Heal Qrotatc anb iUiscellanconG QUhicrtiscmcnts 
about four tons roots to one of stalks anfl hay. 
He used Prindle’ 8 boiler, largo size, and a double 
steam box. 
The stalks and roots are all out tine, shoveled 
into the box, and the steam let on. In about six 
hours it is soft so that a stick can be pushed 
through it. It la allowed In cool to the tempera¬ 
ture of the blood before it is given to Lite ani¬ 
mals. His roots, Swedes, mangolds and carrots 
are grown In the following mannerDraw fur¬ 
rows say two and u half foet niiuri, and till thorn 
with manure^ then cover with a double furrow 
ami roll Mat, and open enough to receive the 
seed; cultivate with horse-hoe. On land not 
remarkably fertile begets thirty-live tons to the 
aero; allowing thirty bushels to the ton, that 
crop is 1,000 bushels. He harvests by plowing 
them out, first clipping the tops while in the 
ground with a sharp steel hoc ; then ho harrows 
over the Meld, lifting the teeth ns the mots be¬ 
come entangled. Then dump-wls go on, and 
gather ami throw them Into long piles by the 
road. These piles tiro covered with tops, straw 
and earth, and loadsnro taken out daily as they 
nre needed at the barn. With ti.iKHl loads of 
manure be has enough to dress thirty acres very 
heavily, and all his Swedes wore large, as also 
his carrots many ot them, taken from any part 
of the pile, mens tiring three inches across the 
crown. Ho out sixty tousof hay, and we saw at 
least twenty yet in the barns, (middle of March) 
fur his dependence Is upon roots. He had thir¬ 
ty-two acres In roots in 1870, and estimates ills 
crop at 80,000 bushels. 
Beside those crops ho has made extensive and 
permanent ameliorations. Bushes have been 
grub bod up, fences rebuilt on all parts of the 
placet tough old pastures thoroughly plowed, 
the forests trimmed and raked, young groves of 
locusts nursed, gates hung, high yard fences 
built, and roads graded, llo has the best, milk 
house we have ever seen, not. excepting the fa¬ 
tuous dairies or Delaware county, west of rbtla- 
dolphia. His hog pens are commenced on an 
excellent model, but to describe all these and 
his system in connection with thorn, would bo to 
write a. treaI iso on butter and pork making. 
We submit this as a report of progress, and have 
given the chief features of his faith as an agri¬ 
cultural thiuker.and his practice ns asucocs-ftil 
farmer. Nor have we said these emphatic 
things from a wish to praise Mr, hut 
simply to let farmers kmnv how striking the 
real successes of their profession arc. 
Mr, WBAVEit protested against, advising strip¬ 
ping the forests of their mulch of leaves. It is 
fatal to forest thrift. The trees need the pro¬ 
tection and the food leaves afford, and they will 
quickly die out It' deprived of it. Mr. CURTIS 
said it was doubtless true that such would be the 
case, though a large amount of leaves is al¬ 
ways left after gathering. But ho thought there 
was a good deal of unnecessary sentiment ex¬ 
pended upon forests. Ho found ho could buy 
coal and haul it ten miles cheaper than he could 
cut, haul and prepare wood for the stove. 
Prof. SQUELCH suggested that the timber might 
bo valuable for other purposes Hum fuel. 
« nnl Tar anil t.rnvel Walks.—MogF.S PKTTIN- 
Gir.r. asks some member of the Club to tell him 
how to make good coal tar and gravel walks— 
such, for example, as delight visitors to Control 
Park. TiieCommander of theClub said lie might 
just as well make walks of silver, us to attempt 
to make them as the Central Park walks aro 
made: for the silver ones would cost, little more. 
Ho had tried the composition walks, became dis¬ 
gusted witli them, amt laid stone Instead. When 
wot they arc dirty, and a man trucks the compo¬ 
sition wherever he goes. Prof. Squiclcu said ho 
had soon excellent, walks made by covering clay 
with salt. It hardeus the clay, and water seems 
to have little effect thereupon. 
To Prevent Worm* o« t.torn. —At,m kD ( trims, 
McKean, Pa., writes:—“ In a late report I saw an 
article on corn dest ruction by worms. My way 
is tills:—I put from five to eight kernels in the 
hill, make a heavy spat with the hoo, then put 
one part hen droppings, one of^ piaster, made 
fine, then I put about n gill on n bill; the llrst 
raiu comes, soaks it down among the corn, and I 
thin Ic the worms don’t like such food. In forty 
years I have never failed In oorn, while I have 
seen fields around me destroyed by worms.” 
Peach Borers.— CnARr.ES E. NEIIj, Tarhor- 
ougli. N. C., asks how to keep the borers out of 
his peach trees. Tho Professor of Foreign Mar¬ 
ble (Dr. Trimble) advised him to dig them out. 
with a knife and destroy them. Mr. Baldwin 
said he had prevented their ravages by empty¬ 
ing the salt and brine from the old mackerel 
kits about the tree. Mr. Fuller, thought Mr. 
Baldwin's remedy should be applied with cau¬ 
tion-should fear destroying the tree. 
Trophy Tomato and bnnford Corn,— GcO. W. 
Wilson grinds his ax by bespattering praise 
upon the Trophy Tomato and Sanford Corn. 
Concerning i lie corn, Col.CuR ris said it requires 
a long season, and is and has always been a fail¬ 
ure whore the season is short. M r. Fuller com- 
tsntsstous 
AMEEICAN INST. FARMERS' CLUB, 
Notes of Discussion, Extracts from Let¬ 
ters, «fcc. 
Canker Worms, — J. TRACY, Bloomington, 
WIs., asks how to prevent the canker worm 
depredations. Mr. Baldwin said that in New 
Haven they smooth the hark of the tree, put 
about it some 6ea weed, and outside thereof a 
band <jf sheet lead, the edge of which is turned 
up and filled with oil. This is an effectual pre¬ 
ventive of their depredations. 
Pens for Fertilizers. —W. A. FonSYTrt, Spottsyl- 
vauia, Va., asks about a species of peas of which 
he lias read, and where it can be obtained. 
Wants to know if it will answer as a fertilizer. 
Mr. Ctnms says ho knows (his species, but it is 
no better titan our common pea. Mr. Fuller 
S lid that there aro wild peas in Virginia as good, 
if not better than the species named; nnd th. 
common pea is as good. Peas aro excellent fer¬ 
tilizers. Contain more nitrogenous matter than 
clover. He lias a neighbor wti purchased a 
piece of poor land, which he has enriched and 
made most productive with peasalnne. Ho sows 
his peas early in the spring. When largo enough 
to pick, if the market demand for green peas 
warrants il, lie gathers nnd markets them and 
plows in the vinos; if there is no paying market 
lie plows in vines, peas and all, and plauts cu¬ 
cumbers for pickles, or other late market crops. 
He lias made money by it, and brought his laud 
up to a high condition of fertility. 
Planting Grope Heed.—Mrs. C. F. WAiin, ItozG- 
malr. Montana Territory, asks when grape seed 
should he planted, nnd how long it will require 
for I he vines from seed to produce fruit. Mr. 
Fuller said grape seed maybe planted in the 
fall. Or washed out, putin sand, kept until, and 
planted in, spring. Or tho fruit may be allowed 
to dry, and tho seed thus kept, lu the pulp will 
germinate If planted In spring. Vines grown 
from seed will produce fruit in from three to 
teu years usually. Ho knows a vine, however, 
Ally years old that lias never produced a grape. 
Agricultural Patent* Issued in 1H69. — The 
Commander of tho (Hub read tho following sta- 
tistics. accompanying the reading with his usual 
charming comments: 
Churns nnd churning.. 130 
Corn shallow and buskers. 40 
Cultivators.. 130 
Diggers mul spaders. 30 
Kornli/.eis .. 0 
Forks - hay, manure, &<•. 100 
Harrows, drugs mid pulverizers. SO 
]lurvestors and attachments. 196 
Ilay Huroodnra... 23 
Hoes.. . 23 
Mowing and reaping machines. 30 
Planters... 150 
Plows and attachments..265 
Priming. 15 
Hakes. 90 
Seeding and sowing. . SO 
Separators and smut machines. 30 
Straw, hay and fodder cutters.,. 30 
Threshing machines. . 35 
Yokes. 15 
Total.1,000 
Advice front n Western Farmer.—J.C. Muupijv, 
Marion, Iowa, writes a long letter giving tliocx- 
porieuce of a rolling stone in Its efforts to ga¬ 
ther moss. The following is the substance of 
bis contribution: 
” Born and raised in Delaware, ho went to Ohio 
when 19 years old, got tired of that nud wanted 
to go farther West . Later, got up to Minnesota, 
then Into Wisconsin for a dozen years. About, 
this time, lie says, he began to consider what lie 
had made by frequent changes. To be sure, he 
hud large crops in Wisconsin, hut ha learned t hat 
man cannot live by bread alone, and lie Sighed 
ror the llesh pots of Egypt, Ho began to reflect 
how near he had > if i 11 red to Philadelphia and 
Baltimore and New York, nnd to consider that 
what grain he had to sell then could go to mar¬ 
ket for five to seven cents a bushel, while in Wis¬ 
consin ho must, pay 28 cents to get it to Milwau¬ 
kee, and then about 40 to New York. Bui this 
was not nil. Ilo had also loft tho peaches, pears, 
apples, cherries &c., with the Auuy tribes—the 
much loved nnd longed-for oysters, yea, ana all 
the privileges of the Atlantic coast. Thus, he 
was not sal ixlted in Wisconsin, so he pulled up 
in 18(18, and came to Middle Iowa. This is a 
good country, I think- much better th in North¬ 
ern Wisconsin. I think Iowa as good as any 
other of the Western Elates. I have no fault to 
li id with the State or climate, but 1 do not like 
to have to work so hard as I do to build up this 
railroad mid warehouse monopoly. If I wits 
where 1 once was, 1 should he clear of them, and 
I do holtove that that neck of land lying hotweou 
the Delaware mid Chesapeake Buys is just as 
good a country ns i here is on this American con¬ 
tinent. I should recommend every industrious 
young limn that has tho privilege of staying on 
I lie homestead to stay there, or, if ho can gel 
hold of nno of those old, worn-out Maryland or 
Virginia farms, to take it in preference to any 
of those prairie farms. 1 would rather build up 
one of those obi Atlantic furmsflnm mukcu new 
one 2,<NJ0 miles from the coast. Don’t he afraid 
of me poor hind, time and olovor will make it 
produce Justus much corn and wheat as any of 
t ho land in i lie Mississippi Valley. I say so from 
experience. 
A Big New Jt-rsey Steer. 
Somerville, N. J., writes; 
“Agood steer was raised and fed by Henry 
Peters, near this place, ami sold, standing, for 
two hundred and fifty dollars to .Iamks Smith, 
who slwiighicrcd him in December Iasi, lor 
retail at bomorvllle. Gross weight, 2,212 lbs.; 
net, 1,870 lbs. beef; hide, 11 lbs.; making62 lbs. 
beef per hundred live weight. Tho above steer 
when slaughtered, was four years and si x months 
old, was fed no grain worth immliigiiut.il March, 
I860, commencing at ouo quart per day, averag¬ 
ing four quarts per day for the first four months, 
six quarts for the next four months, eight quarts 
for six months, and averaging twelve quarts per 
day for the last seven months; was a grade steer, 
half blood each Devon and Short-Horn." 
Coniinissiunrr Cnpron on Meteorology. — The 
following letter from Hon. Horace Capron, 
Commissioner of Agriculture, to the Secretary 
of the Funners' Club, explains itself: 
"I bog leave to acknowledge tho receipt of a 
report of a committee of the American Institute 
Farmers’ Club on a communication from Pro¬ 
fessor Andre Poet on the subject of meteorol¬ 
ogy, in which tins department is recommended 
to communicate the plans of Professor Poey to 
1 lie presidents of ngnculmral colleges, and urge 
the adoption of some such plan id observation 
as therein recommended, 1 have always looked 
upon the relations of meteorology anti practical 
agriculture us necessarily very close, and that 
by just so much as our knowledge of that sci¬ 
ence is hieren.xftd shall we bo likely lo have more 
certain auil abundant harvests, and I therefore 
think that a more extended network of obser¬ 
vation in the several SliiteS limn that carried 
out by ilie Secretary of War for the benefit of 
commerce is desirable for agrieullure, and that 
these should be subordinated to u central office 
or bureau, In order to make them uniform and 
utilizablo. '1 have only partially succeeded in 
impressing this view upon Congress. I have uo 
control over the various colleges alluded to, ami 
the adoption of tills plan would involve some 
additional expense in each institution, and, 
therefore, i am unwilling to assume the posi¬ 
tion of adviser, allhough 1 am of the decided 
opiniou that the pursuit of such Inquiries is a 
V Carlton 
M.Vp '• r s- OT 
(in '— . Showing - 
CENTRA'- the Lines of the 
SAiNT PAUL and PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPAN 
'■ :d i-akt And its Connections, 
■^TTiama kP-, A 
*■ OtHrtail 
\ Watai 
Stilhvata 
[stings 
At prices ranging from ?l ti> ?I2 per acre, for Cush, or on Long Credit, with Interest at Seven per cent, 
per annum. CASH PRICES one dollar per uere lens Hum Credit, Prices. 
The Ronds of the Company taken at par on Cash Sales. Emigrant houses at the principal Stations 
free, for all emigrants. Applications lor land can be made through the Station Agents. 
For further particulars and pamphlets, apply to 
IMS 1C HI ANN TROT T, Laud ComiiilsKloner, 
General Oftloo at St. Paul, Minnesota. 
Mem.—G overnment lands still to tie had, under tho Hoaiostead Law, along the main lino of the above 
Railroad. 
A CUES 
OP TUE 
IN THE WOULD, 
FOB SALK TO ACTUAL SETT LEU 8. 
NEOSHO VALLEY, KANSAS. 
BflSSOUM, KANSAS A. TEXAS RAILWAY CO. 
CAPS NOW RUNNING. Tho L:uh1h now offered by 
tlds (’oiTipaijy are mainly within Wattles of each side 
of the road, extending 170 union nlong the NEOSHO 
V A I.LEV, the richest, lineal and moxl Inviting valley 
for xoHiemoiit in the Went. One-third of the labor 
required at the Mast in the atrituru of farms will in¬ 
sure I)el‘0 double the amount Of crop*. 
PRICE OF LAND, f- to xi per acre i credit ot ton 
years' time. Terms or Sale- -One-tamh down at 
the time of puruliaae. Nr. payment the second year, 
one-tenth every year after until completion of pay¬ 
ments, with annual Interest. For further Informa¬ 
tion, address ISAAC T. GOoDNOW, 
Land CommlKitloncr, Neosho Falls, Kansas. 
ORGANIZED BY STATE AUTHORITY 
RAILROAD LANDS, 
OR 
IN PROVED 
Farms. 
GIvch Authentic 
Information to 
tli owe 
Defining Homes 
in the 
WEST, 
either on 
Homestead 
Lands 
Pre-Emption 
Lands 
Correct 
Information 
I ROQUOIS CO., ILLINOIS. 50,1100 A ores 
of beautiful Priori® lands belonging to non-resi¬ 
dents, will be sold below the market value. My Real 
Estate Journal sent Free. 
CYRUS SHINN. Real Estate Agent. 
. Gilman, Illinois. 
Proximity to 
MARKETS, SCHOOLS, ETC 
together with 
The Cost of Farm Implements and Machinery, 
Household Goods and Subsistence at any 
Point In Kansas Desired by the 
Immigrant, 
It lias organized a syEtem of 
IC educed Transportation, 
Whereby tho Immigrant Is furnished with about 
HALF RATES OF PASSENGER FARE, 
In first class Coaches, on tho order of tho Socie¬ 
ty, with double the usual weight of personal 
baggage. Also, 
f/i really Reduced Redes of Freight 
fo l/ie Immigrant. 
For full purlieu hit’s, address 
A. IS. EiiiA I'lXS, Sccrdary, 
Lcn veil worth, 14. n hkjim. 
MISSOURI LANDS 
About 120,000 Aero® of the Finest Farm¬ 
ing and (iruzliiu Land in the l/uiled Stale-, 
for sale at. low price- and on very easy terms: thus 
enabling an Induxlrious man with small capital to 
pay for hi- land with money earned from it. 
Missouri is lint too far WVst to be at a great dis¬ 
tance from market*; its Railroad facilities urn great 
nnd constantly increasing; tho climate Is splendid, 
and good crops are altOQSt n certainty ; while the 
mnneroUH thriving town-ami cities springing upon 
every hand attest beyond doubt that the blight of 
slavery has. been effectually dissipated, and that 
Eastern men and Eastern capital are doing their 
perfect work. 
OIK LANDS DI.FY CO H I'UTITION, 
Send for full Descriptive Olreulurs and Sectional 
Maps, inclosing 30 cents, and stilting what paper you 
saw tilts in, to EDWARD WILDER, 
Lund Coiiillti-alotici'. I In iiuilui I, din. 
OF .NORTH CAROLINA 
OvifKit about 2,(100.000 Aches 
IMPROVED FARMS, GOOD HOUSES, 
FENCES, &c. f &c. 
200,000 ACRES 
Unimproved limber lurid. 75c.. fl, 81 50, per acre. 
Convenient to Towns, Railroads and Navigable Riv¬ 
ers. All on the most liberal terms. Scud for Cata¬ 
logue. Address 
It. KINGS!,AND. General Manager, 
P. O. Box 210. Raleigh, N. C. 
piarmn 
On 10 Years' Credit, at 6 pv. ot. Interest, 
No part of Principal due for two yours from pur¬ 
chase, and afterwards only ono-nlntll yearly. 
Products will Pit) for Land and Improvements. 
Tlie Liberal Orriihs given i Free I'n»*(■- 
aliened, smn II. annual payment* required: the cur¬ 
rent market value of money, and profit* on Sleek 
raising, prove the-e terms cheaper, easier anil bolter 
than Id buy I.'. S. land w ifb In Tallroud-luml-llinUs at 
$2.50 per acre, while nnr prices range generally from 
l to 5. (», S and 10 Dollars pet acre. Quality and 
local advantages rule the price. 
On these irc-neron- Term* tho indtirirlow* and 
competent ran tmi and pay for a good Farm and 
Home. Ln beginnlng.it Is necessary todinvs money 
enough to pay six per cent. Interest on the land, ob¬ 
tain provisions, build a cabin, boy a team ana agri¬ 
cultural Implements nil crops aro raised, which cun 
be don® the first season, by commencing In early 
spring. 
CIRCULARS giving full piirtlenlnr.i are sup¬ 
plied gratis, and any wl-lilng to induce others to 
emigrate with them, or to form n Colony, arc invited 
toa-k for all they want to distribute. 
A SECTIONAL MAP. showing fxnet location 
of i .and- tor sain In low®. Is sold for 30 cents, and a 
similar Map of Ncbruaku Lands is sold for 2d cents. 
Apply to CEO. S. HA RUSS, 
Land Com’r Burlington & Mo. River R. R. Co. 
For Iowa fit HCKLINGTON, IOWA. 
For Nebraska lVinils, fit TjINOOIiN, NEBRASKA. 
B. M. POLHEMUS, 
The Beat Hive foe Artificial Burn nnl tiff* 
A CORRESPONDENT asks us to name the 
best Live for artificial swarming. We can¬ 
not fio so. There are ns many opinions as 
there are liives. It is essential, however, that 
a movable comb Live should be used. All 
the besL apiarians use them. We do not 
know what form and style is best. Perhaps 
l here is none more generally used than Lang- 
STKOTJl’S. _ 
Don’t Hnstc to llavy Bees. 
J. H. Thomas, Brooklin, Ontario, says in 
Canada 'Farmer:—“Sometimes, on setti'.g 
out stocks in the spring, or on examining 
those that may have remained out, some 
stock or stocks may appear dead, or nearly 
so, but they should not be hastily buried, for 
it frequently happens that they are only ex¬ 
hausted for want of food, or benumbed by 
cold, and if taken into a warm room, or 
placed iff the warm sun, will show signs of 
returning life, and if they want food, a spoon¬ 
ful of hpney or sirup will revive the whole 
stock." 
ROANOKE VALLEY. VA. IWLVA 
sacrifice. Full Information free. Kniii,v& Bovii.Outc 
<4 Panu.) Chrlstlunsville, Mecklenburg Co., Va. 
TIIE1H 
AND 
Late r reside id New York State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety. Editor “ American Short-Horn 
Herd Bools," Author “ Rural 
Architecture,” etc,., etc. 
AMERICAN FRUIT CULTURIST 
By JOHN .1. THOMAS, 
Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation 
and Culture of 
IP'SrS.Tm? TREES 
In the NnrBovy, Orchard and Garden, witli dt'-erlp- 
tion of tho Principal Ainorlmin and Foreign varie¬ 
ties cultivated in the United Statw, Illustrated 
with Kmfn Htrxrman and Eighty accurate 
Figures. For sal® at mn,Y *3 pun copy, by 
l). li. T. MOORE. 
41 Park Row, N. Y-, or Rochester, N. Y. 
Inquiries for Apiarians, -Will gome one inform 
me how 1 can remove bees from old liives, anil 
place them in new ones? What time of tho year 
would be best to do it?— A. J. B„ Welhsburg, 
West Va. 
