was tlie outpost of vegetation and 
We had reached the “ Great Ameri- 
( ert.” But pushing onward, at Ellis, 
■kilt (! rops, 
MORE ABOUT OORN. 
Can you Inform roe the right name of this 
corn of which I enclose a sample V Each kernel 
is covered with a husk and bus n blade between 
each husk and the whole ear is covered with 
husks like common corn. Farmers say it isu 
freak of nature; but it is not, for I have raised 
it several years for a curiosity. The first seed 
came from California. John W avland. 
Wk have often seen specimens oi corn 
similar to this one received from Mr. Way- 
land. A bon t twenty years ago a gen Uetnan 
sent us an ear which lie said was obtained 
from a tribe of Indians inhabiting the Rocky 
Mountains, and the name given it was wild 
Rocky Mountain corn. By many persons, 
and with good reasons, this peculiar kind of 
The corn crop of this country is of im¬ 
mense value, and every fact in regard to its 
history, as well as the best method of culti¬ 
vation and improvement, is worthy of close 
investigation, and we shall he much obliged 
to the readers of the Ritual New-Yorker, 
I If they will forward to us specimens ol all 
improved soils; also specimens of peculiar 
freaks which are widely different from the 
standard type of any particular variety. 
nbnstrial topics. 
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
Tilings iu Middle Tennessee. 
McMinnville, Teon., Feb. 9, 1871. 
300 miles west of the Missouri and half a 
mile above the sea level, we found a six acre 
field of wheat, rye and barley, sown as late 
as Oct. 25. It was now the middle of 
November, aud they were all growing finely 
with a fresh, green look. A vegetable gar¬ 
den near by bad given as fair a yield its the 
prime acres of Eastern Kansas. And yet all 
this was in the arid desert, without irriga- 
The favorite region of the Mid South for tion, jn t he very heart of the buffalo range. 
At. Pond Creek, just in the borders of 
Colorado, was another ten acre field, and 
the various cereals planted late, away into 
the fall, were looking as well as the most 
siauuaru typo ox any — the emif , ration of Northern farmers seems A t Pond Creek, just in the borders of 
_*' * to be the counties of Warren, of which Colorado, was another ten acre field, and 
xlii LE JNU lxib. McMinnville is the county feeat, and White— the various cereals planted late, away into 
That Ten Acres of Wheat. next above—of which Sparta is the county the fall, were looking as well as the most 
Having read J. S. W.’s account of a crop seat. These lie along the western base of sanguine farmer could wish. This was the 
of wheat from ten acres, (see Rural New- ihe Cumberland Mountains, and rttu up on result of experimental farming by the Kan* 
Yorker, page 29, Jan. 14,) I have been the spurs of the mountain, on most of sa s Pacific Railway Company. And cer- 
wailing for some explanation from him of which the land is tillable, and specially tainlv the experiment, without irrigation, in 
the account rendered and the reasons there- adapted to all kinds of orchard fruits, grapes the very midst of the dry plaius, in a soil to 
for. Certainly he would not have us be- and berries, of which last there is a great b e classed with the least promising, is a new 
' lieve that four and three-tenth bushels was a profusion of the best qualities of blacltbcr- feature in agriculture. The location is near 
corn is supposed to be the original or wild 
species, and those with naked kernels situ¬ 
ated on a cob enclosed iu husks, as in out- 
more common sorts, to be the improved 
varieties; others doubt if so great a change 
in the form of growth has taken place even 
during the many thousands of years that 
corn must have been cultivated upon this 
continent. 
Darwin, in bis great work, “Animals 
and Plains under Domestication,” page 385, 
says i—“ Botanists are nearly unanimous 
that all the cultivated kinds of Zea May* be¬ 
long to the same species. It is undoubtedly 
of American origin, and was grown by the 
aborigines throughout the ctiniiuent from 
New England to Chili. The aboriginal 
form has not as yet been discoved iu the 
wild state. A peculiar Mud, in which the 
grams, instead of being naked, are concealed 
by husks as much as eleven lines in length, 
Ixas been stated on Insufficient evidence to 
grow wild in Brazil. It is almost certain 
that the aboriginal form would have had Us 
grains thus protected, but the seeds of the 
Brazilian variety produce, as 1 hear from 
Professor Asa Gray, and as is stated in two 
published accounts,either common or husked 
maize; and it is not credible that a wild 
species, when first cultivated,should vary so 
quickly and in so great a degree.” 
From the above extract it will be seen 
that Prof. Darwin believes that the original 
or wild corn of this continent bad each 
grain inclosed iu a separate husk like Ihe 
specimen under consideration, shown in the 
fair or an average crop in Niagara county, 
wheregood crops of wheat are usually grown, 
especially with the cultivation and manur¬ 
ing given iu this instance. The failure ol 
the crop was doubtless owing to some ade¬ 
quate and easily explained cause, which J. 
S, W. has withheld from the public for some 
reason, it is not in my power to divine. 
I notice all (be items of expense are given 
with care, and the field credited only with 
the forty-three bushels of wheat, by which 
he figures up a loss of $185.90. Should it be 
inferred that the ten acres produced no 
straw? or, if any, that it lmd no market or 
home value ? Straw is sometimes converted 
ries; growing wild. 
There is plenty of limestone, sandstone 
and timber for building purposes. Springs 
of the purest soft water flow in great 
abundance out of the hillsides,- rivers and 
creeks of the same quality flow through 
Ihe 102d degree of west longitude, four 
degrees west of the limit of arable effort, as 
assigned by eminent meteorologists. 
Military Fnrinlue. 
Passing westward, we found at some of 
the military posts,Port Wallace for instance, 
the country, the larger ones well stocked fine vegetable gardens, the result of the 
with good, edible fish. To cap the climax leisure hours of the soldiers. At Kit Carson, 
of the good qualities of this country is the O no hundred and fifty miles east of Denver, 
deliebtful temperature which prevails at where until now neither farms, gardens, 
of the good qualities of this country is the 
delightful temperature which prevails at 
almost all seasons of the year. Lying 
high up, as it does, above all malarious in* 
Alienees, the air is always pure, tempered 
alike from the severity of heat in summer 
aud cold in winter. If the good Lord has 
trees or shrubs existed, no signs of vegetation 
anywhere, a few trees transplanted a month 
before were looking fresh and vigorous. Here 
we left the railroad, and taking the stage 
home value? Straw is sometimes converted and cold in winter. If the good Lord has reached, after sixty miles travel. Fort Lyon 
Into paper when not otherwise used in the done anything more for any agricultural on the Arkansas. This is one of the largest 
vicinity where this crop was grown.— Small region in America, with fewer drawbacks, I military posts in the far West, and we found 
Farmer, Erie Co., N. F, Feb. 1871. 
I’oiatues front Potato Sprouts. 
Mu. GuilbbRT Strang, Ownsco, N. Y., 
writes:—“I had about a quart of Early 
Rose potatoes given to me last spring. I 
liad heard of such prodigious yields from a 
small amount of seed, I concluded there 
must be some deviation from the ordinary 
mode of planting, and I concluded to try an 
experiment. I let the sprouts grow on my 
potatoes until about the first of June; they 
were six or eight inches long. I then broke 
voillcl like to know where that, region is, so that all the supplies for men and.horses, flour, 
that 1 might report it to the readers of the 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Bui this highly favored region has its 
drawbacks, which are—a thriftless native 
rural population, with a consequent low 
state of moral and intellectual culture, few 
corn, oats, vegetables and beef were Colorado 
products. 
8 tock an tlic Arkansan. 
Ascending the Arkansas, we came across 
large herds of cattle, growing in numbers as 
wo approached Pueblo. Iu conversation 
eminent public improvements, and but little with a prominent 6tock man at the latter 
general interest in anything beyond the place we were informed that there were 
simplest forms of existence. about 31,000 head of cattle in the pulley, 
These are admitted general features of which, valued at $20 per head, would give 
farm file in Tennessee; but I have found an aggregate of $620,000. 'Ihe revenue 
notable exceptions ; many native Tennessee arising from taxes levied upon the stock this 
PIC-PEN PAPERS. 
Sulphur for Siviue. 
I used to lose my shoats (store hogs) 
until I commenced feeding sulphur; since 
then, I have no trouble. —P. Green. 
A North Carolina Horn. 
“ A Subscriber,” at Raleigh, N. C., tells 
us of a hog twenty-five months old, a cross 
of Woburn and Essex breeds, fed by Dr. G. 
W. Blacknell, proprietor of the Yar- 
I borough Hotel, Raleigh, upon hotel slops 
and offal, which weighed, net. 568 pounds. 
A Chemung Co., N. Y., IMg. 
David B. Stryker tells us of a pig three- 
fourths Chester White, eight months and 
thirteen days old, fattened liy Seth Cooly, 
Southport, N. Y., whose weight, when alive, 
was488 lbs.; dressed, 430 lbs.; length from 
end of nose to roots of tail, five feet six aud 
a-half inches ; girth, five feet leu inches. 
Doouc Co., 111., Hogs. 
S. L. C. sends us the following weights of 
Chester White hogs bred and raised by Luke 
Treble of the above county685, 630, 580, 
570, 565, 545, 455, 470, 590, 540. 404 and 466 
pounds, respectively. He adds that Mr. 
Hard of the same county has one that 
weighs 860 pounds, 
Gooil an«t Bail Qualliic* ol tlie Essex Uog. 
C. B. Cook, Kansas, asks to be posted on 
tlie good and bad qualities of the Essex 
breed of hogs. Evidently, our correspond¬ 
ent wants to know what are its good quali¬ 
ties, and what are the practical objections to 
it for Western feeders, as compared with 
other breeds. Our opinion of them is that 
they are too small, and too delicate in con¬ 
stitution for Western farm economy, unless 
early mat urity is desirable for a home mark¬ 
et. Let those who have tried them West 
respond. 
Chester Whites aud Crosses in Kansas. 
i c. B. Cook, Linn Co., Kansas, writes 
them off and set them out. as I would cab- f al ., acrg are noble specimens of manhood, year was $7,000; and we were informed that (Jan. 80) the Rural New Yorker that fie 
bnge plants. I put them in rows two feet und blbor w p|, earnestness for the advnnce- 
apart one way and eight inches ihe other. I , nent 0 f t he jsmte in moral and material 
also cut the potatoes and planted them in p r0 g resSi Though not up to the Kentucky 
the same way iu rows adjoining my sprout standardj lbe borso stock c f Tennessee has 
rows. And now, in digging my potatoes, (>een of tbe nob i eM . b i <)0 d, but it has not yet 
I find my sprout seed to yield, in every par- recoverec i fw>m the depletion and ruin of 
ticnlar, equal t,o that from the seed potato. lh0 
accompanying engraving. But he cannot 
account for the rapid change which Prof. 
Gray says took place in the variety received 
from Brazil. 
Mu W ay land’s statement, in regard to 
the permanency of tlie variety sent us, is 
certainly quite interesting, fm it. seems to 
furnish the very link la tlie chain of evi¬ 
dence which Darwin needed to show that 
this, or a very similar variety, was the origi¬ 
nal from which all our cultivated sorts de¬ 
scended. All the facts which we have been 
able to gather during many years ofobser- 
Let. them sprout to the length of six or 
eight inches; break off the sprouts and set 
them out as you would cabbage or tomato 
plants. Feed or eat up the potatoes, and 
nothing will he lost,” 
Spriug Wheat for Pasltirag®. 
N. H., Ol instead, O., has four acres which 
he wishes to seed for pasturing the coming 
summer. He asks if it would be economy 
to sow spring wheat at the rate of three 
bushels per acre, with a liberal amount of 
grass seed, the whole to be pastured as soon 
as the ground gels settled. If so, he wants 
to know how much and what kind of seed 
would be best; also, what proportion of 
feed would it furnish compared with ordi¬ 
nary pastures adjoining it. In reply, if we 
were going to seed ground in this manner 
In all this region about McMinnville and 
Sparta, I find many families from Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, and other Northern Slates, 
which have came in and settled within the 
last three or four years, and are highly satis¬ 
fied with the country; all unite in the ver¬ 
dict that there is no better climate the year 
round than in Middle and East Tennessee. 
The cost of living here, for man and beast, 
is one-fourth less than in the States of Ohio 
or New York, and tlie cost of good farming 
lands of the same quality is not above one- 
a gentleman, wlte, tea months before had fins Ihe common slock of bogs and Chester 
bought several hundred head of cows at $20 Whites mixed; has been feeding them all 
each, was now supplying the Denver market tlie corn t hey could eat since August 1, but 
with'calves at $18 per head, a good return they do not fatten. They appear to he 
for his first year’s investment. sound and healthy, and he does not see 
At Pueblo why they will not fatten. Asks some one 
they had jitst been holding their annual to tell film the trouble. Does he shelter 
connly horse fair, at which large premiums at id confine them? Or do they roam at 
had been paid out. At Canon City, a bun- large? Are they kept clean and dry, or ex- 
dred miles higher up tbe valley, and within posed to storms in damp places? 
the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains, we —.... p . 
_ AU A IU UK 1 ME* 
visite ® , . _ X have a pig, three months 
The Ranch of Uncle Jesse Frazer, f 1 9’ ,, . . 
« * » “>■ ““ ‘ S? R wiS't « not «ccou.„ f, 
healthy. lie lias also peach and pear trees, breathing and squealing frantica 
grape vines, raspberry aud gooseberry bushes, has u w,u :uu ' acai “ 
Ll various shrubs. Some of the pear trees Uon m regard utla atlmeiU a 
half those of the same States. Plenty of and grape vines were in bearing condition 
ition, seem to point this way. It is also for pasturage the present season, we should 
good laud, in the rough, can be had for ten 
dollars per acre, and cleared lands from 
fifteen to twenty dollars per acre. There is 
a tendency in the native population to gravi¬ 
tate towards Arkansas and Texas, which 
brings a good many cleared farms into the 
market for sale. Some of these lands are 
. » ■ , , , . i . m irkt'T I'll Silt. ounits til uwau laiiuo ril 
related by Prof. Darwin that Bonafous, prefer to keep tlie stock tu the barn and cut ^ ^ ^ cftUed worn out> bllt strong i an d 
in his magnificent work Ilud., Nat., du the grain as needed lor forage. TI our cor- which has never felt the plow 
MoU? 1836, figures this variety of corn, and respondent had told us something about the ^ ^ jnch is uot very badly 
that a young Gnorany Indian,on seeing this character of the soil, we might hate told ^ ^ The feJ Bnbfion of Ulb la nd 1 b of 
kind of maize, told Auguste St. Hilaire him what gross seed to sow If for pasture sl „ X hRV c «®»i growing on 
that it grew wild in the humid forest of his orchard grass and red or wlme clover would ^ 1 ( . mb;inkiriems „ irown out four to 
native land. be a good mixtuie, m wow out no- 1 six feet in depth plants of the most gigantic 
Tn the. manv centuries that corn has been over two bushels of wheat per acre with it. , ; _ ' . ’ A .. ,i m .. n 
this season. Following the Wet Mountain 
Creek southward, in Fremont co., we came 
upon the camp of 
The Colfax Colony, 
who, faring not so well as the Greeley Colo¬ 
ny in Northern Colorado, are somewhat dis¬ 
couraged at the results of their first year. 
Au Ailing Pla. 
I have a pig, three months old, which 
eats heartily and grows well, but something 
ails it which I cannot account for. It will 
have spells of prostrating itself on the ground 
breathing and squealing frantically. It also 
h:is a wild aud vacant stare. Any informa¬ 
tion in regard to the ailment mid cure will 
he thankfully received. — R. S. Mowry, 
Providence, Co., It. 1. 
We have known pigs to act in this way 
when they were simply costive. A little 
sulphur incorporated in their food daily, 
regulated them. 
Does tt Pay to Take Care of Swine. 
W., of Richfield, Tioga Co., N. Y., writes 
native land. 
In the many centuries that corn has been 
cultivated, it must have varied widely from 
its original type ; and of this we have abun¬ 
dance of' proof in the hundreds of varieties 
in cultivation. In South America there are 
sorts with ears no larger than a man’s little 
finger, with grains as small as the seed of 
some of our common pasture grasses, while 
there are others growing twenty or more 
feet in bight, and each grain au inch long, 
and nearly or quite as broad. 
If so great a variation in size of ear and 
We have had no experience with spring 
wheat for pasturage, and only give an 
opinion. _ 
Early Rosa Product. 
Last spring 1 planted nearly five pounds 
of Early Rose potatoes. Cut them one eye 
on a piece, put two eyes in a hill, in all, 
there were one hundred and twenty-nine 
hills. Early ill the season I dug thirty-four 
hills to try'them. They were excellent; in 
the tall dug the remaining ninety-five hills. 
dimensions, and where farmers put down 
the plow six to eight inches deep on these 
farm,” where the results of tbe year bad 
been almost too good to believe. From ilm 
old lands, they can harvest sixty bushels of noie-boolc of the proprietor, who keeps a olU 0 f f ee d. Re: 
shelled corn to the acre, and twenty-five to careful record of his farming operations, we _ tbe 1)e j, rbbor3 
thirty bushels of wheat. Tbe quality of gleaned the following facts:—From a quarter 
grain raised in this region is not surpassed acre lot lie raised a hundred bushels of po- 
any where. tatocs, an average of ten pounds to the hill. 
These Northern farmers are doing another His corn yielded fifty bushels net per acre, 
good thing In taking their agricultural pa- b i$ wheat thirty-five bushels. He showed 
pers along with them when they come into ng a cabbage weighing twenty-five pounds, 
tins country. Away up here among the assuring us that his patch had produced a 
Cumberland Mountains I find the Rural great many more as large. But we were es- 
grain raised in this region is not surpassed 
anywhere. 
These Northern farmers are doing another 
good thing In taking their agricultural pa¬ 
pers along with them when they come into 
this country. Away up here among the 
Cumberland Mountains I find the Rural 
stalk lias takeu place under domestication, it X Iad four and three-quarter bushels to putin New- Yorker is a great favorite, and I do | pecially interested in the results ot an ex- 
would certaiuly not be unreasonable to sup- the cellar. The soil was clay. They had no need any other introduction than to have perimentat 
pose that a slight change would occur during extra care . Why 1 write this is because it it knmvn lbal X a m on the editorial staff of Sovglium Culture, 
the lime, in the form ot the husk and post- befl ^ s u je Breese potatoes the man talks tbe prrR A'f- to secure a hearty welcome the first and only instance of the kind we 
tion of the grain. It is also cpiiLc probable ab0ut in tbe _r URA l New-Yorker, (have ninon£r lbe people. Surely the agricultural have met with in our trip through tbe terri- 
Rose, I guess.—B. P. Moon. 
Tobacco Seed Wanted. 
I wtsii to inquire where I can obtain a 
small quantity of the very best quality -of 
Connecticut seed leaf tobacco seed—a va¬ 
riety which lias a thin leaf and small vein, 
adapted for the manufacture of cigars, with 
price, Ac. I wish to inquire of those expe¬ 
rienced in raising this variety, it the soil on 
which it grows will make any difference in 
regard loathe small veins and thin leaf.—S. 
C. N., 6-rand Blanc, Mich. 
RaiBinK Carrots. 
I would like to raise about an acre of car¬ 
rots everv year; hut I find it very hard to 
get them started. Have tried soaking and 
plaster, hut the result is not satisfactory, 
Who know 8 how? I can guess, —P. Green. 
s. D. H. 
FARMING- IN THE TERRITORIES. 
Denver, Col., Jan. 2,1871. 
..hat are called worn out, but strong land But they are putting a large area under ^ Rural New-Yorker, contrasting the 
like this, which has never felt the plow plow, aud will work with a will next season. revobltbm bl the care given swine which 
deeper than three inches, is uot very badly This is undoubtedly a fertile section, for we occm . re< j w j lb - m a f ew years. Illustrating 
worn out. The red subsoil of this land is of hear of great crops on some of the ranches gnb j ecb be Bfl y gX n my neighborhood 
great strength; 1 have seen growing on the past year. _ ‘Old Fogy’ had lour choice pigs, which he 
military embankments thrown out four to There is a ranch on the Arkansas, a few ^ accortbng t0 b is theory of ‘ root, hog, or 
six feet in depth, plants of the most gigantic miles away, known as tlie “ old Branamau ^^ bft ve°seen him pump a pail of water 
intensions, and where farmers put down farm,” where the results of tbe year had move * lban on( , e um i give his pigs for their 
is plow six to eight inches deep on these been almost too good to believe. From the ns3 j^ninp; as a reason that lie was 
Id lands, they can harvest sixty bushels of noie-boolc of the proprietor, who keeps a ()Ul 0 f j- eed Result —Two of the pigs died 
iielled corn to the acre, and twenty-five to careful record of bis farming operations, we _ ne j, rbboi . s sfl ul from starvation. The 
airty bushels of wheat. Tbe quality of gleaned the following facts:—From a quarter olb(ir wb en sixteen mouths old, dressed 
rain raised in this region is uot surpassed acre, lot he raised a hundred bushels of po* oug bun died and fift) pounds each, 
ny where. tatocs, an average of ten pounds to the hill. t p ro „ TCS3 j V e’ killed a pig this winter, eight 
These Northern farmers are doing another His corn yielded fifty bushels net per acre, moutbs ftn d uvo days old, whose dressed 
ootl thing in taking their agricultural pa- b i s wheat thirty-five bushels. He showed weHit WM four hundred and eighty-five 
iers along with them when they come into „ 9 a cabbage weighing twenty-five pounds, presuming tbe pig would weigh 
his country. Away up here among the assuring us that his patch had produced a ^ ‘ ud wbeu one day old, it left a net 
Juinberland Mountains I find the Rural great many more as large. But we were es- ^ q{ . twQ p 0ands pe r day. Who can 
sew- Yorker is a great favorite, and I do pecially interested in the results of an ex- ®’ ^ 
tot need any other introduction than to have periment at 1 - 
t known that I am on the editorial staff of Sovsrlmm Culture, Why Swinu snouid not be Bre “* 
lie Rural to secure a hearty welcome the first and only instance of the kind we Wjc. B. Kimball, Steu am Go., N. •, 
imoncr the people. Surely the agricultural have met with in our trip through tlie terri- sen ds us eight closely written pages to show 
ness is one of ihe chief powers in the nu- tones. One and a-half acres were planted, w hy swine should not be reared at all. we 
that Ihe pistils (silk) aud the stamens (tassels) f 0 ,.g 0 | ten his name.) who tried to raise a press j s one 0 f the chief powers in the nn- tones. One and a-half acres were planted, w hy swine should not be reared at all. '’ G 
were not so widely separated in the original breeze ^th the Breese’s and subdue the tion au( ] 0 ne of the chief benefactors as and the cane from this yielded two hundred carmo t give space to the article entire, 
varieties as in those now cultivated. We R ose) X guess.— B. P. Moon. web " s. d. h. and fifty-two gallons of sirup, which would Summarized, the reasons are 1. Because 
presume that almost every farmer has occa- ---— -»♦» be a re sult of four and two-thirds barrels to tbe b0 g is a loathsome, filthy animal; -■• 
sionally found a tassel bearing a few grains Tobacca Seed warned. rAPMTKG TN THE TERRITORIES. the acre, fully up to the best average in Illi- Because they are troublesome to raise, costly 
ofcornnoar its base, and soni.Mimes nearly I-» “ MB lUtlUiOBIM. Ano ,„ er K:1M „ „ „ to fat, and it is dirty and havd work to klU 
its whole length. These freaks, or fertile Connecticut seed leaf tobacco seed—a va- Denver,C ol.. Jau. S, 1871. bkcly lbat a large area of sorghum will be and dress them; 3. Because the meat is i 
tassels, resemble somewhat, some of the sor- r j et y ^ hich has a thin leaf and small vein, The great surprised our journey Uiumgn j auted ia g ou i b ern Colorado, as the sue- healthy for food, and the eating it is forma* 
ghurns, or andropagons, large species of adapted for the manufacture of cigars, with the territories was the extent to which we cess j- uX experiment on the Branaman ranch den by the Bible. 
grasses nearly related to Zea Mays or corn, price, Ac. I wish to inquire of those expe- f oun d farming operations carried on. We ,,* , « no i 8e d abroad.” —[Concluded We give these points in justice to our 
Bveu some of our more common native rienced in raising l ns vancty iJ bad passed UirougU tlie Kmv Valley, in - * J correspondent, and wllli It a notice that we 
grasses.. fertile and unferlile Dowers in J&SS W-l ffiSw? Kansas, »”<> "*# iUt'icU farms, and tad -... — ^ cannot give space to a discussion ol tins 
the same spike. The Tripatunm daetybidee, c N Brand Blanc, Mich, ' ' tarried a few days at Abilene, the great A n Biwy tv By to Procure Ice.-A Taunton, sub j ect . ^ No amount of writing will prevent 
which grows in nearly all low grounds in ' " —--- stock mart, 165 miles west of Kansas City. Mass., teanpeople who find it profitable from breeding 
the Middle and Southern States, lias mone- Rai8 | n . 8r . r* 1 ? 1 *' n f Half way across the great State ot Kansas ^ e aad 3 g^ na n y pour i ng m water until each gwiue, nor people who like pork Irom eut- 
cious spikelets, the upper flowers being stam- I would like to^iaise a^iou we come to Salma, which we were led t0 | ^nt^inR ft BO iid mass of ice. The barrels are it—even if it is, as our correspondent 
inate, (male,) and the lower pistilate, (female,) 
the latter only producing seed, thereby re¬ 
sembling Zea Mays. 
Mass., man bas obtained ms slock or me , vbo bm i it profitable from breeding 
several years past by procuring empty flour bar- people 1 ... . r 
rels and gradually pouring in water until each swine, nor people who like polk 
contains a solid mass of ice. The barrels are ing it—even if it is, as our correspondent 
then put away in his cellar and entirely oov- asser t 3 “ oue of the great evils ol the 
ered with saw-dust. As ice is required a ban el ^Q yXd >» 
