262 REMEDY FOR OVEREATING APPLES—ELECTORAL SAXON SHEEP—AGRICULTURE IN SCOTLAND. 
haps even half a century hence, our present filthi¬ 
ness in this respect will be characterized as the 
disgusting appendages of barbarianism. We are 
sensible that there are many exceptions to the 
above remarks throughout the United States ; we 
are speaking only of such things as strike the eye 
generally, and the sooner they can be reformed the 
better it will be for us, even in a pecuniary sense, 
to say nothing of the great improvement which 
would be made in health, morals, and refinement. 
REMEDY FOR OVEREATING APPLES. 
There is a great crop of apples this year, and 
since they are ascertained to be valuable food for 
stock, they are mostly used for this purpose. Un¬ 
fortunately, horned animals are apt to get choked 
with them when fed whole; yet till a cheap ma¬ 
chine, requiring not to exceed a single horse power 
to move it, can be invented for crushing them, the 
generality of farmers must continue to feed as at 
present. An apple lodging in the gullet is easily 
removed by a probang or common whip-stock 
thrust gently down the throat; but we have no 
recollection of seeing any remedy for sickness 
caused by overeating apples. A friend suggests to 
us, that a lump of saleratus equal in size to a hen’s 
egg, dissolved in warm water, is an effectual cure. 
The remedy can do no harm if it does no good, 
saleratus being a very simple substance. Perhaps 
any soothing, purging medicine wonld be equally 
effectual. 
By boiling apples, and feeding them out moder¬ 
ately, especially when mixed with bran or meal, 
no danger of any kind will ensue. Cooked fruit 
goes much further than the raw, for food, and 
where proper conveniences exist for boiling, it is 
recommended in an economic point of view. When 
it can not be conveniently cooked, we should much 
prefer giving it to hogs than cattle, as they may 
eat it freely with little or no danger. 
GREAT SALE OF ELECTORAL SAXON SHEEP. 
We desire to call particular attention to the ad¬ 
vertisement in this No. of the executors of the 
estate of the late Mr. Grove, to the sale of his 
Saxon flocks, one of which is to take place at Bus- 
kirk’s Bridge, N. Y., on the 30th September ; and 
the other at Granger, Ohio, on the 15th October 
next. Mr. Grove was educated a shepherd among 
the Electoral flocks in Saxony, which are acknow¬ 
ledged by all to produce the finest wool in the 
world. From these flocks he personally selected, 
at various times and with great care, and imported 
into this country, the choicest sheep to be had 
among them. These he has continued to breed 
here in America, with a reputation which has 
added to, rather than detracted from their original 
highly meritorious qualities in Saxony. Let it be 
recollected that fine wool is now, and must for an 
indefinite period continue to be, one of the most 
profitable productions of the farm ; that we have 
not only a large and greatly increasing demand for 
it in our own country, but the prospect of consid¬ 
erable sales at good prices abroad, as agents from 
foreign countries are now among us, with orders 
in hand for heavy purchases of the higher grades 
of wool. 
The pedigree of Mr. Grove’s flocks is unques¬ 
tioned—this is a matter of the utmost importance 
to the purchaser—they are pure , thoroughbred 
sheep. These in hand, the wool-grower will have 
a fine sort with which to start, and be assured 
at least of one thing—undoubted purity of blood— 
a point of no trifling consideration, when we look 
around and see the miserable animals offered 
everywhere to be sold as pure Saxons, many of 
which are mere grades and poor sheep at that. A 
rare opportunity now presents itself to those desi¬ 
rous of obtaining fine wool sheep, to do so; and they 
may rest satisfied of one thing, and that is, at 
whatever prices they may purchase any of these 
superior animals, they can have an advance on 
them within a year, such will be the demand 
for a choice quality of wool and the rare animals 
necessary to produce it. We sincerely hope, for 
the benefit of our wool-growers throughout the 
country, that they will generally attend the sales 
of these high-bred, pure, Electoral Saxon flocks. 
^gricultuvc m Scotlenib—No. 1. 
We have much pleasure in presenting our read¬ 
ers with the first of a series of letters from our 
young friend Mr. Norton, who sailed hence to Liv¬ 
erpool last spring, with a view of availing himself 
of the instruction in analytical chemistry of Pro¬ 
fessor Johnstone of Scotland, and of becoming ac¬ 
quainted with European agriculture. We are 
confident that they will afford high gratification to 
our readers, and be perused by them with no less 
pleasure than profit. 
Edinburgh, July 26, 1844. 
Farm of Mr. Finnie .—In compliance with your 
kind invitation, and in the hope that I may con¬ 
tribute to the interest and usefulness of your pa¬ 
per, of which I have been an attentive reader, I 
will occasionally during my residence here send you 
a communication. 
I visited a short time since, the farm of Mr. 
Finnie of Swanston, one of the most celebrated 
Lothian farmers, and was so much pleased that I 
will endeavor to communicate something of my 
impressions. Professor Johnstone’s plan is to unite 
theory with practice, so that while engaged in 
chemical researches, we are led to consider their 
bearing upon the actual wants of the agricultural 
community; also, by conversation with the intel¬ 
ligent farmer, to have new subjects brought be¬ 
fore us. 
Situation .—Swanston is situated about three 
miles from Edinburgh, upon a northern slope of 
the Pentland hills, at an elevation of between 500 
and 600 feet above the level of the sea. 
Buildings and Stock .—The attention of our 
party was first turned to the farm buildings. These 
are of stone and form an extensive quadrangle. 
Here are stables for the horses, of which sixteen 
are employed upon the farm; also stalls for about 
twenty-five cows; but these are principally occu¬ 
pied by fattening cattle, as Mr. Finnie keeps 
merely enough cows to supply his own family. 
The horses are fed upon fodder, cut by one of them 
