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THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

      J. VV HOYT,                                                E:DITOR.

VOL. XV.               MADISON, NOVEMBER             1, 1863.           
   No. 11.

               New Xexico.                came up from seeds lying in the
gronud the
  [The following letter from Hon. J. G. Knapp, last of April, is now eight
feet high, and will
U. S. Justice for New Mexico, touching the cli- grow two months more this
summer, when it
mate, agriculture, horticulture, &c., of that will liveover the winter
and be ready to grow
far off territory, will hardly fail to interest again next summer.  But the
sun-flower
every class of our readers-ED.]            ripened its seeds in July, and
is dead.  The
  ED. FARMER.-Every kind of agriculture is old colony sweet corn made roasting
ears in
here conducted on so different a scale from  June, and was unfit for use
the 20th of July.
what it is in the States, that you can foru no The early bush beans matured
in July, and
idea of themanner. You draw the water ot would raise a second crop; but the
Linas,
of the land by drains and underdrains: we after making from ten to twenty
feet of vine,
put water on the land to produce moisture, in and maturing what would be
a full crop, are
order to induce vegetation. You are blessed still growing and blooming as
vigorously as
with shewers and rains from the heavens, if they had just began to bloom.
Water mel-
and dews bedeck every plant, or fill the newly ons are past their prime,
and musk melons
stirred earth with needed moisture; here, but with me are going. Field eorn
is t all stage,
one inch of rain has fallen in the valley since from hard corn to plants
a foot out of the
the beginning of the year. You talk of wells ground. The ootton woods and
willows have
and cisterns, and make comparisons between made more growth than I have ever
seen be.
hard water and soft; we drink and use the fore; but they are almost valueless
for timber,
water of the Rio Grande, glad to take it as it and yet they are the entire
timber of the val-
runs, nearly as muddy as the Missouri. All ley. The musquit (mum-keet) is
a mere bush,
water found in the ground is charged with seldom found ten feet long or three
inches
salts, and one might as well use glauber salts through; but there is a large
root just under
as such water. Fer myself, I have construct- the surface, which is dug out
and makes ex-
ed a cheap filter with a common barrel, and cellent fuel or charcoal. This
and the scrw
by that means get a good supply of clear bean are varieties of the accasa
(loeuat)q I"
water, nearly soft, by using the river water the muaquit resembles the black
leeud0i
as a basi,                                sometimes in Wisconsin, in the
leavesa Miu
  Since the first of June the thermometer has flowers, though the pod is
not Aat, but nearly
every day reached 90° some time during the round, And if picked when
green it is 1Usd
day, and not unfrequently it has reached 1050 with a sweet substance, which
is often used
in the shade. Vegetation of certain kinds is by the natives, and is eaten
with great a&*
enormous where there is a supply of water, ity by horses and mules, both
dry and gram
and other things are forced to an almost pre  The beans are eaten by .11
kinds of stock,
mature ripeness. The castor oil bean, which even after they fall out, and
are very fattenimn.