NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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you do for them. If 5'ou have no conscience then, 

 no sense of justice, no humanity, no co w-manity, 

 where is your selfishness ? Where is your love for 

 money, as well as of milk, butter, and cheese ? Surely 

 it must be stone blind. 



We heartily wish that those poor creatures were 

 gifted with the power of utterance, and could speak 

 in their own behalf; that they would get up a sort of 

 public sentiment among themselves, have a great cow 

 convention, discuss their wrongs, peaceably petition 

 for a redress of grievances, and, if denied, turn their 

 horns against their oppressors. That would be right, 

 and the whole world might be invoked as a witness 

 of the justice of their cause, and the c3?o-ardly bipeds, 

 who have grown so insolent in the exercise of their 

 long-abused authoritjs would turn pale with affright, 

 and be glad enough to come to terms. But we must 

 restrain our indignant pen. — Michigan Farmer. 



REVIEW OF THE WOOL MARKET FOR 

 SEPTEMBER. 



The market for wool has rather advanced than re- 

 ceded for the past month, especially in the lower and 

 highest grades. The indications are now favorable 

 for a still further advance on the finer grades. Cloths 

 have advanced, and as the season draws to a close, 

 the advance will be still more perceptible. Upon 

 the whole, the prospect is truly cheering for both 

 wool-grower and the manufacturer, particularly if 

 friendly relations with France should be interrupted 

 for any considerable time. 



Sales have been made at the depot during the 

 month, of No. 5 at twenty-six cents, of No. 4 at 

 twenty-eight cents, of No. 3 at thirty cents, and a 

 good demand at these prices. We do not, however, 

 alter our quotations for last month. — T!ie Wool- 

 Grower. 



PROSPECT FOR BEEF, PORK, AND 

 PELTS. 



Although cut meats are now low, we think there 

 are causes at work that Avill materially enhance the 

 price, and that pork will bear a good price this fall 

 and winter. The increased facility afforded by the 

 railroads for carrying fresh meats to market will ena- 

 ble the farmers generally to realize very good prices 

 for their fat cattle, sheep, and hogs. The price for 

 tallow and hides will be good this fall, and beef 

 packing, if cattle have not too much advanced in 

 price in the gra/.ing districts of the west. The de- 

 mand for pulled wool will be very active this winter, 

 and at good rates, so that pelts ought to command 

 a high price, though we hope few sheep will be 

 slaughtered, for there are not enough now. — I'he 

 Wool- Grower, 



HORSERADISH. 



Horseradish may be easily ]nopagated by setting 

 the roots in the fall. The soil should be rich, and 

 have a southern or eastern exposvire, with some pro- 

 tection on the north. We have found the following 

 method quite successful. Parallel with some fence 

 or building, which may serve to furnish the desired 

 protection from the cold winds of the north, and at a 

 slight remove from it, say two feet, dig a trench 

 eighteen inches deep, and a font wide. Fill this 

 half full of old, finoly-j)ulverij!cd and garden loam, 

 and insert your roots, eight inches apart, and finish 

 the filling with good soil, in which there is a liberal 

 admixture of old manure, lime — air slacked — and 

 ashes. Keep the weeds down, and the surface light 

 and permeable, and there will be little danger of 

 failure. As soon as the plants appear, apply a com- 



post, formed of one bushel leached ashes, two quarts 

 of charcoal, finely triturated, and one peck of gyp- 

 sum. Irrigate occasionally with soap-suds, or the 

 liquid from the barn-yard. 



The space in the rows, which has been cleaned 

 during sunnner, should be again filled in, and the 

 transplanted plants permitted to remain for future 

 use. By taking up some of the roots towards the 

 close of summer, carefully washing and scraping 

 them, and preserving them in bottles by turning vin- 

 egar over them, and securing the bottles by melted 

 sealing-wax, a supply of the article may be secured 

 during the winter, as fresh and good as when taken 

 from the soil. Some, who are unacquainted with 

 this process, take up a quantity of the roots, and pre- 

 serve them in sand, or other soil, in their cellars ; but 

 the article loses much of its goodness in this way. 

 — Germantown Telegraph. 



SHELTERING SHEEP. 



Permit me to call the attention of farmers in Ohio 

 and other sections of the country to the importance 

 of providing shelter for sheep and other domestic 

 animals. I have had some experience in keeping 

 sheep at stacks, exposed to the drizzling rains and 

 sudden chaxiges of the weather during the winter 

 season. In the winter of 1847-8, I put one hundred 

 to stack, and gave them plenty of hay and some grain 

 through the winter. The loss was over twenty per 

 cent. I have no doubt they ate a fourth more than 

 the same number that were protected, of which the 

 loss was only two per cent. In consequence of this 

 result, I built ample sheds during the past summer, 

 provided with hay-lofts, one sixty by twenty, and 

 another fifty-five by twenty feet. (I will just observe, 

 for the benefit of those who are building sheds of this 

 kind, that twenty-four feet is about the proper width, 

 and the additional expense of four feet is trilling.) 

 These sheds are set to two barns, and enclose the 

 yard on three sides. Here, in separate divisions, I 

 have kept my sheep the past winter. They have had 

 good hay and plenty of water, and the yards were 

 strawed three times a week. I feed some grain to 

 my lambs in winter, and give some to ewes in spring. 

 My loss up to this time (April 15) is half of one 

 per cent. Many of my sheep were in low condition 

 in the fall ; yet I would like to compare them with 

 anv flock of the same number that have had no pro- 

 tection. E. HALLEY. 



Cleaveland, Ohio, April, 1849. 

 — Albany Cultivator. 



THE NUMBER OF DOGS IN THE UNITED 

 STATES. 



If it be within the power of those who are to give 

 directions about the next census, we hope they will 

 take measures to ascertain the number of dogs, male 

 and female, in every county in our Union ; and, if it 

 could be done, it would be useful also to have a 

 return of the number of sheep killed by dogs. At 

 two cents per day, it is probable that the cost of dogs 

 is equal to the value of our exports of grain and pro- 

 visions to England this year ; and it is not improbable 

 that our sheep husbandry would add as much more 

 to the wealth of the country, if it were not for the 

 fear of having the sheep destroyed by dogs. 



We are no enemies of dogs, of genuine blood, kept 

 and used for their legitimate and appropriate pur- 

 poses : all such will ever find in us stanch friends 

 and defenders. But we have a great aversion to idle, 

 useless whelps — nati consumere fruges — born only 

 to consume the fruits of the land — whether they go 

 on four legs or two ! — Plough, Loom, and Anvil. 



