THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



jority of the countless thousands who gather
wonderingly about them never saw before.
  Sir William Logan, who is Chief Commis-
sioner for Canada, has immediate charge of
the fine botanical, geological and mineralog-
ical specimens, and almost every day lectures
instructively to the gathering crowds. His
collections of iron, lead and copper ores, and
of building stones and crystalline rocks is no
less remarkable than that of the timbers,
fruits and flowers just alluded to.
  The specimens of cereal grains, of beans,
peas, &c., &c. are very creditable indeed, and



begin until the dew is off; a cloudy day is
best, for when the sun shines hot, they will
not have time to wilt sufficiently before they
will sunburn, which may be known by the
leaves turning white and looking puckered.
Commence on one side of the piece, laying the
plants all one way, in order to facilitate load-
ing. The plants may, most of them, be brok-
en off easily, by gently bending them over one
way and another. Small plants, which will
not break, may be sawed off with an old saw
or cut with a hatchet. If the sun shines too
hot, the plants should be turned over carefully
to prevent burning.  After lying an hour or
two to wilt sufficiently, so as not to break by
handling. they may be carted to the barn or
shed. Ample room for curing should be pro-
vided, and if any one expects to raise tobacco
for any lenebt of time, it is best to have a



the wagons and agricultural --              I bildi   bult e         f  
it
implements give one a high estimate of the I
Canadian mechanics. The Canadas are mak-                      nrBLDINGS.
ing good progress in the arts, and have before i in the first place one wants
to know about
them a career of still greater prosperity. Po  hw much room they will need,
and then build
litically considered they are already quite in- accordingly. To hang an acre
of good tobac-
           depenent  f th  moter cuntr  andwillco requires a building about
thirty by twenty-
 dependent of the mother country and wil Ifour feet with fifteen-feet posts.
 Two girths
 scarcely remain proinrce8 a quarter of a cen- | should be framed into the
posts on all sides
                                            r  of the building; one five
feet above the sill,
 tury longer.                                and the other ten feet above,
to rest the poles
                                            -  on, also to nail the covering
boards to. This
               Curing Tobacco.               gives a space of five feet for
each tier of plants.
                                             Have a beam run across the centre
of the
  On this subject we quote from a valuable building, with a post in the middle
with girths
article by Mr. Bishop, of Hartford, Conn., as to correspond with those on
the siae, extend-
given in the pamphlet on Tobacco Culture, ing lengthwise through the middle
of the
                                             building for the poles or rails,
each twelve
published by Orange Judd. As the season is feet in length, to be laid upon;
or if sticks
now so far advanced that buildings, such as are to be used (as hereafter
described) lay
                                             rails or poles once in four
feet for the sticks
the writer seems to contemplate, cannot be to rest upon.  Place a ventilator
upon the
erected in time, it may be well to remark that centre of the roof, and have
one board in cv-
cheap and temporary sheds may he miiade to ery tour feet hung on hinges,
to be opened or
                                             i closed at pleasure. If made
with a floor and
answ er a tolerable purpose.                 a cellar underneath, to let
down the tobacco
           CUTTING AND HANUINI.(            into when ready to strip, it
is all the better.
                                             We will now return to the crop,
and commence
  The plants grow rapidly and require less hanging it. A common way of doing
it is by
than three months from the time of setting tying with common twine. Tie the
end of the
before they are ready to cut.  Any one used string tightly around the butt
of one plant,
to the cultivation of the crop knows when it and by placing it against the
side of the pole
is ripe, the veins of the leaves are swollen, nearest you, put another plant
on the opposite
the leaves begin to look spotted and feel thick side and carry the string
over and around it,
and gummy.    The ends of the leaves will placing the plants alternately
on each side of
crack on being doubled up. After it is ripe the pole until filled, then fasten
the string,
the sooner it is cut the better, as it is liable to place the pole in the
right place, (it should be
injury by frost or hail, and will not increase nearly right before it is
filed,) and commence
in weight as fast as the worms eat it, and the on the next one in like manner,
having some
leaves get broken by catching them. The one to hand the plants as wanted.
As to how
plants will generally ripen from the first to thick to hang it depends upon
the size of the
the fifteenth of September; they should not plants, but in good sized tobacco
about nine
be cut immediately after a heavy rain unless inches on each side is close
enough, that will
is danger of frost, as a portion of the gum  be from thirty to thirty-two
on each pole of
washes out, but should be allowed to stand twelve feet; place the poles from
fifteen to
two or three days.  The cutting should not eighteen inches apart.  Another
method of



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