cause is that the surface of the ground about 
the body of the tree was lower than that sur¬ 
rounding. Tha water settled into the hollow 
space about the trunk, and the freezing ami 
thawing burst off the bark. The remedy for 
trees so affected is to apply to the damaged part 
fresh cow manure, wrap with a cloth, and haul a 
mound of dirt about it. The preventive is to 
always have the ground highest immediately 
about the trunk of the tree, so that no water 
can stand there. 
Artichokes for Hogs.—C. P. Hostetter, Ma¬ 
rengo, III., asks if artichokes are good for hogs. 
Me is answered: Excellent, and yield well, re¬ 
maining in the ground uninjured during winter. 
They should be cut in small pieces when planted. 
They are valuable food for all kinds of stock. 
A Good Crop of Mens. - W. B. SWEET, Pom- 
pey, N. Y., writes the Club that last spring he 
planted seventeen acres of clay loam with tha 
black-eyed. Canada, or Marrowfat pen. The yield 
was 080 bushels—>10 bushels per acre. Average 
price received for them, $1.65 per bushel. Ex¬ 
pense of raising, the same as that of a crop ol' 
be prevented by walking on the vines as they 
drag along, after which take a potato fork and 
dig them, only throwing them out sufficiently to 
let them be pulled up easily by hand. One man 
with a potato fork can dig for three men ns fast 
as they can pull and break them from the vines. 
The Spavined Hobby-Horse,—DAVID PETTIT 
pitched into G reeley, FCller and Quinn upou 
the novel question of Peep tvs. Shallow plowing. 
After listening to Mr. P's., letter Mr. Quinn 
doubted if there was really any difference in 
opinion between himself and Mr. Pettit. Mr. 
Fuller said Mr. P,. was pitching into him for 
taking a position on the subject which he had 
never takeu, and he did not think it profitable 
to spend any more words upon the topic. 
A Fruit nod Vegetable feeler was exlllbit-ed, 
which took the skins off of a pock of apples or 
potatoes in two minutes and a half, and is said 
to be able to do It. in one minute. It seemed to 
be a good thing, but we did not learn the name 
of the proprietor. 
IJisntssions 
UPON 
HIGHLY REMUNERATIVE TERMS 
WHAT WE HAVE DONE AND WHAT WE ARE WILLING TO DO 
EEAD THIS ATTENTIVELY. 
Club-Foot Cabbage.-W. JOHNSON, Orwell, u., 
affirms that a thick dressing of unleached ashes 
will prevent club-root cabbage. 
Allnnihus Culture.-F. W. Dexter, Randolph, 
N. Y., is going to Nebraska, and proposes to 
plant nearly one hundred acres in forest. He 
wants to know where to get the seed of the 
Ailaothus and bow to grow it. Mr. Fuller re¬ 
plies that the seeds can bo obtained rrora B. K. 
Buss & Son. this city, and it will grow as readi¬ 
ly as pear seed, and may be sown the same way, 
only it should not be covered more than a half 
inch deep. 
Mountain Ash Seed.—Mr. Dex- 'fcs, 
ter aRks how to treat and take *8 
care of Mountain Ash seeds until 
time to sow it. Ho is answered 
that the seed may be kept mixed 
with sand, and then placed in a 
cellar until ready for sowing. If 
sown In the open ground, the bed 
should bo partially shaded; if not, .... V~ 
the young plants will be burned 
up by the sun when they first ? 
appear. The north sido of a 
hedge, or under a Bcrecn of some 
kind, is the best place to raise the 
plants. When the trees are one 
year old they may be set out into 
the nursery rows. 
The Pcrclmron llorse. — J. S. 
Parker, Westchester, Pa.,writes: Z*— 
“The Porchcron horse is un- 
doubtodly the most valuable 
breed now being introduced into 
this country for the improve- ^ 
ment of our horses for general p 
use, becauso they arc so nearly ' 
allied to the primitive Arab that 
thoy inherit from him many of _ 
his excellent qualities, such as his 
mild disposition, endurance, ac- w 
tion, style, &o. They unite 
strength to their action, arc short 
coupled, and arc more easily kept 
than most of the heavy, bony 
breeds. They aro an improvement j 
on the Norman, being tullerbrcd 
t.o the primitive stock, not so 
soft, have a more bony and cleaner 
limb, less covered with hair than 
the Norman or the English breed of draft 
horses. My horse is very powerful; ho has 
started and pulled a load of three tons, and 
has frequently pulled a ton on a cart with a rail 
through both wheels. At Lancaster Fair many 
old Quakers enrne to see him, who freely said 
they did not, attend agricultural fairs generally 
on account of the horse-racing, but came ex¬ 
pressly to see the “ horse of all work." 
Drolling Apparatus,— A very useful and con¬ 
venient broiling apparatus was exhibited, so ar¬ 
ranged that i ho men t enn be broiled without, a 
particle of smoke, steam or fumes entering the 
kitchen, it being done In a chamber over the 
stove from which the steam, &c., is takeu up the 
chimney by draft. 
How Great Yields of Grain ore Reported, —S. 
Edwards Todd wrote;—“ When I whs on the 
farm, a distant neighbor won the premium on 
ono acre of Indian corn which bad been offered 
by the County Agricultural Society. A few 
years after, the man who gave his affidavit be¬ 
fore the officers of the Society that be husked 
and measured every bushel that grew on that 
uere, disclosed the trick by means of which be 
gained the award. lie said ‘ they tilled a bushel 
basket with ears just husked by laying them as 
closely as they could lie; and all the interstices 
were filled with pieces of cars; that one bushel 
of ears was then' shelled and the grain weighed, 
no was then directed to husk the corn, and 
measure the cars in that basket, as they were 
thrown in promiscuously as fast as they were 
husked; and every basket of oars was estimated 
to yield as many pounds of gram as tho first 
bushel, which was measured in thetricklsh man¬ 
ner alluded to. By this trick ouo acre was re¬ 
ported to have yielded otic* hundred and 
twenty-two bushels of shelled corn.’ 
Another successful competitor was known 
to have carried stalks bearing large ears 
from another part of the field, the butt 
ends of which were stuck in the ground 
in the rows of the premium corn. 1 have 
met with so much trickery in measuring 
the ground or tho grain, or both, that 1 
never repose much confidence in the re¬ 
ports of great yields of grain, even when ' 
an affidavit accompanies the statement.” 
Silk Culture. — M. D. Hatch, Rome, N. 
Y., asks what part of the country is best 
adapted to silk culture, and where he can 
address J. Q. A. Warren on this subject. 
Mr. Warren, we learn, is still in this city, 
but wo do not know his address. It was i 
at St. Denis Hotel. 
Boys Wanting to Become Farmers.— The 
father of a boy fourteen years old wants 
a place for his Bon on a farm with a good 
farmer where he will be under proper ^ 
inoral inlluoncc and restraint and can learn 
the business. This suggested to the Club r 
the importance of taking action whereby 
those boys who want such places and those 
who desire such boys may bo placed in 
communication with euch other through 
the Club’s ageucy. A committee was ap¬ 
pointed to prepare a plan and report. 
Farmers present said that, there were 
plenty of places for such boys and city 
people said there were plenty of boys and 
young men who would like to occupy 
them. Parties desiring to take boys to 
teach them fanning, and boys and young 
men looking for such opportunities should 
write to the President of the Farmer’s Club 
to that effect. 
, To °ig Sweet Potatoes.—K. J. SIMONSON, New 
Springville, L. I., says the best way to dig sweet 
, potatoes is to take a largo plow, run it on each 
, side of the row, turning the furrow from the 
5 row, not lotting the plow go deeper than two 
■•x inches. Tho vines will break off from the hill 
P»- and leave tho hill or row entirely clean of vines, 
the longest part of the vines being on the mold 
k board, or furrow side, will cause them to clear, 
x, and will very seldom clog the plow. This may 
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Best Fertilizers Tor Cotton.—THOMAS L. James, 
Aiken, 8. (J., asked what commercial fertilizers 
wore best for cotton. Mr, Fuller said guano 
and bono dust. Dr. Tiumijle advised Southern 
planters to collect, make, save and use more 
domestic manures and buy less foreign fertiliz¬ 
ing material. Mr. Lyman recommended guano 
for stimulating the early growth of the plant, 
and finely ground unadulterated hone dust. Add 
all the animal manure obtainable. 
Weighing the Seed of Potatoes.—E. B. Hines, 
w.ho tent tho Club sampler! of his potatoes to 
plant, asked that the members weigh the seed 
before planting, and the product after digging, 
and report to the Club. Dr. Ugxamer said 
weighing the seed does not amount, to anything. 
Seed is of less consequence. What wo want to 
know is how to produce the most and best quali¬ 
ty of potatoes ou an ucro of ground. 
How to Raise Onions,—In answer to inquiries 
by.l.M. Paul, North Adams, Mass., members 
informed him that lieshould sow his seed as soon 
as posslblo; sow large Red Weathersfleld for 
market, and Yellow Danvers for his own use. 
Fertilize with hen manure, and destroy tho mag¬ 
got by scalding with hot water. The Venerable 
Farmer Moulton urged that a little Old Hyson 
tea be put in the hot water. Rone meal is also 
used to exterminate tho maggot. 
Ewes and Lambs.— Mr. CURTIS, in answer to 
Inquiries, said that to make an owe own her lamb, 
incloso her in a pen, so confine her that she can¬ 
not Injure her offspring, and in a day or two she 
will own it. He never has had any success rear¬ 
ing lambs by hand; but when an ewe dies, or 
does not give milk enough for the lamb’s susten- 
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cape quickly. 
How to Gather Asparagus.—JOSEPH WILSON, 
Little Falls, N. J., writes: 
As often as I have passed through tho market- 
places and seen 1 he white trank that is universal ly 
sold as asparagus, I have felt vexed, alike at the 
stupidity of the gardeners, and the thoughtless¬ 
ness of the buyers; and have several times 
remonstrated with tho market-men on their 
improper mode or gathering the asparagus, by 
which hundreds of ions are worse than thrown 
away. But, probably, regarding mo as an old 
logy they have invariably neglected any advice. 
It must be known to every one using asparagus 
that the white part is not edible, because ot its 
toughness. AH you can do with itlstosuoka 
little of the juice and then throw it to the hogs. 
This is altogether the fault, of the wrong mode of 
gathering it for use.. From the appearance of 
the bruuolies I have seen, I conclude that as soon 
as the stalk appeal’s above ground a long knife 
is thrust into the ground and i bostaLkcut asdeop 
down as possible. Now. that part of the plant 
below tho surface is hard and tough, and conse¬ 
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grow from eight, to twelve inchesfi bOVO ground, 
and then to go along the bed and snap off the 
stalk with the fingers, as far us if is tender and 
will break square off. The conseqUOIiOe ts that 
the whole stalk is as tender as a green pea, and 
can aU be eaten. For my use I would not give a 
Cent n bunch for the white stuff, however pretty 
the ladies nniv think it. My wife and daughters 
would not cook it. They, ns I do, prefer it. ten¬ 
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to the hogs, who aro bv no means com pi i mooted 
by having that for their portion which even they 
cannot perfectly masticate. Gentlemen, try my 
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stool and lets the iamb suckle the cow, aiding in 
the operation by squeezing tbe teat. He has 
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thus nurse at least six times a day. 
Bark Bursted from Apple Trees.—M. J. Low, 
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off his young apple trees just at the surface of 
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