>TURE 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1864 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
be fed alone. Solid matter, as corn and grain 
should be added to produce healthy bogs. 
Mr. Wm. Wheeler, of Trenton, had been 
carrying on a small factory—500 cows. lie had 
kept, in connection, 50 hogs, two-thirds of them 
grown and the rest of them spring pigs. Ho 
fed them whey only till about September, and 
then commenced giving grain. Fed the whey 
sweet and warm. The result was $2 profit per 
cow. The sweeter the milk the better it was 
for the hogs. All young animals partook of 
milk sweet; and he could see no reason for feed¬ 
ing sour whey. 
Mr. W. F. Comstock, of Utica, wished to tell 
otic single experiment In the use of whey. He 
knew a factory where the farmers were request¬ 
ed to take back their whey in their cans. Those 
that did this at wars bud sweet cans. 
The Increased Price.— Mr. Jacob Ellison, of 
Herkimer, said the factories had greatly in¬ 
creased the value of American cheese in the 
English market; they alone had done it. Their 
cheese had sold during the past season for 1 and 
2 cents per pound more than the cheese of sin¬ 
gle dairies. This was a suftlciout answer to all 
objections against the factory system. 
Ho io Uu3 Aye of Milk Affects the Quality of 
Cheese.— Air. Farrington said he began to 
make cheese thirty years ago; made Saturday 
night cheese for a while, aud found them infe¬ 
rior. Then he made three-mess cheese and 
found them superior. A gentleman suggested 
that the reason was Ir cause the animal heat get 
out of the milk. He was attracted by the Idea 
aud concluded to cool his milk before making 
Ids cheese. Was surprised to find the cheese 
inferior, and concluded tho more he learned the 
less he knew. After several years a new idea 
struck him—that it was a peculiar condition of 
the milk acquired by age wlueh made the differ¬ 
ence. So he saved his night’s milk till the next 
morning, aud his morning's milk till afternoon, 
before making it into cheese. He found these 
cheese were very superior—as good as he ever 
saw. In answer to questions, Air. Farrington 
said that he supposed the peculiar condition to 
be simply the change of the sugar of milk in 
the milk to an acid; that he had added sour 
whey to new milk several times, but did not 
tliiuk the cheese were as good and mellow as in 
tho other case; did not think he got the same 
condition; animal heat with sour whey was 
which gives dark color and more weight to a 
“brag fleece” — but we take it that breeders 
have some other objects besides bragging, and 
even besides silting. We take it that health, 
increase, and, ultimately, constitution itself, are 
no trail to be intentionally deteriorated to secure 
a present and shortlived success in selling sheep. 
The pampering system now resorted to by certain 
sheep-fitters and salesmen, if continued for a 
few generations, will change the type of the 
matchless American Merino, and convert it into 
a great and far feebler animal than was the full 
blood French Merino when it was first intro¬ 
duced into the United States. 
Continue to feed will) undeviating punetuaHty 
in respect to time. See that the sheep have salt 
and water constantly within reach. Avoid 
roughly handling heavily pregnant ewes. Al- 
low no horses, cattle or other farm stock to run 
in the same yards with. them. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
CHARLES I>. BRAHMIN, Aiwoclate Editor. 
KEEP HUSBANDRY 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL D„ 
Editor Department of Sheop Husbandry. 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS: 
P. BARRY, C. DEWEY, LI,. D,, 
H. T. BROOKS, L. B. LANGWOUTHY, 
SHEEP WORK IN FEBRUARY. 
If any of the sheep work appropriate to 
January was overlooked or neglected, let that 
be first attended to. It is now high time that 
the manure in every sheep stable ahould be 
entirely cleaned out, down to the floor or ground, 
and its place supplied with fresh, dry fitter. If 
the manure can be put under cover, it will be 
much more valuable in tho spring. To prevent 
its heating and fire-fangitig, spread it thin; or if 
it must be put in a heap, throw it in thin layers 
and trample down each of these hard. Sprink¬ 
ling each layer with gypsum will not only add a 
first-rate fertilizing agent to the manure, but an 
absorbent which will materially assist in pre¬ 
venting its own good properties escaping in the 
form of gases. 
Do any of the sheep pick their wool —nib¬ 
bling and partly pulling out lock,* of it, which 
hang down their sides, giving them a ragged and 
feathered appearance? If so, buy a little of the 
blue. uuiteurhd ointm tit of the shops, 
and having mixed it thoroughly with five or six 
equal parts of lard, apply a little of it with the 
end of the finger to the skin of the sheep—rub¬ 
bing it in—iu various places where the wool is 
most pulled. Begin cautiously in respect to the 
amount of ointment used, and apply the second 
time if necessary. 
Those who begin to winter their flocks on a 
restricted diet, suck as straw, inferior hay. Ac., 
expecting to improve it before spring, will tiud 
it expedient to commence that improvement be¬ 
fore the close of February—particularly if the 
sheep arc lambs or old breeding ewes. If either 
of the latter enter the month of March poor, it is 
always too late to restore tluir condition before 
they get to grass agaiu, and oftentimes too late 
to save their lives. A rapid increase of food 
then frequently only accelerates their fate, by 
bringing on diarrhea, followed by loss of appe¬ 
tite. If they live, the ewe is apt to lose her 
lamb—and either loses more in the weight and 
quality of the next fleece than all the extra cost 
of good keeping, it ought to be laid down as a 
rule ou every sheep farm that lambs tuid old 
ewes shall receive prime feed all winter—aud, if 
this is impossible, that they shall at least receive 
it after the middle of February. But in all 
eases, let the change from inferior to prime feed 
be made rather gradually, if grain or roots are 
given. 
Strong, middle-aged breeding 
W. T. KENNEDY. Jr., Assistant Offloe Editor, 
Tub Rural New-Yorker U itestem-il to be unsur¬ 
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unique and tuautli'ul In Appearance. Its Conductor 
devotes Ills personal attention to the supervision of Its 
various departments, and earnestly labors to render 
tile Rural au eminently Reliable Guide on all the 
Important. Practical, Scientific and other Subjects Inti¬ 
mately connected with the husiness of those whose 
interests It zealously advocates. As a Family Journal 
it is eminently Instructive aud Entertaining—being so 
conducted that It .an he safely taken to llie Homes oi 
people of Intelligence, taste and discrimination. Ii 
embraces more Agricultural, Tlort lent total, Scientific, 
Educational, Literary and News Matter, Interspersed 
with appropriate Eugraviiigs, than any other Journal,— 
rendering it the most complete Agricultural Lite¬ 
rary anij Family N cwsi-Ai-vn in America. 
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
Randolph, Onto, Jan. 11. 
Before leaving Newark on the morning of 
the Sth, we met a Mr. Kerr, who is a good 
specimen of an old-fashioned, hard-shell sheep 
raiser. He said he owned seven thousand, and 
that they averaged from three to three and a 
half pounds of wool per head. When asked 
why he did rot improve this weight of fleece by 
the use of suitable rams, he replied t hat he “Was 
one of.those kind of men that were satisfied with 
doing-iweU enough,” and he sagaciously tuldcd, 
“you know dogs are just as likely to kill a 
high-priced buck as a common one.” But such 
antediluvians as this are rare birds in Ohio. On 
all sides the key-note of the wool growers is im¬ 
provement. High prices are held as nothing 
provided they secure that improvement. 
At this place we unfortunately lost General 
Harris from our company, special business 
requiring his return to Columbus, We pro¬ 
ceeded by rail from Newark to Mouut Vernon— 
passing over the magnificent plains of Licking 
and Knox counties. It would be impossible to 
conceive of a fiucr farming country'. Mount 
Vernon is a handsome city of about 5,000 inhabi¬ 
tants. We rode to the farm of Hon. C. Delano 
&, Son, three or four miles out of town. Hero 
we found a hundred full blood Merinos, nearly 
half of them of InfantadO (.Hammond) stock, and 
the remainder a cross between the preceding and 
Paular fltich) sheep. The flock 13 a superior 
one, and contains the ewes which took the first 
premium at the last State Fair. The senior Mr. 
Delano is at Columbus discharging his duties 
as a Senator. The son is a frank, intelligent ami 
highly pleasing young gentleman, who is pre¬ 
paring to become a wool grower on a very large 
scale. The farm lies in a beautiful count ry, and 
the view as we returned toward Mount Vernon 
— the latter in lull sight, resting on the side of a 
broad, low hill —was one of the most charming 
mixtures of town and rural scenery I ever wit¬ 
nessed. I speak of utilitarian beauty. Aud 
that is all that characterizes any part of Ohio 
which I have seen. It is essentially a vast 
plain. The hills are mere undulations, the 
highest I saw (the “Welch Hills” in Licking) 
not apparently exceeding two or three hundred 
feet in height. Y'et but Httle of the country 
has that dead level surface which renders the 
streams sluggish and the land difficult of 
drainage. 
An artist in quest of wild and picturesque 
scenery would find vastly more of it in an hour’s 
ride in Westchester county, New York, than iu 
all Northern Ohio. But, after all, ou the broad 
plains of the latter, is a nobler heanty. It is the 
beauty which speaks of prodigal fertility, which 
speaks of rich and cultivated homes to the toil¬ 
ing masses—of a civilization embracing nearly 
all, and advancing without tho drawbacks of 
penury or overwork. Within the recollection 
of men not yet old, these regions were covered 
with the primeval forest. Stout-hearted but 
comparatively penniless men came with axes ou 
their shoulders and opened up their farms. 
Now they are farm princes. Their sons arc tho 
loaders and lawgivers of the land. 
There is a much stronger in fusion of German 
in the leading population than in the Eastern 
States. Such names as Hildebrand r v Evkr- 
ItAUDT, UPDEGUAKF, RUTTEROFF, DEAUDOFF, 
etc., meet you frequently, and they belong, in 
many instances, to the largest and most successful 
farmers of Ohio. There is also a numerous 
Welch population, which is said to be com¬ 
posed of as industrious aud thrifty farmers as 
there are iu the State. 
13'’-For Terms and other particulars, see last page. 
CHEESE MANUFACTURERS’ CONVENTION, 
ing one against the other. Our objection is 
adulteration. [The remarks of Mr. B. on this 
subject are given elsewhere.— Eds. Rural.) 
Labor and Expense .—Another objection is the 
labor aud expense of carrying the milk to the 
factory. Some fanners who don’t know say that 
this alone is equal to the cost of manufacture at 
home. Mr. Bartlett exploded the idea by 
refereuco to facts in his own experience. lie 
said ho had established for his factory a system 
for transporting Hie milk in large quantities, 
sending out teams on the different routes. Tho 
expense this way was much less than it was 
where each farmer carried his own, especially 
if living at a distance. 
Saar Milk .—Another objection—the liability 
to have sour milk—had weight. His factory 
had had much difficulty in this direction, be¬ 
cause of milk being kept over from one milking 
to the next and then put, It with warm milk. It 
almost Invariably gave trouble. Ho believed 
the passage of the law contemplated would have 
a tendency to prevent this. As to keeping cans 
sweet, if they were thoroughly Sfifthlswl oiwl 
ewee reqmruig 
an improvement in their winter feed should 
receive it at least, a mouth before lambing. If iu 
good store condition, turnips alone will suffice, 
and will prepare them to give abundance of 
milk to tln ir lambs. From a pound to a pound 
and a half per head is a sufficient feed—and it is 
vastly cheaper than any kind of grain. 
Do all farmers understand tho virtue there is iu 
tine, greenly cured, bright clever hay for sheep 
of fill ages and descriptions ? If in good health, 
tlioy will fatten ou it. They relish it better than 
any other hay. Store sheep taken from poor 
hay, or hay aud straw, by tho middle of Feb¬ 
ruary, in lair, moderate condition, will come 
into the spring finely if put on such clover aloue. 
Let no man Imagine that the tine green rowen 
or after-swath hay of timothy meadows, or even 
of blue grass, bears any comparison fn value to 
such clover for sheep. 
Pregnant ewes demand light, air and exercise, 
at this season. Dark, close, hot stables, or con¬ 
stant confinement even in well lighted and ven¬ 
tilated ones, lead to an unhealthy habit—if 
uccompauied by good keep, to a plethoric habit 
of body—which is likely to prove injurious to 
the proper development of the foetus. Close 
confinement and over feeding have produced 
immense losses iu the choice breeding Docks of 
our country. When neither snow nor rain are 
falling, the 6table doors should bo left open— 
and, iu our judgment, it is a capital plan at such 
times to fodder sheep out on the clean snow. If 
they are foddered at a stack and have to walk 
one or two hundred rods to reach it, all the bet¬ 
ter. True, this out-door exposure to sun and 
wiud will evaporate away a little of the yolk 
Sorghum for Forage.—P. B. S., of Huron 
Co., Ohio, writes on tliis subject:—“ I learned 
one fact of value connected with the growing 
of sugarcane, viz., that cane fodder cut before 
frosted, mid cured properly, is far superior to 
corn fodder, for winter feed for horses,—ami the 
amount per acre exceeds any other kind of fod¬ 
der grown.” 
Ring-Worms around Calves’ Eyes.—T o 
remove these it is recommended to brush and 
"'ash the parts with soap and warm water; and, 
when dry, apply a mixture of lard and sulphur. 
Do our readers know any thing better? 
