INDIANA FARMER.
Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanics and tne  Useful Arts.
D.p._n.««v,w.i.rennu.i      RICHMOND, JUKE 1, 1854. .   j^i-Ts?.?^.»•.*!¥:■•
R. T. Reed.—Editon.
Table of Contents.
Page 253—National Cutle Shoir.Nevr process of making bread,
Beneut of D tching.
••    250—Firming in Tennessee, Grafting Stone Fruit, Cement.
" 2o\)—L irge crops of Wheat, Feeling Poultry, Sale of new
Wneit.
11 261—Vitality of Seels, Putting Frozen Lambs in Warm
Water, Ho lbs beaten
"    252—Poisonous Plants.
'• 253—To raise Giant Asparagus, Cure for Mange, Raising
Calves—i new metho.l. Plan for growing Cucum
hers, Profitable Stra.v:>erry Bel.
•' 264—Fruit Prospects, Wheat Prospects, Springfield Cattle ShOiV, Answer to Enquirer, Spring Creps.
" 265—Cruelty to Animals. Sowing Timothy Seed, Strawberries, -j-c.
"    2S6—Important to Fruit Growers, Pruning Trees, Lice.
**   267—Suggestions on Potato Culture. Reme ly forpotato rot.
" 26S—Hon' to commeoce Business, Protect the Little Birds,
Prolits of Sugar Cnlture, Wonderful Calf, etc.
"    269—Native Cattle for the Dairy, Western Apples.
"    270—Fence Posts, Neir Quilting Frames. Small Potatoes.
•'    271—Corn Culture,Gir.tens that Never Fail.
*'    272—Evaporation of Manures, Discovery of Coffee.
The leaves should be burned off in the fall, and
the seed sown the following spring. Perhaps
sowing the seed the same fall would answer as
well. It is very difficult to set a woodland in
grass, when it is covered in leaves. Blue grass,
for woodlands, is strongly recommended, though
other kinds might be sown with it. R.
When to Deaden Timber.
A correspondent whose communication appeared in our last, wishes to know when is the
best time for deadening young timber, to prevent
it sprouting from the roots. We have before us
several articles on the subject, nearly all of which
say that the proper time is when the sap runs
freest, which is generally in the latter part of the
8th month (August.) Most of the articles before us run much like the following, from the
pen of H. B. Palmer, in the Ohio Farmer:
"In regard to the best time for cutting trees to
deaden the roots and stumps, and prevent the
sprouts and stumps from growing, I would briefly state that the best time is in the month of August, in the old moon, when the sign is in the
heart, if it should so happen; or when the moon
is smallest, if new; when it is nearest to the last
quarter when the sign is as above mentioned.
During the month of August a greater quantity
of sap° is excluded from the roots, being in the
body and branches of the tree, than at any other
season of the year—therefore depriving the roots
of the most important nutriment for sending forth
sprouts.
As whimsical as this may seem to you andthe
numerous readers of your excellent paper, it is
nevertheless true, and one trial will convince the
most skeptical. This year the time for cutting
will be best from the 20th to the 26th of August."
The same correspondent also wishes to know
what is the best plan for setting woodland in
grass. This subject is treated at some length in
a discussion before the State Board of Agriculture, in January, 1852. The plan there recommended is to cut off. the saplings and deaden the
useless timber, leaving from fifty to ono hundred
trees to the acre. Grass will do but little good in
a thick woods, and it is difficult to get it started.
Montgomery* County Agricultural Society".
At a rogular quarterly meeting of the Montgomery county Agricultural Society, held on the 6th
day of May, 1854, the following named persons
were unanimously elected officers of said Sociaty*
for the ensuing year:
President—Jeremiah B. Durham.
Vice Presidents—M. D. Manson, John Allen,
John S. Beasly.
Recording Secretary—Sam'l W. Austin.
Corresponding Secretary—R. T. Brown.
Treasurer—Francis H. Brown.
Executive Committee—T; W. Fry) Preston
McCormack, William McCray, T. H. Fitzgerald,
Richard Canine, J. E. McDonald, J. P. Watson,
William Hanna, Alexander Harper, Hudson Mid-
dleton and Abijah O'Neal.
"Wool Growing in Ohio.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer in a long
article on the sheep best adapted to Ohio says:
"I have been a wool grower from my youth,
and am grown old in the business, and have spared neither time, trouble or money, to procure the
best kinds of sheep, and breed them to the best
advantage.   I have experimented with them from
the finest wooled and most delicate Saxon, to the
large and heavy framed  and wooled  French
sheep.    The conclusion I have come to is, that
a fleece of 3 or 4 lbs. weight, grown on medium
sized animals suits the Ohio Wool Grower better
than those that produce no more than 2  or 2J
lbs to the fleece, or than those that are said to
yield from 12 to 30.    Sheep bred  to either of
these extremes, is a strain on the nature of the
animal, that costs more than it is worth to keep
I think it would be wise for the farmers of
Ohio to pay more attention to wool-growing and
produce more wool of the best qualities, for it
will be exceedingly advantageous to us as a State
to have the best wool for the manufacturer, and
the best sheep for those who wish to purchase.
This will turn the attention of buyers to Ohio,
instead of other countries where they get either
fine, light fleeced Saxons, or overgrown French
sheep."