editor’s table. 
253 
SUttor’3 Stable. 
Forgetfulness. —The following regular agricultural 
papers have taken the subjoined articles from us and 
omitted giving credit. We shall expect in their first 
issue after reception of this paper that they will cor¬ 
rect the omrnission. 
Massachusetts Plowman of June 22d, “ On Driving 
Sheep.” 
Southern Planter, page 167—“Lime and Charcoal.” 
Southern Agriculturist, page 276—“Statistics of 
Fruit.” 
Mississippi Valley Farmer, p. 133, “Shepherd Dogs.” 
The Central N. Y. Farmer, p. 183, “ Cure for Hoven.” 
page 187, “ Cure for Withers Coming Down.” 
“ 188, “Superior Dutch Cheese.” 
“ “ “To Make a Sheep own a Lamb.” 
This is certainly a very modest appropriation for a 
single number. 
The Maine Farmer appropriates half a column of 
our “Foreign Agricultural News,” and credits the 
same to an “ English paper.” This matter we make 
up condensed , at considerable expense and labor from a 
large file of foreign journals; and according to the rules 
which govern the editorial corps, we are as much en¬ 
titled to credit for it as if coined originally in our own 
brain. 
So much for the regular agricultural journals. As 
for the irregular ones, we consider them like the Cos¬ 
sack hordes of a Russian army— born to plunder ; and all 
is, when we catch them in the act, we make no words 
about the matter, but immediately cut them from the 
exchange list. 
Saxony Merino Wool. —When at Northampton, Mass., 
in June, Theodore Strong, Esq., of that place, furnished 
us with a few unckosen samples of the wool from his 
beautiful flock of Saxon Merino sheep. They show 
careful and high breeding, and we doubt whether the 
quality of the wool can be surpassed in the United 
States. The fleeces are of good size, and the sheep 
hardy of their breed. Mr. Strong would dispose of a 
draft from his flock at reasonable prices, to anyone de¬ 
sirous of being engaged in the wool-growing business. 
Remedy for Films on the Eye. —Put a tea-spoonful 
of molasses^ on the eye-ball. I have relieved oxen, 
horses, cows, and sheep, in this manner, and know no 
other equal to it.— American Farmer. 
Substances for Absorbing Urine. —Dr. Jackson’s di¬ 
rection in the New England Farmer is : “ Take twenty 
measures of dry peat and one of ground gypsum, and 
mix them together. Place barrels half full of this mix¬ 
ture in places where urine may be collected, and it will 
be found that the salts and ammonia of many barrels of 
urine will be consolidated in this mixture, without giv¬ 
ing the slightest odor, or being in any way offensive, 
for the salts are taken up, and the carbonate of am¬ 
monia, formed by decomposing urea, is immediately 
absorbed. This method of getting rid of a nuisance and 
of consolidating a valuable liquid manure, full of the 
most useful salts, ought to receive attention. A mix¬ 
ture of peat or swamp-muck and gypsum (plaster of 
Paris) will also serve to absorb all the disagreeable 
gases of vaults, which will be converted into fertilizing 
compounds with the sulphuric acid of the gypsum and 
the organic vegetable acids of the peat.” 
To make Cornstalk Molasses. —For a very simple 
recipe to produce molasses, we like that practised by 
Mr. Humphrey, of Michigan, which we believe was 
communicated to the Prairie Farmer, and is as follows : 
“ Take the cornstalks as soon as they have their 
growth, or as soon as the tassel begins to blossom, cut 
them in pieces, boil them in a kettle for an hour or two, 
press out the juice any way you please'and boil it dow T n 
to a syrup.” 
Bees Preserved from Moths. —To prevent the moth 
laying its eggs under the hive, I have for the last sev¬ 
eral years cut a mortise in the bench about an inch 
deep and about two inches larger than the hive, and 
the hive is then set in this mortise, and the space of 
about one inch all around it is filled with mortar, then 
three-inch augur-holes are bored in the hive about two 
inches from the bench, for the egress and ingress ot 
the bees, and a small augur-hole through the bottom 
of the bench to let off water should any get under the 
hive. I have near night watched the moths attempt¬ 
ing to enter through these holes, and seen the bees 
chasing them away .—Southern Planter. 
Keep the Oil of Milk in your Cheese —Stephen Yates, 
who keeps a dairy in Herkimer county, state of New 
York, says that he discovered that when milk was 
scalded in the usual way of making cheese, an oil would 
rise on the top and run oflf into the whey. This oil 
every one knows adds very much to the rich flavor of 
the cheese and should be retained. He directed that 
the milk should not be scalded, and he found that he 
not only retained the oil which is aromatic, but also the 
cream which otherwise would pass into the whey. He 
kept his cheese in the press until the linen wrapper was 
no longer moist, and then rubbed often with hog’s lard. 
We have offered the above statement by way of hint to 
our dairy people of Maine. We hope they will inquire 
into the facts and see if the above statement be correct. 
If it should be, it is certainly an object to attend to the 
suggestion of saving the oil and not let it run off into 
the whey-tub and thence into the pig’s trough. The 
whey is the pig’s perquisite, but it is not worth while 
to oil it for him at the expense of the cheese.— Maine 
Farmer. 
Fac Similies of Washington’s Letters on Ag¬ 
riculture, addressed to Sir John Sinclair, being an 
exact engraving from the originals. Published by 
Franklin Knight, Washington, D. C.—price $2. 
Words can hardly express our gratification upon recep¬ 
tion of this handsome quarto, containing a fac similie 
of the writings on agriculture of the greatest and best 
man that the world ever saw. W T e revere Washington 
above all other men; the motto of our own periodical 
is taken from his writings; and his precepts and ex¬ 
amples we endeavor to follow as far as our poor abili¬ 
ties will admit, in giving tone to its character. This 
work of Mr. Knight’s is a beautiful quarto of 72 pages* 
embellished with a lithographic portrait of Washington, 
a view of the mansion at Mount Vernon, and the tomb. 
The letters are written in a bold, clear, beautiful hand, 
which we could wish to see more often imitated. Of 
the value of their contents Mr. K. thus justly expresses 
himself:— 
These letters, in the hand-writing of the Father of 
his Country, are on a subject of the deepest interest 
to every individual in our great and growing republic; 
and they are admirably calculated to impress the rising 
generation with the sentiment that agriculture is not 
only one of the most useful, but one of the most honor¬ 
able pursuits of man. Washington recommended and 
urged the importance of establishing a National Board 
of Agriculture. In his speech on the opening of Con¬ 
gress, 5th Dec., 1796, he says, «It will not be doubted, 
that, with reference either to individual or national 
welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In pro¬ 
portion as nations advance in population and other cir¬ 
cumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more appa¬ 
rent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and 
more an object of public patronage. Institutions far 
