ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APER 16, 1864 
fWHOLE NO. 744 
MOOEE’S KFEAL 2TEW-YORKEE, 
AN ORIGINAL WKttltt.Y 
KHRAL, LITERARY AND FA MILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
CHARLES H, ItHACDO.N, AniMH'Into K4ltor. 
our Government. It is with the conviction that 
the wants of agriculturists must ho told plainly, 
emphatically, persistently, and that men and 
measures relating to the interests of the country 
should be called by their right names, that we 
have felt constrained to write plainly upon such 
topics. If we complacently swallow all the 
doses politicians prepare for us, without making 
wry faces and telling them what we think of 
their vile drugs, and what we wiU do if they do 
not regaial our palates and dignity, they will 
continue to dose ug with nauseating appoint¬ 
ments and measures, provided such serve their 
individual purposes best. This may be relied 
upon. 
CRIBBING HORSES, 
of the other, which would be the ease If a horse actual¬ 
ly iwiulou-d •irind —atmospheric a:r—ntid then, a- some 
others contend, regurgitated It. On these grounds we 
question, therefore, the correct nos.? of cither theory. If 
horses possessed the power of eructating wind or ca? 
fTom the stomach, we might, expect in violent cases of 
flatulency to notice its --cope in this way; which the 
amhor has never yet been able to do. ’ Crib-biting, 
therefore, being nothing but a habit or vice, can only 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:—I noticed an 
inquiry in the Rural of Feb. 13th, about crib- 
biug—its cause and cure. Concerning its cause 
I am not fully posted; but the cure or preven¬ 
tive allow me to give that all may be benefited 
by it if ever they should chance to come in pos¬ 
session of a cribber. A rack is made by boring 
be corrected liy means and appliances which prevent 
the subject from indulging in 
F. K. Pierce. 
East Schuyler, N. Y., March, 1S8-L 
Remarks. -A horse may be baulky, and yet 
be physically able to draw a load and do all 
kinds ol' work. But we should call him un¬ 
sound. Wo would call a kicking horse unsound, 
if it amounted to a vice. AVe have known in¬ 
sane persons who could perform as much phys¬ 
ical labor as sane ones; but they were not 
“sound.” We regard a vicious horse unsound, 
just as surely as we do one afflicted with ring¬ 
bone. Of course, there arc different degrees of 
unsoundness. Some horses may be less injured 
by this crib-biting vice than others; but we 
have seen two or three individual horses whose 
value was depreciated one-half (to us) by this 
practice. 
KEEP HUSBANDRY 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS : 
P. BARRY, C. DEWEY, LL. D., 
H. T. BROOKS, L. R. LANGWORTHY, 
The press of Correspondence induces ns to defer the 
leading editorial articles intended for this number. 
Tim Rural New-Yoekick is deelgneh to be unsur¬ 
passed In Value, Purity, and Variety of Con tents, and 
unique and beautiful in Appearance. Its Conductor 
devotes his personal attention to the supervision of its 
various departments, and earnestly labors to render 
the Rural an eminently Reliable Guide on all the 
important Practical, Sclcntlllc and other Subjects Inti¬ 
mately connected with the business of those whose 
interests It zealously advocates. As a Family journal 
it la eminently Instructive and Entertaining — being so 
conducted that lr can be safely taken to the Homes of 
people of Intelligence, taste and discrimination. It 
embraces more .Vcrlcultural. Horticultural, Scientific, 
Educational, Literary and News Matter, interspersed 
with appropriate Engravings, than any other Journal,— 
rendering it the most complete Agricultural Lite¬ 
rary and Family Newspaper 1m America. 
SURGICAL OPERATION FOR GOITRE. 
The 'Poke'' under the Jaw of the Cow. 
“ A Subscriber » writes:—“ The 4 poke > 
under the jaw is probably a swelling under the 
tongue between the jaw bones—probably caused 
by the latter being rubbed against the mangers 
or feed boxes — which should be prevented. 
Alcohol and turpentine, in equal quantities, well 
shaken before applying, used to moisten the 
parts three times a day, will, in most cases, scat¬ 
ter such swellings. Physic should be given to 
keep tbo blood pure.” 
Another correspondent, J. K. S., of Fair- 
haven, Vt., writes its they have a similar dis¬ 
ease among cows in that neighborhood, resulting 
than nixl inary racks to prevent the cribber get¬ 
ting any twist, with the mouth, to advantage, 
lor a grip. A good, strong head-piece is made 
of hard wood scantling or plank. Iron straps, 
the proper width, may be fastened on the head- 
piece and across to the side of the barn to hold 
it firm. A pail or small box is huug with a 
strap to the head-piece of the rack. This gives 
the horse no permanent edge for the gripe as- his 
feed box is a regular swing. The stall which he 
stands in should be perfectly smooth on either 
side and boarded above his reach. By this 
means a horse may he kept from biting the crib 
from year to year, while at home, and a con¬ 
trivance for going abroad may be made:—A 
strap two and one-half inches in width and 
buckled around the neck as a halter, with an 
iron tongue, one and one-half inches long, and 
about one inch in width; this tongue is to fit in 
the gullet, and it in no wise interferes with the 
horse until he commences arching his neck: it 
also saves buckling the strap so tight as to cause 
compression of the windpipe. The tongue may 
he covered with leather. 
Jennings’ ideas of crib-biting are. word for 
word, from Youatt. I am surprised that vet¬ 
erinary surgeons, at the present day, eau not 
publish one original idea on crib-biting. Per¬ 
haps all veterinary surgeons are not always the 
best judges of all vicious habits; they may 
never have owned a single cribber. 
I should like to hear the opinions of those 
who have owned them for years, and the kind 
of work they have done, and know whether 
poor feed, or hard work, or crib-biting kept 
them in poor condition. 1 have owned several 
crib-bitc-rs and I never had one have an attack 
of colic; and, fortunately, they happened to be 
the freest from sickness of any. Why crib-bit¬ 
ing constitutes unsoundness I can not see any 
more than kicking, or jumping, or biting, or any 
other vice. All crib-biters that I have known, 
or owned, have happened to be, with one ex- 
JERSEY COWS. 
t3T"For Terms and other particulars, see last page. 
CURRENT TOPICS DISCUSSED. 
Don’t Spoil the Wood. 
Farmers, at this season of the year, are 
apt, in their zeal to get along with their work, 
to do some very unwise things. And one of 
these practices is the very bad one of storing 
green wood in close wood-houses where there Is 
anti can be no free circulation of air. A great 
deal of good wood is spoiled by this practice. 
We have been in wood-houses to see wood of 
which the farmer boasted, and of his providence, 
where the stored fuel smelled bo musty as to be 
offensive. Decay had commenced, and the 
wood, instead of becoming more valuable by 
being under shelter, was rapidly losing its valu¬ 
able qualities and generating disease for the 
family. 
Wood should never be put in a wood-house 
when green, nor when wet. It is better to let 
green wood lie in a loose pile as it is thrown 
from the axe, In the winter or spring, until 
September, oven though fully exposed to sun 
and storm, tbau to be at oueo stored in a large, 
compact mass in close buildings. As before 
intimated, it should be put under cover when 
perfectly dry, and then kept dry. We have 
seen farmers choose a wot day, when nothing 
could be done in the field, to fill the wood-house, 
and pile the soaked fuel in a series of compact 
layers recking with water. And that is very 
poor practice. If piled up at all when green it 
should be in piles iu the open air, through 
which there may ho a free circulation of air and 
solar heat. And it may be well to cover with 
boards to protect from rain. 
twelve miles long. A great many cows that are 
sold as AUerneys or Jerseys, are not Channel 
Island cows at all, but small Breton and Norman 
1 cows, whose value is little more than one-fourth 
of the pure Jersey. 
Third.— Price of Cbics on the Island,— A good 
cow will readily bring from $125 to $150. Some 
more than that. Young stock, of course, can be 
bought lower. 
Fourth.—In the year 1854, I went out to Eu¬ 
rope to purchase stock — sheep, swine, and the 
Jersey cows. Since then, we have kept and 
raised the pure Jersey stock, — importing 
from time to time to keep up the pure blood. 
We never did import a Jersey cow but cost us at 
home $200 and upwards. 
Fifth.—Our oicn Experience as to Milk and 
Butter, —They are not deep milkers, seldom giv¬ 
ing over 25 to 32 pounds of milk per day. We 
had one which we sold to the Rev. Henry 
Ward Beecher, that gave 424 pounds of 
milk per day. As that gentleman justly ob¬ 
served. “ the Jerseys did not give much milk, but 
what they did give, was all cream.” The most 
butter per week wc ever had a Jersey cow give, 
was 1G pounds. We consider 14 pounds per 
week an average. Some talk of 18 to 20 pounds 
per week. We have never had the good for¬ 
tune to own or see such cows. Some say that 
from four to six quarts of milk will make one 
pound of butter. Such has not been our expe¬ 
rience. We say from five to seven quarts will 
make one pound of butter, and such butter that 
will make an epicure’s lips smack. 
Sixth 
S. YOUNG, of Essex Co., New York, tells 
us how he immures his corn ground on his clay- 
loarn farm, after having tried most other modes 
ol' manuring. He prepares his manure by 
cording it up, when wet, in his yard, which is 
dishing, with a clay bottom, aud holds water. 
After the manure is thus corded, with a 
scoop-shovel he throws the liquor on the 
manure every few days. Does not allow it to 
heat. Fitches it over a second time before using 
it. mixing It well and making it line. When he 
is ready to plant draws it out. has a man ready 
with hoe in hand to cover it ,ls soon us it is 
dropped in tiro furrow while the manure is 
warm; he steps with both feet on tire hill to 
press it down. When the field is thus manured, 
plants — four feet each way — with dry seed. 
Says corn so planted is not much injured by the 
worms the growth is so rapid. Much depends 
upon the preparation of the manure. 
State Agricultural College of Wisconsin. 
The 8tate Senate of Wisconsin passed a bill 
incorporating a State Agricultural College; but 
it was defeated in t he Assembly. Why it should 
have failed we arc not Informed. Perhaps the 
key to its failure may ho found in the following 
passage from a speech In tho Senate made by 
Senator Van Wyck:— "ft is also unfortunate 
that the largo and important class who are most 
interested in the object of this bill arc not them¬ 
selves united in a just estimate of its advantages. 
Hundreds of active, intelligent farmers, will 
rejoice in its passage. Many more will, per¬ 
haps, regret it as of no practical utility and a 
waste of public money. Were it otherwise, 
were the farmers of this State united in this 
request, a public sentiment would have been 
created and an influence thrown in and around 
these halls, which, when the great Department 
of Agriculture should appear here, as now, to 
»sk at our hands of its contributions, the moder¬ 
ate sum, the paltry sum, 1 had almost said—of 
thirty thousand dollars — would have quickly 
silenced all cavil and objection.” 
We quote the foregoing, not for the benefit of 
our Wisconsin readers alone, to show agricultur¬ 
ists precisely what they have got to do in order 
to secure recognition by their Legislatures and 
smear the wound over with sweet oil, and place 
a band of cotton cloth pro sty snugly around the 
neck. This is all that is necessary. Bay no 
further attention to it. The lamb has gone rally 
nursed the moment I was through operating. 
Persons unacquainted with surgery will be very 
likely to lose the lamb before stopping the blood 
unless they have been taught the proper mode 
ol tying the artery. This done there is no dan¬ 
ger. 1 tie it with a fine, white silk thread, ,sur- 
geon's silk.) One other thing I will here state. 
The removal of one of the glands in each ease is 
enough. There are two thyroid glands—one on 
each side of the windpipe. Taking out one of 
them removes all possibility of the lamb being 
choked by the other. 1 never have, in any 
case, removed but one. 
Now, as to what the disease is, and the cause 
of it. I think the disease in sheep is as properly 
goitre, as that which we call goitre in the 
human subject. And I think that sheep with 
lamb, that are fed highly on grains, and kept in 
very close, warm stables, and that drink hard 
water, will be most sure to have their lambs 
affected with swelled necks, or goitre. I have 
observed, I think, that the lambs thus affected, 
are from localities favorable to the malady, and 
warm stables and high fording were accessories 
in every instance, where Z attended to the cases. 
The Ohio Cheese Manufacturers. 
This Association recommends the adoption 
of the practice of weighing milk, us received by 
manufacturers. It also recommends the adop- 
t ion of 101 pounds as the weight of a gallon of 
milk, of 282 cubic inches, during the season of 
18G4, requesting, at the same time, the members, 
bv actual test, to ascertain the weight of a gallon 
of milk of 282 cubic inches. 
The systematic mode of management which 
will naturally grow out of the associated dairy 
system can not fail to give us a mass of new and 
valuable facts and data upon which to base cal¬ 
culations and operations in this branch of hus¬ 
bandry. 
I was bom on a farm; always had a 
taste for stock. Nearly sixty years ago I used 
to see the Jerseys before Urn mansions of the 
aristocracy in England ifor, be it 1 mown, 1 am 
a JOHN Bull by birth, and have been nearly 
forty years in Yankee land,) with strap round 
the neck, and long chain attached to a movable 
shed on the lawns, kept for their rich cream 
and butter. I then admired their deer-like 
form, little thinking at that time that I should 
ever be one that would import such valuable 
animals into this, my adopted and beloved 
country. John Giles. 
South Woodstock, March, ISti-l. 
