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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



and taken into Jefferson county, of that State. 

 A year or two afterwards the l)ulk of the herd 

 was removed to the farm of Mr. Erastus 

 Corning, near Albany, N. Y., and some of 

 them went into Vermont, where they were for 

 some years bred, sold, and scattered. * * * 



About the year 1802-;), Messrs. Thomas 

 Aston, and John Humphries, two English far- 

 mers in Elyria, Ohio, near Lake Erie, im- 

 ported several fine Herefords. They bred 

 them well, and successfully, as seen in the 

 specimens we have several times met, but with 

 what success in their sales we have no intimate 

 knowledge. 



In the years 1860 and '61, Mr. Frederick 

 Wm, Stone, of Guelph, Canada West, made 

 two Importations of superior Herefords from 

 the herds of Lord Bateman, in Herefordshire, 

 and the late Lord Berwick, in the adjoining 

 county of Shropshire, England, numbering, 

 together, two bulls, and eleven cows and heif- 

 ers. These were remarkable for their high 

 breeding, and generally, good points. From 

 them, down to January, 1867, there were bred 

 about sixty, and about half the number have 

 been sold at satisfactory prices, and distrib- 

 uted, mostly into the United States. Some of 

 the cows have proved excellent milkers, and 

 all, together with the crosses of the bulls on 

 common cows, have proved profitable grazing 

 animals. * * . * * * * 



On the whole, the Herefords have not had a 

 fair trial in the United States, in the hands of 

 veteran cattle breeders, who had the means 

 and opportunity to properly test them by a 

 thorough and persistent course of breeding. 



We trust (hat the herd of Mr. Stone, in its 

 various distributions, may have a fair and 

 thorough trial, satisfied as we are, that the 

 Herefords, as a breed, have positive, and well 

 established merits, in their great thrift, and 

 good flesh producing qualities. — Allen'' s Amer- 

 ican Cattle. 



Garget or Caked Bag. — A Waterville 

 correspondent of the Maine Farmer says, 

 bunches on a cow's bag, or caking of the bag, 

 may sometimes be reduced by the following 

 treatment, if taken in the early stage of the 

 disease. Bathe the part affected twice a day 

 with the following, viz. : iodide of potassium, 

 U ounce ; glycerine, h oz. ; soft water, 2 ozs., 

 mixed together. Give a tablespoonful of salt- 

 petre every second day, and one-(|uarter pound 

 of epsom salts every second day, for a few 

 days — say a week — and continue the salts an- 

 other week, or longer, if the difliculty does 

 not subside. The saltpetre and salt may be 

 given in a mash of wheat bran. 



Another correspondent of the same paper 

 puts two or three spoonsfuls of saltpetre with 

 each quart of salt fed to cows troubled with 

 garget, and regards it as the most convenient 

 method of doctoring, and as effectual as more 

 complicated medicines. 



TH2VKEIGN OF AUTUMN. 



BY ALICE CAHY. 



The rust is over the red of the clover, 



The gricii is under llie gr.iy. 

 And dowu the hollow the steel-winged BwaUow 



Is flying away and away. 



Fled are the roses, d'ad are the roses, 



The glow and the glory done. 

 And down the hollow the steel-winged swallow 



Is fliingthe way o' the sun. 



In place of summer a dread new comer 



liis solemn state icnews: 

 A crimson splendor instead of the tender 



Daisy, and the darling dews. 



But oh the sweetnces, the full completeness, 



That under his reign are born 1 

 Russet and yellow in apples mellow, 



And wheat andm Uei and corn. 



His frosts so hoary touch with glory 



Maple and oak and thorn ; 

 And rising and falling his winds are calling, 



Like a hunter through his horn. 



No thrifty sower, but just a mower 

 That comes when the day is done. 



With warmth a-beaming and gold a-gleaming, 

 Like sunset after the sun. 



And while fair weather and frrfsts together 



Color the woods so gay, 

 "We must remember thit chill December 



Has turned his steps this way. 



And say, as we gather in the house together, 



And pile the logs on the hearth. 

 Help us to follow the light little swallow, 



E'en to the ends of the earth. 



GOV. CHAMBERLAIN'S ADDRESS, 



At the late Fair of the Maine State Agricul- 

 tural Society, pleases us so well that we re- 

 print a large portion of it, believing it will be 

 acceptable to our readers generally. We 

 copy from the Portland Advertiser : — 

 Apology for Addressing Farmers. 



Cicero tells us of a certain Greek orator who 

 was invited to speak before Hannibal, and 

 thought it befitting the occasion to deliver a 

 lengthy discourse upon military art and the 

 office of a general. At the conclusion the 

 great soldier was asked what he thought of tlie 

 orator. He replied with more force than elo- 

 quence that he had heard many silly old men 

 in his day, but this orator was ahead of them 

 all. What flippancy and presumption, before 

 Hannibal who for so many years had contend- 

 ed for the emjiire with the Romans — the con- 

 querers of the world, — for this Greek man 

 who had never seen the enemy, never seen 

 the field, never exercised the smallest par- 

 ticle of any public office, to undertake to give 

 precepts on military art ! 



So it may seem to you, veterans of a hun- 

 dred fields, presumptuous in me to discourse 

 in your presence of the farmer's calling or the 

 Art of Agriculture ; for if I assume to instruct 

 or criticise, you will deny my competency as 

 an expert, and if I t^eek to encourage you and 

 praise your vocation, you will wjftit to aok, 



