^\)c -farmer's ilUnitl)Iij bisitcr. 



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circuiiistaiices in llie constitution of .-iniiimls, cn- 

 aliliiii; llicm, fiotii habit, to cnilurt! liaidsliip, 

 wliicii tliey vvmild liuve sunk under at liist.— 

 Thus the exposed animal ln'coiucs ahle to bear 

 coUl auil storms better than one accuslomi.il to a 

 warm shelter; but the rapacity tor enduianre 

 lias its limits— and those limits are olten riuch- 

 ed during the severities of oiu' winters. 'J'he 

 hollow horn in cattle has beln supposed to be 

 /iequentiv caused liy the action of cold, and one 

 of the remedies recommended consists, in part, 

 of wrappinir tlie horns in sheepskins, the wool 

 side in, to aUcird warmtli by which the circula- 

 tion may be restored. Kxposed animals are 

 sometimes supposed to he healthier than shelter- 

 ed ones, because their appetites are keener; but 

 the consumption of an increased quantity of food 

 is only nature's method of keepinu up the supply 

 of animal heat, and is no proof of more perfect 

 health. 



X 



Advice to Mothers. — I'Moihers ! if you vvould 

 train up yoin- children to be useftd members of 

 society, keep them from rumiinj; about the streets. 

 The great school of vice is the street, '('here the 

 urchin le:iriis ihe vulgar oulh or the putrid ob- 

 Bcenily. For one lesson at the tire-side he has a 

 dozen in the kennel. Thus are scattered the 

 seeds of falsehood, gambling', theft and violence. 

 Mothers, as you love your ow n tlesli and blood, 

 make jour children clin;,' to the hearth-stone. — 

 Love home yourself, sink the roots deep amonj; 

 jour domestic treasures ; set an example in this, 

 as in all thinj;9, which youroftsprinj; niiy follow. 

 It is a ;;reat error, that children may be left to run 

 wild in every sort of street temptation for several 

 years, and that it will then be time enoujrh to 

 break tlieui in. This horrid mistake makes half 

 the spendthrifts, thieves and <lrunkards. No man 

 would raise a colt or an ox, on such a piiiu'iple; 

 no man would sutier the weeds to •;rnvv in his 

 garden for any length of time. Look at the mat- 

 ter, parents ! See, more especiall), that your 

 ehihiren are not out at night, loitering around 

 some coffee-liouse or theatre. 



Improtemknt I.N Nail Maki.vg. — We have re- 

 cently examined the drawings of a inachine for 

 manufacturing horse shoe, and other nads, on a 

 new and ingenious plan, patented by ]\lr. Jede- 

 diah llolcoiid), of Brandon, Rutland county, Ver- 

 mont; and also have seen some specimens of 

 nails manufactiu-ed by this method. They are 

 made (rom harjimered plates, with the grain of 

 the iron lengthened, and the iwils and propor- 

 tions appear as perfect as those made by the usual 

 hand process. By Mr. Holcomb's method a good 

 mechanic can make 400 Ihs. of horse shoe nails 

 per day. The machinery is simple in its con- 

 struction, and piomises to work an entire revolu- 

 I tion in the nail mamifaclure. He has taken mea- 

 sures to seciue patents in England and France 

 for his invention. 



In addition to the above, which we copy from 

 the Eureka, we can speak in the most favorable 

 terms of the invention, and iVoin a personal in- 

 terview will) Mr. H., of the above machine, we 

 are convinced that tlii^ utility of the -invention is 

 very great. From data in pur posession we esti- 

 mate the quantity of horse shoe nails used aurui- 

 ally in the United States at 2000 tons, and if by 

 this invention three cents per pound can be saved 

 in their manufacture, the gain would be (piite a 

 desideratum for those interested. — Fanner and 

 Mechanic. 



&c.; but the flour made from those varieties is 

 not so palatable to those unaccustomed to its use, 

 as that made from the soft lariuaceous vyrieties 

 of the South and West, whii-h are improved by 

 kiln-drying. 



Elo|ieraent. 



II ent out U'iUt a iniU! /tail and came back tcith n 

 husbajid ! — Here is ain)ther of those events of 

 which Cincinnati is so prolific. It is from Cist's 

 Advertiser of the litiih idt — 



"Another chapter of romance might be writ- 

 ten out ol incidents like these: An elopement 

 took place on Thursday of last week, between a 

 young gentleman of I'emisylvania, K — d, and a 

 yoimg lady living in the northern part of the city, 

 who is represented as beautiful and an heiress — 

 inheriting, jointly with her sister, properly worth 

 .$:jOO,000. Her tiitber hud Ibrbidden the address- 

 es and the visits of her lover, but he managed to 

 tod the incorrigible old papa, as will be seen in 

 the sequel. 



" The lady was sent out to milk in an adjoin- 

 ing lot, instead of doing which, she threw down 

 the bucket, jumped into a carriage, awaiting in 

 the vicinity, drove to Fidton, where passage was 

 obtained on a boat bomnl U[i, and with her lover 

 arrived at Maysville. Thence they crossed over 

 to Aberdeen, the Ohio ' Gretna Green,' had the 

 liisl knot tied and soon returned to the city — the 

 hither wondering all this time why Mary was so 

 lung milking." 



To PRF.PARR Corn for shipping to Fcrope. 

 — See that it be perfectly souml and drv. If it 

 could be kiln-dried it would he still belter. 

 Transport it to the ship in a clear dry day, and 

 place it in moderate sized bins in the hold of the 

 vessel. These should be well sealed, and made 

 water-proof; and great care shoidd be taken to 

 liave them dry at the time the corn is put in. — 

 Thus prepared aud loaded, it will arrive sound in 

 Europe, and bring a good price. If carelessly 

 shipped, the grain will surely mould on the voy- 

 age, and arrive unfit for use ; for iinisty corn can- 

 not be sweetened again by any method with 

 which we are acquainted. 



The varieties of coru which will best hear 

 transportation by sea, are those containing a large 

 portion of oil, such as the Golden Sioux, ihe King 

 Philip or Northern F,ight-ro«ed Yellon, the Dui- 

 ton, the Browne, the Khode islautl White Flint, 



Bloody Milk. 



Mr. \\'ildmau of Casile, says: — " I wish lo ask 

 of you, or some of your correspondeiils, what I 

 can do for a likidy \oimg cow 1 have tiiat came 

 in last spring, ;oi<l has given bloody milk tor the 

 lasl tuo or iliiei' «eek.-. I have had recoin mend- 

 ed garget root and niire, both of which I have 

 triid, and see no ti<ni,\ result. I still continue to 

 n ilk her, and le»<l ii to the hogs, in hopes that 

 Iheie is something I can do for her that uill re- 

 slore her milk, as she is of a superior breed 

 which I «ish lo kiepon my farm." 



Blood in nnik arises from the rupture of blood 

 vessels in the hn-leal gland, where Ihe milk is se- 

 creted liom artei iai blood. One has to rely 

 mostly on Nature to heal the bleeding vessels.— 

 quack nostrums can do hut litile good at best, 

 and may injure the general health of a valuable 

 cow. Milk very geiiily three times a day, and 

 wash the bag in cold water, made colder liy the 

 solution of a little sail. The object of frequent 

 milking is to avoid the great distension of the 

 vessels in the gland, and their liability to bleed ; 

 while the appliculion of colli water will .serve, 

 like applying it to the forehead or hack of the 

 neck to check bleeding at the nose, to contract 

 the open months of the ca[)illaries which ex- 

 ude blood into the milk. — Genesee. Fanner. 



To DESTROY Lice on Cattle. — Mr. Editor: — 

 I have noticed in the Farmer, some reuiedics lor 

 destroying lice on cattle ; — but I have tried one 

 for two years past, which 1 iliiuk is superior to 

 any that I have seen in \our paper. Take an old 

 (pnlt, Ihrow it over llii' back ot' the animal, let- 

 ting it hang down all round, as low as the knees, 

 andTlose it around the m ck ; or if ihe quilt is 

 large enough, put it over the head aud all, letling 

 only the nose stick out. Take a dish of live 

 coals, and put on some smoking tobacco, (or 

 some plug, cut and dried, would be stronger,) 

 and hold it mider the animal, frequently raising 

 it on the back to let the smoke come up. This 

 will kill all the lice, ami you can cnrry or bru.^h 

 ihein off immediately. In a few days, as soon as 

 the nits ;ue hatched, the operation will need to 

 he repeated. This is the cheapest, quiekest and 

 surest method ihat I have ever heard of. It is 

 better in cold weather than any liquid prepara- 

 tion. — Michio'171 Fanner. 



An Agricultural Penitentiart.— A farm of 

 180 acres, beautifully situated in the town of 

 Westboro, Mass., has been purchased by the 

 State, for the purpose of establishing a sort of 

 Agricultural Penitentiary where bojs and young 

 men, coii\icteil of crimes, are lo be sent. ;md 

 kept at hard laboi, with a view of teaching iheiii 

 habits of induslry, and learning them the myste- 

 ries of an honorable occupation, which they can 

 pursue when their rcrms of imprisonment have 

 expired. 



A MIDDLING Cow AND A GOOD Cow. — A mid- 

 dling cow will yield five; poimds of butt' r pel- 

 week, while a good cow will yield ten. Now of- 

 fer both of these for sale— the middling aliimal 

 being as large and handsome as the good one. — 

 How many pinchasers, think you, will give fifty 

 dollars lor the one rather than twenty -five Ibr the 

 other ? 



Let us make a reasonable estimate. It costs 

 thirty dollars a year to keep a cow, and the pro- 

 duce of a middling one is worth ihirty-six dol- 

 lars. Your cow earns you six dollnrs over and 

 above the keeping. But your good cow eirns 

 you seven times six! She yields twice as much 

 uiilk and butter, yet the cost of her keeping is 

 the same as the other. Her earnings are seven- 

 ty-two dollars ; and if you deduct her kec|iing 

 (30 dollars)you li.ive forty-two dollars lor her an- 

 nual profit — seven times as much as your mid- 

 dling cow ! 



Have we made any mistake in the figures? — 

 Let's try again : — Farmer A. keeps one good cow; 

 farmer B. keeps two middling cows that yield 

 just as nuicli as A.'s cow (72 dolls.) A. deducts 

 the cost of keeping (;50 dolls.) B. deducts the 

 cost of keeping (GO dollars). A.'s profits, above 

 the keeping of two cows are twelve dollars. On 

 one cow there would he six dollars. 



Have we put a very uncommon case? Go in- 

 to the yard of any careful liirnier, who keeps 

 twelve cow.s, and he will tell you that some of 

 ihein yield twice as much as others on the same 

 keeping. 



Vet who will give fifty dollars for a good cow 

 when he can have a middling cow for twenty five? 

 We answer, — not one fanner in twenty. And 

 this is is the reason why so Itiware willing to de- 

 vote themselves to the raising of superior stock. 

 We have no bidders. Our people think the 

 English great fools to piiy'such prices as they do," 

 for first rate cattle. We may yet think difll'erent- 

 ly. — Mass. Ploughman. 



A False Hand. — One of the prisoners es- 

 caped from Sing Sing Prison on Wednesday, by 

 an ingenious expedient. The prisoners are con- 

 ducted from the workshops to the cells in parties 

 of fifty, and when all are in their cells the keep- 

 ers go round and count them, each convict put- 

 ting his hand through the bars to indicate his 

 ])res<nce. All apparently responded in .this 

 manner on Wfdiiesday evening. Yesterday 

 morning, however, on passing one of thecell.^, a 

 .sentry heard something fall. He rapped, and 

 receivine no answer, opened the cell. Lo ! the 

 bird had flown, leaving a beautiful wooden hand, 

 ingeniously carved. The facts were soon known. 

 The fugitive employed one of the convicts to 

 stick the hand in the bars of his cell, while he 

 remained in the workshops, from which he easily 

 escaped. He had carved the hand in his cell, 

 carrying out the shavings every morning in t!ie 

 workshop. — .V. Y. Tribune. 



A farmer who had at times been sorely tried 

 by his w ife's constant clatter of " tongue and tin 

 kettles," ihreatened never to speak to her again 

 unless she complied with ceiiain regulations 

 which he laid down for her government. She 

 refii.sed lo comply. From that time to the pres- 

 ent — a period of nearly ten years — notwiihsiand- 

 ing he has constantly shareil the same bid, ate 

 at the same table, and attended the same church, 

 his wife dedans posilively, that he has never 

 spoken to her. This man lives in Newbury, Or- 

 ange county, Vermont, and, for so cruel and re- 

 lentless a husband, hears a very ilecent reputation 

 as a citizen. — .Merrimack Courier. 



Truths. — That which will not make a pot, may 

 make a potlid. 



That is but an empty purse that is filled with 

 other people'.a money. 



A ihousainl probabilities do not make one truth. 



Worth has been underrated ever since wealth 

 was over valued. 



When you have no observers, be aliaid of your- 

 self 



Shallow waters make the most noise. 



When sorrow is asleep wake it not. 



Trust not Ihe praise of a friend, nor the con- 

 tempt of an enemy. 



Time is a file that wears and makes no noise. , 



Vv'here honor ceases, knowledge decreases. 



Vows made in storms are forgotien in calms. 



