THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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eons desirous of breeding ihe camel, valuable in- 

 Ibrraalion through the medium of your journal. 

 They (the camel,) can be obtained on the Black 

 sea, and if agricultural societies would import a 

 lew pairs, ihey would con'er a great advantage 

 on this country. 



From 600 to 1000 pounds, with a rider, is a 

 common load (or the camel; and the commonest 

 herbage, even weeds and twigs will suffice lor 

 their sustenance while endunng tlie severest 

 labors. 



1 was advised by some gentlemen, to whom I 

 casually mentioned this subject, to write lo some 

 editor of an agricultural paper of this mailer, and 

 being about to go to the east through Canada, 

 have thought best to write lo you liom ihis place. 



H. BOHLIN. 



Buffalo, July 6th, 1842. 



SHOEING THE HORSE. 



From tlie Farmers' Cabinet. 



Mr. Editor, — The remark of your correspon- 

 dent at page 318 of your number lor May, 

 " That many of us transpose the order of our 

 labors," reminds me of a mode adopted in the 

 shoeing of the horse, which 1 once witnessed, and 

 which is, 1 believe, of importance sufficient lo de- 

 serve notice in the pages of your valuable and 

 very interestmg wo k. li occurred ai the town ol 

 Croydon, near London, which is known as the 

 centre of stag-hunt, so well attended by the whole 

 country around, and especially by the high- 

 bred bloods of London ; and where may be seen 

 a field of the best horses in the whole world — 

 many of them worth their five or seven thousand 

 dollars. 



As 1 once passed through ihis town, one ol 

 my horses' shoes became loose, and I went to the 

 shop of a smith named Lovelace, to get it lasten- 

 ed ; the shoe was nearly new, and had become 

 loose in consequence ol the nails having drawn 

 out of the hoof, although they had bet^n clinched 

 in the manner universally practised. The smith 

 remarked that all the other shoes were loose, and 

 would soon drop off, when I requested him to take 

 them off and replace them ; and then did I per- 

 ceive the ditterent mode which he adopted lor 

 fixing ihem, which i will here detail. As fast as 

 he drove the nails, he merely bent the points down 

 to ihehool, without, asis customary, twisting them 

 off with the pincers ; these he then drove home, 

 clinching them against a heavy pair of pincers, 

 which were not made very sharp ; and alter this 

 had been very carelially done, he twisted off each 

 nail as close as possible to the hoof; the pincers 

 being dull, the nail would hold, so as to get a per- 

 fect twist round belbre v separated. These twists 

 were then beaten close into the hoof and filed 

 smooth, but not deep or with the view to rasp of! 

 the twist of the nail. "Oh ho!" said I, " I have 

 learned a lesson in horse-shoeing," " Yes," said 

 he, " and a valuable one •; if I were ever to Icse 

 a single shoe in a long day's hunt, 1 should have 

 to shut up my shop ; my business is to shoe the 

 horses belonging to the hunt, and the loss of a 

 shoe would be the probable ruin of a horse worth, 

 perhaps, a thousand pounds ; but I never am 

 tearful ol an accident." " Simply, because you 



drive home and clinch the nails belbre you twisl 

 ihem off," said I—" Yes," replied he, " by 

 which 1 secure a rivet, as well as a clinch." The 

 thing was as cle;ir as the light of day, and i have 

 several times endeavored to make our shoeing- 

 smiths understand it, but they connot see the ad- 

 vantage it would be lo themselves, and guess, 

 therelbre, it would never do in these parts; 

 but if my brother farmers cannot see how it works 

 with half an eye, and have not the resolution to 

 get it up into practice, (hey ought to see the shoes 

 drop from the leet of their fiorses daily, as I was 

 once accustomed to do. Now, let any one take 

 up an old horse-shoe at any of the smiths' shops 

 on the road, and examine the clinch of the nails 

 which have drawn out of Ihe hoof, and he will 

 soon perceive how the thing operates. In short, 

 il the nails are driven home before twisting oft, 

 and the rivet formed by the twist be not afterward 

 removed by ihe rasp, I should be glad to be told 

 how the Sihoe is to come off at all, unless by first 

 cutting out the twist. I am, sir, a constant reader 

 of the Cabinet, and one who has been benefited 

 many dolinrs by Ihe various hints which have 

 been given in its pages. J. S. 



BUTTER MAKING IN NEW YORK. 



From the Maine Cultivator, 



Mr. Editor — Business led me to visit Goshen 

 and Minisiiik, Orange Co., N. Y., in my late jour- 

 ney to that state, and knowing that it was noted 

 through the union as a suf)erior butter making 

 country, I determined to learn every part of the 

 process. I was surprised lo find that after the 

 milk is strained, every part of the process differs 

 from ours. 



First the keeping of the cows, especially in 

 winter, is somewhat peculiar. When the land is 

 laid down to grass, six quarts of southern clover, 

 and as much herds-grass or timothy, is sowed on an 

 acre. This ensures generally a very thick growth 

 of rich pasturage or mowing land. They prefer 

 the southern clover, because it is smaller than ours, 

 and has the advantage, in that the second crop of 

 the season is well seeded, and is Ihe one from 

 which the seed is gathered. 



1 am convinced from what I saw, that on the 

 average not more than one half the quantity of 

 grass seed is sown in Maine which should be. 



They feed their clover hay to cows, and I was 

 surprised to see how green they put it into the barn. 

 They say thev wish it to be fermented. 



I visited Gen. Wickomb's yard, in Goshen, 

 where I saw forty cows — all, or nearly all, grade 

 animals of the Durham short-horned breed. 

 Every cow has a separate elall, and outside door, 

 made of three upright boards, with two open 

 spaces, three inches wide, to admit air. 



The barn is an L, with a southern aspect. Each 

 door is numbered. In many of the yards I saw 

 boxes for every four cows, made as follows : Four 

 slit- work posis, 5 leet long, at each corner ; four 

 side boards, 12 to 15 inches wide and 6 feet long, 

 nailed on so that the lower edge is 20 inches from 

 the ground ; a bottom is laid over at this lower 

 edge. From the top of each post there is a board 

 about 4 feet long, coming down on the side board 

 like a brace, and nailed to it ; of course there are 



