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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[FEBn 7ARY, 
For the American Agriculturist. 
Dairy Farming on Long Island. 
In this part of Queens Co., especially along 
the line of the Long-Island railroad, many ofuS 
farmers are giving considerable attention to 
raising pure milk for New-York and Brooklyn 
consumption. Our farms are generally of good 
size, ranging from 100 to 200 acres, so that we 
have ample grazing land, and sufficient to raise 
our hay and corn for winter feeding, although 
some of us find it more profitable to sell a part 
of our hay, especially when it brings $20 per tun, 
the present price, and buy “ corn starch feed,” 
(corn after the starch has been taken out) at the 
factory and mix with corn meal, shorts, etc. 
We find it economy to feed high, and can profit¬ 
ably keep the same cows some 4 years; but they 
should be allowed a rest of from 8 to 12 weeks 
before calving, to renew their strength and 
milking powers. I find they pay good interest 
for such treatment, coming in vigorous, and with 
a fine flow of milk. 
Our milking is done with reference to the 
trains running to the city; usually at night and 
morning, however, except some three months 
in the Summer season, when milking is done 
at noon. The milk cans, after filling, are 
placed in tubs of cold water and well cooled 
before leaving our farms. The milk is convey¬ 
ed to the city twice a day in the Summer, and 
once in the Winter, from this station, 30 miles 
from the City. The freight is now 50 cents per 
100 quarts, or 2 cents per gallon. We receive 
3-J cents per quart, for six Summer months, and 
4)-cents during the Winter, delivered in the 
City Our contracts are with milkmen who re¬ 
tail it at the houses for 6 and 7 cents per quart. 
Some few farmers keep 30 to 40 cows, but I 
think the general opinion is not favorable for so 
many on an ordinary farm, requiring a large 
outlay for then - feed, above the products of the 
farm. I am now milking but eleven, and get 
about 100 quarts per day, which is considered a 
good yield, some of the cows having been 
milked 9 months already. Upon the approach 
of cold weather they declined in milk, falling 
to some 80 quarts, when I had them comfort¬ 
ably stabled most of the day, as well as at 
night, allowing them ample time to drink 
and ramble in a large field in the middle of 
the day, and the yield was very soon in¬ 
creased to 100 quarts with the same feed. About 
one bushel of cut feed mixed with meal, shorts, 
starch-feed, etc., is given to each, daily, besides 
as much straw, and stalks, as they will cat. 
As we raise considerable com, we have abun¬ 
dance of stalks to feed out. If given whole, the 
cattle eat but a small portion of them, and the 
long coarse butts are a great annoyance in the 
manure heap. Some of us have tried cutting 
them up, but the sharp edges sometimes prove 
injurious to cows. I have recently tried a corn 
stalk cutter and grinder, which first crushes, 
then cuts and picks the short pieces into shreds. 
It is worked slowly with one man to turn, bet¬ 
ter with two men, and still better when attach¬ 
ed to an endless chain horse-power. With the 
horse-power I cut four bushels per minute; and 
am now mixing it with corn meal, shorts, etc., 
feeding the cows with hay but once a day. In 
this way I can save a great deal of the hay 
formerly consumed by the cows. W. 
Queens Oo., L. /., 1st Mo., 1861. 
A Dogged Advertisement. —It is said that 
in San Francisco they have a way of making 
iiogs useful for advert ising purposes, A white 
pup is seized, and the owner’s business card 
painted upon both his sides: he is then allowed to 
run in the streets upon a dog-trot—a peripatetic 
advertisement of a fast people. It is calculated 
that a lively dog is worth five dollars per day, 
for such purposes.—’Hem ! Shall we have to re¬ 
call what we have said in the American Agricul¬ 
turist against dogs in general, and make an ex¬ 
ception in favor of white ones? Yes, and the 
black too, for they can be painted in white. 
What the Humbugs are Doing—II. 
IMPORTANT HINT ON ADVERTISED “ DOCTORS ” 
AND “MEDICINES.” 
Last evening, in looking over the columns 
of an exchange paper, we counted fourteen ad¬ 
vertisements of parties in Yew Work, Boston, 
Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, each one of which 
advertisements set forth the skill of some “old,” 
“ experienced,” “ benevolent,” “ humane,” “ re¬ 
tired physician,” or otherwise, and in an earnest, 
almost irresistible manner, besought the priv¬ 
ilege of curing the thousand and one ills and 
maladies which human flesh is heir to. To¬ 
day we have glanced over several hundred 
exchange papers, and noted the same general 
class of advertisements, and in most cases they 
were marked to be inserted six months or a 
year. There were “ doctors,” or “ sure medi¬ 
cines,” for lung diseases, consumption, deafness, 
headache, loss of sight, loss of manhood; for 
female complaints, etc., etc., etc. 
We sallied out to hunt up some of these “doc¬ 
tors,” “old physicians,” etc., in this City, but no 
one was “ at home,”—as is usually the case, 
when any one calls upon them. Send your 
money through the Post Office, and that will 
surely find them at home, or at least some one 
who will answer to the advertised name, which 
is generally a fictitious one. Somebody pays 
for the enormous advertising, referred to above, 
and that somebody is the country people ; yes, 
and city people too—those who will apply 
through the Post Office. Now, friend reader, let 
us repeat a rule, which we gave sometime since: 
We know not of a single car doctor, lung' 
doctor, eye doctor, female doctor, private 
disease doctor, or any other doctor, who Is 
in good repute among medical men at 
home, or who Is worthy of reliance, who 
oiflers his services or medicines abroad by 
general advertisement or private circular. 
This is a sweeping rule, and we so intend it. 
“ But,” says a letter before us, “ I experienced 
great relief from such a medicine.” No doubt 
you did. But here is the reply. These various 
medicines usually contain some cheap tonic, 
stimulant, or cathartic, and the person who 
takes them, at first experiences a stimulating or 
soothing effect, and believes himself on the high 
road to health. In a majority of cases, the sick¬ 
ness itself is imaginary, and the advertisement, 
or the label on the medicine, is all that is need¬ 
ed to effect a cure. The medicine gets the 
credit of it, and the resulting recommendations 
cost the country some hundreds or thousands 
of dollars. 
In the case of “ Pills ”—“ bilious ” “ anti- 
bilious,” “ nervous,” etc., etc., etc.—they arc 
nearly all of them, (no matter what the name,) 
composed of some cheap cathartics, as aloes, 
scammony, rhubarb, etc. Now, most tempora¬ 
ry ailments are t he results of derangement of 
the stomach or alimentary canal, overloading 
the stomach, and especially of constipation, 
(costiveness.) In nine cases out of ten, head¬ 
ache prises from over-eating, or costiveness, As 
a matter of course, a cathartic pill, producing t 
movement of the bowels, will temporarily re¬ 
lieve the system; and as every one “ feels bet¬ 
ter ” after such an operation, the medicine gets 
credit and—sale. 
Ask your physician or druggist for a simple 
cheap, home-made cathartic pill, and we stake 
our word and “ medical ” reputation for it, that 
you will have a safer, cheaper medicine, and one 
that will, in 999 cases in a thousand, prove quite 
as effectual as any of the thousand and one 
advertised pills. Abstinence or partial absti¬ 
nence from food is usually the best medicine— 
the system is thus allowed to right itself. If 
one is sick enough to need medicine, he needs 
the special skill of an experienced physician. 
These universal remedies are contrived to pro¬ 
duce temporary apparent good effects, but the 
after results are quite likely to be bad. In sick¬ 
ness absolutely requiring medicine, and espec¬ 
ially in cases where these advertised pills are 
apparently useful, the home-made pills are pre¬ 
ferable. A simple dose of these, followed by 
moderate eating (chewing the food well as re¬ 
commended for children on page 53), keeping 
the feet dry and warm, and avoiding cold drafts 
of air or night chills, will result in a perfect cure 
in nearly every case of temporary derange¬ 
ment of the system. 
Dont read the medical advertisements; they 
are generally so worded as to make the well 
think they are sick, and that there is only one 
cure for them, viz. the medicine advertised. 
Dr. (Rev.) Wilson. —Several persons desire 
us to show up this excessively benevolent worn- 
out preacher, who belonged to the “ New Haven 
Conference” which Methodists themselves never 
heard of, except through him. We have some 
of his recent circulars and letters, and other in¬ 
formation, which show that he is still operating. 
For his portrait see Vol. 18. pages 189 and 
231, (July and Aug. Nos., 1859.) 
ANOTHER SEED SWINDLE. 
Here is a copy of a document being scattered 
over the country at the present time, through 
the mails. A large number of copies are daily 
sent to us. Look out for this, and half a dozeD 
others that will flood the country as the plant 
mg and sowing season approaches. 
“JAPANESE WHEAT. 
TO FARMERS AND OT HE RS. 
We have a quantity and shall keep constantly on hand a 
new kind of Grain, known as Japanese Wheat, which we have 
secured at much expense, and we are the only persons in the 
country who have it in merchantable quantities. This supC. 
rior grain has many qualifications that should recommend it 
to every farmer in the United States and Canadas. It ma¬ 
tures in about twenty days less time than Oats, and can ha 
grown in any part of the country, for it will ripen if not sown 
until July; it also is raised with as little care and expense. 
It is unlike other wheat in every respect, except it makes a 
very line white Flour. It is a most remarkable grain to stand 
severe drouth. It has grown the last season by actual meas¬ 
urement, at the rate ot 
300 BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
We know from actual experience that it will average from 
one hundred to one hundred and llfty bushels per acre as a 
field crop, and it will yield fodder at the rate of three to five 
tuns, that is equally as good for any kind of stock as the best 
Timothy or Clover hay. The heads will average ten inches 
in length; the grains are quite small. The stalk is sufficient¬ 
ly strong to support the head and prevent it from lodging. 
The grain for feed is equal to Corn, and some contend, after 
examining it, that it is even better for all kinds of stock, par¬ 
ticularly horses. Hogs will fatten well on it. It weighs 56 
lbs. per bushel. 
This is a correct description of the grain, for the truthful¬ 
ness of which we can give, if required, references or certifi¬ 
cates of very reliable farmers who have seen it growing, and 
the grain after it was harvested. 
Any person that will send us one dollar in gold, or enrren 
cy, we will send them by mail, postage paid, a sufficient 
amount from which they can raise enough to grow the fol¬ 
lowing year at least 300 to >100 bushels. Directions will act- 
company each package.” 
Yes, Messrs. Advertisers—“keep it on hand” 
by all means; we’ll help you do that, and trust) 
you will long be the “only parties in tha 
country who have it.” “ Known as Japanese 
Wheat,” is it? By whom, pray, except you 
who have it to sell, and who gave it the name 
to deceive the public? Why did you pot give a 
