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TOBACOJ CULTURE IN KENTUCKY. 
As I reside In a tobacco crowing country, 
aud have had opportunities of witnessing 
its growth and culture, and have had the 
pleasure of growing several crops myself. I 
thought a few notes to the Ritual. New- 
Yorker, of “what I know about Its cul¬ 
ture,” might prove of interest to some of 
its many readers. 
Sowing tho Seed.—A good start, they 
Bay, is half tho battle; and just as soon In 
the spring as the ground will do to work, 
(whioh generally is in February,) select a 
piece of new land that lays fair to the 6un, 
pile up large heaps of brush, or other com¬ 
bustible material, sufficient to burn the 
ground well; the next day, after burning 
your heaps, dig or spade those burnt spots 
well, thoroughly pulverizing the soil, and 
remove all flno trash and roots with a rake. 
A plat of ground ten feet square will raise 
plants enough to set one acre; a teaspoon¬ 
ful of seed will bo sufficient to sow it. If 
you tramp or roll your beds after sowing 
your seed, it will make them earlier. 
Soil and its Preparation,—The best 
soil here for the growing of fine, bright to- 
baoco, is a hickory and oak soil, or soil in 
whioh thosu timbers are most abundant, 
whioh is generally a stiff, clayey loam. The 
first year’s cultivating after clearing, is con¬ 
ceded by all to be the best for growing fine 
and light tobaoco; aud the second year, and 
sod land, for darker and heavier grades. 
Primitive soils, that are naturally rich, arc 
better than any artificially-prepared soils. 
The ground should be well broken, re- 
broken and harrowed; if new ground, a 
ooulter plow should be used. Mark your 
ground both ways with a one-horse plow, 
twenty-four by thirty-six inches, make a 
loose hill with the hoe in each cheek, aud 
your ground is ready for the plants. 
Transplanting.— From the 1st tolStbof 
June, if your plants have done well, they 
should be transplanted; if done any later 
than thi3, the plant has hardly titno to ma¬ 
ture. After a good shower of rain, you cun 
transplant. Raise your plants carefully', 
one at a time, aud set one in every hill, deep¬ 
ly'; press the soil firmly around its roots. A 
back-achiilg will follow a good day's work, 
I can assure you, from experience. 
Cultivation. — Keep tho Boil clear of 
weeds, and a loose hill to the plant. Plow 
at least throe tinios, with one horse—once 
the narrow way. The bottom or ground 
leaves of tho plant may be removed, so as to 
got a good hill to it, which Bliould always be 
done with tho hoe. 
Topping.—Topping must bo done as soon 
as the buttons arc visible, aud a few days 
sooner I believe is better, as it will make 
tho top leaves heavier. Top it all as near 
one time as possible. For heavy-bod led to- 
baooo—what might bo called coarse-flbered 
—top to ten leaves; l'or fine tobacco, top to 
twelve and sixteen leaves, according to the 
strength of your soil. 
Worm and Sucker.—After topping the 
tobacco, worms appear in myriads, and 
suckers for every leaf of the plant. All I 
oan say under t his head is, keep your tobac¬ 
co free from each, whioh will require all at¬ 
tention until it ripens. 
Catting-.—As soon as it is ripe, which may 
bo known by its changing color, (having a 
spotted or brownish cast;) cut with a thin, 
sharp knife, by splitting the stalk from top 
almost to bottom; then, by holding tho top 
firmly with one hand, lean the plant from 
you, and, by a light blow with the knife, 
yon sever the stalk at the ground. Some 
hang the plant immediately, by r placing it 
astride of a stick four foot in length, sup¬ 
ported by alight, transportable rack. About 
eight well grown plants arc enough for one 
stiok; and when filled, it is placed on a 
wagon, w-ith a frame high enough to keep 
the bottom leaves from touching the floor, 
and is hauled to the house aud plaoed in 
tiers four feet wide, aud tho sticks from 
eight to ton inches apart. 
Others out and lay it carefully on the 
ground, and when wilted, lay it in small, 
straight piles, with the buts of the stalks to 
tho sun; it is allowed to remain in the piles 
from eight to ten days, when it will be found 
to be of a beautiful yellow- color. It is then 
hung and placed in the house as before. 
Ilave your house so constructed as 1 o admit 
a free circulation of air in every direction. 
Stripping.—As soon as the stalks become 
dark and the stems dry, your tobacco is 
ready for stripping. This should be done in 
dam)) weather, when the tobacco is said to 
be “in case.” If help is scarce, it is a good 
plan to take it from the sticks and place It 
MARCH 
in a nice, compact bulk, stalk and all. This 
should be done when it is beginning to come 
“ in case ”—when the stems will crack when 
bent, but not break. If bulked when going 
out of “case,” it will go out entirely, and 
w ill be a difficult matter to get it “ in case ” 
again. When bulked in the condition I be¬ 
fore stated, a man can strip all the time, 
without waiting for it to come “in case,” 
ns you would have to do if it remained on 
the stick. Bulk it away as fast as you strip 
it, aud you can prize it away in hogsheads 
or take it to market from bulk; for it will 
keep any length of time, when put away In 
this condition. j. T, p. 
Lyon Station, Ky. 
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PEANUT CULTURE. 
I well give my mode of culture and ex¬ 
perience in this latitude. The peanut is 
very easily cultivated, and is a very profita¬ 
ble crop to grow for feed lug purposes; it is 
tho best feed for hogB that I know of, aud 
will fatten them quicker than any other 
feed. I generally turn my hogs in the pea¬ 
nut field, and let them root for themselves. 
Hogs that arc fattened on them, however, 
have to be put up in a pen aud fed on oorn 
about a week or ten days, in order to harden 
the flesh, as the peanut makes the fat oily; 
but it is tbo sweetest meat that we have. 
I plant the peanut when I plow my corn 
the seoond time, iu the corn rows; or. better 
still, I lay off uly oorn rows about seven feet 
apart, aud at the second plowing of my-corn, 
lay off a row' between the rows of corn, and 
plant my peanuts, so that when I plow my 
corn tho third time. 1 plow the peanuts; 
then, just as the peanuts begin to blossom, 
I give them a good hoeing, and that is all 
that is required. I plant the peanuts about 
one aud a-half feet apart in the drill. It 
docs not requiro a rich soil to grow them; 
our poorest, thinnest laud suits them best, 
and they improve tho land moro than any¬ 
thing else 1 know of; for after I dig what I 
want for seed, I turn in my hogs, and they 
root up the ground to find the nuts. Thus 
the land gets a thorough breaking up, aud 
the vinos are turned under by the hogs; and 
by next spring they are rotted, and the 
ground Is In fine condition to plant again. 
Thus I can improve my land more aud more 
each year, aud still cultivate it. 
Tho vines also make the best of long for¬ 
age for horses and cattle; for, by pulling the 
vines when the nuts are ripe, and allowing 
them to oure in the sun one day, and then 
staok or house them, you have a fine supply 
of forage—better than hay or fodder, and 
relished much more by the stock. 
Taylor Co., Fla. Jas. II. Wentworth. 
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FIELD NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Stile Herdsman. 
MILK FEVER IN COWS. 
R. M. Close, Sullivan, O., sends the fol¬ 
lowing to the Ohio Farmer:—“I have lost 
by the disease, and after dissecting the dead 
animals, came to the conclusion that the 
stomach—first of all—must be immediately 
relieved or else the disease sw'iftly carries 
t he cow entirely beyond help. The stomach 
is distended to the utmost, aud fairly baked 
dry (f. e., tho contents arc very dry). The 
womb or calf bag is also very much inflamed, 
but attent ion to this must be a secondary 
matter. Now in regard to the relief of the 
stomach, ordinary physic works so much 
slower than the disease that the animal dies 
before relief is obtained. 
“ Some two years ago I had a cow attacked 
with hoven. 1 tried several of tho best 
known remedies w-ith no good result. I did 
not understand tapping, as it is called, aud 
my conclusion w as that she was quite likely 
to die and an experiment would do no 
special damage, and knowing tho relaxing 
and penetrating power of common coal oil, 
I gave her as a last chance one half-pint. 
Tho relief was instantaneous, and in twenty 
minutes the bloat was entirely removed. 
From that I concluded that the distressed 
stomach of a milk fevered cow would find 
relief from the same remedy. M_v first tri¬ 
al was a genuine case of the worst kind. At 
9 o'clock P. >i. my cow was feeding, she was 
at 6 A. M. of t he next morning broadside and 
oould not hold up her head. As quick as 
possible one th ird of a pint was poured down 
her; the gases of the stomach immediately 
passed off. I then crowded several small 
lumps of salt through the neck of the womb, 
which was very much contracted and in¬ 
flamed, into the womb, her loins were then 
bathed in strung salt and water, and a blan¬ 
ket was thrown over her to sw-eat her. She 
lay with her eyes turned inward and groan¬ 
ing at nearly every breath. 
“All that saw her said that she would sure¬ 
ly die. But as the gases passed off, I knew 
she would survive long enough to let the 
coal oil work some time; her hind logs were 
quite stiff. She Jay twenty-four hours from 
the time 1 first found her before she could 
with help stand on her feet, but she got en¬ 
tirely well. The dose of oil was repeated 
the third, time within two hours. This rem¬ 
edy has been tried with success every time. 
I have been giving a rather minute treat¬ 
ment of this case because of its entire hope¬ 
less appearance at first sight." 
NOTES FOR HERDSMEN. 
Twelve Good Varieties of English 
Potatoes.— Robert Fenn names and re¬ 
commends the following English potatoes, 
which wc reproduce as a curiosity and a 
guide to those who desire to know more of 
English products. He names: 
“Hogg's Early Cold-Stream, Turner's 
Union Round (early rounds); Mona's Pride, 
M.vutt s Prolific (early kidneys); Daintree's 
Seedling, Dal in ahoy (round, second early 
Regents): River'sRoyal Ashleaf, orVeitch's 
Improved Ashleaf, * Almond's Yorkshire 
Hero (seoondearly kidneys): *Gryffo Castle 
Seedling.^Rlittoul’sNow White Don (round, 
class Regents); * Paterson's Victoria, 
*Dean‘s Excelsior (kidneys). The asterisks 
denote good keepers, aud sorts which re¬ 
quire to be planted three feel- six inches 
apart row from row. Good colored sorts are 
Paterson's Scotch Bine (round, second 
early); * Paterson’s Alexandra (kidney, 
late); and *Dean's Cottagers’ Red. A po¬ 
tato tit to displace Hogg's Coldstream is a 
new sort, called Veitch’s Early Perfection. 
Penn’s Onwards is also a second-early gar¬ 
den variety, of good quality. The much- 
vaunted American sorts are no longer grown 
by me. 1 cannot recommend them for table 
purposes. At great cropper’s or for very 
poor, sandy, light soil, they may be ap¬ 
proved. 
Japan Beau. — There has been a man in 
this vicinity selling a beau which lie oalls 
the “Pride of the Valley.” It. is a black 
bean, one and a-quarter inches long, and is 
very fragrant, the odor resembling new- 
mown hay or sweet clover. The man is do¬ 
ing a good business, selling the beans at five 
cents each. He had a drawing, representing 
the bean when growing, and claimed that 
they came from Corea on the coast of Spain. 
Can vou give us the name of this beau 7— 
Riciiard Bessom, Jr., Marblehead Mass. 
Of course we cannot tell anything about 
this benn, without having a full description 
or a specimen. There is a man in your 
town who ought to “know beans,” and we 
think he* does; so please submit the question 
to J. J. H. Gregory, the well known soeds- 
rnan of Marblehead, Mass. 
“ Lost Nation ” Wheat is highly spoken 
of by those who have grown it in Vermont, 
but we cannot inform P. F. C. where it can 
be obtained, nor what its specific aud com¬ 
parative merits are. Perhaps some of our 
readers can. 
Killing Lice on Cattle.—I will give a 
remedy that I think I have never seen pub¬ 
lished, which I kuow to be a sure thing. 
On a warm, pleasant day, take a pail full of 
warm water and put in as much carbolic 
acid as you think will do. It dou’t require 
a great deal. Saturate each animal thor¬ 
oughly from the end of the nose to the end 
of the tail, aud rub it In with a horse brush 
or anything that will do, until every inch of 
the animal is drenched to the skin; put 
the tail into the pail and soak it thoroughly, 
as there, and around the horns, you will 
usually find the most lice. Put each animal 
in the stable immediately, where they can¬ 
not lick themselves until dry. This will not 
need to bo repeated unless the cattle are 
very lousy.—C. C. R., Ul lea, N. Y. 
Finding- the Live Weight of Cattle by 
Measurement. — Iu answer to a corre¬ 
spondent, the London Field says: — Take 
the length of the back from the junction of 
the cervical aud dorsal processes to the tail, 
and the girth immediately behind the el¬ 
bow, square tho girth, and multiply the 
result by the length, and then by one of the 
following decimal multipliers: 
Decimal Multipliers. 
Class 1. Class 2. Class 3. 
Half fat. -23 . '225 ... 
Moderately l'at....... "24 ........ '21 ... 
Prime fat."30 . -20 ... 
Very fat. '202.‘2(i ... 
Extraordinarily fat- . • '275. “27 _ 
The dimensions to be taken in feet and 
inches, the latter reduced to decimals; the 
result will give the dead weight in stones of 
fourteen pounds. 
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Buffaloes as Farm Stock.—It has been 
found, by those who have made the trial, 
that the buffalo, or bison, will fatten under 
conditions fatal to ordinary domestic stock, 
that it is worth more in hide and flesh than 
the ox, and can be trained to the perform¬ 
ance of any kind of labor for whioh oxen 
are adapted. It is necessary, however, that 
calves should be obtained for this purpose, 
which is a most difficult task, since they are 
kept in the center of the droves and pro¬ 
tected by the bulls, who fight desperately 
for their children. It is dangerous work to 
reach aud take the calves, 
Lousy- Texas Cattle. —I have ninety 
odd head of Texas cattle, all lousy, and as 
wild as buffaloes, almost. I cannot handle 
them. What, remedy shall I use in this 
case? All the remedies I have noticed in 
the Rcral New-Yorker relate to domes¬ 
ticated animals.—D. C. B., BrookvUle . Kan. 
To Prevent Round Worms in the 
Intestines of Horses, a writer in London 
Field recommends top-dressing pastures iu 
which horses, especially brood mares, are 
kept, with lime and salt, alternately. Thus 
it is claimed the parasites may be destroyed. 
To Kill Lice on Calves ancl Slieep, 
give them turpentine with their salt.—R. 
SHff Huffman. 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
Mure with a Cough.—I have a good 
mare that has had a cough for several 
months. She shows no heaves, only a dry 
cough. I feed her dry hay- and wet her 
grain. Can you, or any of your readers, 
inform me what course to take iu order to 
cure her cough?— H. A. Stickle. 
The mare should not have dry feed of any 
sort. A cough may arise from various caus¬ 
es—from irritation of the lary nx, worms, 
etc. If from tho irritation of the larynx, 
apply mustard poultices a few times; if 
from worms In the intestines, (the symp¬ 
toms of which are a rough, harsh, staring 
coat, irregular appetite, a disposition to rub 
the tail, breath hot and fetid, and a short, 
dry cough,; give three drachms of calomel 
and one drachm tartar emetic. Mix and 
divide into threo powders and give one each 
successive night. Twenty-four hours after 
give a purgative ball consisting of ti drachms 
Barbodoos aloes, 2 drachms pulverized gin¬ 
ger, and one drachm pulverized gentian 
root. But if the cough exists without any 
apparent connection with worms, or as a 
termination of a disease previously exist¬ 
ing, give, every night, in a bran mash, one of 
these powders: of sulphate of copper (blue 
vitriol), digitalis (Foxglove), pulverized 
squills, niter, camphor, each one ounce—all 
to bo made into ten powders. Feed green 
food, such aa carrots, potatoes, turnips or 
parsnips. We have known this to prove 
effective. It is one of Jennixg’9 prescrip¬ 
tions. 
A Mare With Heaves.— James I. Van • 
aken writes us that he has got a mare which 
has just begun to show appearance of heaves. 
He asks if there is any cure. E. G. P., To¬ 
ledo, O., iu Rural New- Yorker May a, 
1871, writes that such cases can generally be 
cured by a dose of physic, followed by bran 
mashes and dean, dusted timothy hay, or 
bright, clean straw. He has also relieved a 
favorite mare very much by feeding wild 
turnip and sumac bobs in mushes, and final¬ 
ly cured her perfectly wit h lime water and 
ginger. A barrel of lime water was placed 
in the barn, and one or two quarts were 
drawn into the pail every time she was wa¬ 
tered—never allowing her to drink more 
than a half or two-thirds of a pail full at a 
time—of course watering her frequently. 
The ginger was given, a table spoonful at a 
time, t wice a day in bran mash ; feed, corn 
and bright wheat straw until a perfect cure 
was effected, afterward she was fed as one 
would feed any horse. 
Remedy for “ Knee Sprung " Horses. 
—G. C. Weeks, Tiskilwa, Ill., writes the 
Western Rural that he lias cured many 
“knee sprung horses by havingthem shod 
with heel-calks very long and toe-calks 
short. Thus the constant strain of tho 
cords of the leg is removed. The horse, 
thus shod, should have his legs bathed twice 
a day, for a few days, with salt and vinegar, 
and should not be driven nor ridden fast 
down hill. 
Horse Pawing in Stable.—N. H. W., 
“agreatly annoyed subscriber,” asks for a 
remedy for a horse pawing in the stable. 
The only remedy we ever saw used was 
heavy shackles, with a chain long enough 
to enable the animal to change position. 
Inquiries for Correspondents to An¬ 
swer.— David A. ChatFIELD asks whether 
wolf-teeth iu horses have any effect what¬ 
ever upon the eyesight.- W. W. asks if 
there is anything better than wood ashes to 
destroj' long, round worms in horses. 
To Break a Halley Horse.— Do any of 
the readers of the Rural New-Yorker 
know a sure and safe way to break a balky 
horse? If so will they not give it?—s. 
