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run ahatoil IMPROVE THE DRWBAIER- . ' Those who hare wells to dig should do it now so as to reach the lowest stage of water, And make sore of enough. Oftentimes the neglect of digging a Toot or two further, when sinking a well, causes dis appointment, and the necessity of performing much more labor hereafter, Thoso who have lands that need draining, will find this a favorable time to do it, whether it be bog or upland. .'.'In underdrawing uplands we hiie re cently seen & rale given which we do not fully agree to. A writer on this subject advises to dig holes in ' ' -IS" thoso fields which may be thought to require drain ing, two or three feet decn, and if water stands in them the field should bo 'underdraided. They most certainly should bcT But:it does not follow if the ..water should not stand hi them now that they do not need undcrftrauiing. 1 AVc know of fields that may bo as 'dry as a -bone now, that are In the spring of . I " "'I. . ' ' . " , I ' .1,1 " t 1 me year so saturated wiui waier maiiacycannoiue cultivateld as they should be, and thus remain until it is too late to sow or plant. Such fields should be underdrained insider that they may be dry enough to cultivate in due season. Being drained then will not make them any drier now. . Tho30 who have a chance to -dig muck and peat, should improve it how, by all means. If you can not dig and. haul into your yards now, digit and lay it In such a lacc and manner that you can do it in the winter. ' This can be done. The muck or peat may be frozen as hard "as wood, but it may Jae cut up in junks wo onccVkriew a man to saw it up with his crosscut saw. and load the frozen Mocks into his sle l and haul them home with good pro tit. Swamps, when you "have bushes to cuf. may jiow be cleared. Ry fhrowinc: the bushel intolieaps of winrows. they will "soon be dry enough to burn off. Bushes that arc quite, green, may be burnt ly mak ing a hot fire of dry stuff first, and putting on the green one'3 slowly and with a pole crowding them down into th.Q Ore ManyotepcTmaneMt improve ments may now bo made by. taking advantage of the dry weather. Jfdi'is fanner.; -depth of three Inches ; and, a care- Is taken not to afllict any field that cannot be irrigated, he may pos sibly, by, the conjunction of good luck with labori ous culture, obtain half a crop., ; It Is safe to guess ; that this cultivator, living the rear round on black bread moistened with weak "vinegar or rancid oil. ucwuiu uuuuio w live ucucr, cuerisncs supremo contempt for all such quackery as book-farming. The displays o( Plows in the Palace of 'Industry I may hare already alluded to, but I ari net yet doncVith it. It is therein perfectly demonstrable that the same expenditure of human effort and aui- mal muscle which is now employed to disturb tbo earth indifferently to en avtfrage depth of five Indi es, would suffice, if properly directed, to jmlverixo -' the same area to the depth of tea or twelve inches, incroasin tr our annual hArresta t hr at ' TpMt ixrr xr-. five per cent., and affording a safeguard against tho" cvilinfluenccs of both wet and dry seasons A few enlightened minds hero are contemplating tliis re- ; suit ; the great majority of . French fanners cithec nev?r think on - the subject, for else regard it much & one of our own inveterate: blockheads o'f that sort which not only knows nothing but glories in it expends hb substitute for -wit on any meeting of a FArmers club. Hornet Greeley, EUROPEAN PLOWS AND PLOUfilUNG. ' o,witli regard, to ploughing. It is not quite so: bAd here as4n Spain, wlujre a friend his season sAw peasHuU ploughing with an implement composed of two clumsy sticks of Vootl, One of which (the hori zontal) worked its way through the earth after tho' manner of a hog's suout, , while the other inserted In tfre former at a convenient angle, served h3a ha'rf--dle,.heiiig guided by tho ploughmau's left hand, wljile ho managed the team with hte right. With thh relic of the good olddaysthepcasaut may have anaoycl and irritalodi a rod of groundcr dayt&ibfc own hor?e TiBtBTT o? Food Neckssart. It is in vegetable as in animal life ; a mother crams her child exclu sively with arrow root it becomes fat, it is true ; but alas ! it is rickety, and gets its teeth very slow ly, 'and with 'difficulty. MammA is ignorant, or nev er thinks that Her offspring cannot make bone or what Is the same tiring, phosphate of lims, the prin cipal bulk of bont ouf of starch. It does its best, and were it not for a little milk and bread, perhaps now and then a little meal and sonp, it would havo no b6nes and teeth , at nil. Farmers kqep poultry . and" what is true of fowls is true of cabbage, a,turr " nip, or an car of whjit." If we mix flith the food of fovls a sufficient quantity of egg shells or chalk which tftey eat greedily, iliry will lay manymore eggs than before. X well bred fowl is disposed to by a vast number of eggs, but cannot do without the material. fur the shells, however nourishing In other rejpecUiifr food my be. A fowl, with tho be? t will m the world, no finding "any linic in tho soil jior fuoriar from the walls, nor calcarious mat ter in her food, is iucnpjteitatcd from laying any eggs at all. Let farmers lay such facts as these, which are matterir of , common observation to heart, and transfer the Analogy, as tlicy may do, to the hab its of ;lanls, which ar as truly alive, and answer as ckwly to every injudicious treatment, as their
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