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i mm .-m.tsz'-pm ;*r$c # . * VOLUME VI. i' .. . jg By M. M AC LEAA. , ? Tutus:?Published weekly at three dollmre jeer; with an addition, when not paid within throe month*, of twenty per cent per annum. Two new aubscrihers may take the piper at fire dollar* in advance: and ten at twenlv. Four subscriber?, not receiving their paper? in town, may pay a year's subscription with ten dollars, in advance. A year's subscription always due in advance. Vapor* not discontinued to solvent subscribers in arrears. Advertisements not exceeding lf? lines inserted et ene dollar the first time, and fifty cents each nbeeqnenl time. For insertions at interval* of two weeks 75 cents after the first. and a dollar, if the intervals are longer. Payment due in advance for advertisem mis. When the number of insertions is not marked on the copy, the advertisement will be inserted, and charged til ordered out. V The postage most be paid on letters to the editor on the business of the office. df Diseases of Shekp. L. Island Farm,, near Fort Penn. ) Delaware, Jan. 1840. J To he Editor of the American Farmer: 'Dear Sir.?in perusing your hints on j theeubject of diseases of Sheep in vour I valuable publication of the 23d ult., I find you refer to your friend Barney for information; if it is the case, which I fear it is, ray friend J. S. S's imported sheep have got the scab, and if I can do him any good 0 on the subject, I will freely and with much pleasure. I have imported a num. ber of sheep, and but very few have escaped bringing with them this much to be dreaded disease. I have thought there are but very few ships which traverse the seas but what are contaminated with matter to give this pest of diseases to the j poor sheep. To come to the point, the, most certain manner to prove when the sheep has got it, is to apply your finger to the diseased part?scratch the scab or acurfhard, and the sheep will turn his head, and similar to a dog dying in a rab id state, he will show a disposition to bite; frequently rubbing against the fence, or wherever he can, and lying down, turning his head to his shoulders and side, nabbing and pulling the wool, &c.?And now for the cure: without delay, every aheep which is, and those which are not diseased, must be anointed or salved, as the English Shepherd terms it,?for if hut one in a flock should be diseased, the whole of the flock, no matter how great number, it'left to mntrnfl with *"v -- 1.1b disease without applying the remedy, will all have it?but if timely attended to, you might confine it to one sheep, provided but one has heen diseased: dress him im- ' mediately with the ointment I shall pre- ' scribe, and if properly applied, not one 1 more of the flock will take the disease; hut 1 a proper time must be particularly attend- 1 ed to, or you kill instead of cure; the ! weather must be clear and the sheep kept ' dry undercover?an open shed will do: 1 not at the season when the ewe sheep lias ' got her lamb by her side suckliug I have done so myself, and killed the lamb. The method of using the ointment, is this: Beginningat the head of the sheep, and proceeding from between ears, along the * */v?kn j>nH nf (Kr? tnil* ;a UtttR IV """? ?>?v nwi 13 IV be divided in a furrow till the skin can be ! touched?and as the furrowis made, the I finger slightly dipped in the ointment is; to be drawn along the bottom of it, when | it will leave a blue stain on the skin and adjoining wool; fiom this furrow similar' ones must be drawn down the shoulders I and thighs to the legs, as far as they are woolly; and if the animal is much infected, two more should be drawn along each ' aide parallel to that on the hack, and one down each side between the fore and hind legs: in a few days the blotches dry up?the itching ceases, and the animal is completely cured. To prepare the ointment, take one pound oi'quicksilver?half a pound of venice turpentine?and four pounds of hogs lard; let them he rubbed in a mortar till the. quicksilver is thor- j oughly incorporated with the other ingre- | riients; for the proper mode of doing which, j it may be proper to take the advice, or J even the assistance of some apothecary ; or other person used to making such mix- ' tures. This quantity of ointment is sufficient for a large number of sheep. You can make as much as you think will do for the number of sheep you havetoanoint. I have tried tobacco water, ajid injured my sheep, for a number of years past I have not made use of any other medicine than the ointment above described, and always found it a certain cure.?I keep ; it generally in my house in a stone jar, seeluded from the air. One skilful hand would anoint the sheep?but I should recommend three, if they have not been accustomed to perform the operation: one to hold the sheep?one to ?pen and divide the wool while the other applies the ointment. I have found it to take aboufone pound to ten sheep; a smaller or larger quantity will not do any norm, a skiitui hand commenoes in the following manner to anoint his sheep: he makes a small leather bag of the upper of an old shoe? a very small one, and pins it to the sleeve of his coat?puts a small quantity of the ointment at a time in if?selects a clean spot in the sheep yard?sits down, and lays the sheep on his lap and commences salving. But when I commenced, I performed as above, with two to help me, with my sheep standing on his legs. After all I have said on this subject, your sheep may not have the scab. I s if iw I CHER A wish you may be so favoured. . The cause of your sheep losing their wool, &c. might arise from too kind treatment?-in giving too much corn?keeping them too warm ?in not using the vagctable articles freely?and, I might add, plentiful use of salt, 4.. VK.V,. While I have pen, ink and paper at hand, suffer me to give you my manner of keeping my sheep. At this time, in a perfect state of health, my sheep number about sixty: get one bushel of bran, with about two bushels of turnips and sugar beets, mixed, per day?given night and morning in troughs, with good hav in racks, twice a day under an open shed facing the south?a pump that feeds two troughs?one in the cattle yard, the other in the she?p Yard?the bran moistened a little with water, n?l.xed with the beets and turnips, cut fine by the use of Neveil's patent vegetable cutter, a very good article?the sheep yard kept well littered with straw or coarse hay. Owing to my land being principally marsh meadow, divided by ditches, the sheep remain in the yard altogether in the winter. Were I to let them run at large, I should lose numbers at this season by crossing on the rotten ice. Owing to my land being pregnated with salt, my sheep do not re. quire it,?but on upland farms, situated in the interior of the country, salt is certainly requisite; also, tar and salt, for the snuffles or foul noses. When I wish to make my sheep fat for market, I use corn in proportion to a pint or upwards to each sheep per day, in addition to the above mixture; I have always found it to be the very best feed to correct costive habits in both cattle and sheep, and particularly the latter. If it should lead to scour the aninvil u tiifli usimn I iino< it in II 5, lit tip n:its in the sheaf given will correct it. I must come to a close, having filled my sheet. I do hope and trust you will be able to save your valuable sheep. Yours truly, John Barney. X. B. I have thought a few words added to the above on the subject of the use of bran, wherever it can be obtained, would be a word in season for any one turning their attention to sheep. About the year 1812, 1 made a number of lambs fat, early in the spring, for the Philadelphia market, and they were pronounced by the butcher who bought them to be very fine, and wondered howl made them so. My]first object was to produce a flow of | milk in the ewe's hag; moistened bran with vegetable articles had the desired ef-' feet; and ever since, I always, whenever [ can obtain it, lay in a quantity in the fall to use through the winter with the aforesaid mixture; in addition I add cut hay of the best quality for my cattle. By the aid ofa patent straw cutter I use it freely?give it to feeding cattle, cows, vcarlings, calves and horses; they are nil fond of it, and I feel assured it is quite economical. I get one hundred bushels of bran at a time from Brandy wine Mills ?twonty-two miles to haul it, at the cost of fifteen cents per double bushel;?one hundred bushels arc allowed to weigh one ton. I state this to show you the value i mit unon it in mv system of wintering "I 1 . stock. It is quite preferable in ray estimation to any other article. To give it to yearling sheep, tlicv will eat turnips freely with it. but without it, frequently rQfuse them. J. B. API'LKS FOOD FOR STOCK. From twenty-five years experience I am more and more convinced of the value of apples as food for hogs and other farm stock* When I began to feed my hogs on apples, in 1815, it was generally said that there was no nourishment in an apple; at length it was admitted that there might he some in a sweet apple. Now there are some that goto the opposite extreme, and attribute too much to them, and expect too much from them. The object of these remarks, is to set the business in its true light. There is scarcely any food, of which hogs are more fond, than apples; but it is obvious that they are not rich food, and it is vain to think of shutting up a land shark,'and in six or eight weeks making good pork of him; you must do as you would do in fatting an ox on grass; take longer time for it, than if you fat him on grain and provender. I have never failed of making my hogs very fat, and my pork of the first quality on apples. I wiil state how I manage. 1 lav up in the fall two or three hundred I bushels of apples. I store them in a room in my barn with eight or ten inches of chaft' over them. Thus secured, they freeze very little. I feed them to my hogs and inilch cows very freely; I give my hogs all they will eat, and keep them in good flesh till spring. Through the summer I feed them so as not to lose flesh. After harvest thev are turned into my wheat stubble, where they live very well for a few weeks till the apples hegin to fall; by this time I design to have them half fatted. From the first of September to December they run iq my orchard, or are full fed in the pen. I prefer their run. ning at large iq the orchard unless the apples are so abundant that they will waste and destroy them, for they will never go hungry; they will lie very quiet and never run so as to waste their flesh. I am aware that most of those who have written upon the subject, recommend picking up the apples and boiling them ; this costs too much jn labor and fuel, and I have doubts whether there is iquch ben d 4 ,W. SOUTU-CAKOLINA, ,ii ?? wmmm?mmamm? efit derived from it. The stomach of the hog was made to digest the raw material, and no doubt is adequate to that purpose. I see no more need of boiling the apples for the hog than the grass for the ox; I have in a few cases boiled-them, but found the animals preferred them uncooked, and I suppose they were the most suitable judges of what was best for them; at any rate, in the way I recommended, I reade very good pork, with very little trouble; and I am certain that to pick the fruit and boil it for 13 or 20 hogs, for three months, would he a verv serious deduction from 1 " the profits of the concern. [ Albany Cultivator. From the Farmers' Register. EXPERIMENTS OP BONE MANURE. Fairfax county, Va. December 10.'&^840. On reading the article headed 'Extraneous Manures,'page 589, October number of the Farmers' Register, I am reminded of my promise to give you the result, of ni}* experiment with bone-dust, or more properly speaking, crushed bones, as manure. My first application of bone manure was on turnips, in 1838; the result, SO far as relates the first crop and the expense is stated at page 152-3, vol. 7th of the Register- I have therefore to add only the results of two years' additional experience in the use and effect of bone manure in comparison with stable or other putre scent manures produced on a farm. In order to ascertain, with as much precision as I could, the requisite quantity of bone per acre, as well as to be precise in its application and comparison with other manures, I laid off an acre of ground which I designed for turnips, and divided it into eighty-one equal parts by cross furrows at the proper distance. Upon twothirds of the ground thus laid off, a good two-horse cart load of stable or farmyard manure was dropped in each square, which of course was manuring at the good rate of 81 loads per acre. To other parts of the ground, crushed bones, from the Roxbu. ? W _r rv luass. mills, weru uppnuu m me ruiu 01 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 81 bushels to the acre, pure as they came to me, without adulteration or admixture of any kind. On the residue of the acre, a compost, consisting of the summer scrapings of the cow yard, without straw or litter of any kind, with only 8 per cent. | of bone, was applied at the rate of 12 loads i of 25 bushels each, per acre. The ground had previously been well ploughed early in the spring, and a dressing of sixty bushels of good fresh lime had been applied on the furrow, immediately preceding the harrowing. The farm-yard manure was regularly distributed on the ground and lightly ploughed in as fast as spread; having previously, as well as every other part of the ground, received a good dressing of plaster of Paris. The bone manure and compost were harrowed in with a heavy two-horse harrow, and the ground so rested until the appearance of rain, the 8lh of August, when, immediately proceeding a shower, the seed were sown and icell harrowed in. The rain which fell was not a soaking one, but a transient summer shower, much of wh'ich ran off, especially from that portion of the ground to which the bone manure had been applied; ihe part manured from the farm-yard, presented a rather more uneven surface, '? p t-i? r - 1 one consequently more larormiie iur me reception and retention of rain, which fact was well establised by an examination of the ground the next morning, when I found that the moisture had penetrated at least two inches deeper in the one case than in the other, and which circumstance gave to that portion of the ground manured from the farm.yard a very decided advantage over the bone manure for the first two weeks, or until ample rain supplied sufficient moisture. The ground upon which this experiment was made is high and dry, and was, at tho time, exceedingly poor stiff clay land, upon which I had in vain, two years in succession, tried to produce black-eyed peas. The growth of turnips on such parts of the ground as had received not less than sixty bushels of crushed bone, was quite equal in the end to the best growth when the farm manure was used at the rate of 81 cart loads to the acre; whilst the growth on all smaller allowances of bone, was inferior, and most so where the least quantity was used. But on that portion of the ground which was dressed with the bone compost, as above stated, throughout was decidedly superior to any other part, at maturity, was at least one third more than was produced on an equal quantity of the ground manured from the the stables. The succeeding year, 1839, the entire acre was planted with sugar beets, and every part treated precisely dike, viz: the seed drilled and covered by hand with a light compost from baskets; - * r> 1-1 _ me crop, owing 10 an uniavorauie scawu and neglect of tirhj receding, was nothing extraordinary, though decidedly best where the bone manure had been applied. The beet crop was followed, this year, (1840) by Italian spring wheat. The growth of straw was most splendid, but like our wilder sown wheat and rye, this season, was almost ruined by the rust; but in this, the third crop in two years from one manuring, the superiority of the bone manure was more apparent than ever, and as before, on that portion of the ground to which the compost was applied was groat mvmmwimm WEDNESDAY, JAMIt ly superior to ever)* other part, and even I on those parts of tho ground where the smaller portions of bone had been applied, I the straw was as heavy as it was on the ground which had received manure from the farm at the rate of 81 loads per acre. The wheat stubble was not grazed af^er harvest, aud although the season was very dry, the volunteer rcd-c!over and crabgrass} following a sjrring crop, was so rank as to make it exceedingly difficult to turn it under, with a first rate two-horse plough, with the usual appendage of a heavy chain! Thus affording incontcstible proof of the, as yet undiminished effect of the bone manure under most severe cropping. Of the compost a.bove described, I applied, at the rate of a hundred bushels per acre, to a poor piece of newly mowed meadow, (in 1833;) the succeeding crop was more than doubled by the application; the crop of the present year (1840) still better than the last, uand from the aftergrowth this year, I fiave little doubt of * further and progressive improvement for several years to come; as the coarser particles of the bone are not yet entirely decomposed. A piece of wheat on which a like proportion of the bone compost was applied, and harrowed in with the seed, was Teatly benefitted by this application; and the clover which followed the wheat was 100 per cent, better than on either side of the bone compost belt, which ran through the field, although the other parts of the field were similarly treated, excepting only the addition, of not more than at the rate ^ a < I It / I _ ' A. _ it | ot 24 Dusneis or Done manure 10 me acre. | The conclusions, then, to which my mind i is brought by the forogoing experiments arc. First, That when applied at the rate of from 50 to 80 bushels per acre, on the exhausted lands of Virginia, one bushel of crushed bone, is more than equal to one ; cart.load of 25 bushels of good farm-yard j manure, in its effect upon the first crop. Secondly,that the effect of bone mauure is ' more durable than that of any putrescent manure usually produced on a farm.? Third, That when applied to land which ' is in good hearty the effect i9 much more 1 powerful than it is on very poor land.? j Fourth, That when combined with ma1 nure and applied in the form of compost, | the effect, both instant and remote, far exceeds any other application of the com! ponents when separated with which I am acquainted or ever witnessed. And lastly, if stable manure has to be -purchased or even hauled more than half a mile from your otm stables, bone manure at fifty cents per bushel, the price it cost me delivered on the farm, is the cheapest manure of the two. Yours. Tiiomas Ap C. Jones. From the Yankee Farmer. hoots. Ma. Editor.?There is perhaps not a particle of soil, wet or dry, cold or warm, which does not have a peculiar adaptation to some species of useful vegetable. Rice and hemp choose the swamp, the watermelon rejoices in the sand drifts that in some parts destroy all other hopes of the farmer. To one who shall steam himself across our country from Boston to St. Louis, it would seem that the plough and the hoe would soon utterly forsake the rocky, springy, cold soil of New England for the open, warm and fertile plains of the West. But let us dismiss the locomotive and study the soil of New England. We may possibly discover in it something which will give it higher claims upon the farmer than the prairies of Illinois, something which is destined to make it like a garden, from the peat-bog to the hill top. This something I believe to be its peculiar adaptation to the growth of roots.?Whether the manufacture of Sugar from the beet shall ever become profitable with us or not, there can be no failure in the application of the sugar beet to the raising of stock. The system is perfect in all its parts. Our cold soil will raise the largest roots in the world, provided it be well manured from the barn-yard. The cat' tie that eat the beets will furnish the ma. nurc, and may be aided by our peat-hogs which need only ditching to make capital meadows. Let inegive my own experience on this subject. In 1839 I settled nrvvn a ninro r?f (rrnunrl. fhp tillprl n:irf nf - i?? a ? ? i -which had been exhausted for want oi manure, beyond the power to produce weeds; It is of the coldest sort. Having come upon it too late to cultivate it thoroughly, I ploughed it up and threw in corn i and potatoes, which of course failed to bring a crop. I then procured a dozen or twenty horse loads of mud from the ditches of a peat-meadow and mixed it from time to time with the litter from a horse, two cows, and a pig. As early in the spring as the land could be moved without sticking altogether to the ploughshare, I ploughed it with a horse, going twice in a furrow. Drills were made, about two feet apart, as deep as could l>e done with the plough. In these the compost waa laid and then cohered with a ridg^. When the beets first appeared they prow, ed fechlc, as there was not sufficient warmth in the soil whioh composed the ridge, But as soon as the roois reached the compost, they took a wonderful start , and in a few days were large enough to be of use in feeding a cow. Tho weeds were prevented from appearing al all by canstunt use of the plough and hoe, and The Rata Baga, in common with most other root crops, succeeds best on a deep as well as a rich soil; and a frequent cause of the partial failure of many cultivators, is the want of sufficient depth and richness. This difficulty may, in a great degree, be obviated by ridging. This throws a large portion- of the fertile surface together, and gives quantity and depth to each ridge. Ridging also proves beneficial where soils are liable to prove too wet. As a large portion of the soil of our country is a clayey loam, we would recommend those who possess such soil, except it he deep and rich, and in a dry situation, to prepare their ground for ruta baga as follows:?Plough ridges by throwing two furrows together, about two feet and a half apart, fill the intermediate furrows with manure, then split the ridges with the plough, throwing the earth upon and forming new ridges over the manure. Pass a roller over the whole to flatten them, and then sow the seed in drills along the tops of these flattened ridges. This treatment, with subsequent culture, can hardly fail to ensure a good crop. Nim Gen. Far. Devon Cattle. Does or docs not the impression exist, that Devon cattle do not lay an fat eatilyl VVe enquired the other day of Doctor T., near Baltimore, a gentleman of the highest respectability. He had procured some Devon s from the late lamented H. Thompson, and his observation was that his objection to the Devons laid in their too great a propensity to take on fat. We - " * L!_L know ot a herd ot anout a uozcn which we have lately seen in a pen of near forty head together.?The Devons are all of the same beautiful color, sleek as race horses and looking decidedly better than the country cattle, which went through the winter with the Devons?in the same yard and with the same treatment, subsisting exclusively on corn tops or wheat straw. Of all laboring animals the Devon Or, appears to be the most docile and ready to comprehend and obey his driver ?however often the driver may be changed, and whether he be an inconsiderate negro, or an uncouth and impetuous Irishman. Wc believe an impression exists, to a certain extent, that Devons are hard to I ' 9 keep, and we mention the above fact to the contrary. In a word, without being over size for the pasture and keep to be generally met with in a slave holding country, they are easier to keep than country cattle generally?give richer milk, and make the best oxen. Amer. Far. AX KSSAY ON GRASSES. Lucerne?Me die a go saliva., is a deeprooting perennial plant, sending up numerous small and tall clover-like shoots, with blue or violet spikes of flowers. It is a native of the south of Europe, is extcn. sivelv cultivated in 3pain, Italy, France, Persia, and Lima, in the two latter, being cut all the year round, and is particularly cultivated in Great Britain and the United Slates. With us it is found to be as 1 j hardy as red clover. It was extensively cultivated by the Romans, and commended by Calumeila, as the choicest of all i fodder. Three quarters of an acre of it, he thinks abundantly sufficient to feed * I I ? J.oi'no iho wIidIa Vftar. llircu IIUI3C9 UUIIJig ? %? " ..w.~ J The soil for Lucerne must be dry, friable, inclining to sand, and with a subsoil not inferior to the surface. Unless the subsoil be good, deep and dry, it is in vain toattempt to cultivate lucerne. A friable deep sandy loam is excellent for it. No land is too rich for it. I The preparation of the. soil consists in | docp ploughing and minute pulverization. ! Loudon recommends trenching for it. j But a good preparation is a potato crop, , heavily dressed with long manure, the ground ploughed very deep, and the ma tiff# U ' + m ,W 1 I (Y m, 1641 r ?' " ? the beets at they grew *ere decimated or thinned, time after time, till at last they ! stood twelve inches apart. For sevitsl weths they furnished nearly the whole forage of a cow and yearling heifer. ? had 68 rods of ground in beets, one half sugar beets, and the other IBangcl Wurtzel. The crop just gathered amounts to at least 250 bushels "or 6 1-2 tons. Scores of roots of either kind might be selected which would exceed ten pounds apiece, as we ascertained by the actual use of the scales. By the side of the beets, ground prepared" in the same manner was planted with potatoes, and gave a very fair, but cot extraordinary crop. One swallow does not make a summer, but it is clear to my mind that no man who can comraand half an acre of ground (not granite) in Massachusetts need to be without a good supply of milk through the winter. The sugar beet has an excellent effect both in the quantity and quality of the milk, and in this respect is far preferable to any of the other roots. Farmers who can figure will certainly figure great advantages out of the sugar beet, and among others that of raising for themselves smooth, p.til filliug cows, instead of milking, or rather stripping the raw-boned and droulhy animals which are sometimes raised on the starvation plan. E. WltlGHT, JB. Dorchester Nov. 11, 1840. Ridgixg for the Ri ta Baga. NUMBKR II. nure buried at the bottom of the furrow, and the crop kept perfectly free froiD weeds. the season most proper for sowing in the nortiiem and eastern states, is about the first to the fifteenth of May, when the ground has become sufficiently warmed to promote quick germination.* The manner of wring lucerne is either broadcast or in drill, and either with or with out an accompanying crop- Broadcast and t .... .f .ua is mnst ffPrlHP. *uij#uiiu wiwji ui miiiT-i i yc, 10 afly preferred in the United States; though drills, by enabling the cultivator to keep out grasses and weed^ promises the greatest p<*r. manem-y to the crop. A gent eman who has sown in drills, three feet apart, and cultivated alternate rows of mangel wurtzel with the lucerr.c, speaks in high commendation of the practice. Arthur You.vo rec?in.uen<ls drilling at nine inches. The quantity of Seed, when the broadcast method is adopted, is froin fifteen to twenty pounds in the United States, sixteen pounds is the usual quantity, and when drilled* eight to twelve pounds suffice. The ground should i be peifectly pulverised; the seed put io with a tine harrow, and the operation of sowing finished wi'h the ro' er. The af'er culture of lucerne, sown broadcast, consists in hirrowing, in the spring, to destroy grass and weeds; rolling, alter harrowing, to smooth the soil for the scythe and such occasional top dressing of gypsum ashes, or rotted manur *, as the plan's may require, or the con< veniences of the best farm afford. The harrow, ing may commence the second year, and the weeds collected should always be carefully removed. I n suc< eeding years, two harrowing? may be applied, one in spring and the other in the latter part of summer. If in drills, the crop must be kept clean with the hoe. drillharrow, &c. Liquid manure from the rattle yard, is an exec I erst manure for'h this crop. The taking of lucerne by mowing for soiling, or hay, or by tethering, hurdling or pasturing, may bo considered the same as clover. Lucerne frequently attains a sufficient growth for the scythe from the 10th to the 20th of May ; and in soils that urn favorable lor its cnhtire, it will be in a state of readiness for cutting in the course of a month or five weeks longer, being capable of undergoing the same operation, at nearly similar inltrvals of time, during the whole summer season. In the Uni ed Stales, in a good soil it m iy be cut for soi'ing four, and some imes live limes in the season. The application of lucerne, is with us general ly for the purpose o soiling, with the exception sometimes of the last cutting. It is advanta* f?/l in i?q (Troon ulsitP til linraM. C.altlc. 8c"u?"7 , and hogs ; but as a dry ladder, it is also rap*, ble of affording much assistance, and as an early food for ewes ai d lambs, may be of great value in particular cases. All agree in extolling it as food for cows, whether in a green or dried state ; and it is said to be much superior to clover, both in increasing the inillt and bitter, and in improving its flavor. In it# green state care-is necessary not to feed inucts at a t;m??_ esDcciallv when moist, as cattle miy become hoven or blown with it It is a good precaution lo cut it the day before it in uaed, and to let it wilt in the swathe. When made into hay, lucerne should never bespread from the swailie, but managed as directed for clover. It may be housed before it is perfee:ly dry, if it is alternated on the mow, with layers of straw, which imbibe the superabundant jut. ices and thereby becom?s grateful and nutiiciuu8 to the farm slock, when fed with the lucerne. Soiling m a term applied to the practice <?C cutting herbage crops green, tor feeding or ftttening live stock. On all farms, under correct management, a pari of this crop is cut green lor the working horses, often milch cows, even when at pasture, and, in some instances, both for growing and fattening cattle. On ama I farms this crop is of immense advantage as affording a ready, substitute for pasture. The produce of lucerne, cut three times in a season, has been slated from three to five, and even eight tons per acre. In I he first volume of the Memoirs of the Society for the promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures, in New York, is the detail of various experiments made by Chancellor Livingston, with lucerne; and one of the results gives twenty-five tonsofhay, at five cuttings in a season, from an acre. In soiling, one acre is sufficient for six cows during the soiling season. One of our farmers has kept eight cattle, two oxen and six cows, upon an acre of lucerne, during the season, with a range of three or four acres of pasture. Say, however, that the produce is equal to a full crop of red clover, in value, then, if continued yearly for nine or ten years, (its ordinary duration in a productive state) at an annual expense of harrowing and rolling, ami ' * " 1 Ml a terrennial expense of :op dressing, 11 win be of sufficient value to induce farmers who have suitable soils and climates, to lay down a few acres of Ibis crop, near their homesteads. To save seed, the lucerne may be treat, ed precisely as red clover, i. e., obtained from the second cutting, or even the third, the crop being left to ripen its seed. It is easily threshed, the grains being contain, ed in small pod?, which readily seperate under the flail, threshing machine or clover mill.?BueVs Cultivator, vol. 3d * In the Carolines September is the best season?Early Spring may answer.?Fae. Gaz. Productive Oats.?This day our at. tcntion is called by a gentleman who visited Pembroke yesterday, to some heads of oats produced from the field of Mr., Tilton, near his tavern on the main street of that town. They are of a kind, several bushels of which were brought from Vermont during the last winter, and sold for one dollar a bushel, called the Scotch oats, Mr. Tilton sowed two bushels of them upon an acre of ground along-side of the common oats. Our informant judg- * ed that the crop of the Scotch oat# would