ttomnm. 
Does the 6tock of the countiy need improv- Q) sible; for what a man learns during hi 
ing sufficiently to justify an outlay of a few it Hit ffc £0210111)1. lifetime is of use only to lhmsclf, and die 
hundred dollars for a pure brad bull ? I think ^ with him. The fact is, we learn more fr or 
if that question is answered affirmatively, ■—-- .... the experience of others than from our cmvi 
that the other question is solved. Suppose TEMPERING OUR CLU.LARS IN To this cud I read the I*;ral, and learn th 
a man has ten or twenty cows, grade them SUMMER. experience of Frank, ansi other intelljgen 
as it may happen, from ordinary up to good - contributors. Not long sifcce I saw the state 
— the higher the grade the better, as a Our cellars are in trouble again. People ment that it had cost Mr. Greeley a larg 
thoroughbred bull will always raise the grade are complaining of bad butter, white, soft, amount of money to leant the fact that th 
oi ei steers or heifers from them, can he and hard to come; they can’t koep anything mouth of a drain must not be higher that 
i id to pay **“* nrico asked for a fair in their cellars; meat will spoil in a day or any other point in it. Now, if we were ig 
thoroughbred hull, say from C>aoo tn gpjO ? two; fruit will mold; and the cellar is norant of this fact, would our friend Frani 
and how much more will his calves cost him anything hut. a pleasant place to be in; and prefer to he at Mr. Greeley's cost anc 
than ii lie breeds them to a common or scrub tljLs a11 "’hen the sc&on la not so very warm trouble to learn it for himself? 
hull ? Put the services of one tit £10 per cow, bul rather cool and uniform. “Let him come here to Turkey direct, anc 
an 1 tlie other at £3.00 and I suppose one We have enumerated quite a number of we will show him what undevdifdning wil 
would pay for himself about as soou as the disadvantages. There are others, and they I do for land,” my neighbor said, to whom 1 
other; for a man noed take no more care of are serious. To have milk turn sour ere ! related his (Frank's) opinion of tmderdrain- 
the one than the other, for neither will pay balf the cream is formed, is bad; to see so ing. My neighbor continued: — “ lie b 
inileas they got plenty to eat, and we have a mucb butter go (or stay) in tlte buttermilk, probably some gloved farmer, who never 
difference Of §7.00 per calf to start with, i* worse, leaving you but little cctnparatively underdrained any in his life." Very likely 
Now feed with tlie same amount of feed till ° r tllC original worth of the milk. this docs him great injustice, but I note that 
t.ucc years of age and you may rest assured n °t Ibis the case ? Is it not to be dc- he does not claim to have any experience in 
that the weight in favor of the high priced 1 ’loredV It is particularly when we think underdraining. Of what, worth, then arc 
calves will average from two to four hundred tbat Ulib can he remedied as well its not—by his doubts of its utility, in the face of actual 
pounds per head. Take the lowest weight, die mere opening and shutting of the win- experiment? 
two hundred pounds, and if beef only sells dovvs - Tbi3 is all that is required. The I learn from men just from England, that 
for three and a half cents per pound you have totyeraturt, it must be remembered, is the in certain sections of that country they aro 
the money hack, and all that it sells for above \ thin S at fault; aud that is under the control taking up their old drains, of eighteen or 
that, will be profit in favor of the bloods; but : of the windows. Simply shut in warm twenty inches in depth, and arc putting them 
then you are certain of more price per pound father, and open in cold. down four feet, which experience (dearly 
for the good ones, which makes another dif- At night usually is the time to open, bought) warrants them In doing, 
fercueo of several dollars in their favor; Sometimes, with a north wind, the windows I do not fall to note that Fit a •*£ advocates 
besides, the chances of selling are always in way be kept open all day, even if the sun is surface drainage as being just as effectual 
their favor at the advanced price. Satisfac- hulte Warm, the air itself being still cold, as, and less expensive than, imglerdrainagc 
tion in seeing your labor better rewarded, is Kee P °P en "'bile cold, whether a day or a Now, as good or ill luck will have it, I have 
also something. week; but close at the first approach of a meadow which has been “plawed so as to 
If you buy calves you had better pay $20 ", ,irrn / dr ’ and usually is a south wind, leave it rolling, and with open, ready surface 
per head for a good one, than have a moan Pbia ’ 11 P erm *tted to cuter your cellar, will drains," not ditches, about sixteen feet apart 
_ a 1 ili\Tir 1 .1 iE . .. 1 . . % 
TEMPERING OUR CELLARS IN 
SUMMER. 
Our cellars arc in trouble again. People 
arc complaining of bad butter, white, soft, 
and hard to come; they can’t koep anything 
in their cellars; meat will spoil in a day or 
two; fruit will mold; and the cellar is 
aujrtliing hut. a pleasant place to be in ; and 
this all when the season la not so very warm 
but rather cool and uniform. 
We have enumerated quite a number of 
disadvantages. There are others, and they 
are serious. To have milk, turn sour ere 
half (he cream is formed, is bad ; to see so 
much butter go (or stay) in tlte buttermilk, 
is worse, leaving you but little comparatively 
of the original worth of the milk. 
Is not this the case? Is it not to be de¬ 
plored? It is particularly st> when we think 
that this can be remedied as well as not—by 
sible; for what a man. learns during his 
lifetime is of use only to himself, and dies 
with him. The fact is, we learn more from 
: tlie experience of others than from our own. 
To this end I read the IN'Ral, and learn the 
experience of Frank, a»l other intelligent 
con tribN tore. Not long si»ce I saw the state¬ 
ment that it had cost Mr. Greeley a large 
amount of money to learn the fact that the 
mouth of a drain must not be higher than 
any other point in it. Now, if we were ig¬ 
norant of this fact, would our friend Frank 
prefer to he at Mr. Greeley's cost and 
trouble to learn it for himself? 
“ Let him come here to Turkey Street, and 
we will show him what undexdmining will 
I do for land,” my neighbor said, to whom I 
related his (Frank’s) opinion of underdrain- 
ing. My neighbor continued: —“ lie is 
probably some gloved farmer, who never 
underdrained any in his life." Very likely 
this docs him great injustice, but I note that 
he does not damn to have any experience in 
underdraining. Of what, worth, then, arc 
his doubts of its utility, in the face of actual 
experiment? 
I learn from men just from England, that 
in certain sections of that country they arc 
taking up their old drains, of eighteen or 
twenty inches in depth, and arc putting them 
down four feet, which experience (dearly 
bought) warrants them In doing. 
I do not fall to note that Fra ate advocates 
hub Department. 
THE CLAIMS OP LOCALITIES. 
The Table Lands of Tennessee. 
In my last I touched upon the subject of 
the salubrity of this climate, but when I con¬ 
sider the variety and extent of disease in 
high latitudes, I cannot leave the subject 
without saj-iog mote in regard to it. 
I have been informed by several physi- 
bcavy gravel subsoil. Even the pine lands 
produce well. We raise all kinds of farm 
produce. The Flint does belter than the 
Dent corn, though either does well. This 
is among the very best countries for winter 
wheat. It scarcely ever , fails, aud yields 
from twenty to forty bushels to the acre. 
Our market here is, and will continue to 
he, the very best. The lumbermen come to 
our farms and pay us better prices than 
farmers “outside” get after drawing their 
produce to market. Ilay ranges from $25 
to $40 per ton; corn, $1.40 to $1.50; pota- 
. S \ t fnr ™ cre » their "Wives, their sous competent men to engage here. There aro 
and daughters, I have good reason to believe, very few places where a capital of $5,000 
no doctors patch them up, and perhaps or even less, and the requisite tact and or ’ 
cai ry them through half the days allotted to ergy would pay as large and ready profits i 
t Kin >y nature, and they depart and make the mercantile business ns at several point 
room lor a diseased progeny who come for- that could be selected here. Blacksmith 
one given to you, as you will he the gainer 
in the end, as the good one will be worth 
from $30 to $50 more than the other at 
maturity. \\ e find then that there is some¬ 
thing real to the buyer of the bull, that lro 
pays him well for his outlay, and wc have 
the foundation to calculalo whether the 
thoroughbred will pay his breeder or pro¬ 
ducer at that price, from $200 to $400. The 
mothers of calves that sell at that price, 
generally sell at from $200 to $800. 
The higher priced cows, if the money is 
judiciously laid out, generally bring the 
highest priced calves, and they arc mostly 
sold to other breeders, or those who have 
used a good bull long enough to have high 
grade cows and want to still grade up m 
quality as well as pedigree. At the present 
price of cows, the first two calves usually 
feet apart 
blow out, lift the cold air, though the cold and about sixteen inches deep. These carry 
air is much the heaviest, and would remain off water wliich would otherwise stand on 
in were there no wind. But the wind, and tlie surface, when the full is uniform; but in 
that alone, will force il, out. Then your cel- other places, where the surface is irregular, 
lar is warm ; and once warmed, it is difficult water stands in these drains, and would re- 
to gel it. as cool again as before. It can be quire considerable plowing and shoveling 
done if the alter weather prove quite cold to draw it. off, leaving the laud literally at it 
and lasting, lasting for several days at least up by open ditches. But, even where th© 
and Continuously. This sometimes takes ground is regular the land for two or three 
place is rather a characteristic in our latl- leot each side of the drain remains wot i;it 
ward to fill their places, to pass through a 
life of suffering entailed upon them heredit¬ 
arily. And thus crime against natural law 
ls Perpetuated from generation to generation, 
not merely through the instrumentality of 
the particular disease mentioned, hut through 
the influence of disease generally. 
M it h you, health is the exception, and 
sickness and disease In some form, and in 
some degree, the rule; hut with us this f re- 
versed, and so general is health all over this 
table land, that 1 do not know of a practicing 
physician upon it from Georgia to Kentucky 
nor do I believe that one could subsist here 
upon the practice of his profession. Again 
and again have physicians inquired of n® 
the mercantile business as at several points 
that could be selected here. Blacksmiths 
arc greatly needed. One could get rich in 
this village in a few yearn by coming now 
and settling, here, if lie did not have more 
than two hundred dollars to start with. Of 
carpenters we have a supply at present. 
iherc is great need of more mills, and 
there are splendid water powers to lmild 
them on. All that is lacking is the capital 
to build with. There is a site now on the 
Chippewa, offering a fortune to any man 
who will invest $2,500 in such property. An 
excellent situation for a village. A store has 
been built there and lots sold. Ail we lack 
is tlie will. The owners of the land offer to 
give the water power, the mill power and ten 
acres of land. There are several other vil- 
whut were our prevailing diseases, and if it la £ c sites which offer flattering inducements, 
was a promising field for them to enter. I Thore iiJ eom e United States land and 
could answer them all alike, and in few 30,110 S,atc swara P bind which can he had 
words, viz.: We have no prevailing diseases* at 011 e dollar and twenty-five cents to two 
nor have wo need of yotir services as phy- dobars and fifty cents per acre, or may ho 
lude here. But the best is, not to let the 
warm air get in. To this end, there must ho 
attention, constant and careful. In no cam 
lot the warm weather (wind) catch you : then 
you are safe. The walls, wliich have the 
earth to support them; I lie low, deep bot¬ 
tom, and the building to cover—no wind can 
got into your cellar, and hence not any 
warmth. Of course you are to be as rigid 
with your doors as with your windows. 
We thus have a cool cellar. We liavc 
feet each side of the drain remains wet till 
late in spring and a long time after a heavy 
rain; besides, little or no grass grows near 
the drains. Tin; noil is of a clayey, spongy 
nature, and I am mtisfled that no ordinary 
dead furrows would drain it sufficiently for 
grass, grapes, or anything else. Last spring 
sicians, unless ii he to establish and keep a 
boarding-house for invalids who come here 
from the North and want a temporary home, 
and to advise them to avoid doctors’ nos- 
tnken under the “Homestead Act." But 
«ich chances are not plenty, and the land is 
now of a poorer quality from being culled. 
Railroad land, some of the best the Stato 
trums, live like reasonable beings, and depend can produce, can be had at. six dollars per 
upon diet, exercise, our medicinal waters acrc * Speculators’land ranges from three to 
aud pure atmosphere for restoration to health ,en dodar8 ? owing to location, soil, Ac. Wo 
1 drained a portion of this meadow to the ,,oncIlllI8 ‘ dropsy, liver complaint, affection , 9 as . t ns ' vlicrc tbore was no rail- 
depth of about four feet, and planted corn. of lhe kidnc . vs . bilious difficulties, cutaneous l™ 1 ,. , hcrc ,SBUch a ri,i| road interest man- 
Tho portion drained was the wettest of the leases, and so on through the whole eata- 1 ' Ku as * lblnlc will insure us a road 
pay for her, including her keeping up to that I "w T” 118 wlu 7° ur ' Wnd0 ™, a,ld ^ grass had died out. In wet lo S ua of man’s ailments. Women, with their 1 liecd * . 
time, the balance for profit ami risk t will L e ,U1S hav0 a coul collar. We We seaeons water would stand on it much of the P cculiar diseases, may come, and breathe our .... c 1 \ npc arc moral . religious, enter- 
close by saying that 1 have the first cow to 1 COd , th ® whol 5 suramcr trough, however time, rendering cultivation out of the ques- P ui 'e and:invigorating atmosphere, and drink IS?®', Iu P™P° rt,oa io tIlc number of in¬ 
buy that 1 don’t think paid a profit and 1 gr0!lt 1 thc bo ; u> or however long the drouth tion. Now, i^pis very wat, socmen the water °. U [ ! ualin - ? Watera > al, nost with a certainty ‘ t8and ‘^assessed value of properly, 
don’t know that I ever sold one that I lid ‘ W “ rm air S els not in il >cold is seen “ a kiting” soon after it fulls; the corn reB,ored to health. 1 ^ow of no place that builds school-houses 
not lose my money bv parting with her ftir does— this mostly at night; and it cools is of dark green color, and everything about d liesc rtatemonta, if given to the public , equa !. l ° ,b is- An interest in 
° “ not cools . bllt purifies—tlie cellar; that is, it shows Aiat the land has hail just the mod- Uu ' ou S h ) rf>UI ' widely read journal, will prob- ™‘° obi 13 manifeate(1 without a parallel. 
dm air in it. Milk is perfectly safe at mid- icinc it needed. ably meet the eye, and arrest the attention "herever eight or ten, and from that up 
MILK FEVER. summer,, in the full force of the dog-days. Let it bo understood that I do not. wriin ot ’ thousands of sufferers, who will be thank- t( ^ forty, scholars cau ho collected, some 
In answer to I I HrorrrV * Xt carr ies its twenty-four hours, sweet, and in the spirit Of controversy. lie is a brave ful for tb e information here given, and these kind of a echoohhouse, from an $800 house 
me say —Aa^oonas th^cow shr?wq J 0t f raws a fllic - fl,n cream. The cream itself man who dares to question pojm l.,r theories- statemen<B arc niacl c deliberately and un wasba ^,iB prepared, and a schoohnarm 
loms of wtlmteHr re e r fl f2 ? n Uie « Ik oil right, though kept for a and Anson’s “doubts" on 6 i important a de ^dmgly. They may also meet the eye ^to directing young ideas how to shoot, 
about bleed in proportion to Kirs n i°' <S , cay or lw °—chnrncd the same day would question will set us to thinking. It is well ° f so,no l,imi!i nc physician, who cares more v ^ °‘! may 1llinlc ,l “ H0 col(1 up there!” 
diUon. Then take a S !* <,0nC . in ****■ ^ **3 well established mcibods f f th S <*>">*« welfare of his patieffis Y ° U ^ . hoard 110 ^ And that 
boneset, boil until the strength is extracted 1 ‘ Ult ,)'! 1 k ° ep '|' Uh us 0n ,hc cold - stonc should at times be called in questiem in order 1 han (or tljL 'ir money. 1 make them from the snow fa 9 S1X t0 tcn fect '• b,,t 11 ly not. so. 
3001 to blood heat, take two quarts of the | cciacnl bot ^ lu lbree to four days, that is to root ©ut errors, and help on the car of p lp 0n ? ptl “P of bcnevoIcn Cc, and as a thank- Dil E - Tucker. 
ea and one nmim of B nii« «„ i , i r bernes > &c ' There is no difficulty in “ bring- progress. n l r offering lor having been raised, as it were Frora Ma,thovr “ c »- v «- 
lolvoii nl! ! 1 t mLtL.rm’ ^ 1 tbc butter u comcB in the regular Oneida Castle, N. Y. from tb c grave, to a condition of health i . 1 LEFT lowa in Ma rch, traveled through 
MILK FEVER. 
In answer to I. L. Hughes’ inquiries, lot 
me say: —As soon as the cow shows symp- 
toms of weakness, or reels d]ia i . , ■ ^ . • — —■r—r— *-»»-■ wun, ^ 
nl M ut, bleed in pnportion to and con- i “ te“e, i"™t S'* ? ^ t" T 11 
dition. Then take a good handful of dried V „ ’ S? ! ues ' tUat even lon 3 !mJ well established method! 
boneset, boil until tho strength is extracted to 1 t J'' 1 keep ^' uh us 011 <hc cold - stonc should at times be called in questkm in ordei 
cool to blood heat,uke two quarto o“S ’ ?" ^ l0 I°"‘' day B, that is to root ©ut errors, and help on the car ol 
tea and one pound of X an d when cis- u dlfflc ! ,]ty in “ Progress. 
-n /1 ° f g,n . S - er aml I linie> There is thereforo no loss, no aggra- -_ 
g U ic COM Then give exciting iu- ration, no bad odors, and yet a pure air ABOUT PUMPS- 
jeoUons composed of four quarts boneset tea, Sometimes thc windows are shut for a week - 
onc-fouuh pound sal ts, two ounces soft soap, sometimes for two weeks, and even more’ Iam an old pump maker,—have been in 
two ounces tobacco juice. with only occasional whiffs of air let in at thal busine ® over fofty-dve years, aud have 
If you do not get an action in twelve morning when coolest. This warms slight.lv, now retired from such labor. Hence I can 
hours, give half doses physic every three but soon gels colder, tho cold walls absorb- s ‘ ve 60me informa,ion 011 hydraulics not 
hours until an action is produced. Give in- ing the warmth with little effect on the tern- known to many. W. E. M. wants to know 
H. L. R. 
ABOUT PUMPS- 
1 am an old pump maker,—have been in 
that business over forty-five years, and have 
promptings of benevolence, and as a thank- 
offering for having been raised, as it were 
from the grave, to a condition of health 
which is rarely enjoyed at my age of life. 
It is seldom we find a people who so 
grossly violate the laws of health as do the 
inhabitants of this mountainous region, and 
it is rare to find one who as a people are so 
hardy as this. They know but Utile more of 
sickness than do the wild deer which roam 
kind of a school-house, from an $800 house 
to a shanty, is prepared, and a schoolmnrm 
set to directing young ideas how to shoot. 
You may think it “ so cold up there!” 
5 on have heard so, no doubt. And that 
snow falls six to ten feet deep; hut it is not so. 
Dr. E. Tucker. 
From Mattbcvra Co., Va. 
I left lowa in March, traveled through 
eight or nine counties in Virginia, and °in 
every county I found (price of lands, soil, 
timber, water and climate considered,) it 
very inviting to Northern men. As to being 
kindly treated by the people, I have never 
met with warmer reception by strangers in 
any State of the Union. In Matthews Co 
/HA., ii .. - _ .. 
noms until an action ,s produced. Give in- ing the warmth with little effect on the tern- Known to many. 'Vk E. M. wants to know over our immense and almost b«»nnX , (fifty-five miles from Norfolk by steamboat,) 
ectmn 8 once in twohours; omit the tobacco perature. It must bo considered that, in a kind of pump to put in his well. Well, forests. And yet our people liveaaba K IlbumIa e° od «*], water and timber, and 
half the time We have saved a great num- cellar, the air Is not consumed and fouled by tho A y ei ^ bt , of atmosphere is about the same they can, their favorite meat belmr «vv the fllK;St roads lhat I ever saw in any coun- 
bei of valuable cows with the above treat- the lungs as in an occupied room, but re- yveight as thirty-three feet of water near the flesh, their drink coffee anti niLun Z try ‘ Farj,,s > fro m one hundred and fifty to 
meUt ‘ M - 11 T. mains pure if the cellar is clean. Tho air, , vel of tbo ** ia > and on mountains about without stlm. Beef and mtuu.nVhr-v r, !,'“ five hundred acres, with comfortable build- 
-- therefore, may be kept,— and it is precious , iay ° r a httlc ovar ’ and su PP°»e a well to as suitable only for an cffemlmm. v„.Lt, ' r ings ’ at from liftecn to twenty-five dollars 
XVxvith the cold in it.-r. be thirty-five feet from the top of the well what other ZZ ^ S»* oysters and fish in abundance 
ber of valuable cows with the above treat* 
UlCIlk M U T 
Cows Giving Bloody Milk.—Is thero aremody? 
xvben I oommenoe milking my cow the milk un¬ 
pears to Do pure; but tlio last, especially from 
one or two teats, becomes mixed with blood.— 
A. 13., HundevOU , N. 1\ 
Yes. Thc most common remedy is to food tho 
animal poke root. Spilt a carrot and niserca 
small piece of the root In it and feed to the oow. 
Do this dally until n cure ls effected. It is tho 
mains pure if the cellar is clean. The air, 
therefore, may be kept,— and it is precious 
xvith the cold in it.— f. 
the finest roads that I ever saw in any coun¬ 
try. Farms, from one hundred and fifty to 
five hundred acres, with comfortable build¬ 
ings, at from fifteen to twenty-five dollars 
per acre; oysters and fish in abundance. 
UNDERDRAINING — ADVANTAGES. 
Fuvnic Amon gives somebody an in¬ 
formal invitation to “pitch in ,” which I 
xvish somebody would do. I cannot under- 
P 01 me>vCU wlmt other climate could a people thus liv ° ysters and fiBli 
PUmp ’ wUh a n,d h 'S possess health? Surely I know not. o.,r J 'I ay aud Jtme 1 experienced 
eighteen or twenty inches long, be placed at great rebellion gave 
the top, and a lead pipe from that down to none more i.J u, o 
the water, the pump will raise the water in Tennessee. V lue u, ^ ,anUs 0 
the pipe till the weight of atmosphere is t know that Hip , , 
taken off, and will raise no further. Then easti;in d ,,,.^° Und3 V th dls 
; . .» » wBi-ujq, il is mo wjoii aumwwby wouiu cio. i cannot under- wm jwsu no mrmer. men ease and nnv/>rt«T .i .. 
on iSm “ tok f t0 * > . U * lor r™* ready writer, y« take a tvooden pnmp, rvitl, a rod twelve toowoMltfe pll-ticular Lrt' KSunUcd 
Btrontrlv veined, shattered at the biiso. nmt im. a ' voul<l s00 “ ranke ^ worse appear tlie ™ lonrteen feet ion)-, and you can draw water gi„ lcs T|„.y i!,,„,v 00t ,,., 
large fleshy root-not tbo poke berry of the up- better cause had the truth no al)ler cham- moderately xvell, but it xvill go rather hard in our aftnosnherc <mri • ' ' lsbeabn ° 
lauds. A piece of saltpeter tbo alee of „ l„cl,o?y plan tl.au myself to defend it a s ai„e, Lim. « ““oun. of the weight of water in the “ 1 “•U'ni-ttot 
mhawenonccaday forawoctssaidtohea Besides, I caunotspeak from expu-ienee of P»»Pi «» water beta, the hue,tot is ESOT Meorn^KtaT 
-- much extent. But the argument of positive drawn tip. and the water above the bucket climate is severe in extremes o heat 2 
Enlargement of the Gnii. —Having, witfiin tbo cx P enencc would seem to have no weight 18 lifted or forced up, and the weight of at- cold—ours temperate in both ’ ‘ 
last two years, lost three flue tineo-yem-old wUh 5 for one of his intelligence must mos P hci ' e only acts on the water below thc So mnrh l,J Z , , . 
stoera with tho enlargement of thc gall, 1 be familiar with Warino French and bucket °o mucn uas natuie done for this region 
Z^tl’Zte’aZ^SdT^ ^•"'-^O'vrUtenMiynpnnttee.,,,. Water can he forced „p a hundred feet or eqn^e Norm' Tp’^la^ZZ % 
the disease.—J. w. Fcmus, Mcrccr Co., Pa. ‘ Je f Ct uni :lculiaming, giving the experience mme ’ but not drawn b .V a pump. A force skilled labor wo shall leave it in i t n R i \ 
- Ve ' m " Cl ‘ t,me a ” d RT 1 ’* ”1”? Cost .'y “ d , C03|S ,0 k “P I and that time is approaching. 
bestowed upon us the inestimable gift of a 
climate so salubrious as to amount almost 
to the miraculous. W. W. Powell. 
From Mill brook, Mich. 
rows Holding their Miik.-S. D. Stearns, Wood 
Co., O., writes us that he never fails to make a 
cow give down her milk if he gently shoves his 
hand up against thc udder, in imitation of a calf 
bunting the bag. 
--—w-*-- 
Potatoes for Cows.— Can any of your readers 
tell me whether Irish potatoes aro good to feed 
to milch cows, and what way, time and quantity, 
&c.-A Header, TavlorvlUc, Va. 
• - •» -- 
Cows- Sore Tents. -Mrs. A. G. 11. writes the 
Rural that the best application to the sore teats 
. of cows is sale molasses. 
money in bringingtheart toils present state il in repair, but the kind that I have dc 
of perfection. Here let me advise all in- scribed is llie best I know of, and the least 
terested to read what Waring says under costly to keep in repair. A, Willson. 
tho heading, “ Wjll it Pay,” chapter VII in Ma rccllus, N. Y. 
his hook on “Draining for Profit and « «--- r Mini 
Health.” Potato Digger.— George Plumb-Sco Rural 1 think our climai 
If tho evivrWieo and *• /. August 14, page 519. A long-handled, four-tinod the United States. Malarial levers are nl 
II thc experience and observation of'others manure fork, on most soils, where the field has most entiretir ! r lLV ^ ls aie dl ‘ 
are worth anything, they prove that under- been kept clean, is better than a hoe. Some i , ? , , y ' V11 ‘ rhcrc 1S 11 no 
draining is profitable. Thc school of exne- farmers rre£or a fork ho ° the plate ones for , \° . abor al tbe best Prices. The hun- 
lience is aa exnensive one. »nr! ff wto the same purpose. There have been some horse bei business, carried on near by, furnishes 
;ss health? Surely I know not Our ^ a , Jime 1 ex P erienc cd the finest kind 
ellion gave no braver soldiers and ’"’gather. A large amount of com is 
:e hardy than did the highlands of }- aild looIcs due ' 0n tide water.I be- 
e. b . ev . e ft t0 be as healthy as any State of tlie 
r that the North abounds with dis- ; W ! lolly unknown - excp Pt on 
poverty, and that the very few only oZ ! n S °. f ^ 1 purchasod bc ‘ 
this particular part of the United W ° 1Und ^ aTld three hundred acres 
know not that there is healing mnd’oJ l .Y euty ' rive doIlars per acro > and in¬ 
nosphere and in our waters-tha°t \2„ 1, 5 ^ *“• althou ff b 1 
pare room for millions, and have ba ' 1 1,11,18 in Ioiva - Li going to the county, 
’ ail who will come hither. Your 1 tukc tha fclcaraboal N - p - Panics at Norfolk 
s severe in extremes of heat and a 3 r A ’ Pnesduy ’ TliUrsda y and Satur- 
•s temperate in both. d , ay ^ 0r J IattIlcWB Ending; arrive at 11 
h has nature done for this region ° C ° ck; fal ’ e lw0 dollars - G - Haywood. 
I lo climate, that When we can -ur From Richmond, Vn. 
North in population, capital and ^ f CXt ™ Ct ,hc followin ° froui a letter 
bor, wc shall leave it in the shade • J 1ILh - WC ‘ avC npt , 6pace to publlsb in full: 
time is approaching. Nature has 1S U10rc . 01 ' fcss of a patronizing air 
upon us the inestimable gift of a lllan - v ol tUc ol(l residents, wliich in- 
} salubrious as to amount almost C ‘ Ca t ’ S p a ! n y til!lt tbe,r ldcas 01 ' worthless 
raculous. W. W. Poweli respect ability have not entirely left them ; 
... , ... . but as they are brought more in contact with 
nonce is ail expensive one, and if we cannot , 1 ‘ ”some nor.se 
... j- , ’ lul 11 we cannot potato-diggei-s introduced, which seemcl to 
l.\ ui i Utils discovered by others, hut must operate well,but wc do not know what have be- 
leel along in the dark, and learn each par- c °meof them, nor whore they are manufactured. 
ticular truth for ourselves, progress is impos- s ° voraJ bave ^ cou advertised iu former volumes 
of i Lie l(u ual*» 
I think oar climqfp ^ V m * . those whose self-reliance is their guarantee 
e United States M w ■T r by 3S a ' lV m of nobility - their Pretensions gradually weak- 
st nntnc? r ** ^ en and vanisb - Free labor, district schools, 
:k or^rttr;, crc vr y , u ° mui 9ub - soii pi ° ws ^ yet ^ ^ 
r business carried m JllCe f’ be ll ] m * Virginia many things hitherto considered 
ronnn o tii . T Y> furuisbcs impossible and impolitic. The resources of 
ami nil r iC1 ri ns m0St of Virginia to-day can hardly beoverestimat- 
tL cL '^ i er . °Z r . ml is S° od - ed. It is destined to take rank with its 
,,. a in S laQ d is covered with beach ami more prosperous Northern and Western 
maple. It is a sandy loam, with a clay or sisters. 
Rustic. 
