
The Tribune formed its judgment after an exami¬ 
nation ol a specimen lurtilshed by gentlemen of 
New York city. Many of the Western papers batr 
tie the decision, and claim a great deal, to ray tho 
l-ast, for this new forage crop. The Pella Gazette, 
of Mailou Co., Iowa, Buys:-" We don’t know any¬ 
thing about millet. And we don't know whether 
the specimen furnished to the Tribune ia similar 
to that raised in Iowa, or not Put this we do 
know, that an abundance of Intelligent people who 
are acquainted with millet, assure us positively 
that the grass grown here under the name of II un¬ 
is not millet. It has a different 
garian grass, 
Rhaped head. The Reeds are of different sbope — 
The color of the head, tho stalk, aud the seed is 
different, the «eod of the Hungarian grass being ci 
more colors than one. Besides, it. came from 
Europe, being introduced here by the Hungarian 
Colony, from their native country. It is similar to 
millet, it is true, ami is, perhaps, a species of It— 
As to Us being a humbug, that it certainly la not, 
for there iB no grass in Iowa which is BO readily 
consumed by stock, or that furnishes so much and 
80 valuable fodder ter the same outlay, That is 
onough to redeem it from any each charge, and to 
establish Its Importance. Put. we can say more; it 
is safe, we think, to say that there Is not now stand¬ 
ing upon the soil of Iowa so profitable a crop as 
the Hungarian grass.” 
— We have an article from a coirespondent resid¬ 
ing in A1 bio, Monroe Co., lown, more fully describ¬ 
ing this grass and its capabilities, which will 
probably be given in our next. 
- H>*- 
The Illinois State Fair, held last week, was 
very successful. A friend who was present, and 
has promised ns some notes, writeB that “ i’ was a 
glorious success—a goo<i time," Ac. 
®Jft 
O’ 
IOWA -BOIL, CROPS, &C. 
Mr. Moohk:—A s I have lately been quite inter¬ 
ested in the perusal of your paper, T have thought 
that a few lines from me concerning the soil, 
crops, Ac., of the Btuto of Iowa might be no leBB 
interesting to some of your imme.rons readers. 
The Boil through the interior of Iowa is of a 
w _ _ Hack loam, I mm two to lour feet deep, entirely 
it "profitable, cultivate one acre of the Sitwell frce j rom stone, and well adapted to corn growing, 
Sweet Com, the kind I used, and the following wb j ob j H oar principal crop. Corn stalks have 
results, or even greater, may be realized: been known to grow fourteen feet high, although 
1. One hundreu and sixty bushels oi curs, worth ^ b e average height is about nine or ten feet, 
in any city market $60. in nothing uncommon to see earn of corn Rrowiug 
2. An amount of excellent fodder for Btock, B Jx or seven feet from the ground. Our crop gen- 
equivalent to two tuns of good hay, worth $20. era n y w m average fifty bushels per acre. That 
3. The stalks would then yield some (140 gallons appear t.o be ft small yield, hut I BtippoHe you 
of juice, or 60 gallons of molasses, worth at least an , aware that there is no such thing as hoeing 
$40—making in all $140; while the cost Of manu- ,. orn th5g c0 untry; we only plow it, or cultivate 
facturing the molasses Irom the stalks is at least itj frow 0Iie t0 three times. The entire expense ol 
33 per cent, less than it would he to make the same ra | 8 j n g c0 rn here is estimated at $3 per acre, ex- 
quantity from the sugar maple. elusive of gathering; the rent of the land is con- 
Iu view of the above calculations, which, by the Bi()fc . re( j w ortli $3 more, making the whole expense 
by, have been fully realized on a small scale iu my SQ> q orI1 ge Us readily for $10 per acre on the 
several experiments, I am almost persuaded that, Btall{i or twenty-five cents per bushel when har- 
for this latitude, the com 1 h more valuable for the VCH tc-d. 
manufacture or molasses than the Sorghum. I Thi „ j 8 a j H0 quite a wheat growing country, al- 
would like to have others try it though it is not thought to pay as well hb corn. 
A cheap wooden mill, made and worked precise- 0nr crop thiB year will average about twenty 
ly like any old-fashioned cider mill, only having bu8belB j, cr ft cro; price, fifty cents per bushel, 
the grinders smooth and not , jluted, is all that is 0atH pBy equally us well as wheat, although it is 
necessary for pressing out the jnlco from the not considered profitable to raise small grain, in 
htalks The same kind of mill is equally complete e0II#equ euee of the fanners as yet not having 
for crushing tbc juice out of the Sorghum, and , )ftrnBi hence Retaining great loss in thresh¬ 
ing, storing, &e- _ 
When wo consider the rapid growth that the 
Sorghum and Sweet Cohn 
have received from Mr. H. C. Grey, of Fort 
Wuyne, Ind., a sample of syrup from the Sorghum 
or Chinese Sugar Cane—and from Mr. D. J. B. 
Hoyt, of Gaines, N. Y., molasses made from the 
stalks of Btowell’s Evergreen Corn. We give the 
remarks of these gentlemen in preceding column. 
Both samples arc very sweet and of fine ilavor. We 
think the Sorghum syrup a trifle the sweetest, tho’ 
not so clear aH that from the Sweet Corn—owing 
perhaps to the fact that the former was (apparently) 
burned in boiling. Either is better than the syrup 
ordinarily sold by our grocers. The samples turn 
ish positive proof that good syrup cau be Obtained 
from both Sorghum and Bweet Com stalks grown 
at the North, but bow profitably and extensively 
rcmalna to bo determined. To those who have 
thus constituted as a "tasting committee,” we re 
spond, “Thanks, sweet friends.” 
can be built by any carpenter for less than $30. 
Gaines, N. Y., Sept. 25,1807. D- J- B - HoYT - 
U. 
SORGHUM MOLASSES, &e. 
Ena. Rural:— Herewith please find sample oi 
syrup made from the Chinese Sugar Cane, being a 
part of two gallons made from 186 Btalks. Ihe 
cane in this vicinity will average twelve feet In 
height, while that from which this syrup wu* made 
Hid uot average more than nine feet The hills 
were two feet apart one way, and three tho other, 
averaging five stalks to the bill. At this rate, an 
acre would yield over twenty-five thousand stalks, 
which would make between two hundred and fifty 
and three hundred gallons of molasses. 
I see that some of the papers recommend crush- 
lug the cane with common cider mills. This cannot 
but lie poor policy, since the results would ho very 
imported and unsatisfactory, and many would lie 
apt to judge the real merits of the cane by these 
result#. Most of our cider mills will not express 
one-half of the juice the cane contains. 
We had the first frost of the season last mgtit 
but the corn is so far advanced that little or no 
injury will be none. G - Gi ‘ KY - 
Port Wayne, lud., Sept. 23,1857. 
The Sorghum.—O ne of our citizens communi¬ 
cates the following:—“ Persons raising the Chinese 
Sugar Cane, or Sorgho Sucre, should understand 
Unit the more matured the plant, the sweeter and 
Iwonge “he jSce. There will he no necesH. y ter 
it until you are ready to grind it. It out 
giL. n it lias ftn unpleasaut corn-stalk taste, and 
Jm* too brittle to grind well. For tho Mb* 
,ini ion of those who have raised cane in this > i- 
dnit? 1 vvouldadd that there last least one mill 
ready to tc put in operation «oon as theiun« 
in re idy_and any person having any quantity, 
Ube eJer bo small, can have it ground. Timely 
notice will he given when aud where the mill will 
he put in operation.—B.” 
State of Iowa has made within so stior^ a time, 
who can doubt bat that she will some day he one 
of the wealthiest States in tho Union? About 
twenty-five years ago Mr. Lkclajr, now residing 
In Davenport, came to this country, he being the 
first, white roan tbat ever crossed the Mississippi, 
At that time nothing but the whoop of tho savage 
and the roar of wild bcusts were to be heard, and 
were not unlike in point of civilization. How dif¬ 
ferent the State ol things at the present time! To 
he sure the same streams flow at our feet, tho same 
Hky 1 h over our heads, but all else how changed.— 
The plowman’s song, the engine’s whistle, the hum 
of machinery-all unite to cheer the traveler on 
his way, and convince us that we live in an age of 
improvement and civilization. 
Poweshiek Co., Iowa, Sept., 1867. 
Tiik Monrou County Fair— held on the Socie¬ 
ty’s Grounds, near this city, ou the 21st, 22d and 
23d alt._was very creditable in most departments, 
and largely attended. The unfavorable weather— 
, especially on the second day, which was cold, 
rainy, and altogether unpropltious— no doubt pre¬ 
cluded many from attending, and affected several 
departments of the exhibition. The receipt* were 
upwards of $ 2 , 000 —much greater than was autici 
patod undor the circumstances. The address by 
t,be President, Mr. Hodges, was able and appro¬ 
priate. It wua followed by an excellent and well- 
timed address by Msj. Patrick, Ex-President of 
the JellersoD Co. Ag. Society-one ol the happiest 
efforts we ever heard on any similar occasion. 
— The Award of Premiums, Ac., will be found 
In local county papers. 
Grain in Kentucky.— The St Louis Intelli¬ 
gencer says tiiat the Kentucky ft raters are much 
perplexed to know what to do with their iuimemc 
crops of grain, the present year; and that there is 
great demand for money in that State, the object 
Vicing to go to Missouri to buy up mules und such 
other stook as may be driven to Kentucky, to teed 
their surplus to. The partial failure of the grain 
and grass crops iu many parts of Missouri renders 
it convenient ter Missouri farmers to dispose oi 
Home of their stock; and it thus happens that the 
LETTERS FROM THE BOY 6. 
Wk continue our extracts from the letters re¬ 
ceived from onr young frienda. All seem very 
anxious to have the new payer commence, and wo 
have u very great disposition to accommodate 
them. To tho young folkB we will just whisper a 
little advice: make your letters practical, that is, 
tell us what yon know flora your practice and ex¬ 
perience*, and such things as may be applied to 
good use, or give ns the experience of others, 
which you have observed. Tell us what you see 
and think and feel. We have published, you know, 
extracts from a good many letters, that did not 
contain anything new or interesting, but we want¬ 
ed to encourage even the youngest to think, and 
write, and improve. A youug gentleman at New 
Castle, Penn., writes thus: 
•< I see the Young Uuralist is raising great emu¬ 
lation among the young folks of our land, as af¬ 
fording them a medium through which they can 
express their views, and give their experience on 
ttte various occupations in which they arc engag¬ 
ed such sb chicken raising, merchandizing, agricul¬ 
ture Ac. Now, as I live away iu the Western part 
of the old “ Keystone State,” I would like to have 
a word to say, for I have beeu a farmer nearly all 
my life. We have just finished gathering in the 
rich, golden harvest which Providence bus so 
bountifully bestowed on our country. I am pleiiB- 
ed that you have some notion of starting a paper 
nressly ter the hoys, it is just what we need, and 
ex 
hope all young folks will co operate with you in 
this great enterprise.” 
A young farmer in Cayuga county, seems to 
have an eye to wlint is going on around him. He 
“talks like a book.”-"I live on tbc farm of Mr. 
A., and like farming very well, when It Is done "B 
it should bo. But yon know, Mr. Editor, and I 
know that, fifty acres of land, well taken care Of, 
will produce more than a hundred neglected. Mr. 
A. has a farm of nearly two hundred acres, ami In 
the spring he puts in a good deal of grain, roots, 
Ac but don’t have half hands enough to do the 
work, and «o the crops are suffered to be overrun 
with weeds, and be don’t get half a crop, and the 
wor ds go to seed, and the ground ia covered with 
them. Ho, next year, it makes pretty hard digging 
to destroy them. Tall weeds may ho seen in every 
corn uml potato field, growing higher than my 
head. The weeds, too, are all along the fence s and 
the road. Now, would you not call Mr. A., a poor 
farmer? Would it not pay to make clean work, 
destroy all the weeds, no matter what it cost, for 
two, until all the seed was ont of the 
ground?” 
abundanoc of one State to a great extent relieves 
the shortcomings ot another, 
A Good Idea.— The DeKalb county (Ind.) Agri 
cultural Society, this year oilers premiums lor the 
best, the second best and the third best worked 
roads in any supervisor's district in tho county.— 
A more excellent plan for the improvement of 
roads could not lie devised. The centre of ft road 
twenty teet wide should be three leot higher than 
the Bides, and its surface should describe a | er- 
fect arc of a circle. When a road is onoo well 
termed, very little labor is afterwards required to 
keep it in repair. 
Wm. H. Wood. 
BTONJ5 WALLS i’OIl OUT-HOUBEH. 
The best way to build walls nnder out bouses is 
to first dig a ditoh 18 or 20 indies deep, and corn- 
meuoe laying the stone in lime mortar al tho bot¬ 
tom. The second best Is to place the stone in the 
ditch a tier at a time, and fill the spaces well with 
leached ashes to tho top of the ground. The third 
best is to lay the stone in the ditch and fill the 
spaces with dirt. The fourth best Is to throw stone 
In loose, bo as to allow the frosty air to drive down 
through the spaces to the bottom and ireezo the 
ground under the wall, to us to bcave the wall and I for 
rack it about, as the most or them appear In the 
country—in a tumble down condition.— Old Gard¬ 
ener, Sept., 1867. 
The Choi'B in Southern Michigan, ns in most 
other sections of the West, are very fine and 
abundant. A letter just received from Mr. J. W. 
Pi buck, of Hillsdale Co, says:-" The crops in this 
vicinity are excellent. Wheat yields more than 
an average. Corn, though late, is a good crop.— 
Oats are not raised very extensively, though where 
sown are good. Potatoes are doing finely, there 
being no signs of the rot. I was conversing with 
a farmer from St. Joseph Go. a short time since, 
and he informed me tbut he hart fifty acres of po- 
tatoes growing for the Chicago market. 
a year or two,- . . 
ground?” To be sure it would pay. Weeds the 
poorest crop a farmer can raise. There are hu 
f ew farmers so rich that they cao aflord to do it. 
_>^,xt we havo a letter from a wide-awake 
boy "away down cast” iu Portland, Maine. 
Eds. Rural:—’ Through the kindness of a friend 
in Rochester. 1 have perused your good paper for 
some time, and have been much interested in bo 
■ Roys’ Corner,” and I don’t know about letting 
the New York and Western boys take up all o 
the “Corner,” but hailing, as I do, from “ Bourn 
Past," way down In Maine-where the New \ ork 
boys think the bears come from, (for I was born n 
New York,) perhaps cannot produce uuythlng 
interest your metropolitan readers. TUougbnot 
many of our boys have been brought up in the 
country, wo look forward will, joyous imtiotpatioDB 
to our vacations, for a good time in thetfle * 
hi one of your numbeis you spoke oi bavug 
small paper, devoted wholly to the hoys and girls 
cities and country. Why not-why ca t 
I’m Mire it wouldTiu support* d, an 
PH promise you some “Down East” subscribers to 
begin with, if that will lie any inducement. 
ll/i uf V iL A 
He who is wise will prepare ter winter before 
cold winds and driving snow indicate its advent. 
The Next Provincial Bnow.—A poworliiletbnt 
is being made to have Guelph selected as tho place 
for holding the Provincial Show for 1868. To¬ 
ronto has already made a bid of Ll.'teO; but 
Guelph is expected to over-reach that, amount 
£1 800 being the sum mmied. The Hamilton 
Spectator says, “ Wo admire tho spirit of the peo- tlm* 
. _j. .-I.- ti.ot *k„v I k lives, 
of tho 
we have one? 
Down East. 
pie of Guelph, hut they mast tuko care that they 
do not pay too dear ter the whiBtle.” 
it... w L t winb to know, 
can bo transplanted equally as well iu “V 
in spring? If so, the proper time /-YoUNU Rura 
1 ST, Camden, A. Y., 1867. 
, v t as well in the fall us tho spring- 
n trees whose leaves fall 
at Ih. coming of .iuwr, W >'• 
from tin. ootiimencpinont ol the t.t if g 
until they start again in U 10 
Rem arks.- 
Decidiuous trees, that is. 
in aiitinuti, 
spring of the year. 
