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FA RMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 10 



way, by many who would be thought something 

 of in the workl, I am induced to lay belbre the 

 public a recipe ibr muKing King of oil, t^o called, 

 which perhaps excels any oiher for cure of wounds 

 on horses or cattle, and which has long been kept 

 by a lew only in the dark. Feeling a desire to 

 coniribute to ihe good of ihe public, but more es- 

 pecially to the tiirniers of Genesee, 1 send you the 

 Ibilowing very valuable recipe Ibr publication: 



1 oz. of green copperas, 2 do white vitroil, 2 

 do common salt, 2 do linseed oil, 8 do West In- 

 dia molasses. 



Boil over a slow fire fifteen minutes in a pint of 

 urine; when almost cold, add one ounce of oil of 

 vitrol and lour ounces s[)irits of turpentine. 



Apply it (o the wound with a quill or feather, 

 which vvill immediately set the sore to I'unning, 

 and perform a perliict cure. Yours respectliilly, 

 Stephen Palmer. 



Middlebury, Dec. 10, 1832. 



PRICES OF STOCK IN KENTUCKY. 



From Capt. M;iiryatt's Piaiy. 



Of the cattle show of Lexington, (Kentucky,) 

 Ihe fburth day was Ibr the exhibition of jackasses 

 of 2 years and 1 year, and for foals and jennies 

 also; this sight was to me one of peculiar interest. 

 Accustomed as we are in England to value a 

 jackass at thirty shillings, we look down u[)on 

 ihein with contempt; but here the case is reversed; 

 you look up at them with surprise and ailmiration. 

 Several were shown standing fifteen imnds high, 

 with head and ears in proportion; the breed has 

 been obtained from the JMaltese jackass, crossed 

 by those of Spain and the south of France. Those 

 imported seldom average more than fourteen hands 

 high; but the Kentuckians, by great attention and 

 caTe, have raised them up to fifteen hands, and 

 sometimes even to sixteen. But the price paid 

 for these splendid animals,for such they really were, 

 will prove how much they are in request. War- 

 rior, a jackass, sold Ibr 5,000 dollars, upwards of 

 £1,000 sterling. Half of another jackass, Ben- 

 jamin by name, was sold Ibr 2,500 dollars. At the 

 show, I asked a gentleman what he wanted for a 

 very beautiful female ass, only one year old; he 

 said that he could have 1,000 dollars, £250, Ibr 

 her, but that he he had refused that sum. For a 

 two-year old jack, shown during the exhibition, 

 they asked 3,000 dollars, more than £600. I nev- 

 er lelt such respect Ibr donkeys before; but the lact 

 is, that mule-breeding is so lucrative, that there is 

 no price which a very large donkey will not com- 

 mand. I afterwards went to a cattle sale a lew 

 miles out of the town. Don Juan, a two year old 

 bull, Durham breed, fetched 1,075 dollars; an im- 

 proved Durham cow, with her calf, 985 dollars. 

 Before I arrived, a bull and cow fetched about 1,300 

 dollars, each of them about £280. The cause of 

 this is, that the demand tor this stock, now that 

 the western states are filling up, becomes so great, 

 that they cannot be produced fast enough. Mr. 

 Clay, who resides near Lexington, is one of the 

 best breeders in the state, which is much indebt- 

 ed to him tor the fine stock which he has impor- 

 ted, and I quote the prices: Yearling bull, 1,000 

 dollars; do heifer, 1500. Cows of full Durham 

 blood, but bred in Kentucky, 1,245 dollars; do. 



1235 dollars. Imported cow and calf, 2,100 dol- 

 lars. It must be considered that although a good 

 Durham cow will not cost more than twenty guin- 

 eas perhaps in EuLdand, the expenses of transport 

 are very great, and they will generally stand in, 

 10 the im()oriers, aliout 600 dollars, belbre they ar- 

 rive at the state of Kentucky. 



EXTRACT FROM AN OLD AUTHOR, CONCERN- 

 ING MILDEW IN WHEAT. 



To tlie Editor of tlie Farmers' Register. 



Looking over old Fuller's 'English Worthies' 

 last evening, I was so amused at his 'Farewell to 

 Middlesex,' that 1 have transcribed it, thinking it 

 may serve to fill up, in an inieiicsting way, some 

 spare corner in the next number of your valuable 

 journal. Yours, S. 



"This county," says he, at page 47, vol. 2, "is 

 much infested with mildeio. That it is, I know to 

 my cost ; but could not purchase the knowledge 

 what it is, much less how it might be prevented, 

 at the same price, though having diligently en- 

 quired into the name and nature thereof 



"Some will liave it called mildew, quasi maldew 

 or ill-dew ; others mddew or honeydew, as being 

 very sweet, (oh ! how lushious and noxious is flat- 

 tery!), with the astringency thereof causing an 

 atrophy or consumption in the grain. His ety- 

 mology was peculiar to himself who would have 

 termed mildew, because it grindeth the grain 

 albrehand, making it to dwindle away almost to 

 nothing. It fiilleth (be it mist or dew; when corn 

 is almost ripe for the sickle, and amidateth the har- 

 vest (not belbre it is welcome, but) belbre it is 

 wished fbr by the husbandman, grain being rather 

 withered than ripened thereby. Ilj af\er the fall, 

 a good rain, or strong wind cometh, it washeth 

 and wipeth it off, so that no mischief is done: oth- 

 erwise, the hot sun arising, sealeth (to use the 

 husbandman's phrase) the mildew upon the straw, 

 and so intercepteth the nourishment betwixt the 

 root and the ear, especially if it falleth not on the 

 lioase (\vdiich is but another case, and hath another 

 tunicle under it) l)ut on the stripped straw near to 

 the top of the stalk. 



"Grain growing under hedges (where the wind 

 hath least power) is most subject thereunto, though 

 wheat of all grain is most; bearded wheat of 

 wheat is least liable unto it ; not that the hawnes 

 thereof are spears to liight the mildew Irom it; but 

 advantageous gutters, to slide it away the sooner 

 which striketh on rotted or pollard wheat. 



"Inland counties, Northamptonshire, Bedford- 

 shire, &.C. complain the least ; maritime the most, 

 of mildew ; which insinuateth the vapors of the sea 

 to be casuall thereof; some liuld that, seeing that, 

 it fills li'om the skies, earth hath no guard for 

 heaven's blovve, save prater, which in this very 

 case is prescribed by Solomon.* But others con- 

 ceive, tliat humane may be subordinate to spiritual 

 means; to prevent not the falling but the hurling 

 of this dew in such a degree, and hopefully expect 

 the remedy fr.tm the ingenuity of the next gen- 

 eration. 



"I am the rather confirmed in my hopes, because 



• 1st. Kings, viii, 37. 



