INDIANA   FARMER.
I>evnto<l to Agriculture} Horticulture, mechanics and the  Useful Arts.
D. P. Holloway, W. T. Dennis,
It. T.Reel.—Editors.
RICHMOND, SEPT.  1, 1854.
(Holloway <Sc Co., Publishers.
\    Vol. 3 No. 23.
Table of Contents.
Pages 334, 335—tetter from R. T. Brown.
-'     3.,!*—Seed Wheat and preparation for Sowing.
" 357—Agriculture of Belgium Cocus Pyrus Mains, Wonders of Chemistry.
"     33S—A Splendid Barn, Protecting Clover Hay Stacks.
1 339—Ornamental Poultry, Hard Work vs. Science, To
Kill Plies.
"    3G0—A word about writing for the Indiana Farmer.
"     3G1—Advantages of Drill Culture, Sheep in Corn fields.
"     302—Flax cultivation in the West.
*' 363—liaising Pork, Management of the Raspberry. Kicking Horses, Summer Snowballs, Destroying Mildew.
" 364—Is the first Milk Peisonoust After Culture of Transplanted Trees.
"     303—Loss of Vitality in Grain.
"     3lW,3as—The Wife ofthe Model Farmer.
"     307— Tho Wheat Crop, Seeding Pastures, Wheat-Weevil.
"     353—Flax Culture, Agricultural Fairs.
United States Agricultural Society.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of
the United States Agricultural Society, held in
the City of Washington, in February last, it was
resolved that the Society would hold no Exhibition in any State having a State Agricultural Society, without the assent of the officers, or of tho
Executive Committee of such society.
The citizens of Springfield, Ohio, having requested this Society to hold an Exhibition of Cattle at that place, and generously subscribed
about tea thousand dollars to defray all the expenses of the same, and to guarantee the Society
against loss; and the Executive Committee of the
Ohio Agricultural Society uniting in the request
the Executive Committee of this Society have
concluded to hold a National Show of Cattle,
open to general competition, without sectional
limit, on the 25th, 26th and 27th days of October next, at Springfield, in the State of Ohio.
The friends of Agriculture in all the States of
the American Union, and in the neighboring
provinces of Canada, are invited to co-operate
with us, so that this Exhibition may be the more
extensively useful, and be alike creditable to the
gei.erous citizens of Springfield, with whom it
orifinated—to the contributors and visitors who
suslain it, and to the United States Agricultural
Society who are so deeply interested in its success.
In conseqtieneo of the holding of this Show of
Cattle, the contemplated exhibition of horses at
Springfield, Mass., and the Show of Sheep in
Vermont will be omitted.
The Journal of the Society, which the Executive Committee have concluded to issue once in
each year—four numbers in one—will appear in
January next, and will contain the Transactions
of the Society at its last annual meeting, the lectures and addresses delivered at that time, a full
and faithful account of the Springfield Show,
with other valuable papers by eminent members.
This volume will be forwarded to all members
who have pa'd their annual assessments for the
Tear 1854.
MARSHALL P. WILDER, President.
Wm. S. Kino, Secrelary.
Boston, August 1, 1854.
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For tho Indiana Farmer.
Recollections.
Recollect this season, so far, has been very favorable to mildew or fungus, that so often destroys our grapes and gooseberries. Also remember that an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. Each and every Spring, very
early, give your gooseberry bushes a severe
heading out to aduiit a free circulation of air
through the bush in all directions—covering the
ground with charcoal immediately under the
bush. Spread your grape vines in all directions
on your trellis or arbor—do not permit them to
lay in piles. Some practice pulling off all the
leaves near the fruit, and then cuittng off the
vines to force tho sap into the bunches of grapes
to produce large fruit and prevent mildew; and
after all their trouble they complain that their
grapes are worthless. They might just as well
pull the lungs out of a calf, and then tell it to
bawl. And yet there are some people who exclaim against what they term book-farming.—
Vines treated in that way will never flourish, as
they are deprived ofthe proper means of storing
the parent vines with suitable food for the next
season; consequently, a premature decay of the
vines must follow. Flour of sulphur dusted over
the fruit in due time, and in sufficient quantities,
will nearly always prevent mildew when the
above precautions are first used. M,
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For the Indiana Farmer.
Time to Prepare for Sprint?.
Do not let the fall pass without having something dono to facilitate the spring work. Farmers should recollect that the fall and the latter
part of the summer season is an excellent time
for destroying weeds, briars and other fence corner shrubbery—rectifying old and resetting new-
strings of fence, setting gate posts, and hanging
gates and many other things that the time would
fail us to mention. All the necessary work that
might he done in the fall, that is too often left as
being spring work, only tends to hinder the farmer from his crop that must be tended to in time,
or ho is going back. K.
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For tho Indiana Fanner.
Inventor's Convention.
Messrs. Editors: Please suggest to the Inventors of Indiana the propriety of holding a
Convention at Indianapolis sometimo this fall,
say the 15th of 11th month (November) next.
Let every one have a model of his invention
present, and let us take a peep at the ingenuity of
Hoosierdom, and get acquainted with each other,
WThat say the inventors of Indiana to such a
movement? Let us hear from you through the
Press. DANIEL HILL,
Inventor and patentee of the combined Harrow, Roller and Grain and Grass Seed Planter,
near Harrisville, Indiana,