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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
Fftf'* 
ARBonicn.Tt'Rr.—Th»; Lurch -VtHiticf ; Tre** on the Hlfchwiiy*.277 
Landscape *« akdmninu.—( ifcrdvu Walt*; ..277 
1 n in’flmi a i. Tones.—About Atrfaultoral Levon; Management 
of As:ricult J iral RocioUn ; A Iitntto PJowtsm ; Intelligence of 
Ant* ; Hot*** Jfi*lr Wornii, Young Men In Southern Michigan.278 
Field Chop*.— T- iito Experience j Com Culture In low* ; Mix* 
it..; Wheat far bowiDtfi Cotton Culture; T«*t Seed Com; 
Kind a of Wlitnt and Out*.5?7b 
Kot Khtouolooical.—T he Following MlhlfeitOM ; “The Potato 
linmbuf Norway OaU ; CheuikaJ Ana lysis, Again...279 
Scientific a*»> L'memm..—W lml I*To Be; Cement for Gloan and 
Metal; The Italian Houwsl’alnW-r; Curtuua 1'reduction of Cold.279 
Till Hr.icnvMA*. Period* or GefUtiOD ; JLwriiflR Calve* to 
Drink; clover Surd uad Abortion........279 
7 nit Aimaiuan. - M Rtv Your iioo* Offal j* 1 Where Th e* Gather 
Honey ; .YMillot or Sweet Clover for Bnk* ; Jlow to Find a 
Queen ; D***r riptfan of Itee-Hiv* Atked Vot ........... .279 
Tim OARORfiift,—The Fanner’* Garden ; Jlrwtlliun Sweet Pota.to.23tQ 
About Tint Sorni^—Note* of Travel South- V; PfOfn N nr fn lk ^Vit.VHO 
Tn* VivavAitn.—flint* far VinerardUU ; Growing(TUus- 
trntvd ;) The AdiromUc Grape ... 2 Hf 
DfurvaeiOHa. New York Farmer#* Club* Cae(/wO»I Bean, Ramie 
or Now Textile Plant, Governor Donjjsn Apple, New Potntu 
Seedling, Grtiidinr Are*, Another Side of the PUtuie, QuIijav 
lu Hop, Cure of Kidney Worm*, A Womnn's Letter. 98t 
PoMor/NMOAf.. - Pornolnglail Memoranda Plum I.Ut*, Anger* 
Quince, <*r.dley Chetry, P«**<h Li*t UrroinmiucM, •* Mc.ikiw 
Ever-boanirig .Strawberry **,. . ..... . 
FaH.m Rcohgmi*. - Pninni far Doop Wnllt; fniprvfwwgj 
Koadi; Bugttv ami Riding Cultivatm ; Qusiek »*raa*; Murk 
V*. Marl ; CW Marker fIllu«trAt«i| j) The Coming Plow; 
W.. I'lpo ; Hydraulic Sewer; Sr. I Annlyut*.. - U ' J 
Tna Potttky Yaud. Woreeater Poultry Show : Poultry Prod¬ 
uct*: Kgtr Phmommta; Profitable PWuflry J A CnriOuafKowl ; 
Chicken Olmjfrn ; Chhken Pox ; WIU Shipped Kw Hatch, 
Dairv HraiASOBY, -Stock ft* Hi* Dairy; Soiling and pMturlng.JfiS 
Domhbtic Economy.' IILacu'i t • lllu*.;) IIou« Cleaninp. .2-33 
Tine IfoRSKMAHr- MMo of Reiwiring lIottM' Fuel; Preparing 
Food far Mom*; Worm* In Horae* ; Barley Straw far Horae*..283 
KdltoRiAU, Kit!.— 4i The Spring Flood* j f< Editorial Prerogative* ; 
Rural Note* und Qmriw. Our Sheep l(n*hamlrv Department, 
“ Will It pay,** The luaper and *lowi#,TlioCoflntry Chuwn 
Market, UnVlft Mr.-k Yard*, CM curt, Corn • IlltrioU, How U> 
Ex tormina ta I j» .i Sprout*. The Canker Worm, Grua* for no 
Oak Grove, Preparing Outre Orange Seed far f'lnMUitr. Norway 
v*. Snrnrlee Catii 8utnalraxiami*aud |.f«liutaCnw,Whll* Straw 
Crop*, To Prevent Large lloge from FIghP.ng Smnll Ou«». Fowl* 
Wanted, Cattle PaUnned l>r Paint, Plwtrr for Grape Cutting*, 
The Knn n' Fanner, Taxidermy, Bol.iMrr Plg*. Tim Tlriilning, 
When to S ow Coni tor Soiling, IncnKatoT} Induatrinl Soeteliftft; 
The Season.284 
Et>r<r*TTo* Ai..--C/>naernl»g Librnrm*; A Country £eho<d*Hou*e ; 
Agriritltural Crdlnga*. «9df» 
Public Jui'noVK»Rsia.~Arpuli Ra'lway (HtuUrxted).. ,28b 
SrorrfN rou Hi ftAiit*t*.—Her Victory- An Every-Day Story On 
• faded)... -2S(> 
Peilhokal Item*. “!nter<v;ting Peraonal Brevltlo*.....,.28ft 
Laotb*.’ PoBT-Koi.ro. Alice (Poetry ;> Wedding Boil* (Poetry;) 
My C!oll on t)»e Frontier; A Prlrna Donna ; Graulpy Paragr»pnH.28T 
Ctiotra Mw’KM.ahv. — Our Fairy Ring ( Portrr ;) TotinyBon’f 
u Sir Gain had Thv Law of PlaaiiBg ; Sxitdwlijir'e.28T 
SAnr.ATit RkaM.no.—T hrough Night to Light (Poetry ;) Our Ish- 
inOtd* ; Thu Soul.......28? 
Now* 09 niK Vi'ruf, Demeat fa New* — Including New* from 
Wn»)iiitgftnn, Vf»K York, New Ilarnpuhlre, Vermont-, Mnwarhu- 
fptla, Conn.--\- ol. New ,L ruy, Pntnaylvania, Maryland. Vir¬ 
ginia, South Carolina, T/mltiaiiA, Tonnraaee, Kentarky, llllnoia, 
Michigan, Mlnmoota. Mlatnttrf, Cniifarnln^ Wyoming, Fifth; 
Foreign New»—Ittclualng N*w* from Cuba.........288 f fi8d 
Tn i: Makkct>. — Stork nnd Money; Produce iutd Provialonf; 
Live Spick .. .?;.282 
Art ani» ARTinra. Aeademy of D*c4gn.»....29(v 
Nkws and Nuvai.TtRa. CmiialnlUK Twelve Item*., .. ....290 
The Niva Covdkniikr. -Over Silty Late Interesting Brevities.291 
Fon Yotmet Prorj.a. The Wild Koee (Poetry i) Enay lesson* fn 
Jlotauy; Rural Four.Year Old*..,.,..292 
The Puzzlkk, -Rohua, Enlgtnna, Charade, Etc..292 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
A HOUSEHOLD WORD. * 
' Coi.gatk ft Co., tn the manufacture of Toilet 
Snaps, liuvo nttainod a national celebrity. Their 
name i* a household word.— MethoMst Home Journal. 
INTERESTING TO LADIES. 
I have had one of Grover &, Baker's machines in 
use fourteen year?, during which time 1 have worked 
constantly on it, and it has never cost one cent for 
repairs. K. A. l’AGK, Keene, N. H. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY 
Ib one of the institutions of tho times. It is doing 
an immense business, and furnishes all kinds of 
Teas at so low u rate that it Is a marvel how it is 
done.—Examiner and Chronicle. New York. 
ALL ERUPTIONS VANISH 
From tho face, bosom, arms or any other part of the 
body, under the offset of M'a kfokp’* Iuon and Siti,- 
rnt'ii PnwmsRR. The iron quickens the circulation, 
and the sulphur frees the blood from anything of mi 
irritating nature, nnd brings it to the surface in the 
form of a subtle fluid which Is exhaled through the 
millions of little orifices which ventilate the system 
through the skin. The cure the Powders accom¬ 
plish is perfect, because they obliterate the cuuses 
of the disfigurement. No outward applications will 
do this. 
Sold by Druggists. 1 Package, 12 Powders, $1; (1 
Packages, 12 Powders, fff>. Mailed Free. HALJ, & 
RUCKEL, 218 Greenwich Street, New York. 
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TO REMOVE MOTH PATCHES, 
Freckle* nnd Tan from the face, use Pewit’s Moth 
axi> Fbec’KI.k IjOTIon. Prepared only by Dr. It. C. 
Perry, 49 Bond street, New York. So4d by Druggists 
everywhere. 1004-lSt 
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SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1869. 
“THE SPRING FLOODS.” 
MauvELO tisLY sweet is the. flood of Spring 
air which vitalize* things material and hu¬ 
man. Glorious is the flood of sunshine 
which quickens the triangular clover plant* 
in Ihe Park and is tinting the brown outlines 
of the trees with emerald. Wo look down 
Park Place across the North River, over op¬ 
en the Jersey hills, and mentally extend our 
vision across the broad Rural, parish be¬ 
yond. Wo envy the broad-shouldered, con¬ 
tented farmers who set about the spring 
processes with the love and spirit of renova¬ 
tion in keeping with the season. Were ours 
a poet's pencil, it should fill this page with a 
Spring song which would inspire every fann¬ 
er, farmer’s wife, son and daughter, with 
renewed zeal horn of a clear comprehension 
of the compensations which Rural Life 
yields to those who, seeing, sec the wonder¬ 
ful works of the Creator and the miracles 
which are so constantly wrought by Him for 
their enjoyment, and profit, and, hearing, 
hear the sweet symphonies constantly ut¬ 
tered by Nature’s grand orchestra. 
“ That is all very pretty,” says the hard- 
handed plowman, as he wipes the sweat 
from his brow; “ but it is a matter-of-fact life 
we lead." So it is, and so it ought to be. 
But in the matters of fact are to be found 
the compensations and enjoyments of which 
wo speak. It is precisely because life is so 
mechanical to the husbandman that the 
Spring floods of God’s sending do not irri¬ 
gate his heart and his soul, and cleanse his 
mind of the floodwood which dams up and 
renders stagnant and dead tha stream of liis 
thoughts. 
If we could, we would write words which 
should cause the scales to fall from the eyes 
of eveiy man and hoy who treads the green 
turf this Spring, who stirs the soil and plants 
the seed and waits with faith for the harvest 
God has promised to those who plant and 
sow. Life should he cheerier and easier, 
because each day should Increase their con¬ 
tentment in their vocation — because each 
phenomenon which the Spring brings to 
each field should be found a problem worthy 
their most earnest study, and the solution of 
which should yield to them truths of which 
they had heretofore never dreamed. 
We are not theorizing nor dreaming, nor 
conjuring up pleasant fancies to tickle day- 
dreamers. This is a most practical article. 
It is born of experiences on a farm—of ex¬ 
periences involving hard manual labor in all 
the departments of farm husbandry. We 
are not talking of impossibilities; for we 
know by experience what is the prose of 
farm life and the poetic possibilities thereof. 
We seek only to beget in other's the practical 
enjoyments and profits winch result from 
pursuing farm avocations con amove. We 
want to increase the fruits of farm labor and 
desire that they should be as sweet and 
palatable to the farmer as we know they may 
be. AVe have in view 1 lie future of agricul¬ 
ture as well as the present of the agricultu¬ 
rist We do not want the industrious man 
to be a mental drone—an automaton on his 
own domain. The Rural desires and aims 
to lift those it, may influence to a higher 
plane of enjoyment as well as help them to 
greater material profits. Its would be a 
barren mission indeed if it had a less com¬ 
prehensive purpose. It would utterly fail 
to meet the demands of the limes and to 
keep pace with the spirit of progress which 
characterizes the present generation and in¬ 
vests our country with its greatest glory and 
influence among the nations. 
EDITORIAL PREROGATIVES. 
The prerogatives of an editor are rather 
grudgingly acknowledged by the writing 
public. Ilis right to decline or accept what 
is written, is conceded; but his reasons for 
editorial action in this respect are impatiently 
inquired after. Just why this poem is de¬ 
clined, or that story, is tho unanswered 
question over and over repeated. Other 
poems or stories have appeared, no more 
worthy, the author fondly imagines, and why 
such unjust discrimination ? In a late num¬ 
ber of Harper’s Monthly the “Easy Chair” 
treated very sensibly of this matter. What 
was said of the magazine editor is equally 
true of the editor of a weekly journal, and in 
some respects even more so. Listen to the 
“Easy Chair:” 
“ Imperator” wishes to know why in the 
interest of a sound literature the editor will 
not state Ills reasons for declining a contribu¬ 
tion. Dear sir, an editor is an autocrat. The 
king wills it—that is the reason. When n 
sensitive teacher is instructing his pupil upon 
the piano, he exclaims," Hi,hi! that’s a false 
note!” But, good “ Imperator,” shall lie 
undertake to show to her exactly why it is a 
false note ? 
Now editing is by no means so exact a 
science as music; but an editor feels the false 
note as surely as the teacher. He knows 
instinctively—or he is not a good editor— 
what is “available;” that is, magazinable. 
It would lake him a long time to explain, anil 
might, not. satisfy you after all in the partic 
ular case of your article. But bis instinct is 
final for his purpose, and you ought to under¬ 
stand that it is no kind of reflection upon 
your article. If he should stop to explain to 
every writer of a contribution that bo must 
return why he returned it, the publication of 
the magazine would necessarily be suspend¬ 
ed. You gentlemen who sit at home at ease 
and write epic poems and novels and essays, 
and mail them to editors, little know how the 
stormy winds of speed do blow in the editorial 
sanctum, an.l that. it. is—saving your author¬ 
ship—enough to read without explaining 
why the reading is not satisfactory. 
Ah, hut, says .Artaxerxes, it is so disagree¬ 
able, so mortifying, to receive your manu¬ 
script back again. And how long would you 
buy a magazine, conducted upon the principle 
of printing whatever was sent in order to 
Spare the feelings of the writer? No, good 
friends nnd fellow-authors, use the same 
sagacity in dealing with the magazine and 
vonr contributions that you do in all other 
relations of business, and you will not, regard 
an editor as not only your natural enemy, 
but a proud and insolent tyrant likewise. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Onr fsliprp Huthnniiry Department is omitted 
this week in consequence of the non-arrival of 
copy from its Editor—attributable, probably, to 
the detention of the mails and trains for several 
days on the N. Y. Central Railroad, caused by an 
extraordinary freshet In the interior. 
“ Will It Pay."—The nutnborof letters wo got 
asking advice as to whether it will pay to buy 
this or that picoo of land, or to migrate to 
this or that point, or to engage in This or 
that kind of business, is so great tlmt it would 
tax all our time to prepare advice in response, 
and do it so as to render it <d' value to persons 
inquiring. It is not, therefore, from any indis¬ 
position to aid our friends, but. from actual want 
of time, that a score or more of long letters 
before us will never receive other answer than 
this paragraph. 
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The nest Draper ntei Mower,—A Subscriber. 
Ypsilanti, Michigan, asks “ which combined 
reaper ami mmvflr is regarded to bo the heat, 
taking into consideration price, durability, draft, 
and which works the best tn deep furrows?" If 
our correspondent U&d asked us to name the 
prettiest and smartest woman In the country wc 
could have answered him as easily and as accu¬ 
rately. 
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The Country Fhcese Market.—Tho choose mar¬ 
ket, for the week ending April JMth, varies but 
little from last week. The quantity of cheese 
delivered this week was quite .small, on account’ 
of the tod condition of the roads ill the northern 
tow ns <>f the county, being yet Jilted with snow. 
Farm dairies of tho best quality sold a t Hie. \? tt\. 
t hat being the top price. Dairies much skimmed 
went at from 2o. to 3c. loss. Good factories, un¬ 
skimmed, will bring readily 30c. 
Wo can report the sales of two only—th j Man- 
hciin at 19c., and tho Starkville at saint price, 
both of Herkimer county—the chocs* partly* 
skimitiod. 
Our advices from abroad represent stocks as 
light, and a good demand at slightly advanced 
rates. The highest prices paid this week in 
open market for spring butter was 4fle. ^ it. 
Later in the day price declined to 38c. Not 
much in market. 
Union Stock Yanis, Chicago.—\ge glean tho 
following figures from a compact and compre¬ 
hensive Annual Review of the Chicago Live 
Stock Market by I!. Griffiths, editor of the 
Chicago Live Stock Reporter. Those yards now 
embrace one hundred and twenty acres in pens, 
and forty-seven acres aw occupied by hotels and 
other buildings. Under the yards are thirty-five 
miles of underdmins. The streets and alleys are 
ten miles in length. There Are a,Odd open cattle 
pens, 1,000 covered bog and sheep pens, and 2,700 
gates. The corn troughs, if placed in a line, 
would lie live miles in length; the feed troughs 
would be fifteen miles. There are two artesian 
wells respectively 1,033 and 1,1*0 feet In depth, 
yielding an aggregate of inti.000 gallon* of water 
daily. The railroad receipts of cattle at these 
yards in 18G7 were 327,650; in 1808,32L524. In 1855 
the reccipt-s were only 10,715 head. The railroad 
reoeipts of live hogs in Isos were 1,705,433: ship¬ 
ments, 1,020,329. The gross weight of hogs re¬ 
ceived in 1868 was 398,711,894 pounds. The num¬ 
ber of oars used iti delivering stock in Chicago 
market in 186* were 35,354; in shipping slock 
from said market, 33.407, or a total of 88,761 cars. 
Ilad these all hern made up in one train with 
the locomotives required to draw them, the 
train would have reached nearly live hundred 
and four miles, and been preceded by a “ team” 
of locomotives twenty-five miles in length. Tho 
estimated amount of money that went into pro¬ 
ducers’ hands for Jlvo stock delivered nt this 
market in 186,8, at tho average of prices obtained, 
is as follows: 
324.M4 cut tic nt W,.m » joa ms..$20,101,798 
1,786,1575 bogs “ 19.00 ?< bead.. 33,046.825 
270,875 sheep “ 3.50 V bead.... 1148,063 
Total.$33,826,686 
Corn in Illinois.—S. D. A., Roasville, Illinois, 
writesWe raised last year an average of sixty- 
two bushels of corn per acre. This we stack up 
in the fields as soon as matured. It makes our 
feed for fattening cattle. It is hauled into the 
feed lots and scattered on the ground. The 
cattle there eat it; the hogs follow the cattle and 
clean up what is left. This the Eastern farmers 
call wasteful;’but I notice when they immi¬ 
grate hither they soon get out of Hie notion of 
carrots, t urnips, boiled potatoes, &c. Hogs have 
heen contracted for to go to market In May nnd 
June, at Kltfio. '<# Tt >.; cat lie to go May 1, at 
7!)i'fe8c. -i> lb. gross. Fo you sew there is a profit 
in feeding in the West where corn has brought 
during the winter thirty and forty cents per 
bushel. 
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How to Exterminate Locust Sprouts.— Please 
inform your correspondent “Locust Sprout,” 
that if his troublesome locusts arc so located 
that they can he gone over with tho ax. cutting 
down tho old growths, ami then torn sheep in on 
the sprouts and suckers, a single season will do 
tho business for him. The same is true Of black¬ 
berries ami other troublesome growt hs. Not the 
least value of this useful animal, in my opinion, 
is it* great services in keeping down under¬ 
growth and in rendering rough land arnhle and 
fit for pasture. No animal leaves land so clean 
and fn such good condition for other animals, or 
for the plow, as tho sheep. No other animal 
returns as much buck to the land, nnd draws so 
lightly upon It for sustenance and growth, as 
tho sheep.— Nprthwfst. 
The Cnnkcr Worm,—JAMES Van VALKKN- 
nuRG, East Illoomfteld N. Y., writes us that the 
following has proven an effectual remedy against 
the ravages of this worm Cut cotton batting 
in strips six inches wide, place a strip around the 
body of tho tree, tie withstrongtwlne about, tin* 
middle of the belt, turn the part above ihe 
twine down until the upper edge Is even with 
the lower edge of the .•■trip, then lie another 
string around Iho center of the part turned 
down. He treated two hundred trees in this 
manner the first, of tho proBcnt month, (April,) 
and has not found that any of the vermin have 
passed over the obstruct ion, while large num¬ 
bers of them are found entangled in tho cotton, 
and chiefly on tho lower edge. Tho expense of 
protecting trees in this manner is not great—one 
pound of cotton being sufficient for about seven 
trees. 
Grass for nil Oak Grove. Will somo of your 
readers inform rne which is t he best, grass to sow 
in all oak grove? The gi'ovo is almost entirely 
white oak. I am told that tho oak leaves will 
destroy both blue and orchard grass. Is it true, 
or not?—Jos. W. Cukiuk, IlnnviisviUe, Tenn. 
We are quite sure wo have seen blue grass 
thriving under the beautiful oaks in the Valley 
of Virginia. Without any experience, however, 
it would bo tho first grass wa should think of 
sowing in such a place. And we know that 
both the rod and white clovers will grow under 
the oaks. 
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Preparing Osage Orange Seed for Planting.—A 
correspondent of the Kansas Farmer prepares 
Osage Orange seed for planting in the following 
manner:—“I now have over 40,ooo splendid 
plants, raised tho past season, from twelve 
pounds of seed. 1 pot the seed in a vessel, t hen 
covered it with warm water, (nothofHng, as many 
recipes toll us.) let it stand for about a week, 
keeping it near the stove where it. remained 
warm all tho time, stirred it thoroughly once 
each day. At the end of this time took it out, 
pot it into a gunny sack, dug a shallow hole, say 
about two inches deep, spread the seed thinly as 
possible in the sack, and covered it with black 
earth to draw heat. At the end Of about, a week 
it began to show signs of sprouting. I then 
planted in thoroughly prepared ground, when 
in a few days if came up finely.” 
Norway vs. Surprise Oats.—A COl’respondent 
asks us which of these varieties is to be pre¬ 
ferred. The Norway is not as heavy a grain as 
the Surprise, is black while the latter i6 white. 
Vo have grown the Surprise, but never did 
grow the Norway. Judging from tho appear¬ 
ance of I ho grain alone, in the ease of the Nor¬ 
way, and from what wc know of the Surprise, 
wc should rather risk our money on the latter at 
the same price per bushel. We shall be able to 
say more about the Norway next. fall. 
Sumatra Game and Brahma Cross.—V. L. 
Ball, Derby. Vt., wi ites the Country Gentleman 
that this cross has proved very satisfactory. 
The Bmlima gives size and the Game modifies 
the coarseness of the Brahma, and gives beauty 
of shape and plumage. They are of a dark 
color, l-ioh glossy plumage, and of fine cai'rioge. 
The hens make excellent layers, good setters 
and mothers, and for a farmer it is one of, if not 
the best, crosses that can be made. 
White Strnw Crops.— Thomas Peahson. Platts¬ 
burgh, N. Y., writes the Country Gentleman : 
“I think it would be well for American farmers 
to adopt tho same rule many English farmers do 
—that is, never to allow two white strnw crops to 
follow each other; by white straw crops, I mean 
wheat, oats, barley and rye." 8o do we. 
To Prevent Large Hogs from Fighting Small 
Ones.—My friend, Col, V-, says a sui'e way is 
to fast eu a little hivj over the fighter’s snout, and 
let it remain there a few hours. The small ones 
will whip him then and ever afterwards. It de¬ 
stroys his confidence and courage.—x. y. z. 
Fowls Wanted. — A correspondent who wants 
eggs or Houdan nnd Brahma fowls, asks why 
they arc not advertised In tho Rcrat,. Because 
those who have advertised them have sold out, 
and those who do not advertise do not want 
to sell. 
i’oltle Poisoned hy Paint.- We find the follow¬ 
ing in our exchanges:—W. A. Dismohk, Staats- 
burg, N. Y„ has lost seven head of •valuable Al¬ 
derney cattle, which cost him $5,000 in gold, from 
their licking the sides of a newly painted barn. 
Plaster Tor Grnpe Cntttngs.— Chn any of your 
readers tell me the value of plaster applied to 
grape cuttings planted thickly in beds, the ob¬ 
ject being to keep them moist ?— Spencer A. 
Heath. 
M >- 
The Kansas Farmer comes to us with a bright, 
new dress and well filled with fresh, live matter. 
We like its style, and il promises to reflect tho 
progress of the people of that live young State, 
Taxidermy. D. W. CHILD—You will find the 
information you sock in a book published by 
Tilton & Co., Boston, Mass., entitled “ Art 
Recreations.” 
Berkshire Pigs.— Albert Morgan, Sevastopol, 
Inti.* wants to know where he ran get a pair of 
pure bred Berkshire pigs. Our advertising 
columns ought to tell. 
Tile Draining. — A. It. Hicks.— Tile maybe 
used successfully to drain boggy lands. Tile aro 
much used in nil parts of the North and West 
for this purpose. 
When to Sow Corn Tor Soiling. — H. K. M.— 
Sow corn the middle of June, again the last of 
June, and again the 10th of July. 
kneubntor.— L. S. Ban low.—O n page 42 cur¬ 
rent. volume Rural New-Yorker will be found 
an engraving and description of an incubator. 
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INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
The Son Francisco Mechanics' Institute is to 
hold its seventh annual exhibition, commencing 
Tuesday, Sept. 11,1863. A building covering an 
area of 7,000 feet, and costing £45,000. Is com¬ 
pleted and provided with facilities, (free of cost 
to exhibitor*,! for t he proper ex position of goods. 
The exhibition Is intended to be eaientially cos- 
mopoliton, and exhibitors have been invited 
from China, Japan, Hawaiian Islands, British 
Columbia, Mexico, Chili, Peru, tee. Desirable 
articles for exhibition will be exhibited and 
accounted for if application for (he same is 
made before August J. All articles for exhibi¬ 
tion must reach San Francisco by Sept. 1. Fur¬ 
ther Information may bo obtained of J. H. 
Gilmore, San Francisco, Cal., Corresponding 
Secretary. 
Norfolk (Mass.,) Ag. Soc. — The officers elect 
for 1869 arc: PresCrtrnf— John S. Eluredgk of] 
Canton. Honorary Preddenb —Marshall I\ Wilder 
of Dorchester. YictoPrctMenle —Amos A. Law¬ 
rence of Brookline; Otis Cary of Foxboro’; S. 
W. Richardson of Franklin; E. Tucker of Mil- 
ton : Henry Grew of Hyde Park; E. Stono of 
Dedham. Secretary— II. O. Hildreth of Dedham. 
Treasurer— C. C. Churchill of Dedham. 
Strnben Co. (V Y.,) As. 8<>r.—The officers 
elect for 19G9 are; Prcsuknt-— Frank J. Mar¬ 
shall, Wheeler. Vice-Presidents — Daniel B. 
Curtiss, Campbell; D. 7.. Gibbs, Wheeler; A. Y. 
Baker. Urbftrta; W. C. Morse, Painted Post; 
I. J. Haskln, Avoou; Col. IL Baldwin, Addison; 
A. B. Craig, Jasper: H. Longwell, Jr., Bradford. 
Secretary— R. E. Itobie, Bath. Treasurer— G. W. 
llallock, Bath. Ocn. Supt.—C. If. Itobie, Savona. 
West Wlntcrport (Me.) Farmers' C lub. — Geo. 
Clement is President of this organization, and 
D. Libby is Secretary. This Club docs some¬ 
thing beside talk. It is practicing co-operation. 
At a recent meeting It decided to purchase a 
thoroughbred Short-Horn bull for the improve¬ 
ment of the stock of its members. Such co¬ 
operation might bo profitably Imitated else¬ 
where. 
Knn*ao State Ag. Soc.—The Kansas Farmer, 
April 15, says the Exocuttvo Board of this So¬ 
ciety have reduced the aggregate amount of 
premiums offered, twenty-live percent., restored 
grade stock to the list, chosen Alfred Gray of 
Wyandotte, General Superintendent, and fixed 
upon September 7 as tho date of opening the 
fair. The plaee for locating it is not yet Be looted. 
Exeter, JS. II,, Ag. Soc.— The following are 
the names of the officers elect for 1869: Presi¬ 
dent—W. P. Moulton. Vice-Presidents— D. F. 
Hayes, W. A. Currier. Treasurer —Gardiner Gil¬ 
man. Secrete try —Job n I. Bell. Trustees —John 
iI. Kimball, Jacob P. Cilley,N. A. Shute, Hervcy 
Kent, John P. Adams, Charles W. Treadwell, 
Woodbridgc Odlin. 
Kennebec, Maine, Hort, Soc.— Tho Maino 
farmer says this Society designs to hold exhibi- 
tions alternately in Augusta, Hallowed and 
Gardiner. The first premium list will amount 
to $500 or *600. President— James tv. North, 
Augusta. Secretary— David Cargill, East Win- 
throp. _ 
Littleton (Muss.) Farmers’ flub.—A Farmers’ 
Club has been organized in Littleton, Mass., with 
fifty members, meeting weekly for discussion. 
The officers arc: President— J. A. Harwood. 
Vice-Presidents— J. W. Adams, Levi Conant, B. S. 
Hager. Secretary— N. B. Barker. Treasurer—L. 
Conaut. _ 
The Annual Slu-cp Shearing of the North¬ 
western Wool Growers' Association will be held 
at Belvidere, Ill., May 18th und 20th. 
The Elgin, III., Dairy, Agricultural and Horti¬ 
cultural Association is to hold an exhibition of 
Agricultural products at Elgin, June 23-25. 
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THE SEASON. 
WayirnsvlIIe, O., April i-1.— The fruit prospect 
is yet good in this (Warren) county. Wheat, and 
fall barley look splendid. Spring work very 
backward.— n. n. m. 
Laconia, IV, II., April 19.— L. A. Ladd writes: 
“The spring is cold and backward here and 
plenty of snow* yet.” 
