The constitutional union., 1860-11-16
AGRICULTURAL.

| FARMER OMNIBUS.-Ihere are pounds of pure sulphur in every 100 pounds of wool Carrots consume 199 pounds of lime to the acre, turnips but 90 pounds.
 Ittakes pounds of corn to form, one of beef Three and half pounds of cooked meal will forrilone of pork
 To add one per cent. of lime to soil that Is l destitute of 1t, requires ten pounds of slacked lime or six of caustic to the acre.
 Clay will permanently improve any soil that is sandy or leachy Lime and leached ashes will always benefit leachy land
 A ton of dry forest leaves produces only 800 pounds of mold; hence 300 of mold will produce ton of plants.
 4 Clay applied to sandy land is far better than sand to clay land. One hundred and sixty tons to the acre will give an inch in depth.
 Pure phosphorus is worth from Sl 900 to 5000 ton; and as it comes the earth 1t shows how scarce 1t is.
 A rich mold formed by rotting clover is worth more than the same number of pounds of clover; 400 pounds of dry plants will yield l 100 pounds of mold
 Swamp muck, or peat, when dry, will take up, without dripping, four times its own weight of water. Hence the necessity of thorough drainage.
 Limestone land retains the heat the long, est; black, peaty soil radates the heat most rapidly, consequently, cold soonest, and are first to experience frost.
 A CHEAP AND Coop SMoKE-HoUsE A WesternNew York farmer publishes his plan of small, cheap, and good smoke house which, as 1t may contain some practical hints for our own readers, we append it:
 "No farmer should be without good smoke-house and such as will be fre-proof and tolerably secure from thieves. Fifty hams can be smoked at one time in smoke house seven by eight feet square, Mine is six by seven, and is large enough for most farmers. first dug all the ground out below where the frost would reach, and filled it up to the surface with small stones On this | laid my brick floor, in lime mortar The walls are brick, eight inches thick and seven l feet high, with a door on one side two feet | wide. The door should be made of wood and l lined with sheet iron. For the top put OH l jOists, two by four set up edgewise, and l eight and half inches from center to center, covered with brick and put on a heavy coat of mortar. l build a small chimney on the top in the center archingit over and covering 1t with a single roofin the usual way. An arch | should be built on the outside, with a small l iron door to shut it up, similar to q stove door, with a hole from the arch through the wall of the smoke-house, and an iron grate over it. l This arch IS much more convenient and bet ter to put thefre inside the smoke-house, and l the chimney causes a draft through into the l smoke-house Good corn cobs or hickory wood are the best materials to make smoke for hams. The cost of such a smoke-house as 1 have described, is about S20."
 To KEEP BUTTER FrFsH-The Farm Journal, German paper, published at AL l lentown, Pennsy Ivania says that butter will remain fresh and sweet for six months, and even longer, if prepared in the following manner: Take butter as 1t comes from the churn, and wash the buttermilk thoroughly out of it, then dry the surface of the butter with a clean cloth, break into small pieces and pack 1t solid into a crock Set the crock in kittle half filled with water, then place 1 the kettle over the fire until the water boils l While boiling remove from the fire, and let 1 the crock remain in the water until cold Then place the crock in cool place. The object in boiling is to purify the butter and precipitate the milk, which remains in 1t pre- vious to boiling to the bottom of the crock
 POISONING RATs.-The best food with which to mix poison for killing rats Is pump 1 kin seeds. Wet them and sprinkle on little arsenic, which will adhere to the seeds.- They will be eaten by rats and mice, while cats, fowls, etc, not being fond of such food will not meddle with them Whenever poi son is put up for these troublesome pests of the farm, water should be near by, so that they may eat drink and die, outside of their holes and hiding places. Muskrats, which are often troublesome pests upon some farms bordering upon creeks or ponds, may be poi soned with arsenic upon pieces of parsnip or sweet apple.
 l RULES FOR PRUNING GRAPEs-The last number of Hoveys Magazine gives substanti- l ally the following general rules for grape l puning, after recommending grape growers 1 to be free in the use of the knife, following 1 by the remark that where one vine is pruned too severely, nine are not pruned enough: No shoots to be nearer than one foot from either Prune back to within one eye of the old wood, every fall and spring about one half of the annual shoots-the remaining producing canes to be retained for bearing next year when the old bearing wood is in turn to be cut out, to make room for new shoots Dis bud or rub of, as soon as they appear all shoots not wanted as bearing wood. ATOUCHING APPEAL-"P Policeman, spare