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farm operations, owipgto the pressure of the work 

 at some seasons, and the greater risk of failure 

 are among the reasons given in support of this 

 opinion. 



— Dr. Randall says he should not dare to winter 

 sheep without salt, especially when any kind of 

 disease is prevalent. The best way is to give sheep 

 constant access to it — allowing their instincts to 

 guide them, after they have become habituated to 

 its free use. 



— The receipts of corn in Chicago, in 1867, were 

 10,000,000 bushels less than in 1866. This, how- 

 ever, does not show conclusively that the crop was 

 short to the extent this would at first sight indi- 

 cate, as more may have been shipped through 

 other points. 



—Mr. B. J. Campbell, of Glen Haven, N. Y., 

 wrote to the Country Gentleman that he was fod- 

 dering hay that was put in the barn about half dry, 

 with a little lime sprinkled on it. It came out 

 bright and clean from dust. Without the lime it 

 woiildUiave been, he says, a perfect smudge. 



— One who believes club-footed cabbages to be 

 the result of impure seed, directs to plant the 

 stalks in the spring, as early as the ground and 

 season will allow, with the heads on, and far 

 enough from all plants of the same species, that 

 the wind, insects, and bees cannot carry the pollen 

 and spoil the seed. 



— There is no better fertilizer for strawberries 

 than ashes. We remember, says the American 

 Ilorticulturist, that one of the best crops we ever 

 had was raised when the only manure used 

 was wood ashes. All soils will not alike be bene- 

 fited by such an application, but it is always safe 

 to use ashes in connection with other manures. 



— At a late meeting of the Hampshire, Franklin 

 and Hampden Agricultural Society, Milo J. Smith 

 was elected president ; A. P. Peck, Secretary ; El- 

 nathan Graves, of Williamsburg, A. T. Judd of 

 South Hadley, R. Smith, of Hadley, and J. W. 

 Hubbard, of Northampton, executive committee. 

 It was voted to endow a scholarship in the agricul- 

 tural college. 



— The celebrated sheep "Green Mountain," 

 owned by Hon. Edwin Hammond & Son of Mid- 

 dlebury, Vt., died recently from inflammation of 

 the bladder and kidneys. He had been sick since 

 Dec. 30. This ram was the progeny of the cele- 

 brated "Gold Drop," was three years of age last 

 spring, was probably the best stock sheep in the 

 world, and constantly increasing in value to his 

 ownei-s and to the breeders of Vennont. He 

 could not have been purchased for $15,000. 



— An association of Western Wool Manufactur- 

 ing was recently formed at Chicago. President, 

 Geo. S. Bowen, Chicago, with Vice Presidents in 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, 

 Ohio, and Iowa. Secretary, Jesse McAllister. 

 The resolutions of the Cleveland convention was 

 endorsed, and a resolution adopted that it shall be 



just cause for expulsion of any member to intro- 

 duce shoddy or flocking into his productions, rep- 

 resenting such product as made from clear staple. 



— To show that honey-bees instead of being an 

 injury to farmers are a benefit to them, the fact is 

 cited as well known to observing bee-keepers that 

 when we have a fine yield of honey from the buck- 

 wheat, or the orchard, that we have a correspond- 

 ing yield of grain or fruit, unless prematurely de- 

 stroyed by frost or other causes. There are sea- 

 sons when bees work very little on buckwheat, 

 and the result has been, with scarcely an excep- 

 tion, a small yield of grain. 



— The committee who have the matter of publi- 

 cation of the Ayrshire Herd Book in charge had a 

 meeting at Collinsville, Ct., recently, approved 682 

 pedigrees, marked 119 doubtful and rejected some 

 others. The doubtful and rejected must have an 

 opportunity to be heard, after which the pedigree 

 numbers can be affixed with all their intricate de- 

 pendencies, and the work be published. The sec- 

 retary, J. N. Bagg, Esq., West Springfield, Mass., 

 is devoting all his leisure time to it. 



— A correspondent of the Western Rural gives 

 the following remedy for cold or cough : "Fold a 

 piece of cloth three or four thicknesses, wet it 

 thoroughly with warm water, and wring it so that 

 it will not drip. Pin it tightly around the chest, 

 go to bed, cover up warm, and lie till morning. 

 Then on removing the cloth, wash over with water 

 a little colder than the blood, wipe dry, then put 

 on your ordinary clothing, and go about your or- 

 dinary work." 



— The original London Pippin tree in Virginia is 

 known to have borne every year for the past eighty 

 years, from forty-five to seventy-five bushels of 

 of apples each year, and it was known eighty years 

 ago to have been an old tree. So it has, without a 

 doubt, borne for one hundred years an average of 

 fifty bushels per year. The fruit is first rate quali- 

 ty and over the average size of apples. The tree 

 two years ago was as sound as could be imagined. 

 It was about forty-five feet high and forty-five feet 

 in the spread of its branches. 



— Mr. J. W. Clarke, of Green Lake, Wis., de- 

 tails in the Country Gentleman a case of garget in 

 which a cow that had lost two teats in previous 

 years was again so badly affected, that one quar- 

 ter of the bag changed to a scarlet color, and parts 

 of it became detached and fell away until the 

 whole quarter was entirely lost, leaving a vacant 

 space. The wound began to dry and heal around 

 its edges, to which coal tar was applied to keep off 

 the flies. The cow recovered her health, and is 

 now in fair condition, though of course not milked. 



— To determine whether kerosene is liable to ex- 

 plode, the Boston Journal of Chemistry gives the 

 following directions : fill a pint bowl two-thirds 

 full of boiling water, and into it put a common 

 metallic thermometer. The temperature will run 

 up to over 200 degrees. By gradually adding cold 



