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NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



Aug. 



-WOOL AND WOOLEN EXPOSITION. 



The American Institute of New York holds 

 an exhibition annually, similar to that held 

 once in three years by the ISIassachusetts Me- 

 chanics' Charitable Association. This year ar- 

 rangements have been made for a more exten- 

 sive exhibition of wools and of manufactures 

 of wools than has ever been made in this coun- 

 try. It is to be under the immediate direction 

 of the National Wool Growers' Association, 

 and of the National Association of Wool Man- 

 ufacturers. Notice has been given that the 

 grand structure which has recently been erected 

 in the north part of the city of New York for 

 this purpose will be opened for the reception 

 of this class of goods on the first day of Sep- 

 tember, 1869. Exhibits for the Machinery 

 Department can be sent earlier. The whole 

 exhibition will be open for visitors on the 

 eighth day of September. 



We have already expressed our opinion of 

 the importance of this exhibition to the wool 

 growers of the country. Recent events have 

 deepened our impressions of its importance. 

 We believe that a fair show of the various 

 kinds of wool produced in this country, ac- 

 companied by the statistics of its production, 

 with some indications of an appreciation on 

 the part of wool growers of their share in this 

 great national industry, and with some evidence 

 of an expectation on their part of a more dis- 

 tinct recognition of their rights by those who 

 wear fine woolens, or are otherwise interested 

 in their production, is not only expedient but 

 absolutely necessary. Unless farmers are will- 

 ing to abandon sheep husbandry, they must 

 make up their minds to manage their own busi- 

 ness. They have depended on others about 

 as long as it is safe to do so. When they con- 

 clude to reap their field themselves, certain 

 "storks" may be disturbed that are now enjoy- 

 ing their nests in quiet. 



JOHN JOHNSTON. 



The health of this' gentleman, which has 

 been quite feeble since last July, we are happy 

 to learn by a letter from him of April 30, in 

 the Rural New Yorker, has improved consid- 

 erably within the last month. He has leased 

 all his cleared land at an annual rent of twenty- 

 five dollars per acre per year, for five years, 

 fornursery purposes. 



He is now in his seventy-ninth year, and 



in reply to a request for his experience in fat- 

 tenning fine wool sheep, he says, "I am not 

 able to write about sheep feeding. I cannot 

 set my mind to it. My day of feeding sheep 

 and cattle has come to an end. I have just 

 sold my last two fat cattle, one a ^fteer, three 

 years old the fourth inst., the other, his sister, 

 will be two years old a week from to-morrow. 

 The steer weighed, two weeks ago, 1,800 lbs, 

 the heifer, 1,215. I never owned better ones 

 of their age." 



Other men may have been as successful in 

 farming as Mr. Johnston, but few have made 

 their success so widely beneficial to others as 

 he has done. His example as a pioneer in 

 thorough drainage and in feeding or fattening 

 cattle and sheep has been highly beneficial. 

 His readiness to communicate the results of 

 his experience in these and all other depart- 

 ments of farming and his hearty, hopeful 

 manner of writing have instructed and encour- 

 aged multitudes of young and struggling far- 

 mers, who will ever hold his memory in grate- 

 ful recollection. 



DANGER FROM GLANDERS. 



A week or two since we published a notice 

 of the death of a man in New York from this 

 disease. Several deaths have been reported 

 from the same cause within a few years past. 

 The Canada Farmer, in an article cautioning 

 people to be careful in handling horses with 

 the glanders, details the particulars of the re- 

 covery, after a long and painful illness, of a 

 man who got some of the virus into a chap on 

 his thumb. The disease in that case did not 

 affect the nasal membrane. Two donkeys 

 were inoculated at the nose with a little of the 

 discharge from one of his ulcers, both of 

 which died on the seventh day afterwards. 

 As a proof of the subtlety of the poison of this 

 terrible disease, and as a caution to horsemen, 

 the following statement is copied from an Eng- 

 lish paper : — 



A farmer going his usual rounds one morning 

 to inspect his stock, observed a favoiite horse in 

 an adjoining tield showing symptoms of dn-tress. 

 The horse, on seeing his master, trotted up to the 

 fence, according to his custom. Theie was a nar- 

 row lane between the two fields, and while the far- 

 mer was looking to discover what was amiss, the 

 horse snorted or sneezed, and some ol the mucus 

 was borne by the breeze over the two fences and 

 across the little lane on to the farmer's face. In a few 

 days the usual symptoms set in, and the man died 

 of glanders as did also the horse. There lieing no 

 known abrasion of the skm on the man's lace, it is 



