FARMERS' REGISTER— FAT SHEEP— IMAGGOTS, &c. 



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Startin<j: from tlie Packlington wharf, No. 19, we 

 proceeded on the road in the most surprising 

 style, tlie coach being turned, checked, stopped or 

 having its speed increased under the complete 

 command of the conductor. About three miles 

 out we'passed a stage coach, whose four horses 

 Avere put to their utmost speed, with a compara- 

 tive velocity to that with which the stage coach 

 woukl have passed a wagon, our rate being at 

 that time about eighteen miles an hour. Soon 

 after this we ascended Windmill-hill with perfect 

 ease; although, in consequence of the road under- 

 going repair, the part we had to ascend was cut 

 itito deep ruts covered with dry soil and dust from 

 three to six inches deep; forming jjerhaps, the most 

 uncertain and disadvantageous fulcrum on which 

 the wheel of a steran-carnage could ever have to 

 act. We arrived at W^elch Harp Inn, which is 

 several perches over the five miles from our start- 

 ing place, and turned the coach in the direction of 

 Paddington, in precisely twenty minutes; having 

 'performed the distance, inclusive of stopping at 

 the turnpike, and on two other occasions, and 

 despite the bad condition of Windmill-hill, at the 

 extraordinary average rate of fifteen miles an 

 hour. Our return occupied the same period of 

 time; and after this completion of the trip we made 

 the round of Paddington-green to gratify some 

 gentlemen who had not arrived in time to witness 

 the more extensive trial. Among our fellow pas- 

 sengers on these occasions were Jerome Buona- 

 parte, ex-King of Westphalia, Prince Jerome his 

 son, the Duke de Montfbrt, the Maiquis Azolino, 

 M. Vigne de Marveille, and other distinguished 

 foreigners. 



From the same paper. 



Sir, — You certainly have made a mistake in 

 saying that the coach, on Saturday last, went at 

 eighteen miles the hour, when it overtook and 

 passed the stage whose four horses were "put to 

 their utmost speed, with a velocity comparative to 

 that with which the stage coach would have pass- 

 ed a wagon." 



Wyatt, of the Watford and Aylesbuiy coach, 

 the one to which you refer, is very angry at your 

 asserting that his fine team of horses were over- 

 taken and passed in the manner you speak of by 

 the steamer, when the latter did not perform more 

 than eighteen miles the hour! Wyatt knows the 

 steamer well; he was once beaten by it going up 

 Windmill-hill; and he says — and I say — and all 

 the others say, that when the steam carriage 

 overtook him, and i)assed him on Saturday, it was 

 undoubtedly at a pace of more than twenty-four 

 miles the hour. 



We have many times done two miles in five 

 minutes, and you shall see it done again whenever 

 you ai'e so disposed. 



You show that the speed of the whole ten miles, 

 including several stoppages and the turnpike, &c, 

 was above fitteen miles the hour. Surely to over- 

 take and pass a team of lour fine horses at their 

 "utmost speed" as we did, must have required 

 more than eighteen? 



But to set the matter at rest in your mind, I will 

 keep a seat tor you in the carriage on an occasion 

 Avhich will ofl'er in a iew days, of putting to the 

 test at their utmost speed, achosen team of horses, 

 a fourteen mile heat, on the most hilly and softest 



road out of London. I have the honor to be, sir, 

 your most obedient servant, 



FRANCIS MACERONI. 



JVharf, 19, Paddington- green, May 26, 1834. 



FAT SHEEP IN SUMMER, AND MAGGOTS IN THli 

 HEAD. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 



A writer in the Farmer's Journal, after stating 

 that he applies tar to the roots of the horns of 

 sheep, and puts a little in their noses and mouths, 

 "as affording the best security against the maggot 

 in the head,'" gives the following remai'ks on the 

 management of sheep in the summer: 



"I am careful to have none of" my sheep, except 

 those I intend for market, get ver}' fat during the 

 summer. I have heard it remarked, and I believe 

 it, that after once very fat, a sheep will never ar- 

 rive at the same point again. Sheep which get 

 fat during the summer, certainly do not do as well 

 in the fall and winter. About the middle of Sep- 

 tember I give my sheep the best feed I can, and 

 the middle of October begin to feed sparingly with 

 turnips, potatoes, or some kind of grain. When 

 the time arrives tor yarding, which I do rather 

 late, I separate niy flock in the following manner: 

 In one yard I put my rams and weathers, except 

 such of the former as have become very poor du- 

 ring the time of running with ewes. In the se- 

 cond I put my last spring lambs; in the third all my 

 healthy ewes, and in the fourth my old and weak 

 (but not diseased) ewes. A sixth department is 

 a kind of hospital, into which every sheep is re- 

 moved as soon as discovered to be afflicted with 

 disease. This arrangement I consider very im- 

 portant, as it affords an opportunity fiir treating 

 every class of sheep in the manner judged most 

 proper for their circumstances. I have known in- 

 stances in which the lot of" old and feeble ewes 

 have come out much improved in the spring, and 

 have procured a good fleece, and raised fine likely 

 lambs. I always intend, however, to turn my 

 sheep before they get so old as to become enfee- 

 bled; as they are more likely to acquire those dis- 

 eases which spread through the flock. 



MACHINE FOR GETTING OUT STAVES FOR BAR- 

 RELS. 



From the Rochester Democrat. 



Messrs. Levi and Luther Benton, citizens of 

 this county, have lately invented a Stave Machine, 

 which is now in successful operation in the village 

 of Scottsville. The utility of this invention con- 

 sists in the despatch with which it operates, the 

 facilities it affords for manufacturing staves from 

 timber before unavailable for that purpose, and 

 the perfeci finish it gives to a barrel constructed 

 fi-om staves prepared by it. It is satisfactorily as- 

 certained, that with the labor of three men, it 

 will saw, dress, and joint, one thousand staves in 

 an hour, and that this can be done fi'om any de- 

 scription of timber without reference to the kind, 

 or the irregularity of the grain; and when finished 

 they are superior to those wrought by hand, both 

 in regularity of their form and ajipearance of iheir 

 surface. I will not occupy room, in detailing its 

 peculiar and ingenious construction. It is of itself 

 a mechanical curiosity worthy the personal exam- 

 ination of every inqiiiring man, and particularly 



