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Acorns. — Anti-Book Farmer. — Contrary Horse. Vol. XII. 



The farm of George Fetters, deceased, in 

 W. Pikeland, 68 acres, was sold on the 9th, 

 at S15,91, Eli Pennypacker, purchaser. 



The farm of James Pennypacker, deceased. 

 West Pikeland, 147 acres, was sold on the 

 4th inst., at $61 12^, to Harman Pennypack- 

 er and others. 



The farm of Benjamin Harley, Uwchland, 

 on the 21st inst., was bid to $64, about 100 

 acres, but not sold. 



The farm of David Hunter, deceased. 

 West Nantmeai, 204 acres, was sold on the 

 24th inst. at $42 per acre. 



The Use of Acorns. — Farmers in vari- 

 ous parts of Germany, particularly in some 

 districts of Saxony, successfully employ 

 acorns for the winter fattening of sheep. 

 English farmers, however, either totally ne- 

 glect them, or use them almost solely for 

 the feeding and fattening of hogs. In Hert 

 fordshire and in the new Forest district of 

 Hampshire, hogs, in many instances, receive 

 very little other food than acorns, and com- 

 monly attain great firmness and weight, and 

 yield a decidedly good and well-flavoured 

 pork. Yet such as are, for a short time 

 withdrawn from the acorn diet, and have 

 their fattening completed by four or five 

 bushels of barley flour or peas meal to each, 

 are judged by some persons to yield pork of 

 still better substance and superior flavor. 

 The farmers of Gloucestershire bestow nearly 

 as much care on the fruit of their oak trees 

 as upon the produce of their orchards. They 

 seldom sell their acorns, or can find any in 

 the market, yet usually iHimate their value 

 from Is. 6d. to 2s. per bushel, according to 

 the price of beans; and they regard them as 

 decidedly superior to beans at once for fat 

 tening hogs, for increasing their weight, and 

 rendering their bacon firm. — The Rural 

 Cyclopedia. ■: 



his hogs would work his ground better with 

 their prodigious snouts, than he does with 

 his jack-knife plough. His meadow lands 

 yield three-quarters of a ton to a whole ton 

 of hay; which is regularly spoiled in curing; 

 regularly left out for a month, very irregu- 

 larly stacked up and left for the cattle 

 to pull out at their pleasure and half eat and 

 half trample under foot. ' His horses would 

 excite the avarice of an anatomist in search 

 of osteological specimens; and returning 

 from their range of pasture they are walk- 

 ing herbariums, bearing specimens in their 

 mane and tail of every weed that bears a 

 burr or cockle. But oh, the cows ! If held 

 up in a bright day to the sun, don't you 

 think they would be semi-transparent] But 

 he tells us good milkers are always poor! 

 His cows get what Providence sends them, 

 and very little besides, except in winter, 

 then they have a half peck of corn, the ears 

 a foot long thrown to them, and they afford 

 lively spectacles of animated corn and cob 

 crushers; never mind, they yield, on an 

 average, three quarts of milk per day! and 

 that milk yields varieties of butter quite as- 

 tonishing. — Western Farmer and Gardner. 



A Portrait of an Auti-Book Farmer. 



He ploughs three inches deep, lest he 

 should turn up the poison that, in his esti- 

 mation, lies below; his wheat land is plough- 

 ed so as to keep as much water on it as pos- 

 sible ; he sows two bushels to the acre and 

 reaps ten, so that it takes a fifth of his crop 

 to seed his ground ; his corn land had never 

 any help from him, but bears just what it 

 pleases, which is from thirty to thirty-five 

 bushels, by measurement; though he brags 

 that it is fifty or sixty. His hogs, if not re- 

 markable for fattening qualities, would beat 

 old Eclipse at a quarter race; and were the 

 man not prejudiced against deep ploughing, 



Treatment of a Contrary Horse. 



When a horse gets in the way of being 

 contrary and will not go forward at all, it is 

 common to apply the whip freely. Solomon 

 says "a whip for the horse," but he may not 

 refer to cases of this kind. At any rate, it 

 is often where thus used of no benefit, only 

 the gratification of the enraged driver. A 

 method which we have known ^nore suc- 

 cessful is to treat the animal very kindly. 

 His contrary disposition is usually the result 

 of having been fretted in some way, and 

 kindness may overcome it. Make much of 

 him at all times. Speak gently to him and 

 so often that he will become accustomed to 

 your voice. When he stops when attached 

 to the carriage or a load and will not move, 

 approach him in the same gentle manner. 

 Stroke the mane and pat the hand frequent- 

 ly on his head. Means of this kind will 

 have a powerful tendency to overcome his 

 stubbornness, as brutes feel the power of^ 

 kindness. We believe from what we have 

 seen that young horses, especially in nine 

 cases out of ten, may be successfully cured 

 of contrary habits in this way, while the ap- 

 plication of the whip would on^ increase 

 the difficulty.. — Exeter News Lmer. 



The autumn has been favourable for the 

 ripening of the corn crop. 



