H4S Annual Meeting of the N. Y. State Ag. Society—Foreign Agricultural News. 
will impart a fresh impulse to agricultural improve¬ 
ment throughout our country: and the Society therefore 
directed the Treasurer to subscribe for 100 copies. 
That it he recommended to the Executive Committee 
to hold the next annual Fair of the Society in the city 
of Rochester. 
That the State Society respectfully petition the Le¬ 
gislature for as many copies as they may see fit to 
grant, of the Natural History of the State, now in course 
of publication, to be distributed in Premiums by the 
Executive Committee. 
The Cultivator adds, that several other 
resolutions of much interest in relation to 
the objects of the Society were discussed 
and finally referred to the Executive Com¬ 
mittee for further action. 
Only two communications are reported, 
that of Mr. E. K. James, of Poughkeepsie, on 
the cultivation of wheat, and Mr. C. N. Be- 
ment, of Albany, on dairy salt, manufactur¬ 
ed at South Hadley, Mass., by Messrs. Bard- 
well, Damon, & Co., for $1 If cts. per bush¬ 
el. Mr. B. and others assert from their own 
experience, that it is superior to any other 
kind whatever for the dairy. 
On the report of the committee appointed for that 
purpose, the following gentlemen were unanimously 
elected officers of the Society for the ensuing year: 
James S. Wadsworth, Livingston, President. 
Vice Presidents. 
1st dist., James Lenox, New York. 
2d “ Robert Denniston, Orange. 
3d “ Anthony Van Bergen, Greene. 
4th t£ E. C. Delavan, Saratoga. 
5th “ Jonathan D. Led yard, Madison. 
6th “ Z. A. Leland, Steuben. 
7th “ J. M. Sherwood, Cayuga. 
8th “ L. B. Langworthy, Monroe. 
H. S. Randall, Cortland Village, Cor. Secretary. 
Luther Tucker, Albany, Rec. Secretary. 
Ezra P. Prentice, Albany, Treasurer. 
Additional Members of the Executive Committee .— 
C. N. Bement, Albany; H. D.Grove, Buskirk’s Bridge; 
Alex. Walsh, Lansingburgh; J. M. D. McIntyre, Al¬ 
bany; Thomas S. Hillhouse, Watervliet. 
The address of the President, James S. 
Wadsworth, Esq., is spoken of very highly, 
and we are happy to see that a copy for the 
press has been solicited. 
Upon the whole, things look very promis¬ 
ing with the Society, and we shall expect to 
see it growing in favor with the people, and 
adding annually to the interest and useful¬ 
ness of its proceedings. 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL. NEWS. 
From the London Far. Mag., for Nov., we condense 
some valuable information. 
Sheep Management. —From the discussion at the 
Leominster Farmers’ club, it was agreed: 
That 152 days is the average time of gestation for 
ewes. 
That a Leicester, or any long-wooled ram, if sent to 
the pasture with ewes, will serve 70, if kept in, and 
the ewes taken to him, 140. 
That one South Down ram, if sent to the ewes, will 
serve 100, if kept up, 150. 
That about a fortnight or three weeks previous to 
the season, the ewes should be changed to a better 
pasture; and that during the time of pregnancy, they 
should be well, but not highly kept—a dry pasture be¬ 
ing preferable. 
That assistance to ewes at the time of yeaning, 
should be cautiously given. 
That if it be necessary to administer anything to * 
weak lambs, a tea-spoonful of peppermint is much to 
be preferred to ardent spirits. 
That the feed during the lambing season, should be 
on a dry pasture with a southern aspect. 
That on the third day after weaning, the ewes should 
be once thoroughly milked. 
That after weaning the wethers be separated from 
the ewe lambs, and both be divided into small lots; as 
they thrive much better than when large numbers are 
kept together. 
That an occasional change is preferable to a perma¬ 
nent pasture. 
That as at this season of the year, when the frosty 
mornings set in, several of the lambs of a flock are lost, 
apparently from the same disease, the seat of which has 
generally been considered to be an obstruction of the 
water passage, the following recipe has been found 
highly beneficial, and has been known altogether to 
avert the catastrophe, if regularly and skillfully ap¬ 
plied :— 
A teaspoonful of turpentine ; after which three table- 
spoonsful of savine tea, and the same quantity of rue 
tea, mixed together. As the turpentine will not mix 
with the latter ingredient, it must be given alone. This 
dose should be given at the interval of a week. The 
same quantity of turpentine may also be administered 
in a little common salt and water, either from a horn 
or bottle; if properly done, it is calculated that 100 
lambs may be drenched in an hour. It was also recom¬ 
mended that the lambs should be folded the night be¬ 
fore, that the dose may be given when fasting. 
That for washing sheep, tanks constructed for the 
purpose by the side of brooks or rivers should be used ; 
this situation being preferred as admiting a free cur¬ 
rent of water, and affording protection to the washers, 
as well as insuring the better and more effectual per¬ 
formance of the work. 
That the process of shearing should never be carried 
on without a proper application for shear-cuts being 
at hand; as by a little precaution on the subject, many 
an irritating and troublesome sore is prevented, and 
the shepherd saved considerable trouble; also that the 
following recipe has been proved eminently successful, 
viz:—Friar’s Balsam, Tincture of Myrrh, and Goulard 
Extract. 
That fly-powdering should be resorted to as soon as 
the sheep are shorn, and repeated monthly, or as the 
weather may render it necessary. 
We commend all the above suggestions except the 
large number of ewes to be bred to the bucks, which, 
if it be not presumptuous, to place our opinion in oppo¬ 
sition to such thorough practical breeders, we should 
say was too large. One great cause of poor stock is, 
the excessive service demanded of males, and we would 
err on the safe side in this particular. 
Portraits. —The embellishments of the London 
Far. Mag. are chiefly engraved on steel, are of a highly 
finished style, and have been somewhat varied lately 
by the introduction of the portraits of eminent agricul¬ 
turists ; and we must confess, as fond as we are of ani- 
• mals, that we are glad to see the change. The August 
