MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
A MOVABLE FENCE. 
Eds. New-Yorker: —Permit me to give 
you a description of a movable fence, 
which is coming into general use in this 
county—though it may not be new to you. 
It answers every purpose for partition fen¬ 
ces —is cheap, durable, and can be set up 
by any person capable of handling an axe. 
The posts are of plank, 3 inches thick, 
18 inches wide, and 4-& feet long. A plank 
of this size is sawed diagonally, commencing j 
two inches from one edge, and passing out j 
two inches from the opposite side at the 
other end. This forms two posts with a 
base of 1G inches each, which is placed up¬ 
on a flat stone or board. The boards, four 
in number, are nailed upon the perpendic¬ 
ular or straight side of the posts, the latter 
being placed alternately on each side of the. 
fence, thus: 
COST OF PRODUCING FINE WOOL IN OHIO. 
Friend Peters: —I observed in the last 
number of the Wool Grower some “ Im¬ 
portant Questions,” which have been pro¬ 
posed by a writer who signs himselt “ G.” 
The first question is f “ What is the actual 
cost of producing a pound of fine wool in 
Ohio, where the price of land is $20 per 
A CALIFORNIA FARMER. 
Mr. James Horner, of California, hails 
from Monmouth county, New Jersey. His 
farm is now located at the mission of San 
Jose, (about 40 miles from this city.) Mr. 
Horner planted about 130 acres of potatoes, 
yielding him a crop of 35,000 bushels, av¬ 
eraging 50 lbs. to the bushel, 270 bushels 
acre ?” I will endeavor to answer this ques- to the acre, i he crop will average about 
lion. ’ I may remark that the quantity of ten cents per pound or the enormous sum 
wool grown upon a fine-wooled sheep has of one hundred and seventy-five thousand 
been variously estimated, but the average dollars, or what is the same thing, the whole 
amount may be fairly placed at three pounds, yield of 130 acres was 35 000 bushels, and 
ItfiS 
amount may be fairly placed at three pounds, yield ot 150 acres wasoo.uuu . usnms, a >u 
if the sheep are well selected and well.fed. sold at five dollars per bushel. Ho also 
We may also remark that one acre of land raised from four acres of land forty thou- 
will sustain through the year but two sheep; sand pounds of onions, winch he sold at an 
for no man can, on our system of manage- average of 40 cents per pound (some ot 
I ment keep more than 320 sheep on a quar- them weighing 4 lbs. each,) and which crop 
ter section of land, (160 acres,) if the qual- of onions produced 16,000 dollars (say 
itv corresponds with the price of $20 per four acres of onions, 40,000 lbs. 40c. per 
Vl! h/ AY"/ 
ALDERNY BULL. 
ity corresponds with the price ot $20 per 
acre. 
These remarks being granted, it follows, 
that one-half acre of land will sustain one 
sheep. In this climate we have to feed 
sheep 150 days in each year, ihe balance 
I _J_!------- ALDERN EY C ATTLE. 
' i • J i lrvwor ends The Alderneys are a small breed of cat- 
so doing, the bottom, or lower enas j . 
^ i r » odel-ness of tie from France, and the islands on its coast 
of 1 he two posts, including the thickness ol , 
, f r,o ,r. They are kept in England in gentlemen s 
flip boards form a base ot 3.8 indies cu J j , 
1 r • i f ton- qmnlv parks and pleasure grounds, partly on ac- 
minishino- to 5 inches at the top, amply I 1 . , ° , . . 
° . . • : v t nr ,ci.i on count of the richness of their milk and the 
RnffWent to maintain an upright position . . . ,, , „ , 
great quantity of butter it yields, and pait- 
pound.) 
d, it follows, As for cabbages, lie planted 70,000 and 
sustain one raised forty thousand head for market, 
ave to feed which lie sold on the average at 40 cents 
The balance each, or say $16,000, Irom 14 acres. lie 
iselves in a also raised 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, 
grass. The which he sold at prices varying from 10 to 
?y, which a 20 cents per pound, or an average of 12^- 
in-.tv he c.fnts ner oound—producing the handsome 
keeping. me greaien placed at two pounds per day, and if it does sum ot Aim 
the Alderneys possess, is the rapidity no (, o C t that quantity, the equivalent for the kins, about 40 tons, whi 
with which they fatten, which is very re- deficiency should be given to it in grain, per pound, some of the 
sufficient to maintain an upright position uuu;iu .... , , 
great quantity of butter it yields, and part- 
against wind. , R on account of its being thought fasliion- 
This fence can be moved at pleasure, ana j . , ° , A 3 .. . 
. . , , • ,i j n f able that the view from the breakfast or 
no jio nart of it is placed in tlic 21011110 , oi # . i 11 
coursJ almost any kind of timber will answer room " mdow P r “ ent “ 
for posls . The boards should bo 10 foot in Alderney cow or two feeding upon the awn 
length by 4 inches in breadth. The cost »^r the mans,on. 11,ey arc described as 
jengiu uy , ftiwn colored: short i 
liicli sold at 6 cents 
lem weighing 75 lbs. 
markable, considering their usual gaunt roots, peas, or beans. At the rate of two each these equalled the sum of $4 800 
1 7 f v.,vm T mr.lilic.; nounds each dav, the animal will consume L’o sum up all, we hnd the product of this 
appearance and want of grazing qual tie.. 1 rQ0( n iay j„ i 50 days. Hay can farm of less than 150 acres, was as follows: 
rni_ nn nQrl IPllhr nmnts ' v & . J J 
They seem to possess no particular points ^ ^ed.ffiied and secured at a cost of 
commending them to the attention of piac- ^ p er ton> (2,000 lbs.,) therefore, the cost 
tical agriculturists in this country. G f 300 lbs. of hay is 15 cents; 5 cents per 
farm of less than 150 acres, was as follows: 
ToTc! byT mZ each" making' 21 feet wild-horned, deer-necked, thin, and small- 
at 41 per hundred, costs 21 els. Three boned; irregularly bat often very awkward- 
posts. 9 feet each, at $2 per hundred, cost ly shaped.” ,_ 
to pts Nails 2 cts. Whole cost 41 cents " T— _ 
lb cts. JAniis * ^ root CIl0 ps < 
per rod, and but two posts need be counted - 
to a rod, as you will perceive upon exami- Some years ago, a great deal was said in 
h l ^adth The cost near the mansion. They are described “as The cut of an Alderney bull given above, 
follows:—Four boards light red, yellow, dun or fawn colored; short is from Srnvnns' work on Cattle, just pub- 
ROOT CROPS. 
lished by C. M. Saxton, New York—a 
work which we recently noticed as worthy 
the attention of farmers and breeders. 
CUCUMBERS-THEIR CULTIVATION. 
head will pay for winter feeding, and five 
cents will pay for tagging, washing and 
shearing, and three cents per head will pay 
for salt and the trouble of changing the an¬ 
imals from one pasture to another, ihe 
interest at 6 per cent on $10 (the cost of 
half an acre of land) is GO‘cents annually. 
The tax on the same sum at 6 mills on the 
dollar, which is the average per centum in 
.$175,000 
.. 10,000 
Pumpkins,. 
. 4,800 
Total product,.. 
.$218,050 
Exclusive of many niiifor articles of gar¬ 
den truck. 
KEEPING ACCOUNTS. 
We have for a long series of years watch- 
a , 0 a OTeat deal was said in For a period of several years I have Ohio, is 6 cents. The t; 
favor of raisin"•°roots & for stock, and many been in the practice of growing this vegeta- may be placed at one-half cent supposing mers, and we have found that those who 
farmers went into the business to a large ble for the market, and am now prepared the animal to be valued $1. I will now have kept constant and accurate accounts, 
extent Thev did not all realize their ardent to detail the principles of my practice in bring the figures together: and settle regularly and punctually with 
expectations and some have abandoned full. In my earliest undertaking, I was like c .«t of 300 lbs. hay.15 cents. their neighbors, also keep all their farm 
i-iisino- roots’ altogether. Others raise them, all novices, induced to the belief that old Togging, washing and shearing,... 5 “ operations m neat and legulnr oidei. On 
c j , nr . ltl “ tbov consider soil was preferable to new, and that it was Salt and changing pasture,. 3 the other hand, those who are careless and 
an ihc is SodouhttS ZX of root, next to Impossible to grow » good crop un- tinier S “ ** « •*** «*«** d " f 
crons has been over-estimated by some, less the soil had previously been ameliora- Vax on halt acre of land. 6 » keep a slipshod account with every pait of 
while others consider them unprofitable ted by the application of old manure, and Tax on one sheep. 0 h “ their farms; no system, iio clockwork regu- 
. , • m . u i p a f'lir experiment— a series of weeded crops, extending through ~ larity is maintained in their yearly routine 
a number of scasonf, to refine and render C«t for a ,he.p one »4| _ of ,/ ork . They ato waste time in bunting 
morl ot m efer feedincr their cows on Indian it light. This error, however, was one that I have remarkcu that the average weight f or displaced tools, waste money by doing 
, * , j () i|”.-ike to raisinff roots soon corrected itself, and I found to my of fleece is three pounds, therefore the cost wor ]i ou t of season, and waste happiness by 
meal, suoiis, n < > • b ....., .u,,* ,.i,i o.ai.. i,,,,,- r .c nnnnrl nf fine wool in Ohio, f.-rutlrwr nv<-r the disorder and confusion 
Ohio, is 6 cents. The tax on one sheep e d pretty narrowly the habits of many Car- 
may be placed at one-half cent, supposing mers, and we have found that those who 
the animal lobe valued $1. I will now have kept constant and accurate accounts, 
This may all be known to you long since; an( j wli \ x a pro fit, as they consider. soil was preferable to new, and that it was 
if so let it pass. If not, and I have made There is no doubt that the value of root next to impossible to grow a good crop un¬ 
it so, lei h pc ... A A „ i,. lc nver-estimated bv some, less the soil had previously been ameliora- 
it sufficiently plain you are at liberty to use ctoju - consi(ler them unprofitable ted by the application of old manure, and 
it as you thirfk fit. n- ^ s- w i t ] lout havimr made a fair experiment.— a series of weeded crops, extending through 
somerset, l’a- 1831. gome f- ir mers "who are situated near a large a number of seasons, to refine and render 
Remarks. —The fence described is not m . u . kel ‘ fer feeding their cows on Indian it light. This error, however, was one that 
altogether new, being adopted in some sec- ^^orts, and oiheake, to raising roots soon corrected itself, and 1 found to my 
Cost of 300 lbs. hay..15 c 
Tagging, washing and shearing,.. • 5 
Salt and changing pasture,. 3 
Winter feeding,. J 
Interest on $10,.66 
Taxon hall acre of land,. (i 
Tax on one sheep,. 0J 
15 cents. 
5 “ 
Cost for a sheep one year. 
and therefore give 
for all such.—E ds. 
MILK ROOMS IN CELLARS. 
good food for them may be conveniently 
obtained at a moderate price. 
But in the interior, where meal, grain, 
oil-cake, &o., are higher, we believe that 
many farmers will find it profitable to raise 
roots for stock. They are good for working 
odify my 
Farmers about to build a dwelling, many farmers wiiinna u pronuro.e i« . | 
should know, that by carrying up a large roots for stock. 1 bey a, c goo,, " ^ 
flue in the chimney’s back from the cellar, cattle, growing cattle and mild, co vs, a so 
ami having a -.vindmv or two opening to the for horses, sheep, and swine. With roo s, 
house out of the cellar, they can have as young.cattle may be fed on coarse foddc, 
Zd a milk room under their houses as add kept in a tl.rtv.ng condmon ,„ winter, 
-Id be made over a spring that may be and they w, less I* ^ 
^SXw“^a„Z^ln VtZ M if allowed a .orate 
bad^eatlifir, especially by the female por- portion of roots. Milch cowj.fed parUafly 
. fth.af. mil v on roots will give more milk, and if the 
tion ot the fan ) . roots are 0 f the right kind the milk be rich, 
The floor should be flagged with stone, be less liable to disease than 
as they can be kept sweeter or colder than J on other food. Horses 
even cement or brick which absorb “spilt ^ £ better con(Iilio „, in winter, when 
milk,” and thus taint the atmosphere. 1 e ^ p^thilly on roots, instead of wholly on 
walls and ceilings should be plastered, to ail( j ^eal, with the exception of hay. 
facilitate white-washing andcleansing.Noth- L suffwr much in winter from being 
ing but milk and cream should be kept in I f rotn the ground, and meal 
the room, as a pure atmosphere or cream d sl f bslitute8 f orgre e.i 
to rise m ,is absolutely essential for t ic ^ Rootg are better t0 keep them in 
making of sweet butter. condition. 
What is needed to have a cool, sweet cel- Animals are in the most thriving state 
lar, is a current of air, which will be secured vvben feeding on green herbage; and roots 
by the aforesaid flue and the open windows, a( y orcl tbem a succulent food in winter re- 
as a strong current of air is at least ten gemb ]j n g tbe g ree n food of summer, or at 
degrees colder than the same air at rest. j eas( . ^ t(ie ljest substitute for it. 
Farmers ought to know that churning a great objection to raising root crops is 
can be done with any good churn in from expense in weeding, and this applies 
ten to fifteen minutes, as well in winter as p arbcu iarly to carrots, from the large num- 
nounce my trade.” cost of keeping fences in repair, the inter- debtor and creditor, and keep a strict and < | 
It so chanced in breaking up a piece of est on the price of the original flock, nor careful account with every body, but more < | 
asture ground, that a small triangular ihe interest on the cost of sheep-sheds, hay especially with yourselves, and lay out a 1 < J 
iece remained unoccupied, and my “ hired lofts, and sheep boxes, or racks, because the work with regularity and execute it with . ) 
remained unoccupied, and my “ hired lofts, and sheep boxes, or racks, Decause tue work wi 
insisted on planting it in melons and interest on the sales of sheep will meet these energy. 
of old hog-manure was deposited in each of Smithfield, and some others obtain at 
hill, and in the autumn as fine a crop of home fifty cents per pound for their wool 
melons was gathered as 1 ever saw raisetl, there are many who grow fine wool and 
while the cucumbers flourished equally well, who never get forty cents per pound. 1 
A NEWLY DISCOVERED MANURE. 
The St. Vincent Royal Indies Gazette 
mentions that a gentleman of that island 
had sent to England a quantity of pozzolona, 
to have it tested as cement, and was agreea¬ 
bly surprised to learn that the chemist who 
manure is the best for vines. "W hen com¬ 
post is used, leaf-mould should always be 
an ingredient; so, also should salt, lime and 
to this sum $150, as the proceeds of the 
sales of sheep, we have the - sum of $277,- 
50. These are small profits for a large in- 
not refrain from offering our public con- 
uratulations on the recent discovery, which 
must ere long bring great wealth into the 
Farmers ought to know that churning a great objection to raising root crops is 
can be done with any good churn in from expense in weeding, and this applies 
ten to fifteen minutes, as well in winter as p ar ti cu larly to carrots, from the large num- 
in summer, by having the temperature of ber 0 f plants that are necessary. But this 
the cream right, say fifty-eight to sixty de- objection may be obviated, in a great meas- 
house ashes. Wet down your compost vestment. . island by supplying them with an article 
with urine or soapsuds, and you will be al- This mode of calculation, however, does much nee ded by the sugar 
most certain of a good crop.— Cor. Ger- not give the true position of the wool grow- yer3 Pozzolona from St. Vincent could 
mantowri Telegraph. er in Ohio. The increase in the price ot coursc be supplied here much cheaper 
- their lands will pay the interest on the cost £ ~ Q JJ might ia consequence 1 of 
A COW WITH HER FIRST CALF. 0 f their farms and tax on land and sheep. cbeapness be extensively used. 
- These items, therefore, being dismissed from _ ___ _• 
There is so much common sense—so tbe expenses of wool growing, leaves but 
much true philosophy in the following, that cen ts as the cost of keeping one sheep 
the cream right, say luty-eignt to sixty uc- ob jection may be obviated, in a great meas- 
o-rees. The temperature of an oidinary m-c, b y beginning in season, and piepaiing 
sittin°" or living room in winter, to be corn- manuring the ground late in the full 
fortable, is sixty-five to sixty-eight degrees, fa |j or ear iy j n the spring, and stirring itoc- 
and a closet opening into such a room would casionally in spring, as the weeds stait up, 
be the best place to keep the pot in winter. unb l the time of sowing, and soaking the 
In summer the cream can be readily re- g(;e( j Sj an q blowing them to remain in a 
to carrots, we feel it to be our duty to commend it one year . If the fleefee should weigh three In procuring tools, be careful always to 
,ts that are J ^ warmly to favor: pounds, the cost of growing one pound of to get tbe very best, though they may cost 
layDeouw c , « g < «Mr. Russell Woodward, in the Memoirs fine wool, will be 9^ cents. If the wool a Jittle more: a good tool that is much used 
ginning in seuso , < I 1' || of tbe y Board of Agriculture, says:- should be sold at 40 cents per pound, there pavs f or i ts extra [#ice fifty times, by the 
mg tie grou i ^ . n * l have found that young cows the first w fii b e a clear profit of 92 cents on the quantity of workthat can be done with it. 
ZnriL ZYiie woods sun up, year that tlvoy give milk, may bo made, noiCe . If a man should own 500 elicop ^ sure nnd see that overy thing is in its 
USEFUL HINTS. 
In procuring tools, be careful always to 
duced to the right temperature, by break- mo j st state till almost ready to sprout, and 
ing up clean pieces of ice and putting it in- sow on a fine freshly stirred soil, and 
quantity of work That can be done wild it. 
Be sure and see that every thing is in its | 
to the churn. 
A thermometer, which is necessary to an q jq )C weeding will cost but a trifle, com 
regulate these matters, costs but one dollai, pa j-ed with the old method. In this way < 
and such an investment every farmer ought p j ece 0 f carrots may be hoed with one 
he thne P of^owi.vr and soakino-the with careful milking and good keeping, to he would realize as profits on his wool $460. lacc;sothat when you want it, no time 
,h a J Tumvincr them to remain°in a g ve milk almost any length of time requir- Add to this $150, the proceeds of the sale b lost i n fruitless search. 
Zte «& ZlyVs^ «.d od. But if they nre left to dry up early m of sl ,eep. and we have the sung sum of > much on their being 
tow on a fine frestilv stirred soil, and the fall, they will be sure to dry up their $610 clear profits. early and well put in. Potatoes should be 
ants will start before the weeds, and milk each succeeding year, if they luvc a f Jlicso are not all the profits, keeping and oal8 sown early; it is also of 
e weeding will cost but a trifle, com- calf near the same season of the year; and s i 1C e p on land improves its condition, and P importance, during this busy season, 
Win? ,he old method. In this way a nothing but extraordinary keeping will pre- greatly increases lie powers of production. h ^ „„ d catllc b » we n fed and kept 
vent it,, and 
that but for a short time. I Fifteen years ago I purchased a farm, some 
hem dried up of their milk in gf tbe fields of which had been so nearly 
ina BDcn J ™ piece 0 can OL, u.ay - — “ have had them dried up of their milk in g f the fields of which had been so near!) 
to make, who, h “« h ”?Pg g monev-lnd r the USUal ex P ense —- New hn S August, and could not by any means make worked to death that they could not pro 
save labor and time whu. u ;" e , F “ rm ‘ r - __them give milk much beyond that time in duce 10 bushels of wheat to the acre. 1 
S To Ten* * Wn» S^.-One ofour any speeding yum _ _ ^ 
md P^ >in f e( ^ an( ' oa *- s sown early; R 1S a!:£0 01 
j vital importance, during this busy season, 
that horses and cattle be well led and kept 
,..] v in good condition. 
. See that there is no manure left about 
H< t the stables, and do not let your stock into 
pleasanter and easier—and for this I know subscribers informs us, says the American 
they would thank your modest correspon- Agriculturist, that cutting the ears or tail 
dent if they knew him.— Lewis County 0 f a sheep so the blood will run somewhat 
Republican. freely, has a tendency to tame a sheep quick- 
__ er th an any other means within Ins knowl- 
We disbelieve in farmers who will not edge. We saw the experiment tried upon 
improve—in farms that grovv poorer every 
a stout wether, that was somewhat fractious; 
as soon as he saw the blood trickling down 
year— farmer’s boys turning into clerks and as soon as he saw the blood tncKiing aown 
merchants—are farmers ashamed of their his face, lie lay down and submitted to the 
vocation ? 
hopples without a struggle. 
the ears or tail the first year tney nau caives, un ue<u im; 
run somewhat time of their calving again, and have con- 
i a sheep quick- tinued to give milk as late ever since if we 
thin his knowl- milk them.’ ” 
lent tried upon We have seen the efficacy of the above 
■ what fractious; plan verified. -^. American Farmer. 
trickling down —- _ 
lbmitted to the Accounts should be kept, detailing the 
expenses and produce of each field. 
per acre.— Wm. Farmer, in the Wool 
Grower. 
When an implement is no longer wanted 
for the season, lay it aside, but let it first be 
well cleaned. 
Good fences make good neighbors. 
Obtain good seed, prepare your ground 
well, sow early, and pay very little atten¬ 
tion to the moon. 
Experiments are highly commendable, 
but do not become an habitual experimenter. 
