1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FARI^IER. 



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large cravats around their necks. I have fed sheep 

 for the eastern markets for more than thirty years, 

 and I always made a profit on them except in 

 1841-2. I then fed at a loss. It was a tight squeeze 

 in 1860-1 to get their dung for profit. Some years 

 I have made largely. I did so this year, (1862-3,) 

 and if I had held on two weeks longer I should 

 have made much more. Taking all together it 

 has been a good business for me." 



Mr. W. R. Webb, of Milford Centre, Ohio, in a 

 communication to the Coimlry Gentleman, says 

 that the common practice in that corn-growing 

 section is to buy up sheep for feedmg in the sum- 

 mer and f:\ll months, put them on good pastures 

 till about the middle of November, when feeding 

 comn^ences with al)0ut half an ear of corn each 

 day, gradually increasing the amount till the first 

 or middle of December — according to the season — 

 when they commence giving them corn in the 

 shock, at the rate of two bushels per 100 sheep ; 

 which is gradual]}' increased up to three bushels. 

 They are fed corn in the morning and hay in the 

 evening. The corn is of the large Western kind 

 and is never husked, consequently the sheep have 

 , not only the corn but the fodder likewise. The 

 shocks are usually made of one hundred hills, and 

 we suppose are drawn from the field as wanted. 

 Some of the best feeders say they would not have 

 the corn husked if it could be done for nothing. 

 Mr. Webb's sheep had a shed for protection, with 

 access to water. He thinks that one wetting by 

 exposure to storms will take ofl" two week's feed. 



King of tompkins county. 



Herewith I send you some specimens of one of 

 the finest apples I have ever seen. I raised this 

 year about two bushels, all nearly as fail' and 

 large as these. 



I think upon trying them you will pronounce a 

 favorable judgment. It is a full bearer and has no 

 bad quality, while it abounds with virtues. The 

 name is indicative of its place of nativity, in New 

 York, — the "King of Tompkins County." 

 I. A. Shuktleff, 



by Augustine Shurtleff. 



Brookline, Mass., Nov. 24, 1868. 



Remarks. — Thanks for the beautiful apples, 

 which prove as good as they are fair. Put in the 

 scales the specimens received averaged 8^ ounces. 

 "This 'splendid apple," says Dr. Warder, in his 

 A7nerican Pomology, "which has attracted so much 

 attention of recentryears, had its origin, as is sup- 

 posed, in Tompkins county, N. Y., where it has 

 been much cultivated. Tree vigorous, healthy, 

 large and spreading, an abundant annual bearer. 

 Fruit large, handsome, globular, irregular, some- 

 what conic, angular ; surface smooth, yellow, cov- 

 ered deep red, marbled and striped ; dots numer- 

 ous, gray, large. Basin, shallow, folded; eye 

 large, short, closed ; cavity wide, shallow, wavy ; 

 stem short and thick. Flesh yellowish-white, ten- 

 der, breaking ; flavor sub-acid, aromatic. Quality 

 best. Use, table, kitchen and market; season, 

 December and longer." Mr. Cole says, "as good 



as the Wine apple, as showy, and better than the 

 20-Ounce." 



These specimens raised on Massachusetts' soil, 

 are about half an inch larger in diameter than the 

 outline in Warder's Pomology, and proportionally 

 longer. Considering the fact that the author of 

 that work lives in Missouri, and that his specimens 

 were probal)ly raised in the fertile West, tliis fact 

 is alike creditable to our old Commonwealth and 

 to the skill and care of those by whom they were 

 raised. 



NORWAY OATS. 



If the oats called Norway oats were first discov- 

 ered in this country on the farm of D. W. Ramsdell 

 of Vermont, I would like to know why they are 

 called Xorwar/ Oats. A SiBsciaBER. 



North Ferrisburg, Vt., Nov. 23, 1868. 



Remarks. — In reply to a similar inquiry made 

 by a member of the Ndw York Farmers' Cluli, at a 

 late meeting, and in response to Solon Robinson, 

 who denounced these oats as "a swindle and an 

 unmitigated humbug," I\lr. Jones, one of the firm 

 who advertise them in New York, claimed a hear- 

 ing. As reported in the Tribiene, he said : — "The 

 name 'Norway' we simply employ asa trade mark, 

 which we have a right to do. Here Mr. Jones 

 talked a long time about the superiority of the 

 Norway oats, and stated that this is not another 

 name for the Poland oats. They do not, he said, 

 claim Ihat the Norway is very much heavier than 

 the common oats. But what they do claim is, that 

 the Norway yields more abundant crops of grain. 

 The straw is much stifter ard maintains an erect 

 position on any kind of land much longer than the 

 common oats, and consequently the panicles fill 

 with grain much more satisfactorily tlian if the 

 stems fell down before the kernels have come to 

 maturity. Its bearing qualities, he said, are truly 

 wonderful." 



AN INTERESTING CASE OF PARALYSIS. 



A neighbor of mine has a horse, the lips of 

 which are paralyzed. Early last summer the horse 

 got a poke over his ears and across his head in 

 such a way that it was almost impossible to get it 

 off. Immediately afterwards his lips became very . 

 badly swollen, and although he could gather some 

 grass with his teeth, he was unalilc to hold it in 

 his mouth, and has, therefore, become very poor. 

 Perhaps some of your correspondents will know a 

 remedy. w. is. k. 



West Fair lee, Vt , Nov. 13, 1868. 



Remarks. — We hope some reader of the Far- 

 mer will respond to the above request. Mr, 

 Youatt saj-s, "the stream of nervous influence is 

 sometimes stopped, and thence results palsy or 

 paralysis. This in the horse usually proceeds 

 from some injury to the spinal cord." But these 

 remarks were made in connection with the subject 

 of paralysis of the fore or hind extremities of the 

 horse. The A)nerican Cyclopcedia defines paraly- 

 sis as "the loss of the function of motion or sensa- 

 tion from an inten-uption or destruction of the ner- 

 vous influence necessary to those acts. This may 

 occur either in the brain, in the course of the ner- 



