THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



            The Tobacco Question.
  FitEN ) IIOYT:-For the first time in my life
I sit down to address the editor of a periodical
on any subject whatever.  But since reading
your article on the 4 Cultivation of Tobacco,"
in the April No., I have felt that I could not
do my own feelings and conscience, or yeur-
self, justice without saying a word in appro-
bation of your article, in so boldly and honor-
ably standing up for the truth against the
popular tide, of your readers even, in saying
the right thing in the right place-in not only
washing your own hands in innocency, but in
raising the warning voice to all those "1 semi-
civilized men" to beware what they are doing
in resorting to means for relieving not only
themselves but a land groaning to be delivered.
  I feel morc constrained to write this to you
than I otherwise would, had I not felt that I
was one of the first to ask you to give us some-
thing on the best mode of cultivating tobacco;
and at the same time witnessing my earnest-
ness by rolling Eome of the stuff as a "swreet
morsel under ily tongue." Will you forever
forgive me, dear friend, for contributing one
morsel oi' ;n'itience in asking you to come
down, in then least, front the high calling of a



power of a strong man armed, which, I feel,
nothing but the grace of the stronger than he
will enable me to overcome. But, as you have
a duty to perform to the whole people, I trust
your superior wisdom will guide you in a bet-
ter path than I could suggest.
  I have acted as a voluntary agent a little,
and obtained a few subscribers for the FARM-
ER; one of the main reasons for which was
the high moral standing it held, and teachings
It sent forth into every house, being a mission -
ary for good in a moral as well as a temporal
point of view.                    A. MI. S.
PRAIRIE DU S ..c. April 24, 1863.

                Haymakizg.

  This interesting branch of farm labor is pro-
perly divisible into two parts-the cutting and
the curing. A few words under each of these
heads:
  TaE CUTTING involves the when and the how;
in respect to both of which points the practice
has too often been erroneous.
  As a general rule, all grasses intended for
hay should be cut before the seed is ripened-
clover while yet in the blossom. If allowed to
become dead ripe, so0me of the most valuable
nutritious substances are transformed into



christian character, and compromise yourseltfE hard woody fibe, and becoe
comparatively
or journal in pointing out the way for any |orttletss
farmer to dainage not only himself but our   The
                                                   Tequestion Of mode may
refer to either
land, wlich i feel is yet to take the lead i"s 4the height above the
surface of the ground, or
bringing about the day which shall be the joy to the implements employed.
of the whol , earth-when the Fces that do-   Concerning the first we would
say, There is
grade andl lessen the power of man shall .ill injury done sometimes by cutting
so close as
have beesi put ml let his feet.           l to expose the first joint of
the roots to the
  I had cor teniplated raising what I conven- E scorching sun.  If the grass
be soft aud fine,
iently coUaI of tobacco, procured seed of the covering the earth as a mat,
there is not this
choicet k;t kl I could find. and was calculating dlnger; but if coarse and
sparse, and the
you wou' I tre Its somne light on the subject, veather be dry and hot, it
would be economy
and then I would  pitch in." The light which to colt a little higher.
the few -ti t-ti's mentioned in your article has  A.; to the iipietuents,
that question must be
brought, t.il ti he Suggestions of a better Siac, decided( by the nature
Uf the grouud and the.
is the ih ht I prefer to profit by, leaving it to amount to be cut, and each
ti'.aer must judge
those to choose the other course who have no for himseif.  But, even on a
small farm, the
conscience to sni.otltcr.                     saving, not only in actual
labor, but in the
  I ant sorry I have ever consented to its use. greater security of the crop,
when it can nll be
the habit of which has been as the tyrannical rushed into the bhrn or put
into stack in three



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