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ing the dose at each time. This never injures the 
constitution of the animal, as sulphur most certainly 
will, if he is exposed to wet weather. Salt is the 
remedy which I always use with my pointers, and 
it never fails. 
A Constant Reader. 
Clinton , La., May 19^,-1849. 
BOGARDUS’ HORSE POWERS. 
We give below a cut of Bogardus’ horse powers; 
they are made entirely of iron, excepting the lever 
by which they are moved. They are made for one 
or more horses, and are an efficient implement with 
as little friction as compatible with this style of 
machine; and they are not liable to get out of 
order. They can be adapted to any position of the 
Fig. 49. —Bogardus’ Horse Power. 
i enca. 
machinery to be propelled, by extending a horizon¬ 
tal or vertical shaft, or by a band as may be pre¬ 
ferred. 
Method of excluding Drones from the 
Hive. —The ancient Greeks had an ingenious meth¬ 
od of excluding drones from the hive. It was ob 
served 
in no way 
SUMMER MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP.-No. 1. 
Storing Wool .—Wool should be stored in a clean, 
tight, dry room. It is better that it should be an 
upper room, for reasons presently to be given, and 
it should be plastered, to exclude dust, vermin, in¬ 
sects, &c. Rats and mice love to build their nests 
in it, to which they will carry grain chaff and other 
substances, injuring much wool—and it is singular 
that, if accessible to the common bumble bee, num¬ 
bers of their nests will be found in it. A north 
and pretty strong light is preferable for a wool 
room. 
When the wool tyer removes each fleece from 
the trough, he places it in a long, high basket, ca¬ 
pable of holding a dozen fleeces, and it is immedi¬ 
ately carried to the wool room—or he piles it on 
the clean floor in the inclosure in 
which his table stands, to be sub¬ 
sequently carried away. In either 
case, the fleeces are not thrown 
down promiscuously, which in¬ 
jures their shape, but are laid reg¬ 
ularly one above another, on their 
sides. In the wool room, it is laid 
in the same way in smooth, straight 
north and south rows, (supposing 
the light to be let in from the north,) 
with alleys between, in which a 
man can pass to inspect the wool. 
The rows ought not, perhaps, to be 
more than two deep, so that the 
end of every fleece can be examin¬ 
ed, but as it cannot be piled up 
more than about four fleeces high 
in this way, without liability of 
falling, it is customary to make the 
rows three or four fleeces deep— 
laying the lower ones a little wide, 
so that the pile may slightly recede 
as it goes up. In this way, they 
may be piled six fleeces high. 
Where the character of the flock 
is known, or that of the seller re¬ 
lied on, it makes little differ- 
It is considered fairest to pile the fleeces 
without any discrimination as to quality, in the wool 
room. 
Hoppling , Clogging , Sfc .—Hoppling is done by 
sowing the ends of a leathern strap, (broad at ex- 
tremeties so that it will not cut into the flesh,) to a 
fore and hind leg, just above the pastern joints— 
k eluding drones irom me nive. 11 was uu-; leaving the legs at about the natural d i s t a „ce apart, 
that these gentlemen, (the drones,) thoug j Clogging is fastening a billet of wood to the fore 
ay inclined to work, would yet occasionally, j leR % y a leather strap< yoking ig fastening < w0 
on very fine days, go^abroad ^for exercise, rushing j rams tw@ or t bree feet apart, by bows around their 
necks, inserted in a light piece of timber, say two 
by three inches in size. Poking is done by insert¬ 
ing a bow in a short bit of light timber, into which 
bit, (worn on the under side of the neck,) a rod is 
inserted which projects a couple of feet in front of 
the sheep. These, and similar devices, to prevent 
rams scaling fences, may be employed as a last re- 
i sort, by those improvident farmers who prefer by 
j such troublesome, injurious, and at best, insecure 
means, to guard against that viciousness which they 
might so much more easily have prevented from 
being acquired. 
Fences .—Poor fences will teach ewes and weth¬ 
ers to jump, as well as rams, and for a jumping 
hif ‘ 
forth in squadrons, mounting aloft into the air, 
and there wheeling, sporting, and manceuvering in 
the sun. Taking advantage of their absence, they 
spread a fine net over the bee entrances, the meshes 
of which were large enough to admit the workers, 
but not the drones. By this means, the latter were 
excluded and destroyed. 
Hogs Slaughtered West. —The aggregate num¬ 
ber of hogs killed in the west, for the season 
1848-49, is stated as at least 1,500,000, of which 
27,560 were killed on the Mississippi, 72,200 on 
the Missouri, and 219,000 on the Illinois; the re¬ 
mainder in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and In¬ 
diana. 
flock there is no remedy but immoderately high 
