Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1858 — Quantity of Seed per Acre. [ARTICLE]

Quantity of Seed per Acre.

* Last spring, having a field of very uniform soil upon which I wished to sow oats, I resolved to try what effect an increased quantity of seed would have upon the crop. Accordingly I sowed about fi|»ur acres tw o and a half bushels per acre. The least quantity of seed gave a yield oif one hundred and niPety-two and a half bushels; and the larger gave one hundred bushels, by measure; —a trifling difference by weight; the latter exceeded the former two pounds per bushel,, weight thirl y-dne to twenty-nine pounds. This was upon ground which had not been manured for the la6t six years, had raised a crop ol barley and one of corn previous to the oats. The difference in the weight of tho crop is something which I cannot account for with satisfaction to my own mind, as the seed was of the same kind> and the ground plowed of a uniform depth and all sowed and harrowed on the same day.

farmers" of the North-west will t?e glad to hear that the groat suit between McCormick and Mpiny, rival mannfacturers •f reapers, growing out of an alleged infringement of McCormick’s patent, has just ,been decided in the Supreme Court of the United. States adversely to McCormick, the plaintiff. Now, if his application for a renewal of an old patent can he defeated by Congress, the farmers of the North-west will soon be able to buy reapers at prices which-correspond with the times.— Chicago Tribunt. And yet, the right of a man who has done so much for agriculture ought'to to be overruled; one interest cannot thrive at the expense of another.

(£J”Ab the race mare “Prioress” is to, lie again brought on the turf in England, we give a brief description of her. She is a bay mare, about sixteen hands high, small ring of white on near hind pastern,/Star on the forhead. She was sired - by imported “Sovereign,” outof “Reel,” by “Glencoe.” She was four years old in 1857. She made the first mile heatß in April, 1858, on the Metairie Course, New Orleans—two heats in 1:46$ and 1:45; and two heats in 1:47 and She was beaten on the Fashion Course, Long Island, by Nicholas I in two straight heats. She was also beaten in the Goodwood cup-r&ce, which took place July 30, 1857. Distance two milda und a half.

. . Oxen ys. Horses. —Oxen cost far less, l and can be kept cheaper than horses. The wear and tear o! the yoke and chain is less that of a set of harness, .and if an accident,swell as breaking a leg, should occur, he is not a dead loss; for, if kept as he should be, and as any will find it to his interest to keep his cattle, he will make beef, while a horse »in like circumstances would b# s dead lose.