Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-02-15
TO FARMERS,

HoRsEs.-Ihe age of horse is now more easily told by his eyes than his teeth, in this way: After the horse is nine years old, wrinkle comes on the eyelid at the upper csrner of the lower lid, and every wear thereafter he has one defined wrinkle for each year over nine. If for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, he is 12; if four. he IS IS; add the number of wrinkles to 9 and you will get it.
 Gt5" Nothing could more strikinglv H. ustrate the gifts of Providence and the ingenuity of the age, than the fact that at this day nearly all of the chief processes of agriculture may be performed by machine ". The steam blow is success-turning over the sod at the rate of an acre in seventeen minutes. With machinery we plough, harrow, plant, mow, rake, reap, bind, thrash. With such facilities for cul- tivating, we shall soon supply the old world with produce to an extent hitherto unanticipatcd.
 A new kind of cotton is being grown in South Carolina. The fibre is nearly two inches in length and is as fine and glossy as floss silk. The plant is said to grow from six to eight feet in height, and will produce one thousand pounds of clean lint to the acre.
 BRINE PoIsoNoUs TO ANlMAIs.-The Kentucky Turf Register says a gentleman at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, recently emptied brine from pork barrel into the yard. A number of hogs and one horse partook of 1t. In less than six hours the horse and seven hogs were dead
 CorToN LATIrDEs.-The production and growth of cotton is a monopoly of climate; 1t cannot be successfully cultiva ted, except between the attitudes of 30 and 3o degrees, extending from the At lantic to the Pacific ocean-a region of earths surface 240 miles in width and 2O00 in length Much of this region is incapable, from steriity and other causes, to profitably cultivate this staple It fol- lows. as necessary consequence. that as, the amount of cotton lands diminish. the remainder are rendered more valuable.
 How TO KEEP HAMs.-EDIToRs VALLEY FARMER: 1 have been a subscriber for your valuable paper for nearly four years. and have gained great deal of knowledge from It about farming, and read many receipts; and, among the rest, receipt in a number, !" How to cure smoked hams,' which IS very good. Yet permit me to say that l have been farming and house. keeping for the last twenty years, and have tried almost every plan to preserve hams and find that the best plan is to have the hams we'll cured and smoked by the last day of February; and then pack them down in dry ashes, and they will keep better than any way 1 have tried. The reason that I say the last day of February is, that, after that time, there is a fly and little black bug that come about the first of March; and, when they hang after that time, there will always be some insect in the ham, put it up as you may. If you think this worth the space in your valuable paper, you can publish it.
 VIM. MORGAN.
 Cape Giradeau County, Missouri.
 THE ToMATo.-Dr. Bonnet, Professor of some celebrity considers the tomato an invaluable article of diet, and ascribes to it very important medical properties:
 lst. That the tomato is one of the most powerful aperlents of the liver and other organs: where calomel Is indicated it is probably one of the most effective and the least harmful remedial agents known to the profession.
 2d. That chemical extract will be ob- talned from it that will supersede the use of calomel in the cufe of disease.
 3d. That he has successfully treated diar- rh9a with this article alone.
 4th. That when used as an article of diet 1t Is almost sovereign for dyspepsia and indigestion.
 5th. That it should be constantly used for daily food; either cooked, raw. or in the form of catsup, it is the most healthy article now in use.
 To MAKE AN OBSTINATE HoRsE Pu1J.- A correspondent of the Cotton Planter says:
 {" Let me tell you of an infallible method of making balky or an obstinate horse or mule pull up hill or anywhere else that his muscles arc able to carry him. 'IakQ q small yOpo /. xlo,- 1:,a