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the same year in the winter and spring months, were 
so badly eaten by worms as to be worthless for timber. 
Mxjlticole Rye. — Reuben Wheeler, of Ferris- 
burgh, states in the Vergennes Vermonter, that he ob¬ 
tained some multicole rye, which he sowed the first sea¬ 
son about the middle of May in drills j he mowed it 
twice that summer, and the next year it yielded a good 
crop. In September, the second year, he sowed a 
larger piece of ground with it—“-pastured it with sheep 
till winter; the next season measured what grew on 
ten rods of the piece, and found it at the rate of sixty ■ 
four bushels and one peck per acre. The land had no 
manure. He says he has found this kind of rye better 
for bread than common rye—being white and less rank. 
He states that he has counted from 70 to 120 straws 
from one grain, all producing large heads. 
A Female Farmer. —The second premium for the 
best cultivated farm in Litchfield co., Ct., was awarded 
the past season to Mrs. Vesta Hawkins, of Watertown. 
The farm contains 160 acres. It has been under Mrs. 
H,’s management for the last ten years. The com¬ 
mittee of examination say :—“ It is divided the present 
season into twenty-two acres of meadow, three and a 
half of corn, six of oats, one and a half of rye, two of 
buckwheat, a half acre of potatoes, seven acres of 
woodland, and the residue of pasture land. The pro¬ 
duce of the farm for the present season is estimated as 
follows: fifty tons of hay, two hundred bushels of corn, 
one hundred and thirty-three shocks of oats, and one 
hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes. The stock kept 
on it this season consists of twenty-six head, including 
six calves raised this season, two horses and fifty-six 
sheep. This farm is conveniently laid out into small 
fields, the fences mostly of rails, all in good repair, and 
together with the buildings, presents a neat and tidy 
appearance.” 
Timothy after Barley. —A correspondent of the 
Genesee Farmer sowed timothy seed with spring wheat 
and with barley—both alike, with the same quality of 
seed. A fine growth of timothy, unmixed with other 
grass, followed the barley; while after the wheat it 
was mixed with small clover and red-top. The crop 
of grass on the former was good—on the latter, poor— 
the treatment being precisely alike. Hence it is in¬ 
ferred that barley is less exhausting for timothy, and 
better adapted to precede it in a good rotation. 
Sale of Long-Wooled Sheep. —We understand 
that Mr. Clayton B. Reybold, sold at his farm, near 
Delaware City, Del., on the first of September last, a 
lot of his superior Long-Wooled rams, at the following 
prices:—No. 1, $61—Maj. Peter, Montgomery county. 
Md.; No. 2, $44—Mr. Carroll, Baltimore; No. 3, 
$40—Mr. Gray, Philadelphia; No. 4, $43, and No. 5, 
$100—Mr. Griscom, New-Jersey; No. 6, $10—Mr. 
Hickman, Pa.; No. 7, $43, and No. 8 , $41—Mr. 
Bolling, Va.; No. 9, $45—Mr. Brown, Md.; No. 
10, $41—Mr. Jessup, Baltimore; No. IT, $40—Mr. 
Peyton, Tenn.; and No. 12 , $40, Mr. Hall, Sussex; 
Del. Eight ewes sold as follows:—No. 1 , two ewes, $28 
per head—Mr. Holt, N. C.; No. 2, two ewes, $14 
per head—Maj. Peter, Md.; No. 3, two ewes, $13 
per head—Maj. Peter, Md.; No. 4, two ewes, $11 
per head—Mr. Jessup, Baltimore. 
A specimen of Industry. —A correspondent of the 
Albany Atlas, says he became acquainted twelve years 
ago with a man who owned and occupied a fifty acre 
farm, kept in the best state of cultivation by his own 
labor. When asked how he managed to do so much, 
without ever appearing in a hurry, and never behind 
hand in his work, he said, a I always rise at 4 o’clock 
in the morning, summer and winter, and frequently get 
half through a day’s work before my neighbors get 
fairly to work in the morning, and have plenty of time 
to read the Cultivator, and two or three newspapers/ 
He now owns another and large farm, occupies both, 
and superintends the manufacture of over half a million 
bushels of salt yearly, in doing which he travels six 
miles every morning, and frequently gets to his office 
before his deputies; and has apparently as much leisure 
to read and converse as when he cultivated the small 
farm. 
Chess and Wheat on the same head.—- Much was 
said and published this season, of a head of wheat, found 
in Ohio, which had “ seven perfect grains of chess 
growing out of it.” M. B, Bateham, of the Ohio Cul¬ 
tivator, after some exertion, procured the identical 
head, when, on very close inspection, the chess spike- 
let was found to have no connexion with the wheat 
head, but was merely hooked in by it§ thread-like 
stem, between the chaff and the stem of the wheat 
head—probably caught there accidentally in harvest¬ 
ing. Some of the papers, in their eagerness for facts 
in favor of transmutation, have published the account 
of the wonderful head, on friend Bateham’s authority, 
without any allusion to the denouement 1 
Subsoiling—Tall Corn.—M. B. Bateham, oi 
Columbus, Ohio, exhibited this autumn at the Colum¬ 
bus Horticultural fair, stalks of corn 14 feet high, grown 
on his own little farm—the soil clay, formerly a bri«k- 
yard, moderately manured, and subsoil plowed. 
Slow Plowing. —In Teschaids’ Travels in Peru, it 
is stated that such a thing as a “ regular plow” is not 
known in Chiloe. The plowing, such as it is, is done 
by Indians, who thrust sharp poles into the ground, and 
then by pressing upon them, as on levers, break up the 
surface. 
Western Commerce.— In the commerce of the 
Mississippi valley there are 1,200 steamboats; the 
annual expense of running them, 32 millions dollars; 
persons employed on them, 40,000. The annual com¬ 
merce of the Mississippi valley is estimated at 430 
millions of dollars. How .important is the dissemina¬ 
tion of agricultural knowledge, that the business, for 
which all this great machinery is but the servant, may 
be conducted to as much profit and advantage as pos¬ 
sible. 
Docking Lambs. —Never hold the lamb by the tail, 
as is often done, while the operation is performed. For 
the skin being drawn back, when it recovers its natu¬ 
ral place, leaves the bony stump bare. But push the 
skin towards the rump, and returning it will cover the 
wound. 
American Enterprize. —The first electric telegraph 
was, we believe, made in England; but only a few miles 
there are yet in operation; while nearly 2,000 miles are 
now in use in the United States. 
An Inquiry. —Which is the most important to the 
substantial welfare of our country, War, or Agricul¬ 
ture ? What are the annual appropriations by govern¬ 
ment to our military schools, to the army, and the navy? 
How many millions ? What also are the annual appro¬ 
priations by government to our agricultural schools and 
to agriculture ? What proportion does the one bear to 
the other ? 
Valuation of Land in Maryland. —From the 
report of the committee of Ways and Means to the 
Maryland Legislature, giving the average valuation of 
the land per acre in most of the counties,, it appears 
that the lowest is $4.88, and the highest $29.14—with 
various intermediate valuations. 
Maple Sugar in Vermont.— Mr. R. Richard¬ 
son, in his late address before the Washington County, 
(Vt.) Ag. Society, states that in 1840, the quantity of 
maple sugar made in Vermont, was 4.647,934 pounds, 
—equal to about 16 pounds to each man, woman, and 
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