INDIANA FARMER.
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EDITOR'S TABLE. I    £©=■ The regular  meeting  ofthe   Indiana
Premium Cork—Co"rr~ection.—An error oc-Stat0 Board of Agriculture will be held at In-
curred in thc award of the Committee on Grain, dianapolis, on Thursday, January 8th, 1852.
published in our last number. The entry of We hope to seo every County Society repre-
Mr. James Harris for one aero should havc sented at that meeting.; W. T. Dennis is tho
been for five acres, and by this means Mr. Har- delegate ^^^^Jl^^J^y^'e'r--
ris's name and field   was overlooked   in refer-1 Madison, Ind., Dec. 18th, 1851.
ence to tho premium for the  best field not less  Editors of Indiana Farmer :
than five acres. ' ( Enclosed you  will please find  one
The five acres measured by Mr. Harris, yield- dollar, for which I wish you to send me your
cd one hundred and nineteen bushels three valuable paper. I would also inquire in re-
pecks and two quarts per acre, not including gard to the value of 'Osage Orange for hedging
twenty-eight hills which the measured ground —the proper time for sowing, or planting it,
lacked of being five acres, which would have ami also the moJe of cultivating it. By an-
made one hundred and thirty bushels and up-> swering through tho columns of the Farmer.,
wards per acre. There was ten acres in the)you will oblige others, as well as your humble
field, and Mr. H. informs   us there was no per- servant. R. W. Smith.
ceptible difference in it.    The ground has been      In reply to Mr. Smith, we give the following
cleared   twenty-one   years,   has had eighteen from the Prairie Farmer.   In the mean time we
crops of grain on it,   and was ploughed about [would like to hear from our own farmers on the
the 10th'of April, ten inches deep—four inches I subject.—[Eds. Indiana Farmer,
deeper than ever ploughed before. j From the Prairie Farmer.
So much for deep ploughing. Experience with Hedges.
~ ~~~ | Messrs. Editors :
Thorough Bred Cattle.—In a private let- j A correspondent in a late number in
ter from John M. Sherwood, Esq., Ex-President!quires :
of the New York Agricultural Society, he in-j     First» whether   the  Osage Orange is not a
forms us that he  has four thorough-bred Dur- i ium u^",      ,   ,, -   -..    .,,    x     , .  ,    „
, „ ,   r ° ,  ,       X     Second, whether at will stand   our  winter?
ham Cows, and four superior thorough-bred! Third> whether it will answer for a Hedge-
Bull Calves, which he will sell. plant ?
Mr. Sherwood has imported some of the very      Now, I will give you a little of my cxperi-
best cattle in the United States, and is not sur- ence' l hav° S°* a >™le °f hedge in all; three
„„„„„,i   „„ „ „ r i i       i i 5 quarters of Osage, the rest divided equally be-
passed   as a successful breeder;   and wo arei. -ixru-.   t-u a   xj t .     tl
1 ' ; tween White 1 horn and Honey Locust.    The
confident that his herd offers an unusual op- Thorn I gathered on the bottoms, sowed in a
portunity for our Stock Breeders to select from, j bed ; at two years old set it in one line, trim-
We are expecting to visit Mr. Sherwood's farm j med to four inches, the next to ten, the third I
in the spring, to bring on the "Earl of Sea- ,et H Sr,ow to fve feet,but it ought to have been
i,.m „ 0„,i,-u-4 ii ,- cut to three ; but as it will stop anything that
nam,    and will take  pleasure in attending to t *    r        r .      i jr
' ' o lu Jyou want a=fence for, it is not only a good fence
any ordcis which may be entrusted to us for but it is an ornament to any place. Being of
Stock. j slow growth, Lsuppose it will last the longer.
—~ — „ j     Now for the Honey Locust.      I planted the
World's Fair in New York.—A petition j seed where I wanted the fence to stand. It
is about to be presented to tho Common Coun-j promised fine for three years, when the gophers
cil of New York for the use of Madison Square, j took took hold of it, and in spite of all my
for the erection of a Crystal Palace to accom- exertions they ruined it before.I could stop
modate the second Great World's Fair in 1852.; them. But I am sure it would make a good
Mr. Paxon has made the design, 500 feet by fence if the gophers could bo kept from it,
200, two stories; and the contractors agr&c to j without too much labor, as there has nothing
have the structure completed in three months, j else disturbed it, or either of the other species
Mr. Riddle, U. S. Commissioner to the World's! that I have planted.
Fair, has the pledge of some seven hnndred! My Osage Orange I sowed in a bed, in rows
contributors of articles. { about two feet apart,  quite thick.      I put the