H. 8. HANDALL, lili. I>., EDITOR, 
Of Oobtlash VilLAGk, Cortland Cou.Ntv, Nkw York. 
TO WESTERN WOOL GROWERS. 
) 
The Woolen Manufacturers’ Association of 
tlio North west Inis decided to hold its Annual 
Exposition at Cincinnati, Ot'.io, on the first 
Tuesday in August next, to continue four days. 
A very cordial invitation has been extended to 
von! growers to take part, and furnish samples 
of the products of their docks. And a commit¬ 
tee, composed principally of wool growers, has 
been appointed to look after the interests of 
those who may avail thdmselveaof the oppor¬ 
tunity of so doing. 
The comm it too l akethiaoocasion to urge upon 
the wool growers of the country t he importance 
of making the display in the department de¬ 
voted to raw material, as complete as possible. 
\o limit is placed upon the amount to bo rent: 
this being left to i lie disposition of the exhib¬ 
itor; but it would soora desirable that the quan¬ 
tity should he sufficient: to indicate with clearness 
the general characteristics of the Hooks repre¬ 
sented. 
Bales or boxes, properly packed, and marked 
“For the Exposition, rare of Laws A Co., Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio,” will bo cared for and placed upon 
exhibition; though, where practicable, it is 
hoped that the wool growers will be there in 
person, and extend their acquaintance among 
the Western manufacturers, who are soon to 
become their best customers. 
Brother Wool Growors: Lot our response bo 
ns liberal as the invitation is hourly. Lot every 
Hook be represented by a bale of specimen 
Heroes, and every wool growing county send 
one or more of its representative men; and let 
nothing remain undone mi our part that will 
tend to make the Exposition what it deserves to 
be — a complete success. 
A. M. Garland, Chairman Com. on Wools. 
Chatham, 111., April 12, 1809. 
LETTERS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. 
NUMBER ONE. 
Tins lion. J. 15. Guinn ell, whom our 
readers will remember an a late efficient 
member of Congress from Iowa,—ami whom 
our wool growing readers will specially re¬ 
member as an active and intluential friend 
of wool production, ami of the turiifof IfcifiT, 
in that body,—is now making a tour of ob¬ 
servation, ami more particularly of agricul¬ 
tural observation, in the Southwestern 
States. We suppose he will give the, most 
of his attention to the vast domain of Texas 
—and will probably have a special eye to its 
developed and undeveloped advantages for 
sheep husbandry, for he is one of the most 
ardent friends of that interest, and one of the 
largest flock masters in our country. We 
shall receive with pleasure the promised 
series of letters communicating the results of 
his observations. 
Cabin Creek. > 
Cherokee Nation, April 19, 1800. f 
Hon. IIenuv S. Randall: — l have 
passed southwest from my home in Iowa 
four hundred and fifty miles, and am filly 
miles north of Fort Gibson, near the Neosho 
River, on my way through Texas. At the 
beginning of my route I may give you but 
few particulars prefatory to the series of let¬ 
ters which I hope, to write. We set out 
from Kansas City, Mo., on the western elbow 
of the Missouri River, a city with six rail¬ 
roads and growing with great rapidity. Our 
trip was made thirty miles by rail over the 
load to be completed to the southern line of 
Kansas this autumn, to be ready for the ship¬ 
ment of southern cattle northward. 
The road passes through the celebrated 
Neutral Lands, once, belonging to the Chero¬ 
kee Nation, which were sold to James F. 
Jov of Detroit, of railroad lame. Settlers on 
these lauds, previous to the treaty of 18(50, 
secure their claims at less than two dollars 
the acre, and those making claims since, are 
ottered each one hundred and sixty acres at 
from two to live dollars the acre, after the 
railroad is built, on long time, at seven per 
cent, interest. Notwithstanding these gen¬ 
erous terms to the holders of the best tracts, 
(the whole having cost, without a railroad, 
one dollar the acre,) leagues have been formed 
to resist the sale and to prevent the building 
of a road. This feeling grows out of a fron¬ 
tier sentiment which denies the Indians any 
title, and fails to appreciate the value of the 
rail to a country hundreds of miles from 
market. 
The easy terms offered to the settlers, and 
the inflexibility of the U. 8. Senate, con¬ 
tribute to quiet and give promise of a rail¬ 
road which will develop a country now 
teeming with busy life, rich in coal, timber, 
soil, water power, and attractive in climate. 
And here I make my first observations of 
the stock. None but work horses are fed 
during the winter, and stock cattle and 
sheep look well. The lambs are numerous 
and gambol like ours in July, fat and large, 
deepening my convictions that our merinos 
will pass southward. Natives, coarse and 
high grades, look alike well. The winter 
was wet and warm but this is a late spring. 
All admit that there would be greater 
safely iu a provision of hay and sheds in 
ease of storms. 
Here is a case in point where I pause for 
the night and may it he evunodisce omnes. 
Lewis Kell, tbrec-fourtlis Cherokee, who 
lost all in the war, keeps this stage station, 
and his lady furnishes clean beds, good food 
and neat, clean floors, which w ould do honor 
to an Eastern housekeeper, llis little flock 
has just come up from llie prairies, which 
are diversified with limestone knolls and a 
carpet of wild flowers. There are twenty- 
seven old sheep, frwm one-fourth to three- 
fourths Merino, and five snow white goats 
and three kids. The lambs count twenty- 
tour, beautiful and large, dropped in Jan¬ 
uary and February. This flock were bought 
while being driven northward from Texas 
last August, and have never tasted hay nor 
grain, nor been in a sited. Not one Las 
died, nor is there one unfit for million. 
Patches of wool are gone, indicating that as 
late as January they had the scab, of which 
there Is now no indication. They are to be 
shorn this week. Had the keeping of goats 
with them anything to do with the recovery 
from disease ? 1 f so, 1 knoav many Northern 
flock masters who would welcome the goats. 
1 ask for the destruction by wolves, and am 
told that a small pack of hounds at the door 
give these thieves and pests of the flock no 
quarter. 
There seems to be nothing peculiar in this 
location; it is as a country like that which 
has feasted my eyes all day just euteriug 
upon this garden spot of the Continent—the 
Indian Territory—of the area of the State 
of New York, numbering a mixed Cherokee 
population of 75,000. 
The dense green forests of the winding 
Neosho tire on the left, and those of the 
Verdigris River on the right, Scarce a mile 
is passed without the presence of a clear 
spring-made rill, and volt often wend your 
way up ravines to summits where tire 
spread out landscapes of surpassing beauty, 
where the native fruit trees are iu bloom, 
and the flocks of deer graze, undisturbed. 
This people have gone to work to make 
new homes mid recover from the wastes of 
war; more new' farms are being opened this 
year than lor the past five years. They take 
pride in the fact that a railroad is so soon to 
rtXteh their borders, and have awakened to 
realize that unless they make lumber from 
their pine forests and salt from their springs, 
and lease their lands to herdsmen and llock 
masters, that they cannot long bar out the 
“pale faces” from this domain of grandeur 
and native beauty, which they have held for 
thirty-six years. 
Business men and tourists, from the North 
and Texas, are becoming numerous on this 
route, and it is duo to the Chcrokees to say 
(hat they set good tallies, and the comforts 
furnished by Mr. J M. Tekky’h new stage 
coaches, fleet horses and model drivers, arc 
appreciated by your servant, who has five 
hundred miles of a Coach ride before him in 
search of a short railroad route to the Gulf, 
and that elysium of the flock pictured in a 
volume by your gifted pen. 
My zeal in search for that abode will cor¬ 
respond w ith the desire that our noble flocks 
may not he wasted and the. pride of so many 
citizens given over to distant barbarians, 
whose interests are alien to ours—the prac¬ 
tical eeonomisls now striving for cheap 
Clothing and pecuniary independence. 
With high regard, yours, 
J. B. Grinnell. 
-- 
LETTER FROM JOHN JOHNSTON. 
We made inquiries of Mr. Johnston last 
fall in respect to his recent experiences in 
fattening line wool sheep. The subjoined 
reply contains details in regard to his health, 
which will be read with much more interest 
by his numerous personal friends, and the 
readers of his agricultural writings. The 
latter have been contributed principally to 
the Country Gentleman and the preceding 
journals conducted by its senior editor; and 
they have always been replete with evidences 
of strong sense and close observation. 
IIenuv 8. Randall, Esq. — Dear Sir : 
Your letter of August has not been answer¬ 
ed. I have poor health since 2ftth July, 
when l had a severe attack of cholera mor¬ 
bus. All the writing I can do is early in the 
morning. After exercising, my hand is quite 
unsteady, and l sometimes could not write 
at till after riding only to Geneva. I often 
could not sign my name. I am thankful 
that for the last month I have improved con¬ 
siderably, but I am not able to write about 
sheep feeding. I cannot set my mind to it. 
One thing I can tell you, however. A tann¬ 
er friend of mine, some fifty miles w'est of 
this, fed last winter four hundred very fine 
wooled Merinos. They weighed, or rather 
averaged, eighty-eight pounds when they 
were brought, home, 1 believe about the 1st 
of November. The owner began to feed 
clover hay and grain at 1st December, and 
sold them on the 27th February, they then 
averaging one hundred and twenty-seven and 
a half pounds, lie cleared eight hundred 
dollars over what his hay and grain would 
have brought him in market. Of course lie 
guessed at the number of tons of hay they 
ale. The corn he knew to a bushel. This 
is the third year he has fatted sheep. The 
first year he did better than this; last year 
(1808) lie barely held his own. I Le consulted 
me often before, and after lie commenced 
feeding, and 1 know him to he a very reli¬ 
able man. My day of feeding sheep and 
cattle has come to ail end. I have let all 
my cleared laud for nursery purposes (with 
the exception of about, twenty-two acres,) 
for five years, at a yearly rent of twenty the 
dollars per aero, payable semi annually. 
They entered part of it over a year ago, part 
last November, part this spring, and duty 
get tw elve acres after 1 take otf the crop of 
wheat, now on it. 
I have just sold my last, two fat cattle, one 
a. steer three years old the 4th itisl .,t hc other, 
his sister, w ill lie two years old a week from 
to-morrow. The steer weighed, two weeks 
ago, 1,800 pounds, the heifer, 1,215. I never 
owned bettor ones at their age. A man from 
Syracuse has bought them to keep till next 
February. I keep them till the 151 h or 20th of 
May. 1 raised the steer and heifer; they 
were fed grass and hay only until the 25th 
of last December. I am In my seventy-ninth 
year. Very truly yours, 
John Johnston. 
Near Geneva, April 30,1800. 
——--—- 
JOINT EXPOSITION 
Of tins Wool IihIiim try of the United States. 
The Joint Exposition of the Wool In¬ 
dustry of the United States, under the 
auspices of the American Institute ot the 
city of Nesv York, will be made in the 
grand structure newly creeled on the corner 
of Sixty-third street and Third avenue in 
the city of New York, covering nearly one 
entire block of ground, w hich will be opened 
(or the reception of goods on the first day ol 
September, 18(111. Exhibits for the Machinery 
Department can lie sent earlier. The whole 
exhibition will be open lor Visitors on the 
eighth day of September. 
Further particulars will be announced iu 
circulars, which w ill he seasonably sent to 
all persons interested in the Manufacturers’ 
Department of the Exposition. 
The American Institute makes the follow¬ 
ing announcement in Its general circular: 
“One prominent and attractive feature of 
the next reunion will bo the Special Exposi 
tion of the Wool Industry of the United 
States, and the arts auxiliary thereto, under 
the immediate direction of the National 
Wool Growers’ Association, which is com¬ 
posed of distinguished agriculturists, repre¬ 
senting the various Btateand county societies 
which foster the production of wool, in con 
junction with the National Association of 
Wool Manufacturers, which embraces nearly 
all the leading establishments engaged in 
the manufacture of woolen goods in this 
country. The entire management of this 
first home exhibition ever made of the char¬ 
acteristic products of a. single industry, will 
he supervised by the officers of the two or¬ 
ganizations referred to, although the whole 
will he under the auspices of tin' American I n 
stitute, and one admission fee will give a free 
entrance to all parts of the joint exposition.” 
Manufacturers In the American wool in¬ 
dustry, and in the arts and industries direct ly 
auxiliary thereto, are earnestly requested to 
promptly send notices of their intentions to 
exhibit, to the Secretary of the National As¬ 
sociation of Wool Manufacturers, 75 Summer 
street, Boston, Mass.— Bulletin of National 
Association of Wool Manufacturers. 
-- 
Hinte or Our Merino Flock*.— A correspond¬ 
ent ash* us What effect, bus the severe de¬ 
pression in the wool business laid on tho quality 
of American Merino sheep? Have they deteri¬ 
orated?" Low grade Hoe Us have hi many 
instances been crossed with eoarso breeds pro- 
ductnjra deterioration in JhicncmoC wool. Many 
flocks not t Inis crossed havo doubtless received 
less earn and less attention to improvement in 
ibe selection of nuns. But there hu,vo been 
counteracting advantages. Really good, high 
grade Hocks, though Gelling at low prices, have 
been rarely crossed. There lias not been a de¬ 
mand for rains which has compelled anybody to 
use inferior ones. Poor flocks have boon killed 
for I lielr pelts, and even medium ones have, 
throughout extensive regions, been diminished 
one-half nr more in the same way lias lug noth¬ 
ing hut tho cream of the Hocks. Asa whole, we 
think, t here can be no doubt Unit the average of 
the line wooled sheep in tho principal wool 
growing States is better than it, was when they 
were in high demand, and when, accordingly, 
e verything was kept for breeding. Tho breeders 
of genuine full blood and Urst class Merinos 
have, as a general thing, clung resolutely to 
them —or at least have not sacrificed them. And 
preparing for bettor times, they have, so farad 
our information extends, 1.“Stowed as much 
euro on tho improvement of tlieir sheep us at 
any preceding period. 
--- 
Sheep Shearing at Spencerport, Monroe, Co., 
N. V., May 0 th. 
Ago. 
Year*. 
Alex. Bromley, Iti^a.Ewe.l 
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Fred. Fellows, Chill, Ewe,. I 
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II. B. McClure, Ogflen.Ewe .2 
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L. Babcock, Riga, Buck. .4 
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J. .f. Whitney, Clarkson, 
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Officers for the enaui ng year:— President, John 
Pierce. Vice-President, J. J. Whitney. Treas¬ 
urer and Secretary , Ira Harrouu. 
FARM FENCES. 
Tn an article under the head, " Plant Fruit 
Trees,” written by me, and published in 
your paper of February 30th, near the close 
of it I incidentally remarked —“As for 
fencing, el*eaper and more, durable material 
than wooden posts, with hoards or stone 
wafts, has already been discovered.” In 
your paper of April 10tl», page 284, C. 
Baker, Whitney's Point, N. Y,, asks me, 
“ in view of the enormous expense of 
fencing farms in this country,” to explain, 
I have been fence hunting ever slliCe I 
have had anything to do with farming, and 
last winter 1 discovered a fence which, in 
Its simplicity of construction, cheapness, 
durability, strength and efficiency in the 
enclosure of fields, is superior to anything 1 
have met, 1 cannot now describe it in de¬ 
tail, as it would take too much room. Bttflico 
it to say, the foundation is of stone, the posts 
are of iron, and the bars are, of wood, either 
rails or boards, as the builder may choose, 
of it may be a picket fence, if necessary. 
It is quite as cheap in its first construction 
as if made of wooden posts and rails, or 
hoards, the stone and iron lasting intermin¬ 
ably, and tho rails, boards or bars- used 
without nails—lasting ns ,ong as wood laid 
above ground, out in the weather, can last. 
Any good Cunt band, capable of laying up a 
zig-zag, or putting up a post and rail fence, 
with one. day’s experience can build it, and 
any sizeable stones, lying loose around the 
fields, will supply the foundation. 
Further than this, I have, no room to say, 
as I understand that, in a short time the fence 
will be extensively advertised, and rights to 
build it offered at such low rales—that is, the 
rights — as to lie almost nominal in cost to 
the farmer. I have had no hand In the in¬ 
vention, and months alter my attention had 
been drawn to it by those who had used and 
approved it, 1 paid no heed to the matter, 
not supposing that anything so simple and 
cheap could he of much service. But, hav¬ 
ing seen and thoroughly examined it, I am 
convinced of its cheapness, strength and du¬ 
rability, and hope that its proprietors will 
put it in the w'ay Of use to all farmers and 
village lot owners, who may wish to avail 
themselves of its benefits. L. F. Allen. 
Black Rock, N. Y„ May, 1809. 
-- 
QUACK GRASS. 
The experience of one of your correspon¬ 
dents, I notice, is not, favorable to your 
advice about killing quack grass by a 
thorough cultivating, or summer fallowing. 
It seems to me that although he cultivated 
long enough (two seasons,) and when the 
weather was favorable to tho killing of the 
pest, that, he failed In cultivating often 
enough, tn my opinion quack or couch 
grass is the worst “ weed” that grows. You 
often W'arn Western farmers against the 
Canada thistle. Why, sir, I would sooner 
have a lurm of one hundred acres growing a 
Canada thistle on every square inch of sur¬ 
face, than to have live acres of quack scat¬ 
tered over it. It is the Evil One’s own pet, 
and entails the greatest curse of useless hard 
work of any worthless plant that ever grew 
outside the boundaries of the primal garden. 
Forewarn your Western readers against 
quack. If it comes to them in its vigorous 
seed, or snaky, undying root, their days of 
ease and quiet are soon numbered. 
If one has it, only in a few compact 
patches which may be easily got at, I think 
it may be eradicated; but if it is scattered 
and extensive, nothing short of the power 
w hich cursed the barren fig tree can kill it. 
Tho true fighting line is not to let a green 
blade show its tip above ground, on the 
Ac* *1 
Weight 
Weight 
FU;„,„. 
of wool. ' 
of slt.-.M, 
Yenrs. 
i b . 
Lbs. 
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12.1 V/t 
75 
1 
11.01 
74 
l 
12.00 
69 
1 
13.07 
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1 
It. 11 
73 
1 
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45 
1 
12.(1 IK 
89 
1 
9.13X 
80 
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10.02 
n 
11m. 8(1. 
KUO 
r.2 
11(11.84. 
10.04 
45 
1 
11.14 
41 
1 
12.11 K 
78 
1 
22.02 % 
128 
I 
15.UH 
113 
1 
20.15M 
118 
grass. Owning a partnership farm that has 
had the grass on it for ten year.-, 1 w ill give 
our experience. We plowed and harrowed, 
turned it first upside down, and then cue 
versa, and still it grew. One year ago last 
June we coveted it thick with straw, so that, 
nothing grew through it. Last June w e plow¬ 
ed the field and sowed w ith buckwheat, and 
loft about half the grass covered with straw, 
plowing the other half; the result is about 
the same; a few sickly spears on each part. 
W. H, notvrotr. May, tsiwi. 
In my eighteenth year, tuy father sent mo 
from a hill farm, ou a farm on the lloosiclc 
River, in the town of I loosiek, that contained 
about seventy live acres of intervale, and 
ahold three-quarters of it more or l< ■. quack. 
This was s< (tied by the Dutch, and eon- 
Urfiled in their hands till my lather bought 
it. They never sowed clover on the fiat; 
they said it would lodge and rot. This fiat 
was all used lor grass and grain. M heu my 
corn got, largo enough to hoe, the quack 
would he as thick as oats and taller than the 
corn. It was almost impossible to keep 
within the rows. 1 went on in Dutch style 
of seeding for two years, then l made up my 
mind l Would try clover. I got what was 
called the medium, and sowed with timothy 
iu the spring; the next, spring the clover 
started nicely ; it, stood up and mowed well; 
timothy did not show much the lit t season, 
but the next season it cal tie up w ith the clo¬ 
ver; had a good crop of it, and good quality. 
The quack did not trouble the era enough 
to notice it. 1 seeded more or U s every 
spring until I had gone over the whole flat 
in the sameway; and the consequence wn> 
it destroyed the quack entirely, and let- the 
soil much lighter. Yotl might, as well under- 
lake to quench a fire by throwing oil dry 
shavings, as to undertake to kill our kind ot 
quack grass liy plowing— a. m. 
-—o-v-v-“ 
THE ROLLER IN SPRING TIME. 
Tuts useful farm implement is becoming 
yearly more indispensable and popular. It 
smoothes the path of the reaper and mower, 
and spares patience and money to their 
owners. The plow runs nicer on a. rolled 
field when it. is again broken than one hit 
rough. It covers clover and grass seed, and 
compacts tho earth around tho half-drawn 
clover and wheat roots; it presses light soil 
close to t he seed, causing quicker germina¬ 
tion, ami making it likewise surer. Sod 
ground broken for planting is leveled and 
put in better condition for the harrow to act 
on it, if sufficiently dry, by putting over it a 
light roller. 
The farmer who uses a roller considerably 
keeps his fields in an apparently smoother 
and better condition than one who does not. 
Crops are gathered closer, and there is iar 
less breakage in machinery from the pulling 
of rough places and stones, le w du 11o wear 
out tho gear, and less strain on the team. 
Bight laud, dry land, and stony laud need 
the roller. Clay, when lumpy and dry, 
needs the heaviest, of rollers—the cast iron 
clod crushers—though, by the way, it is 
better to manage the clay land so that it, 
never will get, a chance to he lumpy. No 
land should he rolled w hen so wet that a 
“ crust” will form afterwards. 
A good roller may be cheaply made from 
ft common log—having used several kinds 
we are not prepared to assert that it i 1 beaten 
by any, if well made. A cast-iron toller 
ought to he perfection, if rightly made, w hicli 
is seldom tlu: case. Rollers of stone have 
been made where great wt ight was required, 
and, save that they would 1)0 too heavy for 
much of the work required, no better ma¬ 
terial can be found. Plain Tone. 
sunniest or most dewy morning for two 
years at least. And you have something to 
do to prevent this, when the six inches of 
surface soil arc filled with a tangled mass of 
colled, wiry, vigorous roots, brimftxll ol life 
and push. Not many havo the ability to 
keep the surface bare of green blades by 
mere cultivating; it must lie done first by 
deep trench plowing, so as to bury the mass 
of roots as deeply as possible, and second by 
putting something on the surface that will 
smother or poison vegetable life. A heavy 
coat of long manure or wet, half rotted 
straw, will do the first, and gas limn spread 
thick will accomplish this second. 1 believe 
a heacij coat of gas lime will kill quack, for 
it will keep all vegetation down for two 
years, alter which the land recovers ils 
power, and seems better for the rest.— Oriel. 
My modus operatali for destroying quack 
grass effectually, is to plow deep (my soil is 
a loam in which quack nourishes,) in March 
with a Michigan double plow, and cultivate 
thereafter thoroughly once a week, (but, if 
very foul, t wice for the first two months, 
until the first of September. It is not neces 
sary to rake up and draw off the roots, for 
after a few weeks they will not incommode. 
—v. D. 
W. wants to know how to get rid of quack 
Remedy for Wet Reliar Bottom.- I in tie: 
Rural of April 17th, an Inquiry IVuin A. < tu.w is, 
Scott, Pn., asking - what, to do with Ids cellar 
so as to have a rood bottom. Iu reply permit 
urn to give my method. I have a cellar In pre¬ 
cisely the sumo corn!it ion as his, viz; wet hot tom, 
with a drain around it six inches lower than tho 
bottom of Un-collar. Various methods hud been 
adopted to remedy it, but none eU'oellve until 
last season I went, and got some l.une flat stom a 
mid tit led them as well ns a I'unm reoulil do, and 
laid a floor, which works to my entire satisfac¬ 
tion. it Is not all localities that, will permit of 
my plan, but where it nm lie done, I think it is 
the cheapest, and most durable method Unit, can 
ho do vised. Another method would work equally 
well were it, not for the cost: (lie. the bottom 
down one loot, till up with round stone, till over 
a coating of powdered alone, then lay a wnter 
lime cement. Care should bo taken in either 
method to have the out-door drain six inches 
lower than the bottom of the inside drain. Geu. 
W. Wentworth, Mt. Vision, N. 1'. 
Lcft'llnml v*. Highi-lliiml I’lott*. A Missouri 
correspondent of tho Country tientleman talks 
thuschuiuoterislieally of what lie would do toa 
mutt who should briny; o right hand plow on his 
premises; “Huving lived at the West over 
twenty-live years, 1 have seen a jjreftt many 
right-hand plows in use with horses; but l have 
sought in vain for ft man to tell me idly they 
should l>o ii-< d. t do not think that ueh a man 
has yet been created. It 1 had a farm. I do (binlc 
it would allord me Borne pleasure t<> take a shot, 
at some non-vital part of any mail who should 
bring a right-hand plow on it.” 
Tost <»f Windmill. W. J. DiammonT. Marlin, 
i’exn.*, asks the cost of a good siz' d, practical 
windmill, for power purposes. Will some of 
our readers who have such mills in use aud 
know what they cost answer the question? 
