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41 Park How, New York, 
82 Buffalo St., Hocheater, 
NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y 
gS.OO PEH YEAR. 
Single No., Eight Cents 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 2,1870 
WHOLE NO. 1054, 
(Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1870, by I). D. T. Moore, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.] 
jure it. AVe cut with the corn knife, laying 
it in bunches. We then set it up around 
the corn-horse like the one illustrated in the 
Run ad of Sept. 25th, 1809, making the 
stooks large, so that there will be no dan¬ 
ger of tumbling down. Where the crop 
does not attain a large growth it can be cut 
with the reaping machine and laid in bun¬ 
dles as in small grain. 
Don’t hesitate to put up your corn in largo 
stooks, for I know it will c.uro well. Wo 
put up corn last Dill in stooks that, were 
eight feet in diameter, and although it w'as 
a very wet, cold fall, it cured perfectly. Let 
it stand until well cured, and store for win¬ 
ter use. 
Adopt the above plan in whole or in part, 
as circumstances dictate, and you will find 
that a crop of sowed corn for milch cows 
will pay. S. S. Gardner. 
Watertown, N. Y., 1870. 
ELYMUS CONDENSATUS — (Fresl.) 
The Buncli Grass of British Columbia. 
We present, herewith, illustrations of the 
Bunch Grass of British Columbia, which is 
attracting much attention and commenda¬ 
tion in Great Britain. The Edinburgh 
Farmer, from whoso pages we transfer the 
engraving, speaks very highly of its merits 
both as an early forage and an abundantly 
productive hay grass, and predicts that it is 
likely to secure for Itself a prominent place 
among the agricultural plant# of Britain. 
The editor says:—“ With us the ffiymus 
Condenmim has gone on increasing annually 
in stature 
and although grown in the past 
dry summer on rather poor unmanured soil, 
a plant -which is represented by the accom¬ 
panying engraving, from n photograph, was 
eight feet three inches in height. This plant 
presented a. thick, tender, leafy growth of 
about three feet in height, In the last week 
ot April, when it decidedly surpassed, in 
hulk of crop, the grass then growing In the 
neighboring famed sewerage irrigated mead¬ 
ows of Edinburgh. So that, as a highly pro¬ 
ductive, early cutting grass, it ranks far be¬ 
fore any other known kind. A plentiful 
crop of ripe seeds was reaped from the fer¬ 
tile stems in the first week of September, by 
which time several of a thick intermingled 
growth of leafy or barren stems, had at¬ 
tained to about the same height as the seed- 
bearing ones, while the others of these were 
of various intermediate heights. All the 
stems, as well as foliage, changed from a 
greenish to a brown withered-like color, by 
the second week of November. 
“ The following analyses of both the seed- 
hearing and leafy stems have been made by 
Professor Anderson, Analytical Chemist for 
the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
Scotland — who stated in an accompanying 
note : 
I enclose 1 analyses of the two samples of Bunch 
Grass. They have not so blub a nutritive value as 
good ordinary hay, which contains twice ns much 
nitrogenous matter, uml rather more oil. 
Deaf-hearing Seed-bearing 
stalks. stalks. 
..14.8* 18,21) 
Oil. 1.71 1.36 
Albuminous compounds., 1.41 3.62 
Mucilage, gum, &c.48.21 41.98 
Fiber. 26.61 30.65 
Ash. 4.19 4.15 
ovstnwn 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN, 
Remedy for Spavin. 
Prof. James Law, Veterinary Surgeon to 
the N. Y. State Ag. Soc. furnishes the 
Tribune the following :—When spavin is re¬ 
cent, and attended with much lameness, and 
local heat and tenderness, soothing meas¬ 
ures should he first, adopted. Let the shoe 
have a level hearing, and rest tlio animal, 
giving a smooth floor to stand on. Keep a 
wet bandage around the hock for at least ten 
days, covering it with a dry one to prevent 
undue cooling. Give a dose of laxative 
medicine, and feed, partially at least, on bran 
mashes and roots. After ten days cut off 
the hair on the inner side of the hock, and 
apply the following:—Biniodideof mercury, 
two drachms ; lard, one ounce. Rub in for 
five minutes; tie up the horse’s head for 
twenty-four hours, and then, if it has well 
risen, and if the exudation begins to trickle 
down the leg, wash off with soap and water, 
and apply daily a little tincture of arnica. 
A second, and even a third, blister may be 
required alter the effects of the previous one 
have passed off. Obstinate cases may require 
firing, or even a surgical operation, for the 
removal of lameness; hut these can only be 
safely applied by a professional man. A 
rest of six weeks or two months is required 
to allow of the consolidation of the new 
deposit. 
Hummevincr the Hoofa Causes Until. 
We have seen it asserted recently, that in 
consequence of the peculiar construction of 
the horse’s hoof, a nail driven into ila wall 
in nailing on a shoe, causes the animal no 
pain; but a nail clinched on the top or side 
of the hoof with a hammer, induces pain, and 
in some Instances where horses have been 
lame from no apparent cause, it has been 
simply the result of an inner irritation, 
caused by pounding the hoof. If this is true, 
it is important that there he some device by 
which the nails on a horse’s hoof could be 
clinched without pounding it with a hammer. 
The Mare that will not Nurne her Colt. 
C. II. W. saysInform “An Old Sub¬ 
scriber” that a sure cure for a mare that will 
not allow her colt to suckle, is to give her a 
good flogging every time she kicks, whip her 
until she will stand and allow her offspring 
to feed. I have known a mare to neigh for 
her colt in consequence of this treatment.” 
Wc should think so 1 
For the Ailing Colt. 
If that Seneca subscriber (sec Rural, 
i March 19, page 186) will take a solution of 
one ounce of alum, one-half ounce of salt¬ 
peter, and dissolve it in a tea made by boil- 
■ ing the root of dock, about two quarts, and 
, wash his colt’s mouth and under his tongue, 
I thiuk it will help him.—D. M. Harris. 
100.00 
Nitrogen...71 .58 
The ash contains : 
Phosphates. 39 .15 
Phosphoric acid combined 
with alkalies.21 .19 
Sand...2.15 1.95 
I am, yours truly, TnoMAS Anderson. 
“ Although the above analyses do not 
show so high a nutritive value as that of 
good ordinary hay, this must not be deemed 
deprecatory of this Bunch Grass, seeing that 
both samples were cut in October, fully a 
month after the seeds were ripened; where¬ 
as grasses generally contain most nutriment 
when cut immediately after flowering. 
“ In cultivating the British Columbia 
Bunch Grass, we would recommend sowing 
it in drills or beds, allowing it to grow there 
for at least one season, and then transplant¬ 
ing in well cleaned and drained land, at dis¬ 
tances of twelve to fifteen inches apart. 
Hoeing or weeding will, therefore, bo re¬ 
quisite throughout the first summer after 
transplanting; but afterwards the plant will 
be sufficiently strong to overpower most 
kinds of weeds; and it will seemingly grow 
on in full vigor for a long series of years. 
“ We have received the following particu¬ 
lars regarding it in its native Habits. In a 
paper on the Flora of Alaska, formerly known 
as Russian America, which appeared in the 
Smithsonian report for 1807, the writer, Dr. 
Rothrock, states that the high grounds in 
the vicinity of Fort St. James (latitude 54 
deg. t min. north,) afford the Bunch Grass 
(Elymus) of the packers. So nutritious is 
this, that even when apparently dead and 
dry, stock will become fat on it, and remain 
SOWING CORN 
Having had some experience in sowing 
corn for a dairy of cows I have a plan which 
for ease and convenience I think has advan¬ 
tages over the general method of sowing 
corn. Having the ground well fitted by 
good plowing and the soil well pulverized 
with cultivator and harrow, we take a span 
