THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



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SPIRIT OF THE AGKICULTURAL PBESS. 



Sheep Washing, — A correspondent of the Amer- 

 ican AffricuUurist gives the followhig pkin : A 

 large vat made of phmk, about ten feet long, four 

 feet wide, and three and a half feet deep, 'is placed 

 near a stream where there is sufficient fall. Troughs 

 are laid to conduct the water, with their lower 

 ends standing about two feet above the vat. Two 

 boys, each holding a sheep soaking at one end of 

 the vat; while two men, standing on the ground 

 outside the vat, each hold a sheep under the stream 

 running from the troughs. It requires but little 

 squeezing of the wool, and much less time to wash 

 them well than by the old method. We gave a full 

 description of this method in the Genesee Farmer 

 for May, 1859. 



Teanspoeting Bees. — A correspondent of the 

 iV. F. Farmer gives the following directions for 

 transporting bees: "Spread down a sheet, and set 

 the hive on it ; then bring up the corners and tie 

 over the top, or invert the hive, and put over the 

 bottom a piece of muslin eighteen inches square, 

 fastened at the corners with carpet tacks. A wag- 

 on with elliptic springs is best for conveying them. 

 In all cases, the common box hive should be bottom 

 up, to avoid breaking combs. When moved late 

 in the season, they should be set several feet apart.' 



TnE Eyes of Hoeses and Cattle. — In the Nexo 

 England Farmer., a correspondent gives the follow- 

 ing remedy, when horses or cattle injure their eyes 

 so as to bring on a white substance or film. He 

 says : Take fresh butter, newly churned ; melt 

 about a tablespoonful, and turn it into the ear op- 

 posite the eye injured, being careful to hold the 

 ear tight together, so that they shall not, by a vio- 

 lent shake of the head, throw it out of the ear. 

 This remedy, he says, may be safely applied, if you 

 do not use them when the film is coming olf. 



To Kill Veemin on Catle oe Fowls. — A writer 

 in the New England Farmer says : " Take common 

 lamp oil and rub it in well back of the ears and all 

 down the back. Do this once a week, and the ver- 

 min will disappear. It is safe. Tobacco will kill 

 lice, but should be used cautiously, Pvub lamp oil 

 on the back of the head, under the wings, and over 

 the posteriors of any fowl once a month, and it 

 will clear out all lice-" 



Tobacco Stalks. — One of our exchanges says: 

 " We made last year a better crop of potatoes, man- 

 ured exclusively with tobacco stalks, than we have 

 ever made with a free use of guano. The stalks 

 from four acres will manure one acre abundantly." 



A Good Ceeed on Plowing.— A correspondent 

 of the Countrg Gentleman., says: "I believe, 1st, 

 that there are some soils which should not be plowed 

 deep, such as the light sandy, the gravelly, the 

 peaty, etc., when quite porous and friable, and 

 resting on a subsoil of the same character: 2d, that 

 all clayey and loamy soils may be deepened with 

 advantage, provided it be done at the rate of an 

 inch or so in a year, and with the addition of 

 twelve to twenty loads of good manure, and pro- 

 vided there is no stagnant water near the surface, 

 or a necessity for draining; and 3d, that the safest 

 and best way of proceeding, is to deepen only a 

 little at a time, as a guide for future operations." 



Cheap Appaeatus foe Giving Salt to Sheep. 

 "R. B." writes to the Boston Cultivator: "Liast 

 year I carried a large sugar hogshead, for which I 

 paid 38 cents, into the field and laid it upon the 

 ground, making it fast — one head having previously 

 been taken out. I was careful to smooth off all 

 protruding nails or rough substances liable to pull 

 the wool. Then upon the inside of the other head 

 I nailed a Y by 9 box to contain the salt, and the 

 work was completed — the whole costing, in money 

 and labor, about 50 cents, and so far as necessity is 

 concerned, it answers a very good purpose." 



Dogs and Bell Sheep. — An Indiana sheep farm- 

 er, in the Stoch Journal., says that a number of 

 sheep wearing bells, in any flock, will keep away 

 dogs ; he would allow ten bells *to every hundred 

 or hundred and fifty. When sheep are alarmed, 

 they run together in a compact body, in which act 

 all the bells are rung at once ; which frightens the 

 dog, or makes him think some one is on his track — 

 so he leaves without taking mutton. 



Black Hawks the best Roadstees. — The Wis- 

 consin Farmer says : At the Agricultural Show at 

 St. Louis, Mo., last fall, $1,000 was oftered as a 

 premium for the best roadster stallion. The judg- 

 es, from the great number offered, selected six 

 which were deemed the best, and then made a 

 critical examination of them to find the best one. 

 Of these six, five were the sons of Black Hawk, 

 and the sixth a grandson. 



Peofits of Feuit.— In the K E. Farmer, men- 

 tion is made of the Messrs. Clapp, of Dorchester, 

 Mass., who. Col. Stone says, by systematic culture, 

 raised each year, on five acres of land planted with 

 apple trees, $600 worth of currants as an under 

 crop ; while at the same time, they had a large crop 

 of the best apples. Their profits have been from 

 $2,500 to $8,500 per annum. 



