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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
bottom land of Cattaraugus creek, four acres 
of corn, averaging one hundred bushels of 
shelled com per acre. It was an old meadow 
—the hay had generally been fed on the land— 
and a few loads of stable manure were applied. 
Broke up early in May, four inches deep, with 
a lap-furrow—harrowed thoroughly and plant¬ 
ed the 25fch of May. Rows, four feet apatt, 
hills three fe6t in the row. Culture not stated. 
Cayuga Co .—Wheat and corn are stated, by 
J. S. Cla.uk, Esq., President of the Co. Socie¬ 
ty, to be the chief products of Cayuga. About 
40,000 acres are annually devoted to the wheat 
crop, about 20,000 lo corn—the first averaging 
15 bushels per acre, the last 30 bushels. Oats 
aud barley are next in importance —the latter 
being found a very profitable crop. Increased 
attention is given to the dairy, stock and 
wool-growing, and the export of horses ha3 
been large. The soil and situation of this 
county render it a desirable locality for mo3t 
branches of farming—it has every market fa¬ 
cility which can be desired. 
Chau'auque Co .—The Secretary of the Society, 
J. T. Phelps, Esq., presents an interesting re¬ 
port, from which we gather the following : 
Dairying is the chief occupation of the farm¬ 
ers, though along the lake mueh attention is 
given to grain growing, and it is found to 
succeed well. For good stock—cattle, sheep 
and horses—the county will not suffer in ccm- 
■ parison with its neighbors. The state of 
farming is constantly improving—incited to 
some extent by the increased market facilities 
recently furnished. It is estimated that fifty 
thousand ccws are kept in Chautauque. 
Chemung Co .—Among the premium crops 
reported, we note the following : 
Ctrn—Mr. Starring of Horseheads, 217 
bushels of ears per acre. Soil, black, vegeta¬ 
ble mould—planted May 18th, cultivated and 
hoed once—plowed and hoed once, top dress¬ 
ed with a mixture of plaster, ashes and lime. 
Mr. Livesat, of Big Fiat, 160 bushels of ears 
per acre. Soil, clayey loam, clover sod plow¬ 
ed in the fall, harrowed and cultivated with 
the wheat cultivator in the spring. Planted 
May lat-L., ton? feet apart, dressed with a 
mixture of a3hes, piaster and salt (16-41 the 
proportions of each.) Cultivated twice, plo 
ed once, harvested Sept. 17th. 
Potatoes— Mr. Starring also raised 216 
bushels of potatoes on one-half acre. Soil 
same as corn ground—treatment same, no 
manure. Mr. Livesat also raised 209 bush 
els of potatoes. Soil and treatment the same 
n3 that of his corn. Manure the same. 
bushels per acre is the usual quantity sown, 
it would require twenty-four millions for seed. 
If, therefore, the price of wheat was down to 
its lowest point, there would not be enough 
raised by the above estimate to meet the de¬ 
mand by about eight millions of bushels. 
Since 1850, however, there have been dis¬ 
turbing causes that did not exist previously. 
Wheat has been in great demand for three 
successive years, and has borne good prices 
during all the past five years. This has stim¬ 
ulated its cultivation, and probably there 
were more acres in wheat in 1855 than ever 
before. It may be safe to admit that in near¬ 
ly all the States where there was a loss before 
there has now been an equal gain. This 
would give about eight millions of bushels 
from that source. The other ten millions 
which we admit to be gained in the natural 
CornmnnirstiBiis. 
PROSPECT OF THE GRAIN MARKET. 
[Though the following ab’e article first appeared in 
the ST. Y. Tribune, it was written by the Genesee Countv 
member of our Rural Corps, and hence entitled to the 
prominent position now accorded. —Ed.] 
Believing that the tru9 position of our sup¬ 
ply of wheat for the ensuing year is not pro¬ 
perly understood either at home or abroad, 
and that it is of the highest consequence, 
both here and in Europe, that a thorough 
knowledge should be had at an early day, we 
proceed to lay before the public some facts 
and figures that seem to us to cast light on 
this important subject. 
The United States census for 1850 gives the 
whole product of wheat in the Union for 1849 
at 100,485,944 against 84,823,272 bushels in 
1839. The annual gain during the ten years 
was equal to about one and a half millions of 
bushels. Those ten years were a fair average 
as to productiveness and increase of popula¬ 
tion. It will therefore he safe to base esti¬ 
mates of future products upon these results. 
But that we may better understand the sub¬ 
ject, we give below a table showing the 
amount produced by States in the years 1839 
and 1849—putting those States together which 
produced less than half a million of bushels: 
Columbia, Connecticut, 
ware Florida, Louisiana, 
Hampshire Rhode Island 
sissippi and Texas. 
Dela- 
New 1849. 
, Mis- bushels. 
_ '517:562 
1839. 
bushels. 
1,442 499 
. 294,c44 
838,062 
.1.088,534 
1 860,830 
. 9 414 5'5 
3,335,393 
. 6 214 458 
4,1)49 375 
. 1,530 581 
154,693 
.2,14 >.322 
4.803 152 
'348,163 
. 296,259 
. 4,494,680 
3 345,783 
... 157 923 
431^021 
Michigan. 
. 4 926.889 
.... 2,981,652 
2157 30? 
1,037 3S6 
_1 691,190 
7-4 203 
.. . .13,121:493 
12,286 418 
North Carolina. 
.2,130,102 
.U 487,351 
1.960.855 
16 671 661 
.15,367 691 
13,213,077 
. 1,066,277 
'968,354 
. 1,619 386 
4,569 694 
. '535,955 
495 800 
Virginia. 
.11,212 616 
.... 4,286,131 
10,109 716 
212,116 
34,823,272 
Total. 
.. ..100,485,944 
By this table it 'appears that there was a 
loss in eighteen States during that period of 
about eight millions of bushels, while in four¬ 
teen there was a gain of about twenty-four 
millions, making the actual gain as before 
stated at about sixteen millions in the ten 
years. Thus, if there he no disturbing cau-e, 
we might expect that the wheat crop of 1855 
would reach about one hundred and eight or 
TIME TO REMOVE LARGE STONE. 
ten millions of bushels ; we will assume it to 
be the outside figure. 
The present popufation is twenty-five mil¬ 
lions, from which should he deducted the 
slaves, as they do not consume much wheat; 
this leaves at least twenty-one millions of 
consumers of wheaten bread. Allowing half 
a pound of flour per head per day, the annual 
individual consumption would be equal to 
four and a half bushels of wheat, and this 
would require ninety-four millions of bushels 
for home consumption. The census estimates 
course of event?, must have come mainly from 
the new States. For, the older States have 
nearly all their wheat lands under cultivation, 
and cannot materially surpass the yield of 
1850, unless there should be an uncommon 
season in which larger quantities than usual 
are grown to the acre. This is particulaily 
the case with the great wheat growing States 
of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vir¬ 
ginia, whose crop in 1839 was 52,680,872, and 
in 1849, 5-1,189,158 bushels, being in the lat¬ 
ter year more than one-half of the whole 
crop of the Union, while the gain in the ten 
years is only a million and a half of bushels. 
From their proximity to the Atlantic markets, 
these States must bo the great exporting 
States, and upon their crops more than upon 
the others the surplus depends. 
But while there have been such induce¬ 
ments to increase the cultivation of wheat, 
there are some countervailing considerations 
which must not be overlooked. In the first 
place, most of those States which show the 
largest increase in the production of wheat 
are not naturally wheat growing States, In¬ 
dian corn being their most certain and staple 
crop. If, then, there has been any induce¬ 
ment to an increased cultivation of corn, 
wheat will bs neglected. This is particularly 
the case with portions of Wisconsin, all of 
Indiana and Illinois, and most of Kentucky. 
During this time, corn has borne a high price, 
and beef and pork have gradually appreciated 
in value until they have reached such a point 
that there is little inducement to grow wheat 
to any great extent in those States. It is un¬ 
doubtedly true that the cultivation of wheat 
has not materially increased in either of them. 
So, too, the tide of emigration has been 
sweeping past Michigan so rapidly that no 
marked increase can be looked for in that 
State, while in Wisconsin and Iowa there has 
been undoubtedly an increase, probably in the 
first of three millions and in the latter as 
much more, making possibly in these two 
States an increase of six millions of bushels. 
Thus, allowing the States which lost before to 
make up the loss, and that the other States 
have increased at the rate of a million and a 
half of bushels per year, and that we have 
this year a full crop, the most that can be 
claimed with any shew of truth is one hun¬ 
dred and twenty four millions of bushels for 
the entire crop of 1855. As the old stock is ex¬ 
hausted, we mustlook to the present one alone. 
In ordinary years, this would show a fair sur¬ 
plus of about six millions of bushels that might 
be exported without affecting the market. 
Thus far, we have assumed that there was 
a full crop in the year 1855. But we will now 
proceed to show that there was not even an 
average crop. To the casual observer, the 
crop of Winter wheat gave, during the Spring, 
all the tokens of being a remarkably heavy 
one. The observant farmer, however, when 
he examined his fields, could discover that his 
wheat was more than commonly thin, and 
that the plant did not tiller as well as usual. 
This was owing to the dry weather last fall, 
which prevented a good deal of t-e seed from 
germinating, and enabled the fly to destroy 
more ; and also to the severity of the winter, 
which killed more or less in the best soils.— 
The only hope for good crop lay in having a 
cool, moist season to enable the heads to fill 
well. Beside, the ravages of the midge in 
New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the 
joint-worm in Virginia, during the past two 
years, so discouraged the farmers in many 
parts of those States, that less land was laid 
down to winter wheat than usual, though 
the deficiency was more than supplied by 
spring-sown wheat. Finally, when the time 
came for harvest, there was a fair promise for 
an avei age crop, and nothing more. But the 
result of the weather in New York, and much 
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, 
Illinois and Wisconsin, was such that in qual¬ 
ity and quantity it is deficient at least one- 
third. This would give at the lowest esti¬ 
mate full twenty millions, so that in reality 
there are but about one hundred and four mil¬ 
lions to supply our own population with 
bread, and seed for next year’s crop. 
There is then in reality no surplus in the 
Union. All that is taken away must be at 
such prices as will induce or compel the peo¬ 
ple to substitute other food for wheaten bread. 
Potatoes, earn and buckwheat are reasonably 
abundant and, should the price of wheat war¬ 
rant, will be largely substituted. But with 
the present high price for beef and pork, 
there must be limit to their consumption.— 
That with an increased price for wheat and 
flour a surplus to the amount of ten or fifteen 
millions may be obtained we have no doubt; 
but we do not believe that in addition to 
what is to come from Canada, the surplus 
Winter is the beat time to remove large 
stone from jour fields. I have removed those 
which were lying upon the surface of my farm 
at different sea3on3 of the year, ani have 
found by experience that winter is by far the 
best time. When the ground is frozen hard 
enough to bear a team, and there is two or 
three inches of snow on the ground, hitch to 
the stone-boat, and with a crowbar, a person 
may loosen a very large stone by striking it 
forcibly between the frozen earth and stone, 
and it may be very easily rolled upon the 
boat, as it will not sink in the earth—and a 
pair of horses will draw a larger load than 
four horses will upon bare unfrozen ground. 
If stones are wholly or partially buried, they 
should be dug about and drawn out upon ?he 
surface in the fall before freezing weather.— 
The ground is generally soft, and it can be as 
quickly done then, as at any time, and I 
think better, as the busy season is over. 
If the stone should be so large as to be un¬ 
handy to get on the surface, the earth may be 
removed down as low as the bottom of the 
stone, and a foot or more from the 3ides, and 
a small, slow lire built upon it, and kept 
burning for several hours, according to the 
e of the stone. Tais will break it into 
Agricultural Pktllrag. 
Reports of Ag. Fairs continue to reach 
U3 from various sections of this and other 
States, but a3 most of the exhibitions were 
held several weeks ago, the publicat ion of the 
accounts kindly furnished by friends would 
not, at this late day, be either timely or gen¬ 
erally interesting. Among the reports are 
several which it would have afforded us great 
pleasure to give hod they been received in 
season—including those of the Madison Co., 
N. Y., and Oakland Co., Mich., exhibitions, 
which apparently evinced a degree of progress 
creditable to all interested. 
several pieces, or crack it so that it may be 
opened-wi;h the poiat of a crowbar. Old 
stumps and bits of old rails which may be 
picked up about the fences, may be used for 
fuel. Care should be taken not to build too 
large a fire, for the stone will heat very slow, 
and an extra fire will be fuel lost where it is 
scarce. J. c. 
The Growing Wheat generally looks well 
in this section—better than u3ual in Novem¬ 
ber. During a ride to Buffalo, a few days 
since, we noticed that the fine appearance of 
the wheat fields was the subject of frequent 
remark among passengers. The Tribune of 
Monday remarks that “accounts from the 
West represent the growing wheat as most 
unusually luxuriant. All that we have seen 
of wheat and rye in this vicinity looks very 
well, though not remarkably. In Massachu¬ 
setts, the drouth was so severe, and held on so 
late in the fall, that winter grain is not grow¬ 
ing very rank, as it appears to be in Wiscon¬ 
sin, so much so that some farmers have turned 
in their cattle to cat it down. Tais is a bad 
practice, unle33 the grain is likely to form the 
first joint. Perhaps there never was known 
a more growing November than the present. 
At Washington, the Lawton blackberries are 
fruiting the second time.” 
GOLD ALD CORN. 
PEPPERMINT w. WHEAT. 
Eds. Rural I am taking the Rural, and 
never have seen anything in it concerning 
Peppermint raising. I therefore propose 
giving yon an idea of its productiveness. 
I planted four acres of Peppermint in the 
fall of 1854, between the 25th and the 30th of 
Oct., planting it two feet apart. Marked the 
ground by making two marks at a time, also 
covered two rows at once, by means of a sort 
of plow drawn by a horse. The ground was 
summer-fallowed, and in good order. Soil, a 
mixture of sand, gravel and clay. Below I 
give a list of all work, and cost, including 
board : 
EXPENSES. 
16 days digging and setting roots. $16 00 
4 days team work. 4 00 
6}£ days man and horso cultivating. 8 75 
26 days hoeing. 26 00 
16 days mowing and raking. 20 00 
2 days drawmg, 2 hands and team. 6 00 
Cost of distilling, 37)*' cts. per lb. 50 00 
$130 75 
RECEIPTS. 
; lbs. of mint, $3,75 per lb.$500 62 
the number of acres sown in 1850 at eleven 
millions. At the same estimate the number I can be forced beyond twenty millions, unless 
for 1855 would be twelve millions, and as two prices rise much higher than ever before. 
Profit.$369 87 
Last sprirg I undertook to try an experi¬ 
ment with fall aEd spring setting, but the 
weather was so dry in the sprirg, that it did 
not do well, so I will say no more about the 
experiment. I am highly in favor of fall set¬ 
ting on land that will not heave the roots out. 
Myself with others, would be pleased to hear 
of some experiments in Peppermint raising, 
through the columns of the Rural. 
Lyons, N. Y., Nov., 1855. Judd Bbadlky. 
MAKING AND PRESERVING BUTTER. 
M r. Editor :—I see very often in your 
paper articles about butter-making, and there¬ 
fore give my system of making and preserving 
butter, which may be worth notice. 
The milk should be strained and set away 
immediately after milking. As much cream 
can be obtained from half a pan of milk if 
undisturbed, as from twice as much if dis¬ 
turbed, and I think there should be about 
three quarts of milk allowed for each pan.— 
Set it in a cool place, and if possible exposed 
to a current of air. Take eff the cream as 
soon as the milk changes or sours. The 
cream should be stirred thoroughly twice a 
day while keeping, and should be churned be 
fore it is very sour. The cream should be of 
the temperature of sixty-two degrees when 
churned. Water should never be put into 
butter when taken from the churn. Work it 
over thoroughly once a day for three days, to 
fit it for packing. Pack it in sweet stone 
jars in layers four inches think—sprinkle salt 
between each layer. It should also be salted 
at the first working. Leave a space of two 
or three inches at the top of the jar, lay over 
it a clean cloth, fill the jar with a strong 
brine, and cover it tight. Butter made in 
this manner in May, June, September and 
October, will keep a year. h. h. w. 
West Bloomfield, N. Y. 
To Fatten Fowls.— Fowls may be fatten¬ 
ed in four or five days by the following pro 
cess:—Set some rice over the fire with 
skimmed milk, as much only as will serve one 
day. Let it boil till the rice is swelled out 
add a teaspoonful of sugar. Feed the fowls 
four or five times a day in pans, and give 
them as much each time as will fill them.— 
Great care must be taken that they have 
nothing sour given them, as that prevents 
their fattening. Give them clean water or 
milk from rice to drink. By this method the 
flesh will have a clear whiteness. 
Morgan Horse “Bush Messenger.”— 
Tais hor38, formsrly kept in Augusta, Me., 
where his stock is very popular, has been 
taken to Ohio, by Messrs. J. D. and W. II. 
Ladd, of Jeff. Co. As a “ horse of all work,” 
he is a noble animal, very large, being said to 
we : gh 1.500 lbs. “ Although sixteen years 
of age,” says the O. Farmer, “ he is spright ly 
and vigorous, and is the only, horse of his 
weight that ever trotted a mile inside of three 
minute?.” The Messrs. Ladd are unwearied 
in their efforts for the advancement of Agri¬ 
culture in its different branches, and deserve 
due credit therefor. 
The following beautiful contrast between 
the gold of California and the gold of Agri¬ 
culture, is from the speech of the Hon. El- 
ward Everett, at the National Agricultural 
Fair, Boston, October 26th : 
The grains of the California gold are dead, 
inorganic masses. How they get into the 
gravel; between what mountain millstones, 
whirled by elemental storm winds on the bos- 
cm of oceanic torrents, the auriferous ledges 
were ground to powder ; by what Titanic 
hands the coveted grains were sown broadcast 
in the placers, human ecierce can but faintly 
conjecture. We only know that those grains 
have within them no principle of growth or 
reproduction, and that when that crop was to 
be put in, Chaos must have broken up the 
soil. How different the grains of our Atlan¬ 
tic gold, sown by the prudent hand cf man, 
ii the kindly alternation of seed-time and har¬ 
vest ; each curiously, mysteriously organized ; 
hard, horny, seeming liteless on the outside, 
but wrapped up in the interior a seminal 
germ, a Jiving principal. 
Drop a grain of California gold into the 
ground, and there it wiil lie unenarged to the 
end of time, the clods on which it falls are not 
more cold and lifeless. Drop a grain of our 
gold, our blessed gold, in the ground, and lo ! 
a mystery. In a lew days it sottens, it swells, 
it shoots upwards, it is a living thing. It is 
yellow itself, but it sends up a dslicate spire, 
which comes peepiug, emerald green, through 
he soil; it expands to a vigorous stalk, rev¬ 
's in the air and sunshine; it arrays itself 
more glorious than Solomon in its broad, flut¬ 
tering, leafy robes, whose sound, a3 the west 
wind whispers through them, fal’s as pleas¬ 
antly on the husbandman’s ear as the rustle 
of his sweetheart’s garment ; still towers 
aloft, spins its verdant skeins of vegetable floss, 
displays it.s dancing tassels, surcharged with 
fertilizing dust, and at last ripens into two or 
three msgnificent batons like this, (an ear of 
Indian corn,) each cf which is studded with 
hundreds of grains of gold, every one posses¬ 
sing the same wonderful properties as the pa¬ 
rent grain, every one instinct with the same 
marvellous reproductive powers. There are 
seven hundred and twenty grains on the ear 
which I hold in my hand. And now 1 say, 
sir, of thi 3 transcendent gold of ours, the yield 
this year will be at least, ten or fifteen t-mes 
that of California. 
Illinois Farming.— A farmer of Stephen¬ 
son Co„ III., bought about two years ego 34 
acres o prairie, five miles southeast of Free¬ 
port, for $5 per acre. The cost of the land, 
fencing, breaking, and getting in to wheat, as 
well as harvesting, marketing and all the ex¬ 
penses of the same, were $886. The product 
wa 3 1,150 bushels of wheat, (about 28 bushels 
per acre,) which, at the price it was sold— 
$1,05 per bushel—pays for the land and a net 
profit of $321,50. There is good laud in 
that county, as we know from observation 
the present harvest time, but we heard of 
none for sale at $5 per acre. 
Working Cows.—In a recent article, the 
N. E. Farmer advises the use of cows instead 
of oxen for working teams on farms of small 
dimensions. The advice is supported by the 
citation of many instances in which it had 
been done successfully—the cows performing 
their functions as cows, as well as doing the 
work of the farm. We have never chanced 
to see cows in the yoke, but they might as 
well work as mares with young colts—and 
save the expense of keeping an ox team for 
the light amount of work often required of 
them. 
S?ock at Auction. —Those of our readers 
wishing to procure good stock are referred to 
the advertisement of Mr. Geo. Siieffer, of 
Scottsville, who proposes to sell his fine herd 
of Devons, and a large number of Improved 
Swine. The reputation of Mr. S.as a breed 
er,—especially of superior Swine,— is well 
established, and the sale announced will afford 
farmers and others a rare opportunity to pur 
chase fine animals at fair prices. 
— Attention is also directed to the notice 
of Mr. Chapman, who offers superior Short¬ 
horn cattle, and premium Berkshire pigs, at 
private sale. His stock is first class. 
Something of a Corn Crop. —George W 
Well?, of Mason county, Ky., has a twenty 
acre field of corn which promises, from what 
has been gathered, a yield of one hundred and 
eighty bus'ae’s (ears) per acre. Bat the fun 
ny part of the story is that he did not intend 
to make such a crop. The first planting not 
coming up well or looking promising, he re¬ 
planted between the rows, and afterward, not 
being able to decide which rows were best, or 
which to plow up, as he intended to do with 
the first planting, he let both stand ; the pres 
ent great crop is the result. It is needles? to 
say that the land is good.— N. Y. Tribune 
A Hint on Packing Pork. —One of our 
workmen says that his bos3, in Ireland, was 
noted for putting up excellent pork ; and that 
he always cut every part of the hog into small 
pieces, of from one to four pounds. In this 
way the meat was cured through better with 
a weaker brine than is generally used, and it 
was more convenient for use a f ter wards, as a 
piece of any size required could be easily oh 
tained.— American Agriculturist. 
INSTRUCTION IN AGRICULTURE. 
In the kingdom of Prussia there are five 
Agricultural Colleges, and a sixth is about to 
be opened ; in these regions are taught by 
both theory and practice, the highest branches 
of science connected with the culture and im¬ 
provement of the soil ; of Agricultural Schools 
of a more elementary order, there are ten ; 
there are also seven schools devoted to in¬ 
struction in the culture of flax ; two specially 
devoted to instruction in the management of 
meadow lands; one for instruction in the 
management of sheep ; and there are also forty- 
five model farms, intended to serve in intro¬ 
ducing better modes of agriculture; in all, 
seventy-one public establishments for agricul¬ 
tural education, not to mention others of a 
kindred nature, or those private schools where 
the art and science of good farming are taught. 
Prussia is a monarchy, with filteea millions 
of people. New York is a republic, with 
three millions, and a territory, which, though 
not quite half as large, is richer and better 
situated, with means of transportation incom¬ 
parably superior. Prussia has seventy-one 
public establishments to instruct her people 
in farming, the science of sciences, and the art 
of arts. New YQrk has not one; end the 
proposition to establish a single Agricultural 
College has agam aud again been voted down 
in her Legislature. Ought so shameful a con¬ 
trast to exist between that monarchy and this 
republic ?— Tribune. 
Every Family Should Have an Agricul¬ 
tural Paper —It is worth more than it costs 
simply for educational purposes. Parents 
have hardly a right to deprive their families 
of its advantages in these times. Children 
will learn more, as they go to and from school, 
to drive the cows to pasture, or pick berries 
by the way, if their observation is quickened, 
by what they hear their parents read or talk 
over from the agricultural papers ; and when 
they form habits of reading for themselves, 
such reading is both safe and useful. Rtader, 
if jour neighbor has no agricultural paper, 
persuade him to take one. Even if he is poor 
he can better afford to take one than to do 
without it; for if he takes one, his children 
will be likely to be better off'—to make a good 
home for themselve3, and it may be for him 
in old age. Not all will have farms ; but all 
will need to know something of the garden 
and orchard at least; and we advise no pa¬ 
rent, who feels that he may sometime bo de 
pendent upon his children, to bring them up 
without the means of instruction in rural 
economy. It should be regarded as essential 
in the education of any child, male or female. 
American Cotton Planter. 
Cure for Scratches in Horses.— Take 
good fifty per cent, rum, put in as much cop¬ 
peras as will dissolve, and wash the horse’s 
feet and legs as far as yefu can feel any buuche3, 
two or three times a day. It will cure in a 
few days. I am no horse doctor, but always 
doctor my own, and have as few lame as my 
neighbors, who employ a doctor. I have 
recommended it with perfect success, where 
other remedies have failed. The scratches is 
something you must kill, before you can heal, 
so that they will not break out again. Cop¬ 
peras and rum will do it; grease the legs a 
little after you are sure the scratches are 
killed.— Cor. Farmer’s Journal. 
Maggots in Sheep. —Giddings Whitmore, 
of Marshall, Calhoun Co., Michigan, says 
that common honey applied to the heads of 
sheep afflicted with vermin, or to the tails of 
lambs when docked, will cure them. 
