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(most usually the interior or mucous coat) have 
their vitality seriously lowered, and thus inflamma¬ 
tion is established. In still another class of colic 
eases, after much abdominal distention ami violent 
struggling, the patient sits on his hatmchCB like a 
dog, and sometimes makes etiorts to vomit, whilst 
his pulse is quick and small, telling of some depress¬ 
ing influence acting on the circulation. Such symp¬ 
toms are well known to proceed from rupture of the 
stomach, some portion of the intestines, or the dia¬ 
phragm.” It is added that ordinarily, among com¬ 
mon farmers, inflammation of the bowels is assailed 
by strong dosings of aloes, which are pretty certain 
to terminate in the death of the an imal, which, If let 
alone, might recover. In such cases it Is better to 
trust to nature to throw off the disease than to have 
recourse to treatment of whose action and influence 
we are ignorant. 
the beans. When they settle, only one end of the 
rails or poles can go down, leaving a small vacancy 
underneath, which will ho found very useful in air¬ 
ing the mow. If the bay be very deep, and tilled to 
the roof, these ventilators should ho put in on the 
girts and then again on the beams, The beans need 
not be tramped down in the mow at all; walk on 
them jnst as little as yon can, and pitch them 
around; they will settle solid enough. In unload¬ 
ing beans, a man may see the gTeat advantage of the 
home fork. It Is a slow and laborious task to pitch 
up a load of beans by hand; they have great tenacity 
for each other, and hang together to the last,. A 
horse fork makes this part of the work all easy. 
The harpoon fork is not well adapted to beans. It 
does not take sufficient hold to raise enough at a 
time. The screw fork is said to work finely, though 
I have not seen it tried. The old style claw fork 
works well. A good sized load of beans may be 
unloaded with it in ten minntea with four draughts, 
and no sweating or tugging by any one. b. 
Hindaburgh. N. Y., March, 1868. 
day learn to cultivate our winter wheat in the spring 
as we do corn or potatoes. With wider spaces be¬ 
tween the drill rows, less seed, and spring cultiva¬ 
tion, more wheat will be harvested than by the 
present slap-dash-take-care-of-itself system. 
teed Corn .—Look out for the best varieties. It is 
not a first-rate practice to pick your seed from the 
com-crib ten minutes before you plant it. 
Grass Lands -—Meadows should be cleared of stone 
—the horse-rake will have turned up some on old 
meadowB—the furrows, made when the field was in 
grain, filled up, and plaster sown. Old, tough sod 
is sometimes benefited by using the harrow on it,— 
but the best application to any grass land would be 
liquid manure. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOREER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. HOOKE, 
(PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR,) 
With a Corps of Able Associates and Contributors. 
a. F. WILCOX AND A. A. HOPKINS, Associate Editors. 
HIRAM BUMP UREY and KRU BEN I). JONES, 
Assistant and Commercial Editors. 
HON. HENRY 6. RANDALL, LL. D., 
Editor of the Department of Sheep Husbandry. 
Dr. DANIEL LEE and Hon. TT1E0D0RE C. PETERS, 
Southern Corresponding Editors. 
ITS MAGNIFICENT RIVERS AS A SOURCE OF NEVER- 
ENDINO FERTILITY. 
Tub bed of gypsum on the Red River, noticed in 
our laBt letter, which is 100 miles long and of un¬ 
known breadth and depth, will be regarded by the 
agricultural geologist ns an Instructive indication of 
the vast and magnificent scale adopted by Nature, 
m providing the soil-atoms of man’s daily bread 
in the great Southwest. Arkansas is uncommonly 
i ich in these precious atoms; but those in the ex¬ 
tensive region drained by the Tennessee and Cum¬ 
berland Rivers invite the reader’s attention at this 
time. 
Let us suppose the reader to he a New Yorker 
coming from Olean down the Alleghany and Ohio 
Rivers, till he reaches the mouth of the Tennessee 
which he ascends to its sources in East Tennessee, 
Georgia, North Carolina and Southwest Virginia’ 
and fails not to examine the soil on the smaller 
affluents from Alabama and Mississippi, in search 
of land adapted to wheat raising purposes. The 
bed of the Ilolston River in Virginia, (which is the 
Special Contributors. 
P. BARRY, F. R- ELLIOTT, E. 
H. T. BROOKS, JOHN E. SWEET, 
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES, MRS. I.. 1 
COLIC IN HORSES 
In the American Stock Journal for the present 
month, is a communication from H. C. Renaud, 
V. S., on the internal diseases of the horse. When 
well and unexcited, the pulse of the horse vibrates, 
he says, about 36 times in a minute. In colts the 
pulsation is more rapid,—but when either is assailed 
by internal disease, the pulse is greatly quielcened. 
Prominent, among the internal ailments of the horse 
which affect pulsation, is colic, of which two kinds 
are mentioned by Mr. R .—flatulent and sptasmodw 
In the first it is occasioned by the enlargement of 
the intestines by the food passing through tbo pro¬ 
cess of fermentation instead of digestion. Gases are 
largely generated, hence the distention and pain. 
Such symptoms, When accompanied with flatulence 
and abdominal distention, generally proceed from 
the eating of readily fermentable food, such as wet. 
glass, frosted clover, unripe grain, or a full meal of 
raw potatoes. When the intestines are much over 
loaded, the brain is apt to become implicated, aa is 
readily perceived from the animal being either dull 
and stupid, reeling and unsteady in his gait, or irri¬ 
table and furious. The spasmodic colic , which is ac¬ 
companied by more excruciating pains than the 
former, is caused by a contraction of a portion of 
the small intestines. In either case, to force down 
various pungent and violent remedies is dangerous 
and absurd. 
The practice of running horses about when suffer¬ 
ing from colic is reprobated aa useless and cruel, 
and no more appropriate, aa a cure, than would bo 
the like treatmeut in the ease of the human subject 
suffering from a cognate cause. He adds ;—“ When 
a horse is suffering from colic,never allow him to be 
disturbed, except when it is necessary to administer 
medicine to him. Occasionally, to the fitful in¬ 
termittent colic Bymptoms, are euperadded more 
steady and Continuous pain, a permanently quick 
ened pulse, hot mouth, and other evidences of fever. 
From the continued irritation, the intestinal coats 
PUBLICATION OFFICES! 
ur-Nos. 82, 84 and 86 Buffalo Street, 
■k —No. 41 Park Row, Times’ Buildlns, 
A Bean Puller Wanted .—I wish a premium were 
offered by the State Agricultural Society for a ma¬ 
chine to pull or cut beans. It would be to bean 
raising what the cotton gin is to the culture of cot¬ 
ton. Several machines have been offered, but they 
either fail to do the work, or make too great waste 
in doing it. I hope these suggestions will meet the 
eye of soma of onr gifted inventive men. There 
seems to be a profusion of machinery for gathering 
every other farm product, but to harvest beans 
there is no other way but to bend the hack and pull 
them by hand. 
Harvesting.— It is well to allow beans to ripen 
thoroughly before pulling. One important advant¬ 
age thereby gained is, that they need not he left 
out so long to cure, exposed to injury from rain. 
The best method of disposing of the beans when 
pulling is to stand them in biraehes. Full as many 
ns can be grasped by both hands, and set them on 
the tops with the roots upward. The top IcavcB 
will then be under the pods’ and keep them from 
the ground, The position will also expose the pods 
to the heat of the sun, and they will cure more rap¬ 
idly than in uny other. It is customary to set four 
rowB together; this will leave plenty of room to 
drive a wagon between the rows o.' bunches. They 
should remain in this position until they are hauled 
in. One hand should go before the team, about an 
hour in advance of drawing, and turn the bunches 
so that the under side shall be toward the sun. 
This is easily done by placing the fork against the 
roots and tipping them down to the ground in an 
opposite direction from the sun. 
storing .—Where there is a large quantity to be 
Btored together in the mow, it should be well ventil¬ 
ated. This may be done while putting the crop in 
the mow by using stout rails or poles, placing one 
eud of them ou the girt or beam aud the other on 
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The assertion of Liebig has been often quoted, 
that potash and other saline matters “ cannot 
he washed out of the soiL” Professor Voelcker, 
in a late lecture, alluded to this, and stated that 
even with water containing ammonia, potash, &c., 
he extracted potash from the soil, although this was 
not his intention. He said: 
“ It is true that all soils, not excepting the most 
sandy ones, have the power of rendering insoluble 
to a great extent the soluble fertilizing matters that 
are usually found in manures; but they have not 
the power of rendering them completely insoluble. 
From very dilute liquids $bey take away very little 
indeed. 1 could refer you, if time permitted, to ex¬ 
periments which I have made expressly, with the 
view of ascertaining whether soils have the power 
of retaining soluble matters to an extent. It may 
suffice to state, in a goneral way, that the weaker 
the solution of soluble matter, the less the soil is 
capable of retaining. Thus in operating with a very 
dilute liquid, containing very little ammonia, 1 
found that hardly any ammonia was retained by the 
soli; and again, that proportion of phosphoric acid 
which Is left in the liquid after it has passed through 
the soil is juBt as large as it was before it was put in 
the soil. By filtering very dilute liquid through soil 
which, like clay soil, contains potash, you may even 
take ont the potash, as was the case in an experi¬ 
ment which I made on Mr. Mechi’s soil. By filter¬ 
ing some of his tank liquid through his clay lauds, I 
actually obtained more potash lu the liquid filtered 
through the soil than was contained in the tank 
liquid not thus filtered; thus showing plainly that 
in the case of a very dilute liquid, the fertilizing 
matter is not retained in the aoiL” 
hints for the month, 
The work of April, in many localities, is but tbe 
continuation and completion of that begun in 
March, it is the month, more than any other of 
the year, devoted to the farmer's work or faith—the 
sowing of seed. Spring wheat, oats, barley, tlax 
and peas should be growing ere the month cIobos. 
Many will plant potatoes and even corn aud beans. 
In giving brief hints for timely work in a journal 
circulated through so wide a range of climate as the 
Kdhajl— from Canada tn rtuljfumia. aud from Flor¬ 
ida to Alaska—we cannot adapt them exactly to the 
circumstances of all localities, but wc consider the 
wants of the majority of our readers, and endeavor 
to write accordingly. 
Flowing .—Owing to the need of getting seed in 
the ground early aud the lateness of a season, 
plowing is often done when the soil is too wet. 
This is a very bad practice, and its influence reaches 
through the entire season, aud sometimes longer; 
still iu some cases it can scarcely be avoided. Oats 
and wheat will do better on wet plowed land than 
barley, hence where there is a choice it is better 
to sow the oats ou suehland. Flow 
carefully and thoroughly, especially j ~ 
sod ground for hoed crops. The " 
plow and the harrow may save half 
Some .-YI J - ~ 
the work of the cultivator, 
fields may be best plowed by be¬ 
ginning in the center, and going 
around the plowed ground instead 
of the unplowed. This avoids tread¬ 
ing the headlands. Flow away 
from fences; and into old dead 
furrows. Also use the jointer on 
sod ground. 
Slock —Requires as much care as 
during the previous month. Ani¬ 
mals long for the ground and the 
breezy range of pastures. It is 
conducive to the health of most 
kinds of Btock to give them access 
to an old pasture or wood lot. Fat 
stocK should ho kejit quiet, how¬ 
ever. Cows need much care, aud a 
week after dropping their calves 
give rich food, with roots, if at 
hand. It is a busy month in re¬ 
spect to the care of stock, espe¬ 
cially in latitudes where they can¬ 
not be turned to pasture. 
Sowing Grain .—Where drills are 
used in spring seeding on soft 
ground, the seed is often deposited 
too deep. This should he carefully 
guarded against, aa it ib almost a 
fatal mistake. One inch in depth is 
euough for any spring grain, — but 
the soil should be compacted on it 
by the roller. Too thick sowing is 
another common mistake; if there 
are too many plants the surplus 
is not only wasted, but has the 
same bad effect as weeds. An Eng¬ 
lish maxim says "the worst weed for 
corn is oom.” 
Clover and Grass Seed —Should be 
sown early, Rain should not fall on 
the ground after the grain is eov- 
9i ered before the grass seeds are scat- 
$a/ tered. Flaster is useful to young 
Yjl clover, and it probably pays to 
sow it on the spring grain. Where 
the drill is used in sowing the 
I'rain, the grass seed attachment 
should be with it and the whole 
job done at once. 
Winter Wheat —Should be rolled, 
and often it is of great benefit to 
apply the harrow. We shall one 
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