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MANURING IRRIGATED FIELDS. 
BY DANTEB LEE. 
The Southern corresponding editor of the 
Rural 1ms an interesting letter from San 
Saba, Western Texas, describing land and 
farming In that region, and asking informa¬ 
tion in reference to the use of bonce and 
manures on irrigated fields, which will bear 
discussion in the Agricultural Press. Speak¬ 
ing of articles on irrigation from this j>cn in 
the Rural, my correspondent Bays:—“ I 
believe you hold that spring water is .a fer¬ 
tilizer; and as I have been irrigating for 
several years from twenty to seventy-five 
acres from a largo, spring which pays mo 
well, I think if I knew what manures to ap¬ 
ply It would pay me much better.” liis 
they make a soft, ground-like bottom—a no 
small consideration. And they are con¬ 
venient. Especially is this the case with 
sawdust, which is therefore largely used, 
but not. half enough. Sawdust, is, in other 
words, a tftfl. wooden floor, so porous that it 
takes up th© moisture of the stable, which 
the wooden floor proper does not do. 
And it saves it all—all the urine, and much 
of the liquid contents of the excrements in 
the stable; and mixed w ith them as it is and 
piled away, it gets all the liquid part. Can 
it be saved as well la any other w ay, and 
with as little trouble ? 
But the greatest, or one of the greatest, 
points is yet to be mentioned—the case and 
perfect adaptability with which it can be 
applied both to grain and to grass fields as a 
top-dressing. It works out evenly and 
finely, and at once. You can use it at any 
time—probably not from the stable direct; 
we do not know how this is, mb wo have 
never tried it. Mr. Lewis, however, one of 
tiops arc an average ol twenty bushels<>f p cs j. authorities in Herkimer county, 
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wheat, fifty of corn and two hundred eft 
Bwect potatoes per acre, with “rough culti¬ 
vation and no manure.” He adds, “ Thou¬ 
sands of bones arc: scattered over the country, 
which might, bo collected with little trouble,” 
and ask$, “ Would it pay to Jet the water 
run over the land when crops aro not grow¬ 
ing ?" 
As running water is found by experiment 
to dissolve the bones of a horse or ox in a 
few months, they might lie carried into the 
soil in irrigating water very oheaply, if 
placed in ditches and gutters for the pur¬ 
pose. All dead animals, flash and bones to¬ 
gether, may be dissolved in running water, 
and made to fatten a pasture, meadow en¬ 
grain field as available plant food. An ex¬ 
cavation where a dead cow or mulo is laid 
should he made so that moving water will 
cover the carcass, with weights upon it, ami 
thereby absorb all gases, and prevent any 
offensive smell in the surrounding atmos- 
phero. Tho whole surface of a field is a 
true “ earth closet," which spring water can 
be made to feed indefinitely. Mr. Meciii, 
of England, liquefies his stable manure in 
large tanks, and tho manure is distributed 
by steam power through iron pipes that ex¬ 
tend over the whole farm in cultivation. 
Water being at once a universal solvent, 
and indispensable to all vegetable growth, 
its use with liquefied manure gives tho farmer 
perhaps the highest attainable power over 
profitable production. 
It often takes years for lumps of solid ma¬ 
nure, carted into a field, to become thor 
oughly incorporated with the soil; but ex¬ 
tract at once the natural strength of tho 
dung-hoap with water, and in a liquid state 
the distribution of the fertilizing atoms by 
proper irrigation is made very cheaply, and 
in the most perfect way imaginable. Irriga¬ 
tion in Southern Texas, New Mexico, Utah, 
California, Colorado, and other parts of the 
United States which arc just coming into 
notice, will lead to great improvements in 
the application of manure in all parts of our 
extended Republic. 
Speaking of San Saba Valley, our corre- 
apondent says that, “nearly all the valley 
land can be irrigated by the San Baba River 
and its tributaries, and bought at from one 
to two dollars per acre. The back land, 
covered with as flue grass as you ever saw, 
can be had at from fifteen to twenty-five 
cents per acre, and plenty of fencing ma¬ 
terial, such as cedar, rock oak, elm, &c.” 
Stock raising is not profitable at present 
prices. Our correspondent bought one hun¬ 
dred yearlings for one hundred and twenty- 
five bushels of corn, worth sixty-fivo cents a 
bushel. They have not suffered for rain 
tlilsseason, and their corn crop is made. The 
estimated yield this year for the whole 
county, upland and bottom, is forty bushels 
per acre. It 5s a llmestomc district, with 
rather an excess of calcareous matter in the 
soil, although adapted to wheat, corn, oats, 
grass and all Southern staples. The Indians 
are sometimes troublesome, while the market 
for all farm products is too distant for much 
profit on agricultural industry. 
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SAWDUST: 
Jut Use on tho Fnrni In Connection with 
Manure. 
Many farmers object to sawdust, on ac¬ 
count of its acidity when in a green state. 
Asa mulch, it is considered hurtful on this 
account, and there is no doubt that this is 
the ease. 
But, used as an absorbent of manure in 
stables, &c., the thing is altogether different. 
The ammonia of the manure no doubt, acts 
upon the acid and neutralizes it. It is hence 
that the best results have been quoted from 
the best of farmers, in the use of (dried) sa w¬ 
dust in stables, manure heaps, &<:. But used 
iu the stalls of cattle and horses, it is best. 
It acts then like leaves, which are very 
porous and dry, and fine shavings, which 
we have seen used largely, with most ex¬ 
cellent effects. 
These all absorb rapidly the juices and 
gases of the droppings of the stable, and 
promote cleanliness, while at the same time 
uses it early in tho spring, as soon as tho 
frost will permit, and with tho highest suc¬ 
cess, raising from three to four tons of grass 
to tho acre. The alkaline properties correct 
tho acid, and tho liquid portion of fresh ma¬ 
nure soon undergoes fermentation, so that 
here is a ready means to use tho contents of 
the stables at once and with the highest ben 
efits—use them in tho only way they can ho 
used most beneficially—in a refined state, 
tin! sawdust being a medium to this effect. 
Thus wo save all the manure or liquid 
portion, which is the portion generally lost. 
We get it in a condition to use at once, and 
prevent loss by evaporation. Wo have a 
chance to distribute it finely and easily upon 
the soil, hugging it. closely, so as to hold and 
abstract its strength. Thus applied, the saw¬ 
dust is a protection against heat and cold. 
It may tho more readily ho harrowed in 
with grain, and thus used at once. And, 
finally, it is cheap; costs only the drawing. 
Sawdust is a manure itself, and this pays for 
the drawing, and more in the bargain. These 
things aro not new; but they should bo belli 
before the public. o. 
WHEAT OR GRAIN SHOCKS. 
The timely suggestions of friend L. P. 8., 
I read with much interest. His manner of 
shocking grain may all be very well; but 1 
herewith send you my plan, which it seems 
to me now 1 should like better. First stand 
four sheaves in a row; put three on each 
side; this makes a round shock, symmetrical 
and firm. Now for caps -. take a sheaf, bend 
all the head back toward the band; (see fig¬ 
ure) place it on the shock, with the butt east; 
arrange the top down the Hides; break the 
last one down by the band, (see Fig. 2,) and 
put it on from the west, the top lapping over 
Fin. 1. 
Fio. 2. 
the others. This covers well, makes a steep 
roof, and is not likely to he blown off. L. 
D. 8.’s No. 3 is good, but takes too long. 
Our hardest storms blow from the west here. 
R. 0. Rice. 
The engraver has failed to show tho apex 
of the shock as sharp as our correspondent 
did in his drawing, or as it should be; nor 
are the cap sheaves spread over the top suf¬ 
ficiently—[E ds. Rural. 
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THOROUGH MECHANICAL CUL¬ 
TIVATION. 
Ik farmers in general oould he fully con¬ 
vinced of the great benefit arising from 
thorough mechanical cultivation of the soil, 
T think their interests would be advanced. 
It is a fact,—preach as we will about apply¬ 
ing plenty of manure, and point as wc may to 
a few successful and honored (as John 
Johnson) exponents of such a practice,—that 
not one farmer in twenty can procure what 
a good cultivator would term sufficient 
manure. 
“ Bosh! He can if he will.” 
Do you think so, my confident friend ? 
Point out the -way, and you will have solved 
one of 1 lie deepest problems of our agricul¬ 
ture. 
Farmers who manure heavily, procure it 
either by purchasing prepared commercial 
fertilizers, (I doubt, however, if it is possible 
to manure heavily with these concentrated 
manures alone,) stable refuse from towns, or 
> bv feeding stock and food which are not 
. grown on their farms. Using the refuse of 
i towns for the purpose of food, is in accord- 
, ance with the laws which govern a perman¬ 
ent agriculture, but the buying, by one 
, farmer of another, of stock to fatten and food 
i to fatten it with, is simply taking advantage 
of necessity or ignorance, and impoverishing 
one farm in exactly the ratio that the other 
is fertilized. I think that not one in ten of 
our best farmers restore to the soil, in the 
shape of manure, as much food-producing 
matter as the crops remove. And they never 
will be able to do so, even in an approximate 
degree, until the necessities of dense popula 
tions compel the saving of the waste of vil¬ 
lages and cities, where so great a portion of 
the products of farming are consumed, and 
its application to the soil. 
Thorough mechanical cultivation must 
make up, with the present generation, at 
least, for the lack of manure. They must 
draw somewhat on capital, instead of being 
content with mere interest. Use the present 
strength of tho soil—rationally and skillfully, 
of course—and let the Coming Farmer take 
care of himself. That Rounds sordid and 
hard-hearted you may say, but nevertheless 
it is tho course unchangeably marked out, 
and ho is wise who accepts it. Nor will it 
he much of a detriment to the Coming Far¬ 
mer after all, for thorough mechanical culti¬ 
vation for the present means the putting of 
tho soil in tho host possible, condition for his 
method of thorough manuring. 
Old Jethro Tuli. deserves honor from 
this generation for his theory that thorough 
mechanical cultivation will aloua maintain 
the soil fertile, for although H has been long 
exploded, yet it was very good doctrine to 
promulgate in llic dawning of scientific agri¬ 
culture. It led to underdraining, deep plow 
ing, and a frequent stirring of the soil when 
crops are growing; it prepared tho way for 
the farmer who was to use manure. 
Observe how a favorable season will make 
a good crop on laud that is worn and poor. 
A favorable season does little more to tho 
success of a crop than mechanical cultiva¬ 
tion can do in an ordinary one. Stirring tho 
soil will overcome tho effect of ordinary 
drouths, underdraining turns wot seasons to 
advantage, and deep and minute pulveriza¬ 
tion places the soil in condition to yield its 
whole strength to the plant. And experi¬ 
ence., as well as science, informs tis that 
strong loams and clays contain crop elements 
enough, if brought* out, by cultivation and 
aided with cIo^WBtfHithcr green manuring, 
to give good returns for many years. 
Chiel. 
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THE WHEELS OF REAPERS. 
I would suggest, for tho benefit of the 
Western farmers using reaping machines, 
and call tho attention of the manufacturers 
of them to the subject, tho utility of having 
the rim of tho right driving wheel of the two¬ 
wheeled machines double the width of the 
left wheel, for tlio reason that it carries the 
weight of the shoe, reel, platform, cutter-bar 
and knives. With double the width that 
the left wheel has, it would diminish, one- 
half, the liabilities to “ slough down ” or 
sink, In a wet season like this present one. 
If this suggestion should be put in practice 
by the manufacturers of reaping and mow¬ 
ing machines, it will bo of vast benefit to 
those using them; and such machines, with 
such alterations and none other, will greatly 
outsell the narrow-rimmed wheels. 
John A. Blackburn. 
Victor, Iowa, 1SC9. 
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The Canada ThUtlc In thu Weal. — A corres¬ 
pondent at Hutlor, Iud., asks us how to extermi¬ 
nate this post, which is making inroads on the 
prairies. The only way wo know of is to de¬ 
foliate it whenever it appears anovo ground, and 
root it out wherever n root can be found. Wo 
know of no easy and royal way for doing this. 
We have destroyed it by summer fallowing:; 
also by frequent, mowing. It can bo kept from 
spreading, and should bo. Don’t let It seed. 
■ ■ — -»♦ ►-——. 
Poudrctte.-W b. Stuart Speers.—Wo have 
made most, excellent pondrottohy dally deposit¬ 
ing in the privy vaults a small quantity of muck, 
plaster, charcoal, decayed chips or logs, leaf 
mold, or even dry earth. Any, or all of these, 
mixed with human excrement, daily makes a 
portable pondrette and a manuro of great value. 
heavy subsoil, and harvested one hundred 
and twenty bushels of good wheat. 
SAVE SORREL SEED. 
As the season is at hand when the fall 
thrashing begins in Western New York, I 
wish to say to the Rural readers who, like 
myself, are infested with the weed known as 
sorrel, that, after all, it has a small redeem¬ 
ing quality. I have, until tho last season, 
thrown the seed away as a pest; but I 
learned from a pattern farmer of our town, 
(and an old contributor to the Rural,) that 
ho saves his and feeds to his fattiug sheep. 
He says it is worth more than oats, and 
equally as much as corn of tho same weight. 
I did not learn of it until after my first 
thrashing of wheat and barley were over 
last fall; but when I came to my oats, a fow 
weeks after, I saved some two barrels. My 
little experience is that it is worth caring 
for where you have the misfortune to have it 
on the farm ; sheep will eat it with avidity, 
after the first two or three feedings, 
j. ii. n. 
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Pointer* — Varieties nml Price*.— I rqiso a 
great many potatoes. I have a quantity I 
planted culled tbe Chili or Garnet's. They are 
.similar to tho Peaol) Blow; full ns good I 
think. I can’t find them quoted In our Rural. 
Will you or some one. through the Rural, give 
mo some light about this kind of potato iu New 
York markets.—H. M. 8., Nvui Yarn. 
Up to this time our market has boon so greatly 
overstocked with potatoes by heavy arrivals 
from the South, and an enormous yield in Long 
Island and Now Jersey, that a range of prices 
regardless of variety hits been all that, was re¬ 
quired In our quotations. The market has now 
become steadier, and we shall soon be enabled 
t o arrange a table showing both prices and kinds. 
Whatever may bo tho ease in the section this 
paragraph Is intended to answer, respecting 
(lurnet Chill equaling the quality of Poach 
Blows, in this city tho former do not meet with 
the favor accordod the latter. When both kinds 
are ollorod in a regular commercial way Oar- 
Dots can be had at about one-hall’ tho price of 
I'CftOh Blows. About two years ago Oarnot Chili 
gave good satisfaction, and their novel appear¬ 
ance promoted somewhat their sale. Since that 
time they have deteriorated In quality from 
some cause, and are now mainly regarded ns a 
men who practice it than it makes for them, purpose their keeping qualities aro against 
Tho rush into hop culture a few years ago thorn whoil some other sorts compete with them 
and now out of it with as much thoughtless 111 quotations. Long Island and Now Jersey 
illustration ol‘ tlio workings of this 
fickle policy. _,, ( 
Sow Wheat. — Tho Journal of Agriculture 
WHEAT IN IOWA —SCAB. says“ There Is some danger that, owing to tho 
- very low price of wheat this fall, many of tho 
Here tho owner of one hundred and sixty farmers will sow less than usual. We think such 
or three hundred and twenty acres of land ft<KH,rfie would unwise. In very many cases 
... ... - . it would bn good policy for farmers to sow less 
. 1 ldtr f° ul or six ground, but to do so for tho purpose of raising 
yoke of cattle, and continues afterwards to more wheat at a loss cost per bushel. Thirty 
farm it all In Corn or wheat, while in tho acres, thoroughly prepared nnd sown with a 
Eastern Stales the two-thirds or three-fourths dril1 ’ w,lJ P« Kluo * q ulte 0i * m 'ich, «»d probably 
n e i. 1% , , , ,, , . . more, wheat than fifty acres cultivated as very 
ol that amount ofland is laid in grazing and muob of the wh6ftl gr ^ und l8 lU i,.d in i his coun¬ 
meadow lands. At this writing the grain is try. But. to neglect to sow wheat this full bc- 
mostly cut and the majority of it in stack; cause It does not bring as much now as It did a 
a very great breadth of land was sown to >' 0ttr ng0 ' wou,d bo nctin * moro unwisely tlmn 
n, t those farmers did who killed off their sheep last 
spring wheat-more than ever, In one sea- faU bocau(K , wo0 , Wl8 , ow » 
son, m this State. The best reason why so __ 
much laud is sown to wheat may ho found Sweet Potatoes Bloom.- in the HimAfcof July 
in the fact that for the two yearn succeeding 24th * 1 noticed a statement, confirmed by Mr. 
the breaking of the prairie sod the most ^P^^dOf^Woom. in 
„ _ ° j . . . „ this latitude, 82Jtf , tho Yam Potato, our very 
i rn lucrative and certain crop is that of KW -oot potato, never fails to bloom; and 
wheat. Afterwards com and Stock will pay sometimes, 1 am told, (for I never saw it myself,) 
Itest , hut on account of the scarcity of means bears seed. Tho flower is a very pretty morning 
with which to procure stock, with the greater ? lo ’ T ' The , red Bormuda P° tat ° !llso blo °‘ na ' 1 
. .... ^ , , b . hav© never known the Spanish potato to bloom; 
portion ol those who settle on the raw' prai- but j fiU pp 080 jt does., ns far south as Florida. 
ijc, they continuo to grow wheat, as it usu- Wo have several varieties of wild sweet po- 
ally yields from fifteen to twenty-five bushels taioin the South, all classed as morning glories, 
to the acre; and the returns come sooner. uud "V, b ^ ar,n * ?***:. 80,11,3 of lbc,n T' 1 -,”? up 
. annually trora the old root. In Georgia 1 have 
Throughout this section of Iowa, spring scon tbo wild potato grow very large, but hard 
■wheat, (and I may say that there is, nomi- and stringy. T. M. Fort. 
nally speaking, none other raised,) is below Bellevue, La., Aug. i860. 
POTATO EXPERIENCES. 
The Early Rose. 
.T. Knapp, Stoubcn Co., N. Y., writes: 
“ In April last I purchased two pounds [fine 
tubers) of Early Rose potatoes. I cut and 
planted one eye in a hill, making seventy 
hills in a strip of' land averaging seven feet, 
by eighty. There aro four hearing cherry 
trees on the ground, and as many cabbage 
plants as there were hills of potatoes. The 
ground had not been manured for several 
years. I put into tbo hills about a half-pint 
of hen manure each. The seed was a long 
time coming up. By examination I found, 
on the 2d of July, potatoes as large as liens’ 
eggs; and to-day (August 28) I dug and 
weighed them, and found I had two hun¬ 
dred and fifty-eight pounds and ten ounces ; 
most of the potatoes very large; thirty-six 
weighing thirty-six pounds. Now, if this is 
the usual result of Early Rose, I think w y e 
need not talk of small yield, nor want for 
potatoes." 
O. Perkins, Cedar Co., Ohio, writes: 
“ Our Early Rose yields bountifully, but 
there are. some signs of rotting upon it. It 
beats any potato in these parts." 
Pntnto Crop ill lows. 
A correspondent at Durant, Iowa, writes 
that “ potatoes show some signs of the rot, 
but it will make but little difference, as there 
aro planted four times as many as will be 
wanted for market." lie adds, “ Farmers 
will do well to boil them for their hogs, and 
save their corn.” Our correspondent is 
right; and it may be fortunate that so many 
potatoes were planted, since the corn crop 
promises to be so generally short. And yet 
i bis rushing to extremes in tlio production of 
special crops, changing tho whole farm sys¬ 
tem and making it experimental and super¬ 
ficial rather than the result of intelligent 
calculativc purpose, loses moro money to 
men who practice it than it makes for them. 
Tho rush into hop culture a few years ago 
and now out of it with as much thoughtless 
haste is an illustration ol‘ tho workings of this 
fickle policy. 
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WHEAT IN IOWA —SCAB. 
Here tlio owner of one hundred and sixty 
or three hundred and twenty acres of land 
turns tho native sod under with four or six 
yoke of cattle, and continues afterwards to 
farm it all in corn or wheat, while in tho 
Eastern Stales the two-thirds or throe-fourths 
of that amount of land is laid in grazing and 
meadow lands. At this writing the grain is 
mostly cut and tho majority of it in stack; 
a very great breadth of land was sown to 
spring wheat—moro than ever, in one sea¬ 
son, in this State. Tho best reason why so 
much laud is sown to wheat tnay he found 
rie, they continuo to grow wheat, as it usu- Wo have eevora 
ally yields from fifteen to twenty-five bushels tu, ° 1,1 tbo South, i 
to the acre; and the returns come sooner. und "l 1 , b(3ar,n * r 
annually from tho 
Throughout this section of Iowa, spring seen tbo wild pot; 
wheat, (and I may say that there is, nomi- and stringy, 
nally speaking, none other raised,) is below Bellevue, La., At 
a fair crop. It is materially damaged by 
what is her© termed “ the soab," occasioned vtcM of ° nc °' n 
by the showery weather about the time the J2i©ro," Mysthef 
wheat was heading, and continuing until bar- - the largest yield 
vast, commenced. The scab seldom inj tiros a ever reoordod. Ot 
whole ear of wheat, but sometimes three to bill ba * Produced c 
six grains at tho top of the head, while the X 
balance ol the head is good; in others the another single grai 
same amount in tho middle, and still again year IttftS will be m< 
near the main stalk, while the remaining wheat year.” 
berries are good. This scabbing is the dam¬ 
age done to our wheat through the West this Hop Crop, 
year; nnd the amount of bushel, will, not- K 
withstanding the greater breadth sown, be they „rt, grown, 
far short of that raised for the past two years, bearing, are affocte 
Victor, Iowa. John A. Blackburn. forming the hops a 
Yield of One Grain of tVlival.—“ Jos. Musser, 
who resides at Midway, Clarke Co., reports, we 
believe," says the Springfield (Ohio) Republican, 
“the largest ylold from a single grain ol wheat 
ever reoordod. One grain planted by him last 
fall has produced one hundred and fifteen heads 
of wheat, as actually counted by himself and 
several other reliable persons. The yield from 
another single grain was seventy-five heads. Tho 
year IttftS will be memorable in our history as the 
To Reclaim Gullies In Old Fields, Ac. — In 
repairing the road through an old field to haul S- D. Comfort, Knox Co., O., writes us 
in my corn, I filled th« washes with limbs nnd that he has grown this variety three years, 
endings of the willow and cottonwood. This TT ■ .. , , 
was dope in October. In three years, In place Ho d68crfbes lt a8 llnvjn « * short straw, 
of the unsightly gullies, Ihndu beautiful growth smooth head and white berry, and 1ms not 
of willow and cottonwood, affording fine shade yet, in this vicinity, been grown on land 
for stock, &o. F. A. I>., (Jamdtn, Ala. ricli enough to make it lay down, It will 
yield one-third more grain from the same 
w!n U nn v* T M ) M> lArT ' OR - Wo bulk of si raw than Mediterranean, or any 
will pay you to haul out, your muck and add J 
straw, leaves and lime to you.- soil. W'c should 0,her bearded wheat now grown in this sec- 
©ertalnly add lime to tho straw, but should not tion, and ripens a few days earlier thun the 
BOUGHTON WHEAT. 
muko tho layer very thick. If the straw, leaves, 
&c., are put in thin layers hot ween tho muck, 
there will ho Jlttlo nood of forking over, and no 
need of covering. 
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Sowing Clover.— M. M. Taylor, Cumberland 
Co., N. C.— The soil you dosorlbo can profitably 
he sown to olover—eight to twelve quarts of 
seed per aore. Sow with any kind of small grain 
known to thrive on your soil and in your lati¬ 
tude. 
earliest. It has been raised so far on a clay 
loam, but is being sown this fall on the black 
land of creek bottoms.” 
G. R., Genesee Co., N. Y., writes us that 
the last of October, 1866, he sowed one quart 
of it on clay and harvested ten quarts; the 
next season he sowed ten quarts on sand and 
harvested nine bushels; the next season he 
sowed six bushels on sandy loam, with 
The Hop Crop.— A Falrvlow, Erie Co., Pa., 
correspondent Inquires about, tho general pros¬ 
pect* of hops throughout the country whoro 
they are grown. His, “of tho second year’s 
bearing, are affected with blJght,, and tho loaves 
forming the hops are withering up and dying on 
a large port ion of them.” In Oswego Co., N. Y., 
the other day, wo hoard of tho destruction of 
the crops of several yards which had promised 
well, by blight. Let our correspondent report. 
litTinudn Gra***. — LOUISIANIAN asks If wo 
can teil him “the best way Iu eradicate this 
pest.” Ho hus seventy-five or one hundred acres 
overrun with it. Wo oaimol answer, never hav¬ 
ing had experience with it.. We know, however, 
that its Introduction Into Georgia some years 
since has been denounced in our columns, and 
the assertion made that it is almost impossible 
to eradioate it. If our readers can aid Louisi¬ 
anian, let them do bo. 
Drilled n. Broadcnm Grain —An Alabama cor¬ 
respondent asks, “Is planting small grain in 
drills preferred in the North to broadcast seed¬ 
ing?” We think it is among tho best farmers, 
though the proportion who practice it is com¬ 
paratively small. 
