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Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture. ~*Ecclianics and the Useful Arts.
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RICHMOND, MARCH 1,185C.
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COMMUNICATIONS.
For tho Indiana Farmer.
Messes. Editors: As it is mining sol
cannot work out, I will try to interest the
farmers with a few lines touching on differ-
' ent subjects. . There are a great many of our
farmers, (or who pretend to be farmers,) that
think if it rains so they "can't work out of
doors, that their time will be all lost; but if
they will look at the other side of the picture, they will find they are mistaken. If
they would subscribe for somo Agricultural
paper, or get some interesting book, and
spend such days ih reading, I think* thoy
could improve their time fully as well as if
they were at work.
There are a great many of our farmers
that pay no more attontion to agricultural
books and papers, than if there were none in
circulation.
I have often.thought it would help the
looks of farms if fanners would pay .1 little
moro attention to keeping the ■ weeds trimmed from out the fenco corners, and every
place else they may be seen standing. A
few years cutting will thin them out so that
it will be but a small job to keep them down.
Those that pretend to bo farmers, general-
ty raise the worst boys there arc in the country, particularly at bne thing, and that is
stealing melons. They being too lazy to
raise them themselves, they depend on living
•upon what other people raise. If they had
spent as much work and time to prepare the
ground, and raise tho melons as I h.ave, and
then have as m.-uiy stole as they have stolen
from me, I reckon they would begin to think
W?  what they had been doing.   But so it goes—
•3*   one-half   of the   community   supports the
Vl   other.
$&      There is a great deal of confusion among
the farmers now, • in regard to tlie premiums
that are awarded at our Fairs. Some say
that the men get the premium in place of tho'
stock; no matter what kind of an animal they
take there, let it be good, bad or indifferent,
they get a premium. Some say they wont
havo any thing more to do with the Fairs,
but I say, don't stop yet, remember that if
"at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
. There are some boys in the Country, I ox-;
pect, who would laugh at me, if they knew I
was undertaking to write a piece for thc Farmer, but let them laugh if they can find
it out, if they want to. Some say they
wont write because they cant write perfect;
neither can I; but I contend that practice
enough will make perfect, so I have concluded that I couldn't learn younger. I will
take my way, and they may take theirs, and
we will see who comes out at the big end of
the horn.      -   " . C. B.   '■
For tho Indiana Farmer.
A Practical Farmer.
Though apparently not intended for publication, we give below an extract of a letter
from a correspondent in Hendricks co., thinking it may interest and instruct onr readers,
as it has done ti?. We hope he will furnish!
the result of his future experiments, expressly
for those for whom we labor: ?,
I have been accused by my neighbors of
having extravagant ideas, and wild notions
about many things. When I first settled here
I was thc laughing stock of my farming
neighbors, for putting in my corn with a cultivator or big harrow; but by persevering year
after year, they soon began to borrow my
cultivator to put in their corn, and now there
is scarcely a hill of corn covered with the
hoe. And again, when I first come here I
devoted a large portion of my time and
ground to tho cultivation of vegetables,* and
here, too, many said it was too small .1 business. But it suited my taste, and payed with-
all, find year after year saw! mo at the same
"small business," and year iti ter year I gathered in some of my neighbors' small change,
by furnishing them with vegetables, mostly
for seed, until the business is no longer a
small busines; and as an ■ illustration of my
notions I will just stato two of my extrava-: >j».
gancies last year; I took it into my . head' e,
to pl,ant one-forth of an acre of Onions, which Vtf
w,is a wonder and a novelty here, and tho  $£