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fed close, with two hours' bailing daily in "fall 

 feed." No other extra feed, except that one of 

 the number, a young cow, was fed one pint of meal 

 daily. 



— One of the features of the Iowa State Fair was 

 the sale of choice farm stock. Ten bull calves, 

 Short-Horned, were sold for ^200 each, one for 

 $300, and another for $375. Cotswold ewes sold 

 at $44, and two bucks at $65 per head. Berkshire 

 sow pigs went for $25. and a boar pig nine months 

 old went for $50. 



— An old stable builder in Baltimore says he 

 has come to the conclusion, after 25 years' trial, 

 that a two-inch white pine plank floor, laid Itvel, 

 with a square iron 2x2^ grating, so placed as to 

 receive the urine, is the best arrangement for a 

 horse. Clay, stones, concrete, &c., he rejects. The 

 width of a horse-stall should be four feet nine 

 nches. 



— According to experiments made at the Michi- 

 gan "Agricultural College, the amount of milk 

 consumed by pigs to produce one pound of in- 

 crease was, for the first week, 7.20 lbs. ; for the 

 second week, 7.70 lbs.; for the third week, 12.52 

 lbs. ; and for the fourth week, 10.56 lbs. Hence 

 the younger the animal the more rapidly it gains. 



— Speaking about the bed quilts of many colors 

 and innumerable pieces which take prizes at agri- 

 cultural fairs, "Aunt Lucy" says in the Rural New 

 Torlier, "I have lived forty-six years and brought 

 up six children, and have never yet found time to 

 buy calico and cut it np into little pieces, half an 

 inch square, for the purpose of sewing them to 

 gether again, just to see how many I could make 

 of it." 



— In eastern Virginia are extensive forests of 

 large trees where old tobacco hills and corn fur- 

 rows, made long ago, can be seen ; and in eastern 

 Massachusetts trees fit for saw-logs are casting a 

 dense shade over rows of old corn hills, which re- 

 tain nearly their original form and size. Need 

 such a country anticipate the evils which are ex- 

 perienced in some parts of the world from the 

 removal of forests ? 



— The increase of the rabbits introduced into 

 Australia from England has become so enormous 

 that in some parts of the country they threaten 

 to starve the sheep out of their runs. One farmer 

 estimates that it will cost him £10,000 in wages 

 to trappers and killers before he expels them from 

 his grounds. They are greedy for some of the 

 most beautiful cultivated flowers, and are becom- 

 ing the terror of horticulturists. 



— An exchange, remarking on the chafing of the 

 breasts of horses, says — "The common practice of 

 using pads or sheepskin under the collar is objec- 

 tionable, especially in warm weather, because it 

 accumulates heat and makes the breast tender. 

 A better way is to take a piece of thick and smooth 

 leather, cut it out just the size of the collar, or a 

 little wider, and let it lie flat on the neck and 



shoulders of the horse. This will lie smooth on 

 the neck, while the collar itself moves about, and 

 so it will prevent chafing. In addition to this, let 

 the breast of working-horses be washed off every 

 night with clean water. 



— According to a German sayan^, the decay with 

 which the trees in the promenades and gardens of 

 Berlin, as well as of other large cities, have re- 

 cently been affected, arises chiefly from the trem- 

 ulous movement communicated to the soil by rapid 

 locomotion; the perfect adherence between the 

 roots and the earth, so necessary for the absorp- 

 tion of nourishing juices is, he declares, destroyed 

 by this continual agitation. 



—The following are theofiicers of the Merrimac, 

 N. H., Agricultural Society for 1869. President, 

 Hon. Aaron Whittemore, Pembroke ; Vice Presi- 

 dent, John McNeill, Concord; Secretary, J. E. 

 Pecker, Concord ; Treasurer, Abel Hutchins, Con- 

 cord ; Directors, John C. Gage, Fislierville ; Simeon 

 Abbott, West Concord ; John C. Pearson, Webster ; 

 William Parker, Suncook ; Daniel E. Hill, North- 

 field; Heman Sanborn, East Concord; Charles H. 

 Carpenter, Chichester. This is the oldest agricul- 

 tural association in the State, it having been found- 

 ed in 1824. 



— The annual meeting of the Contoocook, N. H., 

 Agricultural and Mechanical Society, was held 

 recently. The principal newly elected ofScers arc : 

 President, Cornelius Coolidge, Hillsborough; Vice 

 Presidents, o. B. Moulton, Weare ; A.S.Woods, 

 Hancock ; Secretary, J. F. Chase, Deering ; Assis- 

 tant Secretary, Daniel Johnson, Weare : Treasurer, 

 J. C. Cambell, Hillsborough. The Fair for 1869 

 was located at Hillsborough Bridge. The financial 

 report showed a balance of $400 in the treasury 

 after all the bills had been paid. 



Butter from Milk of Jersey Cows. — 

 The statement was recently made by one of 

 our correspondents that the rich milk of the 

 Alderney or Jersey cows was especially valu- 

 able on account of its superior keeping quali- 

 ties. One milkman asserted that milk from 

 his Jersey cows would keep sweet from ten to 

 twelve hours longer than that from any other 

 cows in his herd. If such is a characteris- 

 tic of the milk from Jersey cows, we should 

 naturally suppose that butter made from this 

 milk would be likely to possess something of 

 the same quality. But we have never tested 

 it thoroughly ourselves. We notice that one 

 of our contemporaries says that such is not the 

 case ; that ' 'butter made from the milk of Jer- 

 sey cows is altogether more difficult to keep 

 than most other kinds of butter." What say 

 the manufacturers of the beautiful "gilt- edged" 

 Jersey cow butter to this assertion ? 



