roL. xxn. NO 31. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



243 



Its, and very \itx\^ wool, coveriiijn slow.ri'eNlin^, 

 jss^raiiied carcase of niuUon ; their fleeces 

 ■igliing from 12 to 20 pounds. The Cotswold 

 Dcp, long celebrated for the fineness of their 

 )ol ; they are tall, long-, and flat sided, but yield- 

 j a liL-avy fleece. The Dartmoor sheep, the 



Krum Ihe Albany Cullivalor. 



BLACK LEG IN CALVES. 

 Messrs. Editors — Having' seen a number of arti- 

 cles in your excellent pnper concerning a disease 

 called the " black leg," (which is so formidable an 

 jmney Mar=h sheep, and the Cheviot sheep, enemy to the reannjr of calve.s,) and knowing that 

 le mutton produced on the steep sides of the j any light on the eiibject would be very acceptable, 

 ainpians and Cheviot hills, their native country \ \ fggi j,, d,ity bound to give you what has come to 

 says, is superb. He spoke of the Dorset and i niy knowledge, and what little I have seen con- 

 jrfolk sheep, and had much to say about Ihe me- earning this disease, the remedy, &c. 

 10 sheep. The finest specimens of all these | This disease generally attacks the fattest and 

 seds had been introduced into this country, and I best ; therefore it is hardly for the interest of the 



farmer to keep his young cattle in very high or- 

 der. It has proved fatal in every case in my 

 knowledge, with one exception. We have met 



The 



cli was a favorite with the wool growers. 



ler came from Spain. 



Mr. Webster said ho began to think the time 



13 approaching when long-wooled sheep would 



with some loss every year since my reincmbrauce. 



in good demand for the use of our American j,i ibla neighborhood, from this disease, and some 

 inufacturing establishments, and if ho wore a years to quite an extent. We have generally 

 ung man and no»- beginning to be a farmer, he j practiced bleeding in the fall as a preventive dur- 



luld have some Lincolnshire sheep, fellows that 

 >uld yield twenty pounds per annum. He be- 

 ved that some sharp sighted individuals in the 

 ate of New York were already turning their at- 

 ition in that direction. The time is rapidly ap- 

 oachiiig when this is to be a great wool gjow- 

 "■ country ; although at present the whole num- 

 r of sheep in the Untied States does not much 

 coed 20,000,000; more than 5,000,000 of those 

 e ill the state of New York. Sheep raising can- 

 t be made a profitable business on the coast ; 

 e mountain ranges and highlands, back from the 

 a, he says, are the regions for sheep. It was 

 e opinion of Jonathan Roberts, a veteran farmer 

 Pennsylvania, who had taken much interest in 

 e kind of stock, that land in abundance could be 

 ocured at a price that would cnal>le the wool 

 •owers to produce it at 30 cents a pound. 



ing winter, and for a few years I believed we had 

 a sure remedy. I practiced it four or five years, 

 and never lost any in the time, except those that 

 by mistake or for some reason, were not bled ; but 

 in the winters of 1841-2, I undertook to winter 

 thirteen calves, nil of which had been thoroughly 

 bled ; and before spring, five of them died of the 

 black leg : they were kept in a small yard, and 

 not permitted to run out any, and were housed 

 nights, and kept in good order. I thought it ow- 

 ing, in part, to their close confinement and being 

 in good flesh, and last winter I let my calves have 

 more chance for exercise, obliging Ihein to go 60 

 rods for their drink; but notwithstanding, about 

 the middle of winter, I discovered that one of the 

 best had every symptom of the above disease, and 

 I counted liim as good as dead ; but at the sugges- 

 tion of a neighbor, I gave it a strong dose of lobe- 



For the New England Farmer. 



INQUIRIES. 



Mr Breck— Dear Sir— I atn about to roiumence 

 fanning operations, uiiil wish to make some inqui- 

 ries through the columns of your useful paper, in 

 regard to the use of litne as a manure for grass 

 land ; — what (piantity sown broadcust per acre 

 would be sufficient ; whether it should Ix; slaked, 

 or otherwise : at what season of the year is best 

 to apply it, &c. 



I would inquire in regard to wood ashes fur 

 grass land, about what quantity of unspent ashes 

 per acre should be need .' and at what season of 

 the year is best to apply them ? Also about what 

 quantity of .spent ashes per acre. 



I would inquire as to the use of salt sown broad- 

 cast upon grass land ; about what quantity per 

 acre would be sufficient, and at what season of the 

 year it should be sown? whether coarse or fine 

 salt is ho.st, &c. 



By answering the above inquiries through the 

 columns of the New England Farmer, you will 

 very much (>blige a subscriber. 



Yours, truly, P. II. 



Gloucester, Jan. 22, 1844. 



(J5*'Wc refer our correspondent to the report of 

 the agricultural meeting in our columns today, for 

 an answer in jiart to his inquiries in relation to salt 

 and ashes. We will answer upon lime in due sea- 

 son. If convenient, by referring to the index to 

 each of the last four or five vohinies of the Par- 

 tner, he will readily find much of the information 

 he desires. But this facility, perhaps, is not at 

 hand. 



With the feeding and taking care of sheep Mr. | jja^ and got him on his legs and made him exer- 

 cise, much against his will, and within one hour he 

 began to eat hay, and got well immediately. 

 "Randolph, Vt. G. S. P. 



/ebster appears to ba perfectly familiar, and en 

 red into it at length ; he spoke in terms of the 

 ffhest indignation against the mode adopted by 

 loso who sometimes treat so good an animal so 

 idly, so inhumanly ; and on the other hand he 

 )oke of his mode of treating " his lambs" in such 

 miinner that he not only excited my admiration 

 y the extent of his researches and thoughts on 

 lis point, but awoke my deepest sympathy. Cru- 

 Ity to brutes, and especially to one which is so 

 fton spoken of as the type of innocence, never 

 lils to touch a tender chord. I have heard him 

 1 the Senate, and at the bar, I have heard him 

 soaking to countless crowds, I have hoard him at 

 10 festive board, and indeed upon almost all occa- 

 ions, back to each of which I look with almost 

 nfiiiite pleasure, but I have never heard him on a 

 ubject when he interested me more than he has 

 one to day. 



Cooking Salt Fish. — Some people are yet in- 

 redulous on the subject of cooking salt fish. It 

 hould never bo boiled, for boiling hardens it ; but 

 t should be kept in scalding water for two or 

 hreo hours. No matter how small is the quantity 

 if water, if it covers the fish Exch. pap. 



Female Sociel}/. — A modern writer observes that 

 ' he who speaks lightly of female society, is either 

 . numskull or a knave" — the former not having 

 .en»e enough to discern its benefits, and the latter 

 riating the restraints that it lays on his vices. 



Blind Teeth in Horsis. — Referring to an article 

 on this subject, in the Dec. No. of the Cultivator, 

 Mr L. Physick, of Maryland, in a letter to us, says: 



" 1 observe that you are desirous to obtain all 

 the information you can collect about ' blind teeth' 

 in horses. This was a matter entirely new to me 

 till last summer, when one of my horses had nearly 

 lost the use of his sight, 'which I attributed to 

 over work, he being of a restless disposition when 

 at work. Sometime after the predisposition to 

 blindness was discovered, (the sight of one eye 

 being almost, if not entirely gone,) he was sent to 

 the blacksmith to bo shod. The smith told the 

 boy, that if a certain tooth, pointing it out to the 

 boy, was not extracted, the horse would soon be 

 entirely blind ; and without my assent, took a 

 hammer and a piece of bar-iron, as described by 

 the boy — rather barbarous pulling — and knocked 

 it out. The hoy said that there was no evidence 

 of pain exhibited by the horse, and that the tooth 

 dropped out with the first stroke of the hammer. 

 Whether this was tlie cause of blindness or not, I 

 cannot say ; but the horse very shortly afterward 

 recovered his sight, which since then continues 

 good." — Mb. Cult. 



Things of Importance. — To have your cellar 

 well secured against frost; your windows and doors 

 in good repair ; your wood-house with at least a 

 year's stock of fuel cut and piled in it^ your yards 

 warm and comfortable ; your stables clean and 

 well ventilated ; your farm implements carefully 

 cleaned, repaired, and housed ; your district school 

 attended to, and every thing provided to facilitate 

 education ; useful and instructive reading for long 

 winter evenings ; a kind and benevolent heart to 

 the poor; plenty of food for your animals ; 

 the receipt of an agricultural journal ; and though 

 last, not least, exemption from debt, and a con- 

 science at peace with God and man. — Alb. Cult. 



Men often act lies without speaking them. 

 also appearances are lies. 



All 



The New London Gazette says that O. Lay, 

 Esq., of Lyme, has a hog 22 months old, which 

 weigs over 12U0 pounds, and aoiistantly increasing 

 in weight. 



Rich and Comfortable. — One of the weilthiest 

 farmers on the Connecticut, tells the following 

 story : 



" When 1 first came to settle, about 40 years 

 ago, I told my wife I meant to be rich — all she 

 wanted, she said, was enough to make her ' com- 

 fortable.' I went to work and cleared up my land ; 

 I've worked hard ever since, and have got rich — 

 rich as I want to be. Most of my children have 

 settled about me, and they have all good farms. 

 But my wife is n't 'comfortable' vet." 



Dr. Johnson says of small debts, that like small 

 shot, they rattle around us on every side, and can 

 scarcely be escaped without a wound. Great 

 debts are like cannon, of great noise and less dan- 

 ger. 



Tho most effectual way of diininishing crime, is 

 I to diminish ignorance. 



