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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[ November, 1877. 



three days olil, ami tliose experiments were eminently 

 Euccpssfiil. Two pounds of hay were steeped in 

 twenty quarts of water, and then boiled down one- 

 half,'and to this was added a quart of skimmed 

 milk. In some instances molasses was added also to 

 give sweetness, and the ealves not only thrived upon 

 this diet, but preferred it to fresh milk.— il/oore's 

 Rural New Yorker. 



Care of Stock. 



It is absolutely necessary that all animals should 

 be well sheltered from cold and damp. The reason 

 why pigs or other animals do not fatten so readily in 

 cold weather as in the warmer months is, that the 

 food is largely used in keeping up the vital heat, 

 which is now given off in excess and lost. If this 

 loss is prevented animals will fatten now as readily 

 as at any other time. This is a very important 

 time as regards sheep. If not carefully 

 watched they will soon fall off in condition, 

 and this badly injures the wool, causing what it 

 known as " br^k," which reduces its value to the 

 manufacturer one-half. A healthy condition can be 

 maintained only by preventing crowding and heating 

 in the yards and pens, and furnishing ample ventila- 

 tion, good food in abundance, and pure water plenti- 

 fully. 



Devons. 



That the Devons are a very valuable breed of 

 cattle, will be readily admitted by all experienced 

 stock men. Their beef is of the higliest quality, 

 and though they do not ripen so early as the Short 

 Horns, they can be worked until four or live years 

 old, and then put up to fatten. The Short-Horns 

 are an aristocratic breed— work disagrees with them. 

 On the other hand moderate work improves the 

 Devons, giving them better development than they 

 attain in idleness. As working cattle they are unsur- 

 passed; they are also good inilkers, yielding milk 

 rich in cream. Though not giving a large quantity 

 of milk, they make up in extra quality. ^ Best of all 

 they are hardy, thriving where a Short-Horn would 

 starve. On these and other grounds their encourage- 

 ment and multiplication are desirable. 



At a recent sale of short-horned cows in England 

 a beast, named "Fifth Duchess of Hillhurst," was 

 sold, amid great applause, for •522,.5U0. She is said 

 to be the highest priced eow in England, and is (\&^ 

 scribed as a "charming creature." The largest sum 

 ever paid for a cow is believed to be fiL'(;,7.5u for the 

 "Duchess of Geneva," which was sold at New York 

 Mills, in New York, two or three years ago. Twenty- 

 two thousand live hundred dollars is the next highest 

 Bum. 



POULTRY. 



Cooked Meat for Poultry. 



Cook the meat you give your poultry, always. 

 Chop it finely, using a common wooden bowl and 

 household chopping-knife, if you have but a small 

 quantity of meat to prepare ; 'but, if you are keeping 

 poultry on a large scale, substitute for the bowl a 

 tight wooden box of a bushel capacity, and for tlie 

 chopping instrument, use a common short-handled 

 spade with its blade ground to a keen edge. 



Salt tlie meat as you would for your own eating. 

 Mix it half and half, when fed out, with scalded 

 wheat or eornmeal— and it will serve your purpose 

 much better than if led in any other way. 



The mode too often ailopted is to throw raw meat 

 to fowls. This is a bad way, and in the summer 

 season causes illness, frequently. Cooked meat goes 

 further, is more nourishing, and less injurious if 

 over-fed than in the raw state. 



For young fowls, very little is needed at a time ; 

 and either old or young birds, when kept in confine- 

 ment, sliould not be stuffed with this kind of allow- 

 ance. A large share of their feed should be grains 

 and cooked vegetables. For growiug fowls at an 

 age this is the best staple food, when properly va- 

 ried.— i'o(t(«/-j/ Wuria. 



Eggs for Export. 



The New York Kretiing I'ont expresses its surprise 

 that thus far no American speculator, looking about 

 him for something to send out of the country, has 

 turned his attention to eggs. At present the greater 

 part of the eggs imported into Great Britain eome 

 from France, Malta and Germany. The safe ship- 

 ment of large quantities from Malta and their arrival 

 in good coiidition, disposes of any objection that 

 might be raised on the score ol' the long journey, as 

 the passage I'rom that port occupies sixteen days, and 

 it is not uncommon for a cargo to be one month old 

 before it reaches its destination. That a demand ex- 

 ists is ijlain from the facts that in the year 1876 eggs 

 to the value of ?2,610,L'31 were imported into Great 

 Britain, and that the supply from France has de- 

 creased considerably during the present year. It is 

 also stated that the American Consul at Liverpool 

 has written to the State Department, at Washington, 

 that the condition of the English poultry market in- 

 vites exportations from America. 



Preparing Poultry for Market. 



Fowls and chickens intended for the market should 

 have no food given them for twenty-four hours pre- 

 vious to killing. Food in the crop is is liable to sour, 

 and always injures the sale. Purchasers object to 

 paying lor undigested food. 



Sticking in the neck is the best method of killing, 

 though many cut the heads off. If the head is cut 

 off the neck bone looks repulsive and the poultry 

 will not sell as readily. 



Most of the poultry coming to market is scalded, 

 or wet picked. Dry picked is preferred and sells 

 higher. Be careful to remove all the pin-feathers, 

 and avoid tearing the skin. For packing, use clean 

 hand-threshed rye straw. If this cannot be obtained 

 without some trouble, clean oat straw will answer. 

 Place a layer of straw at the bottom of the box, then 

 one of poultry, packing snugly, backs upward, filling 

 all vacancies with straw so that the cover will draw 

 doivn snugly on the contents.— J/iu-sacAuscHs Plomjh- 

 man. 



Cleaning the Hen House. 



If the successful poulterer will look to the under 

 portion of his perches, and as faithfully apply the 

 saturated kerosene-brush to this part of the pre- 

 mises as he does to the top and sides and crevices, 

 once in a while, he will find it profitable for the 

 removal of vermin. Lice brood and breed and live 

 under the roosts in great numbers. In the day time 

 they are thus partially secreted. In the night," when 

 the fowls settle down to their roosts, these millions 

 of parasites crawl up, and nestle themselves com- 

 fortably among the bird's soft feathers— where they 

 subsequently stick to their new warm quarters until 

 they are carbolated or sulphured out again. — Poultry 

 World. 



Poultry as Food. 



There is no meat (says a writer in Country Gen- 

 tleinan) so cheaply raised and fattened as poultry. 

 Most farmers' families prefer fresh to salted meats, 

 especially during warm weather, and there is none 

 more available everywhere than that of fowls. One 

 fowl makes a meal for a large family, and there is 

 none of it left to be thrown away, or to be salted to 

 prevent its spoiling. The next meal is running 

 around, preserved naturally until needed. A bushel 

 of corn will keep a farmer's fowl in good eating eou- 

 dition for a year. The fowl will lay 100 eggs or over, 

 which will more than p.ay for the grain given, and 

 the butcher's cart is thus always at the door. 



LITERARY AND PERSONAL. 



Some time ago, in these columns, we took occa- 

 sion to notice commendably — after having read the 

 work "through and through" — a volume by Jules 

 Vebne, entitled " Twenty Thousand Leagues Under 

 the Sea," to suggest that since folks, both old and 

 young, ii'ould persist in mainly reading stories and 

 works of fiction, here was a plan to make them the 

 medium through which might be inculcated sound 

 wisdom and knowledge, on science, philosophy, his- 

 tory and morality. But we then did not think that 

 our views would be so soon realized as they have 

 been, in the five volumes of Scieaee in fitory'^iy Dk. 

 FooTE, and recenily published by the Murkay'Hill 

 PuBLisuiNG Company, 139 East Twenty-eighth 

 street. New York city. Tliis handsome little series, 

 we opine, will fill a vacuum, in that regard, which 

 has heretofore not been supplied, and which cannot 

 be otherwise than productive of great good. We are 

 speaking " from the book" when we say that the in- 

 terest of this series never flags from first to last, and 

 never ceases to both amuse and instruct, especially 

 in human physiology and comparative an.atomy, 

 subjects in which the public have a deep interest, but 

 in which the masses of mankind are so wofully de- 

 ficient. We are nearly " three-score and ten," and 

 yet we find that " Sammy Tubbs, the Boy Doctor, 

 and Sponsie, the Troublesome Monkey," are as 

 appreciable and edifying to age as they are to youth, 

 and that from them all may learn. The above- 

 named company has just issued the complete series 

 in one volume at the low price of $2.00, and it ought 

 to meet with a liberal patronage everywhere. The 

 work is very copiously illustrated from beginning to 

 end, and the cuts arc not only signilieaut and in- 

 structive, but also exceedingly amusing. The above- 

 named company has also published Dr. Foote's 

 new and wonderful work, " Plain Home Talk," era- 

 bracing "Medical Common Sense." 



Plain Home Talk.— A new and wonderful work 

 by Dr. Foote, beautifully printed and bound in one 

 Tolume of nearly 1,000 octavo pages, embellished 

 with two hundred illustrations ; by the Murray Hill 

 Publishing Company, No. l29 East 28th street, New 

 York. This is a very comprehensive treatise on the 

 human system — the habits of men and women — the 

 causes and prevention of disease our sexual rela- 

 tions and social natures; embracing medical co.m- 

 MON SENSE, applied to the causes, prevention and 

 cure of chronic diseases ; the natural relations of 

 men and women to each other— society, love, mar- 

 riage, parentage, &c., &c. This work is divided into 



foiu- parts, for the sake of convenience and ready 

 reference. Part 1. has fife chapters, including forty- 

 fonr different subjects, and their almost endless de- 

 tails. Part II. has twelve chapters, and sixty-five 

 subjects. Part III. has eight chapters and twenty- 

 two subjects. Part IV. has nine chapters and twenty- 

 five subjects. These subjects do not only include 

 "all the ills that flesh aud blood is heirto," and their 

 prevention aud cure, but also the social and physical 

 relations of the human family, their economical and 

 domestic, as well as their moral relations ; their hy- 

 gienic necessities, and a thousand other matters, 

 which we cannot include in this notice, and which 

 notliing but the possession of the volume itself could 

 illustrate. 



Harper's Magazine, for November, 1S77, (the 

 concluding number of volume 55) is a most capital 

 number, aud fully sustains the world-wide reputa- 

 tion of this excellent, instructing and civilizing jour- 

 nal. It is questionable whether there is a cheaper 

 magazine published in the world. Look at the 

 figures. Here is a royal 8vo. magazine, of superb 

 letter press and paper, at ?4.00 a year, making two 

 volumes of about 1,000 pages each, exclusive of title 

 pages and analytical indexes, and of unexceptionable 

 literary merit. The articles-" Ten Years' Acquaint- 

 ance with Alaska," and twenty spirited illustrations ; 

 " Robert Iloudan," and seventeen illustrations ; 

 " San Antonio de Bexar," and the same number of 

 illustrations; " Madelena," with three; "Yachting 

 in Blue Waters," with six; and "Back to Back," 

 wdth one— making in all sixty-four illustrations in a 

 single number — of themselves constitute a feature 

 that is seldom if ever excelled by any other magazine 

 in the country. Its re])utation is already sothoroughly 

 established, that we feel that our feeble pen can add 

 very little to it.. 



Consumption Cured. — An old jihysieian, retired 

 from practice, having had placed in his hands by an 

 East India missionary the formula of a simple vegc- 

 talile remedy, for the speedy and jjcrmauent cure^of 

 consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, aud all 

 throat and lung affections, also a positive and radi- 

 cal cure for nervous debility and all nervous com- 

 plaints, after having tested its wonderful curative 

 powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to 

 make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated 

 by this motive, and a desire to relieve human suffer- 

 ing, 1 will send, free of charge, to all who desire it, 

 this recipe in German, French or English, with full 

 directions for ])reparing and using. Sent by mail by 

 addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. W. 

 Sherar, 12(5 Powers' Block, Rochester, N. Y. 



We call the attention of our readers to the altera- 

 tion in the advertisement of the Mendelssohn Piano 

 Company, No. .56 Broadway, N. Y. This company 

 has been making still further efforts to meet the 

 wants of the times, in making a Piano which is 

 offered for sale at the very low price of $200. This 

 Piano contains Mathushek's New Patent Duplex 

 Overstrung Scale, which is, unquestionably, the 

 greatest impi-ovement ever put into a Square Piano. 

 The company eonfldently believes this is the best 

 bargain ever oft'ered the public for a reliable, durable 

 .and fiue-toued instrument. We would recommend 

 any of our readers who have any idea of every buy- 

 ing a piano to send for their Illustrated and Descrip- 

 tive Catalogue, which will be mailed free to all. 



A Farmer's Fortune.— The place to learn how 

 it may be obtained is in the great American Stock 

 Journal, a large 3i page monthly, one of the cheap- 

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 about farming and stock raising in all its branches. 

 No farmer's family should be without it, as it will 

 save many times its cost. Hard times and a desiie 

 to iilace it in the h.ands of all, lead us to make tue 

 liberal offer of sending it three months on trial for 

 Two Dimes. Liberal premiums, specimen copy and 

 show bills/recto all who will use them. All who 

 subscribe before January 1st, 1878, get the October, 

 November and December numbers free. Address 

 Potts Brothers, Parkesburg, Chester county, Pa. 



Department of Agriculture.— Special report. 

 No. 2, upon the condition of the crops of the United 

 States ; also, a statement of the international wheat 

 supply, aud our wheat exports, together with foreign 

 crops and prices, 1877. An octavo pamphlet of 35 

 pages. 



Gardener's Monthly, .\mcricau Farmer, Ameri- 

 can Agriculturist, National Stock Journal, Wallace's 

 Monthly, Farm Journal, .lournal of Forestry, Prairie 

 Farmer, Coleman's Rural World, and others, for 

 November, received. 



The silverware delivered by the National Silver- 

 Palting Co., No. 704 Chestnill street, Philadelphia, 

 is giving entire satisfaction. All orders are promptly 

 filled, and no one nqed hesitate about sending them 

 money. — Lutheran Observer. 



L. B. Case's Botanical Index, to the new, rare 

 and beautiful plants. Gi-own and for sale at hie 

 Commercial Green House, Richmond, Indiana. ■ 



Kellog's newspaper lists, for 1877-78, No. 

 224 Walnut street, St. Louis, Mo. 



