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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY 
and cogs ave as muta as before they were 
mined from the earth, away you go in imagi¬ 
nation to the old days, when, white-headed 
urchin, you turned mill for white-headed Un¬ 
cle Daniel. Two white-heads—but they were 
white for different reasons, one from infancy, 
one from years! Two hearts perfectly agree¬ 
ing too, beat in two breasts, at a very differ¬ 
ent rate no doubt,—and behind bulwarks of 
different robustness ; for one was flexible and 
baby-like—the other iron-like and bony. 
“ Work aw-ay, work away, Uncle Daniel !— 
scoop up as fast as ever you can, and I'll turn ! ' 
said you, with valorous voice, putting both 
hands to the crank, and filling the neighbor¬ 
hood with true fanning mill tumults. There 
was the regular sonorous iron sound, and the 
shake, shake, and rattle, rattle of the sieves, 
letting down the clean grain through their 
myriad interstices, while a perfect storm of 
chaff went scudding off at the east door. Some 
how the wheat would keep climbing up and 
choking the sliding-way below, and you was 
obliged to keep admonishing Uncle Daniel to 
haul away with his scoop. ° ° ° 
You cannot help thinking what an ugly 
place that is at the door, where every load of 
grain comes in, and how many a tug, as of 
life and death, it has cost the horses to mount 
the wagon-wheels up on to the floor. Two or 
three rails lie there, and that is all, while three 
gravel loads would make the ascent ever-so- 
much easier. As it is, every time a load 
comes up, the poor horses have to strain every 
muscle to get in, and I am not sure but these 
continual jars have had something to do with 
a broken axletree that brought everything to 
a halt, all at once, the other day. There is 
something to think about at any rate. 
What charming weather we have had lately ? 
The corn-fields have been laughing and danc¬ 
ing with glee, (pardon the hyperbole,) and 
every hour of sunshine has added its contri¬ 
bution to the farmer’s wealth. Here and 
there the pumpkin shows its speck of gold, 
while all around the stalks stretch out their 
ears like arms, in acknowledgment to God,— 
yes, in acknowledgment to God. What man 
can be a farmer and not a Christian ? If there 
is nothing finer than a ripening corn-field, 
neither is there any betfer place than here 
among the glowing ears, to kneel down and 
pray. None any better ? I am not certain 
but on the clean floor of a granary, in a dark¬ 
ness impenetrable and sweet, one may pray as 
well. Yet gratitude may utter itself any¬ 
where ; and love or dependence will frame it¬ 
self a speech wherever it inhabits a Christian 
consciousness. And some of the sweetest spir¬ 
itual thoughts are born in trial too. There 
are some in the world, who know what trials 
are. And I’ll tell you what, the best of all is 
to kiss the rod, and say, “ Thy will be done.” 
Time and sun have turned the little buck¬ 
wheat seas to red, and many a field is dotted 
with budgets tied up at the neck, and looking 
odd enough. One would think bodies with 
such a broad base ought not to tumble over, 
but they sometimes do. By the way, I should 
have made a note of the butternut abundance. 
The clusters of green cones that put out their 
points from multitudinous prolific twigs, have 
a slight reference to winter-night fireside jubi¬ 
lees of juveniles, though, as for me, I would 
rather eye than eat the fruit. Never was it 
more plentiful. So of beech-nut3, that sway 
about in the air, snug in their round, green 
burs of coats. When Mr. Fnosr, with his 
white, sharp teeth comes to gnaw off the tight 
tunics, what a universal light rattling there 
will be in the woods ! What feasting calcula¬ 
tions in the happy little brains of sqirrels, 
mice and pigeons! I can almost see the busy 
“chipmuck” scudding off with both cheeks 
crammed, without ever so much as thinking 
he’d look in the glass. Tommy thinks he 
would laugh so hard, he would have to spit 
out all his beech-nuts, to save hi3 life, if he 
should catch a sight, at himself. Porkers will 
find occupation, and abundant reward for nasal 
explorations under the snow in winter. 
Of potatoes, you may adopt the auctioneer’s 
indefatigable cry, “going, going” — I was 
going to say, 11 gone,” but not quite. 
A word of that Buffalo threshing machine 
in France. Think of a huddle of horses and 
wheels doing the work of seventy-four men, 
amid the ejaculations of bewildered Arabs ! 
A good share of the Crystal Palace floor would 
be wanted for the performance of seventy-four 
men with flails, certainly. Those wild men of 
the East, looking at the action of this terrible 
Yankee thresher, would naturally have some 
faint dawning on their savage intellects, of 
the fact that knowledge is power. Yet a thresh¬ 
ing machine is a hard thing to like, only for 
what it achieves,—for the incessant, all day’s 
rattle is the confusion of a neighborhood, and 
it would be a terrible trial to a phthisical man 
to be in the range of its inevitable dust. I 
doubt whether the gunners of Sebastopol get 
much more thoroughly begrimed than do the 
waiters and servants of this perambulating 
agricultural monster. 
What man will devise a way to annihilate 
house-flies ? It is useless to say that any sat¬ 
isfactory method is yet known. What we 
want is a grand specific, infallibly omnivorous, 
which shall sweep the neat housewife’s do¬ 
main of these invaders. Whoever can com¬ 
pass this, will make his fortune. How much 
more tolerable, then, would be the in-door 
respiration of August, in extinguished buzzes, 
circumvented itinerations among table luxu- 
I I ries, and abolished irritating titillations of 
ears', no 3 C and toes ! And this leads me to ask 
you have heard Baltimore Hawkins capitally 
1 narrate the unequal fight between a spider and 
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a bug in one corner of his bed room ? I am 
sorry to say it, but the spider was the victor, 
and ate his antagonist pretty much complete¬ 
ly up before morning. Yours truly, 
Sardinia. N. V., Sept. 17, 1855. C. C. 
MILK FEVER. 
Mr. Editor :—Having had some experi¬ 
ence in this fearful disorder which I think may 
be beneficial to all who keep cows, I hasten 
to make it public through the Rural. 
Milk fever is a term given to a disorder 
which usually attacks cows the second or 
third day after calving, and is at some seasons 
very fata 1 , scarcely any cow recovering that is 
attacked. Cows in high condition, havirg 
large uddere, are mo3t liable to the disorder. 
I had a valuable cow, which was very fat, 
drop her calf last Sunday. She passed the 
placenta, and appeared to be doing well until 
the next day at evening, when I observed 
that she was sick. Her head drooped, her 
eyes were much distended and glassy, her legs 
rigid, and she groaned at every breath. 
As it was very warm, I thought to bathe 
her in cold water. I recollected of having 
heard of persons being wrapped iu a wet 
blanket when suffering from a fever, and 
thought of trying it in this case. I procured 
a heavy woolen horse-blanket, wet it, and 
spread it upon her. I covered that with a 
dry one, and spread buffalo skins upon her. 
Her skin was cold, and it was half an hour 
before the blanket was warm. I then took 
off the blanket, wet it, and applied it as be¬ 
fore. I did so three times, and left her, ex¬ 
pecting to find her dead in the morning. Her 
legs appeared to be paralyzed, and she had 
arrived at that stage of the disorder from 
which I had never known a cow to recover. 
In the morning I found that she had been up 
and was evidently better. In the course of 
the day she began to walk, and eat a little 
grass—and appears now to be fully recovered. 
I gave her no medicine, and have no doubt it 
was the cold water which saved her life. 
If any of the readers of the Rural have a 
cow attacked by this fatal disorder, and know 
not what to do, I advise them by all means to 
try the wet blanket. Yours, &e., 
East Bloomfield, N. Y , Sept. 20, ’65. Myron Adams. 
BINDING AND SHOCKING CORN. 
Eds. Rural :—Observing in a late number 
of the Rural an article upon shocking corn, 
I thought I would give you my methed, which, 
all things considered, I think is better than 
the one there given. 
As I cut it I throw the corn from two rows 
into bunches sufficient for a good sized bundle. 
Then, standing astride one of these bunches 
run your hands, one on each side, under the 
tops just above the ear3, and raise them a foot 
or two; then take two or three of the stalks in 
each hand and give them a couple of turns or 
twists around each other and bring them to the 
front and bind the bundle. To shock it I 
take four of these bundles and set them to¬ 
gether, turn the tops down and bind them 
with a stalk, and it is done. The advantages 
are these : the shocks if properly made cannot 
fall down, and the bundles being somewhat 
apart by the ears, the corn dries much quicker. 
When the corn is husked it need not be un¬ 
bound, but as you husk an ear turn the stalk 
right over the top, and when the whole bun¬ 
dle is husked, by taking hold of the top it will 
all come out right; it will not unbind, as you 
will find by trying it, and you can easily pitch 
it to the top of the barn, which could not be 
done if it was unbound. 
The crops in this vicinity (Kennebec Co.) 
are better than usual. The hay crop is larger 
than last year, and was got in in better order. 
Of wheat there is a much larger crop than 
last year, although it was injured by the rust 
in some localities. Oats are excellent and a 
large crop. Barley rather poor. Beans good. 
The growth of corn is large, and if the frost 
does not injure it there will be a large crop. 
Potatoes are excellent in quality, but are rot¬ 
ting badly, which is a great misfortune, as, on 
account of their not rotting last year, many 
more were planted this year than last. 
Mt. Vernon, Mo., Sept. 14, 1355. 11. M. A. 
ABOUT WINTER WHEAT. 
Mr. Editor :—Perhaps a few words about 
the wheat crop, &c., in this (Niagara) county 
may not be devoid of interest to your numer¬ 
ous readers, or the writer of an article with 
the above caption in a late number. In the 
southern part of the county, the cut worm 
and midge have nearly taken the crop ; but 
in the northern part, along the lake shore, 
the yield is much better, although far behind 
the average. 
Mr. Jas. Van Horn, Jr., an experienced 
farmer of New Fane, in this county, writes 
me under the date of Sept. 1st,—“ The Lake 
Shore farms have yielded from 20 to 25 
bushels per acre, of fair quality, but, from the 
best information I can get, I do not think the 
town will average over from C to 8, bushels 
— perhaps it may go a3 high as 10.” — 
The same may be said of the northern towns 
generally, but the southern are far behind 
this. Mr. Y. H. says, relative to the kinds 
raised ,—“ The Soule’s wheat is much the best 
with us, as far as I have learned.” Mr. I). 
Dwigtit, an extensive farmer of this town, 
had on his place a small piece cf Blue Stem, 
but it proved inferior to the Soule’s, although 
I believe, less injured by the cut worm. I 
think as long as wheat can be sown at all, 
that, in this section at least, the Soule’s mu sfc 
bear the preference. k. 
Wilscn, N. Y., Sept. 1855. 
CROSSING FOWLS. 
In the Rural of Sept. 15th, T saw an article 
headed “ Poultry — Native and Foreign 
Breeds.” I agree with “ Farmer D.” in all 
except one variety. From this I beg leave 
to differ, even though high E glish au- 
thrrity is on the side of the gentleman above 
named. He says : —“ If two breeds are kept 
on one farm, crossing will inevitably ensue ; 
and crossing will produce mongrels, and will 
impair the beauty, the purity, and in a mea¬ 
sure, the excellence, of genuine bloods. O'u 
this point we speak ‘ not without book,’ for 
we have given to this subject, for some years, 
a careful, attentive, practical observation, and 
of course ‘ we know whereof we affirm.’ ” 
I, too, “ have given to this subject, for 
some years, a careful, attentive, practical ob¬ 
servation,” and of course “ know whereof I 
affirm.” And now for my system of opera¬ 
tion. I first started with a yard of small, 
black, shy, native hens ; and I can assure you 
they were a most worthless flock. I first 
crossed with the buff Shanghai—that cross 
with the Russian, or muffled fowl — the next 
cross with the Poland — the succeeding cross 
with the Cochin China — and then promiscu¬ 
ously with White Shanghai, Dorking, Domi¬ 
nique, Native, Brahma, Chittagong ; and 
then again with the buff Shanghai, Russian, 
and all above named. Each cross is superior, 
and constantly improves in size and quality 
of flesh for the table. They are better layers, 
if laying nearly the whole time constitutes a 
good layer, and if there are any mongrels 
among them, they must dodge that difficulty, 
at least once a day. The cocks are sprightly, 
and as amorous in disposition as any of the 
full-blood. I do not deny that I have to slay 
off numberless crane-modeled specimens ; and 
I will wager a trifle that Farmer I), is neces¬ 
sitated to do the same with his full-bloods. 
I will add. however, that I keep the differ¬ 
ent breeds pure ; and in crossing, in no case 
do I breed from those in any way related.— 
This may be the secret of my success.-w. e. c. k. 
The “Empire State” Fair, which occurs 
at Elmira next week, is expected by many to 
exceed any of its predecessors. Whether this 
expectation will be realized, time only can de¬ 
termine ; but whether it is or not, the exhibi¬ 
tion will undoubtedly be a grand one, and 
numerously attended — worthy the Society 
and the State, and creditable especially to the 
people of Southern New York. For Pro¬ 
gramme, ard other particulars, see la9t and 
previous numbers of the Rural. Readers 
residing in this section of the State, are re¬ 
ferred to advertisement headed “ Ho ! for the 
State Fair! ’ 
The Monroe County Fair —held at Spen- 
cerport on Thursday and Friday of last week— 
was one of the finest and most successful held 
in this county for many years. The show of 
stock was unusually large, and generally good. 
The display of Horses and Working Oxen 
was considered superior to that at any previous 
exhibition during the last decade. The show 
of Sheep and Swine, though not large, was 
good in quality. There was not a large show 
of implements, but the manufacturers of Brock- 
port made a very creditable display in that 
department. The exhibition of Domestic 
Manufactures was also creditable. In Fruits, 
Flowers, &c., the display was not as large or 
fine as we anticipated. The attendance on 
both days was unexpectedly large, and every¬ 
thing passed off satisfactorily—reflecting 
credit upon the officers of the Society and the 
local Committee of Arrangements. The ad¬ 
dress, by L. Wethexell, .Esq., of Amherst, 
Mas?., we did not hear, but learn it was a 
creditable production and well received by the 
numerous audience. 
_The Premiums awarded, and other par¬ 
ticulars, will be given in the city papers, to 
which we refer those particularly interested.— 
The Treasurer will be at the store of J. Rapalje 
& Co., Rochester, on Saturday, Oct. G, for the 
payment of premiums. 
The New Jersey State Fair, held at 
Camden last week, is represented a3 having 
proved highly successful and satisfactory.— 
The display is said to have been very credita¬ 
ble in most departments—while the weather 
was exceedingly favorable, and the attendance 
numerous. Considering that this is their first 
effort, our New Jersey friends have accom¬ 
plished wonders, and are entitled to great 
credit for their excellent demonstration in be¬ 
half of improvement. 
Y er.mont State Fair. —Most unexpectedly 
we were prevented from attending this Fair, 
(held at Rutland, 11th to 13th inst.,) and fail¬ 
ed to receive, as anticipated, a report in time 
for our last number. The accounts which 
have reached us, however, represent the Exhi¬ 
bition as highly creditable to the Society and 
the State. The weather was very favorable 
—with the exception of rain on Thursday 
morning—and the attendance good, though 
not as large a3 some had anticipated. The 
situation of the grounds was a very flue one, 
embracing a grove of maples, surrounded by 
beautiful scenery — while the scene was enli¬ 
vened by music. The exhibition, on the 
whole, is represented as fully up to the aver¬ 
age—in some departments superior to any of 
its predecessors. Tde display of Stock—and 
especially Horses and Sheep—was the leading 
feature. One account says over 300 horses 
were entered for premiums, making the largest 
show in that department ever held in the 
State ; while another asserts that “ the num¬ 
ber exhibited was les3 than at the celebrated 
exhibition previously held at the same place, 
but iu respect to quality and value, the dis¬ 
play on the present occasion has not been ex¬ 
celled.” The show of Sheep was not as large 
as at some previous Fags, but superior in 
quality. Of Cattle, Swine and Poultry, the 
displays are not represented as particularly 
noteworthy. 
The Onondaga County Fair, held last 
week on the new grounds of the Society, near 
Syracuse, was, we are glad to learn, highly 
creditable and very numerously attended.— 
An active member of the Society writes : 
“ Our County Fair came off on the 19th, 
20th and 21st inst. Weather fine, and show 
good in most departments. Our grounds 
were much admired by all, and are believed 
inferior to none in the State for beauty and 
convenience. The Ladles’ Riding Match, ap¬ 
pointed to take place on the last day of the 
Fair, was adjourned one week. The crowd 
of spectators was so great that they could not 
be kept from the track without posts and 
rope, and an adjournment was deemed the 
most prudent course. The grounds (twenty 
acres,) were thickly peopled each day, and 
the number on the afternoon of the 21st, is 
estimated by good judges at thirty thousand / 
Total receipts about $2,800.” 
The Wheat Crop.—Weight, &c. —In a 
recent letter, John Johnston, Esq., near Ge¬ 
neva, N. Y., writes us a3 follows “ I find 
my Soule's wheat weighs nine pounds less per 
bushel than last year. I tested by same half 
bbshel and same scales. Last year it weighed 
very plump 63 lbs. per bushel; this year scarce¬ 
ly 54 lbs. Some of my neighbors say theirs is 
11 % lbs. per bushel le3s this year than the 
previous. The New York papers may talk 
of great crops as much a3 they please, but it 
will be found thxt all wheat crop inthi3 State, 
and all other States where the grain was not 
secured before the great rain, will be very 
small indeed.” 
— We have advices similar to the above 
from experienced farmers residing in other 
sections of Western New York, Michigan, Ac. 
More Short-horns for Ohio. —We learn 
that Peter Boyd, of the Shaker Society, 
Union A r illage, Ohio, has recently purchased 
of Mr. Douglass, of Athaelstaneford, Erg 
land, a superior lot of Short-horn cattle.— 
Among the number is the famous prize bull, 
Capt. Balco, said by good judges in England 
to be second to none iu the kingdom, together 
with a two year old prize heifer, Scottish Bill 
Centre, and her calf, by Capt. Balco. Also 
Florertia, a very promising yearling heifer, 
descended from the famous cow Farewell, of 
the Booth blocd. The price paid for Capt. 
Balco is 400 guineas ($2,000) and a corres¬ 
ponding price for Scottish Centre. This is 
the second lot of fine cattle Mr. Boyd has 
bought of Mr. Douglass for the Society. 
Ohio State Fair. —We are disappointed in 
not receiving a report of this exhibition in 
time for our present number. Either “ cur 
associate,” or Uncle Samuel, has “ failed to 
connect.” 
STATE FAIRS FOR 1855. 
New York, at Elmira.Oct. 2, 3, 4, 6 
Michigan, at Detroit.Oct. 2, 3, 4, 5 
Illinois, at Chicago.Oct. 9, 10, 11,12 
IoWa, at Fairfield,.Oct. 10 
Missouri, at Boouvillo,.Oct. 2, 3, 4, 5 
Indiana, at Indianapolis.Oct. 16, 17, 18,19 
Connecticut, at Hartford.Oct. 9, 10, 11, 12 
Maryland, at Baltimore.Oct., last week 
North Carolina, at Raleigh,.Oct. 16, 17, 18, 19 
Alabama, at Montgomery,.Oct. 23, 24, 25, 26 
Tonnossee, at Nashville.Oct., first week 
do (East) at London.Oct. 23, 24, 25 
Canada West, at Cobourg.Oct. 9,10, 11, 12 
County Fairs are to be held in this State, 
during the ensuing four weeks, as follows : 
Genesee, at Batavia.October, 9 to II. 
Ilorkimer, at Frankfort.September 27, 28. 
Livingston, at Gencseo,. “ 27,28. 
Lewis, at Turin,.. “ 26, 27. 
Niagara, at Lockport..October 19, 20. 
Otsego, at Cooperstown.October 10,11. 
Seneca, at Farmersville,.October 10 to 12. 
Wayne, at Lyons, ... . .Octobor 9 to 11. 
Buckwheat.— Within the memory of the 
“ oldest inhabitant,” the Slate of Penrsylva- 
nia has never seen so vast a crop of buck¬ 
wheat as now whitens the fields with its rich 
blossoms, and fills the air with its fragrant 
perfume. Not alone the rich valleys, but the 
rough hill countries appear to have every 
available spot whitened with this delicate 
plant. At this season, when fruits take the 
place of flowers, the buckwheat blossom adds 
peculiar grace to the landscape. Never did 
this grain give greater promise of heavy re¬ 
turn ; and if no frosts occur soon, the crop is 
safe. Though the uses of buckwheat are lew 
in oar cities, in the country the grain is avail¬ 
able for cattle and poultry, especially for mix¬ 
ing, and thus the crop becomes important, in 
releasing its full weight of the farmer’s wheat 
and corn for the general market. 
Buckwheat cakes! One buckwheat cake 
“ differeth from another in glory,” yet not one 
in a thousand is made right. Yet of all 
things it i3 the easiest to cook, if the meal i3 
made rightly. To every three bushels of 
buckwheat, add one of good heavy oats ; grind 
them together, as if there was only buckwheat; 
thus will you have cakes always light and al¬ 
ways brown—to say nothing of the greater 
digestibility, and the lightening of the spirits, 
whjeh are equally certain. He who feeds on 
buckwheat may be grum and legarihic, while 
he of the oatmeal will have exhilaration of 
brain and Contentment of spirit. — Dollar 
Newspaper. 
Soil of France.— France has naturally a 
magnificent soil. I prefer it all things con¬ 
sidered, to that of our own Western States. 
We have much land that is richer at the 
outset, but very little that will hold its own 
in defiance of maltreatment so well as this 
does. Lime abounds here in every form ; the 
railroads are often cut through hills of loose 
chalk—and very much of the subsoil in this 
vicinity appears to be a rotten limestone or 
gypsum, but it is said to be a marine deposit 
—proved such by the infinity of shells there 
imbedded. There is not a particle of stone in 
the surface soil; the rotten gypsum ia, for the 
most part, easily traversed by the plow, 
though at a depth of ten to twenty feet the 
same original formation may be found hard 
enough to quarry into •building stone. To 
re enforce such a soil, after the exhaustion 
produced by a hundred grain crops in suc¬ 
cession, it is only requisite to run the plow 
two inches deeper than it has hitherto gone— 
a process urgently desirable on other grounds 
than this. I never before observed land so 
thoroughly fortified against the destructive 
tendencies of human ignorance, indolence and 
folly.— Horace Greeley. 
Poll Evil in Horses. —For the benefit of 
those who have or may hereafter have horses 
that have the poll evil, or fistu T a, we would 
say,—don’t sell the animal for a trifle, or give 
him away; but cure him sound and well.— 
We care not how long it has been running, 
it can be cured for one dime ; yes, one dime’s 
worth of muriatic acid will cure the worst 
case of old poll evil. First wash the sore 
well with strong soap sud3 ; then drop eight 
or ten drops of the acid in it twice a day till 
it has the appearance of a fresh wound ; after 
which it should be washed clean with soap 
suds made from Castile soap, and left to heal, 
which it will quickly do if the acid has been 
used long enough. But if it does not get well, 
apply the acid again till it does cure, for it is 
a sure remedy, and will not fail if it is applied 
till the diseased flesh is all burned out.— Prai¬ 
rie Farmer. 
Drouth in New England. —While most 
sections of the country have been supplied 
with seasonable rains for the last month and 
the present, the eastern part of Massachusetts, 
the eastern part of Connecticut, and perhaps 
the whole of Rhode Island, have suffered from 
drouth. It fe about six weeks since rain 
enough has fallen here to more than lay the 
dust, at one time. The “ fall feed ” has not 
grown ; corn in some instances has not filled 
out well, and springs and streams are low.— 
The contrast between the withered vegetation 
here, and the green and luxuriant growth in 
Vermont—even not further off than the Val¬ 
ley of the Connecticut—is quite striking. 
Since the above was written, we have had 
a moderate shower.— Boston Cultivator, 22d. 
A Large Hog. —Mr. William Price, writes 
from Ridge Farm, Vermillion county, III., to 
the Chicago I lemocrat, that he has a pig three 
years old which weighs one thousand pounds. 
He was not fed last summer, but run on blue 
grass. His length is seven feet two inches, 
height three feet five inches, and girth around 
the body six feet six inches. He has grown 
three inches in height this summer, and the 
owner is of opinion that if he is kept until he 
is six years old he will be the largest heg in 
the Union. Mr. P. writes that he has been 
sick, and don’t know as he will be able to get 
his elephantine porker to the State Fair, and 
would like to sell him. 
Hay Boxes for Horses.— Some of the 
New Orleans livery stables have wide plank 
grain mangers at a convenient height, and in¬ 
stead of racks, boxes for hay extending up 
from the mangers through the floor of the loft 
above. These boxes are a trifle smaller at the 
top than at the bottom, so that the hay will 
slide down readily. They are open sufficient¬ 
ly at the side over the manger to allow tho 
horse to pull out the hay, while the dust ac¬ 
cumulates in the manger instead of in his 
mane. One hay box answers for two stalls. 
Hon. Robert C. Wintiirop, Chairman of 
the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion 
of Agriculture, has sent to Hon. Marshal 1’. 
Wilder, President of the United States Agri¬ 
cultural Society, one thousand dollars toward 
defraying expenses of the grand exhibition 
whfeh is to be held iu Boston next month.— 
The citizens had previously contributed $20,- 
000 . 
