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day sun, in summer, and from heavy rain storms 
and showers. Should there be no access to a pas¬ 
ture, orchard, or field, it is desirable that a portion 
of the yard should be laid down with turf, and the 
larger the yard, the better the accommodation. 
Cleanliness, both in the poultry house and in the 
yard, is indispensable. This, with as free a circu¬ 
lation as possible, and a proper space for the fowls 
to run in, is necessary to insure success, as in nar¬ 
row and confined situations they never do so well. 
A sickly fowl ought to be separated immediately 
from the rest of the flock, and removed to some 
proper place, where they can remain in seclusion, 
not only because the disease may be contagious, 
but for the sake of safety and quietude of the 
fowl itself. Meagre, pining fowls are frequently 
objects of dislike, not only to the cock, which is 
apt to maltreat them, but even to ihe hens, that 
evince their hostility and rancor to such a degree, 
that, sometimes, they actually destroy their more 
unfortunate companions. 
Every poultry house should be provided with 
wooden nest boxes, filled with straw. If the plan 
be adopted, as delineated in fig. 73, at p. 281, of 
the current volume, sliding nest boxes, or drawers, 
n, o, may be constructed twenty-eight inches long, 
fourteen inches wide, and ten inches deep, parti¬ 
tioned in the middle, so as to leave two compart¬ 
ments in each, fourteen inches square. On a level 
with the tables, each of which is designed to be 
two feet wide, and extending three feet above the 
ground, let there be cut through the partition be¬ 
tween the laying and sitting apartments, an aperture 
the whole length of the rooms, ten inches high, or 
sufficiently large to receive these nest boxes, or 
drawers, so that one half of each will be in the 
laying room, and the other half in the sitting apart¬ 
ment, leaving a space nine or ten inches wide on 
each table for the hens to alight upon, and deliber¬ 
ately enter their nests, without breaking their eggs. 
When a hen is disposed to sit, the eggs may be 
put under her, and one or two nights after, the 
ends of the nest box maybe shifted, so that she 
will be in the sitting room, where she may remain 
in perfect quietude till she hatches her brood. It 
is not at all required to have as many nests as 
hens, as one might suppose ; because they have 
not all occasion to occupy them at the same time; 
besides, they are so far from having a repugnance 
to lay in a common receptacle, that the sight of an 
egg stimulates them to lay. It is true, nevertheless, 
that the most secluded and darkened nests are those 
which the hens prefer, particularly when they are 
inclined to sit. 
To Keep a Stove Bright by Two Applica¬ 
tions a Year.— Make a weak alum water, and 
mix British lustre with it, perhaps two teaspoon¬ 
fuls to a gill of alum water; let the stove be cold ; 
brush it with the mixture ; then take a dry brush 
and rub it till it is perfectly dry. Should any part, 
before polishing, become so dry as to look grey, 
moisten with a wet brush and proceed as before. 
Ventilation. — As every adult human being 
inhales about sixty gallons of air per hour, the 
necessity of attending to ventilation in close apart¬ 
ments is evident. 
IMPORTED CATTLE. 
In my communication in the August number of 
the Agriculturist, I omitted to include the follow¬ 
ing, as I purposed:— 
The cow Waterloo V.,is now on the ocean, and 
will, in September, be in America. She was bred 
by Thomas Bates, Esq., of Kirkleavington, Eng¬ 
land, and was got by his crack prize bull, Duke of 
Northumberland, (1,940,) her dam, Waterloo III., 
by Norfolk, (2,377,) grandam, Waterloo I., by 
Waterloo, (2,816,) great grandam, Lady Antrim, by 
Waterloo, (2,816,) Anna, by Lawnlsleeves, (365,) 
Angelina, by Phenomenon, (491,) Anna Boleyne, 
by Favorite, (252,) Princess, by Favorite, (252,) 
Brighteyes, by Favorite, (252,) Brighteyes, by Hub- 
back, (319,) Brighteyes, by Snowdon’s bull, (612,) 
Duchess of Athol, by Masterman’s bull, (422,) 
Beauty, by Harrison’s bull, (292,) Tripes, by the 
Studley bull, (626,) out of a cow, which, with her 
dam, was bred by Mr. Stephenson, of Ketton, 
great grandfather of the present Mr. Stephenson of 
Wolviston. 
It will be seen that this cow, Waterloo V., is 
nearly full sister in blood of 3d Duke of Cam¬ 
bridge, (5,941,) the bull which I brought from 
England. Norfolk, (2,377,) sire of the dam of 
Waterloo V., was got by Mr. Bates’s second Hub- 
back, (1,423,) dam Nonpareil, by Magnet, (2,240,) 
grand dam byR. Ceiling’s North Star, (459,) great 
grand dam, Young Sally, (bred by R. Colling,) by 
Alexander, (1,623,) &c. 
Waterloo is a grand cow—by far the best of all 
that have ever come to America from Mr. Bates’s 
herd; and I am enabled to make the comparison, 
having seen every cow, bred by Mr. Bates, which 
has come to America. The only one imported 
from Mr. Bates’s herd, at all approaching her in 
style, quality, and excellence, was the cow Rose 
of Sharon, (owned by the Ohio Company,) by Mr. 
Stephenson’s Belvedere (1,706). The public will 
at length, in Waterloo V., behold a fitting repre¬ 
sentative of Mr. Bates’s herd as to cows, as they 
have in 3d Duke of Cambridge as to bulls. 
When in England, I selected for Col. Sherwood, 
from Mr. Stephenson’s herd, the heifer Red Rose 
2d, by Napier, (6,238,) dam Tuberose, by South 
Durham, (5,281.) grand dam Rose Ann, by Bel- 
lerophon, (3,119,) &c., as in the pedigree of Prin¬ 
cess III., August number of Agriculturist. Red 
Rose 2d, was left in England to be bulled by Mr. 
Stephenson’s very superior bull, Earl of Chatham. 
She will be at Col. Sherwood’s, in September 
instant. 
It will be seen that I have been careful to select 
from the Princess tribe of shorthorns, not only 
those at present in America, but those now coming. 
In addition to these fine imported animals to 
which 3d Duke of Cambridge is to be bred, he will 
be bred to cows owned by Col. Sherwood, and pos¬ 
sessing as much of Mr. Bates’s blood as any other 
in America. 
In 1839, Mr. Cope, of West Chester, Pennsylva¬ 
nia, imported from England the bull Yorkshireman, 
(5,700,) bred by Mr. Bates, and got by Mr. Bates’s 
Shorttail, (2,621,) dam Blanche, by Belvedere, 
(1,706,) grand dam Lupin, by Belvedere, (1,706,) 
Tulip, by Lancaster, (360,) Ruby, by Petrarch, (488,) 
Major, (397,) Stranger, by son of Punch, (531 ; ) 
Old Roany, by grand son of Punch, (531,) Roaned 
