The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-30
From The american Farmer for September.
SEEDING WHEAT

forward until the whole is well broken. The long
er it can lie, after breaking the better: but if bv
reason of drought or other hndrance, it be vet
done, the proper time of seeding is not of course
to be deferred, but the sod must be well packed bv
narrowing and rolling Early seeding is of so
much Importance upon every Consideration but
one, that we can but advise it strenuously. Sown
in this latitude before the 5th of October it is liza
Bile to the ravages of the fall fY. This is a serious
evil and may be a fatal one. On the other hand
we run the risk from late sowing, first of a light
crop from an inadequate supply of roots; second
the winter killing; third, spring fly and Joint worm
for want of a vigorous growth; fourth weeviI or
mdge; fifth, rust.
May we compromise upon a time which will steer
US between Scylla on the one hand and Charybdis
on the other? We are willing to admit that on well
prepared clover alow it is safe to SOW from the 5h
TO the 18th of October. In doing so everything
should be well prepared in advance to despatch the
seeding without delay, and we should use fifty to
hundred pounds of Peruvian guano in the drill
With any preparation inferior to this we would
take the chances of the fly and sow as early as pos
sible after the 18th of September. Recoect that
the amount of guano mentioned insures earlier ri
penlng by about week, and for this reason is worth
the cost. We mean that much of Peruvian guano,
whether alone or in combination with other things
fERTILIZERs.-We should use, when any fertilizer
Is required, some Peruvian guano-ftty to hun
dred pounds, as the may require Beyond
this, i your land requires it, use either more
Peruvian, or phosphate guanoes or super-phos-
phate, as your own or the judgment of your most
ence in your neighborhood.
LIME AND FARM MANUREs.-Get and apply lime
when you can. 1t is very well for the wheat crop
to put on even few bushels to the acre, and espe.
cIally well for the clover and grasses which NAV
succeed it. dressing of twenty five to fifty busl
els may be put on as convenience suggests; the
smaller quantity to be repeated in few years
Farm manares are always good for wheat, but
should be used dressing after seeding unless
well rotted when it may be put in with the seed or
with the surface working, before seeding.
, PUTTING IN SEED.-For doing the work well and
for economy of seed and manure, the drill is almost
essential to the wheat grower. There are few
who farm to any extent who now willing to dis
pense with it. In the absence of the drill, put in
with light turrow, using the seed plough, and
cover seed and manure at the same time. Neither
corn nor tobacco land should be broken before seed
ing. 1t the corn ground be covered so thicky with
grass as to interfere with putting in the seed the
harrow will clear it sufficiently by running over,
and back in the same track.
PREPARATION OF SEED.-The due preparation of
seed wheat should not be neglected The most
ready way is perhaps as efficient as any, viz: to
wash effeetually bV slowly pouring the wheat into
strong brine which floats the smut balls LIGHT grains
&c. These are carefully skinned off and the wheat
drained in baskets, when it may be dried with lme
plaster, or guanO. If allowed to soak some hours
as many prefer, there is considerable increase of
bulk by absorption, which must be observed and al
lowed for in seeding.
GARIBALDfs MoRNINGs.-I this morning Aug.
p accompanied Garbaldi in his usual morning
visit to the Faro. Whatever be the season, Carl
badi gets up at dawn, and it is these early hours
of the morning which he calls his own, when he
likes to indulge in his day dreams or spend the
time in confidential conversation. When at home
or in the camp he likes to saunter about, leaving
no spot in the neighborhood unexplored, and hav-
ing above ALL tendency to ascend all high hills or
towers from which you have the most extensive
view in the neighbOrhood. 1t was in these early
morning walks, the village of Quarto, in the
mountains about Genoa, that he worked out his
idea of descent upon Sicily ,and the heights of
the Pizzo di Fico that he decided on the bold blow
at Palermo. The tower of the lighthouse at the
Faro is likely to become the broodng place of some
other great idea for not morning passes without
Garlbadi being seen at his chosen spot. Besides
lnduIglng in this tavorite pastime of contemplation
and concentration in himself, his presence at the
Faro just at this time is required to vivily and ad-
vance the works which are being constructed there
Like time, Garibaldi waits for nobody, so | took
to be there at dawn. He lives at the royal
palace close to the villa, the little ornamental gar
den in the main street.
As usual leaving the larger apartments to his
suite, he retired into a small corner ROOM which
forms his bedroom study, and private room; ad-
joining 1t is small room occupied by his private
secretary. He had just done dressing when | en-
tered; he walked about in the room, scarcely illu-
minated by the first grey light of the morning, fin
ishing his toilet. Coffee and some hard biscuits
ready for breakfast on a small table encum-
bered with papers, while in the rest of the room
were lying about in picturesque confusion, other
papers, model arms, rifles, muskets, swords, and
revolvers, samples of the soldiers ratons as they
ought to be, and cigars. Welcoming me with a
hearty shake of the hand, he continued walking
about twice or three times across the Ii -
'Carme della MOrte' of Ugo FOScoO ?' On confess
sing my Ignorance he began to recite it to me-
giving all the emphasis of which those sublime
verses capable. Having finished we sat down
to have coffee, talking of poetry and the supe-
rority of versi sciolti over rhymes. The carriare
was ready, and we drove through the still silent
streets towards the MarinN-Oo" Times.
STRANGE STORY.-In village near Newark, Eng
land, in an old thatched house. which has been oc-
cupied by the family for nearly three hundred
years. there lives an old man who has nearly COM
pleted his eighty-sixth year. person who had
occasion to visit him the other day, not little
surprised on hearing the old gentleman, in course
of conversation, express his belief that he was not
only going to heaven, but had been there once
since his first introduction into this world. From
the account he gives of the matter, it appears that
when he was about eleven years of age, he was in
an apparently lifeless state-which he called a
| trance-for the space of nine days, and it was
| during that time that he thinks he was permitted
| to behold the glOries of heaven His parents fully
believed him to be dead; the passing bell Iung
his coffin was ordered and made; and on the third
day his friends assembled for the purpose of fol-
| lowing him to the grave. The clergyman of the
parish went in to look at the supposed corpse be-
fore the coffin lid screwed on, and finding it to
be warm, he at once expressed the opinion that the
| child was not dead, and after ordering the post
ponement of the funeral, sent his servant on horse
back for doctor, who on arriving at the house,
confirmed the assertion of the minister, and in
structed the boys mother to moisten the bows lips
| with wine and water twice day. She did so, and
the seventh day he showed signs of life by NOV
ing; on the eighth day he could hear the conversa-
ton OF persons in the room, and on the ninth day
he able to open his eyes and rise from the sup
posed bed of death. Since that time his health
has been delicate, but he has continued to occupy
the grazing land adjoining his cottage, and has kept
| oft tha rof hicf
ADVANCE WAGEs.-It has always been lamented
that the merchants failed in their effort year or
two ago to break up the system of advance wages
to seamen, which causes much evil, and benefits
nobody but the landlords The wise, humane and
prudent measures of the merchants then broken
up by the efforts of the landlords, and at this mo-
ment the system is as fourishing and as mischiev.
Gus ever. In fact it would seem to be even more
potent for mischief than 1t appears that there
are at present in lew York a large number of Off
GERS and seamen unemployed, who are very anxious
to ship. This they unable to DO, owing to regu
lations adopted by the association of landlords
One regulation is that if man is shipped at New
York, who does not board with member of the
association, they will remove the whom they
have shipped. Thus the ship is detained, and thu
owners, from necessity, remove the obnoxious per
son, and his place is filled by a boarder. Shoulc
the shipping master interfere, another resolution
provides that the association will suspend busines
with him for sixty days. 1t is doubt very diff
cult and costly undertaking to resist such combi
nation, at the risk of having ships detained fol-
| weeks for want of men. But if this expense is no
paid in due form now, it will be in another hereaf
ter. If the dictaton of such men is allowed tc
govern, the merchants will find that these demands
will not continue to be limited by the present
standard, and will find too that in the long run il
will cost more to navigate ships with drunken mel
from the clearinghouse than to pay the cost o
taking the control of their property into their
own hands. 1t is to be hoped that some determined
effort may soon be made to put an end to this shame
ful and dangerous abuse.-Boston Advertiser.
A New WEAPoN.-A Springfield correspondent
of the Hartford Times thus describes new weapon
Just completed at the armory in that city: heavy
gum called the 'Wall rifle" has just been finished
at the armory, and sent to the ordnance depart
ment at Washington. 1t was proposed by that de
partment, approved by the Secretary of War, ant
built at the armory under the superintendent o
the master armorer, Erskine S. Allen, then acting
superintendent. 1t is ech-oading piece of thu
following Dimensions Length of barrel, four feet
of stock, nineteen inches; diameter of barrel al
at breech, two and three-eighth's inches; of muzz
one and ifteen-sixteenths inches. 1t carries Mini
ball weighing half pound nineteen one hundredth
of an inch in diameter. 1t is loaded with 384 grain
of powder. The barrel is of cast-steel, with fiv
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