nary culture, on the worn-out, sandy soil of 
Long Island, where I obtained the seed.— 
Its color is white ; and, notwithstanding the 
size of tho berry, it weighs a3 heavy as the 
flint, and I have never known it to bo af¬ 
fected with either rust, smut or insect. 
That tho Australian is destined to become 
the favorite wheat of our Western farmeis 5 
I have no doubt; and for tho prairie and 
timbered lands I think it unoqualod, liom 
observations made last season. 
I have now sown a fow acres of tho Aus¬ 
tralian wheat, which looks extremely well at 
present—far better than any other wheat in 
this town—and bids fair for a yield of forty 
bushels to the acre; indeed I shall bo dis¬ 
appointed if it does not turn out thirty-five 
bushels. I will furnish seed for the coming 
fall, from the present growing crop, at a 
moderate price; also samples by mail to all 
post-paid applicants. I havo been somew hat 
particular in describing the abovo named 
whoat, but not with tho intention of misrep¬ 
resenting it. — D. I). Tooker, Napoleon, 
Jackson County, J\Iich., 185b. 
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Bots Killing Horses. 
Mr. Editor I have seen several articles 
in tho Rural on this subject, and would 
now give my experience and opinions. 1 
cannot believe that bots over causo the 
death of a horse. Tho cases supposed to 
occur from bots are rather from in Hama- J room anc i parlor. 
this morn is “sparkling and bright”—those 
snow crystals ! You know “ old Sol is an 
anti-congealer, and if ho don’t watm your 
hoart all aglow, then you are “ proof. 
Remember, it’s sunrise —let’s to the farm 
yard and visit the sheep-cote. 1 hero ! ain t 
that worth coming to soo ? From those faces 
so innocent, learn a thing or two. The 
vard has a southern and eastern exposure, 
and now that the sun is up, don't they enjoy 
it ? Tako notice, they havo been fed this 
morning, and see them nip those clover 
blossoms! Now to tho cow-barn, — those 
two long rows of well-fed kino ? Did you 
over read of contentment’s being ono of the 
pillars of felicity ? Don’t forgot. Innocence 
in tho sheep-yard, and contentment in the 
cow-barn ! Through the horse stable next, 
and don’t those sleek nags look as though 
they could make bells jingle ? I reckon 
they can, give them the opportunity — and 
not only that, but they can draw a plow. 
Then hero are the fowls—none of your 
costly importations, lor wo dont appear to 
bo “ taken down ” with tho “ hen fever ” yet, 
though it has been all around us. But then 
wo are not troubled for eggs. You see 
they havo beon fed, but theirs is a “ grab 
gamo,” and I think it is a “game thats 
being played by hen dealers—extensively. 
Innocence, Contentment, and Selfishness ! 
Now to the kitchen—tho farmer’s sitting- 
It is sunrise, and tho 
held by tho Board, since the passage of the 
act under which it was organized ; and, after 
paying all expenses, it has on hand a surplus 
of two thousand dollars. This sum will bo 
reserved, to bo paid out in premiums at the 
Stato Fair, to be held some time in the 
course of tho present year. 
If it bo your pleasure to add to this 
amount, reserved for premiums, by an ap¬ 
propriation, the stimulus that tho General 
Assembly will thereby givo to different 
branches of home industry will, by increas¬ 
in' 1- tho quantity and value of various kinds 
of & property subject to taxation, return to 
the revenues of tho State more than four¬ 
fold the amount of such appropriation. 
Wo are receiving from our sister States, 
New York, Ohio, Michigan, &c., numbers of 
their annual agricultural reports, in ex¬ 
change for ours. Tho very valuable Re¬ 
ports received from these States will bo dis¬ 
tributed among our county agricultural so¬ 
cieties. In this way the knowledge acquir¬ 
ed by our sister States, in the most impor¬ 
tant' departments of agriculture, will be 
placed within tho reach of the farmers of 
Indiana. Of the second annual Report of 
the Stato Board of Agriculture. I recom¬ 
mend that you authorize the implication of 
a number of copies equal to the number 
published of tho first report. 
tion of the stomach. Bots never injure, or 
commence eating the stomach of a horse 
until the runcous coat is destroyed by infla- 
mation, which is alone sufficient to kill them. 
In examining horses after death, I have 
sometimes found a largo number of bots 
sticking in the maw—some eaten through— 
but examination convinced mo that infiama- 
tion and not tho bots was tho fatal cause.— 
I havo seen but few cases of inllamation of 
tho stomach. Ninety cases in a hundred of 
supposed bots. are cases of colic, and can be 
cured by the following prescription :—In a 
severe attack, bleed 4 or 6 quarts; tako 2 oz. 
spts of turpentine, 2 oz. laudanum and put 
into a pint of whiskey, shake up well and 
givo as a drench, then keep tho horso mov¬ 
ing. If he does not improve in two hours, 
repeat tho dose. 
I have followed tho above prescription for 
all the cases which the bot men called bots, 
but which I called colic, and have not lost 
a patient in twenty-five years. There is 
nothing which could be administered, which 
would kill a bot, which woul dnot also kill a 
horse. Slight cases of the colic may bo cured 
by tioing a threepenny paper of tobacco 
upon tho bits in a cloth, and putting on the 
bridle and moving the horse smartly.— Ren¬ 
ton Center. 
Wisconsin State Ag. Society. 
Tiie anuual meeting was held on the 19th 
of Jan., 1853, at which time the follow- 
ins: officers were elected for the paosent year: 
President— Elisha AV. Edgerton. 
Vice Presidents—Bertino Pinkney, Jere¬ 
miah E. Dodge: and Nathaniel B. Clapp. 
Corres. and Rec- Sec y—Albert C. Ing¬ 
ham, Madison. 
Treasnrer—Simeon Mills. 
Executive Committee—Additional mem¬ 
bers: Hiram Barber, Henry M. Billings, 
Martin Field, Samuel S. Daggett, and Mark 
Miller. 
At a meeting of the Ex. Com. held subso- 
rpj^ I quontly, Albert C. Ingham, Elisha W, Ed¬ 
gerton and Jeremiah E. Dodge, were ap¬ 
pointed members of the National Board of 
Agriculture of the U. S. Ag. Society. Del¬ 
egates were also appointed to attend the 
New York and other Fairs, and action was 
also had in regard to the exhibition to take 
place during the ensuing season in the city 
of New York. 
The next Fair was located at Watertown, 
and the time for holding it fixed on tho 4th, 
5th. 6th, and 7th days of October next. 
Provision was also made lor holding a 
The young and growing State of Indiana, \yq nter E a j r> a t Madison, the capital of the 
three or four to a dozen young at a ‘ litter.’ 
It is not well to let her raise more than six. 
or even four at once—the fewer, the larger 
and finer the produce. 
Young rabbits are killed for tho table at 
any ago, from twelve months old. and are a 
very acceptable addition to the countiv lui- 
der. The male is not allowed to remain 
with the doe, lest ho should destroy the 
young ones. 
Hutches are made singly, or in stacks, to 
suit tho apartment, which should bo capa¬ 
ble of thorough ventilation. r l he best sizo 
is about three feet long, two feet deep, and 
fourteen inches high, with a small apart¬ 
ment partitioned off from one end, nearly a 
foot wide, as a breeding place for the doe. 
A wire door forms the front, and an opening 
is left behind for cleaning ; the floor should 
have a descent to tho back of the hutch of 
two inches. All edges should be tinned, to 
save them from being gnawed.” 
Lice on Cows, &c.—A correspondent of 
the Southern Planter says : 
I saw in some agricultural work, perhaps 
your own, that tho water in which Irish po¬ 
tatoes have been boiled, if applied to cows. 
&c., would kill lieo upon them. I tried it 
several times with signal success, and a few 
days ago, ordered my boy to try it upon my 
cows, which, at this time of tho yeai, gen- 
erally aro full of ticks ; the result of which 
is. that they have all taken their departure. 
rays enter those east windows cheerily. Tho 
“ chores” are done—the farmer reading the 
newspaper, perhaps the Rural, and perhaps 
not; ono of the boys with a paper; another 
with Byron, or Siiaksteare ; another, the 
youngest, drawing around that tin horse and 
wagon, and chatting half intelligibly to any 
one who will tako the troublo to hear. 
“ dame and daughters” taking up breakfast, 
and only waiting for the coffee to boil. 
Do you drink coffeo 1 Now for breakfast. 
Remember it’s sunrise, and plenty of swcot 
cream for cotFoe. Don’t forget to onjoy it. 
—Charlie Chestnut. 
AG-RICULTUAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Agriculture of Indiana. 
the agricultural press. 
Planting Potatoes. 
The Farmer and Artisan gives tho follow¬ 
ing expeditious process of planting pota¬ 
toes : 
Last spring wo visited the farm of Samuel 
Haskell, Esq., just beyond tho confines of 
this city, and found him in the field with a 
pair of horses and plow planting potatoes, 
lie was at work on a field from which a crop 
of grain had been taken tho previous year. 
It had been dressed with a good coat of ma¬ 
nure. His process of planting was. after 
example : if you wish to test the question, as to 
quantity, you must have regard to temperature.— 
If your cattle, or sheep, as the case may be, are 
kept, and fed in warm, well-ventilated stables, the 
quantity of feed necessary for them will be much 
less, than if they are exposed to the inclemency 
of the weather ; the quantity required in the latter 
condition, has been stated to be nearly double 
what it would be in the former. This circum¬ 
stance, as to housing, needs to be considered in 
ascertaining the difference between cooked and 
uncooked food, as to quantity. 
The well known effect produced upon vegetable 
food by cooking, is that it serves to disorganize 
more completely the substance by rupturing the 
grains of starch—coagulating the albumen—soft¬ 
ening the tissues, which are more or less tough and 
stringy, and thus rendering them tender, and when 
taken into the stomach, easy of digestion. That 
it would be good economy for those who have 
large numbers of domestic animals to feed, to 
have accommodations for cooking the cereals and 
perhaps some other vegetables, before feeding 
them to animals, there can be little doubt. 
As Prof. Mafes is in constant communication 
with the Agricultural citizens of our Republic, it 
is to be hoped that he will take especial pains to 
communicate, not only the great fact which he 
has announced, but the fullost and clearest proofs, 
demonstrations, and experiments upon which it is 
founded ; for if the man who makes tw - o spires of 
grass grow where only one grew before is a ben¬ 
efactor, how much greater he who has found out a 
way by which he can “ produce as much meat 
and muscle” with the expenditure of only three 
bushels of corn, as has heretofore required eight. 
Just consider for a moment, how this multiplies 
the quantity of corn in the United States. It 
more than doubles it. This is a discovery worth 
far more to the farmers of our country, where 
such vast quantities of Indian corn are produced, 
than any other which has been made during the 
present century. The discovery however does 
not end here. If cooking, alone, so increases the 
nutritive qualities of corn meal, it would seem a 
most conclusive inference, that all the cereal grains 
can be thus multiplied. Why not ? Then three 
has no design of being eclipsed by her older 
sisters in Agricultural improvements.— 
With a soil unsurpassed for richness, culti¬ 
vated by a vigorous, industrious and highly 
intolligont people, there is little danger o 1 
being outstripped in tho race by any of her 
most f ivored competitors. One of iho warm- 
Stato, to bo held on the first Wednesday ot 
February, in each year. 
LOP-EARED RABBITS. 
The engraving on tho preceding page 
represents a “fancy” variety of Rabbits, 
originally from Madagascar. Mr. Rotoh of 
est friends of improvement, fore most in Morris, Otsego Co. whose property they are, 
every good word and work, is his excellency, furnished the drawing and a chapter on the 
Gov. Wright. He was active in the organi- subject for “Allen’s Rural Architecture,” 
turning tho first furrow, drop tho seod ]iota- bushels of oats, of wheat, of rye, of bailey, as 
toes upon it about a foot and a half apart well as of corn, when cooked and fed to horses, 
and turn the next ono so as to cover them. c;l ttle or sheep, will supply as much nutrition as 
Tho potatoes were again dropped upon the e ight of these severally, when uncooked. It seems 
urrow last turned and covered by the sue- a | inos t p )0 g 00( ] to be true, does it not farmers?— 
ceeding one. In this way ho informed me notwithstanding it is asserted by Prof. Mates. 
You must believe it if you can,—and there cannot 
be a doubt of your being glad to do so, just so 
so soon as you see the demonstrative proof which 
the Professor is called upon by the millions of 
“ busy farmers ” who, he says, “ have not much 
time to think or to compare notes with their fel¬ 
lows at a distance.” As “ busy” as they are, they 
will find time to query with the learned Professor, 
it is thought. Let the proof be furnished forth¬ 
with. w. L. 
Large Yield of Clover Seed. 
Friend Moore :— As there lias beon some 
talk and excitement in these parts, about a 
crop of clover seed gathered from a twelve 
aero field, on my farm, I havo thought prop¬ 
er to place a statement of tho facts at your 
disposal. Two years ago this spring, I sow¬ 
ed three bushels of clean soed on said field, 
then in wheat; tho seed took first rate; and. 
the wheat being light in consequence of the 
severe winter, the clover grew, rooted and 
branched uncommonly the first season.— 
Last spring I turned on horses, hogs, cattle, 
and sheep, and kept it pastured down very 
short, till the 10th of June, when I took out 
all but tho sheop, which remained on till 
tho 17th. But the clover had tho start of 
them, and evidently took its growth from 
the 10th of Juno. The 16th of Juno I sowed 
nine bushels of plaster on the field. I 
gathered it somewhat carefully, and thresh¬ 
ed, cleaned, and sold eighty-eight bushels 
and twenty pounds by weight, and kept two 
bushels of clean seed myself—besides four 
bushels of tailings in which there is con¬ 
siderable good seed. 
This was thought by many to bo a “ fish 
story,” and when tho quantity of seed could 
no longer bo doubted, some thought I must 
bo mistaken in the quantity of ground, so I 
procured a land chain and employed two 
disinterested men to chain tho field; they 
certify that said fiold contains oleven acres 
and ono hundred and sixteen rods of lam^ 
or 113 acres, lacking 4 rods. Tho soed was 
threshed with machinery owned by David 
Redmore ; the chaff was taken from the 
straw with a spike machine and flat bolt 
the seed was taken from the chaff with a 
grater, and tho whole machinery worked 
admirably. I sold my seed for $6,50 per 
bushel,—and I think, if I can learn when 
the next fair is hold in Tompkins Co., and 
can enter my seed according to tho rules of 
said fair, I shall be entitled to attond. My 
farm is not for sale.— Ira L. Terry, Hec¬ 
tor, Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
A March Morning Sunrise. 
A March morning sunrise on a farm! 
Roador, did you over enjoy ono? Come 
with me then, and if you don’t spend a 
pleasant half hour it is your fault. It thawed 
yesterday, has frozen during the night, and 
zation of the late board of Agriculture, at the 
head of which wo think he was placed. In 
his Annual Message be thus appropriately 
brings tho subjeetto tho attention of tho 
Legislature. !v paid for by the epicure, for their meat is 
The Agricultural, Mechanical, and Mar.- dolicato us a chicken’s, and their fat mild, 
ufacturing interests ot the State are in a aI1( j ve ,-y r i c h. I am surprised they aro not 
from which wo extract tho followin 
« Rabbits kept for profit in the vicinity of 
a city, and where there are mills, may be 
raised at a very small cost; and when once 
known as an article of food, will ho liberal- 
condition of growing prosperity. Eorty- 
fivo county agricultural societies havo been 
established under tho act of February 14, 
1851, for the encouragement of agriculture: 
ind in twenty of these counties, fairs havo 
beeh held in the course of tho last year. 
The first Stato Fair vas held at Indian¬ 
apolis, in the month of October, 1852.— 
more generally kept, as a source ot amuse' 
ment, mid lor tho purposes ot expelimont 
“ There is, I think, in many, a natural 
fondness for animals, but not easily indulged 
without more room than is often to be found 
in city residences. Fowls, and pigeons, 
trespass on our neighbors, and aro a fre¬ 
quent cause ol'trouble. This objection does 
There was shown, at that time, a very in- j lol j 200 d ao-ainst the rabbit, which oc- 
toresting and large exhibition of lino stock, 
agricultural productions, domestic inanu- 
iucLures, farming implements, and mechan¬ 
ical skill. It was the first great exhibition 
of the products of the labor, enterprise, and 
skill ot the people of Indiana. It is esti¬ 
mated that not less than thirty thousand 
persons, many of whom were visiters from 
other States, were in attendance, and, al¬ 
though this large assemblage was drawn to 
gother on the eve of a Presidential election, 
iho prevailing subjects of interest among 
tho multitude were connected with the ad¬ 
vancement of tho causo of Agriculturo, and 
that himself and two boys could prepare the 
ground and plant an acre a day, very easily. 
Wo recently met him and inquired about 
the ] 0 ato crop, and was told that lie ob¬ 
tained a good yield ot fine potatoes. Ibis 
is certainly a very cheap mode ot raising 
potatoes. Will it not be an object to our 
farmers to try it ? 
A Pig Trough. 
Mr. D. Stiles of Middletown, Massachu¬ 
setts, in a communication to the Massachu¬ 
setts Ploughman, gives tho followin 
scription of a pig trough used by him 
“Now while I am at it I will inform you 
how my wifo, or oven our youngest daugh¬ 
ter ten years old, can feed the hogs, or oven 
clean out the trough, without being obliged 
to enter the pen; the pen is under tho barn ; 
the trough is taken up by a windlass, assist¬ 
ed by a weight to balance; two bars of iron 
one inch threugb, set firmly in stone, or 
wood, at bottom and at top in barn floor 
small chain, say six feet long, attached to 
each end of trough. forms a bail from the 
de- 
Artificial Incubation. 
“Farmer D.,” in tho same paper, tells a 
new way of hatching chickens, and, now 
that “ limo is precious ” to so many of tho 
‘blooded” biddies, it will interest all poul¬ 
try fanciers: 
Ax English errand boy, seeing the family in 
the daily use of eggs of the costly Chinese fowls, 
requested permission to hatch some as his father 
used to do in England. “ Well, how was that ?” 
When we wanted early Dorking chickens for mar- 
... ... ,, __ ... . ket, and it was so cold that the eggs would often 
centre of which the rope is attached that | get chilled, and lose them vitality, while the hens 
came off to feed, he used to hatch them in the dung 
How ?” He covered them with the 
cupies so small a space, that where there is 
an out-house there may ho a rabbitry. En¬ 
glish children aro encouraged in their fond¬ 
ness for animals, as tending to good morals 
and good feelings, and as offering a home 
amusement, in contradistinction to street 
associations.” 
Mr. Rotch continues: 
“ The food of the rabbit embraces great 
varioty. including grain of all kinds, bran, 
pea-chaff, miller’s waste, brewer’s grains, clo¬ 
ver and other bay, and tho various weeds 
known as plantain, dock,mallow, dandelion, 
connects with tho windlass. A latch holds 
it up, and is let down at pleasure 
“It makes hogs quito decent; none of 
this snorting and blowing in your face, pro 
senting faces that never were washed, and 
a countenance as fierce as a lion; no pour 
ing spout with a splash at last, that sends 
| Ul |f their dinner ten feet against the wall 
But with an up-turned eye, and many anx 
ious looks, in a subdued tone, they implore 
the blessing to descend: at last it drops 
held firmly between tho bars—no slop, or | room we have put them under her ; and when we 
urn over, there it is in the middle of the 
pen, above perhaps three or lour feet of 
constantly increasing manure, without the 
1 hast danger of being submerged 
the encouragement of tho various branches purslain, thistles, &c., &c. 
of useful labor. Tho rabbit thus easily conforms itself to 
It is an object worthy tho profound at- tho means, condition and circumstances of 
tention of the statesman to build up and its owner; occupies but little space, breeds 
establish in a Stato a system of practical often, comes early to maturity, and is witli- 
and prosperous industry. And, in our State, al, a healthy animal, requiring however, to 
rich in soil, coal fields, mineral ores, and be kept clean, and to be cautiously ted with 
other dements of wealth, it will ho a wise succulent food, which must always be free 
lino of policy to encourage a system of po- from dow or rain-water is unnecessary to 
litical economy which, by making labor them when fed wit 1 greens^ 1 y own 
profitable and attractive, will draw tho skill course of feeding is one gill of oats in the 
and industry of tho people into thoso open- morning, with a medium-sized cabbage leaf. 
in<> - channels of agriculture, trade, and com- or what I may consider its equivalent in any 
rnerco, which, under sound legislation, can- other vegetable food, tor the rabbit in con- 
not fail to make Indiana, in tho course of a finement must bo, as already stated, cau- 
t'ow years, pre-eminently distinguished tiously fed with what is succulent. At noon, 
atnori' 1- tho more prosperous States of tho I feed a handfull of cut- hay 01 c mei c ia 
prosper 
Union. 
It is gratifying to observe that there is at 
this time, a growing and healthy spirit of 
industry and improvement abroad in Indi¬ 
ana. Farmors, mechanics, and manufac¬ 
turers, as individuals, and as mombers of 
industrial associations, aro turning their at¬ 
tention earnestly to a consideration ot tho 
best moans of promoting tho interests of 
thoir several pursuits. It is your duty to 
aid and encourage th s great movemont — 
Upon its success tho true, substantial wealth, 
and the real prosperity of tho State, must 
depend. 
Tho State Board of Agriculturo is now in 
sossion, with a full delegation from tho 
county societies. A Report of the transac¬ 
tions of the last year will belaid before you, 
at an early day. Three sessions havo boon 
and in tho evening tho same as in tho morn¬ 
ing. To does, when suckling, I givo what 
they will eat of both green and dry food.— 
Tho cost to mo is about three cents per 
week, per head. 
I by no means recommend this as the best 
or tho most economical modo of feeding 
but it happens to suit my convenience.— 
Were I in 1 town, or near mills, l should 
make use of other and cheaper substitutes. 
My young rabbits, when taken from tho doe, 
say at oight, ten, or twolvo weeks old, aro 
turned out together till about six months 
old, when it becomes necessary to tako them 
up, and put them in seperate hutches, to 
prevent thoir fighting and destroying each 
other. The doo at that ago is ready to 
breed ; her poriod of gestation iB about uni¬ 
ty-one or two days, and she produces from 
heap. 
atmre, and carefully examined them just at the 
time he expected them to hatch, and we have h;ul 
full broods all hatch within eight hours of the 
time the first one broke the. shell. “ What did he 
do with them then?” It we had alien setting 
whose eggs had been frosted and tailed, we put 
them under her. At other times we have waited 
a few days for a lien to hatch, and if she had 
Cooking Food for Animals. 
A retorted assertion on this subject by 
have had no hen to receive them, we have reared 
them in a box in the kitchen, where the warmth 
of the fire has made it comfortable and safe.— 
They have done well and grown finely. 
Now, Mr. Editor, to me it was a new thought; 
perhaps it may be so to others. I was pleased 
with the suggestion, considering 
it much less 
Frof. Mates, is remarked upon as follows troublesome than the artificial mode of hatching, 
iu the Wool Grower and Stock Register.— where the heat is kept up 21 days, by burning 
Tho matter is ono worthy of careful experi- lamps placed under the vessels that contain the 
eir^s. I shall try the experiment as a matter 
meat: 
Prof. J. J. MAries, of New Jersey, is reported in 
the National Era to have said in a speech at the 
recent meeting of the U. S. Ag. Society, that 
“ there was [is] the fact that eighteen and a-half 
eggs, i snan try the experi 
of curiosity. If I succeed you shall know it. If 
I fail, from any prominent defect or hazard neces¬ 
sarily attached to the system, I will advise you. 
1 state my plan, that others, if they see tit, may 
also make the experiment. I shall remove the 
pounds of cooked corn-meal would [will] produce q{ . thQ heap of horse manure, in which a pol¬ 
os much meat and muscle as fifty pounds oi un- of litter is intermixed, down to a level, where 
But farmers would not believe tins 
cooked. 
without endorsement from a respectable source.” 
This is, indeed, true, Prof. Mafes. Farmers 
will not believe such a statement unless it be 
endorsed as intimated—and more. They will re¬ 
quire'that such a statement shall be backed by 
experiment or practical demonstration, like the 
following, to wit,—You shall, in accordance with 
the fact,'take three-eighths of a given quantity of 
corn-meal, and produce by cooking it, “ as much 
meat and muscle ” as five-eightlis shall produce 
when uncooked—for this is your fact Nothing 
short of such demonstration will satisfy the 
doubting and inquisitive ruralist 
That corn-meal is rendered more nutritious by 
cooking, that is to say will produce more “ meat 
and muscle,” few if any will doubt; that three 
bushels of com-meal cooked will produce as much 
“ meat and muscle ” as eight bushels of uncooked 
very few will be inclined to believe, though “ en¬ 
dorsed” by Prof. M Aries. 
Experiments in feeding animals of any kind, 
should be made with great care, with reference to 
all the circumstances pertaining thereto. lor 
tion 
I judge the warmth, by applying the back of the 
hand, is 98 or 100°—say blood heat. Here make 
a regular nest, coating it slightly with fine hay. 
Take then a strip of old woolen blanket or flannel 
half a yard wide, and of length sufficient when 
doubled, to cover the nest, the ends of the cloth 
reaching to the front edge of the heap. Fold 
this, and lay it over the nest, and place the eggs 
between the folds. They will now have warm 
flannel underneath and above them, to keep them 
clean from contact with the manure. Cover them 
then with the manure to the depth that has been 
removed. If I think fresh air is occasionally 
needed, I can form a channel for its admission, by 
laying side by side, half an inch apart, two strips 
of board an inch square, and about a foot in length, 
from the edge of the nest to near the front edge of 
the heap; and by raising the upper covering of 
flannel a few inches, can admit fresh air through 
this channel. They can easily be’ protected, and 
kept dry from falling snows and rains, by a small 
coop, or some other temporary roofing placed over 
them. 
