, by planting at proper distances, in
checks five by three apart, one-half of the after labor of cultivating
may be saved. About the same amount of plow work is said to be
necessary, but not more than one-fourth as much work with the hoe as is
required by cotton in drills.

Prof. J.W. Sanborn: "Deep tillage in times of drought of surface-rooted
crops, like corn, is an erroneous practice, founded on erroneous views.
'Plowing out corn' not only involves too deep tillage in drought but
adds to the mischief by severing the roots of corn, needed at such
times. Our double-shovel plows work too deeply. Our true policy, in
drought, for corn is frequent and shallow tillage. For this we now have
after the corn gets beyond the smoothing harrow, no suitable implement
on our markets, with a possible exception."

Correspondent New York Tribune: Of the use of oatmeal for cows mention
is not often made in this country; but when spoken of it is always with
praise. That it is better than corn meal there can be no doubt; it is
richer in both albuminoids and fat; and the usefulness of these two
nutriments, and especially the former, for making milk is shown not
only by the results of numerous careful experiments, but by the
acknowledged usefulness of oil-cake meal. Where this meal is used freely
there would be less use for oatmeal; but under some circumstances it
might be advantageously substituted for the bran in the favorite mixture
for cows of Indian meal and bran.

The following paragraph appears in an English cotemporary: The
introduction of a new industry connected with farming into Ireland will
be hailed by everybody, and therefore we rejoice to learn that a company
has been formed with the design of purchasing or renting nearly a
million and a quarter acres of land in Ireland, and devoting them to
beet culture, from which the sugar will be extracted in a manufactory
erected on the land. The promoters of the new company expect that from
the 120,000 acres which they propose cultivating they will produce
400,000 tons of sugar in the year. Immense quantities of sugar extracted
from the beet-root are manufactured on the continent and imported into
these countries, and there is no reason whatever why Ireland should not
have her finger in the sugar pie.

In a paper before the Oxford (Ohio) Farmers' Club, on the subject "The
Morality of the System of Grain Gambling," Mr. Wetmore said: There is a
difference between speculation and inves