INDIANA FARMER.
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""Devoted  to   Agriculture,   Horticulture!   Mechanics,   and   tlie   Useful  Arts'
Errors.—Several  errors appeared    in   the Good Corn Crop.
article on "Morgan Horses" in our last.    Wc]     If any man doabts for a moment the efllcien-
shall have occasion to speak on  this subject  cy and certainty of deep tillage, we would like
again, and will make the necessary correction,   to refer them to the result of a field on the farm
  of Daniel Bulla, a little north of this city.    The
Five Hundred Ahead.—We published in a   fiel(] al]uded ^ hag been cleared some thirty
late number an account of a great yield of yearg or mQre end ha8 been regularly tilled
wheat, being some 3,000 grains from a single ifl Jhe ordinary mannerduri„g this time. In the
kernel. Since then we have been handed by s ;ng of 185Q> Mr Bulla Ued a fair dress.
Mr. Othniel Beeson, of this county, a state- L, ofmanure> and plowed thc field for corn,
ment of a single grain of wheat, cultivated by } Nearl onQ half of the field was sub-soiledby
him, which is ahead of the Wayne county, New jhe use of & ghoyel p]o w The crQp wM a fair
York product. The grain of wheat was plant- one> and much the Us. whonJ u had been gub.
ed in September, 1850, in good soil and care- ^^ Lagt gpring {he grQund wM again pl(m.
fully tended until maturity.    The  root  produ- \ ed Qn ^ a o of something like   ten inches
ced eighty-one heads of wheat, which when L d h; The com was planted in drills four
shelled yielded four thousand one *»«*"«*«»* ifcet apart, and Mr. Bulla has just harvested
thirty grams. The bunch of wheat wheni^, hundred lusheh of superior corn from
growing was about two feet in diameter. nine and one.half acres.
Mr. Beeson showed us some very fine onions, j 	
which were  a part of four bushels taken from! Michigan Double Plow,
a bed 8 feet by 30. A brother of Mr. B's. j This somewhat novel plow which was exhib-
showed us some very large and excellent po- i ited at our late County Fair, seems to have
tatoes which were a part of 22 bushels which j surprised everybody who witnessed its trial
grew on less than 55 feet square. As an evi- j with the superiority of its work,
denceofwhat good tillage will produce, Mr. It consists of two plows placed one before
Beeson, this season raised fifty-eight bushels of! the other on the same beam. The forward one
corn, eighteen bushels of Irish potatoes, and \ takes a furrow from 3 to 6 inches deep, laying
six bushels of sweet potatoes on half an acre of! the surface of the furrow slice in the bottom of
ground. < the previous furrow, and the bind   one follows
 MoCormic^s Reaper!  from 4 t0 6 inches deePer>  and raises and de-
We give our readers,   with the present num- Posits its  slice   on t0P of tbat of the  forward
bcr, a cut  of   this   popular grain-cutting  ma- one-
chine, Itforms a most perfect seed-bed without any
There is very little  doubt but   machines of subsequent harrowing.    A single plowing with
this   kind  will come  into very   general   use\'lt disPoses of the vegetable  matter,  and mel-
among our larger farmers ;    and wc   are   well   lows the ground more effectually than is done
satisfied that their entire cost may be saved in  in summer-fallowing with the  common   plow,
the perfect manner in which  the grain  is cut  hy PlowinS the ground twice.
and saved, in a very short time.    By referring      Jt has received GoId Medals, Premiums and
to our advertising columns, it will be seen that DiPlomas* wh"ever it lias been  exhibited.—
Beard & Sinex, of this city,  are prepared  to  These Plows ™ay be   seen at Beard & Sinex's
supply these valuable machines to our farmers.  Plow shoP' in this city> where farmers wlshlnS
Any information in regard to these implements!thcm can be s"Ppl'ed-
maybe had by calling on these gentlemen. T .      7 '"    • ',""      . . ,
 ° "Leav«s absorb and  give  out moisture, and
8^* We are indebted to our friends at Wil- / inhale and exhale air; they are, consequently,
liamsburg, in this county, for a very handsome  the most important  organs of a plant, and if
acquisition to  our subscription list, for which j they are destroyed, or injured, the whole plant
they have our sincere thanks. suffers."