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the other 8 points. The same process is gone 

 through with each cow, and the one that in 

 this way obtains the greatest number of marks 

 receives the premium. Mr. Allen mentions that 

 such is the particularity of these Islanders, that 

 they esteem no cow worthy of a premium that 

 cannot reach at least 21 marks. 



It may be a matter of surprise to the uninitia- 

 ted, as it was to us, to learn that the virtues of 

 a milch cow do not lie in her bag, but that the 

 udder is to be esteemed to the head, as 4 to 8. 

 The following is the table by which these points 

 are settled. 



points. 



1. Breed on male and female sides, repu- 

 ted for producing rich and yellow butter. 4 



2. Head small, fine and tapering ; eye 

 full and lively ; muzzle fine and encircled 

 w T ith white ; horns polished and crumpled, 

 tipped with black ; ears small of an orange 

 color within. ----- 8 



3. Back straight from the withers to the 

 sitting on of the tail ; chest deep and nearly 



of a line with the belly. 2 



4. Hide thin, movable but not too loose, 

 well covered with fine and short hair of good 

 color. - - - - - - 2 



5. Barrel hooped and deep, well-ribbed- 

 home, having but little space between the 

 ribs and hips; tail hanging two inches be- 

 low the hocks, ----- 5 



6. Fore legs straight and fine, thighs full 

 and long, close together when viewed from 

 behind; hind legs short, and bones rather 

 fine ; hoof small, hind legs not to cross in 

 walking, 2 



7. Udder full, well up behind ; teats square 

 and largely placed, being wide apart ; milk 

 veins large and swelling. ... 4 



8. Growth. ----- l 



9. General appearance. 2 



Perfection for Cows. 



30 



SECRET WORTH KNOWING. 



How to make three pair of boots last as long 

 as six, and longer. 



The following extract from Colonel Maca- 

 rone's <£ Seasonable Hints," which appeared in 

 the Mechanic's Magazine, dated February 8, 

 1838: — After stating the utility of sheepskin 

 clothing for persons whose employment renders 

 it necessary that they should be much out of 

 doors, &c, he says, " I will not conclude with- 

 out inviting the attention of your readers to a 

 cheap and easy method of preserving their feet 

 from wet, and their boots from wearing. I 

 have had only three pair of boots for the last 

 six years, (no shoes,) and I think I shall not re- 



quire any others for the next six years to come. 

 The reason is that I treat them in the following 

 manner : I put a pound of tallow and half a 

 pound of rosin into a pot on the fire: when 

 melted and mixed, I warm the boots, and apply 

 the hot stuff with a painter's brush, until nei- 

 ther the sole nor the upper leather will suck in 

 any more. If it is desired that the boots should 

 immediately. take a polish, dissolve an ounce of 

 beeswax in an ounce of spirits of turpentine, to 

 which add a tea-spoonful of lampblack. A day 

 or two after the boots have been treated with 

 tallow and rosin, rub over them the wax in tur- 

 pentine, but not before the fire. Thus the exte- 

 rior will have a coat of wax alone, and shine 

 like a mirror. Tallow, or any other grease, be- 

 comes rancid, and rots the stiching as well as 

 the leather; but the rosin gives it an antisep- 

 tic quality which preserves the whole. Boots 

 or shoes should be large, so as to admit of wear- 

 ing cork soles. Cork is such a bad conductor 

 of heat, that, with it in the boot, the feet are al- 

 ways warm on the coldest stone floor. 



POT LICUTOR, SOAP SUDS, CABBAGE. 



Pot liquor is a good food for hogs ; and soap 

 suds contains also some food, and is a good 

 medicine. Neither of these therefore should be 

 cast away, or otherwise used where hogs are 

 convenient to the kitchen. But where there are 

 no hogs, or none convenient, then the proper use 

 of these articles is on the garden. From time 

 immemorial it has been known that salt was a 

 good manure for cabbages, and for ages it has 

 been known that ashes (potash) was also a 

 good manure for this vegetable. As to the ac- 

 tion of two of the ingredients of the liquor and 

 the suds, there then can be no question ; and I as- 

 sert under my own experience that the other in- 

 gredient, oil, is equally efficacious. I once put 

 hogs lard and salt upon my cabbage, when full 

 of lice; the lice quickly disappeared, and the 

 cabbage improved. The extirpation of the lice 

 I attributed to the action of the oil, for in twenty 

 or thirty hours I could plainly see its dissemina- 

 tion throughout the cabbage ; but in this opin- 

 ion I have erred, for probably it w 7 as the salt. 

 For aught I know, the application of soap suds 

 might also destroy lice ; but be this as it may, I 

 have no doubt that both the liquor and suds are 

 very valuable, not only for manuring cabbage, 

 but many other garden and field plants. Oil will 

 adhere to the cabbage, but soap suds and pot 

 liquor will not, unless very greasy. It is evi- 

 dent then that the best method of applying li- 

 quor and suds, would be by the watering pot, 

 and that night would be the most proper time ; 

 so that the water, and with it the potash 

 and oil, may be taken up by the roots, before 

 the next morning's sun. As to the quantity to 

 be used on a cabbage, I cannot speak with pre- 



