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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
165 
ISe Sure asail Read the number of Hearth 
and Home for April 20. The information about medicines, 
humbugs, etc., is alone worth ten times the cost of the 
paper. It contains 1G extra columns on the libel suit, 
which will be found very instructive. Besides these it 
has a great variety of engravings and interesting reading. 
You can get it of any newsdealer for 8 or 10 cents ; or for 
a dime, a copy will be mailed from this office, post-paid. 
Tlae “ HLag'Hitaainig - ” Saw. — “Jas. J. 
D.,” Sherbrooke, P. Q., Canada, asks if the saw described 
lately in the American Agriculturist is really what it is 
represented to be, or half as good. Our readers may de- 
pend’on this, that no amount of money would secure the 
admittance of a notice to our editorial columns of any¬ 
thing which wc were not satisfied is, so fat as we can 
judge, exactly what it is represented to be. In indorsing 
the 1 ‘ Boynton Saw,” we speak from actual experience of 
its merits, and believe its inventor will make good all lie 
says. In the hands of any person who knows how to 
properly use a saw, we think it will do all ho claims for it. 
Caslture o£ BSessMss.—“ Vermonter” wants 
to grow beans, and asks what manure shall he put on, 
how shall he put in and how harvest the crop. A light 
dressing of barn-yard manure and twenty bushels of 
leached ashes per acre will benefit the crop. After plow¬ 
ing and harrowing mark out as for corn, two feet apart 
each way, and drop five beans in each hill. Keep clean 
with the hoe or cultivator. When the crop is ripe, it 
should be pulled, and stacked, if not quite dry, in tall, nar¬ 
row stacks, around a stake driven in the ground, until 
dry enough to thrash. Rain or damp will cause mildew,' 
and spoil the color and appearance of the beans and 
much reduce their marketable value. 
Averill Co. Paisat.—E. Evans, Somerset 
Co., N. J., asks what we know of the Averill Co. Paint. 
We know that it is put up in cans, all ready for use, and 
of any desired color; that it spreads easily, has good body, 
and a very beautiful appearance; that we have used it on 
inside and outside work, and found it so convenient and 
excellent, that we would not again go to the trouble of 
mixing up ordinary paints for any purpose, even at a 
much less price than the Averill paint can be procured for; 
and therefore we recommend those who are going to 
paint, to use it. 
Section Roller.—“ A Subscriber,” Denver 
City, Col., sends ns a cut of a roller, furnished with sev¬ 
eral flanges, which not only rolls the ground, but leaves a 
number of parallel channels, which serve to conduct 
water used in irrigation, over the laud, and asks onr 
opinion of it. As a simple and rapid means of doing 
this necessary work on the dry plains of Colorado, or 
anywhere where irrigation is practiced, it seems to be an 
implement that would save much hand-labor. 
Oi 5 ivcoal-B>oisst. — “A Subscriber,” Pine 
Bush, N. Y., asks if the charcoal-dust from old pit-bot¬ 
toms will help a poor soil, in which nothing grows but 
sorrel. Cliarcoal-dust has no fertilizing property. It is 
not uncommon to see old pit-bottoms, twenty years old, 
as bare as the day on which the pit was burned. It would 
therefore do little good to spread the stuff over a field ; 
it would be better to grow and plow under two crops of 
buckwheat. Lime would help this land, especially after 
the buckwheat was plowed in. 
I*aircltsisimsi Ussaprnvctl Stock.— “ J. 
B. It.,” Wayne Co., Ill., asks us if we would advise him 
to buy an inferior bull of thorough-bred stock at a low 
price, or if it would be cheaper in the end to procure a 
good one-at a higher price. It would be best to get the 
most perfect animal that can be procured, consistent 
with the depth of the purse. It is not safe to expect stock 
to improve by using inferior specimens. The experience 
of breeders is altogether the other way, and no really 
good breeder would permit an inferior animal to leave 
his yards alive, for the reason that his reputation would 
be certain to suffer by it, 
’B§rooaBi»Coi-5a..—“Farmer,” Somerset Co., 
N. J., wants to know all about growing broom-corn and 
the best kind to plant. Broom-com needs the same cul¬ 
tivation as Indian corn. It is dften grown in the same 
field with corn by farmers who make their own brooms, 
and cultivated with it.. Two quarts of seed arc required 
per acre. Plants should be thinned to five or six to a 
hill; rich soil is needed to get a good yield. When the 
seed is just past the milk, the tops should be broken 
down one foot below the brush, and allowed to hang until 
ripe. It is then cut, dried, and the seed stripped off with 
a hatchel. 500 or GOO pounds per acre is a fair crop, and 
it is worth just now $40 to $160 per ton, the difference 
being altogether due to skillful handling, or the contrary. 
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