Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection - I T^VO 3DO3L.t.ARS . "PROGRESS AND IMPR(DVBMKNT." [ SING-LIE: NO. WI-VJ£ CENTS.1 YOL. XIY NO. 6.1 EOCHESTEE, N. Y.-FOE THE WEEK ENDING SATUEDAY, EEBEUAEY 7, 1863. {WHOLE NO. 682. MOOEE'S KUSAL NEW-YOBKEB, ducted by a few wooden troughs into the cistern an equilibrium of vigor in all the parts. The AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY and pumped from thenco into the stable. It was theory, then, is to trim with a wide base, and a new-fangled notion to him, but after looking at bring the top of the hedge to a point The di- RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER the operation he had to call it "mighty con- mensions of a finished hedge should be four feet CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, venient" any«vay. wide at the base and five feet high. With a Corps of Able Assistants and Contributors. "Well, the manure was drawn on to the There are other important suggestions in. the meadow by DICK, and when grass cutting came treatment of hedges that will be given hereafter. O. D. BRAGOON, Western Corresponding Editor. there stood on it as good a crop of grass as need Your -correspondent is answered. e asked for. SWIZZLE was" delighted and con- THE RURAL NEW»YORKE:R is designed to be unsurpassed in Value, Purity and Variety of Contents, and unique and bunded. He forgave DICK his book-farming SWEET POTATO CTTLTUKE. beautiful in Appearance. Its Conductor devotes his per- from that time. He also did as he agreed to do. S. W. ARNOLD, of DeKalb Co., 111., was a com- sonal attention to the supervision of its various depart- And to-day as I came past hie yards, he was busy petitor,—the only one I am sorry to say,—for the ments, and earnestly labors to render the RURAL an with two men turning over his heaps and adding eminently Reliable Guide on all the important Practical, premium offered by the State Society for a Sweet Scientific and other Subjects intimately connected with the material he gathered last summer 1o it, and Potato Crop. He got no award from the State the business of those whose interests it zealously advo- he got a heap of it from that old swamp of his. Board, because his statement was not quite spe- cates. As a FAMILY JOURNAL it is eminently Instructive What a change there is in the appearance of that and Entertaining—being so conducted that it can be safely cific enough. But there are items in it which I taken to the Homes of people of intelligence, taste and farm since that experiment of DICK'S. SWIZZLE think worth repeating. He planted an acre and discrimination. It embraces more Agricultural, Horticul- was saved by that, and DASHAWAY has been a half, which was manured slightly last year, tural, Scientific, Educational, Literary and News Matter, broken up by it and left town. He evidently plowed very deep in the spring, harrowed, rolled, interspersed with appropriate Engravings, than any other was considerably more than half supported by journal,—rendering it the most complete AGRICULTURAL, back-furrowed with'two horses and plow throw- LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER in America. SWIZZLE. ing the land into ridges about three feet from cen- If I had time, I would tell you about SWIZZLE'S ter to center. The top of the ridge was smoothed or Terms and other particulars, see last page. progress since, but I see an ewe yonder that needs off with a garden rake, and plants set, 18 to 24 looking after. I tell you these " weak ones of the inches apart, from the 20th of May to the 20th of flock" need watching and nursing, both June. Those set'about the 10th of June were the Bheep and farmers. most thrifty, and yielded the largest potatoes. «_~t WESTERN EDITORIAL NOTES. The culture consisted in twice working between FARMER GARRULOUS TALKS. the rows with horse and shovel-plow; hoed by ,O3AQB OHAHrSE HEDGES. hand three times, and lifted the vines with a IT is astonishing how much money has to do IN reply to P. E. L., page 7 current Vol. RURAL. pitchfork once. IN response to the inquiry of a Canada sub- also on the sides, for those who attend them. with us, JOHN. Take my neighbor SWIZZLE as I give him the practice of a " Western man who The amount received for those marketed, was $60.89 scriber who wishes the plan of a stock and grain The main passage through the entire double line a sample. He used to spend more time and knows whereof he affiruiB." I refer to C. R. Eight bushels consumed in the family, at $1, 8.00 bam, we present the above, from ALLEN'S of stalls is 8 feet wide, and on each side are money at DICK DASHAWAY'S saloon than I spent OVERMAN, who has had a large experience with "Rural Architecture." It iB partially on the double stalls 6J feet wide. From the two end for newspapers and periodicals. He was always the Osage in the West He says it is found to be Labor bestowed equal to 38 days work at 76 cents plan of the famous Pennsylvania barns, with stalls the cattle passages are five feet wide, the perday,... ... $13.50 some changes which are thought to be improve- partition between the wall running back in a ridiculing my "hifalutin notions" about farming; the true theory to thicken the row at first by Four thousand plants purchased at $2 pr 1000, 8.00 21.50 especially was he down on my DICK there, whose close planting, and to cultivate well for two sea- ments. Though given in a former volume of the slgnt, from five feet high at the mangers to the notions are several pegs higher than mine. One sons before cutting at all, to get as strong roots as Net profit, $37.39 RURAL, the plan will be new to thousands of our floor, at that distance from the walls. The man- day—it was a good deal such a day as this—wet, possible without reference to the shape of the top. About half of this crop was sold at $1.25 per readers, and possesses sufficient merit to bear at gers, jj, are 2 feet wide, or may be 2J feet by drizzly, nasty, and too unpleasant to be out of Then, at the proper time, the second spring after bushel: the other half,—except five bushels sold least occasional re-publication. taking 6 inches from the back passage. The doors,—I was saying, one day he came along, planting, just before the buds put forth, clear at 75 cents,—was sold at $1.00 per bushel. It This barn is calculated for a grain and stock passage between the mangers is 3 feet wide, and should be remembered that this crop was grown and DICK and I were under the shed that we've away the ridge of dirt (if any has been drawn to farm—the "mixed husbandry" most profitable in communicates with the floor above by trap doors. in North Illinois, where many farmers are in the built over the stable windows to protect the ma- the plants) down level with the ground, and with many sections of the country. It has under- habit of thinking that sweet potatoes are, at least, nure. DICK had hauled up a half a dozen loads a strong shrub scythe, cut off all' smooth to the ground stables and a stone-walled basement, of leaves that he had raked up in the fall, and surface. Be sure to cut below all the buds on an uprofitable crop to grow. with sheds on three sides of the yard. The body there was some old lime, and a few loads of the stemB, and if into the yellow root no matter. k MULCHING WITH STRAW. of the barn is 60 by 46 feet; the posts 18 feet high muck, and the rakings and cleanings of the gar- The effect will be to send up numerous forced JLL . * above the sides, the roof spreading and gables den and the yards in the fall. He had set about shoots all around the stump, which being of more In the discussion of sweet potato culture by I hooded, but the engraving is incorrect in repre- L turning the manure over, cording it up solid, and equal size and vigor, will all be equally durable. the State Board, Dr. KILE, a member of the senting the roof as hipped, or gambrel fashion. mixing with it the muck, lime, leaves, &c. These. numerous shoots, spreading in all direc- Board from Edgar county, said that the best way The large doors are 14 feet high, and double, ii U Along came SWIZZLE. He looked in upon us. tions, will completely fill the row with substan- he had ever seen adopted to grow sweet potatoes "Why," said he, "you've a good, snug place to tial material; whereas, if in the first cutting one was to prepare the ground and set out the plants each seven feet wide. A slatted blind window is work of a rainy day. But what the deuce are or more buds are left, these buds put forth shoots in the usual manner, and then mulch the ground in each gable, for ventilation, and a door 9 by 6 you doing? Turning over and composting ma- stronger than those of forced growth, and the thickly with j3traw.