entries of stock alone amounted to over GOO, and 
abetter lot we never saw at any County lair; 
this was the universal expression of strangers 
and even old drovers. And tbo other derail¬ 
ments were all equally as well filled, f loral Hall 
was like a fairy temple, decked with flowers, 
paintings, articles of fancy workmanship, filled 
with fair forms and smiling faces, while sweetest 
music lent enchantment to the scene. 
With about $1,200 cash premiums to pay, ex¬ 
penses, Ac., I understand that the receipts were 
sufficient to cover all, leaving a nice little balance 
in the treasury for a rainy day. This success is 
attributable to good regulations, good manage¬ 
ment, prompt payment of all premiums, expenses, 
and to the hearty support of a go-ahead, progres¬ 
sive people. A few years ago we had none hut 
the commonest kind of native cattle, and unsal¬ 
able apologies for horse*. Now almost every 
farm has its blooded stock of all kinds, for which 
at any time the cash can he taken at what some 
would call exorbitant prices. And farms, build¬ 
ings, and the general appearance of the county 
and the intelligence of the people have correspond 
ingly improved. Bo much for the influence of 
Agricultural Fairs, Rural and local papers, and 
the desire, will and ability for progress and gene¬ 
ral thrift. Youra ever, Cuawford. 
Conneautville, Pa., Oct. 15, 1860. 
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DISCUSSION ON SHEEP. 
Experience of Shepherds an to best Breeds fur Profit —x 
Coarse anil Fun It'noted Mutton — About Greasing- 
Sheep, and Large Fleeces — Selection of Hucks— JIow 
to Cross Leicester$ and Merinos — Advice to Few 
Breeders—Young Beginners, fyc. 
Ens. Rural New-Yorker:— I was pleased to 
notice in the Rural of the Kith inst., a sketch of 
the discussion at the State Fair. Circumstances 
forbade my attendance there, but I venture the 
assertion that those wiio were present at the dis¬ 
cussion referred to, found that the most profitable 
and pleasent part of the whole thing. The show 
of animals and agricultural productions are of 
but little importance when compared with the 
interchange of views with sound, practical men, 
who have spent their lives tilling the soil. 
I said in my article (which you guve in Rural 
of Sept, !S,) that sheep-raising was more my hobby 
than any other branch of farming. I was pleased 
therefore to notice the varied experience of the 
different shepherds given at your meeting for 
discussion. It is well that there is a diversity of 
opinion as to the bent breeds of sheep in our 
country for profit. If all concentrated on one 
breed, the thing might soon lie “run Into the 
ground,” but ub it is we get u good supply of 
fleeces for the variety of fabrics wanted in our 
country, and then a variety from the flesh of the 
sheep to suit the varied taste of the mutton 
epicures. 
While one contends that the mutton of the long- 
wooled is the most juicy and well-flavored, an 
other that the South-Down has the bcstllavor and 
is the best interspersed with fat and lean, I have 
heard others whose opinions are equally worthy 
of credit, declare that the flavor of the Hue-wooled 
mutton is ns much superior to the coarser grade? 
as the wool is liner. 
I noticed with interest the reply of Pettieonk 
to the question, “Do Vermont sheep-raisers 
grease their sheep?” I perfectly agree with him 
about greasy sheep and wool, and I write this 
article more than for any other reason to warn 
young begiouers and new sheep-breeders not to 
be too much elated with their final success with 
greasy sheep. They will find in the end that they 
are greasy, slippery things . First —If you buy 
sheep that have been artificially greased, it is a 
self-evident fact that you have caught a Tartar. 
Secondly — If you buy sheep that are strongly 
predisposed to grease, depend upon it that you 
have got a short-lived race of sheep, as the draft 
of grease from the flesh to the wool is bo great 
that it is sure soon to impair the constitution of 
the animal, which can only be kept up by high 
keeping. Prolific ewes of a dozen years of age 
will be very scarce and far between, from this 
variety. 
Pettibone says—“ Those sheep with extremely 
greasy fleeces should be discarded, as the wool 
becomes cold and the sheep chilled. They will 
freeze almost as quick as a cabbage plant, and 
need blanketing in the baru.” There may he a 
good deal in that, but I apprehend that it is more 
from the draft on the constitution than the cold nn 
ture of the grease in thewool. Such, sheep are un¬ 
profitable, as the fat inclines so much to the outside 
they are not a sheep in favor with the butcher. 
Again—The wool is becoming more and more a 
drug with dealers. They cannot sell it until their 
floors are well cleaned of the lighter varieties. An 
average of lbs. of clean wool to the flock should 
satisfy any reasonable breeder. The writer once 
bought (as a curiosity,! the premium fleece taken 
off at a Sheep Fair, the weight of which was 30 
C-16 fl>s., and had it cleansed for the card,— and 
when cleansed, its weight was reduced to 7 11-10 
pounds. 
As the season is approaching to make selec¬ 
tion of bucks for our flocks, I advise all new 
breeders not to look so much for grease in their 
selections as to a compact fleece of even, fine 
wool; and also shun backs that have wrinkles on 
the body, as they will be short lived. Let the 
shirt fit sung to the body; a wrinkle or two on the 
neck, and a good flap across the breast, is well 
enough. See that your sheep has a stocky form, 
a peach-blow skin, wool compact and long, par¬ 
ticularly on the holly, and certainly on the legs 
as low as the joints or lower, and then, with good 
sheds and keeping, you will find grease enough at 
shearing and bo pretty sure to Luve a good con¬ 
stitution. From careful observation 1 am satis¬ 
fied that not'one in ten of these extraordinary 
shearers attain to three-fifths in weight of their 
former shearings after they have passed into 
second hands. 
Mr. Baker's remarks at the discussion were 
very sensible, and from my personal knowledge 
he is a true model for young beginners. 
I noticed Mr. Harmon’s remarks as to his trial 
of the cross with a Leicester buck and Merino 
ewes. The failure he experienced is the general 
rule and not the exception of that manner of 
crossing. 1 would go a good way to see a prime 
flock reared from that manner of crossing. It is 
“the cart before the horse;” but you reverse It, 
and cross with the fine buck and Leicester or 
coarse ewe, and yon get a good staple of wool, 
and a fine, vigorous animal. The reason is obvi 
ous; the Leicester or other coarse wooled eweB 
give a much larger amount of milk than the 
Merino. The Leicester lamb requires much more 
milk than the Merino, and with his Merino mother 
is all the time starved for the want of a full 
stomach, and the consequence is be growB up a 
stinted sheep, covered with thin coarse wool; 
while on the other hand the Merino lamb requires 
a leBB amount of nutriment, but gets from his 
Leicester mother a surplus, and he comCB up 
strong and hearty, and invariably with a finer, 
better staple of wool than the other cross. 
Yonrs truly, Steuben. 
l’rattsburgh, N. Y., Oct. 17, I860. 
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HARVESTING ROOTS. 
Root Crops are now become a matter of 
necessity on every well conducted farm where 
it is desired that the soil Bbould be ameliorated 
and the stock carried creditably through the 
winter, and a few hints on harvesting them may 
not be out of place at this time. 
Carrots.— This crop requires to be taken up 
before a bard frost ocours, as the roots easily 
freeze, and soon decay if once frozen. Run a 
plow as deeply as possible on one side of a row 
of carrots; this will clear away the earth, and 
they can then be easily pulled by hand, topped, 
and thrown into heaps to dry for a day or two, 
and then stored away in the cellar or root house. 
Parsnips.— This crop is best to be left in the 
ground all winter, if the land is not liable to be 
saturated with too much moisture. They are 
much improved in flavor thereby, and can be 
taken up in spring as soon as the frost leaves the 
soil, and fed to the stock as wanted. 
Beets and M anuels. —These crops aro usually 
pulled by hand, and an- best preserved in circular 
pits in the ground where the soil is dry. They 
are very liable to beat, and as a preventive, place 
a large sheaf of dry straw in the center of each 
pit, and pile the roots around it, leaving the top 
sticking ont of the pit to facilitate the escape of 
the foul gases thrown off by the roots. Beets are 
beat fed in early winter; mangels about February. 
Turnips. —Swedes, Yellow Aberdeen?, and most 
of the hybrid turnips, acquire the largest portion 
of their bulb growth in the Autumn, and continue 
to enlarge iu size until very cold weather and 
severe frosts occur. As soon as the top leaves 
become wilted by the frost, it is about time to 
harvest them. The white varieties, such as the 
Globe, Norfolk, Ac., are more susceptible to the 
effects of frost, and require to be taken up and 
housed somewhat earlier. Those latter are the 
varieties usually grown in Great Britain, where 
the frost being seldom severe enough to seriously 
injure them, they remain In the ground through 
the winter, the sheep being penned in small lots 
on the turnip field, and removed from one spot 
to another till all the turnips are eaten off. I will 
give the most expeditious mode of taking up 
turnips, as practiced here. 
Have a boo made with a long blade, not more 
than four or five inches wide, and very strong 
and sharp. The operator walks in the furrow 
between two drills, and cuts off the turnip top at 
one blow, and then strikes the hoe into the soil 
at the side of the drill just below the lmlb of the 
turnip, severing it off the tap-root, and with a 
slight pull on the handle the turnip rolls into the 
furrow. By taking two rows at a time, left and 
right, every two drills when drawn occupy one 
farrow. In this way an expert man can take op 
half an acre of turnips per day. 
A slower but neater method is to pull up the 
turnips by hand, cut oil' the top and tap-root with 
a sharp knife, drop the turnips of four drills into 
one furrow, leaving the leaves in the outside 
furrow. In cold, wet weather, this method ren¬ 
ders the workman liable to suffer from chilblains 
in his fingers. 
Let the turnips lie on the field in heaps for a 
few days to dry and sweat a little before storing 
them. It is important that turnips should not 
become frozen after they are taken out of the 
ground, and where hard frosts arc anticipated at 
night, they should either be stored at once, or 
covered during the night with straw, potato or 
buckwheat haulm. Even the turnip leaves on 
the ground may be forked over them, provided 
they are not too wet. 
Where, from the want of a root house or cellar, 
it becomes necessary to store the turnips on the 
ground, there are two methods of procedure, 
either of which may be advautageously adopted. 
One is, to put them in circular heaps of fifty 
bushels each, on the highest and driest spots on 
the field where they are grown, cover them with 
earth, without straw, to the depth of one foot,— 
the earth thrown on the heap being so dug out 
around it, as to leave a ditch to drain off the 
surface water and prevent it from getting under¬ 
neath the turnips. The earth may be piled a 
little thicker at the junction of the slope with 
the level ground. This is a very convenient 
mode of storing turnips, as one heap can be 
opened at a time, and the contents removed to 
the barn or cattle stalls during the coldest 
weather in winter, and a little freezing then does 
not hurt them if used before they thaw out again. 
The other plan, and one often adopted, is to 
draw the turnips to a clean piece of sward 
ground near the farm yard, and pile them on the 
surface in long, narrow ridges—say six feet wide 
at bottom, and the sides carried up to an apex 
like a roof, at the height of four feet from the 
ground. These are then covered with earth the 
same as before described, but to prevent the tur¬ 
nips from decaying from the heat evolved by 
them, holes four inches in diameter should be 
left at every five feet along the apex of the ridge. 
These holes can be stuffed with a wisp of straw 
in very severe cold weather, or when a snow or 
rain storm is anticipated, care being taken to acre next season, and give it a more extended flirtfllltltirCll OticfHlrtlttl 
remove them again in a few days. The length and thorough trial. Milo Shattuck. y * ‘■** 
of these ridgps is immaterial, or several may be Goaveraeur, N. Y., i860. 
built alongside of each other. The turnips are TnB above was received after onr inquiry of 
taken out sb wanted from one end of the ridge,, last week was in type, but before it was published. 
and that end kept closed up when not in use, by 
a bunch of straw or some green pine boughs. 
Hamilton, C. W\, Oct,, I860. J. M. 
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS IN ILLINOIS. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker :—Having just re¬ 
turned from a pleasure jaunt through the central 
and south-east part of the State, and aB I am 
writing you relating to business, I will, at the 
same time, try and give yon Borne information 
relating to farmers, their vocation and prospects 
here upon our western prairies. Farming in Illi¬ 
nois is, “as 1 presume your readers know,” quite 
a different thing from farming upon those clay 
hills of Western New York. The Divine injunc¬ 
tion is there truly fulfilled, “that by the 6woat of 
thy brow 6halt thou earn thy bread.” Not that I 
wish to infer that we farmers of the West are 
wholly free from labor, but that we can farm here 
and raise our crops with much less hard work 
than with you. To make farming a paying, as 
well as a prosperous business, among those hills, 
requires time, capital and labor. Yes, hard, 
bodily labor, not altogether free from cares and 
anxieties. Here it is different. Many who a few 
It is quite different from the following report on 
the same subject: 
Mr. Moore:— Pnr&uant to a call in the Rurual 
of thij week, for the results of experiments with 
the Egyptian Corn, I hasten (as briefly as is con¬ 
sistent with clearness,) to state: 
Firstly—T mailed to Mr. Crandai., about the 
1st of May, one dollar. Secondly—I received by 
mail, soon thereafter, 100 very pretty little white 
grains of something which, by the aid of the cir¬ 
cular accompanying it, I interpreted to mean 
“ Egyptian Corn.” Thirdly—1 planted 50 of those 
"little white grains of something,” in excellent 
soil, and according to directions, about the 20th 
of May. Fourthly—In due time ten very Bmall 
blades of corn made their appearance. Fifthly— 
It grew “in the form of a tree ” — "idest v —it com¬ 
bined the three elements of extension—length, 
breadth and thickness. Sixthly—I tended it well, 
placed under my ban all envious poultry and 
weed?, and gave my corn room to “ spread itself.” 
Seventhly—I harvested my cnor about the 20th 
of September. My corn is red. Eighthly—I divid¬ 
ed my 100 grains equally with a neighbor, who is 
fully rny equal in all respects as a farmer. Ninth- 
pp_My neighbor’s corn is while, and his yield is 
Tub Rural's Fall Campaign ban thus far proTed emi¬ 
nently successful. Scores of trial subscribers are received 
daily from all parts of the country — New England, the 
Middle. Southern and Western State?, the Canada*, ic. 
Every mail brings oa c-laba of 4 to 20 trials, from distant 
and widely separated sections, all the States from Maine 
to Minnesota being well represented. For example, Mr. 
H A, Hoyt, of Fairfield Co., Conn., sends na seventy-two 
subscribers, all but two at one post-office: Mr. LaRub 
Thompson, Steuben Co , N. Y., baa already sent over one 
hundred and forty — bis firit letter, containing 47, being 
the result of two hours effort. The baudsoroe lists from 
other parts of this Slate, the West and Canada, are “ too 
numerous to mention," but we sssnre Rural fiiends 
everywhere that their timely ai d generous efforts are 
gratefully appreciated. And as Election will soon be 
over, we hope our readers will see that the Rural is 
substituted for the polilical campaign papers, which have 
had full sway for so many months—a change which cannot 
hut prove beneficial in the Home& of the People. Who¬ 
ever is elected President, or whatever party trinmphg, 
the prosperity ofthe couutry and people mnst mainly de¬ 
pend upon the skill and success of the productive classes; 
and hence we submit that every journal which, like the 
Rural, aims to promote the best interests of these 
Classes, should be encouraged by all wdo desire to ad¬ 
vance the common weal. 
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BROTHER .Iron, of the American Agriculturist, who ia 
one of the most clever, enterprising and successful of oar 
contemporaries, announces that hia office has been re¬ 
moved from Water street to Park Row, and congratulates 
yeais ago possessed nothing, are now owners of quite as large as mine. Tenthly, and lastly—No himself and patrons thereupon. This is all right, and we 
a nice little home. Others who came to the State 
entirely deBtitmte, are making good headway 
toward their hopes. I know of young men who, 
less than two years ago, came to this State on 
foot, “comparatively poor,” tbut are now com¬ 
fortably situated, own their team, wagon and 
harness, have a home furnished, and good living 
obtained, all from the proceeds of their own 
labor. Not one cent of capital did they possess, 
and one was somewhat in debt. One party has 
also made a small payment on a farm, which he 
has the papers for, and possession at any time. 
These are not single cases,—such aro constantly 
occurring throughout the West, Where else in 
the world con you find the young man who, un¬ 
aided, and with family encumbrances, could have 
placed himself in the position now enjoyed by 
those I have portruyed. The West holds out 
strong inducements to just such men. She needs 
them to till her lands and break her prairies. 
She yields bountifully to those who, with their 
hands to the plow, are willing to labor for what 
she williDgly gives. 
The wheat crop throughout the State has 
proved good. The yield has not always been the 
heaviest, but what has been lacking in that re¬ 
spect has generally been made up in quality. 
Oor spring wheat, which we finished threshing 
this week, has yielded an average of eighteen 
bushels per acre. It was somewhat, damaged by 
the chintz bug, bat nevertheless it was as hand¬ 
some and plump a lot of wheat as I ever saw. 
We have delivered the last at market to-day, at 
75 cents per bushel. 
Corn will yield abundantly. In fact, there was 
never a better or a heavier corn crop raised in 
this part of the country than that of the present 
season. There are small fields here which 1 have 
heard computed at ninety bushels of Bhelled corn 
to the acre. These fields were snbsoiled last fall 
and this spring. On my farm is one field of 
thirty-six acres, that my farmers and others assert 
will average seventy-five bushels. All, however, 
are not like these, some giving as low as fifty 
and sixty. I have not seen quite as good corn 
since I left home, as this appears here. 
The farmers are rejoicing at tne fine prospects, 
and with renewed hopes are preparing to crop 
heavily another year. Winter wheat has become 
a very uncertain crop with us, and we are turning 
attention more to sowing winter rye, which ap¬ 
pears to stand the winter better upon the honey 
comb land of the richer prairies. The Fruit 
Crop is rather light Heavy frosts during the 
time the trees were in blossom, destroyed our 
prospects. There has been quite a quantity of 
Sugar Cane raised here, almost every farmer 
having enough to supply molasses for the coming 
year. They have no difficulty in making very 
fine sirup, nearly equal to the choice "Golden” 
of the 6ugar refineries. I have not seen any 
sugar made, although I understand that they are 
trying to manufacture at the mill, where there 
are fair facilities for making up. It is expected 
to have a large steam mill iu operation by another 
season, when I think it will be quite largely raised. 
Canton, Fulton Co., Ill., I860. H. Gardiner, 
P. 6.—Have just learned that a very fine sample 
of sugar from this cane took the premium at our 
county fair, which has j ust closed. It was a clear, 
light straw color. a. 
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“EGYPTIAN CORN.” 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Having had some 
experience in raising “Egyptian Corn” during 
the past Beasou, and thinking that the result of 
such experience might prove interesting to, at 
least, a few of the readers of the Rural, I con¬ 
cluded to send you a statement of the facts, to 
dispose of as you shall think proper. 
Last April, I obtained of Mr. Crandai., of Illi¬ 
nois, one package of seed, containing 113 grains 
of corn, which apparently were utterly worthless. 
I planted it, and but twenty-three stalks made 
their appearance. It had no extra cultivation, 
but it grew much more rapidly than any one of 
three other varieties which I had. From these 
twenty-three stalks I have now gathered two 
hundred and forty ears of sound, well-ripened 
corn, varying iu length from four to seven inches, 
and in diameter from one to two inches. In ad¬ 
dition to this, I have one hundred and thirty- 
three ears of unripe corn and nubbins. 
At this rate, I estimate that one acre of land 
other corn was planted within a Sabbath-day’s 
journey in either case. 
Summarily and finally—My crop matured in 
four months, making room for three instead of 
two crops a j ear, as claimed by Mr. C., and wheth¬ 
er it will yield, as he avers, 200 bushels of Go 
pounds each, per acre, I have not taken time to 
estimate. Surely I have no stalks burdened with 
“twenty-two ears,” and when Mr. C. says, •' when 
ground and properly bolted, it is equal in color 
and fineness to wlieaten flour,” I think he must 
be understood sometimes to mean (as in my case, 
for instance,) red “ wheaten flour.” Whether my 
crop will suffice to plant “from twenty to thirty 
acres,” I cannot say, (Mr. C. says it will, and Mr. 
C. knows, of course he does.) I send you one- 
fourth of my crop, a fair average of the whole, 
which yon may distribute among agriculturists 
(and none others,) at the exceedingly low rate of 
fifty cents pet- 100 grains, after reserving enough 
to pay yourself for describing, advertising, Ac., 
and remit the balance by mail, in drafts or cur¬ 
rent bank hills, properly inclosed and registered. 
Seriously —P, T. Barxum is no longer the Piince 
of Humbugs. J. G. Bloomingpalb. 
lVun Van, N. Y, Oct. ISth, I860. 
Tut one-fourth of Mr. B.’s crop which accom¬ 
panied the above, consists of one small ear of red 
corn. The ear is about three inches long, twelve 
rowed, and greatly inferior in diameter (and size 
of both cob and kernel) to the small pop or 
“tucket” corn. We respectfully decline the 
proposition to distribute so large an amount— Ed. 
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Inquiries anti ^Instoers. 
Pasturing >Yhkat i* thk Fall.—As 1 have seen 
some fanners pasture tbeir wheat in the fall, without 
knowing why they did so, I wish to ask those following 
the plan a lew questions. First, is it beneficial, or other¬ 
wise, and why? Second, if It la a benefit to the crop, at 
what time will it »u«wer to turn on, and when taken off ? 
Thirdly, what kind of stock, if any, should it be fed with? 
In the absence of sheep or calves, should larger stock be 
turned on, Ac. By answering the above, they will oblige 
—E. R., Can ast old, F. F., 1860. 
Fattening Hogs-Fermentation or Foon.— Among 
the many of your contributors, I would ask for informa¬ 
tion concerning fattening hogs. J have farmed it for 
thirty year*, and when 1 commenced, 1 adopted the plan 
of keeping swill barrels and saving all the surplus water 
of the kitchen, with the milk and whey, and mixing 
some kind of meal or middlings with it, then let it go 
through the process of fermentation, after which I fed it 
to the hogs 1 supposed I was dolt g things about right, 
until ladt week, when traveling on the cars, 1 got Into 
conversation with an intelligent uppearing gentleman, 
who said this process was all wrong—that the fermenta¬ 
tion destroyed the most of the fattening properties of 
the gram, lie also said that making meal into pudding 
would not fatten as last as dry meal. Now, I would in¬ 
quire t.f your readers whether these things are so?—M. 
K. P , lJoneoyc. Falls, F. Y, 1860. 
Cracked IIoos.—I have a valuable fleet horse, bat she 
is tioubled with what is called a quarter crack in the 
hoof, which causes lameness Wbat shall I do to remedy 
the evil?—A Subscriber, Camden, F. Y., 1860, 
We make the following extract from the “ Horae and 
Hi.« Diseases,” lately Issued by Robert Jennings, Y. S.: 
‘•This disease, also called sand-crack, occurs only iu the 
wish him and his monthly continued and increased pros¬ 
perity, yet can’t suppress a smile on recollecting how 
earnestly brother J. dilated, two or three year* ago. upon 
tbs fact that he was located in an Agricultural Street, 
among the Agricultural Warehouses, Seed and Produce 
Store*, Ac,,— and hence was “nil right on the gooact" 
But we reckon he will stdt make a good paper, even 
among the political publishers afid money chaugers; the 
greatest drawback is, that only twelve number* are issued 
in a whole year, whereas the public would be better 
pleased to receive fifty-two at least—especially, if offered 
at double the price of twelve! Rut it’s a capital journal 
as it iB, (if not so good or cheap as the Rural,) as any 
one can ascertain by remitting $1 for a yearly copy, to 
ORANGE Judd, A. M., New York. 
•» - — - 
Mr. Seward’s Arar Horses.—A n exchange contains 
he following dercription of these animals, a portrait of 
oue of which (the six year old) was given in la*t week’s 
Rural;— “The larger is about 15 hands high, dark bay, 
with black mane and tall, the latter long, fine, and very 
thin; small head, largo bright eyes, and large nostrils, 
but none of the fire and poetry—if we may he allowed 
such a mixture—about him that we are led to expect in 
the steed of the desert. In short, to the uninitiated, a 
‘full-blooded Arabian,’ as here represented—and he is 
affirmed to he pure and invaluable—is ‘not much of a 
shower,’ after all. He is badly marked with a white 
stripe on the forehead, white fore and hind off feet, and 
a dapple on the back. But the beauties and perfections 
excite the knowing one*. Legs—and they are superb- 
hips, shoulders, back, breast and neck, Ac., are deemed 
perfect, and in all essential points, he is pronounced, by 
those who ought to know, the most splendid animal 
they have ever seen. Hearing these enthusiastic posted 
oucb talk, will greatly relieve the disappointment ex¬ 
perienced on first seeing the stallion. This one is six 
years old. The other but two years, and is a much 
handsomer nniraul—some fourteen hands high, and a 
very beautiful sorrel. He evinces more spirit than the 
other, and bis points are quite as loudly praised.” 
A Late Harvest— Jieliable Fetes .— 1 The “Farmer's 
Journal and Transactions of the Board of Agriculture of 
Lower Canada,” for October, grnrtbly announces that “ in 
several counties iu Western New York, the wheat har¬ 
vest has fairly commenced." It has similar intelligence 
from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Ac.,—all which must 
he exceedingly fresh and gratifying to it readers. Some 
other monthlies are remarkable for imparting equally 
important and reliable information. For extmple, the 
“ pioneer agricultural journal of America,” (as it is styled 
by its presiding genius and publisher, who, by the way, 
has not been in America ten years!) lately made a great 
ado about its list of Ag. Fairs to be held this fall, and 
then was so inexcusably stupid as to give the time for 
holding the exhibition of its own County Society a week 
too late! Bat the pioneer prophet being without honor 
or circulation in its own region, no harm was done 1 
« Woman's Rights " and Skill at a Plowing Match. 
—A plowing match recently took place in the department 
of the Rhone, France, at which a damsel of nineteen 
won the prize. When she first appeared with her oxen, 
objections were made by the plowmen against her being 
suffered to compete, but they were overruled. At the 
death of her father, he had a lease of a farm at a rent of 
2,000t per annum. In order to prevent the necessity for 
her mother's giving up the farm, she undertook to work 
hoof that is dry, hard, brittle, and contracted. The hoof th ” land herself - Thui sbe became skiUed in S Qidiu * the 
• ... . l . r_t iit 4 t__a * 
. m a natural, elastic condition, can be bruised, but not 
are fair facilities foi making up. It is expected 0 p j r double the force that splits the dry, contracted 
to have a large steam mill in operation by another hoof, j g applied. This crack occurs most generally at the 
season, when I think it will be quite largely raised, quarters, and almost always in the fore feet, they being 
Canton, Fulton Co., Ill., I860. H. Gardiner. almost alone subject to contraction. If the crack extends 
P. g,— Have just learned that a very fine sample th 10 ”? 11 tbe hour, ic cams® 8 very painful lameness, 
. .. . _. . .v,*_• “For treatment, the foot must first be care fally ex- 
of sugar from this cane took the premium at our ... ... . .. . .. 
.... . , , T . , amined to see that no dirt has worked in under the hoof; 
county fair, which has j ust closed. It was a clear, ^ looge parts of the horn raU(jt be cut hway . tt pledget 
light straw color. O. 0 f tow, saturated with sulphate or chloride of line, or 
-- tincture of myrrh, should be applied, and a bandage 
jtqyptXAN CORN r * carefully put on to keep it in pluce, and keep out the 
_ ’ dirt As soon as the new horn li&s grown down a little^ 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker :-Having had some draw a U ” e acr0FS th ° top f th ° ? th * 
knife or firing iron, and apply a little tar or hoof oint- 
expenence in raising “Egyptian Corn” during ^ Jf tbe crack „ at tLe t06i a shoe , wit h a band 
the past Besson, and thinking that the result of numjng across from the heels to a little below^tbe coro- 
such experience might prove interesting to, at ue t in front, and united by two screws, will often be all 
least, a few of the readers of the Rural, I con- that is required, and the horse may be kept at work; but 
eluded to send you a statement of the facts, to in quarter-crack it is unsafe to use the animal, particu- 
dispose of as you shall think proper. larly * « extewda through to the soft part*. IT the frog 
Last April, I obtained of Mr. CRANDAI., of Iltt- « iu a hea]tb >' condition, which is rarely the case a bar 
1 , „ , ... . , „ shoe, eased at the quarter, wul be fonnd beneficial." 
nois, one package of seed, containing 113 grams ^ ^ ^ Dr D ujo remaikf; _, Tb „ begt 
of corn, which apparently were utteily worthless. p,. a et;oe would be, first, to poultice the foot, (supposing 
I planted it, and but twenty-three Btalks made tbe gboe jj ave t^en removed,) with a view of soften- 
their appearance. It had no extra cultivation, jog the hoof and removing any extraneous matter that 
hut it grew much more rapidly than any one of may have insinuated iteelf into the crack. When the 
three other varieties which I had. From these hoof is sufficiently softened, it should bo cleansed, ex- 
twenty-three stalks I have now gathered two ““ inpd - 6,,d drHK6ed with tinctim ' of rrb * 8eiect a 
, . - . _ . „ „ P _spot about an inch below the coronet, and, with a small 
hundred and forty ears of sound, well-ripened ‘ ... .... ’ ’ 
J ' gimlet, bore a hole through the two edges of the crack, 
corn, varying m length from four to seven inches, Qd anotber one incb aboye m toe A gtrtight oeed]e> 
and in diameter from one to two inches. In ad- armed with a strong ligature, is to be passed through the 
dition to this, I have one hundred and thirty- upper holes, brought over and through a second time; 
three ears of unripe corn and nubbins. thus closing the two edges of the fissure by what the 
At this rate, I estimate that one acre of land sailors term a • round turn.’ The same thing is to he 
will produce three hundred and sixty bushels of repeated at the toe. The assistant, by the aid of pincers 
ears. I judge from its appearance that it would . . ’ . . ftwri ti ,. tla , a BnrL , 6 on’s 
make meal of superfine quality. The stalkB are 
long and small, and the foliage more luxuriant 
than that of any other variety I ever saw. It is 
superior as a forage crop. I intend to plant one 
ligatures are each drawn tight, and tied with a surgeon's 
knot. A smadl quantity of blister ointment is to be 
smeared over the crack, and bar shoe applied. °A quarter- 
crack may be treated in a similar manner, omitting, how¬ 
ever, the suUirss,'' 
plow, and no doubt far more healthy and happy than the 
great mass ol fashionable crinoline wearers of Paris—or 
the listless, dyspeptic, do-nothing misses of American 
upper-tendom. 
The Rural in California.— The Rural has quite a 
circulation in the Golden State, yet not one-tenth what 
it might have if onr friendly readers there would kindly 
give the matter a little attention. For example, Mr. 
T. T. Fairchild, of El Dorado Co., remits $27.30 in gold, 
for 22 new subscribers, all at one post-office and where 
but one copy of the Kc-rai. was previously taken. Mr. 
F. writes:—“We are in the mining region and a little 
oot of what 1b considered the agricultural part of Cali¬ 
fornia; but miners like to read, and wherever we can get 
water to Irrigate with, the land produces vegetables, 
fruit and vines hard to heat iu any part of the world. I 
have not exerted myself but very little in getting up 
this club. The subscribers are mostly miners, but some 
of them, I am glad to say, are engaged in ranching or 
gardening, and in raising stock on a small 6cale. If you 
only hail some one that felt interested in the circulation 
of the Rural in every little mining camp like this, Cali¬ 
fornia would swell yonr list several hundred. The people 
here are not like those in the older States. Here all, 
everybody, 6eem to read, and read a great deal—I mean 
in the shape of papers—and therefore they are more will¬ 
ing to subscribe for a paper than our Atlantic friends.” 
— Mr. Fairchild is no longer among our two or three 
thousand single subscribers, (each of whom gets his 
paper in a wrapper, there beiog no other subscriber at 
the same poBt-office,) but has twenty-two associate Ru- 
ralists. If our single friends throughout the country 
would “ go and do likewise,” or even double a less num¬ 
ber of times, they would receive their own papers much 
more promptly and regularly, (for large mail packages 
always go first and quickest,) benefit th#ir friends and 
neighbors, and add largely to the circulation and useful 
ness of the Rural, Oar friends in the East, West, North 
and South, who receive their papers in single wrappers 
or small packages—will please bear this in mind, and see 
what they can consistently do at this favorable season 
for obtaining subscribers. 
— See Publisher’s Department, page seventh. 
