itlir 
tops. 
CORN CULTURE. 
Being a middle-aged man, and having 
had a good deal of experience in raising 
corn, I find it is the best crop that a farmer 
can raise. It not only improves his ground 
tor the next crop, hut the crop itself is worth 
more than that of any other. As a matter of 
fact, wc want the best and easiest method of 
preparing the ground. 1 have prepared my 
corn ground in about every shape. I plow 
it twice—first soon after I lake off the crop. 
Then I plow it very deep, and it is ready for 
manuring. I prefer to do this in the fall. 
The next spring, just before planting time,I 
plow it about four incites deep. 1 find by 
plowing the ground twice that it mellows it 
so that it is not much more than half the 
work to tend it. Besides, one is sure of a 
quarter better crop, J raised twenty acres 
of corn last year, and it was as good as any, 
if not the best, in the county. 
I noticed in the Rural New-Yorker o, 
April 9th, page 234, G. W. Humphrey's ex¬ 
periments in manuring corn ground. He 
claims that lie raised the best corn from land 
spring immured. It is very easy to see where 
lie failed in his fall manuring. It was by 
spreading it when he drew it out.. 1 have 
found out that a load of manure left in piles 
until plowing time, is worth two loads that 
have been spread and allowed to lay in the hot 
sun a fortnight. 1 have found that 1 cun raise 
more corn from the same quantity, drawn 
out in the fall, than hum that drawn in the 
spring. The reason is simply this:—Wher¬ 
ever a pile of manure lies, there you can 
raise the largest corn. And then wc have all 
of the manure to spread between the places 
where it was lying. A Sujbbciujier. 
Marquette, Wis. 
Remarks. —We cannot help thinking that 
il the cost, of handling is taken into the ac¬ 
count, the spring application of manure, if 
it lias been properly protected and compost¬ 
ed during the winter, is better than the fall 
application—especially to corn. Thu only 
advantage of hauling in fall is that there may 
be more time to haul it. If our correspond¬ 
ent., after his deep fall plowing, were to haul 
on his manure, spreading it evenly over the 
surface, and at ones mix it with the surface 
soil with a two-horse cultivator, would it not 
be still better than his present mode? 
vigorous growth than when sown late in 
May, with grain, because the grain will 
grow up quick and overpower the young 
grass, which will be but feeble at best. And 
when the grain is takeu off, it will sometimes 
die out by drouth and the heat of the sun, 
and if it does not die it will make but a sick¬ 
ly growth. 
“2d. The land is generally dryer in Au¬ 
gust, and in better condition to seed down, 
and iL puts the stubble out of the way, and 
farmers have more time to do the work well. 
“3d. Farmers can grow their own seed for 
less than half the present high price. 
“Therefore, farmers that have land in 
grass, and no grass seed on hand, would do 
Well to wait until grass seed grows before 
seeding down, and let speculators keep their 
seed for their own use until they are glad to 
sell at a fair price.” 
jCattb grpartmrnf. 
Inbnsfri.il (Topics. 
A GRIEVOUS COMPLAINT. 
FIELD NOTES. 
Alslke Clover for Ilonoy nml Forage. 
C. B. Bxoelow, Perkinsvilie, Vt., lias had 
a favorable experience with this clover, and 
writes tlie New England Farmer,—“It not 
only yields a large quantity of honey and of 
good quality, but is a profitable crop for 
farmers to grow for stock, or seed, or for 
both. It grows nearly or quite as large as 
the common clover. The stalks are finer 
and not as woody. It has many branches, 
consequently affords a multitude of blos¬ 
soms which are very fragrant, and much 
enjoyed by the bees. II. does not blossom as 
early by a week us the red clover, and re- 
mains in bloom about four weeks. It is par¬ 
ticularly adapted to moist ground. The 
foots being fibrous, are not liable to be in¬ 
jured by the frost heaving the ground. It is 
prolific in seed, yielding from six to eight 
bushels per acre. 
Experience with Oui». 
I have raised oats for nearly thirty years. 
1 have experimented on different soils with 
different quantities of seed, from oue and 
a-halfto four bushels to the acre; have sowed 
at different times, from the middle of March 
Gjoroe Allboxes enters this complaint 
against the Rural New-Yorker: 
“ 1. As soon as the paper enters the house, 
(and the mail bag's are watched pretty close¬ 
ly for its arrival,) there is a cessation of all 
business. I plead guilty, myself, to being 
oblivious to all other matters, sublunary and 
siiperulunury, till 1 have looked over at least 
the headings,—having to look over several 
heads to do so. Then the pictures—they 
have to be seen by everybody at the same 
time, not forgetting the artist’s efforts on the 
last page. There is myself, my wife, two 
boys, three girls, a good-natured bachelor 
brother-in-law, who can look over all our 
heads—all trying to read the paper and look 
at the pictures at the same time! Willie 
must always look at the design at the head 
of the paper, first, although it is the same 
every week; and he always sees something 
in it new, and keeps us waiting till he gets 
through. Then little Mary stands on her 
tip-toes and wants to see the “ RtJLEft.” 
Each one lias some department they want, 
to see first, till everything is forgotten ex 
cept Agriculture, Horticulture, and the other 
cultures—all of which I charge to the ac¬ 
count of the Rural New-Yorker, though 
I expect to take it out in “ more of the same 
sort.” 
“ 2. After the paper is read through and 
through, there must he a practical applica¬ 
tion of the improvements. Work must be 
neglected to make garden. There must be 
a strawberry bed, some thornless raspberries, 
mammoth blackberries, and a wet. corner 
hunted up for some cranberries. My wife 
would like to be fuller on small fruits. (The 
small fruits would fool her.) I was goose 
enough to get some gooseberries, but we 
shall be dead and buried before we can get 
any berries. We liad better move into a 
huckleberry swamp and there bury the rest 
of our days ; it would be Rural life. But I 
am not through with the garden yet. Wc 
must have every vegetable in its season, or 
rather, before its season,— pie plant, aspara¬ 
gus, linia beans, cauliflower, &e., variety 
enough to till a catalogue. Except, when 
the cattle get over the log fence and get their 
fill. Fresh vegetables must be on the table 
every day; my family are no longer satisfied 
with ‘hog and hominy.’ 
“ 3. The house must have a coat of paint . 
Rail fence won’t, do any longer before tlie 
front. We must have a gate to go in at, in¬ 
stead of bars, seeing there are no longer any 
1 bars ’ in the woods, and even the grocery 
at the corner lias no longer any bar. There 
must be a wood-house built, and a shed for 
to (lie first of Juno ; on thoroughly worked the wagon, and so on to the bitter end ;—all 
land and inverted sod; and the heaviest this expense and loss of time through taking 
crop 1 ever raised was on a rich clay loam, this paper, and making us more like city 
the ground having been planted to corn the than Rural folks.” 
previous year, plowed deep late in the fall, -♦-*-*- 
again in the spring, and sowed March 20th SABBATH WORK ON THE FARM. 
with four bushels of seed to the acre. Tlieto - 
were just eight acres in the lot. The oats A Southern correspondent concludes a 
stood live feet high and about ns thick ns lon « article wUh lhis paragraphThe 
they could stand. I harvested them when siDf, P le rule in tl,is rnatler, in all kinds of em- 
about two-thirds of the heads were turned Pl°y ,uent . is of special importance to the 
STEWART CO., GEORGIA. 
A Georui(in Gives Home Interesti ng Fact*. 
If persons who arc honest, and enterpris¬ 
ing will come to Georgia and aid in develop¬ 
ing the resources of the State and building 
up our country, we assure them there is no 
discrimination against any man on account 
of his origin. A man who, by his deport¬ 
ment, renders himself obnoxious, is in equal¬ 
ly as bad odor, whether from New York or 
South Carolina. There are gentlemen and 
ladies from the North,—who have identified 
themselves with our growing interest,—dis¬ 
persed throughout the State, and they are 
pleased with our country, people, institu¬ 
tions and society; and if Georgians have a 
fault, it is the predisposition to lionize North¬ 
ern emigrants who merit respect, as very 
many do. 
A few of the advantages of our country, 
and we can only enumerate a few, consist, in 
the cheapness of our lands compared with 
the value of the products; our geographical 
situation, enabling us to grow commodities 
that enter largely into the commerce and 
manufactures of the Eastern and Western 
world. The length of the growing season, 
as well as our short and mild winters, enable 
us to compete successfully with the world in 
agriculture, and investments in manufac¬ 
tories and railroads pay more remunerating 
dividends than in the North or West. They 
can probably surpass us in growing some of 
the cereals, but, on the other hand, we can 
supply the demand of our consumption, and 
our products, beside, are more valuable than 
anything they can grow. 
Our ante helium, experience demonstrated 
dearly that we can grow horses, mules, cat¬ 
tle and hogs very nearly as profitably as Ken¬ 
tucky or Illinois. It costs but little more to 
raise them, as our markets are their markets, 
without transportation. The suicidal policy 
of the South in raising cotton to buy every¬ 
thing else, baa proven detrimental, and there 
are very few who have failed to observe it; 
and now, as far as my observation extends, 
very few have failed to seed land sufficient 
to supply our farms with grain, and we pre¬ 
dict the grain growers will have to find an¬ 
other market until cotton becomes stable at 
higher figures, or grainjM lower. 
Lands can be purchased at $3 to $30 per 
acre ; good average lands at $8 to $12. The 
extremes of yield areCotton, 300 to 2,500 
pounds seed cotton per acre (3,000 pounds 
making a bale of or near 500 pounds;) a 
very fair yield is from 500 to 1,000 pounds. 
A good agriculturist frequently produces, 
per band, eight bales; in a few instances 
ten, but with ordinary freed labor two to 
five bales Is doing very well. By tlie appli¬ 
cation of such fertilizers as cotton seed, 
guano, or Imrn yard manures, the yield cun 
be increased fifty to one hundred per cent., 
and with careful culture Mr. G rutin oi 
Bibb, grew near 5,000 pounds, or three bales 
per acre. Messrs Jordan & Locket of Lee 
county gathered near seventeen hales from 
live acres. Corn, wheat, oats, rye and liar- 
ley will range from the lowest, grade four 
bushels to forty ; barley aud oats, in some 
instances, having reached seventy five bush 
els per acre. 
From the mildness, ordinarily, of our short 
winters, stock requires less feed and protec¬ 
tion from weather, and we can arrange to 
graze them all the year. Our average lands 
ordinarily produce from ten to fifteen bush¬ 
els of grain. Both sweet and Irish potatoes 
do well, and can be made to yield fitly to 
two hundred bushels, and the latter are in 
use in April and May. Peanuts arc very 
productive and valuable for stock. Sugar 
cane matures very well, and will yield three 
to four barrels of sirup per acre. A good 
article of sugar is made with us. Rice yields 
enormously. 
It i? here that the fruit amateur can find 
almost everything palatable. We have 
apples, strawberries and plums in May, 
peaches and the smaller fruits in June. 
Grape culture is found to net $3 to $400 per 
light gravel, light loam, and stiff, red and 
black. None of the objections urged in 
“ Shall we go South ?” obtain here. 
Laborers are worth $10 to $25 per month, 
board included. Labor is employed largely 
on shares, and efficient laborers in some in¬ 
stances realize $300 to $500. Tlie health 
and salubrity of our climate are unsurpassed. 
Lumpkin is twenty miles from railroad, and 
fifteen from the river navigable for boats 
from Columbus to Apalachicola Bay. A 
railroad has been surveyed from Bainbridge 
to Columbus via Lumpkin, and work is 
going on rapidly at the Bainbridge end. 
Here is the field for labor, enterprise and 
capital, and no danger of overstocking the 
market with either. Let no Constitutional 
Union man or family be deterred by such 
writers as Mr. Bragdox or Mr. Bailey, but 
come to this El Dorado of the South. 
Lumpkin, Ga. I. A. B. W. 
)v%unk Information. 
lorsnnnn. 
were just eight acres in the lot. The oats A Southern correspondent concludes a almost everything palatable. We have 
stood live feet high and about as thick as long ar,icle wUh tllis paragraphThe apples, strawberries and plums in May, 
they could stand. I harvested them when 81D1 l 1,e rule in this matter, In all kinds of em- peaches and the smaller fruits in June, 
about two-thirds of the heads were turned P lo y ment , is of special importance to the Grape culture is found to net $3 to $400 per 
threshed them with a flail, and had Just seven f:imu ’ r > ,0 wit:—Do nothing on Sunday that acre, and many fruits ripen till October, 
iuuulred and twenty bushels by measure, y° 11 can properly pwt off till Monday; and Our harvest commences in May. We 
weighing thirty-four pounds to the bushel. * 0:XVt! nothing to be done on Sunday which could surprise New York with green corn 
I never had any luck with late sowed oats, y° u ' cnow y° u c an properly do on Saturday, in May and early in June, and can so plant 
or on sandy land, or on inverted sod, or with This cl ° avVn 7 with the necessity of as to have it till October. 
one and a half bushels of seed to the acre. greasing the carriage wheels, tightening the The disadvantages are our political cm- 
J. H. Woodbukn, Kingsville, Ohio. taps, mending the harness, bridles and stir- barrassment resulting from partisan rule and 
--— rup leathers, fastening the horse-shoes, cut- misrepresentation ; a disorganized system of 
Wl.cn to Sow OrnSeed. >) n<1 » x > xin g the feed, cutting wood and , , Q , ul] ; ml)1 * vim ,. of 
A correspondent of the New Fno-lqrwl splitting light wood, catching chickens and . ’ ^ ~ ’ 
™ . . , u,c England ducks am l cloanimr and cookimr them. ,m>. capital, very many having been reduced to 
the land is in good condition to seed down 
in April or early in May. But when the 
land is too wet to work until late in Mayor 
early in June, it is better to sow grain with¬ 
out grass seed, and when the grain is taken 
off, plow in the stubble, put on tlie manure, 
sow on the grass seed and lay the land down 
smooth. It is better for the following rea¬ 
sons : 
“ 1st. The young grass will make a more 
blacking boots and shoes,—even shaving the 
face, &c., &c. 
Some persons only seem to rest, while 
their thoughts are busy on the subjects which 
engage them daily. Some quit their farms 
with their hands, but work at them all the 
day with their minds. Some even take the 
liolv day to talk over their worldly matters 
with their families or t heir neighbors. Some 
examine their accounts—and some read the 
worldly and political journals. Such things 
will not pay here, or iu thu world to come.” 
misrepresentation; a disorganized system of 
labor, though rapidly improving ; a want of 
Capital, very many having been reduced to 
poverty by the result of the civil war into 
which we were precipitated. The war 
of races, about which you read and hear so 
much, exists only in the distorted fancy of 
designing persons. I guarantee, a better 
slate of feeling exists between the whites as 
landholders and the negroes as laborers, than 
among employers and employes North. 
Some of the negroes are ignorant and 
vicious, but are easily restrained when free 
from the influence of political adventurers. 
The surface of our country is generally 
level or undulating, sometimes hilly; soil 
SELECTING A HORSE. 
A correspondent of tlie Ohio Farmer 
furnishes the following suggestions, which 
may be useful to some of our readers: 
“ Many a horse, when fitted for the market, 
lias a fine look to a common eye, when in 
fact it is second rale, or perhaps nearly 
worthless. So, also, a horse in its natural 
state, especially if it is iu flesh, may look 
well to an inexperienced ej r e and be at the 
same time an inferior animal. Probably in 
no article of trade are persons so often de¬ 
ceived as in the purchase of horses. So 
risky is this that many prudent buyers never 
purchase except on a trial of a week or 
more, and l would advise all who do not 
know how to select a good horse to adopt 
this course. By grooming and using a horse 
a few ‘lays, almost any one can tell about 
what manner of horse it is. 
“ In buying a horse, particular attention 
should he given to the eye. It should be 
clear, stand out round and full. The eye¬ 
brows and lids should be free from bunches, 
and there should be no swelling under the 
lower lids. 
“ I would turn from a horse that has a 
dull, sunken, fiat eye. In nine eases out of 
ten there is trouble connected with it. Either 
the disposition of the horse will be bad, or 
he wifi be lazy, or his eyes will fail. A good 
way to test the present condition of sight is 
to lead a horse out of a dark stable into a 
strong light. If lie lcuitfl his brow, throws 
his head lip as if to get more light, acts as 
if lie wanted his glasses to see clearly—stand 
front under, you may be sure lie has bad eyes. 
The feet should also be carefully examined. 
A horse with bad feel is little worth. A 
good foot is smooth, tough and solid. The 
heels firm, (not spongy,) the frogs dry and 
the soles shallow. See the foot that the 
honest smith calls a good one. The shoul- 
<lera should he of medium size for common 
use; as then you have good speed and dura¬ 
bility. 
“The limbs should be clean, free from 
splents, wind-galls, spavins and tumors of all 
kinds. Should look as if made for the body. 
In movement, the fore legs and shoulders 
should seem to have but one action. If you 
want a good horse, look well to this. 
“ The body should be well formed, back 
straight, and the hips lower than the withers. 
See that the breathing is natural, and that 
there is no uncommon motion under the 
short ribs. A broken winded horse, unless 
resined, nearly always shows this. A horse 
with a large, fleshy head, and thick neck, 
also one with fleshy legs, should be rejected. 
A lame horse, that ‘ has been lame but a day 
or two,’ from running in tlie pasture, or from 
the prick of a nail, should be looked well to. 
Better wait till lie gets well before you buy. 
“There are many other minor points that 
of course should lie looked up, such as age, 
natural Constitution, disposition, habits, in¬ 
terfering, etc. I have only intended to point 
out some of the qualities of a good horse, 
that an inexperienced buyer would bo likely 
to overlook. As a last word I would say,— 
If you buy of a jockey, expect to be cheated.” 
-»♦» 
WISDOM FOR HORSEMEN. 
Lampas iu Cotta. 
I have used t he following for twentyyears 
with such entire success, I wish you to’pub¬ 
lish it. for the benefit of others:—Take one- 
half bushel of good oats, dry them thorough¬ 
ly by the fire, and give one or two quarts at 
a time, and they will prick the gums, which 
will recede and effect a permanent cure in all 
eases, a hundreds of horsemen can testify.— 
J. C Folsom, Federal Point, Fla. 
To Make a Mare Own her Colt. 
Take some milk from the mare and mbit 
on tlie colt’s nose; then let the mare smell it, 
and she will own her colt at once. I knew 
this to lie tried several years ago, and it act¬ 
ed like a charm. My father had a mare that 
would not own her colt, and on consulting 
an old German neighbor, he told him of this 
remedy, aud il brought the answer at once. 
Tt might not be as successful in all cases, but 
it is certainly worthy of a trial.—J. L 
Qutkrkville , Chester Vo., Pa. 
CARE OF CHILDREN. 
A “ Young Mother” wishes information 
from those who have been successful in keep¬ 
ing their children well. In reply I will give 
a little of iny experience, and it may, per¬ 
haps, be of benefit to some of your readers. 
One year ago we moved from New York 
City into thu country, principally on account 
of the health of our little boy, then twenty 
months old. He had just escaped death the 
preceding summer by hurrying him out of 
the city for a few weeks, and we feared to 
have him remain there another season, as he 
was very puny and delicate. 
After getting settled in our country home, 
I gave him free access to the yard, where he 
played, day after day, and week after week, 
to his heart’s content. He ate with the rest 
of the family, three meals a day, and no 
oftener; his food principally consisting of 
bread and milk, fruit, berries and vegetables, 
with but very little greasy #>od, and no meat. 
As cold weather approached, I did not 
shut him up in the house, but put on his 
sacque, mittens, etc., and let him run out, a 
little while at n time, every day when it was 
not stormy. The fresh air, exercise, healthy 
food and frequent bathing, have done won¬ 
ders for him, fur he lias not been sick a day 
| since we came here, and there is now not a 
healthier looking child in the country. 
Bricksburg, N. J. Ml<8. E. A. B. 
-♦♦♦- 
MILK AND BEEF. 
“ Star" asks in tlie Rural New-Yorker 
of April 9:—“ If bad food may produce bad 
milk, may it not as readily produce un¬ 
healthy beef?” I answer, No. Reference 
to my article of March 5th will show that 1 
said that:—“The influence of any hurtful 
food on the animal is naturally thrown 
into the iqilk ns the readiest method of self- 
preservation.” Of course, when it is thrown 
off in the milk, or in any other way, it does 
not remain in the flesh. But that had food 
may produce unhealthy beef is unquestion¬ 
able. In the case of the “ milk sickness,” 
the beef and milk are both so much affected 
ns to cause the death of those whoeat them. 
Doubtless, “Star” himself would allow Ibis 
to be quite a sufficient argument against 
their use. I think further, that flesh dis¬ 
eased from any cause is unlit to he eaten. I 
am ready to Justify its legal seizure and de¬ 
struction, so that we may be saved from the 
bad effects of eating it. I do not know bow 
far eggs can be affected by the same cause. 
I have never seen milk “ used exclusive¬ 
ly” by adults. My arguments, and the scien¬ 
tific statements of its hurtful tendencies are 
all based on its results when “ moderately 
used with other food.” 
The natural method of taking milk is by 
suction. If the common method of taking it 
by udults prevents its proper iunaliration and 
digestion, that is one reason why it should 
not bo used by them. The case of t he “ per¬ 
sonal acquaintance " adduced, I had already 
provided for in my article. We cannot base 
rules for general use upon cases of individual 
dyspeptics. 
In conclusion, allow me to say that the 
“broadly” and the “scientifically” are ex¬ 
actly the Styles at which I aim; and I may, 
perhaps, remind “ Star” that questions and 
retorts are not arguments. When he shows 
up the “serious blunders” Into which J have 
fallen, it will be time enough for me to re¬ 
consider my statements. Verity. 
-♦♦♦- 
PICKING THE EARS. 
Dr. Hall says “ picking tlie ears ” is a 
most mischievous practice ; in attempting to 
do this with hard substances, an unlucky 
motion lias many a time pierced the drum ; 
nothing Sharper or harder than the end of 
the little linger, with tlie nail pared, ought 
ever to be Introduced into the ear, unless by 
a physician. Persons are often seen en¬ 
deavoring to remove tlie “ wax ” of the ear 
with tlie head of a pin ; this ought never to 
be done; first, because it not only endangers 
the rupture of the ear by being pushed too 
far in, but if not. ho far, it may grate against 
the drum, excite Inflammation and an ulcer 
which will finally eat all the parts away, 
especially of a scrofulous constitution; 
second, hard substances have, often slipped 
in aud caused the necessity of painful opera¬ 
tions to fish or cut out; third, the wax is 
manufactured by nature to guard the en¬ 
trance from dust, insects and unmodified cold 
air, and when it lias subserved its purpose it 
becomes dry, scaly, light, and ill this condi¬ 
tion is easily pushed outside by new forma¬ 
tions of wax within. Occasionally wax 
may harden and may interfere with the 
hearing; but when this is the case, it is the 
part of wisdom to consult a physician and 
let him decide wlmt is the remedy; if one 
cannot be had, the only safe plan is to let 
fall into tlie ear three or four drops of tepid 
water, night and morning ; the saliva is bet¬ 
ter still, Ibr it. is softer and more penetrating, 
but glycerine is far preferable to either; it is 
oue of tlie blandest fluids iu nature, and 
very rapidly penetrates the hardened wax, 
cools the parts and restores them to a healthy 
condition. If in a week there is not a de¬ 
cided improvement in the hearing, medical 
advice ought to be had at once, as next to 
the eye, the ear is the most delicate organ of 
the body. 
