INDIANA FARMER.
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Devoted  to   Agriculture,   Horticulture.   Mechanics,   and   thc   Useful  ArtSi
EDITOR'S TABLE. J wherever he is, he'll be "wrung"  for his con-
Why don't~you write ? 'duct.    It was a bad "scald"  for him   when ho
Farmers, why do you not let us hear from left, and he was no doubt "poorly dressed."
you? Give us the results of your labor and j We hope our friends of the Press will "cut hi m
experiments. Let your fellow farmer* know wp," and give him no chance to "save his Ba-
and see what you are doing.    Put your shoul-  con."    Who'll "try" him !—[Eds. Farmer.    .
der to the wheel.    Your facts and belief upon -~~ ™        ,,       n
„.„ .   7        , .    ,      -iiir_„n-„.. S     Genessee    Parmer.—This    old    "Corner
crops, Ullage, stock and tools.    We oner you'
the medium of our columns most willingly for
you to talk to each other; and will at all times
give any information  which   we have, or can
Stone"  of  agricultural literature,   closes  its
present volume with the number before us.
For us to say anything in its  praise would
obtain from best authors, to help you along be akin t0 "***»*" coals to New Castle ; so
in the good work. Don't be afraid to put your we'U only sa^ lhat its conductors P™P°S9
pen to the paper because you are not the most much t0 enlarSe and iniProve il for the cominS
finished scholars ; we want facts-not Rhetor- volume- at its Present ver? low terms;
ic. Again we say, Farmers write for tour! We'll forward names and subscriptions for
own Paper. I anv 0I" our friends who wish to take it.
■'Transactions of the Michigan State Agri-) I v,\sh some of your readers would inform
cultural Society, with Reports ofthe Coun-ime through your valuable paper, the time to
ty Societies.' jsow Blue Grass Seed, and the amount to sow
We are indebted to Mr. J. C. Holmes, the j of seed stripped of. E. O.
Secretary of the Michigan State Agricultural j    Will some of our farmers  familiar with ths
cultivation of Blue Grass, oblige us by giving
the desired information to Mr. O. ?—Eds. Far.
Society, for a copy of the above transactions,
and return him our sincere thanks for the favor.
Many of the  Reports  and  Essays contain
matter of the greatest   importance   to the   far-
Potatoes   planted In the  Fall.—Somo
years ago, a farmer in this  neighborhood,   en-
mer, and the research and ability which they! trusted the digging of his potatoes to his ne-
display, indicate the right kind of spirit, and! glectful boys, who gathered about half the po.
plenty of it in Michigan. j tatoes from a few of the last   rows.    The field
RuRATN^Y^E^wTlTelndebted to in which the Potatoes had been Srown' was
our Post Master, (notice that Mr. Moore,) for next year kf5Dt for wheat' and from that caus9
a copy of this popular agricultural Journal, was not Ploughed early in the spring. At an
Edited by Mr. D.D. T.Moore, and three able early day the Potatoes were noticed as sprout-
assistants. We look upon this as one of the inS'and in 1uite lar8e 1uantities- They were
very best weekly farm Journals ofthe day> permitted to grow, and were cultivated with
and will take pleasure in receiving and for- the hoe- 0ur informant says the crop was the
warding subscriptions for it. largest and best,   in quantity and quality that
It is published at Rochester, N. Y.,  weekly,  ne nas Bver raised> before or since.    They came
in large quarto form, with fine illustrations, at  t0 maturity very early,   were  very  large  and
two dollars per annum.    One dollar   for  six | sound.
months. !     A correspondent of the Maine Farmer, gives
-,^-p:, P       r~rr: ~— • > the result of three similar accidents, with equal
f^X^ftu.X;iril,r resul,s-Permit rt0 Test the,ei •
"Post" says he is a Hog.—Rural New Yorker   Periment-    plow deeP> Plant in a futrow' whole
Our legal  officers will soon   make a tiuck\*0\*T'   cover Slightly>ith   strawy manure.
Piggof him ; or at any rate make him   squeal, and thm^Z^l^l^^^
some.    We hope Mrs. Pigg won't grunt about       Kicking.—If the milker will keep his nails
it, but console herself with the  reflection that   short, not one cow in a hundred -will kick.