1848. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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nature, and that, unless attached to its home by 

 kindness and care, will be apt to take to the 

 woods; to prevent which they should be fed in 

 the poultry yard night and morning, and thus 

 made to love their homes. They need not be 

 stuffed, but still they should be fed, generously fed. 



The Snuffles and Gapes. — Young turke} s, 

 when about three or four weeks old, are some- 

 times liable to be attacked by these diseases, and 

 we are told that they may both be cured by mix- 

 ing a tea-spoonful of flour of sulphur in as much 

 corn as is usually fed to twenty young turkeys. 

 This must be given once a day until the disease, 

 whether snuffles or gapes, disappears, which it 

 will do in a few days. It is reasonable to pre- 

 sume, if sulphur will cure these diseases in the 

 turkey, that it would prove equally efficacious if 

 administered to chickens; and as the reu. edy is 

 simple and inexpensive, it is certainly worthy 

 of trial. 



The Scours. — If the young turkeys should be 

 attacked with this disease, mix a table spoonful of 

 pulverized charcoal or chalk with every pint 

 of their food. 



Geese. — As the goslings are hatched they 

 must be taken from the mother and cared for as 

 reccommended for young ducks. Whan the goose 

 has hatched all the eggs, the young must be given 

 her, though it would be best to keep her confined 

 for two or three days, when she and her young 

 brood may be turned out into the kitchen yard or 

 lane. The goslings should be fed with crumbs 

 of bread soaked in boiled milk, or with corn dough, 

 made up with bonnyclabber, frequently through 

 the day for the first week. When they gain 

 strength enough to follow their mother, without 

 danger of being seized with the cramp, she may 

 be permitted to range somewhat at large in search 

 of grass, that being the natural food of the goose. 

 Chives chopped up fine and mixed up with their 

 food once a day, will be found beneficial. When 

 the goslings get six or eight weeks old they may 

 be allowed messes of boiled potatoes and Indian 

 meal dough, in which chives have been chopped 

 fine and mixed. 



Goslings are liable to diarhea ; this may be 

 checked by mixing a tea spoonful of powdered 

 chalk or charcoal in a pint of their food. The 

 same precaution is necessary with regard to water, 

 with young goslings as with young ducks. Their 

 drinking water should therefore be given them 

 under tiie same restrictions, and as much care 

 taken to preserve them dry as with the young of 

 ducks. The goslings should have clean straw 

 placed beside their mother for them to sleep on 

 in the goose-house at night. The house should 

 at all times be kept clean. 



It may be well to observe, in conclusion, that 

 each kind of poultry would be the better for 

 having a separate house for their accommoda- 

 tion. — American Farmer. 



The Last Efforts of an Inventive Genius. 



A. B. had been a man engaged in active life, 

 of a vigorous mind, and fond of studying some 

 new application of mechanical powers. Some 

 of his inventions have been highly useful. 

 When old age had laid her withering hand upon 

 him, and disease had brought him to the borders 

 of the grave, his mind burst forth with unwonted 

 vigor. Although many of his thoughts were 

 extravagant and gave evidence of a deranged 

 intellect — yet two of his suggestions I think 

 worthy of consideration. One related to the 

 best means of mending breaks in the canal. It 

 is well known to those conversant with the sub- 

 ject, that it is a matter of much difficulty, at the 

 time of a break, to procure timber of sufficient 

 length and strength to commence a dam upon. 

 Much time is lost and great damage done in the 

 delay in procuring timber. 



His suggestion was to have each repairing 

 scow provided with sufficient ropes or cables 

 to stretch across the canal ; then, by inserting 

 posts in each bank, the ropes can be fastened 

 and the dam built in a few minutes. 



The other suggestion related to digging wells 

 when stone were not easily procured for walling 

 them. His plan was as follows : dig a well of 

 the requisite size, say 8 or 10 feet deep ; then 

 procure lath sawed from a half inch thick, and 

 spring them in around the well at the usual dis- 

 tance of lathing. Put on a good coat of plaster 

 made of lime cement. When this is hardened 

 sufficiently, dig down another 8 or 10 feet, and 

 proceed as before. It is obvious that this would 

 make a wall of strength and durability, and 

 would be a cheap and expeditious way of walling 

 up a well or cistern. 



If you think these suggestions worthy of 

 being snatched from oblivion, you will please 

 insert them in the Farmer. Yours, &c., 



East Bloomfield, N. ¥., 1848. Adams. . 



Improved Cheese Press. — Mr. Ira Carter, 

 of Plattsburg, Clinton county, N. Y., has in- 

 vented a beautiful and excellent Cheese Press, 

 which is very different in its construction from 

 any in common use. By pinions working in 

 two rack levers, the table on which the cheese 

 is placed, is raised and brought in contact with the 

 head of the rack levers, and the whole weight of 

 the cheese table and its appendages act upon the 

 rack levers as a pressing power. Owing to this 

 peculiarity of its construction, it occupies but a 

 a very small space, as the rack levers are 

 upright, and joined by a cross head. It can do 

 more work than presses which occupy three 

 times the space which it does. They can be 

 built very cheap as the whole of the works can 

 be made of cast iron, and thus be made very 

 durable. Measures have been taken to secure 

 a patent. — Scientijic American. 



