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How to get Heifer Calves, 
A C 0 KUK 8 PONPKNT of tbe Mass. Plough • 
iiurn gives a recipe for obtaining female calves, 
which he says lie has tried many years and 
never knew to fail, and which piece of informa¬ 
tion he calls worth $50 to any breeder. It is 
this:—When the cow is served have her head 
stand directly facing the sun, no matter in what 
part of the heavens it may be. 
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SBA^ DR Y. 
die—and in wbat state the living ones are at a 
month old. Give us the same particulars when 
lambs are affected by rheumatism, " hen tin i 
become lame, lose the use ot their legs, Ac. In 
all cases compare the structures of the treble and 
dying lambs with those of healthy lambs. Com¬ 
pare tlic size of their thyroid glands, bones, 
the antecedents of eaeti, of its strong and weak 
points, the breeder is taught what to seek and 
what to shim in subsequently coupling them 
together for breeding. 
Many breeders, unfortunately, carry all this 
knowledge of individual characteristics merely 
in their memories, so that to other persons, 
liipides amt Viewers. 
To Clean Garden Seeds.— Will some of the renders 
of the Kcrat, please inform me through ltaconnnns 
11 iiw to clwm garden greds, icd if there is a machine 
for that purpose?—W. K , Clinton, lt i«. 
weight of body, etc. Send us literal copies of j there is no knowledge of antecedents back of 
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EDITED BY HENRY S. RANDALL. LL. 
A Valuable Poultice. 
I give a recipe for the best poultice we ever 
beard of. We liave tried it. for several years 
with great success, curing even bad cases of 
TO CORRESPONDENTS.-Mr. Randall's address Is 
Cortland Village, Cortland c«>,. N. Y. Alt com mu» I ca¬ 
tion# intended for Hits Department, amt all inquiries 
relating to Sheep, should be addressed to him us above. 
GOITRE. 
Those swellings which are often seen in the 
poll-evil in less than twenty-four hours. It is neckR of laml)s are generally designated by this 
simply Sassafras root bark, cut into convenient uftnie _th 0U gh some farmers continue to write us 
sized pieces, and boiled with wheat bran to about «swellctl neck," “lumps in the nick," 
the original records. Each will be worth a 
bushel of speculations. We will collate them, 
and publish the substance of each; and tlm 
information thus obtained will he woith having. 
The opinion of a well educated physician 
would be of great value in establishing the 
existence of goitre proper, or in determining 
the true nature of the malady. The opinion ot 
an ignorant ompyric—accustom*d to dose cattle, 
horses, sheep, etc., with unmentionable nos- 
trurns—would not, to us, be worth the paper it 
would occupy. 
retain the heat, and placed in a bag and bound 
on when warm, at night.—J ulius M. Bates, 
Titusville, Feb. 1804. 
Bloated Cattle. 
A correspondent at Cherry Creek, N. 
Y., gives the following as a sure and reliable 
cure:—‘‘ Insert the blade of a large pocket knife 
half way from the hip to the rib, on the left 
side, nearly the length of the blade; then insert 
a quill. This will allow the gas to escape from 
the stomach, keep down the bloat, and relieve 
the animal in a few hours. Bloated calves may 
be served the same way." 
Deadening Beech and Maple. 
I kept a memorandum of my work one 
spring ami summer, girdling as I had opportu¬ 
nity. The result showed that more depends on 
the way in which the work is done than in the 
time of the moon or month of the year. Throw 
the axe in heavy, and be sure the cuts overlap 
each other. If girdled in spring or early sum¬ 
mer the trees decay soonest,; if girdled after 
harvest the bark falls off and the trees become 
drv and hard.—n. Y., Bellmore, Ind. 
etc. The enlargement is. so far ns our observa¬ 
tion has extended, confined to the thyroid glands 
— which are the seat of goitre' in the human 
being. These glands, in their natural state, are 
Shaped not unlike a Lima bean, are ot small size 
and rather soli texture, so that, according to our 
recollection, they are not very perceptible to the 
feeling, as separate bodies, in the necks ot 
plump, muscular, healthy lambs at birth. But 
we are inclined to think they may lie pretty 
plainly felt, even when not swollen, in the 
necks of thin, feeble, flaccid lambs. The thy¬ 
roid glands lie on evcli side of the upper portion 
of the wind-pipe, so that when they are 
swollen, the “lumps" are felt on the under 
side of the neck, usually, in a short-necked Me¬ 
rino lamb, say about two inches below the 
throat. 
This glandular enlargement is either the man¬ 
ifestation of a disease, (goitre,) or it is the 
accompaniment of some other disease, which 
PEDIGREES. 
Many persons laugh at pedigrees of domestic 
animals. They want a cow or a sheep for " w hut 
it is, not for its pedigree!” Very well. IVe 
suppose everybody wants an animal for “what 
it is'* — that is, for its own good qualities; but 
how are you going to obtain those good quali¬ 
ties, if you breed them instead of buying them? 
Will you do it by sending your cow or ewe to 
the worst bull or rum you know of—or to tin- 
best one within your reach? Now, don’t, Mr. 
Hardshell, say you wouldn’t care which— 
because if you do everybody will know you 
don't tell the troth. There are many stingy men 
who, however rich they may be, won t buy gooii 
males —and there are ignorant, careless, sell- 
satisfied tnen who never look for them—but there 
is not, on the average, one farmer in an Ameri¬ 
can county, who is such a fool that he would not 
use a good male animal to raise stock from, 
the living generation, unless possibly in the case 
of a few celebrated rams. Therefore, when the 
owner dies, or sells, the succeeding owner does 
not, except so far as the animal itself exhibits it , 
understand its hereditary tendencies or proclivi¬ 
ties, Every experienced breeder knows that 
this is a most serious disadvantage. Here, for 
example, is a very valuable appearing ewe. She 
is full in the crops. Vet. all her female ancestors 
were defective in the crops, and it was only by 
breeding her dam to ju»t the right, i am—one in¬ 
dividually and hereditarily per ect in the crops, 
and known to be es|neinll\ prone to transmit the 
same good point to his progeny—that her hered¬ 
itary imperft ctiou was made to disapper in her 
offspring. But in such eases the imperfection is 
only in a state of abeyance. The hereditary 
tendency, received from the dam, is not extinct. 
If a proper course of breeding is kept up lor a 
number of generations, it may become extinct, 
but. if, on the other hand, the ewe having this 
hereditary tendency, is bred to a ram having 
the same tendency—or, worse still, to one actu¬ 
ally possessing the defect—the progeny may be 
expected to exhibit the fault of its ancestors 
full-blown, a retrograde step has been taken in 
breeding—the last, generation in a great and 
A cheap I’AINT -Witt some of your readers•plejim 
inform me If a durable palm for the outside «»r build- 
inss can tw* cheaper than oil paint. If bo, liave 
they tried it, &c.?—Liara M 
Sowing Oi.d Grain to Prevent Smut.—I wish to 
learn whether Bowing wheal 1 , or hancy, or oats will 
prevent, smut.— Rout I)ew, Urbane. 
Wc do not know that it will. 
Work on Tobacco ( ri.turk — Will you please in¬ 
form mo where t win get a woik on tobacco culture, 
and the price?—B Lilltbuidgk. 
Wc will mail you one. on receipt of thirty cents. 
Sugar Beet Information -We were in error in a 
recen- n air be.- in civil; Hie pages of the last volume 
on which h f oma'iou mn-crnlng so-ar hccis may he 
Toim ». On t ages 865 37H, 858. 6', lto, 128. of last vol- 
um • 1863.) md on pages 4b. 188, 100,341 and 307 of 
vol XI •, ( 1802 ,) there arc are articles on Hits Subject. 
Sorohttm Seed. —Wc have about two score inquiries 
after Sorghum seed — where It can he ohmined, <Sc. 
TllOPc having pure seed should advertise. W e see that 
the Commissioner of Agriculture is importing pure 
seed from France and China for gratuitous distribution. 
Filo your claims for it with him. or with the member 
of Congress from your District. If the tatter la anxious 
to be re elected, you will pro’ ably get tl. 
The Best Variety of Corn to Plant — T wish to 
know which is the most profitable kind of Corn 1° plant 
for market—or which will give the greatest, yield per 
acre.—B. N., Lockport, 
Onr correspondent omits the State. Wc do not know 
essential point of breeding is inferior to the pre- whellier he i9 Eockport, N. Y., or in Illinois. It 
harvest the bark lulls ott ana ttie trees Become ey year—and muck more some years than 
dry and hard. II. V., Bellmore, Ind. others—large numbers of lambs are born small 
and weak, and soon perish. Some are of full 
Manuring Corn Ground. si2e and plump, but have a soft, jellv-like feel- 
1L L. R., of Ellington, N. Y., writes in M if their muscular tissues were not prop- 
response to Cn as. Applegate's question, that developed; an j these are feebler ami die 
he thinks a good deal depends upon what the soonor Gian the small, lean ones. In both cases, 
manure is, as well as upon the soil. If the ^ bfmeg are vory *mnll, an d there is a gen- 
jnamire is stable manure, free from straw, he ersd ap p earanC c of delicacy and want of vigor, 
would “ plow the ground early and deep, culti- Sofno p crsong attribute all this to goitre, and 
has already proved immensely destructive to ^ ftd %f ft miserable runt, provided it was 
lambs in the United States. Opinions an p cheap and convenient for him to do so. .ort-iin tivod facts 
divided on this »***. All are aware U.at X, I jZ „ V c. „rcfem,« to the «U|»ri OT *nP*'™*»».XitX 
And lie who gives preference to the superior 
male, thereby acknowledges the great fact on 
which all the utility of know ing or preserving 
pedigrees exclusively rests; for he shows that 
he believes that qualities arc transmissible from 
parent to offspring. He may not believe they 
are uniformly or exclusively transmissible. 
veiling one. A faithful record of individual 
characteristics connected with the pedigree ot 
each animal would obviate all necessity of 
making stub mistakes. 
But unfortunately it requires a practiced, and 
usually a disinterested pen, to describe animals 
accurately. Every man’s goose looks like a 
swan to himself. In default of a general de¬ 
scription. certain fixed facts, in regard to which 
there could he no unintentional error, might be 
recorded which would be of great value eueli 
would of course depend OH locality. Will not Eastern 
and Western correspondents give us their votes for va¬ 
rieties for market, with their reasons therefor in the 
fewest possible words?_~ 
Rural Notes ani) Stems. 
as the weight of each fleece (accompanied by a 
Shall the Rates of the Rural be Advanced?— 
is a question which has become somewhat vital to the 
publisher. Within two weeks of the time (lusi fall) 
when we announced the terms of the Rural lor lSi.t, the 
prices of paper, labor, provisions, etc., advanced very 
specimen of the wool,) the weight of the full- in , lU ,natty, and many article* havocontimied to “go up" 
Nobody asks him to adopt that extreme opinion. 
It is quite sufficient to establish tile importance 
of knowing and preserving pedigrees, if it be 
wouia piow rue gmuuu w .y am. g omo rGrsons attribute all tins to goitre, auu . , ^ , male more likely to get 
vate thorough, lengthwise of the furrows, then on inspection, will , y than a b ad male, and that a bad 
smoa.I the manure on—the more the better— Liailu U1V J . , ’ ..... .m, gouu prufcuuj . .. 
spread the manure on—the more the better— 
and harrow the opposite way; then cultivate 
and harrow the ground as often as you find time 
until time to plant. Go over the ground with 
a light brush before marking the ground for 
planting. If the manure is coarse pile it up to 
rot.” 
Tobacco Experience, 
II bicry German, of Erie Co., Ohio, writes 
us that he planted, last year, five acres with 
Connecticut Seed Leaf tobacco. Product, 9,125 
pounds, or 1,045 pounds per acre. Cost of cultiva¬ 
tion, harvesting, boxing, shipping, $258, or $51.60 
per acre; boxes, $25,96; hauling to market, $5; 
total expense of crop. $288.96. Has been offered 
be found to have enlarged thyroid glands. Oth¬ 
ers go a step further and claim that all the dams 
of such lambs will be found affected with goi¬ 
trous enlargements. Neither assertion is tine. 
We have seen hundreds of these perishing 
lambs which did not exhibit the least appear¬ 
ance ol' goitre, and wo have seen hundreds of 
lambs with enlarged glands whoso dauw wore 
wholly free from that disease. Wo have re¬ 
peatedly, too, seen flocks of these feeble lambs 
whore a part had swelled necks and a part not. 
That it is the general and sweeping cause ot that 
mortality which we are investigating, would 
seem, therefore, to be out of the question. 
That mortality came in, or at least attained its 
nresont nrevalence, with the new system of 
male is more likely to get bad progeny than a 
good male. 
Many scoff at pedigrees because in reality they 
don’t know what they are. Pedigree is lineage 
— descent from certain animals through certain 
other animals. To know a pedigree is simply to 
know genealogical antecedents. It docs not fol¬ 
low that this knowledge implies excellence in 
those antecedents. The poet BURNS humor¬ 
ously wrote: 
“My ancient, though ignoble blood, 
Has crept through scoundrels since the flood ” 
Even a good pedigree may, in the expressive 
grown carcass, in medium condition, the height, 
length of head, neck, body and legs, &e. But 
v\ho is going to take all this trouble? A good 
share of our farmers had rather work a day 
than write ten minutes! We must probably 
despair of anything of this kiud, except in the 
case of a few small breeding flocks of great 
value. Yet it would pay any breeder of good, 
pure blood sheep for his trouble, and it would 
confer a still greater benefit on the succeeding 
owners. 
IMPROVEMENT OF THE MERINO SHEEP. 
until they enn scarcely be reached or seen In conse¬ 
quence, merchants and maiuifaclurcni frequently mark 
up I,heir prices, and refuse to make contracts tor goods 
or wares at present rates, to tic delivered months hence. 
But newspaper publishers are obliged to till contracts 
for a year at specified rates, In-consequence of which 
many have 1 ist and are losing money. Several of 
our contemporaries have avoided this by wisely ad¬ 
vancing their rates Borne months ago the Scientific 
American— the first, cost of which is certainly no more, 
and wc think less, than the Rural— advanced its price 
for a single copy from $3 to $3 tier year, and its club 
rate from f 1 50 to $2.50 Other journals have ad 
vjuiced their rates in proportion. The Phrenological 
journal, a monthly, formerly $1 a year, is now $ 1.50, 
and tliu last number announces the necessity of 
advancin'? the price to 32 on the 1 si ol Jiitv. The great 
expense of publishing the Rural, compared with the 
price at which it Is fund shed, convinces us that iu 
orde.r to realize any profit, we ought to follow the exam 
per acre; boxes, $25,96; hauling to market, $5; seem, therefore, to be out oi in-* qu si. on. lar phrase , “rim out” inconsequence of a 
total expense of crop, $288.96. Has been offered That mortality came in, or at least at a n d its ^ of brecding , .election, etc. A weak, 
25eeuts per pound for the crop, but will not sell present prevalence, with the new fcj.w ot weedy horHC - a flat-ribbed, worthless bull—o 
for less than 30 cents. At 25 cents the product managing sheep-with the system oj urn - ^ wiLhout a medium fleece or earcuss-is only 
amounts to $2,431.50. Beduct cost, $288.90, and sively dry feed and dose confinement < rendered more contemptible by being traced 
it leaves S2.U2.54. or $128.50 per acre. Soil on yards in winter —and it is found to do g «• . )ectivelv to the Godolphtn Aiabian, to Hub- 
whicli the crop was grown, a deep, black, sandy heightened by pampering, vv e liave waouased or ^ Sweepstakes. A vagabond, or a 
loam, which had been in pasture live or six this topic pretty fully elsewhere (in J raciu.i dunc0( ex( .j tes 0U r ridicule by putting on airs on 
years. He cultivated according to directions Shepherd) and have not room to re-CUSCUSS it slmi „ th of the fact that he is the great- 
I would like to see the following question ^Thereat 
discussed in the columns of the Rural, in a cxp( . nSc . 0 f p n wi»tiing tlm Rural, compared with Hie 
broad, liberal manner, with a view solely to the pri(;u al wh(ch it lg f„nii-hed, convinces ns that iu 
public good, and without regard to the proju- order to realize any profit, we ought to follow the exam- 
.liee- pro-conceptions, or private interests of pie of the above named ami other Journals-and, hav- 
,nv person whatsoever: ifigplven all mi opportunity to avail themselves of the 
- 1 ^ » low terms al which onr present volume was announced, 
Can the Merino ,Sheep be bred hornless, and we havc nt)0lll L . onc ltidcd toadvanccboth oar Subscrip- 
his general fotm at the savw time be improved nT)( j Advertising rnirs on nnd after the first of 
without weakening Ms constitution, or injuring Apri | en8 i,i,ig. Until that date we will receive anb- 
tht (/uality of his wool, or lessening its quantity? scriptlone and advrriiseinenls (of an appropriate 
If this* be decided in the affirmative, after character) !’ rt * eDt r!ll<s '7^ t afler " ,a '’ unl,!Prt thc 
II uas no ucuutu III . .«klU«il ia 1 m«itv nf whirh 
prices of articles wc are obliged to use (many ot which 
now enri double wbat they did years ago, while our 
rates arc the same as then,) fall, we shall probably 
charge $2 50 or $ 3 for u single copy of the Rural, and 
<g or $2.50 in clubs, and for advertising 50 cents a 
given in the first essay of Judd’s woik oil to- here. 
bacco culture. 
Time to Cut Timber. 
A. E. IIkn iff, Potter Co., Pa., writes us 
on this subject, giving his experience in cutting 
pine. To preserve it for working he would cut 
it iu October, November and December. 
“Then the trunk is free from sap, and the 
The lambing season of 18G4 is now at hand. 
It is the time, therefore, for careful observation, 
intelligent experiment, and exact records on this 
important subject. Let every flock-master who 
finds his lambs coming any smaller and weaker 
than usual, carefully note the circumstances, 
such as the previous feed, &c., of the ewe, her 
condition at lambing, the appearance of the 
rendered more contemptible by being traced thoroUgh discussion, I will then propose a ^^Vn, Hmyd, 
respectively to the Godolpbln Arabian, to Hub- >( . cond questionWhat is the best method to fatca nrtt th0 pamc M tbc „ ( ) 
back, or to Sweep-takes. A vagabond, ot a ^ring about so desirable a change in the form, cbar r. o $2 r>0 or $3 for a single 
dunce, excites our ridicule by putting on airs on ^ , n |- vicrino sheep? But till the first ques- $2 or $3.50 in clubs, and for 
the strength of the fact that he is the great- tjon i( . {)!li . S( . d upon , j hope those writing on this line instead or 85 as at present. 
grandson of Pocahontas or President Adams. su t,j ec t will confine themselves exclusively to -*♦- 
Pedigree, without anything else, reminds us ot t j ds onC point, and not ramble from It in the To Manufacturers of Fa 
a savage with a gaudy head dress of feathers, degree, otherwise we shall make little ad- builders and dealers in ronpc 
while the rest of M* body U «e hare ns-pos- ,„ M j,” , be matter dcared. A. B. Aj-lkn. l''«a »lfivati.r«, arms—Ind 
dU.1 Terlt. FA. 20. OH. •* in.|,lrm«.||-«nd 
parents of those troublesome creatures are no I lamb, whether its thyroid glands are enlarged. 
where to he seen.” If cut in the spring when 
the sap is in the trunk, the timber cannot be 
saved from worms unless the bark is split along 
the top of the trunk. This lets in the water, 
which destroys the sweet flavor of the sap and 
keeps out the worms. 
Concerning the origin of these worms, he 
says:—“ There is a small, slim, black fly always 
in the woods at this season (spring) of the year, 
and the smell of newly cut timber draws them 
around to sip the sweet sap as it flows out. 
They deposit their eggs in the rough bark, 
which the sun soon hatches out and then the 
larva) bore through the outside bark until they 
come to the bol t inner bark, on which they will 
live until it loses its sweetness to them; then 
they pentratc still deeper into the solid timber.” 
Wheel the Manure out 
“Lewiston,” commenting upon an article 
which appeared sometime since in the Rural, 
entitled, “ A Lazy Man’s Shovel,” says lie likes 
it until, by way of application, the writer says, 
“And now to come back to ‘the Lazy Mail's 
Shovel.’ Here is a chance to try it in this cow- 
stable, one hundred feet long. The manure is 
to be‘put through those windows!’ Lewis¬ 
ton says, * VV hew! There’s the rub! Through 
the windows, eh? T wouldn’t liave a man on 
my premises that disposed of the contents of a 
stable in such a barbarous manner!’ Go into 
such a stable and note its filthy walls, and then 
walk out and observe the decayed clapboards 
and siding of the building. See it in the spring 
after the rain-washed heaps have been drawn 
away, and you will acknowledge that those 
ugly stains on the siding of the barn arc proofs 
that the practice is a miserable one. Hero is a 
capital way of ‘doing it up.’ Get a light, but 
strong wheelbarrow, one that will not tiro a 
man or hoy to use, and wheel your manure out 
to a stud in your back yard. A row of boards 
for the wheelbarrow to run on will enable you 
to perform work to your entire satisfaction. 
whether those of its dam are enlarged, the rem¬ 
edies applied, and their results. J f a few closely 
observing flock-masters, among whose sheep 
this lamb disease makes its appearance, will 
scrupulously and accurately make a written 
record, of the cases —keeping the account of a 
number of marked eases separately and properly, 
it will combine information a hundred times 
more valuable than all that has hitherto aj>- 
peared on the subject. If the history of each 
case Is not kept separate, and if tbe memory is 
relied on to preserve the facts, we shall only 
have the same loose, vague, unreliable state¬ 
ments as hitherto. An ignorant man sees a 
thing twice, jumps at, a conclusion, and then all 
subsequent facts are warped by him to sustain 
the theory of that conclusion. We want nei¬ 
ther theories nor conclusions. We want the 
literal facts observed in each Case,— and it will 
be time enough to seek out the lessons which 
they teach after we get them all together. 
There is nothing which our agricultural litera¬ 
ture is so deficient in as precise facts— nothing 
which it superabounds in so much us foolish, 
unsupported theories. Carefully state all the 
symptoms. Where the thyroid glands are enlarg¬ 
ed, letthe record mention ho w large they appear to 
be at birth, how large the second day, and soon, 
until their final disappearance, or the death of 
the patient. We suggest that spirits of cam¬ 
phor (which is alleged to disperse such swcl- 
while the rest of his body ifi as bare as-pos¬ 
sible ! 
It is the putting forward of these pedigrees 
where they are accompanied by no individual 
excellence, and the manufacture of false pedi¬ 
grees, which have brought all of them into con¬ 
tempt in the minds of so many persons. But 
while they contemn the name, they show more 
or less by their act- that they do not despise the 
fact. As already said, they, other things being 
equal, prefer a gooii animal for a sire. As be¬ 
tween two apparently equal sire animals, one de¬ 
scended from a long line of good ancestors, the 
other from a long line ol bad ancestors, they 
would unhesitatingly choose the first. Why? 
Because every man of common observation 
knows that where the same qualities have been 
handed down through several generations, they 
arc more likely to continue, to be handed down, 
than where they are simply “ accident al” good 
traits, and do not usually belong to the family. 
Pedigrees do not necessarily require names, 
or even recorded lines of individual descent, to 
prove purity of blood. Mr. A. buys six Devon 
cows and a bull of established purity of blood. 
He and his posterity bred them and their pos¬ 
terity for 20 or 50 generations together, without 
admixture of other blood. Their descendants 
necessarily remain pure blooded. If he. intro¬ 
duces Devon bulls from other herds, he must be 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, MINOR 
ITEMS, Sc. 
Specimens of Wool.—Henry Pbrcy, of Newark, 
N Y , forwards us specimen locks of wool from two 
rams' That from the living animal Is of superior 
quality. _ 
Number of Sheep in Illinois.—T he Prairie Farmer 
points out an error in the Practical Shepherd in regard 
to the number of sheep in Illinois. It was a misprint, 
and lias been corrected iu several of the last Issued 
editions. _ 
Hurdling Siikep —D* Brown, of Grafton, Illinois, 
writes us —“A hundred hurdles may be so placed as to 
enclose 200 sheep, and with two more the fold may be 
so made as to hold 400. How can this be done? it 
Mr. Brown knows anything useful on the subject of 
hurdling sheep, we advise him to tell it, without pro¬ 
pounding riddles. _ 
Competition in Wool growing.—— Mr* T., of Skan* 
i iiteles, N. Y , writes us“ In the Rural of Jan. 9, it 
is staled that ‘Monuis Beard, of Pompey, from 480 
-Im p clipped tills season 3,010 lbs. of washed wool 
besides raising 125 lambs ' From the comparatively 
small number of lambs, we Infer that but a small 
To Manufacturers of Farm Implements.— Will 
builders and dealers in reapers, mowers, threshers, 
plows, cultivators, drills—indeed nil classes of farm 
and garden imph inents— send us their catalogues or 
other documents embracing engravings aud descrip¬ 
tions of their implement-.anil especially any novelties 
or improvements they h 'vc made In their machinery. 
By so doing they will confer a favor upon us, personal¬ 
ly. upon the public, and last—though not least—upon 
themselves. For we desire to be kept well advised of 
the Progress and Improvement in this brunch of Indus¬ 
try, that wo may keep our readers advised also 
Look at the Seasonable Advertisements!—W t c 
have lots of good practical matter in type which we are 
compelled to “ lay overfor want of space These ad 
vertisements contain seasonable Information of interest 
to our readers See Vick's story of how people are 
swindled, on the lust page. Read the Horticultural 
advertisements on Urn third page. Indeed, read care¬ 
fully all that appear in our columns. And wheu you 
write to any of these advertisers tell them where you 
saw their advertisements 
“C - € ‘ llll 1 !l ilUU U1IL - ---- •’ . . > 
tluees Devon bulls from Other herds, he must be W| ” hed w00 ] i aud raised 90 lambs. The wool was sold StmmiUM for Stock.—S everal correspondent* asu i 
fare oared to show tlmlr blood, and then the pedi- for 75 m)t * a ’ ,, 0 und. Can Cfttnillus or.Tompey beat Sorghum does not Injure stock when fed with u W o 
gree of tbe herd Is complete. the above?” _ WodoTow oTlnSS 
It is better, however, where circumstances hi.ack Merinos. — Henry Botnton, of Bellows waere ^ mtt iB—horses, ewino and cattle—when first 
admit of it, to preserve individual pedigrees. Falls, Vt-,aaks;—“ What are we So infer from the fact fv(1 with u have eiUoo greedily, and suffered from colie, 
lings,) be first tested in a few instances. Bind a ol equal appearance out oi int wm. iur u v MI1 
woolen cloth about the neck, and wet it over the flock. And that preference would be increased, 
swellings several times a day. A pledget of if it was known that that best ewe’s dam, grand- 
lint or cotton placed between the bandage and dam, etc., were all among the best, and that 
the swellings will retain the moisture longer, that worst ewe’s darn, grand-dam, etc., were all 
If this is found Ineffectual, try tincture of among the worst ewes of the flock. In other 
iodine in the same way. State how these n ine- words, In the. most even flock there are better 
dies gradually and finally affect the patient in 
each separate instance—and the same of any 
other remedies applied. State how many lambs 
are dropped good and strong, and how many 
and worse strains of blood—and a pedigree of 
names, accompanied with a knowledge of the 
qualities of the individual animals thus named, 
shows the particular strain. It is not only use- 
weak—ho\v many have and how many have not ful to guide to a selection of the best breeding 
back to the black sheep, which, with red, tawny ones, 
etc., constituted Its origin, if wa may believe tbe 
undisputed accounts of Puny, Columella, and other 
contemporaneous Roman authors. Black Merinos have 
always existed in Spain. Two pairs of them were lm 
ported Into the United Suite* in JSU3. They occasion¬ 
ally appeared in all our early imported Spaniel) flocks, 
and even among the later Introduced Saxons. They 
have been so carefully excluded from breeding and from 
flocks, by the flue wool growers of this country, that 
they have become extremely rare; but they oecfUdon 
ally “ turn up.” W>' hea'd more of them in 1868, than 
Sowing Soring Wheat lias already commenced hi 
the West. Those who improved the fine weather of 
last autumn and plowed their fields—as is the practice 
in spring wheat sections of the \\ est-'-are prepared to 
lake advantage of the first opportunity ro get. in the 
seed. Even her® in New York, we wo AM rather risk 
it put in on fall plowed lands before the grrbnd ceases 
portion of the flock were breeding ewes, which are the freezing and thawing, than to wait for April showers 
lightest class of shearers. L. A. Sweet, of Hkaneateles, followed by a dry term. Take time by the fore lock, 
from 180 sheep, comprising 101 breeding ewes, 78 year and In with the wheat 
lin ir s aud one rnirt, Clipped this season lb?, of 
washed wool and raised 90 lambs. The wool was sold Sorghum for Stock.— Several correspondents ask i 
Swiss Uiieese. —A correspondent at Cortland Village, 
N Y , writes — 11 Somebody has inquired whore 
Cheese is manufactured A Swiss gentleman % «me 
unknown to me—has rented a building at South Out 
land, and Intends to manufacture Swiss cheese there 
the coming season.” 
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yelled neck.s—how many live and bow many 1 animals, but by giving a special knowledge of during a long preceding per 
Cattle Valuation — According to published studs 
tics, it appears that the wholesale cost of live animals 
brought to New York for slaughter bust year, exceeded 
$80,000,000, and that more than half of the beef comes 
from the single State of Illinois. 
