New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-15
.cp,cULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

o...ooppyRs AND LocUsrs.-Is ii TOO late to ar
AZ. v,.ose Of these words in tse United States
M. ..yerscer year insects, and the dogday Ay, OF
III, appearance are not locusts, they are com
.,o,iy called They are harvest flies, or ccsdss. Tue
,sod belongs 10 tribe Of insects that fly
chiefly by night Of which the katydid is familiar eh-
ample The sects which are 10 America called gras'
hoppers are in reality locuss their ravsge' IN Tue
Far West would show TO any msn acquainted WIN
Bible antiquities Grasshoppers have four Join'' u"
their feet aud the females have piercers or sworoS
ocusts have three joins in their feet and tne
No .wo,ds. thew fy much better than grasshOpper',
having narrower wing covers and larger wings. Inc
C.It,,i.n, The cresres iD Ussh, the men In han'a'
Oh ee, IN the old States, trou oled with foc"@s
r,...borne,. are rarely destructive being found in
a,.e rnnhers only in moist meado W. Tney uoJu'tly,
in America bear the blame of what the locusts do H.
Fson DANE County, WIS The wheat thrashed
around here averaged at twenty bushels TO the acre.
We have as much straw off eight acres as we had on
twenty last year. have watched the papers to hear
from different parts Of the country what success they
have with the Chinese sugar.csne. wish could 90
Justice in attempting TO describe our pstch oat IL must
be seen 10 form any idea Of it. We have many Visit
ors TO see it. and they all declare tina. the al has not
been told. we nave one anu n" SN0'
patch in the county that can hear OIL Sone nave
from twenty 10 thirty hills this is as tar az they dared
10 venture aud for size, We best them all hollow. we
wsrs narticulsr in planting &C ,ordng to directions
Su, m Ix grains in HILL and we have about four
tboussnd aud egbty-three hills on the acre and q half
Won can form some idea Of the amount Of fodder II will
grow As for strip, have doubt il we had proper
MACHINERY TO press ii out, IL would pay well. BY
twisting tie stalks the juice will run stream We
intend to iry and make some sirup. If cold weather
bolds off little longer Thick we shall be able to
pen some Of the seed. The patch Is perfect forest
and people say that they saw so much Of any
thing growing the same quantity Of land They oil
intend TO grow il anothe, year. ID. y. SPINNING.
Middleton, Dane County, Wis
How TO Use UP CoBDLZ-SToSE. A correspondent
advises farmers to bury all their c'bbe stone in drains
He says;
al dug drain some 81 rode, q 10 feet Deep then
Laid small cOhbles at the sides and the botto and
fat stopes or larger cobbles on top, filled up with
stone az near the top could without having tn sm
interfere with the plow, and then filled in dirt. The
result was plowed the piece which was before that
too wet and raised the largest hat ever raised
on y farm. Another result is, that from the time
the Fall rains set in, tall May or June, l have as
good spIiug for watering my cattle as any man can
with for and aDol er bel eft that have derived from
IL s thee stones do not scrape my plow.poio so that
think that have got pay for my labor threefold."
Another drain since dug, forty yards long, used UP
sixty eighty tuns of stone and this affords water
enough for hundred head OF cattle al Summer.