The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-14
THE DISPATCH.



cv,nvsSscs = sss ssss s. sss1s.- From r,css,
Drsetteahiiy Of culttvatine the coll By steam hes
Sssa sucoessfslly esstsd. This Royal Agricultural
society recently offered prizes for steam piow that
scsld b ased b. psatlesl farmers IN turnns up the
pAtepted ~ I II. Fowler. The Conncii conferred
% Hf@HeSards another pateafee, anedal OF honor
toe nts steam cultiyatvr.s IL II now merely ques
ttcn with fArmsrs whether IL will pay them 10
salssy ees.A ta ttslsse. The jadge. reported that
eessfuliy worked By tenant farmers. The daily
WcfkiAg expenses Of Rowler's machine they esti-
0ate ~ ~ e. vn the light land the work done
per day Of ten hours. intending stoppages, Was ~
ocres. the coil being moved By fSocpiovs, 9 fuche
deep By feet Z inches wide. On the heavy land
the work Of ten hours amounted TO ave acres, the
same furrows ~ before bcing taken. IL was then
tried with two trepchspg elews, the width being y
tnches. the furrows feom IL 70 inches deep, aud
he qeantity of work done was q acres. Here We
see the Increased cost OF deep blowing. The esti
mate Of the judges for the light land was7s. "a per
ecrs, for the heavy lands "; ~ per acre aud for
work could not have been done by horse power
FOR less than s.. per acre, and on the heavy land
i2s. Cd. per acre. Tho trench blowing could no.
have been done BY horse power .. all; II must hav
been done by manual labor At the cost OF f6 13s
ID per acre. Thus, fT ordinary blowing, steam
power 1t present applied saves fourth Of the
cost, bat Its real value consists In esabiing the
~lano 70 Dc deep ptoWeQ, AZ q tnodefate cost, Ia
way hitherto only used for market gardening.
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A CHICAGO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF Chicago
life can vouch for the following strue in every
particular: produce operator from Waterfowl IN.
~ watching the signs OF the times and arguins
that when wheat was down to sixty cents aud corr
thirty Ave TO forty In Chicago, they could not get
much lower went 20 the grain city and invested
his pile, some $4,000 all Ia "stub tai' corn. This
corn IL last years Illinois growth, aud Is Called
stub-tail becSuse aboutouethrd Of il IL rotten,
for nothing but 20 make rot gut whiskey. He
bought ct very low figure and had IL ell put int
one pile 10 big warehouse, where 1t was to wait
.trtse;' several days elapsed and there was in
quiry for 'stubtal." He played billiards, rod
around the city, and occasionally took q "nipper'
bylway Of keeping his courage up.
Al length be Informed that bis corn was
heating He examined the pile aud foaHd IL "hot a.
hddes" Supposiug 10 was all up with him he wen
Cd on Q slender" and for Thirty days he did
know stub.taii from No. corn. At length b
corn again found that IL had cooled off alec. anc
the market reports and found his CON had q
risen 10 price that he found no difficulty ia selins
.. at good round profit of eiscea u.9asawi eigh;
haadrsd dollars. Had he remained sober he pro
l'tbiy would have sold 1t at sacrifice. So mach for
u Chicago spree. No wouder with such luck thai
tho operators 10 that fast town shogi occasionally
iabibe Cleveland Psiiadeaicr.
"Why," asked Smith Of Jones, the other day.
care young women called dsmsslsf" "Bscause
they are, every of Them" growled Jones
using bad word. He has recently been disposed
Of At cheap rate by one off,