mill is simple, and, at the same time, very ingenious 
in its construction. It is nearly all of iron, inclu¬ 
ding the fans, which are of sheet iron, and are six in 
number. It is a self-regulator, designed so that when 
tlie wind increases in force, the fans prese nt less sur¬ 
face to the wind. It has run until the present time 
without a cent of expense for repairs, and I think 
will be very durable. There is a brass pump attached 
which raises the water through a pipe three-fourth's 
of an inch in diameter, aud with a moderate breeze 
the water discharges as fast as from a pipe of the 
same size with but little head or pressure. 1 can but 
think that with a great many who, like myself, stand 
in need of such an arrangement, that it needs only to 
be seen in operation to be appreciated, and its 
expense is very inconsiderable as compared with any 
other self-regulating wind-mill of which I have any 
knowledge. The patentee and manufacturer is E. W. 
Mills of Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
I shall be happy to convey any further information 
in regard to it to any one who desires it. if they will 
address S. W. Tackett, 
Burdette, Schuyler Co., N. Y., 1861. 
People, — to exhibit its permanent and practical 
value to the World. 
If u Constant Reader” will please give his name 
and post-office address, I shall be happy to render to 
him such information as I may be in possession of in 
connection with this subject Charles Beach. 
Peon Van, Yates Co., N. Y.. 1861. 
In connection with the foregoing, we received a 
circular stating that in 1818 Mr. Beach, together 
with his father and brother, invented, applied for, 
and took out Letters Patent for a machine to dress 
and prepare flax to be spun on cotton machinery. 
Mr. B. constructed a full-sized working machine, 
with which he dressed ten tuns of straw, producing 
five tuns of 1'lax Cotton, daily, with the aid of one 
man, and that the Lint was in perfect condition. He 
has waited twelve years for a market for this Lint, 
and would now he glad to know what is its market 
value, unbleached. Mr. Beach iB confident that if a 
demand will spring up making the manufacture as 
profitable as any other branch of agriculture, the 
want will be met fully and promptly. — Ens. 
a large per centage of the land itself, on all fields 
having a sufficient inclination to allow the water to 
run freely. Beep plowing in both cases would almost 
invariably secure the embryo crop against such dis¬ 
couraging results. If our corn lands were thoroughly 
broken up to the depth of eleven inches, they would 
absorb about four times the quantity of water they do 
aB ordinarily plowed, and still leave the surface com¬ 
paratively dry, eren after a severe and long continued 
spring rain. As for the washing*, of which there is 
now such general complaint, we should hear very 
little of them; nor of the failure of the crop from 
drouth either, as the four-fold capacity of the soil as 
a reservoir would afford a supply of moisture that 
would outlast all ordinary drouths. It is true that 
the more soluble portions of the manures might find 
their way down to a depth just below their sphere of 
immediate action; but they would not be lost, and 
their deposit there would he more satisfactory than 
the knowledge that they had floated away to parts 
unknown. 
Thk War News is of such importance that we are con- 
straiued to give the details at some length — thus somewhat 
changing our usual arrangement of departments in “making 
up this number. If. as now seems probable, the war is to 
be continued to the bitter end. wo shall enlarge the News 
Department of the RrSAL, in order to keep our readers fully 
adilsed of a!. Important movements—presenting, each week, 
a complete summary of the most stirring events, with such 
details relative to the strongholds, forces, and operations of 
the Union and Secession arm*, as will impart correct knowl¬ 
edge of the power, position, and prospects of each. We 
shall endeavor to do this without infringing, after this week, 
upon the Practical Departments of the paper-giving pre¬ 
cedence and prominence to Agricultural, Horticultural, and 
News matters. By giving the gist of passing events, without 
wordy comments or large, sensation headings, we hope to give 
a» much real Intelligence as those papers which devote most 
of their space to news. It may be (a* many have said) that 
we are trying to get too much into one Journal—making it too 
diem. * 
— The wages of compositors in Liverpool are $7 50 per 
week. 
— There are nearly thirty thousand blind people in Great 
Britain. 
— Large additions are making to the present fortifications 
at Dover. 
— The Queen of Spain has offered the Pope a royal palace 
At Madrid. / fc 
— The estimated cost of supporting the British army in 
1861 is 570,000,000. 
— Capt. Berry, commander of the Wyandotte, died at 
Pensacola on the 2d inst. 
— Asiatic Russia comprises 5,636,000 square n 
the largest country in the world. 
— Small pox is very prevalent, in New York, 
deaths from it occurred last week. 
— Verdi, the great composer, has been elected one of the 
members of the Parliament of Italv, 
— The steamship Great Eastern is to sail from England for 
New York on the first of next month. 
— A midwife in Leicester, Eng., convicted of procuring an 
abortion, has been sentenced to be banged. 
— The name of thq United States Hotel, in Augusta, Ga., 
has been changed to the Southern States Hotel. 
— The emigrant travel over the Pennsylvania Railroad, in 
1860, was 11,831 In 1859 the number was 10.761. 
— It is alleged in the Westminster Review that iron fetters 
for Blave dealers ace sold by Liverpool mi>rrii*nt. 
b. E. Iodd, m the Ohio Farmer , recommends 
sowing these two crops together. He says: Raising 
a crop of oats and peas on the same ground, at the 
same time, is often attended with good success; and 
when the object is grain for feeding stock of any 
kind, it is a much better way to sow oats with the 
peas, than to sow nothing but peas. Peas are far 
more productive when they have something to sustain 
them, than when allowed to grow as they may in a 
prostrate or half-erect position. No grain will fruc¬ 
tify as well when prostrate as when kept in an erect 
position. One object, then, in sowing peas and oats 
together, is to have the oats sustain the peas nntilthe 
grain has matured. In order to accomplish this 
object most effectually, the oats must not bo sowed 
more than half as thick ns they arc when other grain 
is sown with them. Every good farmer knows that 
when oats arc Sown very thick, the straw is quite 
slender; but when they arc not very olo&o together, 
the straw is quite strong, coarse and stiff, and will re¬ 
main erect much longer. Now, by sowing about half 
as many oats per acre as is necessary for a full crop, 
and by sowing at the same time as many peas as are 
Seventeen 
Cost of Marketing. 
Gov. Kirkwood, of Iowa, 
There is a very mistaken idea in the minds of 
many persons in regard to the amount of power a 
other 
said, in his address at 
the Muscatine County Fair, that it cost him twenty 
per cent, to market Ins beeves, forty his wheat, sixty 
his corn, and only four per cent, to market hi* wool. 
1 acts like these ought always to have an important 
bearing in determining the branch of agriculture the 
farmer Bhould pursue. The difference between four 
per cent, and twenty, forty, or sixty per cent, on any 
considerable amount, would make a fair profit. 
Where we are at a great distance from markets, the 
expense of marketing is very much reduced by con¬ 
centrating as much value as possible Into the least 
space. A ton of wool, worth, at forty cents a pound, 
SHOO, can be carried a thousand miles at about the 
same expense as a ton of wheat, worth only $30. 
An Experiment with Looked Food. 
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican states that 
William Bjhney wintered 42 cattle, 3 horses, and 4 
sheep, on the produce of 00 acres of land, which, al¬ 
low ing the whole slock to be equal to .3.3 cows, gives 
about an acre and a half of land for the annual sus¬ 
tenance of each animal. Wheat bran and oil-meal 
are purchased and used for stock, which is balanced 
by the disposal of corn and hay of equal value. The 
amount of fodder consumed daily by Mr. B's stock is 
stated as follows: 
.L 8 lbs. ot chaffed com fodder and straw SI 88 
77 “ long hay,. .. 70 
120 “ wheat bran,__ * ion 
10 “ oil meal.” . '7- 
10 “ cob meal,..."'. jo 
20 bushels roots,.... 2 00 
Fuel for steaming the above,”””””’. An 
TotaI ’.-.-...56.48 
Ibis makes a cost of about 17 cents a day for each 
animal. It is stated that the stock is in finn 
liorsc can exert in drawing a load 
words, the numbor of pounds of steady propelling 
force a horse Is capable of exerting when taxed to 
the full amount of his strength. It is uot unfre¬ 
quent that we hear men, otherwise well informed, 
say that their team will draw us many pounds as their 
Own weight, and they are ready to back up tlie asser¬ 
tion with a wager, whenever they can find any one 
who will take the bet, and procure an instrument for 
test lug the draught. This erroneous idea is the 
result of a limited knowledge of the strength 
required to move bodies in proportion to their 
weight, and the scarcity of dynamometers. 
The dynamometer is an ingenious invention, by 
which draught may be ascertained as accurately as 
the grocer can find the weight of his groceries. It 
resembles the spring balance, and one end is attached 
to the plow or wagon, and the other 
I kople who Write Letters, and wish responses in any 
form, should never “forget to remember ’’ to give tho name 
nf their I ostoflice, County and State (Territory or Province,) 
conspicuously at the head of their epistles. We have afore¬ 
time spoken of the vexation and loss of time 
omitting such an essential item as the name of 
person 
occasioned by 
a postofflee or 
Almost every day we are favored with money letters 
which omit the postofflee address of the writer. In such 
cases we must he guided by the pnst-mark on the envelop, 
and when that is too obscure to he read, as is frequently the 
fact, we are “ up u stamp compelled to lay the letter aside 
until we bear from the writer again, asking why in creation 
we don't respond —that he wants tho paper, or his money 
returned I These occurrences are by no means pleasant, hut. 
so many people are careless—professional and business men. 
as well as farmers—that we have about concluded to endure 
what it seem* so difficult to cure. But publishersare not the 
only class (beside the writers; who arc subject to vexation 
and loss from omission* of this character. A note just 
received from an extensive manufacturer or agricultural 
implements, alludes to the subject in this wise:—“Having 
to the team. 
The power applied shortens the spring, and the 
amount of strength exerted is indicated upon a 
graduated scale. An inconvenience occurs in Die 
use of this instrument, in consequence of the quick 
changes of resistance, producing u constant vibra¬ 
tion in the index. This is removed by attaching ooe 
end of the spring to a piston working in a cylinder 
filled with oil. A small hole in the piston allows the 
oil to escape from one end to the other, as the 
draught varies, but prevents any sudden change. 
Careful experiments made with the dynamometer 
to ascertain the resistance of various kinds of roads, 
have shewn the following results: A force of one 
hundred pounds applied to a weight on freely running 
wheels, will move on a hard mirth road, twenty-five 
times as much lincluding the wagon) as the force 
applied, or 2,600 pounds; on a good MoAdam <>r 
plunk road, sixty times as much, or three tons; on 
the best railroad, two hundred and eighty times as 
much, or fourteen tons. A force of three hundred 
pounds applied to a sled with cast iron shoes, will 
move half a ton (including the sled) on a rough 
Banded plank, which is too much for an ordinary 
horse. A two-horse mower or reaper requires a 
draught of from SS0 to 450 pounds. 1 have before 
me a report of a committee appointed to witness a 
trial of plows, which was held at Greenbush, in I860, 
which shows the amount of power required to plow 
s penally nir stealing Horses and negroes. 
— The N. Y. World says that about one-third of the Ger 
man population of the West are applicants for consulship. 
— “Panola,” the Indian name for cotton, has been sng 
gostedas An appellation for the new Southern Confederacy 
— Experiments are constantly being made, In London, to 
test the capability of locomotive engines on common roads. 
The Shakers of Canterbury, N. H , have ju»t. executed 
an order for 50b cans of their favorite apple sauce, for Java. 
— There U an India rubber factory In full blast in Montreal, 
the only establishment of the kind In the British Provinces. 
— A guarantee fund for three hundred and fifty thousand 
pounds has already been signed for the London Exhibition in 
1862. 
— The Massachusetts State Senate, on Saturday week, 
passed the hill abolishing capital punishment, by a vote of 18 
to 16. 
— Mr. Randolph, the secession delegate from Richmond 
to the Virginia Convention, is a grandson of Thomas Jef¬ 
ferson. 
— A gentleman in Bridgeton, Me., has a hound which has 
caught twenty-seven red foxes and two black ones' this 
— A hill, creating v metropolitan ponce system; for Phila¬ 
delphia,* has passed the Pennsylvania House of Represen¬ 
tatives, 
— Thirteen persons were recently drowned in a steamer on 
the lake of Constance, in a gale, by a collision with another 
steamer. 
— The floor of a grain warehouse gave way at Fall River, 
Mass., on Friday night week, and 10,000 bushels of grain went 
through. 
— The mode of churning in Fayal, one of the Azores, is to 
tie the cream up in a goat skin, and kick it about till the but¬ 
ter comes, 
— Tlie past winter was one of unexampled severity in Syria 
and Palestine. The snow was two feet deep in the city of 
Jerusalem. 
— It is stated that one and a half million dollars of Illinois 
currency have been withdrawn from circulation since last 
November. 
— Mr. Whipple, the distinguished photographic artist of 
Boston, has been making huge glass negative pictures, five 
feet by four. 
— Gov, Brown, of Georgia, has issued marching orders to 
nine additional companies of that State. Pensacola is their 
gjttquitto ana gtoiw 
Remarkable Houses.— We am indebted to Chas, B Lane, 
Laq , of Mlddleport, N. V . tot the following brief history of 
a pair of remarkable boraea, objects of note for miles around 
that neighborhood for their age, endurance, aud tricks:— 
“They were called respectively • Old Jake ' and ‘Old Jim,’ 
and were foaled in 1831. In 3836 they wero first brought on 
the farm now owned by me, and among the singularities con¬ 
nected with their history, maybe mentioned tho following: 
They were never known to lie down in the stable—they were 
never bedded or blanketed—they were always worked hard 
n e Clip the following from one of our exchanges, 
where we find it without any marks of credit: Take 
a clean water-tight barrel, or other suitable cask, and 
put into it half a bushel of lime. Slake It by pour¬ 
ing water on It, boiling hot, and in sufficient quantity 
to c-over it five inches deep, and stir it briskly til) 
thoroughly slaked. When the lime has boon slaked, 
dissolve it in water, aud add two pounds of sulphate 
of zinc, and one of common salt. These will cause 
the wash to harden, and prevent its cracking, which 
gives an unseemly appearance to the work. If desi¬ 
rable. a beautiful cream color may be communicated 
to the above wash, by adding three pounds of yellow 
ochre; or a good pearl or lead color, by the addition 
of lamp, vine, or ivory black. For fawn color, add 
fonr pounds umber— Turkish or American—the latter 
Lick ox Horses.—W ill you pleaee inform me how to 
remove lice from a horse, and how to prevent their return?— 
X. 3.35., Onondaga Co.. N. )' 1861. 
To destroy these pane.;tea, smear the entire body with any 
cheap oil *ir frputi hi T V— • *. n t menJ ir ttu&evu uii. i 
ounce; pyroligneous acid, j graces; «pim« at turpentine, i 
ounce Apply two ot «nty*j^oes eaep day. Wash the parts 
to which applications Intro U.on made with soap and water. 
“ To prevent their return," keep the horse and his stable 
Iree from filth. Horses sometimes become covered with 
lien lioe, the result of allowing hens to roost in the stable. 
Remove the hem-, make uso ol the preparations given 
above, feed the horse well to prevent debility, clean and 
" n stiff clay sod covered with a sod which had been 
unplowed for years.” The depth of furrow was seven 
inches. The committee reported twenty-one plows. 
The lightest draught was 380, and the heaviest 660 
pounds—the majority less than 430 pounds. 
I ho strength of different horses varies greatly; but 
in calculating the power of engines, the horse power 
is generally understood to be a force equivalent to 
raising or moving 160 pounds 20 miles a day, at tlie 
rate of two and a half miles an hour. Small as this 
appears, numerous experiments in different places 
give the actual strength of the average of farm 
horses in this country at considerable less. As the 
speed of a horse increases, his power of draught 
diminishes yery rapidly, till at last the unaccustomed 
motion of his muscles makes it very fatiguing to 
carry his own weight. The draught is very little 
effected on soft roads by the speed: that is, the 
resistance is no greater when driven on a trot than 
on a walk; but a carriage on a dry pavement requires 
one-half greater force when driven on a trot than on 
a walk. 
The horse is so formed that he will exert a much 
greater force when working on a level than up a steep 
hill. On a level a horse is us strong as five men, but, 
up a steep hill man has much the advantage; for it is 
well known that a man can accomplish an ascent 
with considerable load, which It would be impossible 
for a horse to climb. A man of ordinary strength, 
placed in a position to use it to the best advantage, 
can exert more power than a horse drawing from a 
point two feet above the groun 
"VV indoai.i.s ox Horses. —Can you, or any of your numer¬ 
ous correspondents, inform nit whether windfalls on horses 
can l.e cured? If so, ptea».i publish the mode in the Rural. 
If the bunches cannot he removed, can the lameness he 
cured? In so doing you will greatly oblige — M. M. G., 
II atrrUmm, N. V.. 1861. 
Mathew, in his “ Illustrated Horse Doctor,” savs that 
‘ windgalls are so lightly esteemed by horsemen as scarcely 
to lessen the price of a steed; they are, in general, accounted 
hardly worth mentioning, although men have been known 
to be strangely anxious to have them removed This, how¬ 
ever, is uot easy to bring about; all the common methods are 
worse tiian useless; the only treatment which promises onv 
benefit is the application of pressure. Fold a piece of soft 
rag several times; saturate the rag with water; lay upon the 
wetted rag, one drachm each of opium aud of camphor; put 
these upon the enlargement. Upon the moistened rag place 
a piece of cork liig enough to cover the wiudgall, and of such 
a thickness as may be accessary; above the cork, lace on. as 
vulcanised India rubber bandage. Constant and equal pres- 
tnrn will by these means be kept up; however, mind the 
groom be strictly ordered to take the bandage nil the leg the 
last thing when the horse leaves the stable, and to put it on 
again first thiug on the animal's return; otherwise, the pro¬ 
prietor may chance to enter the building and find his steed 
w ithout an application which, to he beneficial, should be 
perpetually worn.” 
Dr Da dp says that counter irritation, bandage, friction, 
and regular exercise are the best remedies, and yet they 
often fail to remove the eye-sore. 
Tuk Rural as a Family Educator — Many kind and 
highly complimentary allusions to the character aud influ¬ 
ence of the Rural are reaching us from agent-friends and 
subscribers all over the land. Among several received on 
Monday, we quote the following from a Postmaster in Onon¬ 
daga county, who bar sent us over fifty subscribers within 
the past month After giving several additions to his list, 
our friend thus speaks of the influence of the Iti kal. and its 
value as a family instructor:—“There are a Tew more fami¬ 
lies in tho rouge of this office that should have your paper 
and where J shall endeavor to introduce it. Its genial and 
elevating influence is so genuine that I do not hesitate to 
press its acceptance on all classes. I do not think n poor 
man can pay out the subscription price any better for his 
family than for the Rural — positive necessaries excepted — 
and 1 am not so sure that a paper so useful and good in not, 
in this age, one of the positive necessaries of life—of mental 
life, certainly. I hold that such a paper in a family of chil¬ 
dren is fully equal to a school in learning them to read and 
to acquire correct and healthy ideas." 
Flowing l.aml for t om. 
The Baltimore Rural Register contains a very 
valuable article on the Culture of Corn, from the pen 
of Mr. R. C. Kendall. Its length precludes our pub¬ 
lishing it at once, but we give this week his views 
upon the manner in which laud should be plowed for 
this crop, and shall follow up the subject hereafter. 
Mr. K. says: 
As an almost universal practice, the preparation of 
our corn lands, and the planting thereof, are turned oil' 
in too much of a hurry to he well and thoroughly 
accomplished; and, as we intend our few remarks to 
apply rather to the culture than to tlie manurial pre¬ 
paration of the soils, we will suppose that to have 
been properly accomplished, and give our attention 
first to the plow. 
It is by far too prevalent, and altogether a mistaken 
policy, to skim over the surface, turning furrows five 
inches deep, and place tho main dependence on com¬ 
mercial fertilizers for the production of a satisfactory 
crop. Under all favorable circumstances, the foreign 
manures may realize our expectations for one year- 
provided wo have not set them at a too extravagant 
figure. But let spring floods aud summer drouths 
intervene, and we find that not all the mercantile 
manures in the market are of themselves a guarantee 
against a failure. Proper culture is the only certain 
preventive against such dispensations; and this, in 
order to be in every sense effectual, must commence 
with the first furrow turned, and he continued sys¬ 
tematically until the crop is made and housed. If 
every proprietor of the soil would hear constantly in 
mind the fart that, he is not simply a superficial land- 
owner, 
Experiment in Germinating Corn —The Springfield Re¬ 
publican states that four boxes of earth, alike in quality and 
exposure to light and heat, were planted nt the same time 
with corn from a single ear, aud placed recently in a physi¬ 
cian’s office. In one box dry corn was [planted; in another 
tho seed was soaked in dean warm water; in the third the 
seed was soaked in a solution of lime water; in the fourth 
the seed was soaked in chloride of lime and copperas water, 
equal parts. One week afterwards the box planted with dry 
corn had not germinated, the second box had just commenced 
to germinate, the third box was just showing its green blades, 
and in the fourth box the blades were nearly three inches 
high. Copperas wilt keep birds and worms from eating the 
seed, and One pound will soak seed enough for 20 acres. 
and 1 might further 
.remark (lor the benefit of those persons who are in 
tho habit of patronizing those traveling shows, 
where a team draws against a man,) that it requires a 
heavy pair of horses to exert a force of fire hundred 
pounds, when placed in such a position. 
Erie Co., N. Y. t 1861. A Fact Hunter. 
Preserving Posts. —After filling up the hole with dirt, 
put one or two shovelfuls of wood ashes around the post 
Leached ashes will do. Twenty-eight years ago my father 
fenced a garden this way, and the posts are as sound as ever 
The soil is light »and. — William Sii.oox, Frame. Snuthnidld, 
FLAX COTTON, OR FIBRILIA 
Eds. Rlral New-Yorker : — The objects sought to 
bo attained in producing Fibrilia, are, to bring out a 
practical substitute for Cotton, which may be grown 
in the Northern States, and which will have a ten¬ 
dency to connect and equalize the agricultural with 
the mechanical and commercial interests of the North. 
The principal causes of failure in times past, in 
bringing forward Flax as a cheaper article of man¬ 
ufacture suited to practical and universal use, have 
been, —first: The great labor to the agriculturist in 
order to maintain a clean and even straw in bundles 
suitable for breaking. This could only be done by 
pulling and threshing by hand, and in the process of 
rotting the Flax. 
The production of Flax for making Flax Cotton, 
or Fibrilia, as well as the manufacture of it into 
cloth, is conducted upon a much more practical and 
economical scale. Ihe Flax, or straw, may he cut 
by a scythe, a mowing machine, or cradled. The 
seed may be threshed out by any ordiuary threshing 
machine. The rotting process is dispensed with 
altogether. There are Flax mills now in use for 
breaking and cleaning the straw, which are capable 
of dressing from two to five tuns per day, and even 
going as high as ten tuns in ten hours. The dressing 
of Flax is entirely different from the old method, as 
well as the manufacture of it into cloth. Machines 
have been perfected for dressing and preparing Flax 
to he carded and spun on cotton machinery. The 
foundation is laid, and it is with us,— the American 
Good Beds for Swine. —I am not over incredulous, but 
don’t see how I can agree with your trio ot correspondents 
in regard to beds for swine. I have seen them winter and 
sleep in piles of horse manure, filled with litter, for a number 
of winters, and never yet saw any ill etfects. Mud and filth, 
and too much moisture, are injurious, but if horses are as 
well bedded down as mine are, I cannot see why the duug 
pile is not a good nest for hogs and pigs. It is as clean as any 
“hog’s nest"—it is dry enough and warm enough. My 
hogs have done well the past winter — made rood growth, 
seemed to take comfort, and are as clean as anybody’s hogs. 
— Jno Sanfixlo, .'Sandwich III., 1861. 
Albion, on the 6th Lust.,—wag largely attended by the farmers 
of the surrounding country. The Orleans American says 
quite a number of cattle aud horses were offered for exhibi¬ 
tion and sale—and makes special mention of a string of seven 
yoke of oxen shown by Mr. John Proctor of Gaines, as 
superior. A large number of fine horses were on exhibition. 
Several mowers and reapers and other agricultural imple¬ 
ments were shown, and a large number of packages of choice 
seeds were distributed. We infer that the Fair was quite as 
successful as had been anticipated 
Corn Stalks vor Fodder.— In the Rural of the 6th inst., 
I noticed an article in reference to cutting stalks for fodder. 
Being young, I hesitate to answer Mr KPs inquiry, but being 
so well convinced of the profit of cutting stalks for Cattle, I 
venture to give my plan. I think the trouble of Mr. R. arises 
from the stalks being too dry. My plan is, when the stalks 
are suitably dry in the fall (stalks from planting for corn,) I 
mow them away in the barn ,—a layer of stalks, and then a 
thin layer of straw. The straw prevents the stalks from 
molding, and keeps them moist and soft, and when cut, my 
cattle eat them up perfectly clean I give to each animal 
about one bushel to a feed. When cut. I throw on a little 
water, and put on the amount of grain I wish the animal to 
have, in the form of meal, and mix together with a fork. I 
use a self-feeding cutter, cutting the stalks from one-half to 
three-quarters of an inch in length. I attach my cutter to a 
tread-power, aud cut enough in about three hours to last ten 
head of cattle a week. I have practiced this three, seasons, 
and find it a saving of at least good one-half. Judging from 
appearances, my cattle much prefer the cut feed.— Young 
Farmer, Shelby. N. Y, 1861. 
Javanese Wheat. — In answer to recent inquiries on the 
subject, we would reiterate the opinion that the Japanese 
Wheat is a decided humbug. See our brief notices of it in 
Rural of March 2d aud 9th. Believing it to be a fraud, we 
have refused to advertise this so called wheat on any condi¬ 
tions, aud trust none of our readers will he deceived by Mun- 
chausenish circulars about its wonderful yield, quality, etc. 
but that his possessions extend to the very 
center of the earth, and that he has got soil well 
worth the searching after, lying only a few inches 
below the sole of his boot, as he tramps along his 
six-inch furrow, he might the more readily be induced 
to hook his drag-chain a notch or two higher in the 
clevis, and send his plow point downwards in seareh 
of that virgin soil that cultivation never yet has 
energized. 
As nearly all our lands in this region are underlaid, 
at a moderate depth, with a subsoil of hard, stiff clay, 
impervious to water, the result of heavy and con¬ 
tinued rains, which very generally follow the plant¬ 
ing of our corn-fields, is either the drowning of the 
seed or young corn, on all low, level fields, or the 
washing it away, along with most of the manure, and 
Excelsior String Wheat.— We are indebted to Mr. J. 
Mackblcan, Jr., of Hamilton, C. W., for a sample of wheat 
thus named, grown by a farmer of that vicinity, last season, 
and to he more extensively tried this year. We think it a 
promising variety, and shall be glad to hear the result of 
further experiments. 
Genesee Co. As. Society. —At a recent meeting of the 
Directors of this Society, it was resolved to hold the next 
Annual Fair (at Batavia) on the 18th and 19th of September, 
and that other counties he invited to compete the same as 
they were last year. 
.J.i' 
