OO&E’g EBUJtL M 
the farmer (stoutly declares bis cow haB never 
been sick, and will not be convinced that there is 
anything the matter with her till the proof is laid 
before bin eyes. 
From North Brookfield the Commissioners pro¬ 
ceeded to New Braintree and visited the farm of 
Ai.dkn W. WoODIB. At this point the medical 
force w.is much increased. The disease was in¬ 
troduced upon the farm of Mr. \V., by the tempo¬ 
rary presence of an ox, from the “Stoddard” 
farm, Mr. Stoddard having purchased cattle 
from Mr. Cuknery, at Belmont, who Imported 
the infected stock. The disease being revealed, 
eighteen head, the entire herd of Mr. Woods, 
were slaughtered and buried. 
The next farm visited was that of Cn as. Need- 
ham, also in New Braintree, where the Committee 
had three cows killed before. Mr. Needijam had 
exchanged cattle with Curtis Stoddard. The 
doctors found a great deal of water in the left 
chi-st of the third cow examined, and only a few 
healthy spots in the lung. Twenty eight oattlo 
were killed, completely emptying the barn. 
Following that of Mr. Needham came the farm 
of Leonard Stoddard. The*doctors made their 
examination, and every hoof in the barn, num¬ 
bering forty nine, including ten pairs of fine 
oxen, was condemned to die in the morning. 
Next in order came the stables of W. W. Chknk- 
by, whose residence is in Belmont. It is several 
months since Mr. C. lost an animal, and ho felt 
quite confident that the malady had entirely left 
his herd. To render assurance doubly sure, three 
cattle were chosen for the knife,— one a cow that 
had been sick, but wus deemed nearly well, with 
two heifers, one having hIiowii no signs of dis¬ 
ease and the other but slight, such as were indi¬ 
cated by a slight cough, and they all proved to lie 
diseased—one of the lunge of one of the heifers 
being filled with pub. After an examination of 
the animals slaughtered, the Commissioners re¬ 
turned to the barn and submitted the entire herd 
to a professional inspection. The slock consists 
of about forty head, and all but three or four 
proved diseased, some of them very bad — the 
symptoms and indications of the disease being un¬ 
mistakable. The mode of examination was by 
sounding the chest of an animal over the lungs, 
by slight raps—the tone of the resonance, or 
reverberation of the sound thereof being the test. 
Cases similar to the foregoing, might be multi¬ 
plied did space permit. When our latest in¬ 
telligence wus received, the number of cattle 
slaughtered had reached one hundred and eight, 
valued at $5,000, being un average of $16 8 27 per 
animal, anil the Commissioners were about re¬ 
turning to North Brookfield for the purpose of 
destroying all the stock (comprising about one 
hundred and fifty head,) in that village, when one 
hundred new eases were reported by the medical 
examiners. As one half of the appropriation hud 
been expended, and the balance would fall far 
short of meeting the emergencies of the ease, the 
slaughter ceased, in order that the Governor 
might he consulted. A consultation has been 
held, and the expediency of calling an extra ses¬ 
sion of the Legislature urged, but this movement 
will not be made at present. It has been decided, 
however, that a Medical Board of the most expe¬ 
rienced surgeons will at once be called in Boston 
to investigate Hie subject, and until they shall 
make a report all further destruction of cattle 
will be suspended. 
As exhibiting the effect upon the community 
in Massachusetts generally, and those residing in 
the “infefltod districts" particularly, we quote 
from the Boston Post as follows:—“The proposed 
State Fair, and also the Annual County Cattle 
Shows, will probably not be held this year, for 
fear of spreading the distemper still wider. At 
present the disease is confined to a territory 
about twelve miles square, a territory abounding 
in cattle, and from which, at this time last yenr' 
front one to two car loads of butter aud cheese 
per week were forwarded to Boston. Now all 
trade is suspended, the cattle are forbidden, under 
penalties, to be sold, and the herds are ordered 
by the Commissioners to be closely kept on their 
premises." 
every respect I believe that we can, by feeding 
the grain to the stock on the farm, increase its 
fertility continually, and dispose of what beef we 
can spare from year to year. 1 also think that 
wc can economise otherwise, bo as to more tbau 
make the difference in the elements lost by selling 
the beef, by being particular In saving our ma¬ 
nure. But let us look on the other side of the 
question. If H. T. B.'a theory Is correct, that 
every bushel of grain sold leaves the soil poorer 
than it was before, and we continue to sell grain 
and beef, how are we to be delivered from this 
min? j. w. 
Big Flats, Chemung Co., N. Y-, 1860. 
SALTING FOOD FOB SHEEP. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: — Any remarks I 
have made, or wish to make on this subject, are 
intended more for the purpose of gaining infor 
motion than to propagate a theory. Salting food 
for sheep may be objected to, because we may 
feed too much or too little salt; but some sheep in 
the flock care but little about grain, and unless we 
mix salt with it, some will cat too large a quuntity, 
others too little. It would not be well to let them 
have access to salt, and mix it in the feed besides. 
I should have mentioned, in my former article on 
this subject, that J feed salted hay in winter in 
addition to the salt in feed. 
Have any of the readers of the Rural tested 
the different plans of salting?—if so, please give 
us the facts and figures. Perhaps both man and 
stock would do as well if they would use less 
salt,—it has been asserted that cattle fatten as 
fast without. Since “Subscriber," of Rural 
March 31st, has learned from such high authority 
how to salt stock, will he be so kind as to inform 
us how to feed. We suppose, of course, lie lets 
them have access to the grain at pleasure. We do 
not wish to mix religion with such subjects, but 
will say to “Subscriber," we do not profess to 
have any revelation from God, save that which 
He has revealed in the scriptures of the old 
aud new testament. “ Letting stock have access 
to the salines of our country,” was practiced here 
by the early settlers, when salt had to he packed 
on horses across the mountains, and sold at ten to 
twenty dollars per bushel. Cattle would then go 
miles to the licks. Providence has done much 
for our section of country in that He has caused 
springs ol lresh water to pour out in nearly every 
field, but He has done more for “Subscriber," if 
he has springs of salt water in bis fields. 
James H. HcNall. 
North Star, Wash. Co.. Pa , 1860. 
tion. Set a pole in the ground, of sufficient 
strength to sustain the rod, about two feet from 
the building you wish to protect Upon this 
pole erect the rod, to such a height that no poiut 
upon the building will be more than twice the 
distauce from the rod than the height of the rod 
above that point »b the rod will protect a space 
in every direction from it, the radius of which is 
equal to twice its height The lower end of the 
rod should enter the ground about five feet To 
protect a dwelling house, it would be well 
to place the rod as hear the kitchen chimney as 
convenient The products of combustion, smoke, 
watery vapor, Ac., beiDg conductors of electricity, 
this chimney requires special protection. 
To render this method substantial, it would be 
well to burnetize the pole before cutting, in the 
following manner:—Bore an angur-hole through 
the trunk of the tree, and make a saw cut from the 
auger-hole outward on each side, to within a short 
distance of the exterior, leaving enough of tbe 
fibres untouched to support the tree. Then stop 
onoend ofthe auger-hole, and all of the saw cuton 
the exterior, and introduce through a tube in¬ 
serted in the open end of tbe auger-bole, a solu¬ 
tion of chloride of zinc. E. W. Bibbens, 
Borodino, N. Y., 1860. 
Httral Spirit of tl)c Jpress. 
MORE ABOUT “FARM FENCES.” 
IMPOVERISHING THE SOIL - CRITICISM. 
For a long time I have been a constant reader 
of your highly esteemed paper, and take groat 
pleasure in perusing its articles, and find them to 
contain a great many good suggestions and im¬ 
provements. Hut in the number of March 17th, 1 
find an article signed “ U. T. B.," that does not 
fully explain itself to my satisfaction. Although 
1 can cheerfully recommend the saving of every 
ingredient available in our power to return to tlrn 
soil all the elements that are required to supply the 
growing plants with nutrition for their develop¬ 
ment, in the idea of ultimate sterility I do not 
fully concur. 11. T. B. says, “ our Agriculture and 
Commerce are every year robbing the soil of its 
essential elements and placing them beyond 
recovery." Theu H. T. lb says. “ it is well known 
that plants draw their sustenance in part from 
the atmosphere and part from the soil The 
atmospheric supply is deemed inexhaustible. The 
earthly materials certainly are not so.” Now, 
what is taken that cannot be supplied? Is not 
the soil the natural retainer of the necessary ele¬ 
ments for the growth of plants? I will grant that 
all soils are not alike as to their constituent parts, 
but is not this their office-work to absorb from the 
atmosphere and other ways retain for future use, 
so when the necessary element is not in reach of 
the plant in the atmosphere, it can he supplied 
from the soil? He also says “every bushel of 
grain and every pound of meat that goes to the 
seaboard and is consumed, carries off ingredients 
that the soil ought not to spare, and caunot con¬ 
tinue to spare, without ultimate and complete 
barrenness." Now, this looks rather discourag¬ 
ing to the farmer to think that he cannot dispose 
of neither meat nor grain without ultimately 
exhausting the resources of his soil. I think my 
experience is different from that. I know of 
farms in this vicinity that have been devoted for 
the last fifteen or twenty years to raising grain 
and beef, and increased in their product every 
year, and to all appearances have improved in 
Ens. Rural New-Yorker: —After endorsing 
all that Mr. E. Engle says, in praise of a straight 
rail fence, instead of the old zig-zag style, I 
would like to urge upon farmers the practicability 
and economy of having a straight fence,— and 
herewith Bhow tb § facts undJig-tires in proof. 
On my farm of 70 acres, J have coo rods, all 
straight fence. I till within a foot of the fence, 
thus saving me two acres of tillable land, which, 
if left growing to burrs and briars in the crooks, 
would be worse than useless. Now, almost every 
farmer has crooked fences which, if they were 
replaced with straight ones, would add thousands 
to the value of our lands; for the straight fence is 
cheaper built, in addition to the economy in land 
saved. 
A common rail fence, 7 rails high, requires 1-1 
rails to build a rod, costing 6 cents apiece,—total, 
70 cents. Four stakes, at 3 cents each, is 12 cents; 
and 2 cups, or wires, is 3 cents more; making 85 
cents a rod. Now, the straight fence needs to be 
but li rails high, takes 9 to the rod, which is 46 
cents, 3 large stakes, 13 cents; wire, 2 cents; mak¬ 
ing a cost of GO cents per rod—being 25 cents a 
rod cheaper, arid very substantial if properly 
built. Almost any old fence has good rails 
enough in it to make a good straight fence; then 
why not put them up at once? 
The way I build is to stake out a straight line, 
and when the ground is soft, make a hole about 
two and one-half feet deep —then, with a heavy 
hammer, drive in a large stake very firmly. To 
every length of rail set a common fence stake 5 
inches distant, and wire at the top. say 4 feet 
from the ground. Put one rail on top of the 
wire, 1 or 5 under, and you have the best rail 
fence in the country, and the cheapest Try it 
and see. H. Ives. 
Stafford, N. Y., 1S60. 
Facts lor Fn rulers. 
In an article under the above caption, the 
editor of the Valley Farmer remarks:_"If you 
invest money in tools, and then leave them ex¬ 
posed to tbe weather, it is the same as loaning 
money to a spendthrift without security_a dead 
loss in both cases." If you invest money in 
books and never read them, It is the same as 
putting your money into a bank, but never draw¬ 
ing either principal or interest. If you invest 
money in fun* stock, and do not feed and protect 
them, and properly care for them, it is the same 
us dressing your wife In silk to do kitchen work, 
if you invest, your money in choice fruits, and 
do not guard and give them a chance to grow 
and prove their value, it is the same as putting a 
good hand into a field with poor tools to work 
with. If you invest your money in a good farm, 
and do not cultivate it well, it is the same as 
marrying a good wife, and so abusing and ensla¬ 
ving her as to crush her energies and break her 
heart If you invest your money in a fine house, 
and do not so cultivate your mind and taste as 
to adorn it with intelligence and refinement, it 
is as if you were to wear broadcloth and a silk 
bat to mill. If you invest your money in fine 
clothes, and do not wear them with dignity and 
ease, it is as if a plowman were to sit at a jewel¬ 
er s table to make and adjust bair-springs. It 
you invest your money in strong drink, it is the 
same as turning hungry hogs into a growing 
cornfield—ruin will follow in both cases. If you 
invest your money in every new wonder that 
flaming circulars proclaim, it is the same as buy¬ 
ing tickets at a lottery office where there are ten 
blanks to one prize. If yon invest y-our money- 
in the “last novel,” it is the same as employing 
a tailor’s dandy to dig your potatoes. 
The timber should be dry, as green timber will 
Dot take oil. Care should be taken that the oil 
be not randc hotter than a boiling heat, in order 
that the timber be not burnt. Timber filled with 
oil is not susceptible of water, and the timber is 
much more durable. I was amused, some time 
ago, when 1 told a blacksmith how to keep tires 
tight on wheels, by liis telling me it was a profit¬ 
able business to tighten tires, and tbe wagon 
maker will say it is profitable to him to make and 
repair wheels—bnt what will tbe farmer, who 
supports the wheelwright and smith, say?” 
Agricultural JSlisccUnng. 
Inquiries anti ^nsaers. 
WARra r>.\ Catti.k—A s I Lave received no answer to 
au inquiry which I made some time ago, I thought I 
would wilts you again, The inquiry was, bow shall I 
cure warts on cuttle? ] have a two vi-at old heifer that 
has wart- m her ear. On one of her cave there is a wart 
aslargi* a-a good-sized apple, and the inside of her ear 
is filled lull of warts,so that i cannot see into it,and there 
are several more scattered about on her Deck and body 
H you or any of your correspondent* can give me anv 
udormation on the subject,you will roofer a great favor 
J. G. PoURUK, Purhamr.ilU , A Y., I860. 
. A 7 Ack'/T 1 ™'' SrusY.~ia they.Mie ofthe Rural 
ior A pi 1 1 14 tb, I noticed a communication upon “Howidir 
IlHKter from Jak Halliard, in which be speaks nf an 
Agricultural Sulky, and pay*, in answer t.n Mr. Ross 
■that he should have one, if he has not." but Mr Hal- 
LUIII) neither tells un where to get one. or how to make 
it Now, if Mr Halliard does not want to monopolize 
the article, 1 wish he would tell u». through The Herat. 
bow to construct one. particularly how to adjunt the 
sower, anil what kind of sower is used, or else toil us 
where they can he [illrelumed, price, &c. By so doing, he 
will very much oblige more than one young farmed in 
this auction.—C. W. t Copenhagen. Lewis Co., A T . Y. 
Thk Weather of the past two weeks has been pleasant 
and favorable for out-door operations throughout this 
region more etasonnhie than last year, though not as 
warm as farmers and gardeners desire. Indeed, nearly 
the whole of April, though cool, was favorable for farming 
operations, and our farmers have made considerable pro¬ 
gress in plowing and other spring work, All are non 
extremely busy, with Ihe prospect of a seasonable seed 
time and abundant harvest. Our advices from the West 
— Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, &c.,— Bpeak of the pleasant 
weather, forwardness of spring, &c,,and state that farmers 
are busily engaged in planting. 
The Boston Cultivator of Saturday last says:—“ The 
Season here ia thus far remarkable for dryness. There 
has been little rain Id any part of New Kngland since 
March came in. This gives a favorable seed time, which 
has been duly improved. Sprlivs are very low, however, 
and grass would be benefited by rain. The weather con¬ 
tinues rather cold. The ground was Dozen on the morn¬ 
ing of the 25th to the depth ol half an inch. Tn a late 
trip to Vermont, we saw considerable snow and ice in the 
mountains, Ihough plowing and grain-sowing in the Con¬ 
necticut valley and on the shores of Lake Champlain, had 
been considerably advanced.” 
Hungarian Grass.— Will yon please Inform me, 
through tha column, or your valuable paper, what kind 
ol laud is most suituble for the growth of Hungarian 
(*ras», the moat suitable time for sowing, and the qunri- 
//f 1860 |K ‘ r aCr,,f- ' V H S - ML Vernon, Jeff. Co., 
The rich prairie soils or the West nrc particularly 
adapted to Hungarian Grass. Here only the richest soils 
produce what would be considered an ordinary crop at 
the West, From ten to twelve quarts is the quantity 
sown to an acre. The first of June is, perhaps, as good 
a time to sow as could be selected. Our experience with 
this grass is limited, and our Western readers may- 
know important facts, in regard to its culture, worthy of 
note. 
LIGHTNING RODS, AGAIN. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: —If D. E. II. will but 
observe the manner in whieh lightning rods are 
placed upon bindings, he will not wonder that W. 
B. P.has so little confidence in these heaven-delv¬ 
ing contrivances of man. On dwellings they are 
visually fastened to the chimney, then down the 
roof, or, perhaps, running the whole length ofthe 
ridge, crooking around tbe cornice, down the side 
of the building; insulated by passing through 
glass knobs fastened by iron staples, leaving the 
rod about two inches from the building. Now, 
glass, when dry, is a non-conductor of electricity, 
but when wet, as the knobs usually are, during a 
thunder shower, it is us good a conductor as iron. 
Tims the rod is connected with the building at the 
time when it should be perfectly insulated from it. 
It is a fact connected with electricity, that it will 
take the shortest route through a poor conductor, 
rather than a longer one through a good con¬ 
ductor. Hence, if the rods were straight and per¬ 
pendicular, the only danger of using an uninsu¬ 
lated rod would be from an over-charge, when a 
pan would be compelled to enter the building. 
But when the rods are crooked about in so many 
ways, the electricity would naturally take the 
shortest course through the wet knobs and build¬ 
ing, and an over-charge would not hesitate long 
to leap the short distance of two inches, even if 
the rods were perfectly insulated. Therefore, we 
conclude that lightning rods should be straight, 
perpendicular, and perfectly insulated from the 
building. 
And now allow me to suggest a mode of erec- 
IIoi-mi* Chestnuts for Cattle and Poultry. 
Title London Field recommends horse chest¬ 
nuts for cattle and poultry. The nuts are first 
steeped in lime-water, then well washed, and 
boiled to a paste. So prepared, they are very 
fattening. This process effectually destroys their 
bitterness, which is considered to be injurious to 
sheep. Deer will eat them uncooked. They 
enrich the milk of cows, and are said to cure 
horses of cough, and hence the Latin name given 
to this tree. Turkeys staffed with horse chestnuts 
when living, as well as with the sweet chestnut 
when dead, and lambs fed on Pistacio nuts, were 
in former days considered great delicacies. It 
was once thought to be the oil in the chestnut 
that rendered it so nutricious; but it is now 
found to be nearer the pulse tribe in its qualities 
than the nut, and very farinaceous. 
Why Barley so often fails in New York. 
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 
says:—The amount of ignorance as to true farm¬ 
ing is extraordinary. The early settlers found 
the soil fertile, and they practiced a system of 
constant cropping, which their children have 
followed after them, till they found that the crops 
failed, and then they began to look around for 
the cause. Barley has ceased to be grown in 
this country, because the land won’t grow it; 
but many farmers do not know the cause—or 
won’t They ascribe its failure to unpropitious 
seasons, insects, defects in seed, etc. One of my 
neighbors sowed one field to oats seventeen years 
in succession! —and when he wanted to sell his 
farm, he cited this fact to prove the richness ol' 
the soil. 
Clover. 
Every farmer should have a piece of clover, 
whatever other soiling crops he may raise: it 
not only makes up the variety necessary to keep 
cattle in health, but its yield is large and profita¬ 
ble; it takes less from the soil, and more from 
the atmosphere, than most other green crops, 
and tbe portion remaining in the soil contains 
material to improve its mechanical condition, as 
well as to progress the inorganic constituents 
which it elevates front the subsoil alter subsoil 
plowing, and is almost sure of success on any 
soil worthy of cultivation. So says the Working 
Farmer. 
To keep Tires light on Wheels. 
Tue following, if reliable, wiil prove valua¬ 
ble. A correspondent of the Southern Planter 
says:—"I ironed a wagon some years ago. for 
my own use, and before putting on the tires I 
filled the fellies with linseed oil; and the tires 
have worn out, and were never loose. I ironed 
a buggy for my own use, seven yeais ago, and 
the tires are now as tight as when put on. .My 
method of filling the tallies with oil is as follows: 
I use a long cast iron oil heater, made for the 
purpose; the oil is biought to a boiling heat, the 
wheel is placed on a stick, so as to hang in the 
oil, each felly one hour, for a common sized felly. 
Mabcric t'ou CORN.-Having derived much valuable 
information from jour paper, I wish to know from vour- 
>r "’ or read ora, how I can iiiiwt profitably di.poKi* of rur 
manure foi corn? It couxista of well-lotted ftraw. anil 
partially rotted and fresh slable manure, r Intended to 
put it. on tbe bill, hot some tell me it will heat and kill 
the corn, especially the unrotted stable manure. Will it 
be belter to apply tbe uurotted part in or under the bill 
orwrll ibis be beet for all of it? I havealKOft few loads of 
leached ashes. Ought J to mix them with the nraw or 
apply separately: My ground baa a tight day subsoil. 
Ought it til be lifted to tbe top. or just stirred the Brat 
timer Does mangel wnraej pa v for feed? ll no. where 
cau I obtain seed, aud at what price? ( don't see it 
advertised. Aoy light on the above questions will be 
tnd I 860 receivud b - v—A Yovsa Farm tot, Logavepurl, 
COAnsK manure, With a good deal of straw, i B better 
plowed in. Well-rotted manure will produce the best 
result on the crop by applying in the hill, mixing well 
with tbe soil. An ordinary quantity of fresh manure in 
tbe bill, if mixed with tbe soil, would not beat so as to 
do injury. Wo have found tbe best result from ashes by 
scattering them on the surface as soon as the corn ap¬ 
peared above the Boil. They become will mixed with the 
sell in cultivating and hoeing. .Mangel Wurzel seed cud 
be obtained of the seedsmen here, and wo presume at 
Chicago Rad most other Western cities, at about eighty 
cents per pound. Three or four pounds will be required 
for au acre. Try and see if it pays. 
WESTERN N. Y. Ac’L, HORTlCCLTfrRAL ard Mech'l 
Association, The Directors of this Association held 
their first meeting in this city, on tbe 26th ult., and or¬ 
ganized by electing P. Barry, President, nnd D. D. T. 
Moore, Secretary. Most of the Director! were in attend¬ 
ance. and letter? read explaining the necessary absence 
of Hon, Messrs J. S, Wadsworth and E. B. Holmes 
Mr. B. M. Baker, Chairman of tbe Committee to whom 
wan confided tbe duty of petitioning the Legislature to 
incorporate a Western New York Agricultural, Horticul¬ 
tural and Mechanical Association, to be located at or near 
Rochester, reported that a charter for tbe formation of 
such Association had been granted, the condition being 
that said Association shall, before commencing opera¬ 
tions, raise a sum of not less than *60,000. Said sum can 
ho increased to $150,000 at pleasure, and the Association 
may purchase and own not to exceed 150 acres of land— 
both to be exempt from taxation The Secretary was in¬ 
structed to procure aud open books for obtaining sub¬ 
scriptions to the stock of the Association, anil Messrs. B. 
M. Baker. Sam l Miller, W. A. Reynolds, P. Barry and 
D, It. Barton were appointed a committee to obtain sub¬ 
scriptions. A committee of tl. tee—consisting of Messrs. 
J. II Martinpalk, 1), H. Barton and Samuel Miller— 
wits appointed to draft a Constitution and By-Laws for 
the Association- Action was also taken relative to ob¬ 
taining subscriptions, and several other measures were 
adopted to secure the early and permanent organization 
and ultimate successor the Association—all the members 
present, seeming desirous that the institution should go 
into operation at the earliest practicable period and un¬ 
der tbe best auspices. The proceedings were quite har¬ 
monious, aud not only exhibited the zeal and enterprise 
of the several members of the Board, but a determina¬ 
tion to promote the laudable objects of the origiuatorsof 
the Association—the advancement of the great industrial 
futerests of Western New York. 
Pink Am. k Cubes* — English Dairy Cheese. — i 
would like to inquire through your columns with regard 
to pme apple cheese, where and how it orislnated? How 
i* ir. manufactured? Iu wbnt wav U it different, or bet¬ 
ter, than our Common State dairy? English Ohio dairy 
is quoted from three to four cents higher than State 
any. Why Is it worth anymore, aud how aud where 
niade: If any of your numerous correspondents will 
gn e me the necessary information, they will much oi li-e 
—A ScscRULER, Rupert, fl , 1-560, * 
Pine Apple Cheese has its name from the fact it is 
made in tba form of that fruit, which it is made still 
further to resemble, by being placed in a net made of 
twine when green, and hung up, the meshes of the net 
making indentations in the form of a diamond. Evans 
describes the process as follows:—‘‘The cheese it pressed 
in a mold capable of holding from six to ten pounds of 
curd This mold is formed of four scantling four or five 
inches square, by scooping out one Corner of each iu the 
right shape, and placing them together. The timbers 
ure long enough to allow a neck six or seven inches long 
and three or more in diameter, to be grooved from the 
same corners, aud when they are put together, the curd 
is put into the mold through this, neck, the nock also 
being filled with curd pressed iu. The separate pieces of 
timber are bolted firmly together two and two, thns 
leaving it in two parts. These two parts are held firmly 
together by a hoop of strap iron tightened by wedges. 
Wbeu the eheeseling is to he taken out, the wedges are 
loosened, the hoop slipped off, and the mold tukeu apart. 
The pressure is applied by any press provided with a 
follower that will lit the neck into which it is forced, 
aud the whey escapes at the joining of the molds, which 
opens a little by the pressure. The cheese cloth is used 
the same as in the common hoop, though it should be 
pressed hard for awhile to obliterate the impressions of 
the folds in the cloth. The follower should he a little 
concave at tho bottom, and foreff the curd down to a 
level with the curd iu the mold. The whey should be en. 
tirely removed, and the cheese rendered as Compact as 
possible. To effect this, a follower sharpened in lbe 
form of a bodkin at the lower end, long enough to reach 
near the bottom of the mold, should be forced into the 
cheese immediately after the curd has been somewhat 
compacted by the follower, aud the orifice filled up with 
new curd, if there is not enough already In the mold to 
fill it. After it has remained in the press a sufficient 
length of time, it is removed, and a net is placed upon 
it, similar to a cabbage net, knit with xueshes half or 
three-fourths of sd inch square, when they are suspend¬ 
ed l»v the tightening cord to hooks driven into the wall 
or other place for tbe purpose. Wheu thoroughly dried 
they should be smeared with as much sweet whey but¬ 
ter as will be absorbed The skin will be rendered tough 
and impervious to flies, by dipping tbe cheese for two or 
three days in wood ashes ley. After hanging long 
enough to get their shape confirmed, which usually re¬ 
quires from four to six weeks, the net is removed, and 
they are set upon tho large end upon trenchers till per¬ 
fectly cured. DuriDg the whole process of curing they 
are to be tubbed as Often as necessary to give them a fair 
skin and keep away insects. The pine apple cheese, 
when good, usually briBgs a price two or three cents 
aud sometimes more, above the common varieties,” 
Sometimes it is necessary, alter the cheese is in the 
net, to put in water for a short time, to soften the out¬ 
side, so as to produce the desired impression. 
Bakomktbrs.— Of late wo have received from the man¬ 
ufacturers two mercurial barometers of different style or 
finish from those generally iu use heretofore. One is a 
I’ortablo Barometer of Timhy's patent, from J. P. Sim¬ 
mons k So«, of Fulton, a brief notice of which was given 
iu our last volume, in an account ortho Oswego Co. Fair. 
The other ia an instrument made by S. C. Bowen, of 
Medina, (the K.me style recently advertised la itie hural.) 
Both these instruments are designed for farmers, or gen¬ 
eral use, and afforded at a moderate price, we believe. 
They present a flue external appearance, and have ope¬ 
rated well during the few days we have had them in use 
— comparing well with each other and an excellent 
instrument made by J. Kendall, of New Lebanon. We 
shall note and compare the operation and reliability of 
the three instrument.-, with much interest. 
Mass. Boaku or Agriculture.- We are indebted to 
the Secretary of this Board, Ciias, L. Flint, Esq., for a 
copy of hia Sevcuth Annual Report, for the year 1859. 
The work forms a handsome octavo volume of 322 pages, 
aud compriys much interesting and useful information 
relating to both Agricluture anu Horticulture. The 
reports of Committees appointed to visit the exhibitions 
ol the County Societies are given, and embrace facts of 
considerable interest. The Report also embraces, in an 
Appendix, an abstract of the General Statutes of the 
Slate relating to Agriculture, of recent adoption or revi¬ 
sion,—such as acts relative to Agricultural and Horticul¬ 
tural Societies, rentes, pouuds, the preservation of cer- 
birds and animals, the protection of sheep against dogs, 
&c, The volume is quite creditable, and will prove 
valuable to us as a work of reference. 
Vermont Sheri* in the Pacific States —We observe 
from our California and Oregon exchanges of lute dates 
that the sheep breeders of Vermont are giving increased 
attention to the Pacific States as a market for their fine 
wooled stock. They speak in the highest terms of a lot 
of Spanish and French MerinoB recently introduced by 
our correspondent, S. B. Rockwell, Esq., of Middlebury, 
t t. Ihe California Farmer says they embrace some of the 
best aud finest wooled sheep shown in that State. The 
Oregon Parmer states that Mr. R. has disposed or all the 
French Merinos taken to that State, and the prospect is 
another shipment will be required to supply the demand. 
do Krr.L Lice OX Calves, take lump oil, if in winter, and 
a shoe brush, and put it on so that you know every louse 
lias some, aud iu six hours your caff will have no lice 
that will do him harm. Since last spring I have tried it 
on four different calves with complete success. It is bet¬ 
ter than a greased string around the neck. Brother 
farmers, a lousy calf don't pay.—AMOS Clark, Marcellus. 
A Bjo Corn CROJ-.— 11 Jumps Armstrong, of Knoxville, 
term .raised last season 4.000 budiels of shelled corn 
weighingOO pounds to the bushel, on 40 acres of land, 
or an average of 100 bushels to the sore, tufciug, also, 
from the same ground. 62 wagon loads of pumpkins, 40 
bushels iff peas, and 10 of beans. A picked acre of the 
held yielded 106 bushels of shelled corn:” 
— That is a trill^ Munchuuseuish, especially the last 
sentence. Our Western and Southern friends have “a 
great country for corn," and we will therefore admit the 
100 bushels per acre, with “some pumpkins,” peas and 
beans,—but we reckon the extra 60 bushels were not 
produced, uuless of the variety grown on trees, such as 
is advertised of lute, and concerning ihe fecundity of 
which we hare no positive knowledge. 
Tobacco kor Cut Worms. —We published a year^igo, 
a .--tatement of Hiram Speak, of Springfield, Penn., that 
a decoction of tobacco, poured boiiing hot upon seed 
Corn, wa» a preventive of cut worms. He also stated 
that a small parcel of cut tobacco dropped with the seed 
in the hill, was a preventive. A letter from L. G. Touner, 
of Utica, N. Y„ now before us, states that he tried the 
tobacco water on seed corn, planted in land infested with 
cut worms, and not a hill OX spire was touched. A por¬ 
tion of the land was sward ground, and all was manured 
in the hill. Let this easy remedy he remembered, and 
tried by others who are troubled with these small pests 
of.the farmer.—W. Y. Tribune. 
Plowing by Steam. —As the season for active farming 
operations has arrived, we begin to see accounts of steam 
plows. It is said that Mr. Jaa Waters, of Detroit, 
having made several improvements in his steam plowing 
machine, is soon to commence operations in Illinois, 
where he has contracts for breaking up prairie. Report 
also says that a new machine, built for FAwiceJ, in Cin¬ 
cinnati. is soon to be put to work at the West. What 
'.has become of Fields' Steam Cultivator? 
