1846. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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me with a desire to sit, the former showed no 

 signs of it, but continued laying during the whole 

 season. I raised a number of chickens during 

 the summer, and in the fall found my number of 

 Top-Knots had increased to 30, including two 

 cocks. The balance of my poultry I disposed of, 

 and more out of curiosity than any thing else, I 

 concluded to keep an exact account of eggs re- 

 ceived for one year, from Jan. 1, 184.5. My 

 number averaged but twenty-six, five of them 

 having died during the year. My receipts were 

 as follows : 



January, 135 July, 3G1 



February, 142 August, 311 



March, -.. 418 September, 284 



April, .- .049 October, 104 



May, 566 November, 51 



June, 534 December, 32 



Making _. 3,487 eggs. 



Reckoning them at one sliilling per dozen, ■which price 

 they command three months in a year in our market, they 



would amount to the sum of - $30,32 



Deduct 13 bushels each of corn and barley, at 40 cts., 10,40 



Leaving a balance of. -- $25,92 



My yard occupies about one square rod of 

 ground, a part of which is enclosed with rough 

 boards to afford them slielter in stormy weather, 

 and containing their nests and roosts, with an 

 abundant supply of lime, sand, gravel, food and 

 drink, which is always before them. They are 

 not allowed to run out during any part of the 

 season, and their desire for animal food is satis- 

 fied with now and then a sheep's pluck, and a 

 supply of sour milk, of which they are extreme- 

 ly fond. 



As regards the preservation of eggs perfectly 

 fresh, and with very little trouble, for six or 

 eight months during the year, or from March to 

 December, I would recommend the following, 

 having thoroughly proved it the past season : — 

 For every two galls, water add three pints salt, 

 one quart newly slacked lime, and a table spoon- 

 ful of cream of tartar. Let the keg stand in a 

 cool part of the cellar, putting in your eggs from 

 time to time, and brine sufficient to cover them. 

 If they are fresh when put in, they will come 

 out so after any reasonable length of time, as 

 fresh and handsome as new laid eggs. 



Yours, &c., Joseph Annin. 



Le Roy, Genesee Co., N. Y. 



Sheep. — Among the articles of freight by the 

 Mediator, which arrived on Sunday, were ten 

 full blood merino sheep from the celebrated flock 

 of Lord Weston, England, imported by S. W. 

 Jewett, Esq., an enterprising wool grower of 

 Weybridge, Vt. The origin of Lord Weston's 

 flock was a gift of forty ewes from his Majesty 

 George the third, and they were selected by his 

 lordship from .500 which had been sent by the 

 Cortez of Spain to the king, more than thirty 

 years since. The sheep in question arrived in 

 excellent condition, and were yesterday forward- 

 ed north to their owner. — N. Y. Com. 



Dead Animals. 



ANiftfAi. matter contains every element that 

 is necessary to grow every plant known. In it 

 are phosphate and carbonate of lime, ammonia, 

 carbon, in short, in the best form, all the essen- 

 tials of vegetable growth. Whenever a fowl, 

 cat, dog, sheep, pig, horse, or cow dies, let the 

 carcase be cut up, and added to the manure heap. 

 The carcase of a single horse will turn loads of 

 useless muck or peat into manure, richer than 

 any ordinary barnyard dung. Why then suffer 

 it to decay uselessly and annoyingly 1 It is true 

 it is not lost, for the gases that taint the air are 

 appropriated by plants ; but the farmer who 

 owned the animal gets but a small portion of 

 what should be all his own. Why will he waste 

 the dead energies of the horse, when he has lost 

 the living ones ? 



If our readers will heed what we say, they 

 will not suffer dead animals to annoy the eye and 

 disgust the nose hereafter. Bury them in the 

 manure heap ; add some quick lime to hasten 

 decay, and charcoal dust or plaster to absorb the 

 gases, and much will be gained in the good ap- 

 pearance of the farm and in the quality of the 

 manure. If your neighbor be so improvident as 

 to waste a dead animal, beg it of him, that it may 

 not be detrimental to health and useless to vege- 

 tation. Laws should be passed to compel the 

 saving of this most powerful of fertilizez"s, when 

 common sense and decency fail to do it. 



Whenever it is desirable to hasten decay, and 

 rapidly turn animal matter into manure, sulphu- 

 ric acid may be used. This would be too expen- 

 sive (although the acid is cheap) for farm purpo- 

 ses, but may be employed for the garden, where 

 expense is not so important. It is frequently de- 

 sirable to have a rich manure in the garden, and 

 it is not at hand. Animal matter put into sulphu- 

 ric acid will in a iew hours furnish it. Every 

 house will supply much refuse animal matter. — 

 To this, rats, mice, feathers, hair, bones, horns, 

 &c., may be added. If the garbage of a slaugh- 

 ter-house can be got, it should be. All these 

 will soon be reduced to an available state, be in- 

 offensive, and add great fertility to the soil where 

 used. The requisite quantity of acid may be 

 ascertained by experiment — about 10 or 15 lbs. 

 is usually allowed for 100 lbs. of animal matter. — 

 Am. As. 



A New Article of Export. — Among the 

 cargo of the ship Elizabeth, which was cleared 

 on Tuesday for Liverpool, by J. P. Whitney, 

 says the New Orleans Picayune, were three bales 

 of raw silk. It was sent for export from Ohio, 

 where large quantities are now annually raised 

 and manufactured. The whole valley of the 

 Ohio is well adapted to the production of silk, 

 and much attention is already given to its culture 

 in western Virginia and in Ohio, Kentucky and 

 Tennessee. The price of cocoons and of raw silk 

 is regularly quoted in the Louisville price cun'ent- 



