...............478 . 1 "..... 11 308 1. 608 Page. Page. 323 (illustrated,).............. 114 | Large armies of sucient times,... 476 gardens,................ 205 mives,..............56, 176, 256, 321 | Lawton blackberry, (illus) 338.180. 139 68 Laying fowls classified,.......... 131 | Legislative,.................116, 166 Leicester shee P,............. education, rules for,..... | Lexch-d ashes,..............118, 123 truth at .................. 3 Liges, (poetry,)................. 364 Honey locust helge,............. 486 Lice, remedy for farm stock,..... 168 ...... 209 Liquid grafting wax,............ 259 .. 477 .... LIET OT the killed,............... Lire constantly Darrowing,..... Little chi drep, plays for......... orphan,...................1 Light, ventilation in stables... 329, 332 bots ip, ............... Love of country and home,...... 25 the wonderful,........... feeding,... Low heads for winter protection ceps!, ..... of trees,............67, 95, 141 small..... ... 210 | Lumber trade,.................. 19 breeding....... ...... 251 . ..... 291 M. with heaves,........ Machinery, .................305, 388 feeding oats to,..... 381 Machines for woman's work,..... 190 311 Manufacturing interests of Wis., 61 yard, the farmers meal chest, 49 Manures, use of straw for,...... 203 action of,...........320, 328, 30 99 Making the best of circumstances, Hydrophobia, .................. Markets,............74, 115, 155, 197 Massachusetts agriculture,....... 89 Measure cake,.................. ... 192 Melodeon, the prize, (illust.)..... Meadow land, fall pa turing of,... 429 Imphee,.....................45, 161 Measles.......... ......... 514 Meat, receipe for curing ......... 165 Merrimac No. 2, plan to destroy the Monitor,.. 313 Mid winter, (poetry.)............ Mining.... 104, 188, 189, 221, 203, 204 Military,...............115, 156, 233 ment, ....... Microscope, .................... 145 220 258 Harrison,.................. 159 Milk, quality of, ................ 325 crop of the United States,.... 379 60+ fever in cow8,.............. 379 168 Milking stoil, a two story,.... 498 Mangring soils,.... 218 eminently sound, Meral beauty,........ Mole draining,....... 285 Mortar for building,.. 66 119 337 Musbroom.,............ ........ 216 Mul hing,........... ......217, 376 263 Muck, treatment of.. ....2.2, 281, 453 348 Just across the river, (poetry,)... 350 vancement of Social Science, 319 National Bureau of Agriculture,.. 124 Neato es in the school room,..... 349 News from the war, (poetry,)..... 148 Kenosha coup y fair,...... 479 Nine ch ers,..... Kaolin, or porcelain blay,....... 104 Notes of travel, ............. 276 90 206 European travel......... 402 20+ .. (06 Northern and Southern troops,... 264 November and its work,......... 0. iron,........ .......... 118 400Os ober and its work ............ 12 Ode to the memory of Gov. L. P. Hervey ................... 230 87 111 468 282 402 21 102 344 Page. : 224) 15 181 Viterinary ecich. colts, pigs.. Page. Page. Salubrity of the southern states,., 265 | Tares, dogs and sheep,....... Telegraph experiment, .......... 147 houses, plea-ant,............ 472 Atlantic,................145, 468 new field,.. lines, new,,.............. Think,...................... Seed cord, how to save,.......... Thistles, Canada, how to kill,.... 279 304 Toba co and maize, (poetry,)..... 215 Top-dreseing,................... Treas. Report Wis State Ag. Soe'y 85 VS cattle,.................. 207 Transportation, what gov't pays,. 33 209 breeding............. 2 2 286 shelter for,........... dogs and taxes... 287 | United States, mints of,.......... 220 292 | University commercial school,.... 481 | Useful and beautiful, the,........ 26 husbandry in New Mexico,... 78 V. tobacco juice for,............ Sheboygan Cuunty ag'l society,... Varnishing and japapning,...... 244 23: Shoddy,.....................20 Vegetation, effec', depth of soil on 370 Shot and shell,,... Vermia on cattle, colts, pigs,..... 133 193 Veterinery Eci Dc,.............. 330 Village or farm house, (illus ).... Skim-mlik calves,.......129, 167, Slaves in the south,...... .... 470 Smut, how to kill,....... 40 Snow scu pture,........ .... 110 Wall Tower, the,..... ........ Walworth county fair,.......... Water, how to purity,........... 12 for stock, pure,...... 332 drop of, imprisoned at the cre. (poetry,)................ ation,.................... 219 War, (poetry ).................. 32 of the rebellion,...35, 70, 233, 398 vs. industry,....... horticulture and the,.. erop 1862........ Washing on and Frankl D,...... Wasp and bee, (poe'ry,)......... 474 Wax moth,................... convention in Ohio,... Welcome back, (poetry,)....... West, the far....... Soul made visible,............... 150 South down sheep,.............. Western Europe, yield of grain in, 419 63 White rocuntains, .............. 470 Whitney's survey of lead mines,. 105 316 Wheat growing in connection with Sparrows, novel art of commerce, 308 282 sheep..................... 26 Wilkes, commodore, (illustrated.) 133 473 Wilson's Albany strawberry, (ill.) 133 Windows, open tbe,............. 224 Winter protection of crchard and , garden................ pears...................... how to move trees in,....... Wintering sheep,........... ... 307 Stories about children and things Widowed sword, the,....... Wit and wisdom, 29, 71, 112, 150, 192, 274, 352,....... 815 Wis State Ag. Society,..... 316 ing...................... 2 Wilson's Albany, (illustrated) 133 Wheat midge fly and weevil,..... 244 profits,. ..............". Whitewash, a brilliant stucco,.. 321 3-3 Woman's work, machines Cr,. Wool clip!,........ 203 army consumption of ....... 306 burning, ................... 450 growirs, thoughts of,........ 171 gro.ing.................... 456 tuie..................... matters ...... growing in St. Croix Valley .. 288 | World, America the grabary of the, 37 growing in New Mexico,... raising, horses,............ Work, do your owa,............. 613 population of the, .......... World's fair, 39, 73, 115, 234, 26, 363, 445,..... .... Writing, habit of,... 3 18 in common schools,........ 109 26 berries.................... 44 | Yeast, potato,... 124 123 10 ... .... 497 30 .... 402 "We have beun a reader of the Parmer for many years, and would not part with its company for ten times its cost "-Le Seur (Mion.) Berule. “It contains a vast amount of most interesting matter."'--Appleton Crescent. 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The Editor having returned from his tour through Europe, in future numbers of the work will give us the fruits of his labors and observations.: -Kenosha Times. Statistics of the Great Grain Crops of 1860. 1860 was, not 15,000,000 bushels, as the MichGreat anxiety has been felt by all who feel igan Farmer admitted, nor 16,000,000 as was an interest in the character and progress of generously allowed by sundry papers further the Agriculture of our young State, in the sta le sta- East, nor 22,000,000 as was “extravagantly” tistical results of the great grain crops of 1860. 1860. claimed by the Farm Committee, nor 25,000,000 Individuals accustomed to making such calcu as had been “wildly” estimated by various lations, had made what were regarded, out of individuals resident in the State, but TWENTYthe State, as wild estimates, and the Farm SEVEN MILLIONS, THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN Committee of the Wisconsin State Agricultural THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED AND SIX, AND ONESociety, after careful observation in the grain HALF BUSHELS! growing districts published an estimate which The number of acres sown was 1,112,630,was received by the Eastern press with incre .62; from which we determine the average per dulity and declared extravagantly absurd. | acre to have been twenty-four and fifty-five We believe that none of those estimates | hundredths bushels! An aggregate and an acreage not equalled, we will venture to say claimed more than twenty-five millions of bushels of wheat ; that of the Farm Committee by any other State in the Union. Wisconsin, as a State, has numbered but claimed twenty-two millions of bushels. This twelve years, and yet for the production of last was likewise our own published estimate, this greatest Northern staple, wheat, leads the after pretty extensive travel over the State, van of the States ! Verily, the Badger farmers though we dared to believe that the figures | have a right to hold up their heads, and every furnished by the statistics would prove the cal citizen may be proud of our noble Wisconsin. culation to have been quite moderate. Details of these statistics will be published But to settle the matter and to make the in the Report of the Secretary of State and in Statistical Tables as complete, accurate and the 6th Vol. of Transactions of the Wisconsin incontrovertible as possible, we asked of the State Agricultural Society, both now in press. Legislature of last winter certain amendments | But meantime it will be of interest to our to the law for the collection of statistics, which readers to know what counties took the lead in should have the effect to compel a full and this immense production of wheat: faithful performance of duty on the part of Dane ranks first, gowing 130,145 acres, collectors. The amendments were made, and and gathering....... . 3,005,885 bush. Dodge county second, gathering. 2,295,357 " the returns furnish the most gratifying evi-| Rock. ............third,..........do....... 2,180,584 Fond du Lac fourth, ........ do ...... 1,775,365 dence of the improved efficiency of the law, as Walworth ......fifth, ...........do.... ... 1,675,449 Columbia ........sixth,..........do.... .. 1,396,647 well as of the moderation of the crop referred | Waukesha .....seventh,......do... ........ 1,246,676 “ to above. The corn crop was likewise large, exceeding Now what does really appear from those re- our expectations by one or two millions, as turns as tabulated and published by the Sec- Wisconsin has never taken rank among the retary of State? Why, the wheat crop of I great corn-growing States. Number of acres Tents ha al time seve planted, 373,418.48; number of bushels, 12,- nel, calico, drilling, and thread have all been 045,178. made of the new flax fibre, and with a remark able degree of perfection. New processes for Of oats there were 336,394 .87 acres sown; preparing the fibre give great encouragement number of bushels harvested, 13,834,9373. to those who are embarked in the business. Mills for the manufacture have already been These are, of course, the heaviest of our erected in New York and in New England, and grain crops, and they are certainly worthy of will soon be in operation, not only working the our fertile soil and of the unsurpassed energy flax, by itself into fabrics, but working it in connection with wool and cotton. American and enterprise of our people. ingenuity is about to succeed in a line in which the English and French have hitherto failed. Comparative Values of Fuel. When the cold season is upon us we are com Agriculturo in Nicaragua. pelled to turn our attention to the supply of Hon. A. B. Dickinson, writes to the Country fuel as one source of warmth. In this country, three articles are used for this purpose, viz. : :| Gentleman, from Nicaragua, as follows: Wood, coal and peat. Of these, wood is mostly DIMINUTIVE SIZE OF THE CATTLE OF NICARAGUA. in use. It is evident to the most superficial The cattle in these localities are about oneobserver, that there is a great difference in the half the size of those of the Eastern, Middle different kinds of wood brought into our mark and Western States of North America. I have ets in regard to the amount of heat thrown never seen a bullock slaughtered here, that out by them while undergoing combustion.- would weigh 500 pounds in the beef, nor have I ever heard of one that weighed 800 pounds. to ascertain as near as might be the actual The average net weight of cattle here does not difference in their amount. Among these ex exceed 300 pounds, while in the Northern States periments, those of Mr. Bull of Connecticut, it is as high as 600, and I have seen whole veral years ago were very satisfactory. droves of cattle in the New York market, that The most recent statements that we have would average 800 pounds each in beef. Inseen, are the following, which may be interest deed, it is no uncommon thing for several to be ing to many of our readers. slaughtered during the holidays weighing in Taking good shell bark hickory for the stan- | the neighborhood of 1,500 pounds each. The dard, and calling that 100, and supposing all net weight of - Washington,” the heaviest bulthe different kinds of woods to be sound, and lock which I recollect of seeing killed for beef reckoning by the pound, the table will read in the States, was, if I remember rightly, over thus : 2,100 pounds. Pignut,.. 95 White elm,... HOW TIE COWS ARE MILKED. White onk,.... 85 Red cedar,..... The cows of this country generally give White ash, 7 Wild cherry,.. Dogwood, (cormus,) 75 Yellow pine,. about as much milk as a goat, say from two to Scrub oak, 73 Chestnut,.. ... three quarts per day. Before they milk the White hazel,.. 72 Yellow poplar, .. cow, they always tie the calf to her fore leg. Apple tree....... 70 Butternut, ..... Red oak,....... 69 White birch,.. 49 Then they carefully crawl up behind the calf, White beech,... .. 65 White pine,........ and the cow is cheated out of what little milk Yellow oak,...... she has, under the supposition that she is givThese several results must be only approxi- ling it to her calf. To attempt to milk the cow mations to the truth. It is very evident that without having the calf tied to her fore leg, the soil and latitude in which these woods grow would be considered by the natives as simply must have some effect on their value as fuel. preposterous. Besides being “ kicked into the We know that they do in regard to their prop-I middle of next week,” they would fail to get a erties for timber. single drop of her milk, which she wouldn't think of giving down to anybody but her calf. Flax Cotton.—The New York Evening Post BUTTER AND CHEESE. of the 16th says: On the cattle estates the milk is manufacturIf King Cotton is not likely to be dethroneded into cheese, resembling what is known in by his uncrowned rival, Flax, he is destined to the United States as pot-cheese, with the exget a severe poke in the ribs, which will make ception that this is pressed. It is largely used his seat uneasy. We have seen several speci- by the inhabitants, and brings from 10 to 12 mens of the new commodity to-day, which cents per pound in the market. One hundred come nearer to the genuine article than any cows in this country will make no more, howthat have yet fallen under our notice. They ever, than twenty-five in the Northern States, are to be seen at the office of Latson & Abbott, as the former do not give more than one-fourth No. 159 Water Street, where fabrics of the the quantity of milk which the latter do, and same material are also to be inspected. Flan- even that not half so rich. Butter is, as it |