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A a o a C3 0 p 3 © • O a O' }* 01 m r-H CO 6 r—1 1 $8 00 5 50 7 50 • 15 00 25 00 2 6 00 11 00 15 00 25 00 45 00 3 9 00 16 50 22 50 40 00 70 00 6 15 00 25 00 40 00 75 00 135 00 12 25 00 50 00 75 00 140 00 260 00 <3i;0. P. ROWELL & CO., 40 Park Row , New York, AND s . B. PETTENCILL & CO., *7 Park Row, New York, Agricultu Are the sole agents for tlio Southern u»t, in that city, and are authorised to contract lor inserting advertisements for ub at our lowest cash rates. Advertisers in that city are reques t'd to leave their favors with either of the above houses. * Guano for Cotton. Our Agents arc authorized to sell our Guanos, payable in money or cot¬ ton at option of planter, on the basis of fifteen cents for Middling, de¬ livered at Planter’s nearest depot by 1st of November. This is a great inducement for planters to use Guanos, as they are guaranteed a good price for suffi¬ cient Cotton to pay for the Guano. Give in your orders at once. Wilcox, Gibbs & Co. APRIL, Putting in Wheat. A crop of wheat is often half as large as it should be, from the faulty preparation of the ground. Manure and lime arc supplied as abundantly as may be, but the land is supplied in such a manner that the surface water is always about the roots of' the wheat, and the frost heaves out the plants. It is too com¬ monly the case that fields are plowed from the outside to the center, leaving, as the consequence of.a few years’, plowing, a high bank around.,the fence,, and a hollflw in the center of. the field, with four diagonal hollowa meeting there. . This gives no chance for the water to get away ; it lies and saturates the surface. Now let the field be plowed in lands, say fourteen spaces or twenty-two feet wide ; there wUl.be a dead furrow, causing drainage at least six inches deep at each of these spaces, which will biing the surface-water at least below the level, of the wheat. Be¬ sides, there will be a number of water¬ courses, which will carry off the sur¬ plus water, and by means of a con¬ necting furrow it may be generally conducted away from the field al¬ together. However much it may be advantageous to underdrain land, in many cases, from want of the teccs sary capital, it cannot be undertaken, Then the best possible . substitute must be found. Surface drainiug by. means of ridges and open furrows is the best substitute, and if this style of plowing is , properly performed, where the subsoil is not remarkably retentive, the ground may be kept dry enough to prevent throwing out during wiuter. Above all things, the fashion of plowing around fields should be abandoned when wheat .is to be sown. It . may uuswer fur Spriug crops, but a better and neater plan of plowing, and one leaving the ground iu a better condition, could be easily substituted. Generally, it may be concluded that the ridge and furrow system of plowing is in all cases better on undrained land than the flat system. Where the hind is underdrained, a swivel plow makes handsome work, and entirely avoids the bad effects of plowing Agri. arouud the field .—American Experience with Orchard Grass. In the various articles that have ap¬ peared in the Rural New Yorker on the subject of orchard grass, I have not noticed any allusion to the time or best manner of sowing, or-tbe quanti¬ ty per aero necessary for a good seed¬ ing. I have made considerable inquiry, but found no person that eonld give mo any information. ■ * I had a piece of four aores, new land, adjoiuing a marsh medtdow, elewated enough above the marsh to lose the muck, and to consist of a sandy, gravelly loam. I planted in the Spring to corn, and decided to seed down among the corn to orohard grass and red-top'grass for pasture. I obtained two and a quarter bushels—one-half of each—and sowed after my last cultivating, the l*2th of July. The season has been so dry it has not done very well. On the lower por¬ tions of the ground it has shown some growth, and appears about thiek enough. Whether it is the best to sow in Fall or Spring, and whether the quantity is sufficient, I would like to learn.-— M. Parke, Kalamazoo, Mich. Last April we published a state¬ ment made by A. W. Chcever, Shel donvillc, Mass., who says orchard grass should bo sown thick ; he does not think two bushels per acre too much. Ob neb, moist land, it is as sure, he says, to yield three crops in a year as red top is to givo one ; and yet it stood the hot dry weather of 1870 bettor than any other grass with which he is acquainted. He docs not state at what season of the year he sows it. We happen to know that it succeeds, whether sown in the Spring or Fall. It we could choose, however, we should prefer to prepare the soil well and sow iu Au¬ tumn. It is the time nature sows grass seed, and it is as good a time as there is. It should be sown, whether in. Spring of Fall, on gronnd in fine tilth and covered very highly. For meadows, not less than two bushels should be sown ; for the pasture it should be mixed with other grasses— timothy, Ted-top, etc .—Rural New Yorker. 3 Vo. T Milk Cou s ae Long as PossiMe. A-1 have in several instances injured cows by trying to dry them two or three munths before calving.— Bunches have come in their bags*, and the milk became curdy and thick, apparently the same as in cases of garget. To save cows from being spoiled, I milk them twice a day clean and dry as long as the milk comes into their bags, even to the time of their calving. As to Mr. Kimball’s neighbor’s cow being spoiled by milking too long, I think it was because she was not milked enough. From my ob¬ servation, 1 think many good cowsand heifers are injured and sometimes spoiled by not milking them before they calve. I have one cjw in my barn, fifteen years old this Sprfng, that [ have owned eleven years. She has given milk the most ot tho time since l have had her. Sho has never been sick a dav, nor gurgety except once when I tried to dry her two months before her calving ; nor does she have small calves. I have a four year old cow, one of her calves, that girths over six feet, and a steer calf brought up on one half of her milk, that will be one year old on the 28th of this mouth, and kept since he was weaned same as I keep tho rest of my slock, that measures almost five feet. Now, iu conclusion, my advice to everybody that keeps cows, would be to take good care of them, Summer and Winter, with plenty of good nourishing food, well sheltered from the storms and cold, and be sure they are milked regularly and dry, as long as they have milk in their bags, whether it is up to the time of their calving or not— Ohio Farmer. - To 1 Pull S/umps .—Cut the largest TOots of the stump after dig¬ ging round it, lay one end of a log thir¬ ty five feet long and nine indies thick against the stump, fasten it there with a chain, attach a yoke of oxen to the other end and pull away. Tut* stump being the fnlcrom, is bound to come. Draw round iu a circle and twist it out. c #