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700 TIIE AJtATOE See that they aro well fed. Keep tho stalls clean. Blanket tho horses j and if you do the samo to the cows so much the better. . Make sure of as warm a place for them as possible.' - Give them straw beds- to sleep upon. Comfortable animals will thrive best, and give back the best returns. In the day time, when your children are at school, cut and haul home wood enough to keep a years stock of seasoned fuel beforehand. This is economy.; In short every farmer has enough to do in winter and that, well done, is often the most important and profitable labor of the whole year; Keep stirring and do good. Maine Farmer.- used in various ways for "culinary purposes, ana was also fed to animals with success. It wis tho opinion of Mr; Bartlett that the. seed would fur nish an abundance of food for man and beast," and 'the time would come when the stalk would bo raised to furnish sugar in the Northern States. ' C. H. CHINESE SUGAR CANE. We have the following from an esteemed corres pondent personally acquainted with the facts. It has before been intimated that this is the same with the Holcus hicolor or Chocolate broom. This is in proof that it was distributed under this name by the Patent Office. Somo varieties of the chocolate broom are very sweet, others less so. Wo are under many obligations for this interesting statement. Uomesica d Messrs. Editors : There are various attempts being made to introduce the culture of Chirlesc Sugar Cane into tho Northern States with what success remains to be seen- A plant resembling tho description of this in the papers at the present day, was grown in East Windsor, Hartford Co., Conn., nearly forty years since, under the following circumstances. Mr. Samuel Barlett, Senior, a resident of East Windsor, then about seventy five years, old, was furnished by Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, late Commisiouer of tho Patent Office, then a resident of Hartford, Ct., with a small quan tity of seed that came from tho Chinese Empire, requesting him to experiment with it as to its adap tation to tho climate, &c, as he was a man rather inclined to such things. The seed was planted, making about ten or twelve hillsj the seed matured was saved for anoth er year's growth. Tho name as furnished to him with tho seed was Holcus hicolor. The second year he planted about one eighth of an acre ; the stalks grew about twelve feet in height, tassal re sembling broom corn, but shorter, and standing erect, even in a storm ; the seed jet black, smooth like a flax seed, and about the size. The seed ripeued well. Tfcc stalks were ground in a com mon cider mill, tho juico submitted to some kind cf process,; and found , to contain sugar in large quantities. The seed was grouud and bolted, and WHY ARE GARDENS MORE PRODUCTIVE . THAN FIELDS? Because in many instances, ' the gardener has unwitlingly subsoiled his garden with the spado. There are frequently good crops of vegetables mado in our dry and burning summers. What think you kind reader, has produced these? Not manure alone, for unless , the manure was buried deep in the soil before thcseeds were plan ted, it had proved an injury. The gardener is anxious to get an early garden his manures are applied early, and as the patch is too small to plow it is turned under with the spade, Now had it been trenched two spades deep it would have produced better, and as tho truck is small, the hoe is substituted for the plow in tho after culture. And this simple and natural method of culture is the reason why the garden, in a dry season, is more productive than the field. When a more general system of sub-soil plowing beforo the planting, and surface culture afterwards shall be adopted by our planters tho crops of the south will be doubled from the same land. Wo the past season planted some acres in corn j it is an un common productive variety. We subsoiled tho land thoroughly before planting the seed, and never put a plow into tho field after tho corn was six inches high, but stirred the soil frequently with a horse hoe, an instrument that answers all the pur. poses of the plow without cutting the roots of tho corn. The drought was very severe, so much so that one of my neighbors cut up his entire crop tor fodder. My corn has uo doubt suffered mate rially in the product. Yet I have measured two acres which has turned me out one hundred and eighty bushels shelled corn to tho two acres. Now 'although it i3 a most wonderful corn, yet had wo not subsoiled the land, and given i, only surfaco culture afterwards, wo should not have raised tho crop that we have. Will it pay to cultivate a field upon the same principles of the garden? If it is economy to cultivate a garden well, it surely-is economy to cultivate a field well, and this wo be lieve tho true reason why gardens are more pro ductive than fields. -Soil of (he South.
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