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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MARCH 29. 
some country neighborhoods would bind many 
a family to their birthplace so that not even a 
Western El Dorado could tempt them away. 
But enough for this time. In a week or two 
I will give some practical suggestions as to 
health, wealth, mode and location of buildings, 
water, diet, labor, Ac., etc. Seeking to guide the 
western emigrant in his new home clear of 
many troubles, want of experience might make 
him liable to. g. b. s. 
SOUTH-WESTERN N. Y. FOREARMING. 
Me. Editou : — Since the publication of my 
communication with the above heading, in your 
issue of January 5, I have been constantly re¬ 
ceiving letters from all parts of New York and 
the adjoining States, making inquiries re¬ 
specting the soil, make of the land, society, 
facilities for marketing produce, Ac., of this 
country. As the correspondence has become 
rather onerous, will you allow me to answer all 
such through the medium of your valuable and 
widely-circulated paper, and by doing so confer 
a favor, not only upon the people of this town, 
but also upon a large number of your readers, 
who seem surprised to hear that in any part of 
this State, convenient to market and easy of 
access, land that will produce 20 to 25 bushels 
of wheat, can be bought at $5 per acre. Pre¬ 
vious to the opening of the New York A Erie 
Railroad, this section was completely isolated, 
and as it was impossible to send any surplus to 
market, its agricultural advantages were over¬ 
looked, and lumbering was the business of the 
country. Now, we are in within twelve hours’ 
ride of the city of New York, the railroad sta¬ 
tion is but about five miles from the most dis¬ 
tant part of the town, and there will always be 
a market there for all surplus products, at New 
York prices, less the freight. 
The country is hilly, rising steep from the 
streams, but flattening out on the height of 
ground, into a fine rolling country. The first 
glance shows the stranger its worst features; 
the steep hill sides, being covered with tall 
timber, look much higher than they really are, 
but the beauty of the land on the bluffs will re¬ 
pay an examination. 
There is no low or swampy land in this sec¬ 
tion, and consequently we know nothing of 
ague, and seldom hear of bilious fever. We 
have no epidemics, and the doctors have to rely 
for their practice on what they call sporadic 
cases, or such accidental causes of sickness as 
human nature is everywhere subject to. The 
country is well watered with springs of clear, 
cool, soft water. The soil is generally of a 
brownish or chocolate-colored loam, inclining 
to clay, and very largely composed of decayed 
vegetable matter, and is from one to three feet 
deep. The subsoil is clay, and in digging wells 
from ten to sixteen feet deep, I have never 
found any hard-pan. The timber is white 
pine, hemlock, oak, beech and maple. 
On the point of the ridges there are occasion¬ 
al patches of small stone, but no more than are 
needed in every farm for buildings. We can 
raise any produce that will grow in any part of 
the State ;—the ci op of corn last year, with the 
very imperfect cultivation given it here, aver¬ 
aged about 50 bushels per acre ;—but for the 
next ten years this country will be more par¬ 
ticularly suited for dairying and grazing, as it 
is necessary to seed the land with the first crop ; 
and let it remain in grass until the stumps rot 
out. The winters are no colder than elsewhere 
on the same parallel. Of 87 observations taken 
morn, noon and eve, through February, of the 
state of thermometer hanging on north side of 
the house, but five were below zero, the range 
being 22° below to 50° above. The town is 
well supplied with mills and schools, and ther ■ 
are two churches at the village. The people 
are generally intelligent, sober and industrious, 
and alive to the necessity of improving them¬ 
selves and their land. There are, of course, 
some hard cases here as well as elsewhere. 
There is no difficulty in obtaining small or 
large pieces of land, partly improved, at from 
five to fifteen dollars per acre. A stranger must 
not come here expecting to see our land all 
cleared off, and farms looking as neat as where 
land is worth $50 to $100 per acre, or he will 
be disappointed. But the soil is here—all that 
is needed is the labor to develop its strength, 
when we will take rank among the best agri¬ 
cultural counties of the State. I do not believe 
that there is any country that offers greater in¬ 
ducements to the farmer of small means, than 
does this and the adjoining towns in Steuben 
cou ity. b. 
Canisteo, March 14, 1856. 
SCRATCHES IN HORSES. 
Knowing the obstinacy of this disease, in 
manv cases, induces me to offer a remedy which 
I found vastly superior to every other. 
First wash all the part affected perfectly clean 
with soft warm water and castile soap, and if 
much inflammation exists, poultice a few days 
with ground slippery elm and flax seed meal.— 
Then apply the following ointment twice a day: 
Iodide of sulphur, one dram ; fresh hogs lard, 
one ounce ; rub the Iodide of sulphur fine, then 
add a little lard, then rub again, then add the 
remainder of the lard and mix intimately 
together. 
In most cases the disease is a local one, but 
in those cases where the constitution is affected 
I would advise some alterative remedy like this: 
give one teaspoonful of finely powdered crude 
antimony every morning for a month, then give 
a teaspoonful of flour of sulphur every morning. 
Mix the medicine in wheat bran or good’oats— 
the length of time necessary to continue the 
treatment will vary in different cases. 
I was first induced to employ'theModide of 
sulphur ointment in the scratches [on horses, 
from the great success that I had obtained from 
the use of it in that loathsome disease called 
scald head. My local applications in that 
disease are poultices of wheat bran and ground 
slippery elm and flax seed meal, until the scales 
and inflammation is removed from the head.— 
Then wash clean with soft water and castile 
soap, then apply the Iodide Sulphur Ointment. 
I gave the recipe to one of the best horse'deal¬ 
ers in our town, and he informs me that it ex¬ 
cels anything that he ever tried for scratches. 
Sangerfield, March, 1856. Dr. M. Preston. 
RAIL AND BOARD FENCES. 
The article about fences in the Rural of 
March 1st says, very truly, that “good and se¬ 
cure fences are better than a hot toddy to sleep 
upon,” but-thinks the common rail fence very 
uncertain. We, in this vicinity, find the mate¬ 
rials for making more uncertain than the fence, 
if properly made. Where there is a plenty of 
black ash for rails, and they are laid up true 
and square, and finished with a good heavy 
pole for top-rail, well notched at the corners, it 
makes a very safe fence, and to my eye a good 
looking one, if clear of rubbish, as it should be. 
It is true, such a fence takes more ground from 
the plow than a board fence, but if it is kept 
free from stumps and stones, it can be mown, 
which will keep out thistles and elders, (and 
the Maine law will keep the “Deacons” out, I 
trust, if they have ever been in,) and will be as 
productive of hay as any meadow',—not as easi¬ 
ly gathered, to be sure, yet it will generally 
“pay” to mow it, while a board fence, from the 
narrowness of ground left unplowed, will not, 
and consequently is very apt to grow up to 
weeds and bushes. 
I think a board fence four feet high better 
than one higher, as the winds do not affect it so 
much. Any animal that would make a prac¬ 
tice of jumping a fence of that height is not fit 
to be kept on a farm. I have one scarcely four 
feet high, along the road where numbers of 
hungry village cows run every summer, and 
never yet knew one to get over it. By having 
a low fence you save in length of posts, and in 
boards also. Have the bottom board 12 inches, 
the two next 6 inches, top board and cap’5 inches 
each, spaced off so as to make 4 feet, and you 
will have a fence which will please you, if well 
made. 
If steeping the ends of posts in a solution of 
vitriol or copperas will make them as durable 
as the boy’s red cedar, the builder of board 
fences ought to do it, Avhetlier lie expected to 
stay long or short on his farm ; for undoubtedly 
some one would occupy it after him, and would 
need fences too. It is one of our prevailing 
faults as a people in making improvements, fo 
be too superficial—caused, I suppose, by our 
love of change and migratory habits. 
I meant to have said something about Osage 
Orange for fences, having tried them in a small 
way, but this communication is already too 
long. L. F. Crowell. 
Seneca Falls, March. 1856. 
ASHES ON WHEAT. 
Ashes I have knowm to be applied to almost 
every variety of soil, with very different results. 
So far as my experience and observations ex¬ 
tend, ashes are of very little use on low or wet 
lands, but good on all others. I have seen, in 
the State of New York, valuable crops of wheat 
raised on lands nearly exhausted, by manuring 
them in the ordinary way, with leached ashes.— 
The ashes, which had been exposed to the 
weather for years, were spread over the ground 
and thoroughly mixed with the soil before the 
seed was sown. Nor was the effect confined to 
a single crop, but was visible several years 
afterwards. The quantity applied was about 
the same as in ordinary manuring. 
My father once sowed a field with wheat, and 
immediately after sowing gathered up a quan¬ 
tity of ashes which had been made by the 
burning of the turf, brush, Ac., of a piece of 
hemlock land. These he put into his wagon, 
drove into the newly sown field, and with a 
shovel threw them, broa'least, as he drove along, 
scattering them in every direction, as far as he 
could. The consequence was, a much better 
crop of wheat where the ashes were thrown 
than in any other part of the field, and a similar 
improvement in several succeeding crops. The 
wheat ripened earlier, and was in every way 
the best in the field. 
Of the use of lime I know less, though seve¬ 
ral of the neighbors used it on their up-lands, 
by mixing it with other manures and spreading 
it over the field before plowing, or by sowing 
it, like plaster, over the field after the wheat 
was sown. Plaster, however, was more gene¬ 
rally used, either mixed with the seed when 
sown, or sown on the field after the grain was 
up, and generally in the spring. I suppose 
dry, unleached ashes might be sown on wheat 
in the spring with advantage. J. l. h. 
MANAGEMENT OF MANUBE. 
For the benefit of those who may see fit to 
adopt it, I would give my plan and practice 
with manure during this winter,—which has 
proved to be a very poor season for converting 
coarse litter into good manure, on account of 
the dry and cold weather. I haul it by sleigh 
to some distant field where most needed, and 
put it in heaps of six or more loads each, mix¬ 
ing and covering the same with such sods or 
turf as can be got from about the fences, when 
muck cannot be obtained for that purpose. I 
thus increase the manure, put it where most 
needed and avoid the hauling of much weight 
which will be added from the clouds ; also, the 
labor of hauling when team and hands can be 
otherwise employed.—E. T., Bowmansville, N. Y. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
KING PHILIP OR BROWN CORN. 
Near twenty years since the late Governor 
Hill, of New Hampshire, then editor of the 
Farmer's Montldy Visitor, inserted several arti¬ 
cles in his paper descriptive of this corn, and in 
accordance with a request sent a bushel of it to 
the late Willis Gaylord, Oliver Cummings, 
Esq., of Navarino in this county, and myself. 
We planted the corn and found it a dwarfish 
variety of early maturity, requiring thick plant¬ 
ing to obtain a good yield. It is an eight 
rowed variety of reddish yellow' color. In high 
northern latitudes or where larger varieties 
would not be likely to mature it is valuable, 
but I have found that in this locality, a larger 
variety is preferable, and after two or three 
years trial the cultivation of King Philip or 
Brown Corn was discontinued and w'ill not again 
be resumed.— E. Marks, Camillus, N. Y. 
In 1853 I received from the Patent Office a 
package of “ Improved King Philip or Brow r n 
Corn,” and walked with it into a choice portion 
of my cornfield, removed my good kind of 
large White corn, just coming up and planted 
the King Philip in its place. Treated the whole 
field alike, and at harvest the only difference 
w r as, that the same number of its hills, produced 
about half the quantity of those of the other 
kind, and fodder in the same ratio. In 1854, I 
planted both at the same time with a like result. 
In 1855 I tried it with several other varieties 
and the produce was all “ nubbins.” So much 
for my experience with this early variety.—Jos. 
Watson, Clyde, N. Y. 
Remarks. —Some months since, we called 
upon our readers who had planted this corn, to 
give us their opinion of its value, and have had 
so far very favorable reports. We are just as 
willing to give the other side, our aim is to in¬ 
struct, not to mislead our readers.— Eds. 
CURE FOR “FISTULOUS WITHERS.” 
“ Fistulous withers" may be cured by appli¬ 
cations of cold water. Set a barrel over where 
the horse stands, with a leather pipe in the bot¬ 
tom so as to let a small stream of water fall on 
the parts affected. The barrel should be at least 
half full of water for the first week or ten days 
so as to gi \e force to the stream. Apply three or 
four pailfulls twice a day for one week—then 
a less quantity and not so often ; continue to 
diminish in quantity of water and lengthen the 
time of application until cured, which will be 
in three or four weeks. The same will cure a 
Foil evil. —S., Manchester, N. Y. 
Cut the partitions to the different openings 
or fistulas with a sharp knife or abcess lancet. 
In winter take common tar—in summer, two 
parts of tar and one of tallow—melt it and pour 
it into and over the openings while warm.— 
Place a piece of clo^e cotton cloth three or four 
times as large as the sore over it, and pour of 
the preparation upon it, so as to exclude all air. 
Let it remain until it is worn or washed off— 
the longer it stays the better. When necessary, 
dress again in the same way, without washing 
or irritating. 
The predisposing cause of this disease is a 
bad or irritable state of the general health—the 
excising causes are injuries or colds. The horse 
should be better cared for and fed, while treat¬ 
ing this disease, than formerly. If you have 
any conscience yourself, or mercy for your beast, 
don’t employ any quack horse doctor, nor apply 
to the sore any eating or corroding substance, 
as blue vitrol, burnt alum, red precipitate, cor¬ 
rosive sublimate, nitric acid, verdigris,, Ac., Ac. 
That great scare-crow, “ proud-flesh,” is all im- 
maginary—it is nothing but healthy granula¬ 
tions which are indispensable in healing all 
sores, and are never injurious in man or beast, 
when kept from the air and not irritated. From 
one who is “posted." —A. J. Chadsey, M. D., 
Grooms Corners, Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
HORN-AIL.—A REMEDY. 
Last spring one of my cows had the Horn-ail 
or Distemper very bad, and I thought I should 
lose her in spite of all I could do. I tried the 
different remedies I could hear of, also those m 
the Rural, but without effect. At last 1 thought 
I would try something new, and took a small 
sack, filled it with common salt, and bound it 
between her horns, and then poured on sharp 
vinegar until it was perfectly wet. I wet it. 
three or four times a day until she got well, 
which was in a very short time.—D. L. W. 
Conquest, JY. Y. 
PORTABLE MILLS.—INQUIRY. 
Which is the best machine in use for crush¬ 
ing and grinding feed ? It is doubtless a great 
saving to be able, by some means, not too expen¬ 
sive, to grind the feed needed on a farm, espe¬ 
cially where the distance to the mill is consid¬ 
erable, and the quantity consumed large. Has 
any one tried the “ Little Giant” mill, which is 
for sale at Hallock’s establishment in your city? 
—H. T. McN., Dansvillc, JY. Y. 
BUNCH IN CATTLE’S THROATS. 
I have a very valuable Herd Book yearling 
heifer, the first generation from imported stock, 
that I fear I shall lose from a hard bunch or swell¬ 
ing in the throat. Her swallowing is not affected, 
but her breathing is. She eats and drinks 
heartily. The bunch appears to be attached to 
her windpipe. Can any of jq numerous 
readers give me a remedy.—J. W., t//\ago, III. 
Inquiry. —Will you or some of your correspon¬ 
dents tell us how to get out and clean carrot 
seed to fit it for sale.—C. D. L. 
Milk Weed. —What is the best way to kill a 
weed commonly known by this name ?—S. J. 
C„ Wilmot, Wis. 
Remarks. —Any weed can be killed by cut¬ 
ting up frequently. Plants cannot live long 
without leaves, however tenacious of life they 
may he.— Eds. 
Eutal Softs anti Iftins. 
Monroe County Ag. Society.— A numerously 
attended and spirited meeting of this Society 
was held on the 19th inst.—at which its re¬ 
organization under the Act of April 13, 1855, 
was completed. After the adoption of a Con¬ 
stitution, Ac., the following Board of Officers 
was elected : 
President —Willard Hodges of Brighton.— 
Vice-Presidents —1st, William Brown, Ogden ; 
2d, B. M. Baker, Rochester ; 3d, H. H. Sperry, 
Henrietta. Secretary —D. D. T. Moore, Roches¬ 
ter. Treasurer —E. S. Hayward, Brighfon.— 
Directors —For three years, P. Barry of Roches¬ 
ter, and S. Leggett of Henrietta. For two years, 
C. B. Hebbard of Riga, and I. S. Ilobbie of 
Rochester. For one year, A. B. Buckland of 
Brighton, and F. W. Lay of Greece. On motion, 
E. P. Root, Esq., of Sweden, was appointed an 
honorary and advisory member of the Board. 
The Committee on Finance reported decided 
progress—showing that about $3,500 had al¬ 
ready been subscribed (in life memberships, at 
$10 each,) in only ten towns and the city of 
Rochester — a most encouraging result, consid¬ 
ering the almost continuous Borean weather and 
snow blockade since previous meeting. The 
towns not heard from are expected to report fa¬ 
vorably at next meeting — at which time it is 
thought most of those which have reported will 
double their subscriptions. After the transac¬ 
tions of other important business (as given at 
length in the local city and county papers,) the 
Society adjourned to meet on the 16th of April. 
Montreal Agricultural Society. —We find 
in the Montreal Herald a synopsis of the labors 
of this Society for the year 1855, which shows 
it to be in a progressive and highly gratifying 
state. The competitors on crops’ alone, for this 
year, were nearly as numerous as the whole 
number of members in any former year. The 
importation of superior male animals by the 
Society, has been the means of materially im¬ 
proving the stock, not only of the members 
themselves, but through that influence a general 
improvement manifests itself. Liberal premi¬ 
ums on root crops, improved processes of tillage, 
and other subjects, have exerted a most salutary 
influence, a pleasing, improving change having 
been already observed. The assets of the Socie¬ 
ty for 1855, amount to over $2,000, of which 
nine hundred was a grant from the Government. 
The premiums paid, with the other current 
expenses of the year, amount to some $1,600, 
and the Society have now in hand over $400. 
Interesting reports upon crops, tillage, and other 
matters, are embraced in the Annual Report of 
the Executive Committee, which was read to 
the Society in English and also in the French 
language. At the October plowing match 
twenty-two teams were entered, and the work 
done is spoken of as highly creditable to Cana¬ 
dian plowmen, which is no light compliment, 
as Canadian plowmen are acknowledged supe¬ 
rior to those of the States, as a class. The 
Society propose to hold, on the 25th of March, a 
Grand-market Meeting, or Fair, for the sale and 
exchange of seeds. Two hundred dollars have 
been appropriated for this purpose. Might not 
these grain fairs be profitably held in many of 
our central towns and cities. Too little promi¬ 
nence is given by our farmers and gardeners to 
the importance of changing seed. The preva¬ 
lent practice of sowing seed upon the land 
where it was grown, cannot be too strongly 
condemned, as it will inevitably cause deterio¬ 
ration in the quality and quantity of the grain. 
New Agricultural Journals are springing 
up, almost spontaneously, in various sections of 
the Union. Among those recently commenced, 
or not before noticed in the Rural, are the 
following : 
The American Farmer —a folio weekly, pub¬ 
lished at Kalamazoo, Mich., by E. Porter Lit¬ 
tle, at $1,50 a year. Each subscriber has the 
privilege of a free advertisement of thirty-five 
words or less, every other week—which accounts 
for the fact that the number before us contains 
several hundred advertisements, occupying a 
great portion of the paper. A good plan to 
start a paper, but not the one to sustain and 
render it permanently useful. 
I he North-Western Farmer, and Horticultural 
Journal, is the title of an octavo monthly, com¬ 
menced with the year at Dubuque, Iowa, by 
Mark Miller A J. C. Brayton —$1 a year.— 
The numbers we have received are creditable 
in appearance and contents. 
The Cedar Valley Farmer, and Magazine of 
Literature and Science, (Phoebus what a cogno¬ 
men !) is a 50 cent monthly, published at Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa, by Jas. S. Enos. This is the 
third ag’l monthly in Iowa. 
Journal of the U. S. Ag. Society. — We are 
indebted to Col. M. P. Wilder, the accom¬ 
plished President of the Society, for a copy of 
this work. It is a handsome volume of over 
260 pages, illustrated with a fine view of the 
Show Grounds, Ac., at Boston, (October, 1855,) 
and portraits ol many of the Prize Animals at 
same Exhibition. It comprises the Transac¬ 
tions of the Society for 1855, but is mainly 
devoted to details of the Boston Exhibition— 
the List of Premiums, names of Judges, List of 
Entries, Premiums Awarded, Speeches at the 
Banquet, Ac. 
- «»-♦-> - — 
Salt for Stock.— A correspondent of the 
Prairie Farmer says we are now keeping our 
stock without salt, and all look well and are 
doing well, with the exception of a calf spoken 
of in a previous communication. Our horses 
require less water and less oats than last win¬ 
ter, when they were fed salt regularly, once a 
week ; and our brood mares and colts are in 
better condition—less bloated and more lively. 
“ A Great Potato Story.” — Our worthy 
friend, Col. Harris of the Ohio Cultivator thus 
heads an item, which he introduces as having 
been called out by “reading a correspondence in 
the Rural New-Yorker of a man who raised 
twelve medium sized potatoes from one, impor¬ 
ted from England,” Ac., and then, “ to show 
the superiority of the Ohio Cultivator potato 
over the Rural’s potato” subjoins a story of 58 
lbs. of potatoes grown from one, by a man in 
Belmont Co. He sets up a man of straw and 
then knocks him over. The English potato was 
not planted with any idea of testing the pro¬ 
ductiveness of one potato, nor has there been “a 
correspondence” in the Rural about it. It was 
planted—as stated last fall in an editorial para¬ 
graph—whole, on a new and poor soil, and no 
extra care given it, and we recorded the pro¬ 
duct and circumstances, thinking any experi¬ 
ence throwing light on this new variety would 
aid in settling its value. There has been, how¬ 
ever, “ a correspondence” about a “ One Potato 
Crop” in this journal. Last spring, a gentle¬ 
man offered a handsome premium to those who 
would raise more potatoes from one, of any va¬ 
riety, than he would from a single Mexican 
potato, and we gave condensed statements of 
the crops reported. The largest was 136 lbs. 
and 10 ounces, and there were eight out of 
eighteen which went above the Cidtivator’s great 
potato. Other correspondents, not competitors 
for the premiums, have grown three, jive and ten 
bushels from a single potato of the Merino va¬ 
riety, any one of which would afford our con¬ 
temporary material for quite a “ dish of hash” 
—a variety of cooking for which he seems to 
have something of a liking. 
Protecting Trees. —A valuable hint may be 
derived from the following, from Drew’s Rural 
hdclliqenccr :—“We noticed recently, in travel¬ 
ing, a neat white cottage, and sheds and barns 
almost as neat, reposing cosily under a close 
row of interlocked spruce trees, that environed 
the buildings on the north and west. It looked 
as if nothing could ever freeze them, and the 
sheep, and cows, and oxen in the barn-yard, 
and the hens and turkies that were fed from the 
back doors, seemed to bear witness that such 
Avas the fact. Such a row of beautiful spruces, 
contrasting with the Avliite fields of snow 
around them, are themselves ornamental, as 
well as a means of great saving of firewood 
within doors.” 
Hemlock Boughs for Sheep. —A farmer 80 
years old, writing to the Maine Farmer says :— 
“ I recommend to farmers avIio have hemlock 
and pine boughs near by, to put them in their 
cow-yards for their sheep and cattle to browse 
upon. I commenced keeping sheep about fifty- 
three years ago, commencing with only six— 
have kept large flocks, but late years keep from 
twenty to thirty. For fifty years past I have 
given iny sheep every winter, more or less hem¬ 
lock and pine boughs. I consider it very 
healthy for them, as I seldom lose a sheep by 
any disorder. It saves hay. I also feed roots 
and apples occasionally to them.” 
King Philip Corn, the old “ Red Blaze.”— 
Both from the appearance of this corn and what 
we can learn of its history, we think it identical 
with the old “Red Blaze,” though improved by 
care in the selection of seed, both in earliness 
and productiveness. For this latitude, we think 
it will prove of such early maturity as to make 
it valuable, and any good seed from farther 
north, would have the same advantage. The 
Dutton corn was once one of the best kinds 
known in the Northern States, and we still 
prefer it, when Ave can get seed sufficiently early 
to escape our Autumn frosts. 
Remember It. —In laying out your summer’s 
work, remember that American farm-work may 
be divided into two kinds—work that must be 
done in the growing season, and work that way 
about as well be done at other times. In dis¬ 
tributing your work, let nothing be set down 
for May, June and July, which you can do be¬ 
fore or which you can leave, without much det¬ 
riment, till after these hurrying months. The 
“now or never” work will be enough for these 
months.— N. Y. Observer. 
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Scotch Cattle. —The beef.of the Scotch Ky- 
loe cattle, which is the best in Britain, is not 
so good when the animals are fatted in South 
Britain as when produced in Scotland, which 
arises from the influences of climate both on the 
articles ol food and on the animal organization. 
After all the fine breeding of animals that has 
been accomplished, these Kyloe cattle pay more 
per head and acre than most cattle in Britain, 
because they are reared at such little cost.— 
Boston Cidtivator. 
Look Ahead.—T hough he may not get as 
much money in hand, as the farmer who will 
do nothing on his land but to take from it the 
most exhausting crops, the man Avho farms 
with a liberal policy towards his land, looking 
in part to its increased value and productive¬ 
ness for his reward, Avill come out first best after 
a race of ten years.— Observer. 
If seven-tenths of the rich young men in this 
State should take the oversight of a farm, there 
would be more eagles and less butterflies in the 
ornithology of society. 
There is but one thing worse than to let cat¬ 
tle get lean and feeble late in the winter, and 
that is, to let them get so earlier. 
“ If the farmer looks out for number one in 
making his bargains, he forgets not humanity 
and society in making his will.” 
