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THE CULTIVATOR. 
August, 
Culture cf Buckwheat. 
It is best to be sown by the 10th July—three pecks 
to the acre, on land well mellowed up—sandy soil suits 
best. It is a bad crop to continue to sow on the same 
land, without applying any manure. A dressing of 
plaster and ashes suits best. It is a good crop to 
ameliorate newly drained land. Such ground can be 
got in better order for this crop than any other, and 
the yield is great. Sow grass seed with the buck¬ 
wheat if wanted for pasture ; or, as good a way is to 
sow oats in the spring, and seed. down. Never leave 
the ground bare, as it impoverishes the soil. Never 
plant corn after buckwheat, if you expect a crop, and 
I prefer not to plant it at all ; on good land, rye or 
wheat will do well, as it leaves the land very light and 
mellow, and clean, with the exception of lots of buck¬ 
wheat that will come up. By sowing three crops in 
succession of buckwheat, you will run out every par¬ 
ticle of vegetation, and leave the land sour. Would it 
not be a good crop for Canada thistle ground 7 G. 
Galls on Horses. 
“ What is the best cure for sores on horses made by 
the chafing of the harness 7 R. M. C.” In the first 
place, see that the ha/fiess does not injure the animal 
—be careful to keep good, elastic, well stuffed collars 
—if hard, pound and oil them; if the animal is unu¬ 
sually liable to injury, procure camel’s hair pads. Be 
careful never to put the horse te any unusually severe 
labor. Constant and light service will gradually harden 
the shoulders. Washing with cold water at the close 
of working will be both useful and refreshing. So 
much for prevention. When the skin is much worn or 
broken, let the animal rest, or pad the collar so as not 
to touch the sore; the harness may be often drawn so 
as to lighten the pressure on those parts. A powerful 
local astringent will often be useful for an actual sore; 
white lead is common, but sulphate of zinc or white 
vitriol is better in every respect, an occasional applica¬ 
tion of which in addition to washing with cold water 
will generally effect a speedy cure. 
W. P. — 
Crowbar—No. 2. 
Messrs Editors —Owing to the late snows, follow¬ 
ed by the unusual drenching rains, I have not applied 
the use of the crowbar as much as usual this season ; 
but now planting is done,. I intend to improve the few 
days between planting and hoeing by diging stone and 
placing them into permanent wall; and I would through 
your columns; invite my brother farmers, who are oc¬ 
cupying rough stony farms, to do likewise. I conceive 
that every rod of stone wall thus built, adds to the 
value of the farm in at least two ways, first, by estab¬ 
lishing a permanent fence ; and second, by the removal 
of stone from the ground, thereby fitting it for the 
plow. Last year we built some 70 rods wall, with four 
feet bottom, 4| high and 2 feet on top. We do not 
expect to do as much this. I know this does not tell 
like going to California to heap up gold, but it is a 
satisfaction to me to know that my labor has not been 
spent in vain, but will tell when this generation have 
passed away. As the ocean is made up of single drops 
and little atoms form mountains, so will these little 
industrial performances subdue and thus renovate 
rough, barren and unsightly farms. Let us keep do¬ 
ing. A. Yeomans. Columbia , Ct. 
Ventilating Haystacks, 
The Rural New-Yorker gives the following as a 
common mode of effecting the ventilation of haystacks 
in England and to prevent their heating by fermenta¬ 
tion : A large sized English grain-sack, such as will 
hold some 5 bushels of grain, being 2 feet in diame¬ 
ter and 4£ long, is filled with chaff or cut straw, and 
placed upright in the center of the stack, which is 
built round it. As the stack rises, the sack is drawn 
upwards, thus leaving a hole or chimney in the mid¬ 
dle, for the passage of the heated air. An empty 
salt-barrel, with an iron rod across the tob for a han¬ 
dle, would be likely to suit a Yankee better, and would 
draw upwards easily if the hay was not built much 
above the middle or swollen part. This would doubt¬ 
less be a good contrivance for corn-fodder stacks, which 
so often suffer for a want of ventilation. 
Breeding from Broken-Down and Diseased Mares. 
This not uncommon practice is one great cause why 
there are so many horses of unsound constitutions, so 
ready to break down or take on disease from over¬ 
working or other errors in management. True, a horse 
of the soundest and strongest constitution will break 
down under bad treatment—such treatment as it pains 
us to witness not unfrequently but the produce of an 
old diseased mare will break down under' bad treat¬ 
ment much more readily than that of perfectly sound 
and healthy parentage. Eor example, it is well as¬ 
certained that broken wind can be propagated, when 
either sire or dam is affected with that disease ; and 
that, when inherited in either case, there is a very 
high probability that when any produce of such dis¬ 
eased animals is put to work, it will soon become 
thick in the wind, and become broken-winJed at an 
early age. It is poor policy, therefore, to breed from 
an old broken down or broken-windedmare. Better to 
shoot the old creature, and breed from a young and 
perfectly sound mother The colts will be worth 
enough more to cover abundantly the difference in the 
Whey for Pigs. 
A neighbor, extensively engaged in the manu¬ 
facture of cheese, uses the whey of his dairy, with an 
admixture of meal from corn, oats, and any grain that 
he has to spare, as feed for his pigs, and thinks that 
they thrive upon it very much indeed. The meal is 
sometimes stirred into the whey in the raw state ; at 
other times it is boiled in the whey, making a thin pud¬ 
ding : and at other times still, the whey is heated and 
poured upon the meal, and then stirred. A little salt 
is used in the latter modes of preparing this food, about 
as much as would make a pudding palatable to human 
beings. Do not many waste their whey 7 Might not 
those who make cheese on a large scale, make the rais¬ 
ing and fatting of pigs an appropriate accompaniment 
to their dairy business 7 
