The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-05-20
AGRICULTURAL.
sENsE IyPLoWINs.

COMMON SENSE Nv PLOTTING.
Teams drawing loads on the roads get
breathing spell ON the descending
ground, while in blowing the draft is the
same from morning till night. There is
certain number of pounds that team
can draw day after day and not worry
them, but if more be added, even as lit
tie as fifteen or twenty pounds, they
walk unsteadily, fret, and soon tire. No
amouHt of feeding will keep them in
condit Rn. l have many plows in use on
which II has been an easy matter to de-
crease the draft twenty-five pounds, and
if men had been drawing them instead of
horses it would have been done. 1t must
be plain to the farmer that every pound
taken off from the draft of his pillow is %
much gained for his horses. 1t may be.
q done in this way:
ForRny soil, except sand or gravel,
use eel plow Their cost is but little
more, u the draft enough less to pay
the difference in blowing twenty acres.
4 In blowing sod. the coulter does a great
deal of the work, and should be kept
sharp by forging at the blacksmith's and
grinding every day, if necessary. OF
courseit will wear out sooner, but new
coulters are cheaper than new teams.
Set the coulter in line with the pillow, the
edge pare in front, with an angle of
As ds es from the point to where it is
Z = to the beam. When the share
- "a out, it is poor economy to use
- longer, but replace it with new
ON 1.-The traces be as short as will
horses to walk without hitting
heels against the whiffletrees, and
5ust pressure enough of the wheels
49, The gSpund to make the plow run
Ostea yA IF the handles crowd contin-
ualiy one way, the draft is not right,
and IT the pillow is a good one it can be
easily remedied at the clevis. To pre-
} gent the horses stepping over the traces
In turning, fasten weight of about
three-fourths of a pound on the outside
Of each single-tree-that is, ON the right
end when you turn to the left, and vice
versa- Every farmer knows that horses
are susceptible to kindness and equally
. to p9findness. i have esen horses
that were working steadily made reeking
with sweat in a short time by a sharp
word or jerk ON the bit. Let your
horses do their work as you do yours, as
eGly - possible, and be rs willing to
overlook their mistakes as you would the
mistakes of human being. - Practical
Farmer.
COVERINGS FOR WOUNDS OF TREES
1t often happens that, either BY inten-
ton, as in pruning, or by accident, trees
are wounded in various ways. A COM
mon practice is to cover large wounds
with coal Jar; but this is objected to by
some rs injurious to the tree. Expert
nents made in the orchards and gardens
Of the R biological Institute, at Ruth
lengen, fn Germany, go to show, how
ever, TN Its use in covering large
wounds is not injurious, but that, on the
contrary, y callous readily forms under
the tar, on the edges of the wound and
that the wounded part is thus protected
hon ~. There is, nevertheless, an
other ection; for if the tar is applied
littl thick the sun melts it and it runs
= dowl bark of the tree. This can be
ebvhs by mixing and stirring, and
thus operating with the tar, about
1hree q eur times its weight of pow
1redselate-known as slate 1our-the
mixture being known as plastic slate and
used for roofing purposes. It is easily
applied with an old knife or fat stick.
InMA though it hardens ON the surface, it
remains soft and elastic underneath
Inc heat of the sun does not melt it,
nor does the coolest winter cause it to
cssck; neither does it peel or
The same mixture is also useful for
other purposes in the garden. Leaky
water-pots, barrels, pals, shutters, sa.hes,
etc, can be easily repaired with it, and
much annoyance and loss of time be thus
avoided. 1t will stick to any surface,
provided it be not oily and as it does
not harden when kept in mass, it is
always ready for use A gallen will last
for long time.-Mass. PlolghEaas
FARM PRODUCES.
As large q customer as England al
ready is for American wheat, it seems
that her demand must grow from year to
year. While the winter crop in this
country is doing finely the cold, wet
weather in Europe has given q very firm
tone to their markets and caused large
supplies to be sent over from this side,
while prices hold firm and our profits
bid fair to be gratifying But there is
more ban this temporary drawback on
the "a ign crop Of this year to induce a
belief that American shipments will
continue to increase. All accounts agree
that the acreage of England is perma-
nently ON the decrease because of the
farmers going into cattle-raising as more
rcmunerative, and that in future Eng.
land must look more and more to other
. countries for her wheat supply. 1t is
not likely that the continent will furnish
mQre than it does how. for it has no new
"a to open, except perhaps, in Rus
siaahd the increase there is not mat
ter of great moment. 1t appears, then,
that our farmers will continue to find
that the foreign demand for their pro-
ducts is on the rise, and that the United
States will be more than ever the great
he(frproducing country of the world.
A vast development awaits western agri-
culture and additional prosperity to west
ern people. We have plenty of good
land left, and the possibilities of produc-
tiou mn what ia now omen tn cuJf;vat;or