' CLOVER —ITS BENEFITS. 
The point in clover, as manure, is to get 
all from the atmosphere you can,—for this is 
clear gain, you have not to work to get it; 
and it is the right kind of food for your soil, 
the organic, — the mineral the earth hus al¬ 
ready, and the added organic will aid in 
developing it. 
The beauty in raising clover to improve 
the land, in the second place, is that you 
may cut a crop,—a good, remunerative crop, 
—and get another to turn under the same 
season. So there is no loss for immediate 
use; you can pay your debt with clover as 
well as with grain or any other product. 
Sell the crop, or better, feed it and sell the 
stock, (buy in the fall and sell in the spring,) 
or raise seed ; this will command ready cash, 
and if you have luck with it, it will give 
you a larger return. If you find your seed 
will not do well - as you may before it ma¬ 
tures—cut for hay, You thus get two crops, 
say three to four tons to the acre — three, at 
least, in anything like a decent year. 
Wo hold that clover is the best thing to 
feed. It contains much nitrogen, and is 
therefore well suited to young stock of all 
kinds—tegs as well as calves and colts ; will 
do for working horses, and give more milk 
than any other feed, white clover not ex¬ 
cepted. But it must ire cut early. 
Here, then, is a great profit in the feeding 
alone. The stock will be as healthy as in 
summer. 
There is, therefore, no loss in raising 
clover as a manure, as the adjunct of feed¬ 
ing alone pays. It will go further than 
timothy, yielding much more, and is equally 
nutritious, if not more so. We can nflord to 
raise clover independent of its effect upon 
the soil—as a feed merely, We can make it 
do more than any of the grasses, notwith¬ 
standing timothy lias a great prestige. It Is 
a handsome grass, is easily treated, and 
really does well But it does not so well as 
the rough, coarse clover. < 
But the soil; this gets the benefit, even ' 
greater than that at the barn (in feeding;) j 
thus doubling its pse. This is clear; it is < 
well established. More than half of its f 
strength is got from the atmosphere, and i 
half of that goes to the root,—according to 
Voelckek, much more, besides chemically ; 
benefiting the? soil. The ground is pressed | 
upon and mellowed by the roots, which are s 
large and numerous,—or should he, and may , 
he; mellowing and enriching as they go. 
Tiius the subsoil is benefited, mechanically ( 
and otherwise, while the top, the arable r 
part, is charged—crowded with roots. And j 
these roots contain much substance,—as the < 
plant does,—and largely of nitrogen. This ] 
also is clear. , 
And now here is your bed for the plow to ,* 
go in. Not tough; not a good, even, hut a a 
soil mellow and rich with roots. And so it 
comes up whether you plow it in the fall or in q 
the spring. It will grow anything, wheat, in 
particular, and corn. It is enriched to that 
extent that it will do to plow a year or two, tl 
and then seed down again, rich enough for s; 
either grain or grass. When, howevcr.it is 
much run, the fertility extracted, there will p 
be less clover roots and less stem, so 1 hat a p 
single crop of grain is all that should be g 
taken, unless aided by manure. A few crops j. 
thus turned down will improve the land (;] 
wonderfully, both its fertility and texture, p 
each important in its way. n ' 
A plan that is the best of all, in our ex- Ii 
p Tienoe, is to take ft crop of hay and another r< 
hie. But with timothy or orchard grass 
added, there will be no lack of a good yield. 
Almost any moderately rich, dry soil will 
. grow clover; and if not so rich, with the 
aid of plaster a good gPowth can be made. 
Plaster iu no case should be omitted, es¬ 
pecially for seed. There will he a plumper 
, berry, and more of it, decidedly; the stalk 
has more strength and substance, and stands 
tbc severity of the season better, particularly 
the drouth. 
On the whole, clover is the farmer’s plant 
that he cannot well dispense with. He has 
here a means to do with if he wishes. The 
great point, of course, is to obtain free ma¬ 
nure. Manure is getting scarce; we want 
all we can get, and we want to get it as 
cheap as wc can; that is the great end- 
cheapness. And the atmosphere has it. It 
offers it to us constantly; surrounds us with 
it; crowds it upon us. We hut need to use 
the means to get it. And we have shown 
that the means, in itself, is remunerative, 
aside from the main object of getting as ma¬ 
nure. 
Some farmers have availed themselves of 
the benefits of clover. They have done it 
in the most thorough manner; and we have 
the result—success in the highest degree. 
In this vicinity, Central New York, we 
have a fair chance to know of its effect. 
Much clover is raised, both for hay and 
grass, as well as for seed; and the different 
kinds of clover have been used. First, the 
large was the only raised ; now' the medium 
occupies mainly our fields. This affords two 
crops, one for hay and one for seed, or both 
hay. 
It is found that this smaller clover makes 
better feed. The stalk Is finer. It is less 
neavy (long,) and therefore less apt to lodge. 
It will stand closer, and thus afford a thicker 
cutting—not heavier swaths than the large— 
hut solider, more concentrated, and more 
nutritious. Such seems to he the experience. 
Then there is a week or ten days’ earlier 
feed in the spring. The small clover also 
seems to hold to the soil better; you can 
make a permanent thing of it, as is done 
here in some eases—on upland thoroughly 1 
drained; the last is an indispensable con¬ 
dition. Frequent cutting,—cutting when ] 
green,—is also an aid in this respect. To J 
cut for seed is apt to annihilate, nr at least ' 
seriously interfere with the permanence of 
the plant. j 
The medium clover is, therefore, preferred; ' 
and it is doing a good work. It is rapidly c 
bringing up our land, which was run down, s 
Industrial Copies. 
THE “ AGRICULTURAL LESSON.” 
BY J. It. DODGE. 
The lesson of draining and thorough cul¬ 
ture, as taught by spring floods and summer 
suns of the present season, involves another 
—in the view of a recent Rural, editorial— 
which Leaches “that we lfiust either dimin¬ 
ish the number of acres cultivated or in¬ 
crease the amount of available labor ”—a 
lesson we ought long since to have learned. 
It is folly to plow twenty millions of acres 
for wheat, at a cost of forty millions of dol- i 
lars, and scatter over this broad expanse *** 
thirty millions of bushels of seed, to Obtain The Encrey ’ Industry, Economy, and Conse- 
the wretched recompense of twelve bushels ?r" ,n " Pr , 0 ? h er !! y . of , , he Sou,h ' 
„ , , * —In the No\ember issue of the“ boutliern Cul- 
pej acre aiul several bushels ot weed seeds! livator," David Dickson-, the acknowledged 
Of eight bushels now produced, one is used beat, and most euocraafnl farmer in Georgia, 
in seeding, leaving hut seven to consumption says " Georgia, for the last four rears, has re- 
—a meager return for eunilal -.ml hi,or mtiml »n(l made more miles of new rnnds, buili 
Tlw. 1,,!;' M • io£r M. , moro factories, work-shops, houses, &e„ (all l.j 
Til. wheat ol Iowa m 1868 will scarcely Georgians,) than any other .1,200,000 people evei 
realize an equivalent to the cash rental of a did since the creation of the world; and in this 
similar area in England. Yet the original lk!S ,hc bf our success." Mr. Dickson 
speculation by appreciation in that period. 
While the increase in value of unproduc¬ 
tive lands is thus shown to he less than a fair 
interest on the investment, it is capable of 
demonstration that a judicious and moderate 
increase of working farm capital, applied in 
the fonn of improvements and labor, would 
add to the value of farm production five 
hundred millions of dollars annually; and 
that sum, in a period of ten years, would 
aggregate a figure almost equal to the total 
value of the farm lands of the United States 
iu 1860. 
It will pay to heed the lesson of loss 
taught by the rains and the drouth, and by 
the improvidence and carelessness of the un¬ 
skillful farmer. 
paired and made more miles of new ronds, built 
more liiotoric.9, work-shops, bouses, &e., (all l.y 
arm (termetm 
LIVE DOGWOOD STAKES. 
Three j-ears ago I went to the forest, 
dug up thrifty dogwood sprouts one inch or 
over at the root. I set them out in the fall 
alongside of some Catawba vines just plant¬ 
ed. I trimmed these dogwood sprouts to 
a mere stalk. This year, the third from 
planting, J find the vines trained to these 
dogwoods in thriftiness, amount aud quality 
of fruit at least one-half ahead of those 
alongside trained to stakes and lath. 
Now for the theory. There is such an 
affinity between our wild vine and the dog¬ 
wood that they will unite themselves to¬ 
gether to the destruction of all other shrubs 
around. The dogwood is ot long life, may 
be cut back to a mere stub, and will yet grow. 
But I would give each dogwood and vine 
the space of sixty-four feet.. Let the bush 
limb out to the area of six feet; cut the vine 
realize an equivalent to the cash rental of a | did since the creation of the world; and In this 
similar area in England. Yet the original I 1,oft ,hc *> f our success." Mr. Dickson 
condition of the Western land is better the °PP°*» < ho popular curort to obtain 
, . * either capital or labor from abroad. I well re- 
rence being due to the scattering of a member. In till* early settlement of Western 
Uiimblcfhl of labor over a rod of ground, by Now York, the constant cry was “we need capt- 
which the crop is so nearly voluntary that ,J|1 from a *>''°ad to start factories and work- 
thc farmer may well ascribe to Providence f ,op ,f ,hpni aU now * bullt so1(,| .v 
ii.r. o.o.i ,i„ i . . i . , • hy tho industry, economy, and consequent 
the sum total of the harvest, and to ins own wealth of the country, independent of capital 
improvidence the tact that it is not larger. from abroad. Mc-thinks an accession of more 
It is an equal folly to plow, plant culti- £ armerslike David Dickson would do more for 
votonniDnrLuh . ! Southern progress than the importation of either 
\ ate and hat vest an acre of maize (or twenty- foreign capital or labor.—s. w. 
six bushels of corn, where the average might ————— 
easily be doubled, at no more labor for plow-- 
ing, planting, cultivating or anything but ' 
the-garnering of the product. Wherever a ” v ,X\ pittrtJTTT. 
restorative system of cropping exists, involv- ® o 
iug rotation, manuring and thorough culture, - ~ ' ' ~ " ' z 
large crops are gathered and farming pays. INQUIRIES FOR ANSWERS. 
The following exhibit of the relative per- - 
centage of exhaustive and restorative crops, i rrrc P ast season—as all know—has been 
and the resultant yield, in the countries extremely wet and cold in this part of the 
named, furnishes a conclusive argument in State, consequently bees have stored but lit- 
favor of investing money aud labor ju- tIe honey. My Italians swarmed tolerably 
dieiously in farm culture : well, but with the exception of the swarms 
Georgians,) than any other 1,300,000 people ever hack so as not to let the weight of the top 
did since the creation of the world ; and in this get too much for the trunk. I would prefer 
M T eS 'w ■? ( PlC rf , ! N the dogwood set out one or more years be- 
Sluilt I\ ODDOflfiA tin* rinnnlfli* nffniW nldoin ° * 
n ^pnm;tn. 
Y’ld of Wh't 
Country. Exhaustive. Restorative, pr. acre. 
, . percent. percent. bushels. 
England... 33 1,7 28 
Prussia.. 45 65 17 
France... 54 46 14 
United States. CO 40 12 
The English colonies in Australia and New 
Zealand, adopting a slovenly practice like 
ours, obtain similar results, which are suffi¬ 
ciently satisfactory for two or three years, 
and then neither satisfactory nor profitable. 
INQUIRIES FOR ANSWERS. 
The past season—as all know—has been 
extremely wet and cold in this part of the 
State, consequently bees have stored but lit¬ 
tle honey. My Italians swarmed tolerably 
well, but with the exception of the swarms 
which came off while the locust trees were 
in full bloom, are very light. I intend to 
winter the light ones in a dry cellar. 1 use 
the Langstroth hive, with box cover. What 
ventilation shall I give them ? Can 1 suc¬ 
cessfully feed them there? Will they need 
water? (how.) Shall I clean the bottom 
board while there? In case the weather 
should become warm in January or Febru¬ 
ary, should they he carried into the open air 
and originally not too rich. We begin to I TWs style of agricultu^ simply a make- Zr^ZroZ of Xw nTtlmm to Z * IT" T ™"T * 
PHta. 4 wi.anfra.Miin nn<i „ 4 .,™™ „r I shift arrangement.—a temnorarv exnedlent . the purpose ol ahowing them to ths- enormous labor ot caning four 
raise wheat again, anil heavy crops of corn, 
which formerly used to fail often, and sel¬ 
dom made ft good report. Barley and oats 
arc now almost always a heavy, seldom a 
non-remunerative, crop. It is the sod that 
does this,—hut mostly the clover roots in it. 
It is in this way that land here is mainly 
manured. This seems to he the healthiest, 
manure, and for all purposes, and to be used 
at once,—and it certainly is the cheapest.—G. 
TOBACCO AN EXHAUSTIVE CROP. 
In speaking of the exhaustive effects of 
shift arrangement,—a temporary expedient, 
for men without means who wish to become 
farmers, and are willing to plunder a virgin 
soil,obtained for less than a tithe of its value, 
to gain farm capital. It is a pioneer practice, 
suited only to the first few years’ essay in 
peopling a wilderness. It Is a poor man’s 
charge their fasces? 
fore the vine. Let the shrub grow to the 
height of ten or twelve feet.,—the higher the 
better. Then you will have a living trellis 
that will last a lifetime. And from the af¬ 
finity of the shrub and vine you will have 
more grapes and a better quality than by 
any other mode of training. The grapes 
will not mildew, will not get stung. Let the 
readers of the Rural try a few vines after 
my plan.— J. A. Foreman, Noble Co., Ohio. 
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A CHEAP LADDER. 
In my recent illustrated article on ladders 
1 omitted to give the illustration of the one 
TT~77| herewith presented. It is made from 
’ *" 1 tough basswood or elm boards, four- 
n teen indies wide, one and a half 
[] inches thick, nml of any desirable 
length. It is best adapted for stn- 
Cl tionary ladder in barns or other 
q buildings. The holes are of a suffi¬ 
cient size to admit the largest bro- 
[I gans, and are five inches apart lut- 
erally. A ladder of this kind occu¬ 
pies but little space, and, if firmly 
n attached by nailing, is safe and use- 
_11 ful. 8 . 
Yales County, N. Y. 
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Drying Manure.—The Rcral’s Vermont cor¬ 
respondent. E. N. Dryer, demurs to Dr. Lee’s 
advice to keep stall manure dry to ?avo the 
enormous labor ot carting four pound*,of water 
with one of manure. It is t rue Unit fire-fang Is 
HasMrqun,,,.. witten a boo* upon .J ^SThSuSS 
subject? What is the price, and where can 
it be obtained ? 
I sulphured one seven-year-old (large box) 
hive stock, which for the past few years has 
for carbolic acid js true, a very little of it mixed 
with water will effectually arrest fermentation 
in the largest manure heap. 
But here is a canny Vermont fnrmcr on a 
large dairy farm made from a drained swamp, 
manure, aud for all purposes, and to be used 6UC ^ ** do application to a section in 
at once,—and it certainly is the cheapest.—G. all the lands are in private hands. 
-The second question assumed by the Ru- 
TOBACCO AN EXHAUSTIVE CROP. to be involved—that “of relative profit" 
- * in investing surplus money in better culture 
In speaking of the exhaustive effects of or in more land, goes beyond the real domain 
the tobacco plant, the Journal of Chemistry ot farm practice—it is asking whether trad- 
land speculation, and not farming; and as ^ ,een 60 heavy that I could with difficulty who rejoices cm the profits of the butter made 
says: 
“ To the farmer who cultivates the plant 
it proves a robber of the first magnitude. It 
possesses a capacity for plundering the soil 
greater than any other tree, shrub or plant 
known. The amount of mineral coustitu- 
ing in land is not more profitable than culti¬ 
vating it. In rapidly growing settlements, 
where lands located at one dollar aiid 1 wenty- 
five cents one year, are sold at five dollars 
the next, there is a great inducement to make 
a pretense of farming and actually thrive by 
cuts which it carries off can bo judged of speculation; and few young Americans could 
by carefully examining the ash as it; accli- res ^t the temptation, under favorable cir- 
mulat.es upon the end of an ignited cigar, cumstances, to make money by a sudden rise 
It often remains after the organic portion is iu kind. But such chances, while found in 
removed, showing the full size and outline evur Y 11 ew State, are mainly confined to the 
of seed, aud then turn down. We have of rolled leaves, and to the eye apparently ten years of ils existence. Appreciation 
found this to pay the best. The hay and nothing is lost, by combustion.* If the wood tuis been rapid throughout the country, hut 
the seed are in themselves a great harvest— burned in our stoves and upon our hearths ,in examination of the facta decides the moot- 
two crops of prime value; so we have found was as rich in soil constituents, we should et * Question In favor of the legitimate profits 
it. The land then plowed and put to grain need the services of extra servants to carry of 8k5lirul Arming. The increase in values 
yielded hotter than if left a year or two away the ashes. Every hundred pounds of and products was very marked between the 
longer to hay or pasture. This seems ques- the dried leaves which the soil produces robs ceusu8 0,1 8o0 and I860. The following figures 
tionahle, yet it is our experience and that of it of at least twenty pounds of its most valu- n ‘P' esent the enlargement of farm area and 
lift it from its summer stand to a sled, but 
this year I could pick it up and carry it any¬ 
where with case. I divided the contents 
(about fitly pounds) among my weaker 
stocks, placing it on the honey-board under 
the upper box; hut as the winter com¬ 
menced the next night it was not nil carried 
below. 
I propose to feed sugar, diluted with water, 
as directed by Mr. Qutnby, one quart to four 
pounds crushed coffee. Will not coffee sugar 
do ? H. B. Rolfe. 
Westfield, N. Y. 
Remarks. —Mr. Quinby will reply to 
these inquiries. If our correspondent but 
read the Rural, and advertisements care¬ 
fully, he would learn that Mr. Quinby has 
published a work entitled “Mysteries of Bee 
Keeping ” and that it will he mailed to him 
from Rural office for $1.50. 
from bis thirty-six cows. His plait of saving bis 
stall manure is to haul it from the stable as fast 
as it accumulates, dropping each load by itself 
on bis meadows. In early spring, when labor is 
cheap, bo employs Irishmen from the village to 
spread the manure over the meadows. This 
same farmer raises all his heifer calves on sour 
milk mixed with hasty pudding, thus saving the 
cream at the expense of « little Indian meal. 
others in the neighborhood, for much clover 
sued is raised here, or rather has been raised. 
There is a slight, falling off, and dairying is 
substituted. 
This doctrine of greater yields after a seed 
crop is taken off, lias recently been con¬ 
firmed by Voelckek. The ground is mel¬ 
low, very mellow, and has received the 
washing aud debris of stem; and somehow 
there seems to be an action besides, owing 
to the change into seed, effecting the soil. 
Thus, there is not only no interruption in 
the crops, but an Increase of them (without 
manure) and an improvement of the land. 
This continued for several years secures a 
rich soil, with increased crops all the while 
in obtaining it. 
But the land must be in condition to re¬ 
ceive the clover. A wet soil will not do; 
the frost will throw out the plant. Neither 
is a sandy soil as good as a clay. A clay 
loam well drained, either naturally or arti¬ 
ficially, is- the thing for clover; and it will 
last, if necessary, for years in such a soil; 
indeed, can he made permanent, though not 
producing us heavy crops as may be desira- 
ahle mineral atoms. 
“ The comparative exhaustive effects of 
tobacco upon soils may lie judged from the. 
fact that fourteen tons of wheat, fifteen tons 
of corn, and twelve tons of oats remove no 
more of the principle of fertility than a 
single ton of tobacco.” 
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Wheat vs. Corn for Feeding Stock.—Wilt you 
or some of your readers who have experience 
give me Die relative value of wheat as com¬ 
pared with corn for feeding purposes—its value 
for pigs, cattle, and horses? Which is the 
cheapest to feed a team of work horses, corn at 
eighty cents per bushel, wheat at ninety cents 
per bustic), or oil cake at thirty dollars per tou? 
Oats and buckwheat we raise but little of. On 
account of a shun corn crop considerable wheat 
will be l'ed this year.—W m. T, Smith. 
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Ha risen Potatoes. Last spring I purchased a 
peck of TTarisou potatoes, and after cooking 
from thorn sumeienr for one meal for a family 
of live persons, I planted them on the 21st of 
May, making from thorn one hundred and five 
hills. They were cultivated and hoed in the 
ordinary way, and yielded, on digging them Oct. 
2d, eighteen bushels of nice potatoes, — a bushel 
to Jess than six hills. —N, J. Frost, Monroe Co., 
N.Y. 
enhancement of value: 
Acr» in rarmi*. VtUur. Value per Acre. 
J850.2IB.5G0.8H $3,271,576,420 $11 14 
I860.407,212,538 0,015,045,007 16 31 
The average annual increase was 51.7 
cents per acre, or about 4.6 per cent. This 
is for both productive and unproductive land, 
and does not make a flattering showing for 
unproductive acres. 
A reference to the most favored localities, 
while indicating variable and exceptionable 
increase in values, confirms the view present¬ 
ed by the general average. In the following 
statement may be (bund the annual increase, 
per acre and per cent., as given in the cen¬ 
sus from 1850 to 1860, and from careful local 
estimates for the eight subsequent years, in 
the States named, 
For t«n years emHuR '40, Eight years ending ’K 
Slnl'ts. Pur Acr$, Per Ceni. Per Cent. 
New York.03 cents. 3.2 3.5 
Ohio.131 •• 7. 4 . 
Kentucky.00 “ 6.5 1.25 
Illinois.124 “ 15.0 5.25 
Minnesota_45 “ 8. 152 
Iowa. 58 “ 9.5 9.37 
Missouri.55 " 8.4 4. 
In the eleven seceding States the decline, 
between 1860 and 1868, was in a higher ratio 
than the increase in the Northern States— 
reducing greatly the average chances for 
Winter Houses for Bees.— The following is the 
description of a house owned by Mr. A. R. 
Kxngsly which we find in the Prairie Farmer: 
“The inside is made of flooring, plowed and 
grooved, driven tight. The walls are double, 
with four inches space between; the bottom and 
top are also constructed in the same way, aud 
filled with dry straw. One inside and one out¬ 
side door closes the entrance. Ventilation is 
secured by four half-inch holes close together 
near the bottom of the outside door, and the 
same number In different places of the inside 
one. The space between the doors is not packed 
with straw but left vacant. These admit the 
pure air, while an aperture in the top of the 
room allows the impure air to escape. Mr. K.’s 
house is about five by seven, and six feet high. 
He places the stands close together on the fioor 
and on a shelf, and claims that his bees win ter 
on less honey and in better condition than In 
any manner he has ever tried.” 
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s "-’ rir C'amty for Bees. — Will some of the 
readers of the Rural furnish a recipe to make 
pure sugar candy, such as is used for beol’eed? 
L. L. Langstroth, in his work on the “Hive 
and Honey Bee," recommends St as a good feed 
for bees. Bees in this section have done poorly 
this season ; there is no box honey, and a good 
many swarms will have to be fed to bo wintered. 
—D. H. Coggshall, Jr. Treat Groton, N. Y. 
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Feeding Bees.—p. S. G. asks some one to tell 
him bow and what to feed bees. If lie will read 
the Rural of Nov. 0, he will learn how and what 
to feed. Rend eloser, Mr. P. S. G., or try to re¬ 
member better what you read, before you at- 
tempt to criticise 1 
Whitewash for Out-Buildings.—Buy one wish¬ 
ing to improve the looks of their premises by 
coloring tlio bare boards, will find below a for¬ 
mula for making whitewash, which I have used 
on rough outside sheds and find it to do well :— 
Slake one quart of lime in an ordinary pailful 
of water, add about three pounds of whiting, 
(previously broken up and mixed with water,) 
and six to eight ounces of glue dissolved in hot 
water. 
Another, which is said to be, by parties having 
considemblo experience, touch better than the 
above, making a covering as hard us enamel and 
almost equal to paint, is:—Make the required 
quantity of wash and add lo every pailful one 
pint of common salt. If you desire to make the 
above either yellow, green, brown, or dark red, 
stir in sufficient, chrome yellow, chrome green, 
or Spanish brown, to nmkc your desired -hade; 
it dark blue, or a beautiful sky bluo would suit 
Ibe taste heller, color with a solution of soluble 
Prussian blue,lot - dark and ultramarine hluefor 
sky. One ounce of Die powdered blue, dissolved 
in one gallon of boiling water, makes a very 
strong solution, and an excellent laundry hlue.—n. 
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Tile Draining,— if Mr. A. Brewster's land is 
so level that he can get no natural fall for a 
drain, ho can make one by digging a deep well 
at some point of the field to be drained. We 
have known fields to be so drained and a wind¬ 
mill employed to pump the water from the well, 
forcing it to a height sufficient to convey it to a 
distant field to supply stock. Mr. Brewster is 
doubtless aware that water will pnss through 
brick; so it will pass through tile, regardless of 
the joints. 
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How to Render a Cellar Dry which I'annot lie 
Brained,—4 ’. O. Cooley, Manchester. O., says: 
“Sink a well in Die cellin', and the cellar will bo 
perfectly dry. The well must be sunk till it 
reaches the water-bed, (if 1 may use such a term,) 
which will give perfect drainage. Here we have 
to sink wells about fifty feci deep before we 
reach water; but in some localities, teuor twen¬ 
ty f et ‘t would be sufficient. No cement that I 
have over heard of will keep a cellar dry." 
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Twine for Tying Corn Htallig. — A corrcspon 
dent of the Ohio Farmer says she saw men bind 
ing corn with twine, who said twenty-five cents 
worth would bind five acres of corn; aud when 
the bundles are fed the strings may be saved for 
another season. 
