New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-24
AGRICULTURAL.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUB.

w. Chambers. Secretary.
While the dog-star RACES and frequent showers
catch unraked hay and grain not stacked when the
bOrer near the surface of the trees he attacks and
the curculo is at the hight of his mschevOus career
while the market gardener is industrious in his celery
beds and careful over his late cabbages there arc
few empty seats in the Club-room. But the flood of
correspondents continues undated and it is all vel
come One request we have to make of those who
like to see their ideas set up in the solid minOn Of
these columns Ii bOthers eOmpOstOr nightly 70
have both sides of a piece of paper written on.
Therefore you who would be shocked to hear the
third commandment broken across your composition,
trTite only on the odd pages.
CONCKRNISG CONCRETE.-Mr J. b. Tattershall OF
Hamilton Caldwell County, Mo-, asks about the
building of concrete walls of water-lime how TO
mix the mortar &c In his section there are neither
bricks nor stone; consequently, the question asked
becomes an imaOrtant one TO himself and ms neigh
N. G. Flv--There was book published in this city
year OF more ago which contains hve Thousand good
things more OF less, and among them, as remember
we'll chapter devoted especially to this very sub
ject. Its title Is Jodds Country Homes" ADVISE
the gentleman to see 1t.
Zerega. London County, Va, wrote as follows;
am manuring small piece OF meadow land-Say I'VE
and quarter acres-wlth about 100 OX~cart ioaSs OF
stable manure and intend plowlng II up TINS al
In the Spring propose to plant corn on this held
and / want 70 use some pOudrette OF the LOdi Co.
with the corn. ] should like 10 hear from members
of the Club their experience with poudrette-hoW 10
use it and how much TO the acre
j. b. LYMAN bave tried the Lodi poudrette, and
must say that its effect on grain and potatoes mas 70
some extent disappointed me. 1t does not appear 70
be a lasting manure. IN May and June II works
quite actively. but later in the season, when corn
ears are formed it has lost its vlgor After good
many experiments have come 10 the conclusion that
no fertilizer begins TO compare with ground bone
Those advertised mixtures are valuable N pfopoI
ton as bone is made an ingredient. The LODI COM
pany makes several varieties OF commercial manure
The cheapest is New-YOrk filth dried. Another sort
is this dried filth mixed with the ota OF slaugnteI
houses Still another has In 1t good deal OF crusheo
bone. -. ~ 4.
fhatdetailed by the last speaker Even crushed bone
did not prove good thing it killed my strawberry
plants. Possibly used too much.
II. T. Williams-l applied poudrette to tomatoes,
and found that it advanced their npenIng full two
weeks However | do not consider It worth 81 % OF
90 per barrel. used bOne-meAl upon strawberries,
and found it the best Obtanabe for the crop
1T IS particularly good on sandy soils; on heavier
land stable manure must be esteemed as much more
valuable, aud in fact unsurpassed
EOTEs FROM MONTANA.-Mr. Joseph j. Boyer,
formerly of Westchester Pa. but f0T the past five
years resident of different parts OF the Territory
above named, forwarded the subjOlned cOmmunica-
ton from Red Mountain City, Deer Lodge County I:
The seasons are too short and the nights are goo
cold here for corn but wheat is produced in large
quantities in fact nearly enough to supply the home
demand. There several Touring mills which make
an excellent quality of -four. Potatoes, and SPLEEN
did ones are raised in abundance In fact al OF the
common vegetables, with the exception Of tomatoes,
that flourish in the states, are produced nerei t4t
is when the gasshoppers let them alone. But there
as the rub. For the two preceding seasons they came
IN swarms, and made sad havoc with the crops THIS
they are not so bad. You can go through the
country and plenty Of good farming land vacated
now. Why Is thsi Because the placer mines have
worked out the miners have left and there being no
manufacturing literary or artistic mouths to feed
5~ios co,nt1y Al folks wonId only come mere 10
glorious county, he nade it ds ~
We could raise all the cereals except corn; all the
vegetables that would be necessary; IN fact every
r1ffa TGn and nFnaR ~ Inv
If We had permanent population manufactures OF
oil kinds would pay. But the folks won't stay;
~nnh 1T; TO make money and take it 20 the States
a q there enjoy themselves You meet John and
Gay. Well, John, when are You going home z Says
John. oh! so soon as ! make my pile Well the
Johns all make their piles, and instead of settling
down and going 70 farming, or into some business
here they take their money 10 the States TO squan-
der IT, thereby enriehing that already fat portion Of
Uncle SANS domain, and impOyerishng the gallant
little Territory that was 30 generous TO them.
Scarcely man comes here with the expectation of
staying, and the most Of them that you here are
TOO poor TO leave The way 20 make money here,
OF at least one OF the sure ways, is TO 20 into the
stock business. IL two OF three men had couple OF
thousand dollars each, even less. and would invest
n In yearlinRs at go per head IN three years time
they could increase their original capital eightfod
They could If shreWd, energetic, sober and enter
prislnR go into several kinds of business. such as
easing poultry and selling eggs, producing trout aFti
hcialy, and sending them TO market There acres
upon acres of long bottom along the rivers that
could be cut for hay, and miles upon miles Of
bunch and buffalo grass upon the upands and moun-
tans that Is all nutrlment fattening stock In the
Sumner almost miraculOusly, and sufficiently nutri-
-cious IN the Winter for them 30 retain the flesh
gained in Summer"
A CURE FOR BLoAT OR HovIN.-Mr. John Hodges
Of ROckdae, Crawford County, Pa. saw in my Jour
Al this morning that 20 COWS had recently died at
- near Davenport Iowa, by being bloated from eat
& clover, and hasten 70 inform you of al iufal-
libe applied fifteen minutes before the animal
ould otherwise die Take half pint OF salt and
c yer 1t with water and lay IL on the animals back
& or the kidneys and have the skin thoroughly I'M
pregnated with the brine, particularly where the
Paunch adheres TO the pleura the left side, lust
back Of the last long rib. have followed the cattle
business for more than twenty years, and learned
ehs from brother drOver. / once turned drove Of
cattle into flush feed on the Susquehanna, and q
rainy evening little after sunset q very fine young
OK came 20 with his tongue far out he could
eet OTeathlngso that he might DO heard twenty rods
~ more. sent my boy into the house for tin cup
hai tul OF salt, covered with water The old Dutch
an SAID might calculate 20 take his hide Oft ia the
ssgihing. told him should do no such thing. He
kes 10 would die in less than one hour that there
- more than dozen died on his farm Just 50, and
bser one cured. He so bad attempted TO stab I
- l, out dld not and said would wait i've minutes I
ss sc II the brine would In less than ten /
ehnules his tongue was In his mouth, and he was
ing DIS cud before o'clock
Pull FOR fKHcIN0.-biT. IS. ID. Buie. of Shoe Heel,
.soh County, North Carolina, made inquiry con
fsrr tne durability OF this material for inclosng
~ 1epta ls and which kind Of wire u preferable.
eist.SS. Iva few weeks ago one Of our members
hsd ~ that some good husbandman IN Pennsylvania
dests Obliged ~ discard wire for tire purpose in
WeFe IL DoSaube the animals, particularly horses
unawsTsaJ 70 iIgure themselves by rushing upon IL
larss ny ny msn-In conversation with the clerk of
esd tisv. lonse. asked about the eOf wire Ile
faf Co. sod good deal for crane trells hut little
va IA FluSya aids OF over half an acre mot u