66     THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



  ns ZIemmisl UepesitlsA of Utaw.

MR. EDITOR:-In the Novsnber number o



the FASUNI I noticed you gave several subject4
for discussion, one of which was "The moui
Economical Disposition of Straw."
   My plan is, to make a pen, by setting crotch.
 es in the ground, so that a heavy pole laid inti
 them will be three or four feet above the sur.
 face: then set rails on the end inside of these
 poles, and about two feet or twenty inchei
 apart. This pen may be ten or twelve 'fee
 wide, and long enough to hold as much straw
 as desired.
   In this way cattle may be much protected
from winds and storms, and the straw all saved.
                          F. N. GoomucitnI.
  MoxN. CRzgK, Mtnn., Dec. 15, 1S62.

  Queries and Recipe--Leather, Pork, and the
                  Farmer.
  ED. FARMER:-I would like to have you tell,
through the FAnRMER, how to obtain seeds from
the Patent Office.
        HOW TO SAVE SHOE LEATHER.
  As it a benefit to some to save money, I
would say to the farmers, you can save one-
third of your shoe leather by sending for the
FARMER, and oiling the soles of your boots and
shoes with linseed oil, as much as they will
soak in, especially when they are new-but not
on the uppers, as it will make them hard and
cause them to crack. Those who wear boots
in summer, without socks, would do well to
grease them on the inside. They will keep
softer, wear longer, turn water better, and nev-
er rub their feet.  Try it; leather is worth
saving.
            TO PRESERVE PORK.
  I often hear of persons losing pork by spoil-
ing. I have kept it two years in this way:-
Put 25 pounds of salt to the barrel; then make
a brine and pdt on cold. After it has become
pickled through, scald, skim the brine and
turn it on hot, as soon as it has settled, and
scald as often as it is bloody.



        THE WISCONSIN FARMER.
I think I shall be able to send you a club for



the FARMER, as I think it is among the indis-
pensibles. I have Itaken it ever since it was



firt published, and I have them all preserved.



They are a treasury of good reading.
  Home Binding for the Farmer.-I bind them
in this way:-Take wire No. 4. and put them
together, when the volume is full, with a gim-
let or anything to make the holes with; put it
through about half an inch from the back.
Take of the wire a piece long enough to bend
over both ways and come together across the
back. Hammer it down firmly. and the num-
bers will keep their places and never tear out.
I think this a good way to preserve them for
future reference, where we cannot get them
bound at the book binders.  W. EMERItC.
  W& SF GauXN LAKE Dec. 1862.

  IIEtI:Ns RIGHT.-MESSxS llOYT & CAMPBELL:
-Having borrowed the November No. of the
FARMER, I herewith send you one dollar in
hearty acceptance of your offer to every new
subscriber before January 1st.
  I have just commenced farming, having
spent nearly all my life until new behind the
dry-goods counter, and am happy to see a jour-
nal for the farmer so full of enterprise as yours
appears to be. I will endeavor to obtain other
subscribers for you, when I have opportunity.
  I intend to plant 6 or I1 acres of tobacco.
Have you any article published or accessible
on the subject of the cultivation of tobacco in
this climate?          CHAS. 11. ToPpNa.
DELEvAs, Dec. 23, 1562.
NOTE. -We are no friend to tobacco, but will
cheerfully furnish the best information we can
gather. in the next number of the FARBIER.-
ED.

  CULTURE or PEANUTS.-Ma. EDITOR:-I
wish to inquire through the columns of your
magazine about the propagation and culture of
the peanut. I would like to gain some inform-
ation as soon as possible, in time to make ar-
rangements for this season's crop.
                           E. N. CARVBU.



CAALZS OnWr, iowa, Dee. IlS.
Who knows all about Peanuts?



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