MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
Sorghum Ttkms.— 'The Illinois papers publish a 
ca'I for ft meeting of the cultivators of the Chinese 
Sugar Cane iu that State, to be held at the office of 
the State Agricultural Society in Springfield, on 
the 7th of Janaary, i8o8. The Springfield Journal 
says that the growing of the sorghum and the ex¬ 
pression and manufacture of its juice into syrup 
has been highly sur cessrul in Illinois in the season 
just closing. A comparison of “ notes” by practi¬ 
cal oultivatois on tbe subject of this new branch of 
agriculture at the North, cannot fail to be both 
interesting and profitable. 
A dealer in Buff do has a consignment of four 
or five barrels of syrup made from the Chinese 
Sugar Cat e, by Mr. Sohenck, of Franklin, Warren 
Co., Olio, who raised five acres of the cane and 
realized 300 gallons of molasses per acre. 
afforded power for all wbo wished to exhibit ma- 
cninery iu motion. 
The depart ent of Sculpture would have done 
honor to any State in the Union. 
In the Picture Gallery was such an array of 
_otypes and-graphs as can be produced in 
no other than such an atmosphere ss ours. 
New York and Boston could not, probably, pro 
duce more elegant and highly finished sets of par¬ 
lor and boudoir furniture than were there exhibited 
of California manufacture. 
Among the gas mannfaotnr rs we bad ft rare 
competition. I think no less than five different 
Companies -ought and obtained the privilege of 
lighting each a certain portion of the building.— 
This waa a double benefit It gave each Company 
the privileges of an exhibitor, while it saved the 
Managers of the Fair a large outlay. You may be 
sure we had light on ad “subjects.'' 
Although no department was devoid of great 
interest—though nothing was meagre in either 
quantity or quality,—though at every shrine there 
were multitudes of worshipers, yet I but echo the 
universal sentiment, when I sty the Horticultural 
department was (par excellence) 'he feature of the 
Fair. Ou either side of, and in convenient prox¬ 
imity to, the fountain, were arranged the stands for 
‘-i the depattrnent of plants and 
These were filled with such au array of 
Tea Culture. —Those who have tried the ex¬ 
periment of tea growing in America say, substan¬ 
tially, that “ the plant will grow well enough, but. 
wages are too high. We cannot afford to pick, 
roll up and dry any sort of leaves here for half a 
dollar a pound. In China, where a ruan i3 hired 
for one dollar a month find boards himself, it may 
he done ” The “outside barbarians” must there¬ 
fore Ic.vo the production of this stimulating and 
popular 'verage to the Celestials. 
The Marrow Plant.— We are indebted to Mr. 
Aug. N. Raymond, of Oshkosh, Wig,, for a package 
of the seed of this plant. The plant is nsed for 
greens in the spring. Mr. R. says that it can bo 
sown as soon as the snow is gone, is ready for use 
before any other vegetable used for greens, and 
that he prefers il to any other kind. 
Sorghum Syrup.— We are indebted to L. B. 
Langwcrtht, Erq., of Greece, for a superior sam- 
p’e of Sorghum Syrup. It possesses fine flivor, 
has no vegetable taste, and is excellent for ana 
with Buckwheat cakes. Mr. Wm. Morgan, of Le 
Roy, also favored us with a fine sample—which 
was consigned to the President of the best Univer¬ 
sity in America, t>y whom we doubt not it has been 
appreciated. 
'A'hbat in Georgia. —The wheat crop of Geor¬ 
gia is now au important item of her agricultural 
productions. At a late f dr of the Southern Cen¬ 
tral Agricultural Society, hel l at Atlanta,some in¬ 
teresting remarks were made on the subject. One 
of the speakeis said that ten years ago, when the 
Society was formed, there was but little wheat, in 
the State, and one of its principal objects was to 
encourage the cultivation of that kind of gram — 
Now hundreds of thousands of bushels are pro¬ 
duced, annually, end much of it is shipped to 
New York. 
A New Disease has appeared among tie cows 
iu Delaware—the only symptom of illness being 
au incessant lowing from the commencement of 
the attack until Ibe animal lies down to die. 
the competitors in 
flowers. lllllPlllfl 
exotic and domestic plants as but tew places can 
boast. And to the exhibitors gri at praise is dee 
for their skill and taste in arranging their vast 
collections. Then there was the Vegetable depart¬ 
ment. loaded with its immense overgrowths, and 
glowing with its luxuriant beauty. 
But the Fruit department eclipsed all competing 
attractions, and was the universal admiration of 
beholders. Though the season for peacheB, plums, 
apricots and nectarines was so far gone that it 
was supposed Porno could be represented by only 
pearB, apples and grapes, yet the tables exhibited 
a fine display in all these departments. Care and 
pains were taken by the exhibitors to replenish 
the fruit tables from day to day so thfit the interest 
was kept up to the last* although the Fair con 
tinned from the 7th of September to the 19th, and 
would have continued another week, but for the 
openiDg of the Agricultural Fair at Stockton, on 
the 29th, in courtesy to which this fare-closed. 
In every point of light, this, the first Fair of the 
kiDd on the Pacific coast, has been a most com¬ 
plete triumph. Previous to this effort of the 
Mechanics’ Institute, our entire people were in 
ignorance of the extent of our manufactures, or 
the development of our real sources of wealth— 
the soil and the quarry. In its management from 
its inception to its termination it was moat happy, 
Not a jar or a note out of tune in the song. 
Nor a thing the most caption*, could even call wroDg. 
As a pecuniary experiment, it was a success, 
leaving ou hand, with which to commence a 
library, more than tight thousand dollars. Such a 
beginning In a State so young, surely augurs au 
enviable foture. The opc-niDg Address of inis 
Fair, by H. F. Williams, (a young mechanic,) of 
Ban Francisco, was a production of rare merit. 
Next came the State Agricultural Society’s Fair 
at Stockton, opening with an Address from Judge 
Eno, of Calaveras eoun’y, replete with information 
and suggestions eminently adapted to the time, 
the occasion and to California; especially the 
large space devoted to the subject of irrigation. It 
showed preat labor and research, and will soon be 
published with the ti nsaotions of the Society. 
The show of Fruits was A large advance upon 
the Fair of the same Society last year. The Veg¬ 
etable and Grain departments were represented by 
very fine specimens. In the department of Manu¬ 
factures there were some most extraordinary speci¬ 
mens, among which was a “freight wagon” designed 
to be drawn by twelve moles, and to carry fourteen 
tuns of freight. This was no huge, uncouth mon¬ 
ster, as you may suppose, but a piece of exquisite 
workmanship, which would have reflected credit 
upon a “ Concord Coach” shop. A peculiar fear 
ture in this Fair was the great amount of fine em¬ 
broidery and needlework, a large portion of which 
was done in the Immediate vicinity of the place 
where the Fair was held. 
For four days and evenings the main pavilion, 
80 feet by 200, and the several other exhibition 
roomB and halls were thronged by an eager multi¬ 
tude, si! delighted at the exhibition of the re¬ 
sources of their adopted home. On the race-course, 
(one mile from town,) was a great attraction, The 
Stock was shown there—and a fin* r display is 
rarely seen. The exhibitions of draft teams, ele¬ 
gant roadsters, and tine saddle horses, was emi¬ 
nently gratifying, while the female equestrianism 
exhibited a proficiency in the “elegant art,” on 
the part of s-veral young misses, truly surprising. 
On the evening of she 3d day, there was held a 
“Fruit Grower’s Convention,” lor the free inter¬ 
change of theories and experiences in the art 
Pomologic, on this coast This Convention was a. 
good feature, and will undoubtedly be hereafter u 
prominent one in the annual festivities of this 
Society. 
At the Annual Meeting, the subject of perma 
nently locating the Fair of the Society, was refer¬ 
red to a select committee, consisting of O. C. 
Wheeler, of Sacramento; Wllhon Flint, of Alu- 
meda; Wm. Daniels, of Santa Clara; E. 8. Hold¬ 
en, of Stockton, and G. H. Beach, of Yuba, with 
instructions to report at the text Annual Meeting. 
The next Fair is to be held at Marysville, and 
the officers for the coming year were elected as 
follows:—President— John C. Fall, of Marysville. 
Corresponding Secretary— O. C. Wheeler, of Sac¬ 
ramento. Recording Secretary— G. H. Beach, of 
Marysville. Treasurer- Paxton. 
The Constitution was so altered as to locate 
permanently the office and rooms of the Society 
at Saoramento, and to make it necessary that the 
Corresponding Secretary reside at the same place. 
Bnt my letter is already too long. w. 
Sacramento, Cal, Oct., 1867. 
Of the many labor-saving machines exhibited 
at the late Fair of the N. Y. State Ag. Society, the 
Telegraphic Corn Planter, Invented by Mr. H. 
Ingraham, of Naples, Ontario Co., was among the 
moat prominent and noteworthy. It was pro¬ 
nounced by competent judges the long sought 
desideratum in the line of corn planters, and can¬ 
not fail of taking precedence of many heretofore 
in use. The machine was awarded the first pre¬ 
mium at the State Fair—also at the Ontario Co. 
Fair and the Naples Town Fair. It was only pa¬ 
tented on the 27th of Oct., 1857, and hence has not 
yet been fairly introduced to the farming commu¬ 
nity. The above engraving, aud following descrip¬ 
tion by the inventor, will give onr readers definite 
ideas as to the construction and capacity of this 
valuable improvement: 
“The great aevantantages Of the Telegraphic 
Com Planter consist in its durability, cheapness 
and simplicity, and the fact that it is not liable to 
get out of order—a great defect of other machines 
intended for the Bame purpose. It drops with un¬ 
erring oertainty, and regulates the depth by a 
guage. The droping is performed at the will of 
the operator by a slight pressure of the fore finger 
on a lever under the handle, which enables him to 
plant in regular check rows, so that the corn can 
be cultivated both ways. The machine fa manu¬ 
factured either single or double. The single one 
is calculated for small farmers and rough farms, 
p.nd is leas expensive,—while the double one is 
adapted to larger farmers and the prairies, and, es 
its name Implies, performs its work with tele¬ 
graphic dispatch. Reference being had to the 
lettering on the engraving the operation of the 
Telegraphic Corn Planter may be thus briefly de¬ 
scribed:—It fa operated by a slight, pressure on 
'ho finger lever, G, which, by connection with the 
rod, H, turns the slat, L, snd raises the arms, I, T, 
and the win s Q, Q,—thus turning the v-Gves, N, 
N, and distributing the corn from the seed hop¬ 
pers, S, S, through the hollow teeth, F, F, which 
are covered by the covering guage, P, P.” 
In presenting his machine to the farmers and 
mechanics of the country, the inventor claims 
that he has accomplished the main object be had 
in view,—to construct a perfect Corn Planter aud 
avoid all unnecessary gearing and costly machi¬ 
nery,—and further illustrates its advantages in the 
following practically truthful if not extremely po¬ 
etical lines: 
“ A late discovery is made, 
In which we find new plena are laid 
To plant not corn is row* each way 
From twelve to twenty acres a day, 
No wheels or gearing do we need 
To plant with telegraphic speed — 
We only nee the valve and wire, 
For simple thing* we do admire. 
No mortice in the frame is used, 
But all’s secured by bolts and screws— 
For simple things we do admire, 
Like planting with the valve* and wire." 
The following notice and description of the 
Telegraphic Planter is extracted from the N. Y. 
Tribnne’s report of the State Fair at Buffalo: 
“There are several other gang plows, and nu¬ 
merous grain and seed drills and corn planters, bnt 
the most Important of all the family of corn plant¬ 
ers ever invented, is un entirely new contrivance, 
not yet patented—in fact this is the first perfect 
machine ever built—invented by Handford Ingra¬ 
ham, of Naples, Ontario County, a poor Bickly 
man, who was not able to get up a machine for 
exhibition, and this one was made and brought 
here by one of hia neighbors who had tried it, Mr. 
S. H. Sutton, more than anything else to see what 
a oommittee of the Stute Booiety would say to it 
I am sure they will give it a most honorable notice 
and a premium. Its great vulue is its great sim¬ 
plicity, lightness, cheapness and durability. There 
is no gearing, and bat very little machinery, and 
it is mostly made of wood, and yet will drop in 
hills or drills, with the seeds or rows jnst as far 
apart as the operator desires. It is drawn by one 
horse; it can be held by a boy twelve years old, 
or carried upon hift shoulder. It is the ne plus 
ultra of all corn planters. It is composed of a pair 
of thills, a cross har and handles like a plow. The 
hind end of the thills re.sU upon bent pieces of 
iron a few inches from the ground. The seed 
boxes are attached to the end of the thills, and a 
spring Blide, that drops the grains whenever open¬ 
ed with unerring certainty, is opened whenever 
desired by a slight pressure of the right hand fin¬ 
gers upon ft key under the handle, which gives 
motion to the dropppr by a small iron rod. The 
whole operation is ns simple as open and shut, for 
that is simply the whole operation.” 
Epidemic among Horses. —An epidemic of a 
novel character is said to be showing itself among 
horses in Eastern Pennsylvania. A short time ago 
Mr. Watson P. Magill, of Sales bury, Buck county, 
reported the loss of three by, “putrid fever.” The 
symptoms are a soreness and swelling of the gul¬ 
let or alimentary passage and rapid falling away of 
the fleshy parts of the body. Its termination is 
almost always fatal, and it is said to be contagions 
in its nature. 
The question 1ms been asked very ninny times 
‘ why so n any of our oung men forsake the farm 
for other pursuits?” With your permission, I will 
give my opinion, for the benefit of all, and par¬ 
ticularly, Young Ruratists. T he reason is plain if 
we are intimately acquainted with the dispositions 
aud aspirations of our race. Men desire high po¬ 
sition in society, this must be secured by acquir¬ 
ing wealth, or by intellectual superiority. Wealth 
and fame are the great boons to which mankind 
aspire, and to attain the much coveted object no 
risk is counted dear; though butone in a bundled 
succeed,—all push onward hoping to be that one. 
If this be the fact, it iB not strange that the yonng 
man takes his life ia bis band as it were and hoping 
that he Is one of Fortune’s favored ones pushes 
out into the stream of life, trusting that his name 
rosy become an honored name. Is there iu the 
present condition of farmers much to encourage 
young men of ambition and of intellect to choose 
that occupation? Wealth is not gained rapidly— 
political distinction rewards them not, and more 
than all, social life is narrowed down to so narrow 
a compass that it makes the young man of promise 
become a hater of mankind. 
Farming, in fact the most nsefnl and ennobling 
of all pursuits, is considered an ignoble one and 
not without reason. Look over the land far and 
near, compare the farmer with the merchant, the 
lawyer, and we readily see that while the farmer 
can lay claim to as good sense as the others, he 
is deficient in many qualities that would fit him 
for public and social life. He is neglectful of ac¬ 
quiring inrormation without which any person will 
become a nonentity iu any society that exercises 
brains; he dots not cultivate agreeable raanuevs 
without which angels would almost become exclu¬ 
ded from high social society, This Is not agreea¬ 
ble to confess, but it is the stubborn facts of the 
case. One proof that farming is not considered 
as honorable as t-ome otber pursuits, is from the 
fact that orators and writers arc continually laud¬ 
ing it “ It is the sick that need a physician." It 
would be thought absurd to go off into such pane¬ 
gyrics of the lawyer's profession. Bnt we poor 
farmers are the ones most to bl ime, for the charac¬ 
ter of a pursuit depends not so much on its own 
nature as npon the character of those engaged in 
it. Let ns elevate ourselves and we shall elevate 
our calling, honor ourselves, and by thus doing, 
conquer the prejudice that exists and forever 
banish the idea that farmers arc plodders. 
New London, Conn., Nov. 80,1817. Gr. L. S. 
Connecticut Red Cattle —The Boston Culti¬ 
vator, in the coarse of Us report of the late State 
Fair, makes the following remarks about the fine 
cattle of wbiob Connecticut farmeis are so justly 
proud" Iu one respect, Connecticut Cattle Shows 
are somewhat peculiar. Working oxen constitute 
the leading feature hero. This useful class of an¬ 
imals of course occupies a prominent position at 
shews throughout New England and some other 
parts of the country; but they are to Connecticut 
what trotting horses a-e to Vermont. — the great 
export article of the State, Connecticut some¬ 
time since acquired an ascendency in thisparticu 
lar, and it is still maintained. She furnishes oxen 
for portions of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and Maryland.” 
A “FrbB-Maktin" giving Milk.— We believe 
that it is a settled fact in coto physiology, that where 
a heifer and bull are born twins the heifer will sel¬ 
dom, if ever, breed. They are called “free mar 
tins.” But here ia one that will give milk if she 
does not breed. Mr. Edward Henshaw, of West 
Waterville, has a heifer which was a twin calf with 
a bull. He works her with her steer mate — she 
has never bad a calf, but she has given milk a 
year—gives, now, eight quarts per day. She is 
three year* old.— Me. Farmer. 
The Grasshopper Plague.— Grasshoppers are 
again making their appearance in myriads in 
Western Texas. At the date of tbe latest advices 
from San Antonio, they were devouring all the 
vegetables before them in that vicinage. Having 
reached San Marcos, they destroyed a rye field in 
two hours. The Austin Intelligencer says that 
these “ locusts,” as it styles them, made their ap¬ 
pearance in that region two years ago 
There is no trouble about drying, and if well done 
there wili not five per cent of it assume the hori¬ 
zontal in standing three months. This leaving 
oue or four hills to hold up ia but “leaning on a 
broken reed ” at best. 
2d. Can it be possible that Lewis F. Allkn still 
retains poles over his barn floor from bay to bay? 
Tell him to replace them by good, substantial 
scaffolds, and those nice Devons of his will look 
ten per cent, better with the barn thus improved. 
Nov., 1857. Chactacqub. 
SHEEP IN ONEIDA COUNTY 
Eds. Rural: —Perhaps some of your readers 
would like to know which breed of shetp have the 
preference in Oneida county at the present time. 
Ail kinds found In tbe State are to be seen here in 
their perfection, from tbe coarsest Bakewell, Lei¬ 
cester, and Sou h Down, to the finest Saxon. The 
French or l’aular Merino have also obtained a fort 
hold here, and are considered to be a very good 
breed; where wool is the primary object, they may 
be corvicered the beet wo have. The average 
weight in large flocks of their fleeces is said to be 
about 6 lbs. Added to this they are very hardy 
and capable of enduring as much Lad treatment 
and live, as any variety we have. 
Whcevei has watched the expression of public 
opinion on this point, and attended our Couuty 
Fair, will have observed a preference given to the 
This impression orig- 
Ravages of the Midge in Canada.— The Sec¬ 
retary of the Bureau of Agriculture in Canada, 
Wm. Hatton, Esq., in writing on this subject says: 
—“The reports of onr loss in Canada, are daily 
adding to the estimate of destruction. It ia not 
too much to say, that Canada loses by the midge 
alone, one third of her whole crop of 1857, which 
Bhould have been 26,000,000 of bushels. At all 
events, we are minus eight millions of bushels—a 
serious loss to a Colony of only two millions and s 
half of people. In some counties, where the 
usual crop was twenty bushels per acre, it will not 
this year yield ten. This scourge is surely worthy 
tbe attention of every scientific and agricultural 
man on both sides of ihe water. If you are able 
to elucidate the subject any further ou your side, 
I hope you will not fail to give us tbe benefit of 
your experience. 
The best preventive I have heard or known cl. 
which I found very efficient on my own farm, was 
to sow very early — wheat of an early kiDd—an 
early soil, rendered early by good drainage—and 
well shaped ridges and good cultivation—in order 
to give tbe vegetable life a start of the animal life 
at blossoming time.” 
MY FIBST SUMMER AT FABMING 
THE WINTER’S WOOD 
Eds. Rural:— As yon want facts, I will give 
you my experience in gardening for the first sea¬ 
son. I have produced from one acre of ground— 
Potatoes, one quarter of an acie, 40 busnels of 
Blue Mercers. Cabbage, 125 headR. Carrots, 109 
bushels of the long orange sort. Ruta-bagas, 20 
bushels. White Turnip 16 bushels, besides several 
bushels of onions, and radishes, lettuce, beans and 
tomatoes enough for our family of eight In addi 
tion to all this, I had plenty of cucumbers and 
melons, of which I took no account I am only 
fourteen years of age, and this was all done by 
my own labor. Now, I havo counted np the value 
of what I have on hand, as follows: 
40 bushels potatoes at 60 cents.$20 00 
126 cabbages lit 2 cents each .............. 2 60 
109 liushelB carrots at 15 cents per bu.16 85 
20 “ ruta-bagas, 15 cents...3 00 
16 “ turnips ... ,...2 00 
$43 85 
I did not thiuk of keeping any account until so 
late in the season that the summer crops were all 
gone, or it would have been more than doable this 
amount I thins. However, this will do, for the 
first trial, and next year 1 hope to be able to 
send you a still better report The expense was 
very little, being almost entirely labor except the 
potatoes for seed, and the value, of tbe manure.— 
W. 8., Wayne Co-, (V- Y., A’ys., 1857. 
Mr. Editor:— Winter is fast approaching, and 
now is the time for the farmer to get his winter’s 
supply of wood. He should go into his wood-land 
and cut up the wind-falls, (before they are covered 
with snow,) and Buch other decaying and unthrifty 
trees as are done growing; sparing the straight 
and thrifty. If you wait nut il winter, it is not half 
so handy to get at it, and If got at all, It is only by 
a sled load at a time. Nothing 1 b more necessa¬ 
ry to the comfort of any family than a wood-house 
full of wood. It saves a good many words, besides 
it is not always pleasant to jump up to “cut some 
Hieing ” Now while the winter keeps back is the 
time to prepare. So when you Bit by the fire im¬ 
proving jour moments and mind by reading the 
useful and entertaining Rural, you can look out 
upon the storm with pleasure. S-. 
Paris, Kent Co., Midi., Nov., 1857. 
coarse aud large varieties, 
inaled in the fact that there is a large and increas 
ing demand for heavy mutton and good lambs, for 
which these breeds are justly celebrated. 
To refer to my own experience, 1 might say that 
I have tried several varieties of sheep, determined 
if possible to get the be Bt. My present experiment 
is with the Leicester*. I find them easy to keep, 
hardy and prolific—tie iambs maturing early and 
proving to be the moat excilleut mutton, weigh¬ 
ing when killed, about the first of November, about 
an average of 50 ftis. Some this season have 
weighed more. Two years ago, about tbe time of 
my purchase of this variety, oue lamb was weigh¬ 
ed whose live weight was 124 tt>3. These weights 
are not the result of high keeping, as my sheep 
are kept in the ordinary manner common to moat 
farmers. George W. Bronson. 
Vernon Center, N. Y., Nov., 1867. 
Mouldy Peas, Beans and Grain. —A contem¬ 
porary. speaking of the tendency of grain and the 
leguminous plants to generation of mould when 
placed in the granary in a damp state, says: — 
"When this evil occurs, the legumes or cereals 
h (footed, are supposed to be rendored utterly worth¬ 
less thereby; but, such is not the fact. Peas or 
beans, corn or wheat, that ha * become mouldy, may 
be perfectly deprived of its unpleasant smell and 
taste by immersing it in hot or boiling water and 
permitting it to remain therein till the liquid be¬ 
comes quite cool. If one Immersion does not 
prove effectual let it be repeated. Animals devour 
mouldy grain when managed in this way as greedi¬ 
ly as any, and arc apparently os much benefited by 
it Peas constitute an excellent feed for swiue; 
and few articles are more strengthening to sheep 
than beans. They should be given before and 
after casting their lambs, with a small quantity of 
chopped turnips—say about two quarto per day- 
one quart in tbe morning and one quart at night. 
This will generally be sufficient, and will tend to 
promote the action of the laoteons system, and 
procure a copious How of milk, beside proving 
highly protective of the general health of the 
system.” 
To Stou Potatoes Rotting— An agricultural 
exchange says:—“ An experienced agriculturist 
informs ns that about six years ago, he applied 
lime to potatoes that were partly rotten, and that 
immediately arrested deoay. Potatoes that wore 
partly rotten when the lime was applied, continued 
to rot and were lost 
Since then he has made it a 
common practice to apply slaked lime to Mb po¬ 
tatoes a« he takes them up. He puts a thin layer 
of lime upon the floor where the potatoes are to be 
laid, and sprinkles some of it over the potatoes 
about every ten inches as they are put down. He 
considers this as perfectly protecting them from 
rotting, and he has never had a rotten potato since 
he has practiced It; and he believes also thut pota¬ 
toes thuB used are rendered better by the action of 
lime. We advise the farmers to try this plan, aa 
it easily can be done by them all." 
A SUGGESTION OH TWO, 
Eds. Rural:— Permit a “new hand at the bel 
lows” to “have his say” about a thing ortwolfiud 
in the Rural: 
1st. That Michigan man, wbo recommends (in 
cutting up corn) tying four hills together and then 
setting in the spaces between the hills, is farther 
behind the times than I am in replying to him.— 
Away back iu my boyhood 1 remember seeing ftn 
old Long-Islander putting up corn in that manner. 
By so doing you leave one-ninth of yonr corn 
Btanding. A few yet practice setting around one 
hilL This ia better than fonr, but not bo good as 
none. The true way ia t.o cut it all op; never lay 
it down, but bind oue armfull for the ceutre of the 
Btout—then set around this, and bind well at the 
last. By so doing you have your corn cut up; 
yon can move it without the aid of a corn-cutter. 
Premiums to Lads Under 21 Years of Age — 
Hon. A. B. Conger, at the Rockland County Fair, 
offered premiums for the best acre of wheat, rye, 
oats and corn; and for one-fourth acre of carrots, 
sugar beets, cabbage, or ruta baga— the competi¬ 
tors for the premium to furnish, on entering ihoir 
names, a detailed statement of the mode of treat¬ 
ment of each crop, all the stages of preparing the 
soil, planting, manuring, tending and garnering, 
and of the expense of each and every process in 
cultivation. We hope this plan will be carried 
out iu all counties. The young men of our State 
will soon have their attention turned to these pre¬ 
miums, and the result cannot be otherwise than 
favorable. 
Seed of the Chinese Sugar Cane — Is it 
Poisonous 1 —The statement made by a Southern 
cultivator, that the seeds of the “ sorghum » are 
poisonous, when fed to stock, is contradicted by 
tbe Cincinnati Gazette. A fine horse, fed upon the 
seed four weeks, waB never In better condition. 
— The Commissioner of the Patent Office has 
Y>een experimenting and concludes that tbe seed 
ia not only harmless, but good fodder for any va¬ 
riety of stock. 
