1868. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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^others sick, while the Texas cattle were all 

 healthy and hearty, right among them, show- 

 ing plainly that cattle wintered over do not 

 communicate the disease, or contract it. 



As illustrative of the opinion that native 

 cattle do not communicate the disease to other 

 native cattle, the Prairie Farmer says : 



Post mortem examination has been made of 

 a cow near the stock yards, which showed all 

 the outward symptoms. The examination 

 showed a most marked case of the disease. 

 On further inquiry about the yards, we learned 

 that a large number of cows which had ranged 

 the prairies about there had died, while those 

 in inclosures were safe and well. One in- 

 stance was that of the proprietor of the Hough 

 House, who has thirty-five cows which have 

 been in a fenced lot joining the stock yards on 

 one side, and the prairie on two other sides, 

 where the Texas cattle have been pastured. 

 These cattle are all safe and well, as are those 

 of another lot nearly similarly situated. 



■WHEN TO CUT BUSTY "WHEAT. 

 At a meeting of the Lexington, Ky., Farm- 

 ers' Club, Aug. 8th, the reports as to the 

 wheat crop in that section were quite unfav- 

 orable, and some members thought it would 

 have to be abandoned. In relation to early 

 cutting, especially that attacked by rust, Mr. 

 Starks said, as reported in the Farmers' Home 

 Journal : — 



His practice has been to cut wheat when 

 attacked by rust as soon as it is in the dough 

 state, and he has found it to be a profitable 

 plan, as his merchants in Lonisville, to whom 

 he has sold his crop for some years, prefer his 

 wheat to that of many other farmers, simply 

 because he cuts it earlier than is customary and 

 before its valuable properties have been wasted, 

 and when it makes more flour, and of a supe- 

 rior quality to that cut later. He is convinced, 

 from long and careful observation that the va- 

 ous diseases to which grain is subjected, move 

 in cycles, appearing and disappearing regu- 

 larly, as has been stated in regard to the fly. 

 In reply to a question — why rusted wheat, cut 

 when in the dough state, becomes plumper 

 than that left ? he replied that the sap goes to 

 the grain and nourishes it, if it is cut when 

 green. He cuts his and puts it in good shocks 

 immediately after the reaper ; there is no dan- 

 ger of it moulding from the sap only, but if 

 heavy rains come it may, though he has never 

 had any do so. The past has been the most 

 peculiar season in many respects we have ever 

 known in Kentucky and furnishes no rule for 

 judging the future. K a good crop of wheat 

 is expected, it must make good progress in the 

 fall ; grazing has proved injurious some sea- 

 sons, but at others it did not appear to produce 

 any bad effect. His best crops have been 



raised on hemp land, broken up with a two- 

 horse plow as soon as the hemp was off and 

 rolled well. If we could get clover land 

 ploughed up early enough it would be second 

 only to hemp land. His wheat has seemed to 

 do worse in oat stubble than in anything else, 

 b'ot on hemp land the growth was more luxu- 

 riant and the rust was more serious than on 

 corn land. Until this year he had never no- 

 ticed that on western slopes the grain was 

 much thicker. He fears sudden changes of 

 weather in winter when the ground is filled 

 with water, as the freezing and thawing dis- 

 place the roots. 



■WOBKING BUTTEK. 



Pat, pat, pat, — roll, roll, roll. 

 The golden butter in the tray, 

 It can't endure euch beating 

 Without giving out the whey. 

 Down in the cool cellar, 

 Far out in one corner, 

 Stand Funny and I; 

 Patting the butter. 

 Ready for m irket — 

 The rich golden butter; 

 The nice flavored butter. 

 Made by Fanny and me. 

 Shall we stamp it with Roee, 

 Or stamp it with Apple, 

 This beautiful ball, 

 That stands so high ! 

 I think we'll impress It, 

 "With a Cow — as she made it. 

 And thus we did do it, 

 Both Fanny and I. 



Lizzie, in Boston Cultvoator, 



Short-horn Saxes. — We learn from the 

 Country Oentleman that Mr. B Sumner, of 

 Woodstock, Conn., has recently sold to Richard 

 Goodman, Esq., Lenox, Mass., the cows Laura 

 5th and Snowdrop ; to Dr. Okie, Providence, 

 R. I., the heifer -Countess of Antrim, by 2d 

 Earl of Carlisle 2804; to Capt. Richard 

 Vaughn, Greenfield, R. I., cows Alice and 

 Pitt 2d, by Fancy Boy 2830— also bull calf 

 Neptune, by 2d Earl of Carlisle 2804; to 

 Augustus Whitman, Esq., Fitchburg, Mass., 

 yearling heifer Rosette, by 2d Earl of Carlisle 

 2804, and bull calf Baron, by Rosy Duke 

 6142, out of Baroness, by Barrington ; to R. 

 O. Storrs, Mansfield, Conn., bull calf Colfax, 

 by 2d Earl of Carlisle 2804, and bull calf 

 Prince Consort, by 2d Earl of Carlisle. 



— ^D. F. Appleton, Esq., Ipswich, Mass., is breed- 

 ing the Kerry cattle which were imported by Mr. 

 Sanford Howard in 1860, for Mr. A. W. Austin, of 

 West Roxbury. We learn by the Country Gentle- 

 man that Mr. Appleton has sold to Mr. Stiles, 

 Skaneateles, N, Y., the yearling heifer "Biddy ;" 

 to Mr. Samuel Sinclair of the N. Y. Tribune, the 

 two-year old, "Ruby," and to Mr. E. B. Perry, 

 Providence, R. I., the cow "Dido." 



