luwuaui^ vi iurui • xi.. 
Held; Fenelon Arnold, 
Henry F. Arum. 8 
Westminster: 8am 
Topeka: G. W. Spencer, Tficumseh; A. (. 
lor. Miminontli ; G, \V. B»m ly, Willto,in*|i 0 i 
Fig, 3. 
into it, especially if one or two dead horses 
come into liis possession, ho will be likely to 
find a large collection at the end of the 
Fig. 4. 
harrow is in the form of three gates fas¬ 
tened by hinges. The teeth are always 
bright and clean, never clog, cut through 
(dfarm (Bccinontir. 
ECONOMICAL NOTES. 
Dissolving Bones.—Mr. Pattee, W 
ner, X. H,, at a recent Agricultural C 
vention, gave the following formula for 
ducing bones:—Place them in a large 1 
tie, mixed with ashes and about one p 
of lime to a barrel of bones. Cover w 
water and boil. In twenty-four hours all ed with lime, then muck, then lime and 
the bones, with the exception, perhaps, of manure again, thus alternating and cover- 
the hard shin bones, will become so mneh ing the whole with muck. In thirty days 
softened as to be easily pulverized by hand, pitch the entire heap over, mixing it to- 
Fio. 1. 
They will not be in particles of bone, but in 
a pasty condition, and in excellent form to 
mix with muck, loam or ashes. By boiling 
the shin bones ten or twelve hours longer, 
they will also become soft. This is an easy 
and cheap method of reducing bones. If 
the farmer will set aside a cask for the re¬ 
ception of bones in some convenient, place, 
orii'l f rjll /■ h„ J ^ ._r i . • 
year, which would prove a valuable adjunct instead of pushing the lumps aside. It is 
to the manure heap. an excellent implement. 
Cotton Stood as a. PsrH1i?o,«_ m .. o , *- 0 .. — 
Fig. 5. 
Fig. ti. 
Fig. 7. 
G. Zenor, a planter near Pattersonville, 
Louisiana, last year made 65 hogsheads of 
sugar from 35 acres of old prairie land. From 
13 acres, fertilized with cotton seed at the 
rate of £15 per acre, he obtained 35 hogs¬ 
heads, or nearly 3 hogsheads per acre. The 
remaining33acres produced80 hogsheads, or 
less than li-i) hogsheads per acre. This sur¬ 
plus product of \% hogsheads, about 2,000 
pounds per acre, involved an additional cost 
for fertilizers of about three-quarters of a 
cent per pound. 
Decomposing Corn Stalks.—M. G. F., 
Conneaut, O. Treat your corn stalks and 
stable manure as follows:—Lay. a layer of 
muck, then of corn stalks and manure mix- 
we had fresh horse manure and desired to 
apply it to corn ground, and that corn 
ground was green ground, and a stiff soil, 
we should spread it on the land just before 
plowing and turn it under about tour inches 
deep, following the surface plow with a 
sub-soil plow, of course. If it is old land 
we should apply in the same manner. We 
have seen excellent results, however, by 
spreading on sandy soils after last hoeing. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Connecticut River Volley A*. 8oc. Officers 
elect for 1872: Pres.—Crtpt. CHESTER. l*i an, Corn¬ 
ish. N. H. Ffce-Pm’hi- Hon., John 0, Sinclair, 
Littleton. N. 11.; Samuel Craft, West Lebanon, 
N. H.; Robert Elwoll, Langxlon. N, 11.; Alexan¬ 
der MeUino, Fulrlce; D. 8. Pratt, Brattle boro; 
Thos, E. Hatch, Keene. N. H : YVin.Clark, Clare- 
Fig. 2. 
gether, and do it once a month until it is 
ready to use. 
Thomas’ Smoothing Harrow, B. C. 
Williams is informed, has 81 teeth made 
of steel rods one half inch in diameter, har¬ 
dened and set in 2 by 2j j inch oak, slanting 
backwards at an angle of 25 degrees. The 
H. ; P. E. Fisk, Shelburn, Mass,; H. A. Stock- 
bridge, Hadley, Muss.; John Johnson. Bradford. 
'JVtvw.—Chug, w. Pierce, Orford. dec.- 1>. e. 
WUlivrd, Orford. Ex. Com. C. Pike. Samuel 
Craft, Oco. H. H to well, Alexander McLaue. Fair, 
Sopt. 17-111. 
Kennebec, Me., Onion ,Vg. nml llnrt. Hoc.— 
Officers elect: Prus.—J. M. C’Akpf.ntkh, pitts- 
ton. t'irr-prcTLs- N. Foster, Gurdiuer: \V. 1*. 
Atherton, Hfillowoll ; Z. II. Blinn, Dresden. 
Trcos. avd (,'oUrt‘to) - John Stone, Gardiner. 
Sec.— S. Smiley, South Gardiner. Trut/Iees—J. 
M. Carpenter, Pit talon; W. It. Wharff, Gardi¬ 
ner; l>. Lancaster, Kurmingdalo; 8. Lord, llul- 
lowull; S. L. Hoard man, Augusta; J,W. ttobin- 
son, Litchfield; John Knox. W. Gardiner; A. N. 
Douglass,Chelsea, J. l>. Willard, Dresden; J. H. 
Bcodlo, Richmond; If. H. ISorthey, Whitefleld. 
Shawnee, Kan., Ag, Soc. Officers elect for 
1872: Pres. H. T. Beaman. Vicc-Prcs.- E. Car- 
riger. See.—XV. J. Slugg. Trcas.-C. W. Jewell. 
I. nrectors. S. H. Johnson (at large); C. >V. Hig¬ 
ginbotham, Roseville; W. F. Johnson, Silver 
* . Mougiand, Auburn ; E. G. Moon, Dover; Jas. 
Swan, Mission; H. 11. Van Horn, A. M. Codding- 
ton, A. .1. Ryan, and A, J. IIuntoon, Topeka City. 
Weatc.rn Pa. Poullry Hoc. Officers for 1872: 
Pm.-JottN Kknnkuv, Pittsburg. I'lce-Pir.s'ts- 
E. Gregg, Pittsburg; Dr. A. II. Gross, East Lib¬ 
erty ; Frank Ardary, James Lockhart, and \V. 
A. Reed, Pittsburg: James Blythe, Robert Hen¬ 
derson, nml B. F. Holmes, Alleghany City. 
Tre 4 .u 1 .--G. A. Stevens, Pittsburg. Chi, arid lice. 
Sec.-C. B. Ellien, Lock Box BOB, Pittsburg. 
The Woolen nml Cotton Manufacturers of the 
'Vest will hold their annual exposition in Chica¬ 
go in August fMI. W« hope to nave a large gath¬ 
ering, We Invito the wool growers, and trust a 
more cordial feeling may be Inspired between 
the.grower ol wool and the manufacturers, by 
becoming better acquainted with each other; 
their interests arc mutual.—a. e. n. 
The Bureau of Agriculture of Tennessee con¬ 
sists of si x Commissioners—two from each grand 
division of the State. They arc appointed by 
the Governor. The appointees are:—Thomas 
Cru toll field, Chattanooga; Hunter Nicholson, 
Knoxville; W. H. Jackson, Nashville; J. B. 
Killebrew, Clarksville ; R. B. Hurt, Jackson, and 
A. B. Haynes, Memphis. 
West Somerset, .Me., Ag. Hoe,— Officers elect 
for 1872: Pres.— Samuel W. TrNait am. Vicc- 
Pres. Luke 8. Mini tor. Six. and J i eas .—Asa W. 
Moore. Marshid- Win. w. Waugh. 'Trustees— 
Wm. W. Wuugh, Otis M. Hilton, David Stevens, 
2d, David Elder, John Heuld. Fair at North 
Anson, Get. 1-2. 
Pottuwutomle, Kan., Ag. Hoc. OffleorBelect: 
Pres.—J. A. Bk,\l. I lce-Pres'ts—L. II. Growl, 
Henry Short, G. A. Leland. 7 eras.— Thomas 
Huey, Louisville. NVc.— E. Walker, St. George. 
Directors—A. P. McMillan. L. R. Palmer, J. Col¬ 
lins, J. P. Shannon, C. G. Foot.. 
Republic Co., Kan., Ag. Hoc.—Officers elect 
for 1872: Pres.— A. Odell. Vice-Pres. R. P. 
West. Scc.—l. (>. Savage. Tints,—J. M. Ryan. 
Ex. Com).— W. P. Peake, John Bowersox, Abram. 
Kindy, Joseph Booth, J. E. Vim Nattu, Fred. 
Collins, Bi*., A. B. Wilder. 
The New York Male Ag. Hoc's fair is to open 
Sept. It). Utica, Elmira, and Watertown have 
presented their respective claims for it, which 
have been referred to a sub-tJOmmlkt.ee of live 
of the Executive Committee, who arc to decide 
May 21. 
A<lmn* Co., III., Men Keepers’ Au’n. —Such 
is the name of a recently organized body, with 
the following officers: Pres.- W. A. Bvaii. Piee- 
Pres.— E. F. 11umphroy. Sec. and Trcas.— V. But- 
terworth. 
The Royal IVnlionnl Tulip Hoctety of Great 
Britain holdsite next exhibit ion in the Botanic 
Gardens, Old Traitor0, Manchester, May 25. 
The Vernon Co., V\ Is., Ag. Hoe. holds its next 
fair at Vbonus, Oct. 1 4. Pres. J chin c. Davis. 
Sec-.—(}. W. Nuzurn, Vlroqua, Wis. 
The H. VV. \V’i». Indus. AsbTi will hold its third 
annual fair at Mineral Point, Sept. 4-7. 
The Adams Co., III., Ag. Hoe. ia to hold Its 
next Fair at Quincy, commencing Sept. 2. 
The IlllnolM State Fair is to be hold at Ottawa, 
Ill., Sept. 18-21. 
Germantown Telegraph says: — “ Wo wish 
again to impress upon the readers of the 
Telegraph that nothing makes better gar¬ 
den walks than coal ashes. They are of 
more value for this purpose than any other 
that they can be applied to that we know of. 
Where the walk requires it, dig it out two 
or three inches—put the coarsest port ion of 
the ashes at the bottom and the other on 
the top to the depth altogether of three or 
four or even six inches, and then roll well. 
These walks are always dry and pleasant to 
the feet, and are rarely troubled with weeds, 
and when they are, they can be readily re¬ 
moved." 
To Exterminate Moles from a Garden 
a genius says:—" Dig a hole like a post hole 
across one of the mole holes, and in the 
bottom place some rags previously dipped 
in sulphur. Set tire to them. and. when 
once well on fire, cover up close with a 
board, and the mole hole acts as a nine. 
The mole leaves.” 
WILLOW BASKET-MAKING. 
(.'an* you not. induce some of your German 
readers who know how to make willow' 
baskets—such as are so useful in all domes¬ 
tic and farm affairs—to give instructions 
thereon through your excellent paper? It 
would be of great" service to some of us, who 
have plenty of willows and occasional time, 
which wo would gladly utilize.—R. M. IIop- 
§ KINS. 
WK shall be glad to receive such contri¬ 
butions from any practical basket-maker. 
Meantime, we copy the following, with ac¬ 
companying illustrations, from one of Lou¬ 
don's works:—One year’s shoots of the com¬ 
mon willow, or of some other species of that 
family, arc most generally used. The shoots 
are cut the preceding Autumn, and tied in 
bundles, and if they are intended to be 
peeled, their thick ends are placed in st and¬ 
ing water to the depth of 3 or 4 inches; and 
when the shoots begiu to sprout iu Spriug, 
they are drawn through a split stick stuck 
ui the ground, or an apparat us consisting of 
two round rods of iron, nearly half an inch 
thick, J foot 4 inches long, and tapering a 
little upward, welded together at the one 
end, which is sharpeued, so that the instru¬ 
ment may be readily thrust through a hole 
in the stool, or small bench, on which the 
operator sits. In using it, the operator 
takes the wand iu his right hand by the 
small end, and puts a foot or more of the 
thick end into the instrument, the prougs 
of which he presses together with his left 
hand, while with his right he draws the wil¬ 
low toward him, bv which the bark is at 
once separated from the wood; the small 
end is t hen separated in the same manner, 
and the peeliug is completed. 
Every basket consists of two parts — tho 
framework of the structure, and the lllling- 
in or wattled part. Tho principal ribs in 
common baskets are two — a vertical rib or 
hoop, tho upper part of which is destined 
to form the handle; and a horizontal hoop 
or rim, which is destined to support all the 
subordinate ribs on which the wands are 
wattled. The two main ribs are first bent 
to the required form, and made fast at. their 
extremities by nails or wire. They are then 
joined together in their proper position, 
the one intersecting the other; and they 
arc afterwards nailed together, or tied by 
wire at the points of intersection. 
Tlie operation of wattling is next com¬ 
menced, by taking tho sniull end of a wand 
and passing it. once or twice round the cross 
formed by the points of intersection; after 
which one, or perhaps two, secondary ribs 
arc introduced on each side of the vertical 
main rib. The wattling is then proceeded 
with ft little further, when two or more 
secondary ribs are introduced; and the pro¬ 
cess is continued till ft sufficient number of 
subordinate ribs are put in to support the 
wattling of the entire structure. The whole 
art, as far as coucerns the gardener, will be 
understood from the following figures: 
Fig. 1 shows thu handle and rim of what 
is called tho Scotch basket, made fast at the 
points of intersection. 
Fig. 2 shows the same skeleton, with the 
ribs of one side added and the wattling or 
woven work commenced. 
Fig. 3 represents the commencement of 
what is culled the English mode of basket¬ 
making, in which three parallel rods of two 
or three feet, in length, according to the in¬ 
tended diameter of the bottom of the bas¬ 
ket, are laid fiat on the ground, and single 
rods are tied around the whole, fastening 
them closely together at the center, as 
shown in 
Fig. 4. Then the material is interwoven 
through these central rods, so as to make a 
complete star of them, as shown in 
Fig. 5, which is the upper side of the bot¬ 
tom. 
Fig. 6 shows the lower side. 
Fig. 7 shows the bottom complete, the 
under side of it being uppermost. 
Fig. 8 shows the bottom turned upside 
down, the points of some of the radiating 
l ibs cut off, some of the rods which are to 
form the side ribs inserted, and the side 
weaving commenced. 
Fig. 9 shows the basket nearly completed, 
with part of the rim finished, and the rod 
on which the handle is to be formed inserted. 
Fig. 10 shows the rim completed and part 
of tho handle plaited. 
Fig. 10. 
Fig. 0. 
Fig. 8. 
GARDENERS’ NOTES. 
