_ - That clover roots, stems and leaves will for the privilege. 1 lie surest wa} of ascer 
Jntnretrral ttopits. “7 : -iltg“SSS“ 
4 t asrsstAvsis." ssjss-=“-. . 
ABOUT AGRICULTURAL LEVERS. comJnam i a r j c h crop of clover at the least 11 all shades and hit 
—-% __ cost is a problem to the solution of which I spersed with minut 
DV »«.» u>vc Jtvotc'l some forty years’ careful study used at different ntes 
lion. George Geddeb has my host thanks an(l observation. articles never iw ‘ « 
for his criticism on my brief allusion to his p ifl yrars H <r 0 I had sown tons of plaster fear , union i* . ' 
use of gypsum as a “ lever for moving a dead (m clovt ; r jk .]ds in Herkimer county with my stand the test withoi 
sod, or one long cultivated, forward into own hand . and for the last month the same tor is all right lor 
greater fruitfulness than it ever hadfor he hand ba4 . been busy in sowing clover need contract — if lie tu 
furnishes facts that go far to prove, not that in Knox county, Tennessee. In Knoxville In making up the 
I was in “error,” but the soundness of my re* faruK , rs pay $25 a ton for plaster of 2,240 consequence to en 
marks, and to illustrate important principles m(U . in Byracuse it is $4 a ton. To stock, implements 
in the practice and science of agriculture. produce a plenty of strong manure in the handiwork ; but m 
In this discussion, individuals arc next to « wJlcrP vegetative force is most useful, must, certainly )c e 
nothing, but truth is invaluable. Truth u a( {hr lmd implies “ the most ad- of the things ha 
reached in all that pertains to tillage and vancc(1 agricultural science;” and, as “the liberal, no matter) 
husbandry by giving to agricultural facts Blijl if ul agricultural engineer” lias done this, down hacks that i 
their exact meaning; and it. is attainable in { thftt Mr , Gkddeb retain “ the high have in las stable; 
no other way. Mr. Geddes appears to be- Beat in the congregation of improving farm- deal of style niuK 
lieve that 1 over estimate the value of the m » ^ vPl j C b he u declines.” draw, and it wing 
fertilizing salts of the Onondaga Halt Group Mr G gay9 j n substance, “ no one knows sporting characters 
of rocks which underlies his farm. From how fi£) mucll bl u t got into the Onondaga our Fairs ol late yc 
Mr. Geddks, the younger, while at his house sall basflu.” It doubtless got there as it did In this connect! 
v i .. . 1 it.nl aoo ft/.ld . * « » • i ..I!_ timf t\f\ 1Ift 1 fl ft Cl 
will deny Tlu-refore "lit fiubation how ^rbeta* *t on the tables of tho hou£. 
™ . ,‘rh cron of clover a! lire 1c,rat If »U rtredre and kind* are to be re™, 
eost^sapvoblcm re Ike solution of Wbicli I epersed with minute part,do, of l he I«.d 
have devoted some fort, year*’ careful study „«rel at ri I fferen t _n*c*vte, m.d tint * 
and observation. 
Fifty years ago I had sown tons of pi aster 
on clover fields in Herkimer county with my 
own hand ; and for the last month the same 
hand has been busy in sowing clover seed 
t iTnnv rrnintv Tennessee. In Knoxville 
lutftr (frops. 
POTATO EXPERIENCE. 
11 an suaoes anu •At, ^ - - - . 
spersed with minute particles of the food In the fall of 1865 I gathered from 1 cach- 
used at different meals, and unit ed with some blow potato vines seed balls and saved the 
grass are burned every year for want of any¬ 
thing to eat it. Hay is not sold much, but is 
nominally worth about $3 per ton; good 
working oxen are worth $150 per yoke; 
cows, about $40, and calves, $10 to $15. 
Rolfe, PocahonbasCo.. Iowa. OscarJ.Stiio.no. 
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MIXING WHEAT FOR SOWING. 
r 
articles never used as food, you will have no 
fear*, union it strength, and the butter will 
Stand the test, without fasting. The proprie¬ 
tor is all right for t he Fair; give him the 
contract— if he will pay enough foi it. 
seed in the same way we usually do tomato j N y 0Ur Rurau for April 8, “ S.” recom- 
seed, by washing and drying; in the spring mcm j g mixing different kinds or varieties of 
of 1860 1 saved the seed in beds in the same wheat f or see d — at least to produce wheat 
manner as we usually do heels and onions. 
The seed all grew. I gathered the tubers 
HUfliV. I l* *•* 1J ^ ---CJ . .i 
Tn making up the premium list it is of no j n the fall, and I had two quarts from in. 
... _........ DtrltlhilinfiO of , !>r/i r.nac tin In lfiTir/v walnuts. There are 
consequence to 
encourage exhibitions of s j zc of peas up to largo walnut*. There are 
s, fruit, flowers, or ladies’ several different kinds—live kinds of pink 
for family use. He gives various reasons for 
his practice, one of which is that such 
mixed wheat makes better flour—says many 
I millers say so. Does this look reasonable? 
Can a miller arrange his machinery so as to 
seat in the congregation of improving farm¬ 
ers” which hi; “ declines ” 
Mr. G. says in substance, “no one knows 
bow so much salt got into the Onondaga 
ileal of style undeveloped in them; they ness 1 am not prepared to speak, because ol I nol . and being a practical miller, I think 1 
draw and it brings in that class of liberal a very severe drouth which affected potatoes know that it is necessary , in order to pro- 
snorting characters that add so materially to very much in this locality; but there is a duCP the greatest yield of flour of the best 
our Fairs of late years. large difference in the time of their ripening, quality, that the cleaning, grinding and 
In this connection, be sure to advertise As near as I can judge, some arc as early as bolting machinery each be adjusted to suit 
that no betting or spirituous liquors be Early Goodrich. As to quality, there is cach kilK i an d quality of wheat, 
allowed on the ground, and then take no none better, according to my experience, The blast of wind necessary to properly 
notice of any gambling, swindling, or drunk- and I have grown Early Goodrich the past clean some samples of wheat would blow 
ennesa that may be in plain sight. In select- Hiree years, t he Hanson and the Shakers over and waste a considerable quantity ot 
ins bulges for this department, bead the list' Fancy the past two years, and the Early other sampleB, while the set of the burs that 
wUli some man that prefixes Hon. to his Rose the past season. With older kinds my ploperly grind some of the harder, 
name and if possible, get in the list some- experiments reach back several years. Two Ri n ti er varieties, would be altogether too 
body that can attach Rev. to liis; no matter years ago I bought some of the Gleason ; c i o9C for some of the softer varieties cutting 
if he does not go near the place, some other have grown them two seasons; do not want tho bran up badly and specking the flour, 
person can bo easily substituted at the time; to plant any more of them. and heating and spoiling its raising quah- 
t oives an air of respectability to the thing, Most of the farmers about here are down tie8< or , to use common mill language, “ ki 11- 
■uhI prevents people calling it demoralizing, on the Early Goodrich, and will not plant iU g it.” The same is true of the bolt ; to c o 
Pul.lir (minion among certain old puritanic them again; but! think the severe drouth tts work properly it must lie adjusted to suit 
Hie field produced; anci that the lasiuoj, Conenuuigh, Pennsylvania; Kenhawa, West 
(that of 1808) was 150 bushels of ears of corn Virginia; Preston and King salt works, in 
per acre. Southwestern Virginia; fehawnectown, 11- 
. • 1 ir 1 _ ..._a nr. (Iitu . c . -t * * —r T 1 . I . 
of such elements 01 crops aim oj i< ■ ik-v, «•’ 
potash, magnesia, phosphoric acid, assimi¬ 
lable nitrogen and carbon, not an ounce ot 
which has ever been returned to t he depicted 
soil by man. Every intelligent farmer who 
reads the Rural will thank me for an 
analysis of facts like those above concisely 
Btfttcd 
Apparently, to aid us in understanding 
their true meaning, Mr. Geddeb Says that 
Prof. Norton found 2.32 per cent, of potash 
and soda In the calcareous shale on which 
his farm rests. As rock or earth an inch in 
thickness over an acre, weighs 100 tons : 
twenty inches of such material as that 
analyzed, will contain over forty-six torn of 
these fertilizing alkalies per acre. No 
wonder that his long cultivated fields still 
contain in the surface soil 0 68 per cent ol 
potash and soda as shown by analysis. A 
lull of com drawing nutriment from 1,000 
pounds of earth has atfita command six and 
i„ In.*, I planted eight “ 
which ProioBBor Roolks (stim.iri * but these trials ofspeed arc popular at Fairs— bushels of Early Goodrich last May, and the Again, it is necessary to harvest wheat 
’lousaml feet m thickness, and t lC aa ’ ' t they draw product are very watery and heavy when whon it is just properly ripened, neither 
dUjwhieh Uieymay be W tohew- a \XTpmniums should also be offeredto cooked; 1 planted five bushels about, the cutting it too green nor allowing it tpbe- 
narne, 
Will'll 1 1 UlVJDDcM uouiiO" - " v % 1 
thousand feet in thickness, and the facility but these trials of speed are popular 
hire for manure, it lias often occurred to me Lif 
that our reading farmers really know less any u 
what, “ sail is fit for the dunghenp ” and what locipi 
is not 11 fd," than the cultivators of the soil our t 
knew in the time of the Apostles, whom our for tli 
Saviour called “ the salt of the earth ” gant 
One thousand pounds of sea water con- nroui 
tain from one to two pounds of gypsum; I'sion 
while Dr. L. C. Beck found 4.03 pounds “dra 
of gypsum in one thousand pounds of water garni 
from a salt well at Geddesburg. One thou- sure 
sand parts from a Syracuse, well gave 5.6!) inter 
parts; and Montezuma salt water gave tiling 
5.23 parts per thousand. It is natural that there 
liie evaporation of sea water should concen- goes 
Liberal premiums 
eight-tenths pounds of potash and soda, to (rate, not only common salt as found in these 
nothing of the much larger supply below. xvc n g} . mc \ j n salt-bearing rocks, but all the annual address, it is ol no consequence o 
mt resources of this extent are uncommon, ol i K . r ’ sa i w pf B oda, lime, magnesia, and pot- get any one that knows anything about 
few will deny; and as Mr. G. fails to sec ;(sh wlljc h are equally involatilc, and found farming or mechanical operations. If you 
bow “sea salts rise up about the roots ol jn JUo oe< , a „ cannot get some eminent politician from a 
.• .1 — aJI * a fnHiUvD lllf*. K()il lor .* / ,* /• „ P K Af.l/w, n nifuirtnl. rliufntlPP t~Jl.lv P flllfl TlL'ctl* IjOIHO. 1 FH-SC UM 
Ground the track with an occasional col* Farmers think very highly of them, and connected with the assertion that such a 
lision or Dlumre in tlic dirt, cannot fail to will plant largely of them this spring. The mixtl ,re made better flour, and thought it 
“draw” In addition to this, introduce some Shaker’s Fancy has been raised about here al)mrtl i rae such an erroneous idea was ex- 
caraes-base ball playing, foot race; am not for the past two years, and Is thought highly pfoded. Berkshire. 
sure but “snap and catch ’em” might be of both for its productiveness and quality. Ridge F arm, Til., 1860. -- 
interesting, and “ draw the crowd.” Some- They are white, dry and mealy when cook- rnI ttjre 
SSJ attractive is wanted to call people «L They cook dry and mealy when ha COTTON^ CULTURE, 
there. The time has gone by when any one grown. In flavor and quality theyiw&cquai Dickson, Sparta, Ga„ in the 
goes there to learn anything useful. to Peach Blow. ic > J var j e t' v Southern Cultivator, gives some hints which 
Tn select ins the person to deliver the productive, am ><; . _ mav benefit oor Southern readers. lie says 
tiling.attractive is wanted to can peopm 
there. The time hies gone by when any one 
goes there to learn anything useful. 
In selecting the person to deliver the 
Ridge Farm, Ill., I860. _ _ 
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COTTON CULTURE. 
David Dickson, Sparta, Ga., in the 
Southern Cultivator, gives some hints which 
water from the surface to dry the ground, 
for all tillage purposes. This fact, proves 
that even such apparently impervious day 
has pores through which water holding 
salts in solution may either descend or 
ascend at least, four feet. The ascent of 
water by hydrostatic pressure, from con¬ 
siderable depths below the surface of the 
ground, is proved by it® rise in many 
springs and artesian wells. In one of the 
Matter, in Alabama, water rises in a tube far 
the Hubjoct, hoping that the study of agri* hardy, honest yeomanry that have oltui 
cultural facts would lead to the use of salts saved the country —tell of the great wealth 
of potash, soda, and magnesia, as well as that is dug out of the soil—how the fanners 
... „ i .... it... — 1-k-win /vf nfill-in • 
ficiently plenty for our markets, ou account 
of its carliness and productiveness. 
Seneca Co., N. Y., lstt'.t. A. C. Ceauk. 
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CORN CULTURE IN IOWA. 
Iowa will probably be the home, of a great 
first picking, up to the middle ot October, 
selecting from stalks that send out one or 
more suckers near the ground, sometimes 
called arms. These arms need not be 1<>oked 
for on poor land. Secondly, from those that 
send out limbs thick with three to six bolls, 
from a half inch to one and ft half inches 
gypsum and phosphate ol lime, for the ad¬ 
vancement of Agriculture. 
Gap Crook, Tenn., 1869. 
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MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETIES. 
aved the country — tell of the groat wealth mari y c f your readers, who reside, as I used apart on the limbs. It you do not keep 
hat is dug out of the soil—how the farmers ^ ^ 1o q lf , k!us ^ 0 f ti K! Mississippi; there- your land well charged w ith humus, the 
now are the wealthiest men of the nation ; , H . interested - m Ir,wa affairs, cotton limbs will be too short/—manure 
while others are going iuto bankruptcy, no The most of farming is carried on differently well, plow deep, cultivate w ith t he sweep 
farmer’s name is gazetted; that, the farmer ^ fr ora w liat it is in New York, especially very shallow—scrape with the hoe instead 
has never been properly appreciated in the ra j 8 } n „. cor „, which often causes disputes be- of digging or chopping- -if you cut the cot- 
nation, &c. All this will be decidedly pleas- 'Western tanners and those who have ton roots, you will make stalks instead of 
ing and flattering to the few who listen to . comc from the Eastern States. bolls. On all farms there are some acres 
this annual bore. 
By careful attention to these directions, 
►latter in Alabama, water rises in a tube far Friend Moore:—As Agricultural Socie- By care foi attention to these directions, 
enough above ground to drive a grist mill, tics have generally elected their officers for your Fairs will be successful in a money 
and is used for that purpose. That water the present year, and arc now looking for p0 int of view, and the next report will show, 
after percolating from 100 to 1,000 feel in the best methods of managing such organi- as the P apere will say, a very flattering con- 
depth, and for miles in extent, through nations, it would seem a proper, time to give of the treasury, and of course your 
ocean-formed strata, should dissolve out sortie suggestions as to their profitable man- g oc iety in a flourishing condition. 
F. W. I- 
“sea salts" of value as plant food, need not agement and general direction. Western New York, isfiO. F - w - L - 
surprise any farmer. That water rises by Now there are two objects sought for, at —- 
capillary attraction, indefinitely, through U ie present time, in our Fairs- to make A Him to Plowmen.-A. C. ^ 
porous earth, and often brings up salts of m omy, mid to benefit the industrial interest* 
lime, iron, alumina, potash, soda and mag- of the community, rhe latter is much the ptrikinHfOUttt i„ n ,i that, width take one-half that 
nesia, in sufficient quantities to form a crust least important: for of what consequence is wi(ltbi pac .„ 0 g fl V e rods from t ho end, and set in 
of salt on the ground, in long continued dry a society or individual, now-a-days, if poor, your plow and plow to within live rods of the 
wclr whcS the’ water evaporates in lt usedt, be the ease that poverty was only «tt«r end« 
recently come from the Eastern States. bolls. On all farms there arc some acres 
Here, in Northwestern Iowa, nobody who that produce cotton better than others. Seed 
lias lived here long will bring a hoe into his for planting should always be selected from 
corn-field, but will repeatedly plow out Ids these spots. 
corn, plowing as close to the plants as pos- “Many planters have visited me. the last 
siblr but not hilling them up; while an year, and they were astonished that my cot- 
Eastern man, who lm* seen the benefit of ton, planted the. 10th of May, was more for- 
hilling up his’corn, all liis lifetime, will per- ward than theirs, planted the l()th of April, 
sisl in hilling up his corn here for one season. I often told them, in a joking way , that they 
Then lie will begin to think ho bad better were root cutters; they often confessed they 
weather, when the water -evaporates m u used to be the case that poverty was only 
large amounts, is a fact of great agricultural }IU inconvenience, and not an indictable 
significance. Ground covered with clover, offence; but, as society is now constituted, 
grass, corn or forest, trees, presents tenfold poverty is the concentration of all evils, 
more surface of foliage for evaporation, This being the case, the management, and 
than naked ground possesses, thereby in- premium list must be so arranged as to 
creasing the ascent, of water about the roots “ draw.” AH sortsof shows must, he allowed 
of plants. Hence the importance of covering within; they, of course, paying handsomely 
the nakedness of our old fields in the South, for the privilege. Big snakes, fat women, 
with herbage or forest trees, to recuperate negro singers — to say nothing of some cor- 
the denuded places. We have more than nor allotted to a thimble-rigger, sweat cloth, 
one bundled million acres in turned out old <> r dealer in forty-rod whisky. Make them 
fields, and are adding yearly to the number. pa y well, but by all means admit tln^, 
I had over four hundred acres of these old though not by their true name; call it 
fields on my farm in Georgia; and I sug- “exliibition of skill,” “refreshment stand,” 
rested “Suppose Mr. Geddes' farm rested & c . Let them put a shade before the en- 
A Hint to Plowmen* A. C. THOMAS, of WiS- *> ,, 4 i n 
eonsln Bays in the Western Rural, that, “If you do as Western tauiui d. 
wish to stow a land ten rods wide, Instead of The prairie here has to be broken at the 
striking out a land that width lake oae-half (bat proper lime, or the sod Avill remain tough 
width, pace off five rods from tho end, and set in eral ytars The best, time to break prairie 
your plow and plow to within live rods of the llic ‘ mon ,,h of .June; but the last of May, 
other end and stop; now back harrow as usual n .» r T , .ill answer I would 
the reauli-ed width uud then turn a square cor- or the first half ot .1 ulj ." 3 ‘ 1 
nor at the end. obsorvitig to have t tie end furrow Jlot , have land broken after the. first. Ol All¬ 
oa a parallel lino with the outside. By this ,r US t if anybody would do it for nothing; for 
means you will always turn round on thostuti- „i, ou i ( i‘ no i VxpVct to raise anything for 
hie, thus leaving the land untrodden, and Instead 1 sliOUKI noi xpeot j 
of ‘dead furrows’ at the corners you will have three or loui yCats. 
‘ ridges.’ ” ^ _ In 1866 1 broke up some prairie in June, 
. . ., i and some more, by the side ol it, in the latter 
... f. . VS.. 1 . nn nnf-lll * _ V 
put the turning plow to the cotton the first 
The prairie here has to he broken at the | plowing, then the shovel plow the balance 
•oner time or the sod will remain tough | of the season, getting no bolls until after the 
, c t|u? case that poverty was only other end and stop; now back harrow ms usual lh U 
, i" the required width and then turn a squave cor- or the first li 
mlence, and not an indicia fit nor attheend, observing to have (tic end furrow J1( )t have hi 
on a parallel line with the outside. By this 
mean* you will always turn round on the stub- 
bio, thus leaving the land untrodden, and instead 
of ‘dead furrows’ at the comers you will have 
‘ ridges.’ ”___. 
Intelligence of Ants— Each ant in an ant-hill 
knows its companions. Mr. Darwin several 
times carried unts front ©no hill toauothei, in¬ 
habited apparently by tons of thousands of ants; 
but the strangers were invariably detected and 
killed. Thinking that there might be a family 
odor by which they were recognised, be put 
florae nuts from n very large nest into a bottle 
icveral years- The best timo to break prairie cotton was laid by. 
is in the month of .June; but the last of May, “I do not approve of hill planting. I 
or the first half of J uly, will answer. I would would not have a row nearer than four feet, 
not have land broken after the first of An- Use a No. 2 Scovell hoe—leave two to three 
“ust if anybody would do it for nothing; for stalks in every hill—distance between hills 
I should not expect to raise anything for the width of the hoe. There are many rea- 
three or four years. sons for this; the best one is, it makes it 
In 1866 1 broke up some prairie in June, more forward. About the various manures, 
ami some more, by the side of it, in the latter I will merely mention that I consider am- 
part of July. The following spring I sowed monia the first, soluble bone the second best, 
it all to oats, doing the same work on each. 
The land that was broken in June yielded 
twice as much per acre as the other. 
The first year that the prairie is plowed 
not much of a crop is raised; yet corn is 
salt and plaster a good preventive of rust 
in cotton, besides possessing other good 
properties/*_ ( _ 
Test 8ccd Corn.—An Illinois correspondent of 
l he Prairie Farmer says“No ear of corn should 
fields on my farm in Georgia; and 1 sug- “exliibition of skill,” “refreshment stand, them nfter twenty-four hours. At first, they f avora bie, it will yield, without any cutti- 
gested, “ Suppose -Mr. Geddes’ farm rested Let them put a shade before the, en- wore threatened by their companions, but soon val j on , cn or f,n,ecai bushels per acre. The 
on a granite subsoil, with the surface soil trance, and it, will he all right, and your recognised, and allowed to pass. second vear generally produces a moderate 
washed off,” then a stronger “ lever ” than treasury will have the benefit. Also give ^ n “ >V orm 8 . A writer in the Dublin crop of small grain (wheat, oats, &c.,) but is 
gypsum would be required to “ lift the dead the best situation — they paying for it, of Fftrmcrg . Ga3Wtte gays tliai. ho procured somo n0t adapted to corn, as the sod is yet too 
soil forward into greater fruitfulness than it course—to all patent right swindles, and any hairs from the tail of an old maria (roots at- ^ ^ to a dmit of plowing enough; the 
ever had." 1 found that a mixture of wood other humbug that may he offered whereby 
ashes, salt, and gypsnitl would cause even a the unsophisticated may be taken in. All 
poor subsoil to produce a fair crop of clover these can afford to pay well, and very ma- 
aml orchard grass. No manure containing terially help the general fund in the treas- 
carbon and assimilable nitrogen was ncccs- urcr’s hands. 
sary. In a word, my experience in fertiliz- The next thing is to find the proper man 
Inched) tied them in a calico bos, and placed it 
under a stone in a stream: some weeks at for this 
he examined the hairs and found to his surprise 
that they had turned intolonp, wiry, rod worms. 
He says he never would have behoved it, if he 
had not himself tried the experiment. 
ing naturally thin and badly na-shod old w feed Ilia crowd. Select the one tint baa S." comma to the labor of rairing an acre of com bare in 
fields in Georgia, with mineral substances, the reputation ol having the toughest beef, &)Uthe ^ n Miohij?an should keep clear of elites p u t, a fraction of that required East. . best variety of oats they know of eultiva 
harmonizes with that of Mr. Geddes and stalest butter, and poorest provisions of all an( i sma ii towns; for such plaoes are filled with There is not an acre of tame grass in this that part of the State? A young farmer 
thousands of other New York farmers, who kinds, and let him have the victualing (le- young men who do not care to soil their precious but many thousand tons of prairie who has a sandy loam soil wants to know, 
achieve the same result with plaster alone, partment, as he can afford to pay the most hands by working on a farm. 
A writer in the Dublin crop of small grain (wheat, oats, &c.,) huL is whUo the latter will be dark-colored and soft. 
Sof'Si "’"S'* >« ° r 1 ’ lOTV ", ,K e "”“ gb: U “ wblappcareuuiidyn.l bright, while then,horend 
rt Tomfweeks Id mr this third year t he sod gets rotten and any crop op polntj whkh i8 to form the stalk, will bo dam- 
nd found to his surprise will thrive. Then one man can tend about aged: which T believe to be the ease this year in 
Olong, wiry, red worms. foyty acres of corn, Which will yield from 
1 have believed lt, if he 1 ^ tQ l 600 bushels. More com can he If 81 fal1 ’ the LOra was pr0pLr i y 
o experiment. raised on an acre on the river bottoms of raa ure ' --——— 
** T xt..... York than on an acre of prairie; but Kinds or Wlmnt und Oats.—Will not some of 
•n Michigan.—8. Loomis, Ncw 1 orK tnan i l our st _ l4twren co Co., N. Y., snbBoribers having 
*‘ Persons coming to the labor of raising an acre o experience, name the best kind of wheat and 
>nld keep dear of cities but a fraction of t hat required Last. best variety of oats they know of cultivated in 
tch places are filled with There is not an acre of tame grass in this that part ( ‘f the State? A young farmer there 
