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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AX ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
heavy heads of gram. Even in autumn the yel 
low ears of corn, bowing low from the parent 
stalk, wIU acknowledge the value of your labor. 
A complete preparation would be to full plow 
with the common and the subsoil plow, stirring 
the soil (but not bringing it to the surface) to 
the depth of fifteen or twenty inches. This 
would permit the water to soak away early in 
the spring, and the grain could be sown in sea¬ 
son and good condition. 
bu xurge a crop, we think, as some 
the coarser varieties,, but is sure, and yields 
ill. 
White Norfolk, a large turnip that produces a 
ry abundant crop. If sown too early is apt to 
spongy and hollow White, and rather flat. 
:cellent for mncky'-oile. 
T^ae’j White Xhitch 3b ad old and very popular 
riety the world over. White, rather flat; ten- 
e. HARRY, o. DEWEY, LL, D., 
H. T. BROOKS, L. B, LANG WORTHY, 
T. C. PETERS, EDWARD WEBSTER. 
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THE TURNIP, 
JO » convenient as well as a very 
useful crop. If anything fails by reason of bad 
weather, poor seed, or had management, the 
turnip Is just the thing to fill np the rows or 
the otherwise vacant ground, and also help 
make up the necessary store of winter feed Of 
course, we would not insinuate that the reader 
is obliged to resort to the turnip in consequence 
of any lack of good management, or proper cul¬ 
ture, anymore than we would charge any fault 
upon Adam for eating tho forbidden apple. 
-- 1 was the transgres- 
S. RANDALL 3 "MOSS ROSE,” 
s Sweepstakes, dam bred by Mr. Hammond. 
on to meadows or reserve it for use another 
year, than to speDd time in putting it on to your 
barley or oat stubble, and then have just time to 
finish plowing before hoeing. 
Some prefer to plow shallow once, and later 
plow again and deeper, putting manure on after 
the first plowing. One, and that a thorough 
plowing, is, however, less labor, and probably 
better also. For, if the li-st plowing is not 
more than four or five inches in depth, yet alter 
the ground is loosened uud thrown up, it will 
measure six or seven inches down to the hard 
earth, and when the plow is put Id the s< court 
time It will go but an inch or twodeeper than at 
tiSVoh/ that tin- a_Lr- v.itc dejiU,. j : i-i .Vuu !. 
Besides, the upper soil, from which oue crop 
has aprui g, had better be well turned under, 
and that which is deeper brought up for the 
succeeding grain. 
Now is the time, also, to make war on the 
thirties. Their red banners are out, and their 
ranks are thick and strong. We must charge 
them vigorously with scythe and hoe or their 
heads will grow gray in triumph. 
He has made and published the results of some 
very minute and careful experiments in the pro¬ 
duction of wool, and has bred wool of different 
qualities. Mr. Goffs is an experienced and 
skillful practical manufacturer. Mr. Klus has 
been a successful breeder of sheep, an extensive 
purchaser of wool, and is now largely interested 
in tbe manufacture of wool of different qualities. 
Mr. T allman is the owuer of several thousand 
coarse wooled sheep. It will be conceded, on 
all titles, that a more able and disinterested com¬ 
mittee could not have been selected. Their 
report would have been prepared some time 
since, but was delayed by the illness of two of 
tbvir numbers ’ f 
me tuanKs of the Association and of the pub- 
hc are eminently due to the committee for their 
tnll and lucid report. We consider the facts dis¬ 
closed by this experiment in scouring to be verv 
important. The table deserves the attentive 
study of all persons concerned in growing or 
manufacturing wool. The highly useful lessons 
which it teaches will be commented on by us 
hereafter. 
Every man knows that Eve 
sor, and every farmer Is confident when any- 
thing goes wrong that it is the seed or the season 
that is altogether to blame for the nnfortuna* - 
result. There is a good deal of eelf-sutisfaeti 
in having a clear conscience about these matter 
though such a state of mind is not apt to lead 
improvement, A man that is right all the tin 
of course needs no change or Improvement, a 
as for the weather, and such things, it Is beyo 
the control even of the wisest. 
some retiirks on llie culture of turnips, u 
gave descriptions of a few of the best Swede 
and also promised descriptions of some variet • 
of the English or common turnip. The cc 
mon turnip may be sown any time during J 
and the first half of August. Two pounds ofs- 
is usually sowu to the acre, though where a d 
Is used one-half this quantity is enough. I 
always best to sow in drills, so that the hoe 
be used with advantage. The drills should 
far enough apart to admit of the cultivator, . 
after hoeing, the plants should stand about 
inches apart In the row. 
American farmers seldom give the turnip a 
fair chance. It Is a kind of make-shift crop, 
aud assigned to places lift vacant by accident, 
or where nothing else will grow. Hoeing the 
turnip Is by many considered waste labor, and of 
course in this manner of treatment very satisfac¬ 
tory results are not to be anticipated. The tur¬ 
nip should have a good, clean, and rich soil. 
On new land a fkllure is hardly possible, ami on 
well enriched soil it is the exception. Almost 
any except a virgin soil needs enriching for a 
turnip crop, and fresh manure is bettor than 
that which is rotted. This is not exhausted by 
the turnip, but tho soil is left in excellent condi¬ 
tion for the next crop. Wo say nothing about, 
the philosophy of the matter, but our experi¬ 
ence is that a piece ot ground thoroughly ma¬ 
nured for turnips and kept well cleaned will 
produce the next season u better spring crop 
than though the same amount of manure was 
applied in the spring, Perhaps it is in better 
condition to he used by the roots, ami it is no 
doubt more thoroughly mixed with the soil. 
tJ?~For Terms and other particulars, 
TnE barley crop promises to turn out ex¬ 
tremely well in this section. The spring was 
favorable for earlv sowimr a n( i flnrimr *'-» 
growth of the crop the rains have been frequent 
enough for its wants. This is cheering to the 
farmer, for it will probably be one of the most 
profitable crops he will grow this year, and the 
indications are that it will be in the future oue of 
the most Important ot our grains, 
In the com¬ 
mon rotation of com, spring grain and wheat, 
it seems to leave the soil in better order for 
wheat than oats or spring wheat, and as it is cut 
earlier It leaves more time toprcfxire the soil for 
fall seeding. 
There are two varieties grown iu this section— 
the two-rowed, and the four or six-rowed. Of 
these the two-rowed is coming most into favor. 
Although sown at the same time, it is from a 
week to ten days later in ripening. It comes 
right after the wheat harvest, and thus does not 
croud the farmer as much as if both crops were 
in together. The berry of this sort is larger and 
heavier than thut of the other, so that it more 
than makes up In weight what it loses in num¬ 
ber of kernels ou the head. This is no doubt 
owing partly to tho greater space between the 
kernels on the bead, and to the longer time It 
takes to come to maturity. 
While riding through the country it is the 
exception and not the rule to see a piece of bar¬ 
ley ent irely tree from oats. Tho two grains take 
to each other so kindly that it is sometimes 
hard to tell which the crop had better bo culled. 
And if in every neighborhood some one or two, 
or three even, would take pains to raise a clean 
crop, they could dispose of It for seed to their 
neighbors at high prices. Any one, however, 
may have clean seed, if he will take the needful 
pains. When the crop is thrashed in the fall, 
place the grain at one end of a long and clean 
barn fioor. Then fling it with a shovel as tar as 
you can toward the other end. The quantity 
thrown at ouee should bo small, and pains must 
be taken to scatter the grains well. What falls 
the furthest from you will be heavy and clean 
barh y, which will gladden your heart when yon 
come to sow it tho next spring. It is worth 
while for every farmer who intends to sow bar¬ 
ley next spring, to try this method of getting his 
seed. It can be done some rainy day, will not 
When stand- 
ing iu pastures and meadows, mowing them 
in lull blossom evidently injures their eon stitu- 
lions. W here stock is fed the thistles may be 
killed by dropping salt on them, and many fields 
might be cleared of them by some pains-taklno- 
that way. 
me commute entrusted with the duty of awarding 
the premium offered by Hon. D. D. T. Moore *‘lor 
the fleece of one year's growth, or thereabouts, which 
on being ck-*ueed, shall be found to give the greatest 
weight of wool, in proportion to its time of Growth 
and to the live weight of the animal,” submit to your 
Association the following Report: 
On the llth day of May last, at Canandaigua, fifteen 
sheep were shorn in competition for Mr. Moore's pre¬ 
mium-five of them rams, ten ewes. All of these 
sheep, except one Cotswold, were Merinos. Tbe lib¬ 
eral offer of $30 Tor the heaviest fleece of wool, to be 
tested by having it cleansed as wool is cleansed by 
manufactarers, excited much interest among breeders 
of sheep and the public generally. The fifteen sheep 
that competed were, it is to be presumed, supposed 
by their several owners to be as good as could be pro¬ 
duced ; and it is quite probable that lu the main they 
were correct m this opinion, though In some instances 
the result of tin cleansing shows to tho contrary. 
The true value of a fleece of wool must deoend on 
its quantity and quality. Mr. Hooks has asked ror a 
test of only one of those points - quantity. It is per¬ 
haps well that he confined hirqrolf to this single 
point, for by so doing a breeder of Cotswolds, Mr. 
Gazlky, was Induced to compete. The well known 
fact that the sheep that produce the coarser wools give 
fleeces that shrink much less In cleansing th.«u the 
finer wools, has led many persons to believe that, of 
clean wool, the so called umtton breeds produce nearly 
GREEN-TOP YELLOW ABERDEEN TURNIP. 
Orem - Top Yellow Aberdeen is an excel] 
yellow turnip, globular, grelu above grot 
with tsolid yellow flush. At excellent var 
for a general crop. The engraving shi 
form, &c. 
Yellow Malta is a small, eccellent turnip 
table use. Bulb round! flattened above 
coneive below, with u sRtall tap-root proct 
mg from the center tf tie hollow. FI 
yellow, tender and swefct. 
REPORT 
of Committee of K Y. Stole Sheep Breeders’ and 
IFuoJ Growers' Association, on Scoured Fleeces. 
WORK AHEaD 
The haying and the harvest till soon be done, 
and then among the labors ol farmers the chief 
eet will be to fit tho soil for fareeudlng. Where 
it is intended to sow wheat, ater spring grains 
it is ot great value to plow s^tn. Turn up the 
grouud as soon »s the erhpts <|T, and let t he air, 
and rain, and dews, have their tied on It. Don’t 
let it lie and bake hard in tin'midsummer sun 
and the weeds and gra-se* gi o*. There is great 
difference between a soil that s freshly plowed 
to receive the seed, and One o’ like quality that 
is turned up two weeks previu s and submit ted 
to the acttou of tin: elements The tbst, when 
harvested, Is lumpy, and seen < cool and sour in 
The seed that >u sow and thu 
comparison 
weeds will coum up togtflln r 11 
sooner crust over and return I 
Hon than the other. The ear] 
left lu the furrow uut|! time t., 
The lumps will all have slack 
in pieces at the touch of the Ini i 
weeds that have had just tinn 
be killed, and the soil appear 
better titled to receive tile BCet 
aud top dressing with manure; 
and is a tar belter system Uni 
nure on first and then plow me 
is too long tor top dressing, it 
WHITE GLOBE TURNIP. 
The White Globe, of which we give an engrav¬ 
ing, is one of the hardiest of the white varieties. 
It grows deen in the soil, aud therefore is not 
affected by curly frosts. Bulbs round and white. 
P*rpU- 'Top Strop Leaf. — This is a favorite 
variety in this country, both for field and gar¬ 
den. It is becoming a favorite in England, 
where it is known somewhat, we believe, as tho 
Red American Stone. It grows pretty much 
above ground, skin purplish violet where ex- 
