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Agriculture 
SWHOLE NO. 719 
FOH THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24,1863 
i cefereea to ascertain the damage a man would 
I sustain by reason of having a public highway 
t i ! 1 1.1- C _ll.A MAtinnmk r\f 
MOOEE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
laid out across his farm before the passage of 
the so-called wise act, what rule would he 
adopt in assessing the damages? Would he not 
first ascertain how much land would he taken 
and the full value of it, and then put, the town 
down debtor for that amount? —Second, learn 
how much ho would be injured by reason 
of having his farm divided — and suy the town 
should pay that also?—Third, find out how 
many rods of fence it would take to inclose both 
sides of the road and the expense of making and 
maintaining such a fence for an indefinite period 
of time, and charge this also to the town — 
making the sum of the three items the amount 
of the town's liability? When the owner receives 
pay for his land, damages, and expense for fenc¬ 
ing, he cannot have very much interest left in 
it, and should not complain if the town require 
him to make and maintain a lawful fence along 
the line of said highway, and deny him the right 
to receive damage for Injury done by cattle 
breaking through a fence he has neglected to 
make or keep in repair. 
Before E. C. Frost or any other man gives 
the public any more of the law of pasturing the 
highway, I hope ho or they will carefully read 
the case of Griffin? vs. Martin', 7th volume of 
Barbour'S Supieme Court Reports, page 2'.)7. 
Also the case of Hardenbuhgh vs. Lockwood, 
25t.h id., page i), and get, these cases overruled 
before he asks the public to disregard them as 
law. In the latter case Judge Harris held the 
power conferred on towns was Constitutional,— 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, 
With a Corps of Able AwWant* and Contributor*. 
CHA8. D. BRAG DON, Western Corresponding Editor, 
Of this implement, by Dr. H. C. Johns, ex-Presi- 
dent of the State Society, while visiting his com 
fields, lie stated that the cost of cultivating corn 
was greatly diminished nnd the soil above and 
about the roots of the plant, left in a much better 
condition than by any other implement, he had 
ever used. The remarks applied to the use of 
gang plows also apply to these wheel cultivators, 
on which the operator rides, and with his feet 
and weight regulates the direction and depth of 
the culture. It makes no little difference in the 
cost of corn culture whether the farmer, unaided, 
c tn cultivate eighty bcp•- 'ffcorn as easily, in the 
same time, and do it better than he used to ‘‘tend’’ 
twenty acres. But, this is precisely what these 
two-horse cultivators are doing for Western 
farmers. And the importance of diminishing the 
cost of production is' ^,>rent when the price of 
corn is so low that it Is Cheaper fuel than coal, 
costing *3 and $4 per ton. as lias been the case, 
within three years in the corn-growing regions 
of lllinios. Fi/pms have bad and are having 
something—yea, much^yio in determining the 
modes of production pn' establishing the best 
way to stir the soil and get, rid of weeds. It is 
found that hraixs are needed as an application 
in soil culture. And it is all right. The farm¬ 
er’s necessities will educate him. Compensa¬ 
tion always comes in some shape or other. 
CORN PLANTERS. 
There were five two-borse corn planters entered 
in competition for the Society’s Silver Medal. 
These machines are drawn by two horses, and 
drop and cover two rows of corn at a time, in 
drills or check rows, at option. The following 
entries were made: 
1. J. Armstrong, Jr., Elmiri 
Steel runners. Price. $40. 
2. J. C. Moore, Peoria, Ill 
Price, $45. 
3. Selhv & Et.der, Peoria, 111. Price, $35. 
4. Hayworth & Co., Springfield, Ill. Rolling 
cutter attached. Price, $38. 
| 5 , McGafRBY «fc Co.’S “Automaton Planter," 
P Chicago, Ill., designed to he a self-dropper, drop¬ 
ping any distance apart. Price, from $35 to $45. 
' Ail these machines are known to be good 
1 Planters. The award, however, was made to 
r Selby & Elder's Planter. The reason for this 
and beautiful In Appuarance. Its Conductor devotes liis 
personal attention to the «ipi»rvwioo of its various 
departments, and earnestly labors to render the Rlkal aa 
eminently Re Habit* Guide on nil the important Practical. 
Scientific, and other Subjects intimately connected with the 
buhiuets of those whose interests it r.enlously advocates. 
Am a Family Jocrsai. it is eminently Instructive and 
Entertaining — being so conducted that it can be safely 
taken to the Homes of people of intelligence, taste and 
discrimination. It embraces more Agricultural, HorUcul- 
THE HIGHWAY ACT, 
iy For Terms and other particulars, see last page 
WESTERN EDITORIAL NOTES 
ILLINOIS AO. SOCIETY’S IMPLEMENT TRIAL. 
Premiums had been offered by the Executive 
of the Illinois State Agricultural Society for 
certain classes of implements, and provision 
made for thoroughly testing the same the week 
prior to the State Fair. And it is now, I believe, 
the Mettled policy of the Society, to award no 
to machines or implements of any 
so that our women, having learned to drive 
team, may ride on tho plow all day and man ge 
■it; may drive the reaper, or mower, or corn 
cultivator, or planter. We must substitute the 
miiHcle of horses for the muscles of men. Mtiles, 
and horses—perhaps steam—must furnish 
oxen 
the power, which must be so applied by invent¬ 
ors, that the delicate baud of a lady may guide 
and control it. It Is coming to this. War is 
revolutionizing our husbandries and developing 
our needs and supplying our necessities. 
TRENCH FLOWS. 
A Silver Medal was offered for the best Trench 
Plow. Two entries were made— 1. W. J. Block. 
Lancaster, III. This cut 12 inches wide and nine 
to ten incheH deep. Draft, C75 pounds. Price, 
$45. 2. J. G. Robinson, of Springfield, Ill. 
This cut 12 inches wide and 10 inches deep. 
Draft, 725 lbs. The Medal was awarded to W. 
J. Block, of Lancaster. 
The use and value of trench plows is too little 
understood in the West. Some men get it in 
their heads that, all that is needed to double the 
product of their farms is to double the depth of 
their plowing. And this is true in gome cases, 
but not always. The fertility of some soils 
premiums 
kind without having first submitted tho same to 
a practical trial. 
Owuers of ornamental reapers, mowers, corn 
planters, cultivators, &c., thronged the entry 
office during the first days of the Fair, asking 
how they should enter their machines, asserting 
with doleful accent that they could not find that 
any premium had been offered for such imple¬ 
ments. And it was all wrong they Raid. Who 
ever knew such a thing! And some ol these 
would-be exhibitors failed to be comforted when 
they heard of the policy of the Society. But all 
inventors and manufacturers of good implements, 
of machines in which they have faith, approve 
this policy; and so will all practical farmers. 
tue trial of plows. 
The “Grand Gold Medal" of the Society had 
been offered for the best two-horse plow for 
general purposes. There were three entries. 
” 1. By John Dement, of Dixon, 111. This was 
a double shire, cast steel plew, cutting 14 Inches 
wide, and an average depth, on trial, ot seven 
inches. Draft, by dy nanometer, 350 lbs. Price, 
Steel runners. 
this purpose. It is drawn by one horse, has a d ,. ri 
gickle like a mowing machine, which in driven | 
by a large driving wheel. Its reel is supported 1b . lt ’ ( . {r , 
on a vertical shaft and has a horizontal motion; . ' 
the stalks fall on a small sheet-iron platform m Jl) J 
which is emptied of its burthen of stalks, at the * 
will of the driver. Jt is designed to cut one row ' . J, 
at a time. It was in operation in a field near by * ^ Qt 
the grounds, worked very well. Its price is too *: ' ‘ . 
Wgb, tab* $110. 
COMSTOCK’S SPADER unwise to 
Was on exhibition. It works or forks the ground not know 
eight inches deep and three feet wide. In corn town atfai 
stubble two teams would be required to manage the last oi 
it profitably, I think. And on choice corn lands, Who ar 
or on full plowed lands it will he found profit- ways? T 
able to use in the spring preparation for corn, public. ] 
It is an excellent substitute for the wheel field Nurseriei 
