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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Spoiling: Co-*vs. — Few farmers get into the 
way of soilin? cows, except those lo whom it is a very 
important ihing to keep up the supply of milit, as when 
it is fuinisheil to ciiy ctistoiners, wlio will bo lost for the 
season if they cannot have their regular qtiaiility every 
day, or when the milk is taken to a cheese factory, and 
the farmer's income bears direct icl;ilion to the number of 
pounds of mitli lie furnishes. It will pay to cut the best 
grass on the farm to feed green, rather than to have the 
milk fail ofTso much as not to regain its full flow when 
lite dry spell ispast. Corn, oats, sorghum, and millet may 
be sowed :my time, and will make either pasturage or 
green foddcu'. Turnips, sowed thick, rape sec-d also, or 
seed (if any of the cabhage or turnip f.imily, will make 
green forage in a very short time. When cut nnd fed, 
green fodder should alwuys be sulTered to wilt consider- 
ably, as it loses water rapidly, saves weight in carting 
from the field, and is better masticated and digested. 
'^Vlicn to Cut Xiinotliy.— "J. A.," Mc- 
Kean Co^ Pa., writes soundly: "One says 'cut timothy 
h:iy early,' and another says 'cut it late.' I have tried 
bulh uays with wtuking cattle and milch cows, and I 
vnlue one ton of early hay above two tons of la!e cut 
hay. The stock eat the earlycut hay clean, w;iste none, 
and thrive much better, and do a vast deal more work, 
than on late cut hay. If the season is favorable, I am 
generally nearly through haying when others commence. 
Late cut hay may last longer, and bass-wood chips would 
last longer still. This question would be settled forever, 
if men would try the experiment fairly." 
Xlic Slieep Oa<l-fly.— The great distress 
which sheep suffer from the attacks of this insect (the 
Oestrus Ovis) can hardly be imagined by one who has 
not seen it. It lays its eggs in July and August, chiefly in 
the nostrils. That death is occasioned by the giub in the 
head is not probable, but when great numbers exist in the 
head of a sheep, the irritation they produce, especially 
w hen they take tlieir departure in iMay and June, is great, 
but little or notiiing can be done for the poor Sheep. Tar 
upon the nose is quite an efficient preventive. It should 
be applied lepeatedly during the sumrner, and even when 
smeared above the nostrils has the desired efTect, and does 
not rub off so soon. Hence it is, that, as no passage can 
be discovered for the grubs to get into or out of the 
frontal sinuses, (cavities in ihe bone between the eyes,) 
many suppose the tar prevents the fly laying its eggs in 
Ihe bones of the forehead. The eggs are laid in the 
H'jstrils, as above stated, the worms which hatch, work 
their w;iy up into the head, passing through the very thin 
bones. It is said, too, that the merinos with iheir woolly 
foreheads are not troubled with thera, but this we cannot 
believe without further evidence, as it is a matter not 
covered by our own experience. Very few sheep are free 
fiom these grubs, and from one to more than twenty are 
found.— Capt. ShaflT. of White Co.. Ind.. thinks his sheep 
are killed by them. He reports taking 21 from one sheep. 
R. H. Cook also attributes the death of his sheep to the 
Siime cause, but his Spanish Merinos are never troubled. 
Paring tlie Frog-.—" W. H. B.," Danbiiry, 
Conn., asks: "Should a horse be shod so that Ihe frog 
will touch the ground?" In a state of nature the hoofs 
of horses wear quite flat and even. We shoe horses 
only to protect the hoofs against injury on our hard 
roads, and to prevent too much wear, and the shoe 
should never be made so as toc(mtract the hoof; neither 
should the frog be pared away, except when it is torn 
• and ragged. Let it touch the ground if it will. Do not 
have any nails driven more than half-way from the toe 
to the heel of the shoe. 
Xlie Trial of MoAvers and Reapers 
by the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, for wliich great 
preparation has been maile, will take place at Auburn, 
commencing July 10th. Entrees must be made at least 
one week previously at the Secretary's office in Albany. 
Schedules of duties of committees, requirements, etc., 
will be furnished by Col. B. P. Johnson, the Secretary. 
The Trial of Implements, Horse Powders, 
etc., conducted under the auspices of the same society, 
takes place at the same time and place, and subject to 
the same conditions. Schedules are prepared for Horse- 
rakes, Tedders^Hay-presses, Thraslung Machines. Horse- 
powers, Fan-mills. Hay and Stalk-cutters, Anangennnts 
fu' Loading Hay, Unloading, Sheaf-binders, and Portable 
Engines. This meetins: will be an exceedingly important 
and interesting one. Every machine will be put to severe 
practical tests of every part, under the eye of numerous 
committees of practical farmers and mechanical experts. 
Kidney Worm in IIo^s. — S. P. Rogers, 
Uniontown, Ivnox Co., III. Swine are subject to a vari- 
ety of parasites, such as Cysticercus cillulosae, Asearis 
suilla, Spiroptera strongylina. Trichina spiralis, Disto- 
mum hfepaticuo), etc., etc. Without seeing the parasvtes 
to which you refer, or having a more full descri[)tion, 
it would be impossible for us to classify them, 
I\ot Xoo ILate to Plant and So-n',— 
If there be any land in the garden from which early 
crops have been lemoved, it should not lie idle, for it is 
not too late to get another crop than weeds, from it. If 
a ciop lias failed from bad seeds, late frost, insects, or 
"bad luck," wliich is usually another name for neglect, 
it is not too late to put in another. There are yet three 
months at least of " growing weather," and it is not too 
late to do a good amount of gardening. The whole 
class of salad stufTs can be kept going — cress, radishes, 
ieltuce, and endive, the best of all late sulads. Pickles 
are to be looked out for, and cucumbers, the staple pickle, 
may be planted now with good results; melons vvill 
make fruit large enough for mangoes, gherkins, the little 
prickly We?t Indian fellows, may be ^own if one likes 
them, and Nasturtiums vvill grow famously in the hot 
months. Bush beans, for snaps and pickles, and a patch 
of Early Sweet Corn may be put in for a late supply. 
Young beets and carrots may be had for the sowing, as 
may Koiil-rabi and spinach. Now is as good a time as any 
other for sowing ruta-baga and Fiench turnips. There 
are probably other things which may yet be sown. Bet- 
ter plant every spare space and gel only a partial return, 
than lo allow it to run to weeds, or lo keep it clean and 
get nothing. 
A IVe'w "^Vay of Raisin;;- Forest 
Trees,— Tlie N. Y. Times, in matters relating to agii- 
culture and horticulture, manages to print more absurdi- 
ties and crude things, than any other daily paper, and 
that is saying a good deal. Here is something frorn its 
issue of May 2Tth. which, while it may mislead a few, 
ran only be amusing to those who have but the most 
general notions about propagating plants.— We quote : 
" A correspondent, writing to us on this subject, Raising 
F'lrest Trefs, says h knows of a case in which the ex- 
periment of sowing the po Hen of the elm, maple and oth- 
er hard-wood trees has been made with perfect success. 
That of the English and American varieties of elm, and 
the maples, nevei fails to grow in moderately good soil. 
Our correspondent is satisfied from his own observation 
that if thp p lien could be scattered over any good soil, 
even if in no other way than by the high winds which 
prevail on those plains, it would in many cases, particu- 
larly if the soil is at all loose, produce young trees. 
Whether they would stand the heat and want of shade 
of the region referred to, is, however, aquestio^i for de 
cision. Bushels of the pollen of the elm and maple 
trees can be gathered at this season at any place w here 
those trees abound, and that of some others can be had 
later." How could a paper print such nonsense ? When 
this writer has raised his trees from pollen, we recom- 
mend him to keep a flock of cocks for their eggs, and a 
herd of bulls for dairying purposes. 
Early I*eacl»es. — Early in May we had 
from the orchard house of Isaac Pullen & Son. Highfs- 
town, N. J., some very fine specimens of peaches. The 
vaiiety was Hale's Early, beautiful to look at and as good 
as they looked. This variety besides being very early 
and good, is also a very knowing peach, for one of the 
specimens, instead of taking on the usual red cheek, 
blushed into the name of the senior Publisher. This 
producing names on fiuit is a very pretty trick. It is 
done by cutting out the letters from a piece of paper and 
binding the paper on the fruit just before it colors. The 
light passes through the openings in the paper and pro 
duces the color, while the rest of the fruit remains green. 
Sweet Bfard-Mlielled Almond. — " L. 
II. C," New Madison. O.— Tiiis almond is usually bud- 
ded on the plum. The tree is hardy in N. Y. State, and 
will probably do well with you. It is worth cultivating 
for its beauty while in blossom, even if it yielded no fruit. 
■^Vardoj-'.s a-'B-iiit**-— AVc are able to an- 
nounce, as we go to press, that we have in hand a book on 
American Fruits, to be fully illustrated and brought down 
to the present season, by that distinguished pomologist Dr. 
JoHH A. W'ahder, w hose name alone will place it among 
the standard literature of this subject 
CSIadiolns Trom Seed.— "Subscriber " has 
often tried to raise Gladiolus from seed. •' They come up 
well and grow finely during the spring and summer, and 
that is the last of them.'' As soon as the leaves begin to 
turn yellovv, water should be withheld and the pols kept 
until spring in a dry place where they will not freeze. 
Frenclt rionr in IVe^i" YorW. — Two or 
three small invoices of Fiench flour (equal in quality to 
the highest grade of Southern Ohio Family Extra?) have 
been received and sold in Ihe market wilhin the past 
month at $14.50i'a'$15 per 196 lbs. 
Tlie Stra-*vl>erry Crop.— Wc liavc made 
several incursions upon the strawberry growers, but as 
we go to press before our observations are completed, we 
must defer our notes until another month. Suffice it to 
say that near New York the crop is .«mall, thougli from 
the increased number of groweis tlierc is plenty of fruit 
in market. Last v\ inter was very hard on the plants, and 
our notions of hardiness have to he couj-iderably modified. 
Wilson's Albany, which has heretofore been must reli- 
able, does not, in New Jersey, give mnre than half a crop, 
and in some cases none at all. This seasnn we shall 
know moie about the merits of the newer varieties. In 
Southern New Jersey the " Agriculturist" has done splen- 
diitly, in other places not so well. We gel the first report 
from the West from the Terre Haule, Ind.. Express: — 
"Yesterday morning Mr. G. W. ShafTcrof Ihe Elmwood 
Nursery 'dumped' on our table several baskets of the 
finest slrawberries ever placed on Said table. The varie- 
ties embraced the great Triomphc do Gand, the Austin 
Shaker, excellent for table use, tlie plumpswees Hooker, 
the prolific Wilson's Albany, and the much talked of 
Agriculturist. We saw nothing at the late exhibition that 
equalled the " Agriculturist." Among the Wilson's Albany 
w as one berry that measured six inches in circumference. 
These berries were grown at the Elmwood Nursery of 
Messrs. Shaffer & Co., and exhibit rare culture." 
Spattering; CUnrns. — I. J. Powell, of 
Ontario Co.. N. Y., stops Ihe spattering of his wife's churn 
by passing the handle of the dasher through a block 5 
inches long, with a hole through it a little larger than 
the handle; the bhjck resting on the churn top. A 
leathern washer on the handle, made of a circular piece 
with a cut from the center outward, and the edges lapped 
so as to give the washer the shape of an inverted funnel, 
is often used, to good advantage. 
Tlae ^'wro'^ins- Crops — ^Vlaat is tlseir 
Couditiou and Pro.spects?— As a matter of gen- 
eral information, we solicit frequent and continued reli- 
able information in reganl to the condition and prospects 
of the staple grain, grass, and fruit crops in all parts o( 
the country. Let every one writing a business letter, and 
a multitude of others who have nothing else to write 
about, send us brief but cnreful notes upon the crops, 
extending over as w ide a section as possible, within their 
personal observation. Vie cannot publish many of such 
reports, but a multitude of them concentrated here will 
enable us to form a co^-rect general estimate for the 
whole country, highly valuable to all our readers. 
A "Wee SM'arni, — Mr. Bidwell, of Bidwell 
Brothers, writes : " Our little girl wishes inc to send the 
following message: * My w^ee, small swarm of bees, is 
little smaller than Master Judd's little hen's egg. It's 
only my two little hands full ; and such beauties ' — while 
papa's swarms are two big hats full!' I will add, that 
the day being windy, only a few crfme out, with a young 
queeen. On the next morning the old queen swarmed 
with 8?i lbs. of bees, while the wee swarm only weighed 
with the little bush on.which it lit a quarter of a pound l'» 
Su1>soiUns: (To "J. B.") is of greater beiaefit 
upon thorough-drained land than on that not drained. 
Arcliitectnre. — Anew book of ^^ Desirjns, 
etc., for Street fronts. Suburban Houses and Cottages, etc., 
by M. F. Cummings, Troy. N. \'., and C. C. Miller, 
Toledo, O.— Just as we took up the book before us with 
the view of writing a noltce of it, the following question 
from " W. S. W.," Kokomo, (State not given i, was laid 
upon our table. — " Mons. Ed.: Wheie can carpenters 
get an 'Architect' (book on architecture) that will give 
the most extensive details, together w iih plans and eleva- 
tions of both city and country buildings, etc. Please an- 
swer, giving price, etc."' — Except that there are few or 
no plans, and these anybody can make, (no one is suited 
with leady-made plans), this, it strikes us, is just the 
work called for. The book is a folio, and consists of 52 
elaborate plates, in which the designs are drawn rather 
small, and enlarged in detail on a scale ,\ inches to the 
foot. The details, etc.. are both simple and elaborate, 
and in the eidarged portions every board and moulding 
maybe directly seen and measured. It is published by ■ 
the authois. For sale at the Office of the American 
Agriculturist, or sent post-paid for $10.00, 
Xlie Kjiltle Corporal deserves promotion 
among the liltle folks. It has made a good year's cam- 
paign, "Fighting for the good, the true, and the beauti- 
ful," and now takes the field again with 35,000 troops to 
back it. Volunteers are still called for in our advertising 
columns, and good rations are promised to all who enlist* 
