Society and to which we would call the 
especiil attention of both breeders and 
buyers in this country: 
Scale for Points In Bulls. 
Article. Points. 
1. Henri, tine and tapering. 1 
2. Forehead, broad. 1 
8. Cheek, small ....... 1 
4. Throat, clean. i 
5. Muzzle, fine, and encircled by a lightcolor 1 
0. Nostrils, high and open. 1 
7. Horns, smooth, crumpled, not too thick ut 
Hie base, and tapering, tipped with black 1 
8. Kars, small and thin. ... 1 
9. Kars, of a deep orange color within. 1 
10. Eyes, full and lively.. 1 
11. Neck, arched, powerful, but not too coarse 
and heavy. 1 
12. Chest, broad and deep .... 1 
18. Barrel, hooped, broad, and deep. 1 
14. Well ribbed home, having hut little space 
bet ween the last rib and the hip. 1 
15. B iclt. straight l'rom the withers to the top 
of the hip.... .. . . 1 
16. Back, straight from the top of the hip to 
the setting on of the tali, and the tail at 
right angles with the back . 1 
17. Tail, line. 1 
18. T ub hanging down to the hocks. ,... 1 
19. Hide, mellow and movable, but not too 
louse. 1 
20. Hide, covered with line, soft hair — ... 1 
21. Hide, of good color.. 1 
22. Fore legs, short and straight. 1 
28. Fore arm, large and powerful, swelling, 
and lull aboic the knee, and lino below it 1 
21. Jlind quarters, from the hock to the point 
of tint rump, long and well tilled up. 1 
pected to appear. For early crops, I plant 
Early Rose and Early Goodrich; for late, 
Peach Blow, Prince Albert and Albany 
Seedling.—R. Block. 
SUGAR BEET CULTURE 
To Prevent Cut-Worms Working in 
Corn. —The New England Farmer says: 
“An old subscriber some years ago in¬ 
formed us that to prevent cut-worms from 
eating corn, he put a tablespoonful uf lime 
iu the hill when planting, and tho same on 
tho hill after covering, and that kept the 
worms away. Another mode, which is 
stated to be efficacious, is to mix equal 
parts of Peruvian guano, salt and plaster, 
and add a tablcspoonful to the hill at the 
time of planting.” 
Prof. C. A. G-okssmans of the Massachu¬ 
setts Agricultural College reccommends ob¬ 
serving the following points in sugar beet 
culture: 
1. The ground should have been manured 
the previous season for corn or potatoes. 
No fresh dung to bo applied for the beets. 
Plow as deep as the character of the soil will 
allow. 
2. Soak the seed for two days in manure 
water, or urine, at a temperature of about 
55' to (JO 5 Falir., and then let it lie spread 
out, 2 to 2% inches deep and moist, about 
two days longer before sowing. 
3. Sow on the flat, and the rows as close 
together as will admit of horse-hoeing, and 
thin the beets to about G inches apart, or 
loss if the ground is very rich. It Is not de¬ 
sired that they should grow big. A beet 
weighing pounds is as large as is profita¬ 
ble, 
4. In hoeing, and especially at the last 
hoeing, keep the crown of the beet well cov¬ 
ered with earth. Hoe as often as you can 
until August 1st, and not afterwards. 
5. On no acoount allow any leaves to be 
removed until the time of lifting. 
0. At all times in hoeing and liftiug, take 
care not to cut or bruise any roots. At lift¬ 
ing, cut off the leaves otic inch above the 
crown. 
8. Store or pit immediately, without giv¬ 
ing the beets any chance to dry, and if some 
earth adheres to them it is all tho better. 
Beets on a Dairy Farm.— Mr. Harris 
Lewis, near Little Falls, N. Y., states the 
cost of raising beets on his farm last season 
—including cost of all labor, cost of seed, 
etc,, as $40.50 per acre. The yield was 000 
bushels, bringing the cost per bushel to 
about 5>£ cents. Two cents per bushel 
should be added if the cost of the manure is 
taken into account. 
Clovers l'or Checking Prairie Fires. 
—A correspondent of the Farmers’ Union 
recommends sowing Alsike and White 
clover iu belts, for tho purpose of chocking 
prairie fires. He says two pounds of seed 
will surround a quarter section with a great 
carpet that is as good as water, and then it 
will spread both ways, and so increase the 
security. 
Plaster on Potatoes.—A correspondent 
asks us it we have ever used plaster on po¬ 
tatoes with good results. To bo sure wo 
have. We should as soon expect, to grow 
good crops of potatoes without culture as 
without plaster. 
25. Bind legs, short mid straight (below the 
boeks). and bonos rather bno .... 1 
26. Ilh ul legs, squarely pluced, and not too 
near together when viewed from behind 1 
27. Bind legs, not to cross in walking. 1 
28. Hoofs, small ... .. 1 
29. Growth. 1 
80. General appearance. 1 
81. Condition. 1 
Perfection. 21 
No prize shall be awarded to bulls having less 
than 25 points. 
Bulls having obtained 23 points shall be al¬ 
lowed to be branded, but cannot take a prize. 
Scale of Points for Cows and Heifers. 
Article. Points. 
1. Mead, small, fine, tapering. 1 
2. (. hook, small. 1 
3. Throat, dean. 1 
4. Muzzle, Hue, mid on circled by a lightcolor. l 
5. Nostrils, high and open . 1 
6. Horns, smooth, crumpled, not too thick at 
the base, and tapering. 1 
7. Kara, small mid thin... . 1 
8. Ears, of a deep orango color within— . I 
9. Eye, l ull anil placid.. 1 
10. Neck, straight, line, and placed lightly on 1 
the shoulders. . . 
11. Chest, broad and deep . 1 
12. Barrel, hooped, broad and deep. 1 
13. Well ribbed home, lim ing but lit tle space 
between the last rib atul the hip. 1 
14. Back, straight from the withers to the top 
of the hip.... — 1 
15. Buck, straight from top of the hip to the 
sotting ou of tho tall, and tho tail at 
right, angles with the hack,. 1 
16. Tail, firm . I 
17. Tail, hanging down to the bocks . ... l 
18. Hide, thiu and movable, but not too loose. 1 
19. Hide, covered with lino, solt hair. 1 
20. Hide, of good color. 1 
21. Fore legs, short, Straight, and flue... 1 
22. Fore-arui, swelling, and full above the 
knee.. 1 
23. Iliiid quarters, from the jioCk to tier point 
of the rump, long and well filled up. . 1 
21. IHnd lugs, short and straight (below the 
hock*, mid bones rather line. 1 
25. llJtid legs, squarely placed, not too close 
together when viewed from behind. l 
26. Ilinu legs, not to eross in walking. I 
27. Hoofs, small,.... 1 
28. Udder, l ull (n form— l. e„ well in lino with 
i lie belly. 1 
29. Udder, wojl up behind. 1 
80. Teats. lar«e and squarely placed, behind 
wide apart. i 
31. Milk-veins, very prominent. 1 
82. Growth .... .. 1 
83. General appearance. 1 
34. Condition. 1 
Perfection. 34 
No prize shall be awarded to cows having less 
than 29 points. No prize shall be awarded to 
heifers having less than 26 points. Cows having 
obtained 27 points, and heifers 24 points, shall be 
allowed to be branded, but cannot take a prize. 
Three points—viz., Nos. 28, 29 and 31—shall be 
deducted from t he number required for perfec¬ 
tion In heifers, as their udder and milk-veins 
cannot be fully developed; u heifer will there¬ 
fore be considered perfect at 30 points. 
PEANUT CULTURE 
The Rural Messenger describes how Gen. 
Bryant Grimes, Washington, N. C., grows 
peanuts. He had 450 acres of them last 
year:—“After plowing and leveling the 
land, rows were, laid off three foot apart 
with a shovel plow, and then one horse, at¬ 
tached to a piece of scantling by shafts, 
marked off with pegs three rows across the 
field 2% feet apart. The planters were wo¬ 
men, who dropped the mils without shelling, 
simply broken into two pieces, from two to 
three sued In each cheek. A mat), with turn, 
plow’ running shallow’ and at just sufficient 
distance to lap the earth above tho nuts, 
did the covering. Weeding with the hoe, 
running shovel and turn plows intha balks, 
cultivating both ways, keeping the crop 
clean, and laying by with a broad, flat hill 
or very slight ridge quite early, was the 
plan. 
“We saw these fields again a month be¬ 
fore harvest. The stand was line, and we 
learned the crop gave a good yield. The 
General stated that he had just received 
return sales of 2,500 bushels of his previous 
year’s crop (1870) in New York til $3 50 per 
bushel. They wore threshed from the vines 
by Calvin’s thresher, driven by steam pow¬ 
er. The mode of stacking was not in small 
shocks, which we consider so necessary, 
but iu large stacks, like fodder or oats, al¬ 
lowing, we presume, the vines to be cured 
in part on the ground before stacking.” 
DAILY RURAL LIFE 
Summer Pruning Grapes .—May 18.— 
I am often amused at the “ hue and cry ” 
raised by some persons against summer 
pruning of tho grape vine. The manner in 
which it is often performed is certainly 
enough to bring it into ridicule: but in 
these instances il is only I tie result of igno¬ 
rance, not because judicious summer prun¬ 
ing is not as important as pruning at any 
other season. 1 have commenced what 1 
call summer pruning of my vines, which is 
simply breaking out all surplus shoots that 
appear. Five or six shoots will often issue 
from a single joint, and common sense ought 
to teach a man that one or two is sufficient, 
and that t he best way of disposing of the 
others was to break t hem out while young. 
There Is no good reason for allowing more 
branches to grow than will be required next 
year for fruiting; and if they are few in 
number, t he more vigorous in growth. Ju¬ 
dicious summer pruning not only saves 
much t ime in the general annual pruning, 
but concentrates the strength of the vine 
and directs it into channels where it, can be 
used in years to come. Later in the season 
I prune the vines agaiu by merely pinching 
off t he ends of bearing canes — just enough 
to check wood growth and force it into the 
fruit and leaves adjoining. Cutting off sev¬ 
eral feet in the length of the young growing 
shoots is what some persons may call sum¬ 
mer pruning; but it should be called “ sum¬ 
mer slashing with intent to kill.” 
During my absence last summer, one of 
my workmen tried his hand upon a row of 
vines, using a pruning hook instead of his 
thumb and finger, removing about two feet 
of the upper portion of each young shoot. 
The results were that no fruit ripened, and 
tho vines were nearly killed. I have often 
seen this kind of summer pruning in gar¬ 
dens where grapes were said never to do 
well. 
White Clover in Lawns. — May 19.— 
In making an addition to my lawn last year, 
I sowed u little white clover seed with sev¬ 
eral varieties of grass. The dry weather 
this spring injured the grass considerably, 
turning it to a dull yellow color; but the 
clover remained uninjured, and looks 
bright and green. Those who are seeding 
down lawns on rather light and dry soils 
will find that white clover is one of the best, 
plants to form a close, handsome carpet of 
green, especially in times of drouth. Of 
course, there is nothing like Kentucky blue 
grass, and similar tine-leaved species, for a 
handsome lawn; hut a little white clover 
mixed iu will materially assist in times of 
drouth. 
FIELD NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Wild Grass for Names.—To-day, while 
I was hunting for some of my cattle which 
had Strayed away, 1 found oil the top of mm 
of the highest hills iu Cattaraugus Co., N. 
Y., two distinct kinds of grass, or grain, of 
which l send yon samples. They grow in a 
dense forest, and are unlike anything I ever 
saw. If they will grow in cleared land. I 
think they would be far ahead uf corn for 
feeding stock, as the frost docs not seem to 
injure them in the least. It seems strange 
that tlie two should grow so close together. 
—M. B. Andrews, Pleasant Valley, N, V. 
No. 1 is Brachyclytrum arislaluin , or the 
Awued Brachyelytruui, also called the 
Great Muhlonbergia. It is a coarse, wild 
grass, native of high, rooky woodlands from 
New Eugland westward. It is not consid¬ 
ered of any particular value, although cat¬ 
tle pasturing in woods will eat it while 
young and succulent. 
No. 2 is Oryzopis melano carpa, or Black 
Mountain Rice; also a native of rocky 
woods, and not considered worthy of culti¬ 
vation, inasmuch as we have hundreds of 
more valuable species. 
NOTES 
HERDSMEN 
To Curo Sore Teats.—F. IT. S., Macon, 
Mo., asks for a remedy for sore teats and 
udder. A correspondent of the Ritual 
New-Yorker iu 1870, had a cow with very 
sore teats. Each time he sat down to the 
cow to milk her lie broke off, with much 
care, each scab; this made a raw-looking 
sore. He then thoroughly greased the teat 
with salted butter, milked as best he could 
and then, after milking, greased agaiu. He 
cured the teats withiu a week. He regards 
it of more importance to anoint the teat 
before than after milking; and there should 
be no failure to remove the scabs. 
ECONOMICAL NOTES, 
Hen Manure for Corn.—L. S. asks the 
best method of applying heu manure to 
corn. The best method we have ever em¬ 
ployed was to mix the heu manure with an 
equal quantity of gypsum, and use it to mix 
with the soil as a covering for the corn. 
We have seen good results also by dropping 
this mixture in the hill, covering slightly 
with Boil before dropping the corn, and 
then planting ou top of it. An excellent 
way, if one has not gypsum, is to mix it 
with muck or loam (under cover), dampen¬ 
ing the whole, and let it lay three or four 
days; then mix It up well with a hoe (dry), 
as you would mortar; thou apply it in the 
hill as above directed. 
A Bull Bleeding to Death.— TnoMAS 
Hamilton had a bull that broke his horn, 
and it bled freely for 12 hours, and he could 
not stop it. Asks if any one knows what 
will stop blood under such circumstances. 
My Plan of Planting Potatoes.—Plow 
the land well; harrow thoroughly length¬ 
wise tho furrow—do not cross-harrow—fur¬ 
row out the usual distance apart. If there 
is not enough loose loam on the surface to 
cover the seed deep enough, put hands 
ahead of tho planting to make holes deep 
enough to cover tho seed; cover all with 
fine mold. In this way the potatoes will 
come up all alike aud before they are ox- 
A Ileifer One Year Old, Never Hav¬ 
ing: Borne a Calf, owned by Solomon 
Mack, Gilsum, N. H., had given milk April 
20 for six weeks. Eight days’ milk, churned, 
made six ounoes of butter. 
