Ebe ,farm. TO CORRESPONDENTS • • • • • - - Communications upon subjects of interest to the farmer, the gardener, the trult-grower and stock-breeder aro solicited for this depart ment of the paper. All such communications should be addressed to UJ.itt CII STRICKLER, Agricultural Editor, Conestoga, Lancaster county, Pa. How to Raise Sweet Potato Plants or 'Sltps. }IT TILE EDITOR. Now Is the time to prepare the beds for raising sweet potato plants. Select a place where the rays of the sun fall the whole day ; on the south side of a build ing or close fence is the best situation. The bed may be of any size ; it should be according to the number of plants re quired. A bushel of potatoes will pro duce from three to live thousand plants. Make a frame of boards the same as for a hot-bed. This can be placed on the surface of the ground, as there is not much danger from freezing at this sea son, but it is better to sink it in the ground, the same us a hot-bed frame. Put horse-manure fresh from the stable, into the bed to the depth of six or eight inches, well-trodden down, cover this with +sandy soil two or three inches deep; do not use soil that retains water a long time, as that is apt to cause the potatoes to rot, especially when they are split. Before putting on the earth the manure may be sprink led with moderately warm water, to cause fermentation to begin sooner. The bed should then be covered tip about twenty-four hours, by which I line the manure has commenced to fer ment, If in proper condition, which can be known by running IL linger through the soil into the manure, and if It is warm it is in condition to receive the potatoes. I I they are large, they should be split lengthwise, laLing the cut side down. They may he placed sit near as almost to touch each other. Then cover about three inches deep with line, fria ble, riell 01111. The lied should be kept covered at night and during cloudy or wet weather, both l,rl•ore tile potatoes have com menced sprouting and after the sprouts are up. I f you have 111,SUSII, list' boards /Old !WWI' Ihent sn us to Shed liar rain like a fool • . frail the potatoes begin to spill they should he kept damp, but not w.cl ; keeping I hem wet will eaute thew to rid., Line eidd or soaking rain would ship fermentation fora time, leav ing the g r oundl C 1,141, wit it'll w.llllll rot Ise pulatut•s even alter having sprout ed. When the sprouts begin to push ~Love the ground, add about one inch naire of soil. Water oceasionally with water that has stood in the sun some hours; use rain wider iI you have it, and water only in the morning or evening. (hi llin.,lays uncover, so fhey get air thin' sine-him. to render thew hardy• It'loo backward hilt you wish to promote rapid growth, use moderate ly r 100 forward, keep or y, to retard their growth. \\ • llen the plants :Ire ready to tian,plant, with IL Ii nl;er It the It'll 111111 , 1 )11ALLII/ in II I 1/1111.1., mud with the right, pull the plants oil . in a sloping luuurr, or the potato may he tilled out, mud the boat piroits,....keted, wnl tic potato (..o,rioly. r.o.urn,o 111 it,. ptuee ; the I'ornn•r however, the bolter way. Do not let out your plantsbefore the tenth of.lune. More plants are transplanted 100 early in this seetion than too late. 111 a fu ture arhele treat of setting the plants out, and their alter Influence 01 Sire on Milking ItuaMies .\n in tere,ting fact huts 111,11 well r•s tttbliahed the breeding of dairy stork, that the pttiver of tratu-iiiitting thu dualities of the breed, which lot•liffig 'Hurt , itruperly ,pcalting to the lentle, re,itle, with the 'tale, sht \ring that he pusses, , the genus, so tu,}tenit, uts the titialiti, to the I . IIW. I I was ilrilyt•.l in the iv, of the .ler:wy bull, which tratu•iiiittutt the rich Lotter-malting qualities of the mill: to tho tirced, but it has of leu heett nuty be regarded well seltlt4l. Aud it is a practical point ut . 111111•11 ittilwrlstwo that it ought lu lw lilt eut,tatilly in mind hy the breeders of dairy Nt) duuLt Muth l. their 1:hul, but Ili. he tie- FiVell (*rum a. ,tuelt, ur enure 111/111:11•11W :IS A 111,I'l•garil nt thi- ha , ..ft,it Ico 111 t,f th, ‘lc. tt :I , :1 *, havt• I:lo,\vit ffinily in,tatice tarnwr- LIN IIII• rul irffin fzivoritt• \* Nvit rt•gar tlw Ilftt•l' ill hilyt• rally al (tic IC :Illy 1 . :11111l ha, ' , ltch a t lit• that it i- tii tit till 111:;h• frt,lll \cliirl;