Communtatimts* 
CONVERSATIONS ON AGRICCLTURE.—KO. 8. 
BY HUGH T. BROOKS. 
THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS. 
It may, or it may not be a new idea to our 
readers, that brute animals have rights.— 
Eights they certainly have, though blundering 
law-givers have neglected to proclaim their 
« Bill of rights.” “ Life and liberty ” may 
properly be referred to Messrs. Graham & 
Garrison, but “the pursuit of happiness” we 
propose to attend to at once. Man, with char¬ 
acteristic greediness assumes that he is every 
thing— and the brutes , as Abbe Sieves said of 
the tiers-etat, “ nothing.” Why so? Ha-not 
the brutes the right of occupancy? Were 
they not peacefully feeding on the river banks 
when the sixth-day wonder appeared? Did 
they ever rebel against the Supreme Authori¬ 
ty and violate the condition of their lease?— 
Granted that man was to have “dominion over 
them.” Was the dominion a despotism with¬ 
out Constitutional restraint? Here is the 
higher law“ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox 
when he treadeth out the corn.” “A merciful 
man regardeth the life of his beast,” 
Pope’s “Essay on Man” is dimly reflected 
by our school boy memories; it contains lines 
somewhat utter this fashion. 
“ Is it for tliee, the linnet soars and sings ? 
Loves of his own. and raptures swell his notes.” 
Having fin ished up the book as we progress 
ed with our reading and parsing lessons, we are 
scarcely able to determine by counting our 
fingers, whether we have purloined any of the 
syllables that rightfully belong to those lines 
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or have added some of our own which Pope 
would not be willing to recognize—at any rate 
we have got his idea—and a great one it is 
that the lower animals have enjoyments per 
se, pleasures of their own by natural right, 
not as appendages of man, but as separate and 
independent existences, and by inference, when¬ 
ever by our agency a brute’s life is barren of 
enjoyment, a great wrong is perpetrated. 
Let those who undervalue what brutes suf¬ 
fer or enjoy, wait for the verdict in a case now 
pending, viz: 
Canvass-back tip Burgundy Gentleman. } 
versus > 
Calf fed on New Milk. ) 
This is an action brought by a guest of the 
“ Metropolitan ” to prove his superior tastes 
and pleasures, which the defendant while skip¬ 
ping on the lawn in a bright morning had been 
led to dispute. 
In all seriousness we protest against the nar¬ 
row selfishness that governs our conduct to¬ 
wards brutes. The noble ox is not only bur¬ 
dened and butchered in the cause of humani¬ 
ty, but his life is made dreary and desolate.— 
The “ fast ” horse is driven till his sufferings are 
intolerable, as he who doubts may see by run- 
inng himself at the top of his speed till he is 
ready to fall dead by effort and exhaustion.— 
Swine, dear to all Gentiles, often “shirk” fora 
living, and rf perchance they seek from a neigh¬ 
bor the food and shelter denied at home, they 
are kicked and cudgeled for their owner’s sins. 
Perhaps the most general fault is in neg¬ 
lecting to provide comfortable winter quarters 
for domestic animals. Animals usually become 
tender by domestication. In a wild state they 
have a choice of location—there being no “ fu¬ 
gitive law ” in force, they can spend their win¬ 
ters in a warm climate; dependant on themselves, 
they are fruitful in resources. Then, too, the 
whole face of nature is changed, the dense for¬ 
est gives place to the cleared field, and the an¬ 
imal which could choose the tangled thicket 
and the overhanging rock for a shelter, is 
forced by some admirer of “nature’s plan” to 
stand in rainbow form and brave the tempest 
in an open field. In this way large droves of 
sheep and cattle are exposed, we are sorry to 
say, by men of large wealth and intelligence.— 
So too the owner of one cow will feed the 
faithful animal from a stack of stalks or hay, in 
all weather, on the ground; and though slabs 
and boards are abundant, the persecuted crea¬ 
ture cannot by desponding looks and piteous 
moans, persuade the heartless owner to put a 
a few of them up to break off the wind, the 
snow and the rain. 
Sheep, when dry, endure the cold very well, 
but when cold weather succeeds a rain, their 
wool is first wet and then frozen, and thus 
they are greatly injured. The writer usually 
winters a thousand sheep, and other animals in 
proportion, but he makes it an invariable rule 
to have racks under cover , so that every ani¬ 
mal can be protected while eating, as well at 
all other times. 
Let it be the first businessjof every man who 
has not already made provisions for the com¬ 
fort of his stock to make them at onee. 
Animals exposed to the -cold require more 
food than those which are kept warm—the de¬ 
gree of warmth and confinement must be de¬ 
termined by careful experiment. 
Lumber is much cheaper than hay. When 
self-interest unites with human considerations 
in demanding a change, .why shouLd we not 
have it? 
AXIOMS IN SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
Messrs. Eds. — It is an axiom with good 
shepherds that sheep should never be permit¬ 
ted to gel poor in the fall. Hence, as the 
feed becomes short and frost-bitten, especial 
care should be given to the flock, and here the 
farmer often finds himself at loss. He wishes 
to spare his store of fodder as long as he can, 
and, while the ground is bare of snow, sheep 
care little for hay, unlese shut entirely from 
grass. Between “ hay and grass ” sheep often 
lose an amount of flesh which they are not 
able to regain through the winter. A good 
plan now is to give them the best food to be 
had, yard them on cold or stormy nights, feed 
them a little good hay or sheaf oats, in the 
morning and let them run during the day if 
the weather is sufficiently moderate. Remem 
bering that they need care and attention, and 
that they should be kept in as good condition 
as possible, use your own judgment as to the 
means employed. 
Another axiom is, never let a sheep grow 
poor in winter. It is very hard work to re¬ 
cruit and bring up a half-starved sheep, even 
if not diseased; and often when the warm days 
of spring coine, they fail one by one, and the 
careless farmer’s back lots are strewn w ith 
scattered crowbaits. The best remedy is to 
keep them from gelling poor. If one have a 
large flock the sheep should be classed off ear- 
lv in winter, into smaller flocks, according to 
their age and strength, and then be fed accor¬ 
dingly. If they once get poor, a little grain 
seems to have no good effect; but a little grain 
given to a sheep in good order, will assist a 
good deal in keeping them so. It is a pleas¬ 
ant business to feed a fine flock of sheep in 
steady cold weather, while nothing can bt 
more unpleasant than the care ol a poor, half- 
starved flock, in the trying weather ot Maicli 
and April. 
The true way is to never let sheep get poor 
at any season of the year. This is the axi¬ 
om in sheep husbandry. s. k. 
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WASTE LAND. 
There is a right way of doing things, as 
well as a wrong, and the accompanying cut, 
from the Michigan Farmer, shows where to 
put hay and other fodder for sheep. Such 
racks will pay for themselves several times ev¬ 
ery season, in the saving they effect—to say 
nothing of their convenience and “the looks of 
the thing.” We hasten to lay it before our 
readers for their adoption. The dimensions 
are as follows:—Width 26 inches; height 40 
inches; trough one foot from the ground; slats 
two inches wide. 
GRASS-SEED HARROWS. 
Brush harrows arc very imperfect, and con¬ 
stantly liable to get out of good working con¬ 
dition by clogging and matting together. Gcn- 
“Much has been written upon this subject., 
yet more remains to be said, before our farm¬ 
ers will understand its importance.” Such was 
the thought that crossed our mind, while push¬ 
ing our way through a swamp in New Hamp¬ 
shire, a few days since. 
There it was—a level of land—of one hun¬ 
dred acres, embosomed among the hills; and 
there we were, up to our eyes in grass, and yet 
sheltered from the burning sun by a growth 
of alders. The blue-joint, and high meadow 
grasses (we discard Latin and use such names 
as the farmer will recognize) stood at least two 
tons per acre. Years agone, the beaver car¬ 
ried out his primitive engineering, at a narrow 
passage, where the high lands came together, 
and thus destroyed whatever of forest growth 
stood within reach of the rising waters.— 
Nothing has since grown upon the spot, save 
generations of alders and wild grass. Twenty 
years since the scythe gathered the grass in 
the more open parts of the swamps, but the 
alder has gradually become an army of occu¬ 
pation, and asserted his right to the whole ter¬ 
ritory. 
This is but one of many examples. _ 1 hou- 
sands of acres in New England are in like 
condition. All may not be equally fertile, 
with the case mentioned; yet most are capa¬ 
ble of being made so. There are some locali¬ 
ties, which, for the present, should remain as 
nature has left them, but nine-tenths of the low 
lands of New England can be made remuner- 
erallv speaking, however, we have no substitute I ative. 
a. tiam f«p tarmwinif iii <rr:is« There I Sit down now, practical farmers, and count 
the cost of turning that unsightly swamp just 
over the way from the house now, yielding 
nothing but miasmatic vapor, into a fertile 
piece of land; whose beauty shall charm the 
eye, and whose products shall be wealth. Is 
it to be drained—are bushes to be cut—are 
stumps to be pulled? Make your estimates, 
and then upon the other side, count the value 
to be received. It is a simple process and will 
cost but a few minutes of observation and cal¬ 
culation. Our word for it, you will put in the 
pade, the ax, and the mattock at once. The 
Jry summer has ripened the corn and your 
arvest is out of the way. Strike, then, at the 
swamp; and make it what we think it will be 
—the most remunerative laud in your possess¬ 
ion.— Jour, of Agriculture. 
AYIIAT IS BUTTER LAND ? 
Eos. Rural. —The editor of the Genesee 
Farmer in a severe criticism on the excelleui 
speech of Hon. A. B. Dickinson, of this town, 
made at Wellsboro, Tioga Co., Pa., condemns 
as theoretical one of the best “practical speech 
es” it has ever been my 1 ot to read. He quotes 
from Mr. D.’s speech: “The first quality ol 
butter land is confined to portions of the New 
England States, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 
New York, while cheese may be made and 
sheep grown wherever grass grows”—And 
then adds, “here the agricultural public is fa 
vored with a somewhat greasy theory about 
‘ butter land,’ by a professed theory hater. 
It exists in portions of New England, but not 
in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin 
or Iowa. They may have fat land—pork and 
tallow land—but not land adapted to the pio- 
duction of butter.” Then the astute editor 
reverts to a meeting of learned men in Buffa¬ 
lo, years since, when Mr. D., an unlearned man, 
made a speech, which sounded ridiculous to the 
men of Colleges there assembled. And this 
is all he finds to prove the falsity of Mr. D.’s 
first theory. Now, had he first turned to the 
Patent Office Report, for 1850-51, (compiled 
bi) the said editor!) he would have found this 
same theory in these words: “ It is now a 
generally admitted fact that good butter can¬ 
not be made south nor west of Pennsylva- 
Here is what the learned editor con¬ 
demns as theory is advanced, advocated and 
proved by years of experience. 
He quotes again what he calls theory, re¬ 
garding the production of butter from pas¬ 
tures of certain grasses named by Mr. D., and 
then asserts that good butter can be made 
from cows feediug on corn stalks. This Mr. 
I), contradicts to me, admitting though good 
butter may be made from cornstalks, yet while 
that from the grasses named by him will keep 
for a long time as good as when made, that 
from corn stalks soon becomes rancid. Not 
the poorest part of the joke of this criticism 
is found in the fact that the Genesee Farmer 
was the only agricultural piper receiving fa 
vorable mention in Mr. Dickinson’s speech. 
W. H. Gardner. 
Hornby, Steuben Co., N. Y., Nov., 1S54. 
for them for harrowing in grass seed. There 
is no doubt that harrows made in the ordinary 
way, but with much smaller and more numer¬ 
ous teeth would answer an excellent purpose, 
ond far exceed in perfection of work, any brush 
harrow. Wo would make the following as a 
suggestion, which we have never tried, and 
for which we shall charge nothing for the pat¬ 
ent-light, Procure pieces of inch and a half or 
two inch plank, four or five feet long, and 
about a foot wide, of hard elm or any other 
firm wood, hard to split. Drive through these 
at regular distances, large-sized cut-nails; per¬ 
haps 12 or 20d. nails would be of suitable 
size. Let them be driven in as far as the head, 
so os to project a few inches on the other side. 
Now let several of these spiked pieces of plank 
be hinged together, and the instrument is com¬ 
pleted.^ A harrow is formed with small teeth, 
as numerous as may desired; and it is evident 
that a single passage of this harrow over an 
ordinary plowed field would give it a surface 
as tine and as mellow as that of the most fin¬ 
ished onion-bed; and that if the surface has 
been previously levelled by harrowing, grass 
seed may be raked in by means of this instru 
meat in the most even and perfect manner, to 
a depth which may be regulated by the size 
of the nails used in its construction. 
As very few soils are perfectly free from 
grass roots and stones, it will be necessary, in 
order to prevent clogging, that the nails should 
be driven obliquely, so as to point backwards. 
This will enable them t.o mount any obstruc 
lion readily, and to clear themselves with fa¬ 
cility from any matter tending to clog them 
A strong recoipmendation of this plan is 
its cheapness. Fifty cents in all for plank 
nails, and hinges, with a few hours work 
would probably complete the whole.— Coun 
try Gentlemen. 
inquiries unit ^nstoers. 
Rolling Wheat,—W ill you please publish 
your views on the use of the Roller upon wheat, 
rye, oats, grass, <fcc. It is supposed that great 
benefits have been derived from the use of this 
implement, and I would like to be informed as 
t.o the proper time of using it, if indeed its use is 
beneficial.—R. W. Humphreys. 
We should be glad to have the experience 
of our practical correspondents on this point. 
It is the almost universal practice in England 
to roll the light land wheat as early in the 
spring as the ground will permit ; and it is 
therefore fair to infer that it is found beneficial, 
though we have seen no actual experiments 
which demonstrate this to be the case. If our 
readers have made any experiments on the 
point they would be very acceptable. 
Ice Houses. —Will you or some of your con¬ 
tributors, through the Rural, give me a plan for 
an ice house large enough to supply one or two 
families? Please give size, best place of location, 
material for construction, Ac.— N. J. Strong. 
We published an excellent plan of an Ice 
house in the Rural of November 28, 1853.— 
But we believe in Progress and Improvement 
and shall be happy to receive additional light 
on the matter. _ 
Foul in the Foot.— 1 would wash and 
cleanse the foot with warm soap suds, then 
take equal parts of spirits turpeitne and 
soft soap a id simmer them together a little, 
and apply quite warm; two or three applica¬ 
tions, at most, have always cured with me. — 
Jacob Viele, Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
THE BEATSON SYSTEM OF TILLAGE. 
HORSE RACE IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
Rules for Butter Making.— The Massa¬ 
chusetts Committee on Dairies says:—The 
newer and sweeter the cream, the sweeter and 
higher flavored will be the butter. The air 
must be fresh and pure in the room or cellar 
where the milk is set. The cream should not 
remain on the milk over thirty-six hours. 
Keep the cream in tin pails, or in stone pots, 
into which put a spoonful of salt at the be 
ginning, then stir the cream lightly each morn 
ing and evening; this will prevent it from 
moulding or souring. Churn as often as once 
a week, and as much oftener as circumstances 
will permit. Upon churning add the cream 
upon all the milk in the dairy. Use nearly an 
ounce of salt to a pound of butter. Work 
the butter over twice to .free it from the but¬ 
termilk and brine, before lumping and packing. 
Be sure that it is .entirely free from every par¬ 
ticle of buttermilk, .or coagulated milk, and it 
will keep sweet asloqg.as desired. 
Good fences make good neighbors. 
If there ever was a season adapted to Major 
General Beatson’s system of cultivation, it must 
be the present one. It principally consists in 
pulverizing the soil without the intervention of 
ploics, or, in fact, by the aid of scarifiers or 
grubbers, together with the various harrowings, 
rollings, and the like, necessary to bring it into 
i, thoroughly pulverized state, duly prepared to 
eceive the seed. The present is certainly an 
unexampled season for the facilities it affords 
for thus pulverizing, cleansing, and preparing 
the soil for the ensuing wheat crop; and if it 
can thus be done effectually, the saving of la¬ 
bor will be very groat. My object in this pa¬ 
per is to call attention to this particular point 
in autumn culture. 
Every good farmer has undoubtedly been in¬ 
cessantly engaged during this beautiful weath¬ 
er in cultivating and cleansing his land. The 
appliances are so many and so good, that per- 
fi ct tilths may readily be obtained. In my own 
occupation 1 have broken up a considerable 
breadth of land with Beatall’s scarifier, and 
cosred it with Biddle’s scarifier, and in this way 
have obtained a deep and highly satisfactory 
preparation for the wheat seeding, at a moder¬ 
ate cost, and without the aid of a plow; and as 
my land is subsoil drained, l purpose after all 
requisite harrowings to drill in the seed, and 
thus save the expense of plowing and other 
subsequent management. No one can be a 
greater advocate for the due use of the plow 
Than myself; but with favorable seasons like 
the present ones, the adoption of the scarifying 
mode of breaking up land is preferable. I do 
not advocate breaking up clover leys or seeds 
in this way; for these a good plowing is best, 
to be followed in about 21 days by a powerful 
scarifier, to cross the furrows and tear the whole 
into pieces. If the season continues dry, this 
with a few harrowings will make an admirable 
seed-bed. . 
For bean and pea land the scarifier is the | 
best implement; it may be easily worked to the 
depth of ordinary plowing, and the whole of the 
dead haulm, rubbish, Ac., being on the surface, 
it, can easily be collected and then taken to the 
fold-yard to be converted into manure. In all 
cases where the land is not subsoil drained, it 
is necessary to plow in order to “lay up” the 
lands for surface drainage; but it is not, requi¬ 
site where good drainage has been effected; the 
“laying up” the lands is not of great impor¬ 
tance, it being borne in mind that subsoil 
drainage is by filtration, not furrows.— Prac¬ 
tical Farmer, in Mark Lane Express. 
The women and girls are decidedly the best 
iders. With them, not as with the ladies of 
our Atlantic cities, side-saddles are out of the 
question. In their loose, flowing drapery, hair 
streaming in the wind, their beautifully 7 erect 
position, and their horses careering along like 
the march of a whirlwind, they look majesti¬ 
cally dangerous, and yet they are Dover thrown 
from the saddle. There is many a lady in civ¬ 
ilized nations who would envy the equestrian 
skill of these Hawaiian women. There is many 
a finished artist that would be glad to have one 
of them as a subject for his pencil. It may be 
owing to this mode of exercise that they, in 
part, acquire such an exquisite developement 
of form. 
I wish I could fully portray these Saturday 
afternoon sports. Yonder, on the plain, some 
forty or fifty women are speeding almost with 
the rapidity of light toward some well-selected 
goal. Every nerve and muscle of both horses 
and riders is stretched to the utmost tension— 
the former from sheer instinct to gain the vic¬ 
tory; the latter from a spirit of almost match 
less daring, mirthfulness, and excitement. Now 
comes along a party of men and boys, many 
of ihem clinging, with their naked limbs, like 
lee.Jl.es to the flanks of their foaming steeds, 
while their restless hands and arms are descri¬ 
bing all sorts of circles in the air, as if under 
pain of dismemberment, but, in reality, to cheer 
along their animals to a swifter speed — 
Clouds of choking dust follow their wake. 
Here and there may be seen a mounted for¬ 
eigner, quietly looking on, or sharing in their 
ports. But yonder is a scene that defies 
Wooden Cisterns. —Twenty-five years ago 
last spring, the late Harvey Tuttle, of Fort- 
hill, in tliis town, constructed a cistern in the 
following manner:—He built a large tub—six 
feet high, and six feet in diameter, of an inch 
and a quarter pine plank or floor stuff—the 
staves 5 or 6 inches wide and jointed, made it 
“set work” as coopers call it, and hooped it 
with wooden hoops. He then dug a round 
hole in the ground under his wood-shed,—a 
little larger than the tub,—made a good mor¬ 
tar bed of clay, (not loam) and spread a good 
coat of this mortar all over the buttom of the 
hole. The tub was then pressed down on this 
mortar, and the mortar stamped or pounded 
around the inside of the tub, and the 
whole then covered with boards. It has never 
had a penny’s worth of repair, has never needed 
_1ms never leaked—the frost does not in¬ 
jure it, and only the top of the staves show 
any signs ot decay. It lias lately been cleared 
out, and for aught that appears may last anoth¬ 
er 25 years—and the water does not become 
hard by long standing, as in cement cisterns. 
Le Roy, Nov., 1854. 
S. RIERSoN. 
all attempts at description. A few horses and 
donkeys, not under immediate use, but which 
a few minutes since were quietly feeding on 
the ever-living pasture, have caught the spirit 
of that fiery locomotion by which their com¬ 
peers are impelled over the plain. Unable 
any longer to control their nature, away they 
speed, in the utmost confusion, as though their 
powers of a life endurance were all concentra¬ 
ted in this single moment. Now they have 
mingled with the mounted animals, sharing 
their foam, and madly plunging through the 
clouds of dust, and endangering the life and 
limbs of any pedestrian who fails to get out of 
the way in time. On, on they speed, like fi ry 
Arabians over their native sands, all and each 
one struggling for the mastery iu the well con¬ 
tested race for glory.— Sandwich Island JYotes. 
The best method of wintering bees is to let 
the hives remain in their summer position and 
protect them, either by an outer hive, or by 
surrounding the hives with hay, or straw. 
Some Pumpkins. —The Rural New-Yorker 
says, “ a pumpkin vine sprouting out of a ma¬ 
nure heap at Pittsford, produced thirty-four 
pumpkins, whose aggregate weight was 592 
pounds. These, says an Exchange, must be 
what people call “ some pumpkins.” 
Friend Moore, you will have to try again.— 
Mr. N. C. Merritt, of this village, had a vine 
grow in his garden this season that produced 
35 pumpkins, (counting 5 green ones) whose 
aggregate weight was 735 ibs. We think 
them’s “some punkins,” sure.— Eaton (Mich ) 
Democrat. 
An Old Stager.—A t the W orcester Cattle 
Show, the citizens extemporized a cavalcade 
a mile long, containing 200 saddle horses, 55 
spans, and 120 single horses in carriages. The 
Argus says that one of the horses was from 
Barre, and was 41 pears old, but looking as 
hale and hearty, and drawing as well as any 
present. His owner uses him every day, ami 
considers him capable of as much work as any 
of his young horses, and good tor at least ten 
years more actual service.— W isconsin Far, 
Cattle and hogs should be fatted rapidly 
now, both having dry and warm beds, and fed 
liberally. 
TRAINING OF WILD DUCKS. 
A day or two since, while on a visit to 
“Ten Hills Farm,” in Somerviile, we were 
not a little surprised and interested in observ¬ 
ing the movements of a number of wild fowl, 
wmcli have condescended to live on tlie most 
friendly, if not intimate, terms with the happy 
proprietor and occupant of the old mansion, 
Coi. J acquis. We had 1 eard that the ('olonel 
had a peculiar way of manag ng wild f>\\ S. 
and expressing a desire to witness his mode ot 
operation in this particular, the old gentleman- 
requested us to visit his poultry yard, and wit¬ 
ness his experiment The sight was an inter¬ 
esting one. But we can’t say so much for the 
sounds. Among the number of fowls, all ot 
which were in fine condition, were three India 
geese, three pairs of Chincha geese, three 
from India: fourteen Bremen geese; a beauti¬ 
ful wild inrkey from the West, two three-quar¬ 
ters and three half breed. A v< ner ible “ moth- 
er goose,” imported from Bremen in 1821, 
(thirty-three years ago,) was quite as active 
and noisy as any in the yard. The goose is 
supposed to be forty years old. fche coniin- 
uesto do her duty, and several of her offspring 
of last season now weigh over twenty pounds. 
There were aLo nine wild black ducks, six pa r 
of wood ducks, several wild gee. c, &o. 
The poultry yard was a large circular en¬ 
closure upon a marshy land, having a pond, 
dikes, drains, &c. The tide, on rising, brings 
in thousands of little fishes, which serve as food 
for the water fowls. Our presence start.ed 
the wild ducks which were quietly feeding in 
the pond, and in a moment they had flown. 
The docks rose several hundred feet, making 
a circuitous course, and hovering over the 
place, as if to ascertain the cause for alarm; 
then ’suddenly changing their position, they 
ranged themselves in two lines, forming an 
acute angle, and passed away to the northward 
apparently for a mile or two; then changed 
their course, and for a moment disappeared.— 
Gol. Jacques used a whistle, producing a shrill 
sound, continuing the call at intervals. Due 
of the flock— the guide perhaps— returned in 
the course of five minutes; hovering over tlie 
poultry yard, settling gradually, and uttering a 
peculiar cry; the flock soon 'approached, the 
guide settled in the pond, and in a moment 
was joined by his companions. . 
The Colonel’s flock is frequently increased 
by wild ducks which visit Mystic River and 
ponds in the vicinity. The Col. has kept his 
implied contract with them, and will not sutler 
any fire-arms to be u-ed on the premises. 
Col. Jacques is one of the most successful ot 
agriculturists, and his live stock is of the best 
breeds, and sought for by farmers all over the 
country, lie is 78 years of age, has never 
been sick a single day, and for fifty jears has 
subscribed and paid for a daily newspaper—a 
circumstance which fully entitles lnm to this 
notice.— Boston Covonicle. 
