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XEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



Nov, 



handed master. It is one of the essentials in 

 early training to bring the animal to depend 

 upon the driver. Feeding, watering, care, and 

 training should be mainly by one person. There 

 should also be a strong friendship, a familiar 

 acquaintance, and the fullest confidence of the 

 animal. There need be no fear of unrequited 

 affection. All our domestic animals love nat- 

 urally the hand that cares for them, and the 

 voice that calls them. 



The trainer. He who is not thoroughly un- 

 der self control, should never attempt to in- 

 struct the ignorant of either his own or a 

 lower race of animals. lie cannot succeed 

 well. . The voice, the eye, the lip, and motion 

 betray the ungovemed man. How can he 

 govern others and train in good ways, who 

 cannot govern himself? He who would in- 

 struct, must never yield the slightest evidence 

 of passion, anger, or even impatience. Rea- 

 son is his strength, and good sense his best re- 

 liance. How important, then, that his mind 

 be free from the dominion of bad habits, en- 

 slaved by no excesses. No intemperate man 

 should ever take charge of animals in training. 

 Bad habits are mainly the result of want of 

 care or of mismanagement on the part of those 

 having the charge of animals. 



Animals have no knowledge of wrong or 

 right, of cause and eflFect, or of hope and rea- 

 son, to stimulate them to labor. Their labor 

 is obtained through man's power over them. 

 Let not that power be abused. By good judg- 

 ment and kindness show yourself worthy of 

 the service of a well-trained, noble animal. 



Yield of Wheat in Wisconsin. — J. 

 W. Clark, of Green Lake Co., Wis., writes to 

 the Countri/ Oentleman that the actual yield 

 from the threshing machines, on some forty of 

 the farms on the prairie soils of that part of 

 the State, per acre, ranges from six to thir- 

 teen bushels — the more general range being 

 from seven to twelve bushels per acre. Some 

 of the most intelligent growers set the average 

 at nine, and others call it ten bushels per a ere. 

 On the timbered land the production is a 

 bushel or more per acre better — the average 

 being stated at eleven bushels. From personal 

 observation the writer says that the yield in 

 llipon county is no better, though the city 

 papers, at harvest time, gave reports from 

 some sixty stations in that section of "good 

 crops." 



AGRICULTUHAI. ITEMS. 



— During the harvest this year in Bracmar, 

 Scotland, a snow storm lasted several hours ; the 

 snow lay until next day, and the cold was intense. 



—The fund of half a million left by the late Mr, 

 McConough, of New Orleans, for the endowment 

 of an agricultural school of a high order, is about 

 to be rendered effective. 



— At the late show of the Newton, Mass., Jersey 

 Stock Club, a cow was sold by Mr. Wellington, of 

 Lexington for $600, and a calf to Mr. Joseph Bur- 

 nett, of Southboro, for $150. 



— To take rust out of steel, rub well with sweet 

 oil, and let the oil remain upon them for forty-eight 

 hours. Then rub with leather sprinkled with un- 

 slaked lime, finely powdered, until all the rust 

 disappears. 



— The towns along the river Amazon in South 

 America, in the midst of the most productive 

 country in the world, get meat, flour, and dried 

 fruits from North America and Europe, because 

 the people are too lazy to work. 



— In the late report of the Connecticut State 

 Board of Agriculture, it is stated by a Mr. Hyde 

 that an Alderney calf of his dropped a calf at 

 eleven months and ten days old, by a bull weigh- 

 ing 1800 pounds. 



— Dr. Trimble says he once saw a cypress tree 

 in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, which was cut 

 down and the rings showed it was 1100 years old. 

 And this tree was growing over another tree which 

 was much larger. 



The editor of the Rural World, on a late visit to 

 places on the North Missouri Railroad, was as- 

 tonished to learn that there was hardly a single 

 well in a county, — people being dependent on rain 

 water kept in cisterns. 



— It is estimated that the rain fall in the North- 

 em States is forty inches, the Southern States fifty, 

 Minnesota, Western California and Colorado thirty, 

 Nebraska and Utah twenty, Kansas and Western 

 Arizona fifteen inches. This is a general average 

 for a series of years. 



—Dr. F. C. Brunck, writes from the grape re- 

 gions of the Rhine to the Buffalo Courier, that 

 choice vineyard lands are held there as high as 

 $4000 in gold per 116 square perches, — about $1400 

 per acre — and in common situations $280, or nearly 

 $100 per acre. 



— A correspondent of the Rural Xew Yorker 

 says no grape should becouated as even approach- 

 ing perfect ripeness when the stem does not ex- 

 hibit a deadened and shriveled, blackened charac- 

 ter at least three-fourths of an inch from its con- 

 nection with the branch on which it grew. 



— S. Foster, Esq., writing at Muscatine, Iowa, 

 Sept. 3, to the Country Gentleman says, corn is a 

 heavy crop, and most of it now fast getting out of 

 the way of the frost. Potatoes above half a crop. 

 Splendid crop of grapes ; our town is fully sup- 



