Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-03-07
TO FARMERS.

VT Al FL NOh S----A l ltINu NOi h OIl tIt subject says that spayed cows give much better and more healthful milk than COWS in the natural state The COW will contin, ue to give milk, in this condition, two or three years; then She will 1atten easily, and make excellent beef. American Stock Journal.
 CoRN SHRINKING.-The Prairie Farmer publishes an experiment made by a co., respondent to ascertain the amount in weight which corn shrinks in diving He weighed out 75 pounds on the ear, dried amt Shelled it, after which it weighed but sixty pounds, loss of 15 lbs which he thinks is not more than most corn will shrink by keeping over winter.
 Es- The Valley Farmer advocates the use ol finely powdered charcoal mixed with the food of tattened animals especially hogs, once or twice weak It says that it serves as a medicine, either in itself or by rendering the food more available by strengthening and stimulating the digestive organs.
 EARNING FOR IoUNG MEN.-Ifa a young man wants to engage in a business that will insure him in middle life, the greatest amount of leisure time, there is nothing more sure than farming If he has an independent turn of mind, let him be d farmer. fine wants to engage in . healthy occupation, let him till the land In short, if he would be independent, let him get a spot of earth. Keep within his means to shun the lawyers; De honest, have clear conscience; improve the soil so as to leave the world better than he found it; and then if he cannot live happily and die contented, there is no hope for him.
 RYE FOR AIncH Cows.-Mr. C. Brooks, one of the best dairvmam of Orange county, claims that rye makes more milk than corn; merely cost six cents per bushel at the farm; now they cost one shilling, and are not so profitable as rye at six ShiIings per bushel. Oats he estecms the poorest kind of grain for cattle. His daily allowence to each COW is five pounds of meal, given with cut straw, wet with warm water He fed com and oats, buckwheat and wheat bran, changing the kind frequently think ing his animals thrive best on frequent change of diet.
 MUTroN.-We mean to repeat a thou sand times, or at least till what we say has some effect upon our countrymen, that a pound of lean, tender, juicy mutton can be produced for half the cost of the same quantity of fat pork; that 1t is infinitely healthier food, especially in the summer season, and those who eat it become more muscular and can do more work with great CT ease to themselves, than those who eat fat pork We know nothing more deli cious. than smoked mutton hams of the South Down breeds of sheep. Nenison itself isnot Superior.-EX.
 ScALDED SHOULDERS OR BACKS OF HoRsEs The best thing we have ever used is solution of Alum in whiskey, and the the best way to use that vile < fire water" We have also used stale urine and find 1t excellent There are horses whose should CTS will scald, and very difficult to pre- vent. We saw, thirty years ago and more, piece of harness leather that was cut to fit the shoulders, and to work un- der the collar, used by merchant of Charleston, S O., where ''the low coun- try people, travel hundreds and hun dreds of miles to watering places by private conveyance. We have seen a notice going the rounds of the papers as something new We saw it first in 1923 or Fl. 4.-S. R. Gentleman.
 CULTNATING roo MUcH LAND.-The Farmers generally attempt to cultivate too much land. The disadvantages arising from this cause, are many and obvious. 1t IS no eXageration to say, that the lands cultivated in the country are capa- ble under high state of cultivation, of producing twice as much as they now pro duce.
 When will our Farmers in the country fully appreciate this truly? There is no one thing that contributes so much to re- tard our agriculture, as the folly of cultl- vating too much land
 In the first place, no farmer should think of managing 80 or 100 acres ot land with one or two men. It is bad economy to do so: nothing can be expected from It but poverty-poverty of both land ana purse. How much better 1t would be to cultivate half the number of acres, or less, and do it we'll It costs just as much to plow an acre that will yield ten bushels ot corn, as one that will yield fifty or hun dred bushels. The difference in hoeing would be triAc, the planting would be the same-amount of fencing in the one ease as in the other, and the same tax will have to be paid on each. Why not, there fore blow less and blow DEEPER? why not cultivate less land and manure more? Farmers, many of them, appear to forget that they have productive farm just under meath one they are cultivatIng, equally and perhaps much more productive than the one on the surface.
 Turn up this farm, then, with deep subsoil plow-expose it to the action ot the sun and frost, and thereby double your crop.