oata had Iain ooverod with debris for 1,500 years, 
and dow being exposed to the action of the sun 
and air, they germinated aa readily as though 
but recently sown.” 
same level, shows that during its passage it parts 
with heat which must rise upward. During the 
entire month of April the soil is much warmer at 
night than the air, although perhaps somewhat 
colder during the day. The average of its tem¬ 
perature, however, is much higher in a drained 
than an undraioed field, but it is the same at 
night as in the day; no loss of heat occurs from 
the surface of the soil by evaporation, or at least 
a much less loss than with nndrained fields, and 
thus we see that the temperature of the soil, from 
the extremes of winter and summer, is materially 
modified. Water falling through the atmos¬ 
phere and partaking of its temperature, sinks 
readily in nnderdrained soils, while in others it 
rmiB from Ibe surface, Incomes cold by evapora¬ 
tion of a portion, dissolves large amounts of the 
more soluble, and therefore more progressed and 
valuable inorganic constituents of the surface, 
and carries them to the nearest ditch or brook. 
The Bame truths apply iu degree to subsoil 
plowing, and, when the two are oombined, a 
longer season is the consequence. The con¬ 
tinued downward evaporation in well-prepared 
soils renders the feeding of the plants continuous 
and not unequal, as with soils badly prepared, 
which supply the necessary amount of moisture 
for the BOlulion of surface fertilizers only during 
rains and at moments of heavy dewB, leaving the 
soil incapable of permitting the free access of 
atmosphere and the accompanying humid condi¬ 
tion.— Working Farmer. 
which to breed, if such favorable results are to 
be anticipated. And this, too, requires good 
judgment There is no branch of the calling of 
the husbandman requiring more study, careful 
investigation, and thoughtful attention, than in 
the selection of bis breeding animals. But this 
being properly done, and with the careful man¬ 
agement as above described, farmers may so 
improve their herds in a few years as to present 
favorable comparisons with the average imported 
stock. It Is not supposed that such attempts 
will at once raise up samples that will rival 
Thorne's, or Alkxandbk’h, or Conger's Dur¬ 
ham?,—and for this very reason, these have not 
only had the advantage of being taken from the 
very best herds in Europe aud in this country, 
where the most careful attention has, for a century 
past, been given to all the above details, together 
with extra feeding and grooming, that finds its 
compensation only in the extravagant prices 
which breeders alone can obtain, when they 
finally succeed in maturing what they conceive 
to be a perfect animal. Then it is only for re¬ 
production that such animals can possibly be 
made to compensate for the expense of raising. 
But tho agriculturists want more than this. 
They want the ox for his working qualities as 
well as for the slaughter, and they want the cow 
for the dairy as well as for re-production, and 
the question returns, may not these bo found of 
the native breeds quite as good in any respect as 
from utnung the imported herds, and at one-balf 
the cost? if the native ox will perform the same 
amount of labor as the Devon, at tho same ex¬ 
pense of keeping, and, finally, when no longer 
profitable for the yoke, will bring equal returns 
when slaughtered, then is he not the more val¬ 
uable? Other things being equal, the first cost 
Is largely in favor of the native ox. And this is 
more apparent as between the two breeds for the 
dairy. The native cow is not surpassed iu this 
particular. Some possibly may produce a larger 
flow of milk, — others may produce that of a 
richer quality,—but for all the purposes of the 
dairy, is it not generally conceded thattbunative 
cow excels. If this be so, then why is she not 
the more valuable of the two. The cow is desi¬ 
rable mostly for this purpose, and as she excels 
iu this particular, just in that proportion is her 
value enhanced to the husbandman, aud thus 
represents tho value of her breed. A cow may 
retain her milking properties for at least six 
years, and during these years the product is 
worth at least one hundred dollars. At the ex¬ 
piration of this period she is worth twenty dol¬ 
lars. Deducting first cost at three years old— 
forty dollars—and we have two hundred and 
eighty dollars as the result. Now, allowing a 
pure-blooded Durham cow to be in every res¬ 
pect as good in quality, as cheaply fed, and ub 
little subject to accident and disease, (which is 
not true In most cases,) and the result must 
show a large balance in favor of the native cow, 
or at least, a difference equal to the difference of 
the purchase price—which, (taking the breeders’ 
terms,) would be not less than sixty dollars, and 
more nearly one hundred dollars than the former 
sum. 
Why, then, brother farmers, do you continue 
thus to deplete your hard-earned purses, for that 
which in reality is not so valuable for the pur¬ 
poses you require? It is said that it is not our 
own eyes that so much tax our resources, but 
that it is the eyes of those around us that force 
us into our many foibles. In IbtB we would 
encourage no penury, or relaxation in raising 
the standard of our herds. On the contrary, 1 
would say go on improving. But improve upon 
( bat w hich is capable of being so much improved, 
and when so increased, will be more perm*, 
nently valuable. m. g. l. 
Rockland Lake, N. Y., 1863. 
country, properly organized, need not be com¬ 
pelled to take less than the cost of production for 
their staple, as in former years. They need not 
be powerless to resist the taxation of railroad 
monopolies, in the shape of exorbitant freight 
tariffs. By a concentration of power, an inferior 
force may whip the detachments of a large army 
in detail. Disorganization is ruin. The power 
of political organizations is found in their Unity, 
discipline, and the system with which they ope¬ 
rate. The best organized, other things being 
equal, is the most successful. A single roan can¬ 
not resist tho blows of a legion. And yet each 
farmer acts independently of his neighbor in the 
Bale of his produce. There is no mutual under¬ 
standing and argument as to the prices they will 
demand. They do not wait till the buyer comes 
to see them; nor wait for him to ask the price of 
their products. The farmer anxiously inquires 
of the jobbing purchaser what he will give, and 
demurely takes what he offers—not always, but 
too often. One reason why this is done is 
because he does not actually know the cost of 
the articlo produced; and another is that there 
is no power of sufficient strength to compel the 
purchaser to pay what is asked. There is no 
combination to aid the farmer. He is treated 
like the detachments of the largo army—whipped 
in detail. He has only individual strength with 
which to resist combined power. 
Commercial men do differently. They are 
everywhere organized. They have their Beards 
of Trade, Corn Exchanges, Chambers of Com¬ 
merce, <tc. The merchants are organized into 
Mercantile Associations. Butchers combine to 
regulate the pricoof beef—tailors to fix the price 
of their work; and other trades and interests are 
nnited in organization, if not for the purpose of 
fixing the minimum of prices, at least for the 
purposes of protection, and to secure influence 
in legislative bodies when necessary. This 
farmers must do. And each specific interest 
should have its specific organization. And such 
unity will be not only protective, if controlled by 
the right spirit, but progressive. It may the bet¬ 
ter develop a spirit of progress, of inquiry, uud 
investigation. The minds of men interested in 
the same pursuit oauuot be brought in contact 
without profit- The friction of mind against 
mind always kindles a progressive fire. And 
this is 
WHAT WILL BECOME OP AGRICULTURAL SOCIE¬ 
TIES. 
The mission of these societies is ended. Their 
work is done. They have been pioneers of pro¬ 
gress. The wilderness has been cleared of its 
rank growth of heavy timber. Nothing remains 
but the stumps in tho way of the progress of 
each class of husbandmen. These must be 
cleaned out by a different process. The WBy 
must be cleared for the use of the reaper. The 
age of machinery is at hand. Aud the stimulus 
necessary ten years ago is no lODger needed. 
Miscellaneous exhibitions do not do tho work 
which needs to be done. They do not yield tho 
nutriment required. The field is too largo. 
Each class must concentrate its power to remove 
the peculiar obstacles in its path. Agricultural 
societies and their exhibitions do not do this. 
They stimulate skill and labor, and show the 
results of their application. But they control 
nothing; do not dictate to anybody; have no 
positive influence iu politics and in shaping pub¬ 
lic policy. The time has arrived when tho rela¬ 
tions of the different industrial classes in this 
country, to each other, and to other classes, 
demand a different condition of things—demand 
combination. Aud, while i do not profess to be 
a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, I believe 
that the days of the usefulness of these State and 
County organizations are numbered —that the 
seeds of disorganization are sown in them—that 
from their dissolution will spring up new com¬ 
binations and powers of a character indicated 
above. 
Taa Crops por 1868-'63—The following is a nummary 
statement of the amount of the crops of 18C2 and 1863, 
both summer and fall, of the loyal 3'ates, as remned and 
estimated by the Agricultural Department. The totals of 
wheat, rye, barley and oata for 1803 and 1863: 
Wheat Rye. Barley, Oata. 
1863.191,041,239 20,798.287 10,760,697 171 As* 167 
1862.18®,W3,5C0 21,264,966 17,7-1,4«4 172,52',697 
*1,074,730 1468,669 fl,020,667 *2,337,170 
•Increase, f Decrease. 
The fall crops of com, buckwheat and potatoes for 1862 
and 1863 were as follows:c 
Com. Buckwheat Potatoes. 
Total bosh. 1862. .688,704,474 18,722,99:. 1)8,633,118 
" “ 1863. . .449,163,894 17,193,233 9? 870,035 
Decrease,.137,640,680 1,629,762 14 663,083 
The monthly report of Uie Department for September, 
shows that the amount of wheat and floar exported to all 
countries for tho year ending 8cpt. 1, 1863, is 40,686,308 
bushels, and of corn, 11,680,343 bushels. The domestic 
consumption then (a as follows: 
Wheat, 1882,.189.093 MVUOom, 1862,.58T.704 474 
E»ported,.. 40,886,308 Exported,. 11.610,342 
Domestic oou... 149,307,19y| Domestic con.. .676,024, i39 
How to Set Gate Posts, 
Take equal quantities of water lime and 
quick lime, and mix with sand as usual; put two 
or three inches of mortar and coarse gravel in 
the bottom of the hole, so the end of the poet 
will not come to the ground; then set your post 
in, top end down; fill in several inches of the 
tnortar, then several inches of coarse gravel; 
pound it down, then more mortar and more 
gravel, aud so on, until the cement Is raised 
above the ground several inches around the post 
Slant it away from tho post in every direction, 
so as to turn off the water; then take coal tar 
aud a brush, paint around the bottom of the 
post, and fill the interstice between the post and 
cement with the coal tar. [N. B.—Only mix 
enough mortar for one hole at a time.] Your 
post will be as solid as if set in stone; it don’t 
heave ont with the frost, and sag around and 
pull tho boards off, as the water aud air cannot 
get to it—C. W. C-, in Ohio Farmer. 
Thu Pork Marxkt.— The ulaughtering houses of the 
West have begun operation*. We clip the following 
statement of the Cincinnati markets from the Gazette of 
the 29th nit:—"Price* hnvn improved. Slaughtering com¬ 
menced in Cinoinnati to day—one house killing a ilinu-and 
head. The receipt* during the coming week U i* expect¬ 
ed will be very hoary. Packer* have heoti very anxious 
to buy for several day* part, but there were uo hogs 
on the market. Price* have advanced about MV., and we 
quote at $4(^4,60 for packing, and 1,4 25^4.70 for butch¬ 
ering- There have been no real No. 1 hog* received as 
jot this season.” 
The Prairie Farmer says the receipts of the Chicago 
market during the week f >ot up to 30,663 head, con.idera- 
bly more than tho previous week. Tho market during 
the week ha* been tolerably active, but at a decline on last 
week’* price* of 10c ^ 1<W lb* on medium and good stock, 
nnd 16(<625a on eommou and inferior grads*. A* usual, 
there wa* no demand for inferior stock. On Saturday, 
121 hog*, averaging 311 lbs. were told at $5 tp 100 Bis., 
whereas inferior grades will not bring mure than half the 
amount The weather has been favorable to packer*, and 
some of them have already bought, freely The following 
are tho clewing prices for the week: 
Prime to extra qualities, .... .. .4.50(^5,00 
Medium to good,. . ....41*044,30 
Common, . 2 , 70043,60 
The Depth of Drains, 
Ox this subject, the Irish Farmers' Gazette 
gives the result of experiments on one of the 
largest estates in Ireland: 
“The case we allude to iB the draining of 
Mount Stewart demesne, in the connty of Down, 
Mr. Andrews, Lord Londonderry’s agent, having 
found drains 30 to 32 inches deep, and 20 feet 
apart, most effective in draining the stiff soils of 
his own farms near Comber, even after a period 
of thirty years bail elapged since those drains 
were made, resisted the Board’s regulations re¬ 
garding the depth and distance apart. The 
result was a compromise between the views 
entertained by Mr. Andrews and those held by 
the Board, ending in the drains at Mount Stew¬ 
art being cut 30 inches deep and 21 feet apart, 
filled with 9 inches of BtoneB, the largest of 
which do not exceed 21 inches, over which is 
laid a Bod, having the grassy side under. That 
drainage is perfectly effective.” 
Curing Bad Habits in Horses. 
I have heard that there is no remedy for a 
runaway horse so effective as a flogging. He 
must needs gallop; well, my friends, then gallop. 
I have a good pair of spurs on—Iu they go. I 
have a whip, hard, pliant, heavy—lay on thick. 
Here is a nice, steep hill—up we go. Here is a 
deep-plowed field — oh, yes, keep up your pace, 
and how do you like it? I remember a horse- 
dealer who always cured a fault by indulging it. 
He had once a brute sent him which occasionally 
stood still. Farmer Waistcoat had flogged him. 
and he would not move for an hour. Well, this 
man took the beast, put him in his break, and 
drove off. In ten minutes, he came to a dead 
stand. Breaker said nothing, did nothing. 
Horse didn’t quite know what to reply, tried to 
look back with hie ears, waited half an hour, and 
then began to move on. No, my friend, said the 
breaker, you stay here all day. The farmers 
passed him going to market with uncompliment, 
ury greetings. What, can’t you make him move? 
Breaker doesn’t look put out, though. Farmers 
drive on. show their samples, dine at the ordi¬ 
nary, and jog home a trifle merrier, late in the 
afternoon. Breaker still there master of the 
position. The horse never stopped again.—Fix. 
Salting Hay. 
A correspondent of the Country Gentle¬ 
man says he abandoned the old practice of put¬ 
ting salt on hay, as it adds to its moisture instead 
of lessening. This opinion is backed with a 
will, by a writer for the Boston Cultivator, who 
lays down the law, as he understands it, in the 
following unequivocal manner:—“It is time this 
absurd custom was done away. It is beyond 
conception how so transparent a humbug ever 
got so wide spread. Every particle of Balt used 
on hay is a positive injury to it. The practice 
of salting hay ought to be almost as much dis¬ 
countenanced and discouraged as though it were 
actual poison. Men will make almost super¬ 
human exertions to get their hay up dry. and 
then immediately wet it with salt." 
Wool. Growers 1 Association op Ohio.—Wo observe 
that the Woo! Growers of Ohio are soon to haio a Con¬ 
vention in that State A correspondent of the Ohio Par 
vner proposes Columbus at the place of meeting; the lima, 
daring the first week of January, aud that tho Hon. H hu¬ 
rt 3. Randall bo invited to deliver tho address. Upon 
these proposition* tho editor of tho Parmer remark*:— 
“ Our voice to for Columbus—for the first week iu Janua¬ 
ry—for Dr Randall.” As the subject is extensively agi 
fitter!, wo predict a largo gathering, and one destined to 
exert a powerful influence among wool growing Buck¬ 
eyes. 
Stones for Carriage Roads. 
A correspondent of the Gardener's 
Monthly asks:—“What is the beet size for stone 
to be broken for the surface of carriage-road a? 
1 supposed that pieces about the size of walnuts 
was the best, as if broken smaller it will soon 
crush, aud the size I have will lie small enough 
in time; but it is so rough driving over it, I 
would tike to know whether any covering can 
be put on without materially spoiling the etone. 
I have been to some expense to get a dry, hard 
road, and would not like to have it spoiled 
now.” 
To which the editor replies:—“ You should 
have had the stones broken near where you 
want to use them, and then have them screened 
—using three sizes. The first or coarsest size 
putting at the bottom; the smallest size at the 
top. The stones do not crush as fast when the 
upper surface is filled with small stones, as when 
the wheels pass over the larger ones. It is the 
displacement which crushes stone, as much as 
the actual weight of tho wheel. The small 
stones keep the large ones in place, and a road 
lasts much longer than without this thin cover¬ 
ing.” 
Minor Rural Items. —The Steubenville (Ohio) flcrald 
says:—" One of the moot (angular results of the failure of 
the bay crop in Ohio, is Out over 60,060 head of sheep 
have already been shipped from HurriKm, Jefferaon, aud 
other counties, to the West, to he pastured on tho great 
prairie* of Illinois and Iowa.-The celebrated stallion 
“ Old Green Mountuin Morgan" u dead. lie wa* very 
aged, hut ha* been one of the bevt stock horse * in New 
England, and ha>. won a wido reputation.-A pack of 
ferocious dogs a few days ago got into an inclosure near 
Hartford, Conn., containing 34 sheep belonging to Met-sra. 
Stetson, and killed 27 of them beside a large and powerful 
watch-dog. 
The Profits of Sheep Husbandry. 
In sheep growing there are three distinct 
sources of profit sought, viz:—Increase of num¬ 
ber by actual propagation, growth of increase in 
size anti weight, and the annual product of wool. 
The ewes used iu breeding should possess as 
nearly as possible the points of excellence de¬ 
sired in the offspring; they should at least be 
two years old, of good strong cons lilution, well 
fed aDd well sheltered. Such ewes, with Buch 
management, will generally realize the fond 
hopes of the shepherd for Increase. Growth 
afterward is natural, easy and rapid. The pro¬ 
duct of wool depends rnneh upon the health of 
the sheep, both tor strength and beauty of fiber, 
and weight of fleeces.— Working Farmer. 
Stock-raising in Booth America. —A 11 exchange baj a: 
—"In Uruguay, from January 1 to May 15, 1863, 619,600 
beeves were slaughtered; in Bueno* Ayres, 205,900; in 
Klitre Rios, 190,000; in Rio Grande, 800,006. Total, 
1,216,600, an increase of 213,300 over the corresponding 
period for 1802. This mass of beef Is disguised and dis¬ 
colored, and sold for a song, a* jerked beef in Hr*ail and 
Cuba. This is a loss to the world; and effort* are being 
made to discover now forms in which to export the beef 
of those vast regions. The farms vary from nine to one 
hundred and forty square miles, aud tho animals are 
reared without taming them.” 
The Culture of Millet. 
There are probably but few of the culti¬ 
vated grains that possess higher claims upon the 
attention of farmers engaged in stock-raising, 
than millet- It would be extremely difficult, 
indeed, to assign a satisfactory reason for the 
general neglect it hits experienced at the hands 
of our agriculturists, and equally difficult is it 
for us to conceive why, when all our other avail¬ 
able resources are tasked to the uttermost, so 
little should be said in its favor, aud no more 
vigorous efforts put forth to secure its more gen¬ 
eral introduction. Light sandy soil, in which 
there is a mixture of clayey matter, and which 
has been well mauured under previous crop¬ 
ping, will almost invariably produce good millet. 
The proper lime fur sowing the seed is about 
the time Indian corn receives the first hoeing; 
or, if the season he forward, a little before that 
period. The soil should be carefully prepared 
by thorough plowing and harrowing, and if very 
light, by the application of the roller. It should 
then receive the seed, from a common seed- 
sower, which furrows, drops the seed, covers aud 
rolls the soil, all at one operation. The rows 
may be graduated as to distance by the charac¬ 
ter and condition of the 6oil; if very fertile, they 
may be fifteen inches apart; if not so rich, 
twenty or twenty-four inches should be allowed 
between the rows- Broadcasting is a practice, 
which, though not destitute of its peculiar mer¬ 
its, has, nevertheless, gone mostly into disuse of 
late. It requires a much larger quautity of 
seed, does not insure the same uniformity of 
appearance and produce, and acts much less 
favorably upon the character of the soil.—Ox- 
heart, in Germantown Telegraph. 
ABOUT STOCK-NATIVE BREEDS, 
Dklawakk Co. Fair— Mr. P. Riob Phrguson, 8 ecre 
tarv, writes us relative to this Fair as follows:—" Tbe 22d 
Annual Fair of the Delaware County Agricultural Bociety 
was held at Delhi Sept 29th, 30th and Got 1st. The 
weather woe all that could be wished for. The exhibition 
whs not large, but of good quality, and financially the 
Fair was a nuecesw Tbe Address, by Rev. Silas Fitoh, 
Principal of the Delaware Academy, was a masterly one, 
a great one Delaware County U improving " 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Has the country 
received a fair equivalent for the large expendi¬ 
tures of money sent to Europe in exchange for 
neat stock? Il may seem passing strange at this 
lato day that such a question should be seriously 
considered; much more, that there should be 
found those daring enough to ventilate it. Pub¬ 
lic sentiment is doubtless very strongly favoring 
importations,—and gentlemen of large intelli¬ 
gence and varied experiences are not wanting, 
who believe the native stock of this country is 
scarcely worthy the attention and care of the 
husbandman. If the ox is valuable mostly for 
size or beauty, the ShorUHorn or the Devon 
would, as the case now stands, be the more 
highly prized,—and where these qualities can be 
had, in combination with strength, endurance, 
economy of keeping, and without paying too 
extravagantly for them, it is, most certainly, 
desirable to possess them. And yet there is a 
growing opinion that the native bred ox is not 
only quite equal in working qualities, as readily 
subdued to the yoke, and more enduring than 
the average of Durham and Devon steers,—but 
by a little attention to the selection of stock for 
breeding, they will not fall very far below these 
in size and smoothness of build. If a tithe,—if 
even a hundredth part of the care and attention 
had been bestowed upon our native breeds that 
there has been upon the imported, there can 
scarcely be a doubt that a very perceptible 
change for the better would be manifest- In¬ 
stances can be poioted out where farmers have 
added more than twenty-five per cent to the size 
of their herds, (breeding from their old stock,) 
within the space of five years. This, too, has 
been accomplished without much extra care of 
expense beyond that of providing warm stabling 
in winter, occasionally changing and varying 
the food, aud by a due regard to the cleanliness 
of the stalls, and of tbe animals themselves. 
It must, however, be remembered that great 
care is accessary in selecting animals from 
Tklksoopeb.—(8 . C. M., Medina.)—Telescopes may be 
had in this city from $4 to $50, the price depending upon 
their powers and finish. 
Petroleum for Preserving Wood. 
The oil wells near Prome, in Bnrmah, have 
been in use from lime immemorial. Wood, both 
for ship building and bouse building, is invaria¬ 
bly saturated or coated with the product of those 
wells. The result is entire immunity from decay 
by the ravages of the white ants, that in that 
country are so generally destructive. M. Cre- 
piu. a Belgian Government engineer, who has 
tried experiments upon the relative advantages 
of creosote and sulphate of copper for the pre¬ 
servation of timber in marine constructions from 
the attacks of worms, says that creoeoting is the 
only process be has found to succeed for this pur¬ 
pose. He states that sulphate of copper affords 
no protection whatever against the action of salt 
water and marine insects. The Belgian Gov¬ 
ernment now requires that all the wood sleepers 
used in the State railroads should be creosoted; 
and the Government of Holland have also made 
the same resolution, and upwards of 300,000 
sleepers per annum are now being creosoted by 
the Dutch Government, and more by the Belgian 
Government 
Chhbsr Cracking. —Allow me to inquire through tbe 
UruAi. of experienced cheese-maker* why my cheeses 
sometimes crack direedy al'ter taking them from the press. 
I do not leave them at all after coming from the press un¬ 
til they are greased, so that they have no time to get very 
dry and therefore crack Is there an* tiling that can be 
outwardly applied which will prevent flics trom troubling 
them ? I should be pleased it some person of experience 
would give their method of making first rate cheese.— In¬ 
quirer, J 'JurliJigton, Wit. 
Loss of Horses.— Daring the past year the govern¬ 
ment has lost 11,000 horses by battle and disease. The 
average number daily received at the veterinary hospitals 
at Washington alone was over 100, of which not more 
than one-half ore returned for duty. It was claimed that 
a large proportion of this mortality might be saved by the 
employment of regularly trained veterinary surgeons in 
the armv 
Spring halt—Warts on Houses.— Will you, or some 
of the readers of the Rural, please give me through its 
columns a remedy for spring-halt iu hordes, and how to 
»pply it? I have also u hue young horse that ha* a large 
wart just back of the stifle 1 have bad it cut off two or 
three times, but It still continues m grow. Any Informa¬ 
tion concerning either or how to cure them, will be thank¬ 
fully received by—A Subscriber, Cato, A r . K 
As a general thing, this peculiar spasmodic affection of 
the muscles in the hind extremities, is one over which 
the veterinarian, with all the assistance of the whole 
materia, medico, has little power, for the disease first orig¬ 
inates in the nervous system. Where it is the result of 
minor derangement of tbe system, it may be relieved by 
removing the morbid habit by which it is induced. Re¬ 
garding the treatment, Dr. Dadd remarks it will be 
proper, when the attack is sudden, to let the horse rest; for 
in a sudden attack we might naturally suspect tb&t some 
injury, either by blow or strain, had been done to the 
nerves of voluntary motion: iu that case, cold water ban¬ 
dages, (around the body,(rest, light diet, nauseating med¬ 
icines, with an occasional light dose of cathartic medicine 
to clear out the bowels, will be indicated. Fomentations, 
light frictions with autispasmodic liniment and the vapor 
bath, may assist materially in the recovery of the patient. 
In chronic faces of long standing, all hopes of recovery 
must be abandoned. Should the subject, however, be in 
a state of debility, the general health may be improved, 
and the spine should be daily rubbed with embrocations 
calculated to restore nervous energy; in this view we 
recommend the following embrocation for spring-halt:— 
Ltuseed oil, 1 pint; spirits of hartshorn, 2 ouuees; fine 
mustard, 1-2 ounce. The medicine to consist of pow 
d«-rcd goldenseal, powdered gentian, cream of tartar, 
charcoal, each 1 ounce; assafootida, 1-2 ounce. Mix; di¬ 
vide Into eight parts; one to be given morning and even¬ 
ing, in the food. 
Death of Gkn. John. J. Yiblb. —On the 18th ult., at 
Eagle Bridge, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Gen. Jobs J Yin lb, 
at one time Vice-President of the N. Y. State Ag. 8ociety, 
departed this life. Gem V. was one of the best known 
men iu the county, a lawy er, politician and speaker, ev<r 
since he attained to manhood. Ills death was unexpect¬ 
ed, aud causes deep sorrow to a wide circle of friends. 
Sugar from Bkkt-koot m Francb. —According to an 
official return, the quantity of beet root sugar made from 
the beginning of the “campaign ” up to the end of Au¬ 
gust, was 173,677 tuns, which was 27,262 tuns more than 
last year; and the quautity remaining in bond at the end 
of tbe month was 9,118 tuna—5,241 more than at the same 
date of 1862. 
Vitality of Seeds. 
In addition to the old story of the vegeta¬ 
tion of wheat found in an Egyptian mummy, the 
New Hampshire Journal of Agriculture, in reply 
to the inquiry of a correspondent as to the 
length of time that seeds retain their vitality, 
quotes the following statement from an English 
paper: 
“James BankB, in the North British Agricul¬ 
turist, stated that he had recently cleared off 
some old Roman encampments on his farm, near 
Alnwick, a farm which he had lived upon for 
sixty-four years, and forthwith among his barley 
there sown arose some seventy-four varieties of 
oats, never seen in that section before. As no 
oats had been sown, he supposed the place to 
have been an old cavalry camp, and that the 
Whbat and Skkdb. —The Agricultural Department at 
Washington has a quantity of Black Sea wheat from 
Odessa, and also wheat from the South of France, for 
distribution. The Royal Agricultural 8ociety of Russia 
has sent the Department a collection of seeds for props 
gation. 
Temperature of the Soil 
If no other argument could be deduced in 
favor of underdrawing, the fact that it equalizes 
the temperature duiiDg the season of growth 
would be enough to recommend if. The tem¬ 
perature of water issuing from uuderdrains, as 
compared with the temperature of the soil at the 
Larch Hay Crop —The Windsor (V6.) Journal say* 
that Col. L. B. Dvdlkt, of Royalton, has cut the present 
season, from two acres and twenty-three rods and a quar¬ 
ter, by measurement, thirteen tuns and two huudred 
and forty pounds ot hoy, being more than six tuns to the 
acre 
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