MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER; AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
VETERINARY ilOSKEOPATlIY. 
plant parsnips for hogs, carrot3 for horses, and 
ruta bagas for cattle;for on these roots such 
animals will do well and respectively fatten, and 
a small piece of-land will supply a sufficiency.” 
Of grape culture he says:—“I have ob¬ 
served that the Isabella ripens its fruit beauti¬ 
fully when if escapes the knife of science, and 
6 trays oil' into the top branches of some tree. 
Last year they ripened better there than on the 
trellis. Why, then, may not your western 
farmers plant cuttings under your younger 
oaks, and thus convert their ‘openings’ into 
splendid vineries?” 
These suggestions are worthy of considera¬ 
tion, and grapes might be thus raised with 
scarcely an hour’s trouble, while the trellis- 
trained vines could be looked after just as well 
inquiries pit Custom. 
If now, finally, we go back with him from 
all these exterior liabilities to his own premises 
again, we shall need, by this time, to memori¬ 
alize the farmer of what is required of him in 
his house. If the school has disciplined his 
thinking faculty and refined his taste; if the 
town meeting has awaked in him the exalting 
sense of citizenship; if the church has lifted 
his heart into communion with the father of 
all families, and inspired his conscience by the 
prophecy of life eternal, he will scarcely be 
content to live a driveling dullard file at 
home, to play the selfish tyrant in the little 
political economy of kitchen and parlor, or to 
be Worse than an infidel by providing not for 
his own. By derivation, the significance of 
your common title, husband-man, holds you to 
do something, Husband-men, I suppose, are 
not bachelor-men. Now, as Nature has done 
her part towards furnishing a husband-inan, by 
making you a man, she seems to presume you 
finish the business by making yourself a hus¬ 
band. Husband is house-band, or organizer of 
household life. Organize it by not only the 
sterling, homebred, domestic moralities, but by 
the binding charm of those thousand amenities 
that distinguish a cultured home from a bar¬ 
barian’s hut. The delicate angel of the beau¬ 
tiful knocks at your door and begs admission, 
as well as the strong angel of the useful. Is 
there the fine eloquence of order; is there the 
disposing touch of taste; is there the simple 
and just adorning of nature round all your 
door-stones, in all your front lawns, on the 
walls, and tables, and furnishing of your dwell¬ 
ings? llow many hours of a spring morning! 
would it take to embower your windows with 
all that is graceful in green foliage, and winning 
in floral splendor? l J lant trees before you 
purchase Venetian blinds and painted pickets. 
You will carry a tenderer, and therefore a 
manlier heart in your breast all day, if you pass 
out of a genial circle through the fragrance of 
lilies, and roses, and honey-suckles. See that 
the sons and daughters are interlaced by bauds 
more spiritual than gregarious bipeds. Let the 
harmonies of evening music weave their souls 
into some gentle and lofty sympathies, gaining 
the boys over from ruder pleasures and doubt¬ 
ful companionships by the pre-occupying sat¬ 
isfactions of a Cheerful, courteous, arid hospi¬ 
table fireside. Starve your palate, if need ev- 
Mr. Moore:—I take the liberty of forward¬ 
ing to you by mail, a small volume entitled 
“ Veterinary Homotopatky" by Rush, publish¬ 
ed in Philadelphia. 
The rational treatment of Domestic Ani¬ 
mals is gaining ground daily, and fast supersed¬ 
ing the old arid barbarous system. I have 
tried it to some extent, and find it acts more 
promptly on animals than on persons, lor the 
simple reason that their food is not so artifi¬ 
cial, and besides they have no imagination to 
draw upon. I have treated successfully vari¬ 
ous cases of acute colic, in horses, “ hollow- 
horn” in cows, catarrh or influenza in the 
horse, even when it was supposed to be glan¬ 
ders; also the various stages of distemper, and 
other ailments too numerous to mention. All 
rowefirig, bleeding, drenching, and kindred he¬ 
Torping Corn.— As a subscriber to your val¬ 
uable paper, and a practical farmer, I desire in¬ 
formation in regard to the topping of corn.— 
Why is it done? Do the ears fill and ripen bet¬ 
ter when the corn is thick and heavy? Oris 
the fodder better by cutting earlier? I never 
sufficiently understood the object of topping 
corn. Will you be kind enough to inform me 
the practical result? My corn this year is very 
thick arid luxuriant, the leaves extend and 
cross between the rows, although, the corn was 
planted about four feet apart one way [north 
and south] and about two feet the other. I fear 
that it will not ear well. Will topping, under 
the circumstances, benefit the crop ; if so, when 
should it be done? Any information in regard 
to the above questions, either by you, or some 
of your correspondents, will be gratefully re¬ 
ceived.—W. 13. Coryell, Waterloo. Sen. Co.. AT. 
as heretofore, 
BREEDING FROM BROKEN - WINDED MARES, 
roic remedies can be dispensed with. 
In the Rural of Aug. 5th, is an article from 
the Country Gentleman headed “'Breeding 
from Broken-down and Diseased Mares,” sta¬ 
ting that broken wind can be propagated 
when either the sire or dam is afiected with 
that disease. Now, having some experience 
myself in breeding from just such mares, and 
having been brought up from boyhood by a 
well-read horse farrier, allow me to give my 
opinion upon the subject. Instead of shooting 
the old creatures, I would turn them out to 
pasture and use them well, in which case I 
have never known broken wind or heaves to 
be transmitted by the dam to the foal. I have 
now on my farm an old, broken-down, heavy 
mare that has a colt by her side worth fifty 
dollars, and is in the habit of raising just 
such colts. She does no hard work, and but 
very little light work, and the keen eye of even 
the horse jockey would hardly perceive her un¬ 
soundness. So much for an old servant that 
the Country Gentleman would have me shoot, 
and breed from a young and sound mare. We 
here in Allegany had rather work our young 
mares, and breed from our old ones, and would 
say to all that have old mares, gi ve them the 
same chance on your farm that you do your 
good cows, and no such disease as has been 
spoken of will be propagated. 
A Friend to Oi.d Age. 
Almond, N. Y., Aug. 7th, 1854. 
Remarks. —It is the opinion of the best and 
most experienced breeders that broken wind 
is transmitted to the offspring when either the 
sire or trie dam is afiected. It is true they 
may not show it for some time, but they are 
unquestionably more liable or predisposed to 
the disease than those bred from young and 
healthy mares. Fine, healthy looking horses 
may be occasionally obtained from old, bro¬ 
ken-down, heavy mares, but depend upon it 
they are the exception and not the rule.— Eds. 
Maryland, at Baltimore,. 
Georgia, at Augusta,. 
Springfield Cattle Show, Ohio, 
Missouri, at Boonville,. 
Lower Canada, at Quebec,.. . . 
Upper Canada, at London. . 
Though not a “ graduate ” nor a “ practition¬ 
er,” 1 have some small medical knowledge— 
and great desire to lessen the sufferings of both 
man and beast; hence I trouble you in this 
way, and, would bespeak for this beautiful sys¬ 
tem your candid consideration. I have re¬ 
ceived a medical education at the Homoeo. 
Med. College in Philadelphia, but attended 
more as an amateur, than with a view.pf go¬ 
ing into, and becoming a general praeft^bner, 
N. Y. COUNTY FAIRS, 1854. 
Putnam, at Carmel,.Sept. 
Onondaga, at Syracuse,... “ 2 
Rockland, New York City. “ 1 
Cayuga. Auburn. “ ] 
Wayne, at Lyons,. “ i 
Seneca, at Seneca Falls,. 
Washington, at North White Creek,... “ 
Cattaraugus, at Little Valley,. “ 
Chautauque, at Mayville,. “ 
Franklin, at Malone,. “ 
Jefferson, at Watertown,. “ 
Albany,. “ 
Dutchess, at Washington Hollow,. ... “ 1 
Oneida, at Rome,. “ 
Columbia, at Chatham Four Corners,.. “ 
Delaware, at Delhi,. “ 
ReuBselacr, at Lausingburgh,. ...... “ 
Farmers’ Society at Morris. “ : 
Wyoming, at Warsaw,.Oct. 4, 
business on my hands, arid was too old a man 
to undergo the fatigue of a country practice. 
1 am well satisfied that the general introduc¬ 
tion of this system amongst farmers, will be 
the means of saving the lives of much valuable 
stock, and eradicate many hereditary taints to 
which they are heir. j. 
Tioga Co., Pa., 1S54. 
Lick on Chickens. — I observe an article in 
llie Rural, in respect to cleansing Poultry 
houses from lice. I have no poultry house, but 
my chickens are very much troubled with lice. 
There are hundreds of them on a small chick en 
Can you inform me what will destroy them?_ 
Also, can you give me a recipe for making 
hard soap Irom soft soap? An answer to the 
above inquiries will much oblige you* subscri¬ 
ber.— Thomas HarR'op, Thotne 'HiU, A T . Y, Auq 
9, 1851. 
If healthy chickens are allowed free access 
to loose soil, where they can scratch and cover 
themselves with dust, &c., they are seldom 
troubled with lice. If they are, an application 
oi lamp oil or any kind of grease under the 
wings and back of the neck will generally rid 
them ol the parasite. To make hard soap see 
Rural of April 22d. The hard soap made by 
adding common salt to soft soap is not of the 
best quality; the chlorine of the salt being in¬ 
jurious rather than beneficial. Hard soap, 
however, is made cheaply in this way, and an¬ 
swers a very good purpose. 
THE HARVEST AND CROPS IN CANADA, 
Broom Corn Seed for Siieep —It is stated 
on good authority that broom corn seed is 
highly valuable for sheep. It is extensively 
used in some sections for fattening them, and 
they are said to be very fond of it, and to fat¬ 
ten more rapidly upon it, than upon Indian 
corn. An Eastern farmer thinks it worth more 
The American Agriculturist, under date 
of Aug. 1, says: 
The wheat harvest in forward sections of the 
country is now fast drawing to a conclusion.— 
From all we can learn, the crop will prove, up¬ 
on the whole, an average, but in some exposed 
situations, the plant \yas much killed out by 
the severe spring frosts. All kinds of spring 
grain will prove abundant, llay is not so 
heavy as was anticipated from the copious 
showers which fell in spring. The heavy 
storms which occurred last month in many 
parts of the Province, injured more or less the 
wheat, twisting it about, and causing it to fall 
where stout. This has rendered harvest oper¬ 
ations tedious and expensive. Farmers expe¬ 
rience great difficulty in obtaining hands, even 
at exotbiiiafi wages two, and even two and 
a-half dollars per day, being frequently given. 
Hops, we are told, ate looking well, and pota¬ 
toes and root crops generally are the same. 
Probably in no part ot the .world is agri¬ 
culture carried to a higher stute of perfection 
than in China. The density of the population 
of that empire has Caused much attentioh to 
be paid to that art, and the cultivation of much 
of ttie country approaches as near as possible 
to garden farming. A writer in Blackwood’s 
Magazine says that “the hill and mountain 
sides are terraced, the rocky fragments are 
gathered off the slopes and formed into retain¬ 
ing walls, and the wonders of Chinese irriga¬ 
tion have never been equalled.” The agricul¬ 
tural knowledge of China cannot indeed vie 
with ours in point of science, but is far more 
widely diffused. A uniform system of cultiva¬ 
tion, the result of Centuries of experience, is 
known to all, and in the mutter of making the 
most of their land, they are unsurpassed by any 
people in the world. .Agriculture, hitherto 
has been the national pursuit of the Chinese 
and until within a few years past all the rapid¬ 
ly augmenting population has gone to increase 
the wealth and resources of the State. “The 
fanner there rears his crop of rice, cotton or 
tea, dresses it, and turns it to his own use as 
food or clothing; and though he cannot suc¬ 
ceed in laying by money, it is only in periods 
of famine or inundation that he experiences 
the pressure of want,” The fare of the Chinese 
farmer consists chiefly of l ice, fish and vegeta¬ 
bles, and a sumptuous meal may be always 
procured for a few “ cash,”—about twelve hun¬ 
dred of which are equivalent to a dollar. 
Portable Cider Mill.— Will you please to 
inform me through your esteemed paper where 
I can buy the best Portable Cider Mill to goby 
horse power, and the price? You will thereby 
very much oblige—A Subscriber, Lyons, K Y. 
ITickok’s Mill can be obtained as specified 
in our advertising department. From the no¬ 
tices and recommendations we have seen, we 
have no doubt it is a valuable machine. 
CALVES AND COWS. — FEEDING, &C, 
TriE colt is born with twelve grinders.— 
When four/imf-teeth have made their appear¬ 
ance, the coll is twelve days old; and when the 
next four come forth, it is four weeks old.— 
When the corner teeth appear, the colt is eight 
months, and when the latter have attained to 
the height of the//-oaf-teeth, it is one year old. 
The two year old colt has the kernel (the dark 
substance in the middle of the tooth’s crown) 
ground out of all the front-teeth. In the 
third year, the middle front-teeth are bein<>- 
shifted; and when three years old, these‘are 
substituted by the horse- teeth. The next four 
teeth are shifted in the fourth year, and the 
corner-teeth in the fifth. At six years, the 
kernel is worn out of the lower middle front- 
teeth, and the; bridle-teeth have now attained 
to their full growth. At seven years, a hook 
has beeu formed on the corner teeth of the 
upper jaw; the kernel of the teeth next at the 
middle fronts is worn out, and the irM/e-teeth 
begin to wear off. At eight years of age, the 
kernel is worn out of all the lower froeit-teetf), 
and begins to decrease in the middle upper 
fronts. In the ninth year, the kernel httis 
wholly disappeared from the upper middle 
front-tee th, the hook on the comer-teeth has 
increased in size, and the bridle -teeth lose their 
points. In the tenth year, the kernel is worn 
out of the teeth next to the middle fronts of 
the upper jaw; and in the eleventh year the 
kernel'has entirely vanished from the corner- 
teeth of the same jaw. At twelve years old, 
the crown of all the front teeth in the lower 
jaw, has become triangular, and the bridle 
teeth are much worn down. As the horse ad¬ 
vances in age, the gums shrink away from the 
teeth, which, consequently, receive a long, nar¬ 
row appearance, and their kernels have be¬ 
come metamorphosed into a darkish point; 
grey hairs iucrease in the forehead, over the 
eyes, and the chin assumes the form of an an¬ 
gle.— Ain. Agriculturist. 
The Drouth. —In this and adjoining coun¬ 
ties, the potato and corn crop are sufleriug se¬ 
verely from drouth. In Irondequoit, the 
great potato town of this county, it is estimat¬ 
ed that the crop will not average ten bushels 
per acre. Corn, too, is burnt up, one half of 
the stalks having no ears at all on them.— 
Peaches are quite abundant, but unless we 
have rain in a few days, they will be very 
small. 
In the Rural of May 13, copied from the 
Maine Fanner, the question is asked, “ Is the 
first cow’s milk poison?” meaning the first milk 
after a cow has calved; and it is answered in 
the affirmative by stating a few facts, where 
sows in pig were injured by it. 
Ail rich food, when taken in too large quan¬ 
tities, produces injurious effects. Let a hun¬ 
gry dx eat too many raw potatoes, and they 
will kill him; let a horse have too many oats, 
or too much cold water when he is warm and 
thirsty, and it will founder him. Give a new 
calved cow, a pailful of rich mill-feed slop, and 
it will probably kill her, and it will have the 
same effect on a sow just pigged; too much 
raw whey will kill a pig, so will dry buckwheat 
when too much of it is eaten. But that is not 
evidence that all those nutritious and valuable 
foods are poison; it only proves the want of 
knowledge, or lack of prudence in the feeder. 
Give a cow after calving half a pailful of 
her first milk, and it will be very beneficial to 
her, by loosening her bowels and promoting 
her cleaning. Cows’ first milk is rich and very 
loosening, and such food is injurious to sows 
heavy with pig. Instead of giving the sow 
the first milk clear, had they put it into the 
swill-barrel, and mixed it with the other swill, 
it would have been very valuable to the sow. 
The success of a breeder depends much on his 
prudence in feeding, to adapt the quantity and 
quality of the food to the wants of the animal. 
To produce the desired effect, at the least ex¬ 
pense, requires much judgment and skill in 
feeding, and it has to be acquired by experi¬ 
ence. W. Garbutt. 
Wheatland, N. Y., 1854. 
Subsoil Plow.—P lease to inform me through 
your Rural, where I can get a subsoil plow, 
who to write to, and What the price will be.— 
W. 13. C., J<person, 0., Aug., 1854. 
You can obtain the article wanted on appli¬ 
cation to II. U. White & Co., Buffalo,—and 
perhaps of Clark & McArthur, Erie, Fa.— 
The price will be from $10 to $13 according 
to size. 
Large Herd of Cattle. —A farmer in 
Southern Illinois, who owns 23,000 acres of 
land, keeps from 1,000 to 4,000 head of cattle, 
and about as many hogs. He purchases cat¬ 
tle in the summer, and sells them the next 
spring, after wintering them; and in this way 
has made a fortune. He has this year about 
950 acres of coin, which constitutes the prin¬ 
cipal cattle food, but little hay being raised. 
Saving Sunflower Seed. —Can you or some 
of your correspondents give me any information 
as to the best method of gathering the seed of 
the sunflower? If there were no difficulties 
in liarvesting the crop it would be quite remu¬ 
nerative— Thomas Cunan, Humphrey, N. Y. 
Will some of our correspondents who have 
had experience in the matter answer the above? 
New York State Ag.Fair. —The Journal 
of the State Ag’l Society, says that this prom¬ 
ises to be the largest and best Exhibition ever 
held by the Society. The arrangements of the 
grounds will be more perfect than heretofore, 
arid it is already ascertained that the Show of 
Horses will be of a character never equaled in 
this country. 
CISTERNS, 
Lice on Fowls. —Dr. Freeman, of School¬ 
craft, Mich., a popular breeder of blooded 
fowls, writes us:—“Should lice infest your 
nests, sprinkle in them cut tobacco, and they 
will slope to parts unknown instunter. Take 
my word for it, when I clean my chicken 
coops, I sprinkle in them a strong decoction, 
and will give every chick that a louse can be 
found on. I have cleaned sitting hens of 
them, where no tobacco had been used, that 
were covered with the tarnul critters—in four 
hours not one to be seen.” 
Look well to your cistern. To any one who 
has examined the contents of a cistern, it is. 
evident that the water and dirt at the bottom 
often have a strong stench in them, while the 
water in the upper part of it is comparative¬ 
ly sweet and pure. This is owing to the animal 
matter that settles to the bottom, forming a 
mass of putrid carrion. 
In all rain, river, and sea water, there are 
immense numbers of animals so small as to be 
invisible to the naked eye. Infuse a little pep¬ 
per into it, to give activity to them, and then 
place it under a microscope, and it will be 
alive with animals.. They are called infusoria. 
They are short-lived, and from their immense 
numbers, often form one-fourth of the rich 
mud at the mouths of Our rivers. 
So with the mud in the bottoms of our cis¬ 
terns. It is caused, principally, by the deposit 
of this animal matter, and undergoes decom¬ 
position, putridity, and produces -stench, the 
same as any other animal matter. Unless it is 
cleaned out at least once a year, the water be¬ 
comes the essence of carrion. To say nothing 
of the unpleasant smell, its use, undoubtedly, is 
often the cause of sickness and death .—Ohio 
Farmer. 
Suffolk Swine for Ohio. —tJnder date of 
A-ugrist 1,P. Melendy, of Mt.Healthy, Hamil¬ 
ton county, O., writes us that lie has just re¬ 
turned from the east with some fine Suffolk, 
hogs and Ayrshire cattle. The swine were : 
purchased of the lion. B. V. French, of 
Braintree, Mass., an eminent and very success¬ 
ful farmer and breeder. 
California Figs.— The San Jose Telegraph 
a short time ago, stated that a sow in that 
neighborhood hud brought forth, in one litter, 
42 pigs. The same paper has since been in¬ 
formed that 3G are now living. This remarka¬ 
ble physiological fact is undoubtedly true; the 
sow, at one litter, gave birth to 42 pigs. The 
Stockton Republican says:—A French gentle¬ 
man, formerly a resident of Chili, know a sow 
to produce at one parturition 40 pigs; and We 
have learned that, in another instance, in this 
city, 32 pigs, at one litter,have'been produced. 
California is ahead of the rest of the world, 
certainly, not only in the vegetable, but in the 
animal kingdom, and we sbpuld not be at all 
surprised to find that after the Anglo-Ameri¬ 
can race becomes fully adapted to the couiitry 
and climate, that the natural and ordinary pro¬ 
duct of the race should be Doublets. 
Prolific .country, that California. 
Wool Growing in California. —According 
to the California Farmer, published at San 
Francisco, considerable attention is beginning 
to be paid to sheep and wool, which promise 
to be profitable, and samples of the flocks of 
the present year are being sent to market 
Peas and Potatoes. —In a recent sitting of 
the Agricultural Society of Saint-Marcellin, 
Isere, a curious fact was related. A farmer 
stuck a pea in a potato, and planted them to¬ 
gether in March last. The pea produced a 
stalk which was covered with peuscods, and the 
potato gave eleven healthy roots. The farmer 
is of opinion that, by this system, it is possible 
not only to obtain a two-fold crop, but to pre¬ 
vent the malady in potatoes .—Mark Lane 
Depress. 
Seeding Oat Ground to Grass.—I noticed 
an inquiry in your last number, in relation to 
seeding to herds grass or clover with oats; the 
gentleman says he has got seven acres in oats, 
and inquires whether to sow on the stubble, or 
plow and sow winter wheat Now, according 
to my experience, when it is desired to seed to 
oats, my plan is to harrow the ground once 
over, before sowing the oatB, and once after¬ 
wards, and then sow my grass seed and harrow 
it again. I have always had good success in 
this way, or if I wish to seed with winter 
wheat, I sow my sfeed before the early heavy 
spring rains. —J. W., Chemung Co., .JY. Y. 
Erratum.— In an article on Canada thistles, 
copied from the Boston Cultivator, in last 
week’s. Rural,, it is said that the root is “ bien¬ 
nial.” This, we learn from the Cultivator, is a 
mistake of the types—it should be perennial. 
IT. II. Sackrider, of Napoli, last week, 
showed us a head of wheat over six inches in 
length, well filled, which, together with 31 oth¬ 
er heads of nearly the same dimensions, were 
the products of a single kernel. An exceeding 
prolific kernel .—Randolph Whig. 
Apricots were never so abundant or so fine 
in this region as they are this year. The cur- 
culio has injured them but little. 
Flax in the straw, is now selling in England 
r $25 per ton. About ayea,r ago it sold for 
^grintltitral ' 
■filiadhttit. 
STATE AND COUNTY 
FAIRS FOR A. 
We publish a list of the State and County 
Agricultural Fairs for the present year, so far 
as they have been announced. We shall be 
obliged to the Secretaries of out County So" 
cieties if they will send us 
information respect- 
ing their exhibitions, &c. 
STATE FAIRS, 1854. 
Michigan, at Detroit,. ...... 
.Sept.2G to 29. 
Ohio, at Newark,. 
. . “ 19, 20, 21, 22 
Vermont, at Brattleborough,.. . 
Illinois, at Springfield,. 
..... “ 12, 13, 14, 10 
Kentucky, at Lexington,. . »... 
...... “ 12,13; 14,16,1G 
Pennsylvania,.. . . . . . . . . . 
Western Virginia, at Wheeling, 
New York, at New Y’ork,. 
Connecticut, at New Haven,. . 
. “ 10, 11, 12, 13 
Indiana,- at Madison,. 
Iowa, at Fairfield,.t 1 . . .. 
Wisconsin, at Milwaukee,. 
