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and these experiments have, in many instances, 
fixed the habit of sowing corn for soiling every 
year. It is a glad sight to see these evidences 
of improvement in our farming population, and 
to know that our labors are not in vain. 
MORE SHORT-HORN CATTLE COMING. 
The Liverpool correspondent of the Marie 
Lane Express says, that the ship Sultan has 
sailed thence on the 8th of April for New-York 
with twenty-four head of pure-bred Short-horns, 
recently purchased in this country by Messrs. 
Brooks & Fuller, agents of the Livingston 
County Importing Company, in the Genesee 
Yalley, of the State of New-York. Amongst 
them was a fine young bull and eight heifers 
from the herd of Mr. J. S. Tanqueray, of Hen¬ 
don, Middlesex. The former is a son of the 
celebrated bull Balco, bred by Mr. Bates, and 
now owned by Messrs. Becar and Morris, of 
New-York, U. S. It will be remembered that 
he was sent out from here last summer. The 
heifers are choice specimens from Mr. Tanque- 
rays’s herd, and some of them are in calf to the 
Dulbe of Gloucester , the bull bred by Earl Ducie, 
and which sold at so high a figure at the Tort 
worth sale in August last. In addition to the 
above were seven cows and heifers from the 
herd of Mr. Barnett, Stratton Park, Beds, sev¬ 
eral of them by Horatio , now owned by Mr. 
Towneley, of Towneley Park, in this county, 
and a brother of his far-famed prize cow, But¬ 
terfly ; also one bull and three heifers from Mr. 
Ladd’s herd at Ellington, Hunts; one bull and 
heifer from the stock of Mr. Cartwright, of 
Aynhoe; both of these were by “ Upstart,” 
with two other bulls, bred by Mr. Ambler, of 
Watkinson Hall, and Mr. Fawkes, of Farnley 
Hall, Yorkshire. I hope also to be able to send 
you further accounts of some important ship¬ 
ments that are intended to be made from here 
early in the ensuing month, for other influential 
stock-importing companies from the western 
states of America, the agents of one of them, 
Dr. Watts and Mr. Waddle, have been making 
great search in the United Kingdom for supe¬ 
rior specimens of this favorite breed of cattle ; 
and I learn that they have added a new feature 
to these exports by having already made some 
purchases in the sister isle; a fact highly credi¬ 
ble to their judgment and to the Irish breeders, 
who have for a long time paid great attention 
and spared no expense in the purchase of some 
of the best stock from old England. 
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PROTECT THE LITTLE BIRDS. 
When the birds return to their usual haunts 
in the spring, let it be one of your first duties 
to provide for their accommodation in the way 
of nesting in your trees, shrubbery, and out¬ 
buildings. The Blue-bird will build in the open 
sheds attached to your barns and stables. The 
Phebe-bird (Pewee) in the wood-house. The 
Song-sparrow in the lilacs, snow-balls, and other 
high shrubbery. The Yellow-bird, the same. 
The Humming-bird where nobody can find it— 
while the Cat-bird, Robin, and other large birds, 
will appropriate the larger fruit and shade trees. 
As to the Wren, that brisk and pugnacious lit¬ 
tle fellow, must have an old hat, a little box, or 
an oyster keg stuck into a pole in the garden, 
or into a fruit tree, or nailed on to an out-house. 
He is a mighty particular body, like some other 
very small folks, and must have extra accom¬ 
modation. 
In our last volume, page 2, we informed our 
readers that Mr. DeForest, of Dutchess county, 
takes the skeleton of an ox’s head, (that of any 
other domestic animal would answer the same 
purpose,) and places it in the crotch of a tree 
near his bee-hives. In the holes of these skel¬ 
etons wrens make their nests, and they devour 
the moths at the bee-hives as fast as they ap¬ 
pear, but do not touch the bees. Thousands of 
instances may be added to this of the utility of 
birds in destroying insects of various kinds; 
showing us the necessity of not only protecting 
them on our premises, but of encouraging them 
to come there and occupy the trees, shrub 
bery, and buildings for their nests, and rearing 
their young. 
CHILD AMUSEMENT-POP CORN. 
If you want to keep the children out of the 
streets in their play hours, and happy and con¬ 
tented at home, give each one a little patch of 
garden ground as soon as the earth gets warm 
enough to deposit the seeds in it. Don’t give 
them a heavy, dull spade, and tell them to dig 
it up themselves when their strength is not 
equal to it, but let it be done for them, when 
they can rake it over, mark it out, and deposit 
the seeds. Show them how to do it, and not 
turn them off with a short answer to their sup¬ 
plications for help ; but let the little fellows 
know that you feel an interest in their labors 
and pleasures; for recollect, that although this 
may be small business to you, it may be an era, 
a turning-point in the character of the child for 
a life-time. Give them nice, suitable tools, and 
indulge them in all the amusing things you can 
to attach them to their homes. This is one 
great secret of educating boys into good and 
useful men. 
Last season we gave a couple of nephews a 
small patch in the garden on w'hich they raised 
a considerable crop of pop corn. With this 
they entertained their little friends and those of 
the family the past winter with great gusto, 
when they came to visit them. They have just 
planted their patch for this season, and are now 
going to try various experiments with special 
manures on different parts of it. One of these 
boys is only six years old, and the other only 
ten, and yet they take hold of the thing with 
the zest of the most enlightened and scientific 
farmer of the country. So much for instruct¬ 
ing children in the things they must practise 
when they get to be men. No sport is more 
interesting to them than planting and cultivating 
this corn. If they pleased to sell their product 
it would bring them a high price in the city. 
Remedy for Scours in Calves. —Give from 
one to two ounces of castor oil, according to 
the age of the calf. Divide this into two or 
more doses, and administer them once in two 
hours. After it has had its effect, give a little 
astringent medicine. Epsom salts will answer 
in the place of castor oil, increasing the quan¬ 
tity given of the former from one-fourth and one- 
half over that of the latter; but we much prefer 
the castor oil. 
Govern thy life and thoughts, as if the whole 
world were to see the one and read the other. 
THE CRYSTAL PALACE. 
Nothing could give us greater pleasure than 
to announce that this noble exhibition of the 
productions of labor and art bids fair to fulfil the 
expectations of its projectors, and to gratify the 
most ardent desires of a national pride which 
has so long centered around it. 
On Thursday of this week the Crystal Palace 
is to be reopened, with an increase rather than 
a diminution of its former splendor. The exer¬ 
cises of that day will be universally attractive, 
and well repay a journey of a hundred miles to 
witness them. 
We are happy to learn that the price of ad¬ 
mission, on that and on all future days, is to be 
only 25 cents—not that it is not worth many 
dollars to see the whole Palace, but because 
most persons prefer to see 25 cents worth at a 
time, and thus be able to repeat their visits more 
frequently. 
Those who are within a convenient distance, 
will doubtless visit the exhibition during the 
spring and early summer; while multitudes 
will now begin to make their arrangements to 
come to the city next autumn, at the time of 
the State Agricultural- Show. The world has 
probably never witnessed a more splendid com¬ 
bination of attraction than will then be centered 
upon Manhattan Island. New r -York city of it¬ 
self is worth a pilgrimage to see, and when to 
this is added the World’s Industrial Fair, and 
the great Exhibition of the agricultural produc¬ 
tions of the Empire State, we shall look for a 
gathering which will count bj' hundreds of 
thousands if not by millions. The arrangements 
already making for cheap traveling wiil place it 
in the power of almost any adult person and 
youth east of the Mississippi to visit the city 
during the coming autumn. The money which 
most persons may save by foregoing needless 
expenses for a few months, will be amply suffi¬ 
cient for the visit. 
FLOWER AND BIRD SHOW. 
The halls of the American Museum again 
present unusual attractions for the lovers of the 
beautiful. The Horticultural Society have col¬ 
lected here a large variety of their choicest flow¬ 
ers, and are competing for the liberal premiums 
offered. In addition to the flowers and plants 
shown by the Society, Mr. Barnum has invited for 
competition the finest singing birds to be found 
in the city and elsewhere. Of these there are large 
numbers; and the happy combination of feath¬ 
ered songsters and gay flowers with their sweet 
perfumes, makes up a scene at once novel and 
enchanting. No one can fail to be doubly re¬ 
paid for a visit to the Museum this week. We 
advise all to go as early as possible, while the 
plants arc in their freshest bloom. 
As our paper goes to press Monday P. M., we 
must defer a full report of this exhibition till 
next week. 
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Chloriform Counteracted. —Dr. Robert de 
Lambelle, a distinguished physician of Paris, 
announces that a shock of electricity, given to a 
patient dying from the effects of chloriform, im¬ 
mediately counteracts its influence, and returns 
the sufferer to life. 
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The state of life is most happy where super¬ 
fluities are not required and necessaries are not 
wanting. 
