New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-14

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any number OF them may be laid upon board or IN
box for distant removal. The implement is strongly
made, and cannot be expensive, certainly not over
dollar and will be an cquisition to the already large
list Of garden tools.
Tx AGRICULTURAL Passive earnestly COM
mend TO every reader Of Tx TRIBUNE, the follow
ing item copied from the JourHol Of he California
STATE agricultural Society. 1t is net the first time
tie same thing has been said but it will bear repeat
ing.
Few persons appreciate the benefits Of e wel-con-
ducted agricultural journal to the country whose re-
sources il X designed to develop. The cant phrase,
tiIctured with sheer, took farming, is still sut
cieniy prev alent show that agricultural literature
has not yet accomplished its work. Still il has done
much, and its successes annually multiply.
Forty years ago and the " Ame'icdR Farmer,
published weekly at Baltimore uncer the auspices of
John ;. Skinner, in embryo, its maturity and real
birth being the % Of April folio wing. In August,
1872, Tho. G. Fessenden of Boston issued the first
number of Tie Nep ENGLAND Farmer, also a week
"; aid not long afterward Mr.. Samuel Fleet COM
menced The Neir- York Farmer and Horticultural
Rerier. These were all the agricultural journals in
e1rence thirty years ago. Even late within the
lat twenty-five years, all the agricultural Journals on
this continent had not an aggregate circulation ct
TO- CG while the present hour the aggregate Is more
than a quarter Of million. And beside this the time
has come when our best family periodicals. from the
hah-penny daily to the ponderous quarterly, ind It 20
their advantage to have ali Agricultural Department
il their columns. For the influence Of the Press we
refer 10 the improvements in every department Of sgri
cul;urethe implements with which the work is done;
the quality of the PRODUCTIONS aud the profits OF the
enterprise. They are al rs visible as the morning
star. The time has come, and may It never depart
when other things being equal he who does not read
a good agricultural journal, cannot successfully COM
pete with hun who does"
L 80 49, 1oofa
paper devoted to the soil culture Of Oregon and
Washington Territories" We notice in it ad-
vertisenent Of "Lawton or New Rochelle black
berries at s25 per hundred
This valuable fruit will soon be in cultivation in
every section of the United States and it is also being
introduced into England.
The Oregon Farmer is small but neatly-printed
quarto of l6 pages, two of which filed with adj
vertsements, which shows that people there under
stand the advantage of making known what they
have to sell. The advertisements not all agricul-
tural, unless the Oregonians make planting tomb
stones branch Of their agricultural operations.
The following item, clipped from The Farmer, shows
progress in a country destitute of bees when taken
possession of by the Eastern immigrants:
"OREGos BEEs-WAx.-At the late meeting of Bee
rasers in Oregon City, noticed cake OF very nice
Bees-wax, maze from comb produced in the apary of
Mr. T. L. Eyre, Salem; also several specimens OF
comb showing the different stages of the breeding Of
the Beetle Worker Drone and Queen cells. Mr. +.
eyirces spirit of progress would wish to see par
taken of by every producer in Oregon"
Here is another evidence Of progress The Editor
has not only got suit, but homegrown, home
spun, homemade one upon Yankee sewing-ma-
chine.
Through the kindness of Mr.. Pratt, Superintendent
of the Willamette WOODEN Factory, we are now enjoy
ing the comforts Of Oregon built suit of clothes.
The wool WAS grown upon Oregon sheep; manufac-
tured into cloth by the Willamette Wooden Factory;
partly sewed by one of friend Pomeroys Wheeler
4 Wilson's Family Sewing Machines, and finished up
by an Oregon tailor This is perhaps the first full suit
PRODUCED wholly on the Pacific coast We are proud
Of the suit and proud Of the country that produced it,
FERruIrY-Irs SoURcE -" A farmers son" writes
us upon this subject from VIII County, Illinois. His
communication is too long for publication though he
advances some ideas which it would be well for the
fathers Of farmers to profit by. For instance he
asks: GAS ali fertility comes from oxydaton OF some
mineral vegetable substance and as no new organ
ism arise except upon the destruction of some snb-
stance and oxidation the great source OF destroy
ing power does not stand to that deep plow
ing constant stirring and exposure of the water to the
Oxygen of the air must add TO its fertility And is not
The great of increased fertility Of underdrained
land that it IA freed OF its preserving water and ad
miitcd to the effects Of air and oxydized, and thus
made fertilei r
SwAxp MUcK-Another farmers boy writes from
watervile, Oneida County, N. Y, aud inquiries IF
Swamp Muck, used fresh from the bed is deeterious"
Yes, until it has received just what the writer Of
the preceding letter has said the evil needs-air-
and from the air oxygen. That will decompose the
bers Of the muck aud sweeten the acdity spoken Of
1t is not profitable 10 apply muck fresh from the
bed because il is sometimes injurious instead OF add
ing fertility TO the coil. It may be hauled out upon
the field where it is be used and exposed to slow
decay by the atmosphere, but is better to decom
pose it with lime and salt that is lime slakened with
water saturated with SALT by composing the
muck with animal or vegetable substances until It be-
coes thoroughly pulyerieDt before using it as ma
nure. Where 1t is convenient 10 carry muck to the
farm yard and stsbes will always pay to do go as
il is an excellent absorbent Of the gaseous matter
that escapes from the solids, well as Of the liquid
substances of the stable. Every cord Of muck CON-
posted with stable manure makes two cords Of the
compound, worth more than one Of the manure
alone.
We lay il down a. en- incontrovertble fact, 10 all
the Eastern States that every farmer who has muck
bed CAD double the value of ali his other manure BY
the use Of muck over and above the expense Of dig.
ging and hauling any reasonable distance.
TuRy AsHEs.-we give brief answers TO an in
quirer questions "A follows:
O. What season Of the year should the turf be cut
A. When drest.
O. Can the cutting be done with a common pOw
A. ies.
q II an how deem the fu-rowl A. Two inches