[ A NEW DISEASE IN CLOVER IN FRANCE. 
A Paris correspondent of the California 
Farmer says:— Nearly all our cultivated 
plants seem doomed to pass through a 
series of maladies. In their void state they 
are not so affected, at le ist we do not per¬ 
ceive such. Is it that culture, greater well¬ 
being in the conditions of their life, leaves 
them more exposed to enemies, that the 
more we care for them the less they appear 
to depend on their own natural powers of 
resistance ? The latest plant attacked with 
disease is clover; it sickens where it was 
proves the mechanical condition of the land 
for corn. The other is that the process of 
fermentation warms the soil, stimulates ger¬ 
mination and the growth of the coni plant 
by the heat thus evolved, and none of the 
fertilizing properties of the manure are 
wasted. 
But it is proper to add that coarse manure 
may be applied profitably to com, on the 
Rame kind of soil in an entirely different way. 
After the last cultivation of the com, haul 
out such manure and spread it on the surface 
between the rows. If the season happens to 
be dry and hot the effect upon the growth is 
wonderful. But the mechanical effect, imr.n 
MINNESOTA SWEET CORN 
HORSEBACK RIDING, 
We regard it peculiarly unfortunate that 
there is so little horseback riding in the 
Northern — especially the North-eastern_ 
States and so few good riding horses. It is 
unfortunate, in our judgment, for the fol¬ 
lowing reasons : 
1. It is a most healthful and invigorating 
exercise for man or woman. 
2. It is a graceful accomplishment to be 
able to ride well. 
3. It is an easier and more economical 
mode of movement—easier for the horse 
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involving less costly equipments than where 
I a harness and carriage must be provided, 
leas loss of time in harnessing and unhar¬ 
nessing and caring for both harness and car¬ 
riage, and is less dangerous to the rider, 
when the risk of breaking harness and bug¬ 
gy are taken into account. 
4. 11 is more convenient for the rider, be¬ 
cause lie can go with his horse where he 
cannot drive with his carriage. He can 
open gates, let down bars, or scale fences 
and com fields, and thus save time and dis¬ 
tance, which it is impossible to savo with a 
carriage attached. 
Every farmer ought to have one good rid¬ 
ing horse—that is, every farmer who keeps 
three horses or more. Even if lie keens but, 
A WET FORTY ACRES 
i have 80 acres of land in Southern Wis¬ 
consin, 4<J of which are high and nearly level, 
lhe lower 40 slope gradually to a large 
marsh. In the spring and during the year, 
when more rain falls than the ground can 
absorb, the surplus water from above runs 
flown, cutting deep channels in the lower 40 
llie main stream begins at, the head of the 
40 runs about % of the distance in a deep 
cut, then a short distance on the surface and 
t hen m « deep cut down to the marsh. Now 
the object of my writing is to know if the 
surplus wafer can be brought down below 
uie surface to a good advantage, and If so 
what material to use. All information will 
be thankfully received, as I have repeatedly 
plowed them m to no purpose but to loos.-., 
aim use ir wneuever it can be used as a sub- 
ovideda man lias stltute than to wear and tear a harness and 
it, to secure the carriage over the miserable roods which are 
ueh falls on the too generally found. A good riding horse 
drains ; for the generally be purchased for tlm price of 
elements which a 6°od harness and carriage. The cost of 
ring its passage keeping is scarcely greater if the utility and 
»t if the water improvement in value of a well-cared-for 
evaporate. Be- horse is taken into account. We should like 
»est of it, is not to see horseback riding, for both men and 
we should think women, become fashionable. We would far 
use is tile. We rather see a young farmer well mounted on 
can be obtained a good, strong saddle horse than see him 
io be manufac- 'iding in a sulky behind his fancy trotter 
i can probably Simulating the air and r 
[•est of all mate- jockey. 
d. Drains may 
acres, convorg- 
points, as may I horseback riding will give 
r a-nd women. 
RESULTS OF LIME ON LAND. 
After having used many thousands of 
bushels of air-slaked lime and with over 30 
years observation, 1 shall state a few practi¬ 
cal results and the conclusions arrived at. 
When at home, while a boy, I often helped 
haul out and apply lime as we were directed 
on plowed ground. During those years 1 
often wondered why a certain knoll, on one 
of the home fields, invaluably produced better 
than elsewhere ; aud during this time, when 
plowing that part of the old field, we would 
plow up coarse lime and many partly slaked 
stones. Asking my father what was the 
cause of this, he told me that, when hip father 
had built the house (a large stone building 
that a great quantity of lime and the refuse 
of what was used, was hauled out on that old 
knoll, now some 60 years ago, as it was then 
badly washed and unpi oductive, aud barren ; 
and that in time, it began producing again. 
He supposed the lime had helped it and was 
then applying it as above stated. 
My farm, when I went, on to it, 
do not know how near you it < 
nor at what price. It used t 
tured at Joliet, HI., but you 
find it nearer. It is the cheaj 
rial for underdrains in the e?u 
be laid through your upper 40 
ing at one or two or three 
seem best, and emptying into inains of four 
to six-inch tile laid through the lower 40 * 
acres. Tt, is useless to attempt specific direc- more graceful pli 3 r siqu 
tions unless one is ou the ground and knows save a vast amount of time and 
the amount of outlay that can be afforded. horseback riding 
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APPLYING LIME TO SOILS. - 
n , „ . „ CONTAt 
Mi. O. J. Hollister in Rural New- 
Y orker of Oet. 10th, wants to know the Regardis 
mode to apply lime to the soil. 1 have some Mr, Perciv. 
experience in the application of lime on laud, Hons us the 
and my practice is to apply it in the fall, say own experie 
from middle of September to middle of 1. That fa 
October on sod land, mowed or pastured the tutothesam 
pi evious summer, afc the rate of fifty bushels the medium 
to the acre, and then plow the sod the follow- to be the me 
ing spring and plant with corn. This is the communicat 
way practiced almost without exception in 2. That in 
this part of tlve country. Some is also applied retain the 
on land for fall sowing of winter crops, but years, and a] 
There is great opportunity for im- 
pi ovement of manners and general appear¬ 
ance to result from the physical exercise 
„ * our young men 
It would destroy much of the 
ffeminacy which exists, beget a nobler and 
6 and carriage, and 
money, if 
were more generally sub- 
carriage rid ing among our people. 
my iarm, wneu i went- on to it, was in a 
badly run-down condition and from the past 
experience and observations, I burned and 
hauled out thereon from 50 bushels to 500 
bushels of Lime per acre, applying it va riably 
on the surface, at any season we could ; for 
I had for years a large force of men helping 
burn aud haul out, always spreading as we 
hauled and always commencing to haul as 
soon as burned continuing until finished. 
Then we set to work on another kiln. 
As to crops, the former occupant said they 
because he could get 1 Li j more hat for the 
same money. But I did not do so bad from 
this acre of mixed seed as 1 might. My 
books show green corn for market from this 
acre, six hundred and sixty-five dozen be¬ 
fore it got too hard for use, 
A few days since we finished husking the 
i emnants on that acre, and have eighty-six 
(86) bushels of ears, plump measure. After 
my Minnesota arrived, I planted it on land 
considered poor, but manured in the hill, 
consequently the ears were very small but of 
excellent quality and well eared, and the 
sweetest eern on the place. 
One of i.iy neighbors (a market gardener) 
planted on.- peek of early Minnesota on good 
soil this season and had a splendid crop. He 
plauted rows about four feet apart, giving 
plenty of room, and it eared exceedingly 
well and of good »ize fur early corn, the most 
of the stalks having on two or more ears. 
I think that if Mr. Nash, or any other man 
will procure genuine early Minnesota seed, 
plant it on good ground and give it proper 
care and culture, he will not fail of having a 
satisfactory crop. j. c. Lyon. 
Chemung Co., N. Y., Nov. 2. 
Minnesota Sweet Com. —Noticing a para¬ 
graph in your last issue asking how Minne¬ 
sota sweet corn turned out, I write to let you 
know of my success. I bought and planted 
a peck of shelled corn which occupied about 
an acre and a quarter. From that piece I 
took a short time ago one hundred and one 
bushels and it -half of good ears. Many of 
the stalks had two ears and some three. I 
call that a very good yield for that kind of t 
com ; the ears are usually small and it takes I ! 
a great many to make a bushel. But mine i 
consisted of pennyroyal. 1. Character of the 
soil, the higher land limestone ; 8. sandstone 
clay aud gravel ; 3. limestone ; 4. gravel and 
sandstone ; 5. sand and gravel. This takes 
us through the various layers from the hill¬ 
tops down the sides. It slopes every way as 
far as cleared, hence we will not trace it on 
to the base or hollows, 
We tried to grow 
some grain, but we never used the lime on 
the plowed ground as many do ; nor did we 
plow it under as some have done ; neither 
have I ever seen a farm improved where 
they followed those methods. Results grain 
and grass now grow luxuriantly, and where 
the most lime has been used the crops grow 
to a wonderful extent. These are plain, 
practical results and not the theory of one 
who never tried it. 
Pennsylvania, Oct., 1874, 
John S. Goe, 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
Sprains in the Stifle—Symptoms The 
horse holds up his foot, moans when moved, 
and swells in stifle. This what is called 
stifling. There is no such thing as this joint 
getting out of place. It gets sprained the 
same as any other joint, and the patella 
may slip from its place, which acts as a stay 
to the joint. The tendons and ligaments 
become contracted, and lameness follows. 
To relieve it, foment the joint well, stimu¬ 
late it with some strong liniment or a slight 
blister. 
Liquid Blister. —Take one pint alcohol, 
half pint turpentine, four ounces ammonia, 
four ounces oil origanum, one ounce naphtha. 
Apply this with a sponge every three hours 
until you feel the skin thicken. 
manure im- 
