SALE OP SHORTHORN CATTLE IN OHIO, ETC. 
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bitten pea vines ; and finally to get through the 
winter upon such feed as only southern cattle 
can live upon ; and in the spring he went to the 
woods to take his chance upon the poor thin 
grass of Mississippi, and because a delicately 
bred animal could not thrive well and " show his 
blood " in his calves, under such treatment, the 
whole race of improved cattle were most inconti- 
nently condemned, and this really good animal 
finally fatted and killed for beef, and his stock 
no more appreciated than a Choctaw Indian 
would appreciate a thorough bred Arabian 
courser. 
Mississippi, Oct. 1st, 1849. 
NOVEL METHOD OF GRAFTING. 
Finding ray name in your journal, as having 
given some instruction to my valued friend, E. 
J. Capell, in relation to summer and fall grafting, 
I am induced to send you a brief notice of my 
practice of that kind of grafting. 
About the summer of 1825, 1 by request, bud- 
ded or inoculated a small nursery of apples, for 
a friend in a distant State. Finding that I had 
not quite a sufficiency of scions of some varie- 
ties, I dressed the small twigs containing the 
terminal buds of some dozen stems, in the form 
of long half wedges, and inserted them under 
the bark in the manner of budding. Finding 
that these took quite as successfully as buds, 
and that stems from which the bark would not 
slip could be used as well as others, I continued 
to practice it ; and I have found it equally suc- 
cessful in various kinds of trees, and at all sea- 
sons of the year, when the bark of the stock 
separates freely from the wood. 
I last spring, grafted several Vergalieu pears 
in this manner into quince stocks; they are 
now growing. I grafted a few peach trees in 
this way, on the 28th of October 1848, but few 
trees would receive the graft. Of those that did, 
some will probably bear fruit next summer. I 
have found this method of using the terminal bud 
very convenient, especially in peach and necta- 
rine trees. Many of the buds of these trees, after 
they begin to bear fruit, have no power to pro- 
duce any thing but blossoms. The terminal bud 
is always a wood bud, and its shoot is vigorous. 
Among the advantages of this mode of graft- 
ing, the following may be named : 
1st. The process is simple, easy and may be 
rapidly performed. 2d. It is less liable to be 
injured by carelessness, &c. 3d. In case of 
failure from whatever cause, the stock remains 
uninjured, and the work may be repeated any 
required number of times. 4th. It may be per- 
formed at almost any period except in winter. 
For spring grafting, the scions should be col- 
lected before the buds swell. 
A. B. Lawrence. 
Liberty, Amite Co., Mississippi, Oct. 1849. 
How to Shoe a Vicious Horse. — The Com- 
mercial Advertiser says, that an officer in the 
United States Army, recently returned from 
Mexico, thus subdued a horse that was trouble- 
some in handling his feet to be shod : — 
" He took a cord about the size of a common 
bed cord, put it in the mouth of the horse like a 
bit, and tied it tightly on the top of the animal's 
head, passing his left ear under the string, not 
painfully tight, but tight enough to keep the ear 
down, and the cord in its place. This done, he 
patted the horse gently on the side of his head, 
and commanded him to follow; and instantly 
the horse obeyed, perfectly subdued, and as 
gentle and obedient as a well-trained dog ; suf- 
fering his feet to be lifted with entire impunity, 
and acting in all respects like an old stager. 
That simple string thus tied made him at once 
as docile and obedient as any one could desire. 
The gentleman who thus furnished this exceed- 
ingly simple means of subduing a very danger- 
ous propensity, intimated that it is practiced in 
Mexico and South America in the management 
of wild horses." 
SALE OF SHORTHORN CATTLE IN OHIO. 
I forward you an account of administrators' 
sale, of the late Alfred Hadley's shorthorns and 
steers of this county, on the 30th of October last 
Clarksville, an imported cow 14 years 
old, $ 66 00 
Clarksville, second, 4 months old, 123 00 
Americus, 2 years old, bred by Mr. Wm. 
Neff, 317 00 
Adelaide, 1 " " " "171 00 
Ida Bell, 1 " " " " 159 00 
Grazilla, 1 " " " " 140 00 
Pink, 5 " " " " 107 00 
Anna, 2 " "high grade heifer 117 00 
10 grade cows, heifers and calves, 30 to 65 00 
Comet, 2 years old, " " 160 00 
Bern, 3 months " " " 155 00 
Zack Taylor, 9 " " " 108 00 
Snow Ball, 2 years " " 50 00 
Snow Flake, 5 months " " 50 00 
2 four years old grade steers, 80 and 75 00 
50 two " " " averaged each 27 06 
25 one " " " " 18 00 
E. Carpenter. 
Briar Patch Cottage, Warren 
Co. Ohio Nov. 4th, 1849. 
The receipt of the account of the above sale, 
quite rejoiced our hearts. We had not heard 
from Ohio shorthorns for so long a time, that 
we began to think they were all dead and buried 
with their mammoths of old. But this shows 
that they still appreciate them tolerable fairly, 
though the prices, except in two or three in- 
stances, are not what they out to be to remuner- 
ate good breeders. However, there seems to be a 
little waking up in these matters now. We 
never had so many enquiries for good stock, as 
during the past year, nor have so many improv- 
ed animals been sold throughout the country 
to our knowledge, in a single year of the last 
ten, as in 1849. 
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Late Sowed Wheat in Maryland and far- 
ther South, is not so likely to be attacked by the 
fly as early sowed. But late sowing will not do 
so well at the North, for it must have time to 
root and tiller before the severe early frosts set 
in ; besides wheat at the North is not liable to be 
attacked by the fly in autumn, it is only in the 
summer season that this pest injures the plant. 
