THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Neatness must be observed in every step of the 
process of preparing tobacco for market. 
Don't crumble up the leaves, but keep them al¬ 
ways straight. In stripping, don't throw them 
into a promiscuous heap, but lay them in a 
smooth, even pile by your seat. In every stage 
handle them with care and neatness. 
Buncombe co., N. e. s. <j. Sitklton. 
soil, well prepared and richly manured. The 
seeds can be sown in the spring, when all dan¬ 
ger of frost is over, cither in hills, at such dis¬ 
tances apart as will allow the use of the culti¬ 
vator, or in drills from 2J. to 31, feet apart, the 
distance varying with the fertility of the soil— 
the poorer the land the more space is required. 
11 sown in drills, the seed should be dropped 
about four inches apart, and as the plant suck¬ 
ers quito freely, when about a foot high, they 
may be thinned to a distance of It) to 12 inches. 
Careful weeding and cultivation with the liand- 
hoe, are necessary while the plants are young; 
later the cultivator may he used. 
lering much more, so that each plant appeared 
like a large corn-hill. By the first of Septem¬ 
ber they hud reached a bight of ton to twelve 
feel, while the. Pearl Millet was from six to 
eight,feet, and Rcuna Iuxiiriuns from four to 
five feet high. At that time I cut off a row of 
each of i he three kinds, about six inches from the 
The Doura made, until killed by frost, 
xuriaiit growth of three feet in 
ground, 
another thick lu 
bight. At various stages of its growth, as 
well as when dried, 1 fed the stalks to horses 
and cows. They ate them as readily as they 
would corn .stalks For feeding green, it seems 
to have the advantage over corn stalks that, on 
account of its not containing as much water, it 
may he fed out as soon as cut. 
*• Whether north of this latitude (Westches¬ 
ter Co., N. Y.) Doura will prove a more valu¬ 
able forage plant than Indian corn, l am, from 
(he experience of a single trial, not prepared 
to assert, but I have no doubt that, on account 
of its great yield and its habit of producing 
two and three crops in one season, it will soon 
become one of the most valuable forage plants 
for the Southern States.” F. M. Hexamer. 
DOURA 
lvated so long as to form races; and though 
specific names have been given to many of 
these, the points of difference are hardly prom¬ 
inent enough, as yet, to entirely justify a class¬ 
ification of them as distinct species. Much con¬ 
fusion is occasioned by the many names given 
in different localities to the same varieties. 
Several varieties of Sorghum vulgare arc cul¬ 
tivated in this country, each for a different 
purpose. Sorghum saccharatum, known as 
Chinese sugar cane, is grown fur the n#(lasses 
manufactured from its juice.; another, known 
PEARL” MILLET 
ECONOMIES OF CO-OPERATION IN 
FARMING. 
A number of young farmers, each having a 
little money, finding business dull and wages 
low last season, concluded to unite themselves 
and their capital and form a co-operative com¬ 
pany. and go to farming on tlicir own account. 
They procured a large farm at Gunston, Va., 
well situated for growing vegetables and small 
fruits for the Washington market, and com¬ 
menced operations by organizing (heiuselves 
into one large family. 
They find that this plan reduces (he cost of 
living nearly one-half, and that many other ad¬ 
vantages are gained. If the company were 
divided into single families, they would require 
ten dwellings ; now one large house takes the 
place of ten small ones. And this is true of 
AN EXPERIMENT WITH DOURA 
EARLY AMBER SUGAR-CANE 
A good deal of interest has lately been 
aroused in the Northwest with regard to the 
cultivation of this plant, from which great 
things arc expected. A jubilant correspond¬ 
ent out iu Minnesota writes to us : 
'•The cultivation of the Early Amber Cane 
is no longer an experiment here in Minnesota, 
hut is now most emphatically a success. 
Three dilfercut companies, one from Boston, 
one from New York, and one from Cincinnati, 
are talking of putting up sugar and syrup re¬ 
fineries in our State. Other States are, or 
should he, just as much interested in this en¬ 
terprise ib our own. J am ati old resident of 
New York and 1 think l can any with nafety 
that tlie soil there is as well adapted to (he 
cultivation of the Early Amber Cane us in Min¬ 
nesota. Any soil adapted to corn will raise 
good cane, and it will ripen earlier thun most 
kinds of corn, ll is more convenient to work 
it if planted in hills and row it each way. 
Seed should not be planted more than half an 
inch deep. There should he. six or eight canes 
in a hill. I| ought to ho suekered. but will do 
well otherwise. I would advise to plant two 
pounds of seed to the acre. The average crop 
in this locality is from 125 to 150 gallons per 
acre. Some have raised as high as 200 gallons 
per acre. The cost of cultivation is but little 
more than that of emu, and it is a far more 
profitable crop.” 
count start m the business with a prospect of 
success; hut the introduction of labor-saving 
machinery bus changed all that, and now a 
fortune must he invested to carry on farming 
successfully. This makes it necessary for 
young men to form co-operative associations, 
such as 1 have described, and avail themselves 
of their many advantages. At no distant day, 
such organizations will be found in all parts of 
the country, where industrious, moral and in¬ 
telligent young men and women may always 
secure a pleasant, permanent home and con¬ 
stant employment at such wages as will enable 
them to live comfortable aud secure a compe¬ 
tency for old age. Joel A. H. Ellis. 
Gunston, Va. 
t'Vo do not altogether agree with the above. 
—Eos.] 
PREPARING TOBACCO FOR MARKET 
^rborirultural 
PIN US P0NDER0SA PENDULA 
(See First Pnfro.) 
practically as ui*11 as ornamentally Pines 
perform good service, the large-sized as skirt¬ 
ing plantations and backgrounds, or as masses 
intended for wind-breaks; the small-sized, as 
beautiful specimens near the house. At pres¬ 
ent. however, wc wish to coniine ourselves to 
the consideration of a single variety, a variety 
that belongs among the large-sized Pines. 
Pin its pomlerysu is a liocky Mountain Pine, 
mm of the grand t rees of the Valleys of north¬ 
western America. It grows upwards of 100 feet 
high uml four or live feel iu diameter with 
JO or in fuel ol the stem free from branches. 
In general appearance il resembles somewhat 
Piims Bcuthamlana, a still larger Pine. Its 
leaves take, moreover, something of the strnmr 
1>BARL MILLET 
experiment. Under favorable circumstances— 
that is, in a rich soil and warm climate— it at¬ 
tains a bight of from 10 to 10 feet. The leaves 
arc about two inches broad and two to two and 
a half feet iu length, much resembling those of 
Indian corn. 
To thrive well, Doupa peed* a warm, fej’tije 
mass, I thinned it out to one foot apart in the 
rows. Several plants, when about one foot 
high, were transplanted, and seemed not to 
Suffer thereby, making as good a growth us 
the others. 
“ The stalks grew rapidly and luxuriantly, 
rosemhling Indian coni Ygfy pjoaely, hut tjl. 
