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bad a9 any common sort— Jast so; why not? There is 
nothing in any improved stock to make them free from 
the consequences of neglect or starvation. If a farmer 
would succeed with thorough-bred stock, or any other, 
he must give them the best feed and care ; it is this only 
that pays in this branch of farming, and the same is true 
of all other branches. 
The Best Mower.— (t H. W.," Alleghany 
Co., Pa., asks which is the best mower.— Onr preference 
is the Buckeye, but there are several others so nearly 
equal to it, that facility in procuring them would with us 
have great weight in purchasing. There is very little 
difference, if any, in the prices of the leading machines. 
In selecting a machine to offer as a premium, we, after 
carefully considering the matter, fixed upon the Buckeye, 
and after several years' experience have seen no reason 
to regret our choice. 
IVIixed Paints, ready for use, are offered by 
various manufacturers under different trade names. We 
learn that the painters attempt to throw discredit on 
these. There is no reason why paints put up in this way 
should not be as good as any others. We have tried some 
of them to our entire satisfaction. There may be poor 
paints of this kind in the market, as there are adulterated 
paints of the common sort, but those prepared by reputable 
manufacturers are a great convenience to people in gen- 
eral, whatever the painters may think about them. 
American Jersey Cattle Club. — The 
fourth annual meeting of this association was held in 
Baltimore, April 17th. S. J. Sharpless, of Philadelphia, 
was elected President ; G. E. Waring, Jr., of Newport, 
R. I., Secretary and Treasurer ; and J. Howard McHenry, 
Of Pikeville, Md., Andrew Robeson, of Boston, and T. J. 
Hand, of Sing Sing, N. T., Executive Committee. The 
3d volume of the Herd Register will be issued this sum- 
mer, and entries for it should be sent at an early day to 
the Secretary, who will furnish blanks and instructions 
on application. The essay on Jersey Cattle, which was 
prepared by the Secretary for the first volume, will soon 
be published in a pamphlet form by Orange Judd & Co. 
What the Physicians say — A bet- 
ter that tells Its own Story.— "New York, 249 
" West 42d Street^ April 2itf, 1872.— Messrs. Orange 
" Judd «fc Co. : Gentlemen ; At a meeting of the l New 
"York Medical Union,' held on the 20th instant, it 
" was resolved and adopted : * That as an expression of 
"personal and professional respect for a publisher who 
11 will battle against fraud and crime, under the guise of 
"medical advertisements, as Orange Judd & Co. have 
"done, in the case of Byrn against Judd & Co., we sub- 
" scribe en masse to the Hearth and Home. 1 The Medical 
" Union having authorized me to attend to the execution 
" of the above resolution, I do myself the pleasure to in- 
close check for the amount of the year's subscription, 
" together with a list of the names and addresses of the 
" members, and beg you will order the paper sent to those 
" addresses, commencing with the fourth volume. With very 
" great respect, I remain yours, Stephen Rogers, M.D." 
Holding- np Milk. — L. Pierce says he has 
found his cows will always let down their milk when in- 
clined to hold it up if he gives them some salt to lick. 
First Mortgage Railroad Bonds on 
any line of railroad having a present or prospective fair 
business are always considered good investments, and 
usually rise above par as soon as a road is completed. 
Good bonds are offered in our advertising columns by 
Messrs. Leonard, Sheldon & Foster. The Canada South- 
ern Railroad is not only to be a trunk line, but it also 
passes through the finest agricultural region of Canada. 
The Cayuga Lake Railroad will have a very large coal 
business, while it traverses the splendid farming country 
along the margin of Cayuga Lake. At present, these 
bonds are offered at 90 and accrued interest, 
Combined Reaper and Mower.— 
" W. J. L.," Wadesboro, N. C, asks if we would advise 
him to get a combined reaper and mower, or if separate 
machines would be on the whole the cheapest. — We have 
found the combined machine inconvenient, and would use 
separate machines whenever possible to procure them. 
Natural History Journals. — "W. D. 
W.," Westmoreland Co., Pa. We have not, since the 
suspension of the American Entomologist, any journal 
devoted to Entomology. The Canadian Entomologist, 
monthly, is published at $1.25 a year (U. S. currency), 
by Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. 
The American Naturalist, published at Salem, Mass., 
monthly, at $4 a year, treats on all branches of Natural 
History, including Entomology, and is a valuable work. 
For other Basket Items see page 233. 
Large Pay ** Little Work, 
and that, too, for rainy days, evenings, odd spells, or for 
a constant occupation— for MEN, WOMEN, and CHIL- 
DREN— anywhere, and everywhere Over I 1,000 
Persons have found it so ; and here is how it is : 
The Publishers offer 10S Premiums, every one of them 
afrst-rate article— just as good as so much money— tor 
use or for sale. (See list on page 206, and send for a 
free, full description, if not having one.) Now, to get 
one of these articles without money, it is only necessary 
to solicit and forward a few subscribers for the American. 
Agriculturist or Hearth and Home, or for both of them. 
The number required is given against each premium. 
It Is easily done. Show a copy of the papers, ex- 
plain their value and cheapness— the cost being only 
a few cents a week. Few Post-Offices have around them 
less than twenty-five families, and many have hundreds, 
that would be profited in mind and pocket by reading 
one or both of these journals. They only need to have 
this shown to them. Any enterprising person, old or 
young, can do this just as easily as it has been done by 
the 14,000 who have already secured the premiums. 
Human nature and human wants are similar everywhere. 
Read page 20?. These premium offers will remain 
open one month yet (to June 30), and June is a good 
month for getting them. Partly filled premium lists 
can be completed, and new ones be begun and com- 
pleted. A subscriber a day will get a large premium. 
Many can get several each day or week. Begin to-day. 
Any one taking hold with a will, determined to suc- 
ceed, will Bucceed. The Premiums are open to all. 
Washing Wool.- 1 ' Maryland " wants the 
best method of washing wool, so that it will rate as " tub- 
washed," and if a Doty Washer would do the work. — 
"Tub-washed" wool is washed in soap and warm water 
until the dirt and grease is removed. As there is no nib- 
bing, but merely continued squeezing for a short time, a 
washing machine is hardly needed. By placing the wool 
in water to soak for half a day previously the work is 
made easier. It is a good plan to run the wool through a 
11 wringer " after washing. 
Xhree Horses on a. Mower or 
Reaper. — There is no way of attaching three horses 
abreast on a mower, except by placing the three-horse 
evener a foot or fifteen inches on the left-hand side of the 
pole. Any contrivance that will do this, will answer the 
purpose. Sometimes a piece of wood a foot or so thick, 
is firmly bolted on to the pole, and the evener is attached 
to this. We have never known grass so heavy that a 
pair of good horses will not cut it easily with a Woods 
or Buckeye machine. On a reaper we have sometimes 
found it well to put on four horses, attaching the first 
pair to the end of the pole. If steady horses, one man 
can drive four as easily as three. If we had a mower that 
cut a swath wide enough to require three horses, we would 
put on four, and then go ahead at a good steady pace. 
IVew Ilampshii-e Board of Agri- 
culture.— This Board was organized in 1S70. It has 
held thirty meetings, and consumed forty days and even- 
ings in discussion of questions of interest to farmers. 
Exchanges of reports and proceedings of kindred asso- 
ciations will be gladly made. Chairman, Moses Humphrey, 
Concord ; Secretary, James O. Adams, Manchester. 
Weight of Cotswold Sheep.—" C. A. 
L.," of Vermont, asks, "What is the largest Cotswold 
sheep you remember to have known ? " This is a point 
on which we have never felt the slightest interest. Big 
oxen, big sheep, and big hogs have never had any attrac- 
tion for us. A Cotswold sheep that will weigh 200 pounds 
at It months old is a far better test of a breeder's skill 
than one that will weigh 400 pounds at three years old. 
It is rare for a well-bred Cotswold to weigh over 350 lbs. 
Clover Seed. — On rich limestone land, 
clover seed often proves one of the most profitable crops, 
in proportion to the labor, that can be raised on the farm. 
Some good farmers think it impoverishes the soil, and 
this may be to a certain extent true, but if the money ob- 
tained for the seed is expended in purchasing bran, cot- 
ton-seed cake, or other food to feed out to animals next 
winter, the extra quantity of the manure, so obtained 
will do far more towards enriching the farm than the 
growth of the clover seed will exhaust it. If you do not 
need the field for pasture, therefore, wc would certainly 
recommend you to let it produce seed. Mow the first 
crop early and evenly. This is nil that need be done 
until the seed is matured. If the clover was plastered in 
the spring, it is not well to sow anymore on the crop left 
for seed. It sometimes produces such a luxuriant growth 
that the seed will not ripen. Even in this case, however, 
the crop can be mown for hay. 
Ashes from Bark- u J. R. M.," Flint 
Hill, Va., asks the value of the ashes from tanners' waste 
as compared with the value of those from wood. — The 
difference consists mainly in the lesser amount of potash 
in the ashes of bark, but as they contain 6ome potash, 
also soda, phosphoric acid, and a large quantity of lime, 
they have a sufficient value to make them a cheap ma- 
nure at eight cents per bushel. 
Longr-wooled. Sheep in Kar«-e 
Flocks. — Some of our agricultnral writers are still in- 
sisting that "one hundred" long-wooled sheep can not 
be profitably kept on one farm. They say a flock of forty 
or fifty may be so managed as to keep healthy. Arguments 
are wasted on such men. They have yet to learn the dif- 
ference between cause and effect. 
Buelcwheat on Summer-Fallows* — 
On sandy soil that is being summer-fallowed for wheat, 
it is perhaps advantageous to sow buckwheat, and turn it 
under for manure ; and on very heavy clay soil the same 
practice is sometimes resorted to for the purpose of mak- 
ing the soil more porous. But on ordinary loamy land 
we think the buckwheat would do more harm than good, 
as its growth robs the soil of moisture, and if we have 
dry weather in the fall, the wheat would probably not start 
as well as it would on a good bare fallow 
Large tirade or Small Thorough- 
bred. Males.— tl Would you carry your preference for 
thorough-bred males so far as to prefer a small pure-bred 
Shorthorn bull to a large, handsome, well-formed grade 
Shorthorn bull ? "— Certainly, we would. The late Sir 
Charles Knightly once said: "No bull, if good enough 
is ever too small." Yon may get good calves from the 
grade bull, but the tendency is towards deterioration. If 
you wonld improve your stock, yon must resort to pure- 
bred males, and get the best yon can afford. 
How to Remove Foul Air from a 
Well.— Never go intoa well without first lowering a 
candle into it. If it goes out, you may know that there 
is carbonic acid in the well. This gas is heavier than the 
air. The way to get it out is, to warm it in some way until 
itislight enough to ascend. This may be done by lower- 
ing down a tin pail of boiling-hot water with a rope, and 
moving it up and down in the dead air, or below the 
point where the candle goes out. 
SUNDRY HUMBUGS.— Several physi- 
cians write desiring ns to print in pamphlet or book form 
a full report of Byrn's Libel Suit against us, for the par- 
ticular use of the medical and legal professions, as much 
of the testimony is not fit for a general publication. It 
would doubtless be a valuable document, but without a 
large demand in advance we are hardly warranted in in- 
curring this further heavy expense. The testimony of 
the witnesses, on the final trial, alone covered nearly 300 
pages of large legal-cap paper. The whole proceedings, 
preliminary, interlocutory, various rulings, etc., all form- 
ing a part of the case, and necessary to a full report of 
it, would require a large volume. The condensed report 
given iu a 10-column supplement to Hearth and Home for 
April 20th (No. 16), presents the important features and 
results, and a copy of that paper (which can be procured 
post-paid for 10 cents) should be in the hands of every 
physician at least, and wonld be very useful to every other 
person If the good people of Hinsdale, N. U., do not 
take hold and clear out from their midst the venders (or 
one vender under various names) of vile publications and 
sundry clap-traps, their fair town will have a tarnished 
reputation throughout the country, and the one general 
watchword of the press will be: "Beware of any and 
every circular, document, or advertisement from Hins- 
dale, N. n. I" The so-called "New England Book 
Co." is a libel on the name— with its advertisements o! 
amorous books, pictures, medicines, etc. Parents write 
us that these circulars, setting forth vilely attractive 
books and pictures, are mailed directly to their sons 
