INDIANA   FARMER.
Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanics and tbe  Useful Arts.
"■^"^l^duo*™'"']    RICHMOND, SEPT. 15, 1854.
!Holloway or Co., Publithsrs,
Vol. 3 No. 24*
•   Table of Contents.
Page 370—Letter from R. T. Brown, No. 6.
'•   371—A good Cow: Glanders: Lice in Cattle and Horses.
'* 372—Book Farming—Indian Con: Rules for putting fruit
in tin cans: A Curiosity.
•• 373—Cultivatiou of Rye: Remed y for Cut-Worm: Application of Manure: Corn Bread.
*• 374—Despair not: Treatment or Brood Mares: Singular ef*
fectof hog's hair: Patents.
"   375—Inventor of Railroads: Protect fruit trees:  To know
* the age of a horse:   Cattle Show at Springfield, O.
'• 376—Editorials: Selling Grain for Distillation—Ross- Improved Grain Drill—Write it—To stop blood.
*'   377—Notes from Kansas, No. 1: Manures.
*"   378—Cruelty to Animals: Peach AVorm: Strawberries.
'* 379—Orchard Manuring: Lawton Blackberry: Growing Cedars from cuttings. Saving flower seeds: Transplanting evergreens.
"   380—EfTects of Drought might have been prevented, &c.
" 381—-The Dead Alive: Trial of Reapers: Fine Stock: Remedy for Scaly Aphis: Paper: No. hogs in Kentucky.
"   382—Index for Vol III.   384—Stock Sale: State Fairs.
For tho Indiana Farmer.
'Fall Breaking.
Friend Editors:—As trie time is about at hand
when the farmers who break their corn ground
in the fall are beginning to plow, we propose giving our experience on the same, (by your permission,) through the Indiana Farmer.
The ground upon which we experimented
last year was stubble ground. The wheat that
had been sown on it the previous year, had been
sown amongst corn. We broke the ground deep
and well, about the time we could turn the most
rubbish under, thus we had secured from the
winter all the roughness that had grown the previous year, together with a pretty good coat of
old corn stalks. We believe from trial that the
loss of strength from the soil is less by managing it this way leaving the richest part on the top
to evaporate in the winter when it is not needed.
After we had broken the ground as above described, we were careful to keep every thing off
of the field until spring: thus avoiding the 'tramping system.' The rubbish turned under in this
way, kept the ground from baking in the winter, and left it in beautiful plight for working in
the spring.
When spring came we harrowed the field well
with a large two-horse harrow, and furrowed it
deep with a breaking plow, which killed all the
fine grass and weeds that other ways would have
been in the hills of corn. I mean, if the breaking had been done in the spring the grass would
not have started to grow so soon, and furrowing
the ground would not have killed the first crop,
of which the hill would undoubtedly have had
its share. After the corn was planted we put a
hand to harrowing the ground with a "big harrow," paying no attention to corn rows; this we
considered more fatal on young weeds and grass
and abetter time to break the fine clods and prepare the ground for plowing, than after the corn
was up.
After the corn germinated and began to ap-
■ pear it looked thrifty and was clean,  having a
fair start of the rubbish in  tillage, which we
found to curtail ourlaborin tending full one-third.
In thesamefieldandonequally as good ground
in order to experiment, we left off breaking until spring as usual with many farmers. We found
this portion of the field considerable harder to
till, and the corn never has looked as well with
equally as many times plowing and harrowing
and with more care and extra hoeing. The grub-
worms and other pests, have never ceased to
work on it, and in places have almost eaten it
out and left the ground barren, while to a row
we can discern the difference in the fall breaking.
We know not what else to attribute the difference
to, than tho different management.
These remarks are merely submitted as there-
suit of our experience. We would like if some
farmer would give us his. We find in a great
many places where corn ground was broken in
the spring, the corn has suffered much from the
roots being eat off by the grub-worm, which has
very much facilitated the bad effects of the
drought. If fall breaking will by exposing these
creatures to the fatal freezes of winter destroy
their innumerable habitations, it will certainly be
a great advantage in the yield of our corn crop.
It will also enable the farmer to get his corn m
the ground a little sooner if he wishes, and
greatly facilitate his spring labor.
Yours, truly, C.
»    m 9 .    i
Love of Flowers.—In all countries women
love flowers; in all countries they form nosegays
of them; but it is only in the bosom of plenty
that they conceive the idea of embellishing their
dwellings with them. The cultivation of flowers
among the peasantry indicates a revolution in all
their feelings. It is a delicate pleasure, which
makes its way through the coarse organs; it is a
creature whose eyes are opened; it is a sense of
the beautiful, and faculty of the soul which is
awaked; colors, forms, odors, are perceived for
the first time, and these charming objects have at
length spectators. Those who have traveled in
the country can testify that a rose tree under the
window, a honeysuckle around the door of a
cottage, is a good omen to a weary traveller.—
The hand that cultivates flowers is not closed
against the supplications of the poor, nor the
wants of the stranger. Flowers may be called
the alphabet of angels, wherewith they write on
hills and plains mysterious truths.—Canadian
Agriculturist.
A call has been issued by a committe of gentlemen at Springfield, for a "Grand National
Convention of Babies," to meet at that place, on
the Fair grounds of the Clark County Agricultural Society on the 5th of next month. The
Committee invite all the mothers of the country
to bring on their youngsters and enter them for
exhibition.