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will be, by thanksgiving, worth a dollar. Deduct from this the 

 cost of 200 bushels of grain, and the hire of an attendant, to 

 whom he may pay $250 a year and l5oard, perhaps more. They 

 eat up the grasshoppers, grubs, worms, eggs of insects, larvae, beetles, 

 snails, katy-dids and June bugs so clear that his farm is less beset with 

 pests than most others about him. He has apples when others are 

 ruined by the borer, the caterpillar, the tent worm, the canker worm 

 or the curculio. Another advantage, his cocks ])egin to crow about 

 3 o'clock, and everything in the place is out by sunrise. One can eat 

 a breakfast of spring chickens by 6 o'clock. He is obliged to drain 

 all ponds about the place at intervals, in order to kill off the snap- 

 ping turtles that eat his young ducks. The rich ammoniacal manure 

 from his henner}'- enables him to gj'ow about the biggest corn of any 

 farmer in Westchester ; he keeps a great stock of cows, saves all their 

 droppings in cellars, spreads it on meadows, so that from twenty acres 

 he can cut sixty tons. Kobody around him can beat that ; hence for 

 this and other good reasons Mr. Leland has been elected president of 

 the Westchester Agricultural Society. This is a distinction he deserves, 

 if for no other reason, because he is the only fiirmer in the country 

 that keeps poultiy on a large scale and derives a profit of thousands 

 of dollars annually from it, and others can do the same. There is no 

 witchcraft or luck about it. Consider his management, and one sees 

 that it is simply sensible and thorough, but how many owners of 

 little, rough farms there are all around I^ew York in every direction 

 that could have every facility that Mr. Leland has ! This is a line of 

 development that has never been encouraged or rewarded. Will not 

 Peter Cooper, or Horace Greeley, or Warren Leland himself offer a 

 premium to the man or the woman who sends to market the greatest 

 quantity of eggs and poultry from a given number of hens ? 



Scab in Sheep. 



Mr. Diehl, the Asiatic traveler, inquired if there is a remedy for 

 this disease which is prevailing in many parts of the country to a 

 great extent. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — Cresylic ointment is recommended as a si^ecific 

 in destroying the germs of infection of whatever character. So far 

 from this disease being new, it was common thousands of years ago. 

 It is principally confined to large flocks, and is seldom known where 

 only enough sheep are kept to supply the wants of a family. Disease 

 and disaster attend large herds of animals and most enterprises. 



