Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-01-25
FOR THE FARMERS

| an ear of corn will ripen it's product at the same tune, and some three weeks earlier than seed from the little end of the ear lie recommends farmers always to break l their seed corn ears in two in the middle and use the butt-ends only for seed.
 FoR LEAVES IN HoRsEs-Tale smart weed, steep it in boiling water till the strength is all out; give one quart every day for eight or ten days, or mix it with bran or shorts. Give him green or cut-up feed wet with water, during the operation, and 1t will cure.
 BUcKwHEAT.-Harvest your buckwheat before it is injured by the frost, When one half the grain on the heads have turn ed black, 1t should be cut. .r .,..,.. <.
 After thrashing out the grainsput away the straw for your cattle, as they will need 1t badly before spring, as the crop of has proved short one, except in some favored districts
 VITRIoL AND FENCE PosTs. Of the ma ny methods of preserving fence posts from decay, none IS perhaps more simple and cheap than the one soaking them in blue vitrol. At recent meeting of the Far mers' Club, in Hudson, New York, one of the members exhibited post soaked in a solution of blue vitriol; one pound of vitriol belng used to twenty quarts of water. The post was pine, and when taken up was as sound as when first put down eight years ago This solution is good for all kinds ot timber exposed to the weather-spouts, shingles, stakes, bean poles, etc.
 FRUIT INSTEAD OF MEDIcINE.-There is no doubt but that the free use of good fruit IS conducive of health, and indeed almost Tn indispensable to it. Much of the sick ness ln the western country is occasioned by the want Of it. It is the great scarcity ot It that creates such demand for phvsic Tn our western country. The various levers and bilious disorders prevalent in the sum- mer season are more owing to the want of It than any other cause. And not until fruit IS generelly cultivated and used as an article of diet, shall we be rid of those dis orders winch are sapping the life fountains o1 thousands ot our farmers annually. And Ii frult were administered in many cases, as medicine, instead of the physicians pre- scrIptlon, we have no doubt 1t would be far better for the patient
 How TO GRow PEACHES EVERY YFAR- The following, by a correspondent of the Ohio Cultivation, is worth a trial by all lovers of the delicious fruit:
 Procure your trees grafted upon the wild plum stock. The tree partakes of the na ture of the plum, being hardy, and will never winter-kill, and putting out late in the spring. will never be injured by the frost, and it is certain preventive against the workings of the peach grub, while the natural lifetime of the tree is beyond that ot our own; So you may depend upon peaches every year, and for long time, without the destructive and discouragine influences attending the growth of the com mon peach. They can be obtained from flity to scventy-hve cents per tree, and you had better pay five times the amount, than not to obtain them, and be certain of peaches every year. Try it, and our word for it. you will be satisfied with the result.
 A NEW COTTON IN TExAs.-Mr. D. c. Sharpe of Cherokee county, Texas. has sent to New Orleans, specimens of cotton grown by him from seed brought from Nj caragua, near Leon, in the mountains. It IS the third years production, on land lvinr near the 32d parallel of latitude, in prai- rle country, the soil of which is sandy and saline, crystals of salt, saltpetre and alum being naturally formed on its surface The stalk and bolls of this cotton, Dr. Sharpe states, are about as large as those of the Petty Gulf cotton; the seeds are much smaller, black and smooth, as conse- quence of which 1000 pounds of it ungin- ned yields 300 pounds of ginned cotton But 1t IS the lint of this cotton that is most noteworthy and remarkable. For fineness and sEklness, as well as tenacity of fibre and tenuity of thread, it has never been suppressed, if at all equalled. These quail ties have led some to believe it the Sea Is- land cotton; but Dr. Sharpe is convinced that 1t IS not, since 1t differs from that cot ton Tn many material respects, whatever may be the correspondence between their respective staples. For instance, he says that 35O pounds of the cotton can be pick ed by one hand in a day, whereas of the Sea Island not more than thirty pounds can be picked. He believes that it can be sue cesstully grown Tn nearly every part of Texas. If so, 1t may go as great element of a new agricultural era in that magnificent State.-Balletin ot Me United .States Aqri;- cultural Society
 FALL FEED.-Fall feed for stock is one of the most important things our stockrais- CTS have to contend with. The wild grass answers in the spring, and until frost comes Tn the fall-it is superior to any other food while 1t lasts-but the first frost cuts it off. It IS too early to commence feeding hav, and yet stock must have something more than they got on the prairies Tame pas ture flelds, or timothy and clover fields, will answer the purpose. But few of our stock-raisers have any such fields to turn into and generally let their cattle run and by the first of January they are spring poor. To remedy this, we would advise that each stock-ralser, or farmer to SOW few acres of rye-sow It early so that the ground will get well covered-then turn your cattle on to It, as soon as the frost gets severe enough to Kill the wild grass. They will live on this till very late in the fall, and will thrive and do as well as they would on the best of timothy pasture. The rye can be plough ed up in the spring, and the ground plant ed, or 1t can be pastured and sowed to rye again in the fall, or it can be harvested, and sowedlagain. By this the stock .raisers will save tons of hay, and his stock will look better by half than they would to let them run. After the rye is eaten down, turn them into the stalk field, and you will have to feed but little hay. We have noticed that some few of our farmers SOW rye for the purpose of pasture, and they all invaria- bly, recommend 1t.
 TO THE HOUSEWIFE.
 [1Ae Ladies are respectfully solicited