tenee to far closer, indeed to the closest possible 
in-and-in breeding. The Bible informs us that 
mankind started from a single pair. The sons 
and daughters of Adam, then, must have inter¬ 
married to perpetuate the race. Omniscience 
foresaw all results; Omnipotence was able to 
have guarded against tho necessity of such mar¬ 
riages by creating more original and unrelated 
pairs of the human family. It it did not do so, 
can we possibly suppose that the inter-breeding 
of closely related beings is necessarily and in 
the nature of things the cause of either moral 
or physical injury ? It appears from the Sacred 
* Record that a Divine prohibition was eventually 
imposed on such marriages. There was a rea¬ 
son for it. Disease and sin had entered the 
world. Disease, and those physical imperfec¬ 
tions which tend to disease, were in many eases 
hereditary. Procreation between diseased or 
imperfect animals frightfully increased the ag¬ 
gregate of disease and imperfection in the pro¬ 
geny. With man’s moral corruption came cir¬ 
cumstances which rendered marriages between 
close relations temptations to immorality Then, 
such marriages were made malum prohibitum 
by Divine and human law. 
But among brutes no such prohibition was 
necessary to be made. Among them, brothers 
and sisters and even parents and offspring cop¬ 
ulated from the outset, and they continue to do 
so at the present time, where tlmy remain in 
the state of nature. Yet they evince no degen¬ 
eracy. The dove hatches in pairs, and these 
pairs remain together and procreate other pairs 
in endless succession. Many beasts, like the 
lion, live in solitary families, and unless there is 
a natural repugnance of brothers and sisters 
among brutes to interbreed, the chances would 
he one hundred to one, that the young males 
and females brought up together and measur¬ 
ably separated from others, would exhibit their 
first sexual fondness for each other, and conse¬ 
quently pair together, sentimental theorists 
have assumed that there is a natural disinclina¬ 
tion of closely related brutes to pair together. 
Every observing farmer has had constant occa¬ 
sions to notice that there is not a shadow of such 
disinclination among domestic brutes of any 
kind —and all the /mown facts relating to the 
same point among wild brutes, tend to the same 
conclusion. Among animals which live in herds 
like the elephant, the buffalo, the wild horse, 
etc., it Is a very common habit that the 
mightiest males destroy or drive out, to a con- 
-siderablc extent, the weaker, and thus predom¬ 
inate over the herd and make its females their 
harem, until they become old and enfeebled and 
in turn are vanquished by some younger and 
stronger rival. In the ease of the elephant, and 
many other species of gregarious animals, this 
mastery of one individual is known to last for 
'many years, so that the male parent procreates 
with his daughters, and oftentimes with their 
daughters begotten by himself. And the 
chances always arc In such eases, that his suc¬ 
cessor is his own son — and that son commences 
a new career of in-and-in breeding with Ids own 
-sisters, and, if we may use the term, more than 
.•rasters. This thing lias been going on forages 
on the plains of South Africa, on the prairies of 
America, and in every other situation where 
herds of certain kinds of animals are found to 
-roam. Dave they degenerated? Did the Crea¬ 
tor implant in them instincts which must of 
necessity produce their ultimate extinction? 
Will anybody presume such to lie the order of 
benevolent Providence? 
But the theorists tell us this is provided for. 
The strong abandon and trample down the 
weak. The inclement winter, or the protracted 
summer drouth, cut off the usual supplies of 
food, and the feeble animals perish, So they do. 
And this is a most beneficent provision to meet 
eases of accidental malformation or debility — 
and thus prevent them from pouring themselves, 
like the waters of a poisoned spring, into the 
broad and healthy stream of the race. But if 
breeding in-and-in necessarily produces degene¬ 
racy, and degeneracy is always stopped at the 
fountain head by such external circumstance?, 
then would whole races of gregarious animals 
Mid-of those animals which live iu families have 
bfecoine nearly or quite extinct;—and with their 
present instincts, large herds of herding animals 
could not exist together. If it be assumed that 
the supposed evil b not necessarily arrested at 
its beginning, but must produce a certain degree 
of degeneracy before destruction Is the neces¬ 
sary result, then the animals we have particular¬ 
ized must all be (approaching that state of decay 
and debility which w hen reached will result in 
destruction — in other words, w hole races of 
God’s creatures, His most useful w ild creatures, 
areby Disown inevitable laws degenerating and 
approaching extinction. Is any body ready to 
believe such nonsense —if, indued, blasphemy 
is not a better word for it? We say blasphemy, 
•because such a theory seems to us to impeach 
the benevolence of that order of things which 
the GreaL Father of All Things has established 
throughout the Universe. 
Act have not domestic animals often degene¬ 
rated rapidly from in-and-in breeding? Unques¬ 
tionably so. But they had been first reduced 
from their normal state by man. Ilia kindness 
or ubkindness to thorn changed their natural 
habits, llis mismauagera nt, brought upon them 
hereditary diseases, predispositions to disease, 
and malformations. Therefore, as in the case 
of man, the Inter-breeding of these diseased and 
defective animals produced rapid deterioration— 
and nearly related animals are much more likely 
to have the same maladies or the seeds of the 
same maladies in their systems. Experience 
has clearly demonstrated that where a heredi¬ 
tary disease or imperfection exists in both 
parents the progeny is likely to inherit it, or a 
•predisposition to it, in a greater degree than it 
exists in either parent — particularly in the ease 
of diseases. Thus we should expect the pro¬ 
geny of two first cousins, whether human 
beings or brutes, of a family afflicted with 
scrofula, to exhibit that disease in a more aggra¬ 
vated form than it was manifested in the parents. 
It is a rather singular fact, but seems to be 
very w ell attested, that in this hereditary trans¬ 
mission of maladies, an analogous disease is 
sometimes transmitted for a longer or shorter 
period to the offspring instead of the actual one 
which afflicts the parents. Mr. Ei.ni. ay Dun, 
the well know'u lecturer at tho Edinburgh Vet¬ 
erinary College, iu expressing liis assent to the 
above proposition, says:—“Thus, a stock of cat¬ 
tle previously subject to phthisis (consumption) 
sometimes becomes affected for several gen¬ 
erations with dysentery, to the exclusion oi 
phthisis, hut by and by dysentery disappears to 
give place to phthisis." 
But it is time that we go back to those partic¬ 
ulars and specific facts which illustrate and, it is 
claimed, prove our leading propositions. Find¬ 
ing, contrary to our expectations, that the lim¬ 
its of a single article have scarcely advanced us 
to the middle of our subject, we shall resume it 
in our next number. 
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CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, MINOR 
ITEMS, &c. 
Wolf Doos. — Major Chamberlin', of Daysvillc, 
Ogle Co., Ill , wishes to know where dogs can be pro 
cured that will protect sheep from wolves The Span¬ 
ish, Hungarian, and various other shepherd dogs of 
Europe will do this—and so will the genuine Mexican 
shepherd dog. Wcknow not where any of those are 
in be found. The Scotch Colley is not large mid pow¬ 
erful enough for this business. When traveling in the 
West a few years since, we saw a prairie wolf, with a 
broken leg, confined in a small inclose re—and an infa¬ 
mous looking wretch be was! When enraged, he 
opeuod bis mouth about as far back a? a gar fish or a 
pair of shears. Bis possessor told us that a few days 
before,some English sportsmen wbo were on a hunting 
tour, on hearing of the lighting qualities of a prairie 
wolf, proposed 10 turn in a massive aud beautiful hull 
dog belonging to them on the poor maimed brute. The 
dog sprang forward and caught the wolf by the skin of 
his neck. The lithe neck, however, was at liberty, and 
the keen fangs cat like shears in every direction aud 
at every touch. The bull-dog was covered with wound? 
and one of his feet nearly amputated in less than two 
minntes. 
We were told the prairie wolf was not sticce^sfully 
eucountered by any variety of dogs which bite and 
hold on. We saw many crosses between the greyhound 
and the cur—large, powerful dogs—having the activity 
of the hound and the strength of a large cur—’which 
were said to be redoubtable wolf killers, and were kept 
for that purpose. They would at oucC overtake the 
slow prairie wolf, and like himself t hey would indict a 
slashing bite, elude the jaws of the wolf, and then bite 
again until he was worried down and slain. We give 
these statements for ull they are worth—not ourselves 
having a particle of experience on the subject. 
Wintering Sheet in Wisconsin.— Edwin Rey¬ 
nolds, of Motomen, (If that Is the name,) Fon du Lac 
Co., Wla., thinks that the statements made by“Yorker'’ 
iu this paper, April 80th, iu regard to the wintering of 
sheep In the region of Fon dtt Lac, “haven tendency 
to prodace the impression abroad that it Is a poor region 
for wool growing purposes Mr R. feels that he is 
qualified by experience “to testify 1.o the contrary.' 
lie cites three Instances of flocks under his own obser¬ 
vation, that have wintered well and almost without 
loss, on fair ordinary feed. One of these is his own. 
He says —“I wintered 310. To 52 tegs and old ones I 
fid half a bushel of oats per day. On the 3d of March 
! commenced feeding all my breeding owes in the same 
proportion. My wethers went through on prairie hay 
and wheat straw without a particle of grain. All are 
now | May 28d,| In first rate condition. From 50 ewes 
1 have raised 50 good, strong, healthy lambs. I raise 
oats for my sheep, and sow with them half n pint, of 
club wheat to the acre. * * * I am satisfied that 
we have as good a region for wool growing as there is 
iu the Northern States.” 
We are happy to record Mr. Reynolds’ testimony— 
but he Is mistaken iu supposing that “ Yorker” assert¬ 
ed anything to t he contrary. He expressly said that the 
Hocks which had good “ care and feed ” wintered well 
and the losses he mentioned wore attributed by him to 
a want of these, and to the unusual severity of the 
winter. Mr. Reynolds’ plan of sowing a little wheat 
with his oats is a good one, to whatever animals he 
proposes to feed out the crop. For sheep, the mixture 
of peas (iu larger quantities) with oats, is probably, 
however, preferable 
CosrtvKNEss in Lambh.—Matthias South, of Otis- 
co, Onondaga Co., N. Y., writes:— “It can easily be 
determined when lambs are thus affected. They will 
lie down and sleep—walk with di111culty—look broad 
along the back (owing to bloating)—give up sucking— 
and finally die In great pain Thcyrtqulre to be quick 
ly attended to. I give a teaspoonful of antimony mixed 
with two or three times that amount of unsalted butter, 
once in 8 hours uutll It operates. Tide Is a sure remedy. 
Also, give the ewe an ounce of eppom salts In half a 
teacupful of warm water. Costtveness i? generally 
caused by over feeding ihe ewes, whereby their milk is 
rendered unnaturally rich.” 
Sulphured of Antimony I- a diaphoretic (i e. produces 
perspiration) and an alterative. If it, encounters acid 
in the stomach it causes vomiting and purging—some¬ 
time? with violence. It Is always uncertain in its 
operation. We cannot, therefore, consider it as the 
mod. suitable remedy to administer to costive lambs, 
though we doubt not it has worked well in the hands 
of our correspondent. 
II oof -Hot.—“ Inquirer,” of Tyre., Seneca Co , N. Y., 
is informed that, wo consider the disease he describes 
to be hoof rat—not putt ing on the extreme symptoms 
of that malady, because chronic and pretty well kept 
under The samples of ewes' wool sent arc good,— 
especially that, of the seven year old ewe. The ewe 
lags exhibit excellent length of staple. Tho ram’s 
wool we do not like as well. It is fine enough, but 
lacks the proper uniform crimp from end to end, and if 
the sheep has been housed, it does not exhibit sufficient 
yOlkluess for a ram. 
“Lam a C itin'.”—A friendly correspondent writes us 
about Ids “crap of lambs,” and t wice uses the phrase, 
“thelamb crop of ISIS 1.” This is an legitimate per¬ 
haps os talking uboul the “hog crop,” the “butter 
crop,” &c. ; but in neither case la it “ any thing else ” 
than a barbarous murder of the King's English ! 
TO Cone.v.si'ONDKNTH. - Mr. RANDAni.’B address is 
Cortland Village,Cortland Co., N. Y. All communica¬ 
tions Intended tor Hits Department, and all lnqulrle 
relating to sheep, should be addressed to him as above. 
Communications, Ctc. 
THE TIME TO CUT TIMBER. 
Eds. Rural New- Yorker Timber should 
be felled during the summer months, to avoid 
early decay ami the powder-post. The host 
quality of white oak lor staves should he cut In 
dune; barrels made front these will hold oil per¬ 
fectly well, if thoroughly seasoned. 
Ox howH, mode from the walnut, ash and oak, 
should be out in summer, while the sap is thin 
and flowing: it then rises to the limbs, hud and 
leaf, and soon passes off in vapor. As t he wood 
contracts, the pores are closed; the timber, bark 
and soft wood, becomes dry and seasoned before 
the miller deposits the egg. This occurs in the 
month of May. The larva* soon feeds upon the 
alburnum or soft wood, and. as it increases in 
size and strength, will penetrate deeper. If 
timber be cut during the cold months, after the 
falling of the leaf, the ascending sup remalus 
dormant and fixed in the outer wood. This 
changes into a more dense and grosser fluid, 
causing the more speedy' decay, also furnishing 
food for the larva* or worm. 
Pines which are felled late in autumn or 
during the winter months, and remain station¬ 
ary, are sure to be filled with the grub or 
borer, unless the hark be cut along the upper¬ 
most side, admitting the rains to soak down and 
penetrate between the dry outer hark and soft 
wood, which will destroy their operations. We 
have had many a tine tree prostrated hv storms 
of wind, also by fire, during the summer season, 
and lay there for years before they were cut into 
mill logs. These proved perfectly sound and 
free from the effects of t he grub, 
While I am now writing, the borer is at work 
in the rafters and other timbers of this house. 
Our tables, floors and clothing are daily sprin¬ 
kled with their powder. This timber was cut 
and used in the fall of 186L 
Cedar posts should not be set into the ground 
before they are thoroughly seasoned, if you de¬ 
sire them to last. Tit is is our experience and 
observation. Solomon W. Jewett. 
El Tejon, Cal., 1804. 
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SUGGESTIONS ON RAISING CORN FODDER. ” 
To raise the greatest amount of fodder from a 
given quantity of ground, Is a matter worth the 
attention of every farmer. 
For some years I have practiced sowing corn 
for fodder, with the most decided success. The 
process I have pursued has been something like 
the following:—.Select a piece of ground of ordi¬ 
nary strength—a common wheat soil is stroug 
enough, and a poorer soil will do better than a 
stronger one, as in a strong soil the corn will be 
apt to grow too strong and heavy in the stalk, 
make coarser fodder, and lodge. If sown Upon 
u sod, it should be plowed but once; but if there 
is no sod. the better way Is to plow r in April, and 
harrow and plow again about the fifteenth of 
June. From the fifteenth to the twenty-fifth of 
June, sow three bushels of corn per acre. It 
the soil is loose, harrowing in will do very well, 
hut If somewhat heavy, harrow before Mowing, 
and plow in with a cultivator: no more attention 
is needed until it is lit to cut. The best time to 
tio this is generally in September or October, 
when the leaves have become somewhat dry, 
and the stalk more stiff; it will then be cosier to 
handle, ami stand up better. The most impor¬ 
tant part of the process is cutting and putting 
up, and ail the failures that have occurred 
within my knowledge, have been the result of 
an error in this particular. 
If the growth, of fodder is not more than from 
four to six feet, in height, it may be cut with a 
strong grain cradle. A short scythe and but. 
three strong lingers, are the best. Cradle it 
down, and let two hands follow with rakes; 
take tt swath each, and set it. In small shocks 
perfectly loose—no binding in sheaves about it. 
Let the shocks lie of sufficient size to stand up 
well; tie the tops firmly with a handful of rye 
straw, and let it alone until winter, and if well 
put up, it will require hut little attention to keep 
it from falling down, and when once firmly sot, 
will shed water so as not to wet half an inch 
deep. If, however, the growth of the fodder 
should be very large, the best way to cut it is to 
take the German sickle, throw it In bunches, 
and put up as before, and draw as needed in the 
winter. It can not be put up in a mow, how¬ 
ever dry it may appear to be, without heating 
and spoiling. 
When the height of corn is from four and a 
half to six feet high, it makes the best quality 
of fodder, and if sown sufficiently thick, it will 
then be soft and sweet, and horses, cattle or 
sheep, will eat it Up clean, stalk and all. The 
best way to feed it to sheep when the ground is 
frozen or covered with snow, is to scatter it 
thinly on tho ground. 
The quality of the food it makes, I consider 
superior to the best of hay, and the quantity 
three times that of the best meadow land. I 
have kept from two to four hundred head of 
sheep upon it almost exclusively. From an 
acre and a half to two acres of the fodder, I 
have found sufficient to winter one hundred 
head of sheep without any grain (except to 
owes) through the month of March. 
The advantages of making eorn fodder In this 
way, instead of hay, are these:—First, you can 
plow up any rough, dry, hillside, and get from 
four to six tuns of the best fodder per acre. It 
will grow and make a good crop in a season 
when clover and timothy will entirely fail. 
You can cut and put it up just as well In cloudy 
as in clear weather. It does not need to he rut 
in the throng of harvest, but may lie left until 
the after part of seeding, as a few frosts will 
* This communication is sent ns l>y W. Dunbar, 
who says lie cut It from an old public document. It is 
certainly “above the average” of Pub. Docs. 
do it but little Injury. It yields three times the 
quantity per acre that ordinary meadows will. 
It does not cost over one-half the labor per tun 
to make it that hay does. 
The onuses from whence failures generally 
occur, are these:—Sowing on too strong a soil, 
producing a heavy, ligneous stock, and apt to 
lodge. Sowing too little seed, which also re¬ 
sults in a heavy stalk. Tieing it up in sheaves 
when cut, producing mold, and finally rotting. 
Stowing a quantity of it away in a mow, pro¬ 
ducing fermentation and injury. 
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CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
For Bruises or Sores on a Horse. 
Edmund Hewit, of Gahvav, writes us he 
has used the following with good success:— 
“ Take smart-weed, ( Polygonum Hydropiper,) 
boil it in chamber ley. After boiling, put in a 
little soft soap. Wash while warm, two or 
three times a day. If the weather is cold, 
either dry it with a hot brick or cover with a 
cloth.” _ 
Storing Wood. 
S. G., of Detcrboro, N. Y., sends us his 
mode of storing wood that is green, for tho 
purpose of seasoning it. He has an open sited 
14 by 40 feet—built by setting six posts firmly 
in the ground—three of them being enough 
shorter than the other three to give the re¬ 
quired pitch to the roof—lays poles on these 
posts and covers with beards—covering each 
joint with a good slab. Under this shelter he 
cords tho wood when it is prepared stove length 
in winter and spring, whether it is green or 
wet, or both. In November he removes it to 
his wood-house adjoining the kitchen. He 
thinks such wood is worth one-third more 
than wood that has not been cured under 
cover. We agree with him. 
Imphee Profits. 
Sanford Brown, of Walworth Co., Wis., 
raised a half acre of “White Imphee” last 
season for sirup, and although it was an unfavor- 
blc season for Its production, he got sixty- 
three gallons of the nicest sirup, weighing 
12 pounds to the gallon—equal to the common 
grades of sugar for cooking, he says; but if nice, 
we say it is much better, lie gave us the figures 
as follows: 
| Dr. 
To fitting ground and planting.$”00 
Cultivate and hoe. 3.00 
Cut cane. 2.50 
Draw cane eight miles. 6.00 
Use of half acre of land. 2.50 
Twenty-five cents per gal. for making 63 gals. 13.75 
$20,75 
Cr. 
By 03 gallons of sirup at SO cents per gallon, (now 
worth one dollar,).$50.40 
.89.715 
_ $20.65 
An Experiment with Corn Cobs. 
On page 11, current Vol. Rural, we copied 
from an exchange a statement of an experiment 
with corn cob meal compared with clear meal, 
and corn and cob meal. After reading it, 
Carlton Smith, of Niagara, N T . V., writes us 
he “ went In for the cob meal,” and he relates 
the result of his experiment as follows; —“I 
paid 5-2 to get 22 bushels of cobs ground. 1 
boiled or scalded the meal and fed it to my cat¬ 
tle and horses. The cattle would not eat. it but 
a few days unless I put eorn meal with it. 
Now, Mr. Editor, I will give you or “ W. G,,” 
(the writer of the article alluded to,) or any 
other man, SI per pound for all the beef or 
butter that cau he made from eorn cob meal." 
We think our correspondent is safe in making 
the offer. We should have too much regard for 
our reputation as a humane man, to try to 
make beef or butter by giving animals a simple 
cob meal diet. Evidently, our correspondent 
has learned his lesson well. 
ana 
Seedin') with Flax.— “ Fhiber ” writes:—“ I think 
no man will ever get. a heavy crop of grass seeding with 
llax. I have tried It several times." 
Potatoes after Buck wheat. —A correspondent 
writes in answer to an inquiry sometime since:—“Po 
tatoes will do well after buckwheat, and rot but little 
in the worst of seasons.” 
Grubs Cutting Beans.—D an you, or any of your 
readers, Inform me what will prevent grubs from cut 
ting hennaf I have about six acres or beans planted, 
and I find a good many grey grubs They ure also 
making sad havoc with my com — II. Beckwith. 
W hat will Make a Horse's Mane Grow?—I wish 
to inquire If you, or some of the l eaders of the Rural. 
can lull mo what will make n horse’s mane grow fast ? 
I have a valuable horse which has rubbed his maimott, 
and I am anxious to have it grow out as mum as possl 
bic. —A Subscribes, Delavan, M ?V. 
Hay liOADtNQ Machine —(M W. t\, Lorain Co., 
Ohio ) We have seen engravings and models of hay 
loading machines, but we have never seen one nt work 
Wo agree with you I lmt if machiuea can hi: procured 
that will save this heaviest labor of the hay field, It will 
be an Important addition to the labor saving machin¬ 
ery of the faim But it Is Important that the price of 
such machines should bo such as to render it cconomi 
cal for the farmer to purchase Lhem. 
— Hlncu willing the above we have seen a report of 
a trial of “Faust’s Day Loader" in Herkimer Co. 
But the trial does not seem to have been conclusive as 
to its merits. 
Cows Leaking Milk.—(A. O. O.) A correspondent 
of the Rural once said he cured a cow by bathing her 
teats, previous to her making bag, with melted tallow, 
every tlm e or four clays, till she calved. It can bo 
done after milking as well, when the bag Is empty. 
There is an article called Collodion or Liquid Cuticle, 
which may be obtained of druggists- Apply this to 
the end ol the t.-ats after milking the cow. It ut once 
forms a thin, tough skin, nud closes tho orifice. At 
the ui'xt milking this skm cun be broken through, and 
nl'ier milking Hie Collodion again applied. After a 
few applications in this way, the defect will bu cured, 
and no more need he applied. 
Hurai Notes ani> Stems, 
New Half Volume and New Terms. —As already 
announced, the Second Half of Volume XV of the 
Rural New Yorker will commence next week— 
.July 2. All whose subscriptions expire with the first 
half of the volume—ttiis week—will find the Humber 
of the paper (No. 75t) printed after address on labels. 
Those wishing the paper continued without interrup¬ 
tion—aa \vc trust all do—should renew promptly, as 
we shall not print a largo extra edition, and may not 
he able to supply back numbers more than two or 
throe weeks. (Sit article bended “ To Agents and 
Subscribers, 1 ' on page 211.] 
Agents, Subscribers, and all others interested, are 
referred to last page for the terms upon which the 
Rural will hereafter be furnished. Our reasons r„r 
establishing these terms have already been given. 
The rates ure low, considering cost of publishing the 
paper, and must be rigidly adhered to. Every one 
having occasion to remit far the paper—cither at single 
copy or club rate—should first examine the terms, and 
be sure to send in accordance therewith. 
The Death of Judok E- H Gilbert, of Nunda, N. 
Y., la announced. For the past quarter of a century 
Judge G. lias been a resident of Livingston county, 
extensively engaged In agricultural pursuits, and prom¬ 
inently identified with all the public and useful enter- 
prises of hid locality Tho Nunda A'ewr, in a just 
tribute to his character and memory, says be “was 
respected i« community for his stern and inflexible 
principles of integrity, Ms manly qualities and his 
public spirit. Iu the circle Of bis more immediate ac¬ 
quaintance, no citizen ban been more highly esteemed 
and respected for the social alid friendly attributed 
which ever distinguished him, aud for theme qualities 
tiia memory will be enshrined for yearn to come. As a 
counsellor of the young, and an exemplary Christian 
man, he wa» always noted, and his decease occasions a 
vacancy in, society which will long remain unfilled ” 
Judge Gii.hekt was among tho most ardent and ?n)> 
stantial friends of Hie Rural New -Yorker. Through 
his efforts and Influence its circulation and usefulness 
were largely augmented, not only tn his own locality but 
in other sections where lie was acquainted and induced 
friends to Introduce the paper to notice and support 
He has probably sent us over a thousand subscribers 
during the past ten years, and no doubt Induced others 
to send « still greater number—and all for the benefit 
of the cause and community, rather than any pecuniary 
or personal gain. lie was engaged in promoting many 
useful enterprises, and we only cite his aid of the 
Rural as evidence of his influence aud success Judge 
G- was nearly sixty.seven at the time of his decease. 
Tice Ravages of the Rose Duo.— In another col¬ 
umn, in our horticultural department, we publish an 
article on this pest, w hich we learn from It. M Uakeii, 
Esq., is doing a good deal of damage in Brighton, in this 
county—not only eating the orchard foliage, but rav¬ 
aging the corn fields to a serious extent. We know 
or no mode of exterminating them when they appear 
in such force. We give hero Dr. Harris' description 
of them, because it Is more detailed atnl accurate limn 
that given by Dr. Warder. It is a beetle; " measures 
seven twentieths of an inch in length. Its body is 
slender, tapers before and behind, and is entirely cov¬ 
ered with very short, and dose ashen yellow down; the 
thorax Is long and narrow, angularly widened iu the 
middle of each side; Hie legs are slender, and of a pale 
red color, the joints of the feet are tipped with black, 
aud arc very long.” By ibis description our readers 
may he able to identify it—and then invent means to 
save the crops on which it depredates. They have got 
to be caught and killed. We know of no other way to 
got rid of them. 
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The Bav City Signal is the title of a large, hand 
‘Otnc and well filled weekly newspaper, Just started at 
Bay City, Mich , by Capt Wm. T. Kennedy, Jr., re¬ 
cently or tiffs city, and for many years connected with 
the Rural New-Yorker. Capt. K. lately resigned 
liis position as Assistant Office Editor of the Rural 
to enter upon this new enterprise, and No. 1 of tho 
Signal gives evidence of the talent, taste and enter¬ 
prise we have long known Urn to possess. We w ish 
the Captain signal success, and arc confident he will 
merit aud find troops of friends and substantial 
patrons ip his new home and business enterprise. 
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Sanford Howard to the Farmers or Michigan 
—We have received a circular issued by the now .Secre¬ 
tary of the Michigan Board of Agriculture, Sanford 
Howard, to the farmers of that State. The circular 
contain* twenty-eight questions which the Secretary 
desires answered by farmers into whose hands it may 
full. The object of these questions is “ to obtain cor¬ 
rect information In regard lotto. Agricultural resources 
of the State.” We trust our readers In Michigan will 
respond promptly and in detail to these inquiries. 
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Soldier’s and Traveller's Work, Toilet and 
Writing Case.— Such is the “title” of u “work ’ 
placed on our table by Allinu- .V Cory, of this city, 
which in a space of 8 inches long and two inches in 
diameter, contains paper, envelopes, checker-board, 
buttons, thimble, chalk, ink liotile, needles, scissors, 
tweezers, pitas, tooth picks, pens, pen holder, peucil, 
tooth-brush, silk, twist, yarn, black and white thread, 
and pocket room enough for anything else not enumera¬ 
ted. It is a big “ work.” 
African Seeds.—W e find the following in an*'* 
change:—” The Commissioner of Agriculture hn*jiid 
received from Timothy D. Hibbard, M D , of Si ns 
Leone, seeds and specimens of several native African 
plants—among them, Roos kgos, a kind of corn umch 
(••teemed us food for man, beast and fowl, ami very 
prolific; sour sorrel, useful as ionsoulng. «&e., Ceng 0 
bonne, gourds, peanuts, a plant called lrimdi, and ud 
unnamed flowering shrub similar to the ealulpa 
This l 'sk of Lime in 8toki.no Hay and CiBAiN — 
We call the especial attentlou of onr agricultural read¬ 
er* to wluit is said in the first article on the Br»t|iflge 
of this paper, about, the ubo of lime In storing bay Wld 
grain. It is u matter of no little importance uud value 
in hay makers. Philosophy, in this instance, commends 
wiiat practice has demonstrated to he valuable 
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Hayks' Patent Brack Fence. From recent ex¬ 
amination and testing of a specimen (several lengths) 
of rids fence, we have formed a favorable opinion In 
regard to its merits, li cau lie made portable “ r Hla ‘ 
iionary, amt ts apparently very substantial and dura 
nle, as well as cheap. Wo commend the fence to the 
utteuilon of farmers aud others interested 
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Pennsylvania 8tatk Paul—' This exhibition i* 
he held at Easton, commencing tho 2Ti!i day of 8e; t 'ta¬ 
ller, and continuing four days. Preparation* f° r a 
large exhibition are being made. 
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Implement Trial in Iowa.— Such a trial is a* 1 
nouneed to take place at Burlington, Iowa, Sept M '• 
uuder the auspices of the Stale Agricultural Society 
