AGRICULTURE- 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1865 
MOOEE’S BUBAL NEW - YOEKEE, 
AX ORIGINAL WKBKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
of different kinds of wood for burning purposes, 
We subjoin a table from tbe best authorities. 
the post, close to the lower end, and insert a 
stout pin, each end projecting a foot and a half 
from the side. A piece ~ 
of board or a flat stone, f l] 
placed on the upper side ||: 
of the windward end of li i 
the pin, and another un- ^ y j ] 
der the leeward side, 
will, when the hole is fill- ||fp 
ed with compact earth, I I flli :- 
stay tbe post very rirm- 
ly. These braces, pins * £ 
and boards, being so far under ground, will last 
as long as any other part of the post. 
As it is necessary to set p.vsts in line and ex¬ 
actly upright, a cord and plurrmet are necessary. 
Attach the ends of the cord :bree feet from the 
ground to a couple of pos-% set some rods 
apart, and it will be a sufficient guide to set tbe 
the posts in line. WbeD one man is emnlnved 
Shel.’-bark Hickory 
White-Ash,. . 
Apple. 
White Beech.. 
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For Terms and other particulars. Bee last page, 
MESSRS. ATWOOD AND ALLEN’S RAM “ GENERAL GRANT." 
siisIian4iD 
to do the work, he should have a jack to keep 
the posts in position while filling the holes. 
It is made in this way. Take a light strip of 
board long enough to reach front one post to 
another. Fasten to the rnidi’.^, ? ,• board two 
movable legs or braces, Icll enough when 
spread wide apart to sustain the board as high 
as the top of the post. Tack one end of the 
strip to the top of the post last set, and the 
other end to the post you are setting, first hav¬ 
ing adjusted the latter to its position with the 
plummet and line. 
PREPARING WOOD FOR FUEL. 
MESSRS. ATWOOD AND ALLEN’S RATSf 
“GENERAL. GRANT.” 
M>- P. L. Atwood of Poplar Ridge, Cay¬ 
uga Co., N. Y., and Mr. Horace Aluen of 
Venice Center, in the same County and State, 
write to us: 
“ 0ur ram ‘ General Grant ’ was bred by D. 
Cutting of Richville, Vt., and was got by his 
ram ‘Monitor’ ont of a ewe purchased of 
Prosper Elitharp, ‘Monitor’ was eat by 
Victor Wright's ‘ California,’ <fcc., Arc. ‘ Gen¬ 
eral Grant ’ was exhibited at the Cayuga Co. 
Fair in 1864, and took the first prize as a vear- 
ling. At the Sheep Shearing in the same county 
in 1SG5, he received the first prize as a two-vear 
old. His fleece on the latter occasion, being 
one year and four days old, weighed 15 pounds, 
and bis carcass .S3 pounds. For about two 
months previously he had been ont of condi¬ 
tion, and his wool was dried up." 
P. L. Atwood writes: —"In 1859 I pur¬ 
chased SO ewes of D. Cutting’s and Gastin 
Rich's stock, also an Infantado ram of Ger¬ 
man Cutting’s stock, from which I have bred 
my present flock of ewes, numbering about 40. 
In September, 1SG4, I purchased of D. Cutting 
the ram ‘General Grant,’represented above.” 
H. Allen writes ; — ‘‘In 1S59 I purchased I 
ten ewes of D. Cutting’s and G. Rich's stock; I 
and in I860 I purchased, with -J. Aiken, of 
Henry Lane of Middlebury, Vt,, 50 Infantado 
ewes in lamb by the Lute Robinson ram. I 
also purchased a half interest in P. L. Atwood’s 
Infantado ram above mentioned, and used him 
together with a ram of the Lute Robinson 
stock down to 1804, when I purchased a half 
interest In Mr. Atwood’s ‘ General Grant.’ My 
flock now numbers about 40." 
If the braces are stretched 
apart properly, the jack 'will support the post 
till set. When you move to the next post, 
draw the nail from the first one, and swiog the 
jack round, using the last post as a pivot. 
It is essential to pound the dirt solid at the 
bottom of the hole around the post, and also at 
the surface of the ground. If stones are put in 
they should be firmly pressed around the bot¬ 
tom, or at the surface. It is not so easy to set a 
post solid by using stones as with dirt alone. 
The bottom of each post sfconld likewise be 
sawed off square. 
islands, and tor which three years ago it could 
be purchased here. We do not propose to dis¬ 
cuss the causes that have created and now sus¬ 
tain this state of the fuel market, as this has 
been freely done by the press and community in 
general. But we hope that another year, at 
least, will find the prices of this important arti¬ 
cle reduced to their proper level We offer 
some suggestions'about that kind of fuel in most 
common use among farmers—wood. 
Wood that is intended for fuel should be cut 
in the winter, as it contains less sap than in the 
spring, and will season quicker. The sooner it 
is converted into stove wood after being cut 
from the stump the less work will be required, 
for It is well known that seasoned timber is 
harder to saw and spilt thun green. The best 
way to store it for seasoning, is to pile it under 
cover; it will do very well to cord it out of 
doors, and if merely thrown together in a large 
pile it will wet in but little, though from the 
greater amount exposed on the ground and out¬ 
side this is more wasteful than the other 
methods. It doeB not seem a good plan for 
farmers to cut more wood into cord length, than 
in the course of the winter and spring they can 
convert into a size fit for the stove. And the 
time has come when it pays to cull tbe forest. 
Save the timber. Use up first the dead and 
fallen trees, cut the crooked, worthless saplings, 
thin out where too thick, and by this treatment 
the timber lot will improve in value. Be care¬ 
ful also in felliDg largo trees, not to injure the 
valvablo under-growth beneath and near them. 
Many of our most useful kinds of timber throw 
up numerous thrifty sprouts from the stump 
after being cut—chestnut for example. These 
should be eared Cor—thinned—and in a remark¬ 
ably short time several trees, large enough for 
stakes or posts, will replace the pareut. 
Nearly all the work that pertains to preparing 
wood for fuel is laborious. It takes strong mus 
cle to swing the ax and fell the king of the 
forest; hut it requires more endurance to work 
steadily the buck-saw. It pays to work the 
wood into suitable size for handling readily, and 
then saw it with horse 
SETTING FENCE POSTS. 
ABOUT CELLARS, 
A good cellar is a necessity to a farm house. 
When constructing a new house it is easy to plan 
and build a suitable one. If tho house is already 
built, and the cellar is defective some improve¬ 
ments can generally be added. 
It should have a dry water tight pavement to 
exclude all moisture from the sides and from 
below. Stone, gravel, and the proper cement 
will accomplish this. It should be light, so that 
one can walk about it without the risk of break¬ 
ing a skull, or using a lamp. Sufficient w indows 
will supply the light Iree of cost. It should be 
high for convenience. Perpendicular space 
costs nothing. It should be warm enough to 
keep out the frost. Thick walls, double doors 
and windows, are breastworks thai Jack cannot 
surmount. It should be well ventilated, to pre¬ 
serve untainted the trnits and vegetables stored 
in it, and above all lor the health of those dwell¬ 
ing above it. I uventiiated cellars are frequent¬ 
ly the sources of fevers and summer complaints. 
Ventilators can be connected with the chimney. 
It should be clean, kept in order, aud have a 
cheerful comfortable look, like a place where the 
“good things" for the table are kept, not like a 
dungeon in an old castle. 
I CANNOT SELL AT YOUR PRICES,” 
This is often said by purchasers to breeders of 
established reputation who ask high prices for 
their animals. Suppose we grant this to be 
true. Does it thence follow that it is not pro¬ 
fitable for any body but breeders of reputation 
to pay such prices ? Let us illustrate this sub¬ 
ject practically. A friend of ours purchased a 
ram a few years eince, aud paid fflOO for him — 
a higher price then, in the public estimation, 
than$l,000 would be now. Tbe wiseacres of the 
neighborhood, we take it for granted, shook 
their heads as usual on such occasions, and prob¬ 
ably tbe sage saying about the “ fool and his 
money” was more than once repeated. Now 
for the resnlt. Our friend had about one hun¬ 
dred and eighty breeding ewes c? mixed Saxon 
and Spanish blood, which yielded, on the usual 
keep, four pounds of washed wool per head. 
He used the ram three years to all of these ewes, I 
and raised nearly 100 per cent, of lambs each j 
year. The ewes of the entire produce yielded 1 
on the average upwards of "JV; lbs. more washed 
wool than their dams. Suppose we grant that 
the vonng sheep were rather better kept, and 
were not washed quite so clean, (for our friend 
is a pi-ogressive man!) so that the actual natural 
increase of wool was not over two pounds per 
Soils that Need Limb.—To ascertain the 
soils likely to be benefited by lime, says as ex¬ 
change, put a small quantity of soil in atumbler, 
and pour upon it, first a little water, and then a 
good deal of spirits of salts, or muriatic acid. 
If this addition produces a strong effervescence, 
there is no need Of applying lime to the land; 
if no effervescence is produced, in all proba¬ 
bility liming or marling will be useful. How¬ 
ever, this simple test cannot always be depend¬ 
ed npon, and it is therefore much sater to have 
the proportion of lime determined in the soil, 
which at no great expense can be done by an 
analytical chemist. But iu localities where tho 
services of a competent chemist cannot be eon- 
venlutly obtained the test should be made. 
power. One machine will 
answer for a neighborhood, and can be moved 
easily. When large trees are to be cut up, two 
men with a cross-cut saw can take off lengths 
for a stove rapidly, and these can be easily split 
with an ax. 
Although it will not be good economy lor a 
farmer to pick his fuel from his wood lot, merely 
with regard to its good qualities as fuel, yet it 
may be interesting to know the relative value 
