quite dry. I take a common sized teacup even full 
of fine solar salt, and put one teacup full to every 
twenty pounds of curd; after mixing the salt well 
with curd, I put to press, and let it stand trwenty-four 
hours. I keep twenty-six cows; make from 250 to 
200 cheeses in the best of seasons. 
bnlb render it unnecessary to store early, merely for 
the purpose ot Bating the bulbs from damage. 
Kohl-Rabi is relished by every description of stock. 
Sheep may be folded upon the crop where it grew, or 
the bulbB may be given to them sliced in boxes; for 
cattle the bulbs require to be sliced or pulped, and 
steamed or boiled for pigs. 
Several times in years past, we have called the 
attention of our readers, and particularly those 
whose interest it is to furnish a large amount of food 
for stock, to a root which we considered almost in¬ 
valuable for this purpose, and particularly adapted 
to our climate. While many succeed with the Tur¬ 
nip, and all may succeed in favorable seasons, and 
with proper culture, yet it must be admitted that our 
climate is far less favorable to its growth and ma¬ 
turity, than the humid climate of England. In the 
Kohl-Rabi we have a root exactly suited to our needs. 
It will endure the hottest, dryest weather, and never 
fail of producing a large crop. It is perfectly hardy, 
and no ordinary frost Injures it in the least, so that 
there need be no hurry about storing. Then it bears 
transplanting well, and this is the best mode of grow¬ 
ing, so that there need be no failure on account of 
bad seed, no bare spots to disfigure the field or lessen 
the crop. Unlike the Turnip, it gives no unpleasant 
taste to milk or butter, and is relished by all kinds 
of stock. Messrs. Lawson sum up the advantages of 
Kohl-Rabi over the best Swede Turnip, in the follow¬ 
ing terms: 
“Its advantages over the Swedes are, that cattle, 
and especially horses, are fonder of it; the leaves are 
better food; It bears transplanting better than any 
other root; insects do not injure it; drouth does 
not prevent its growth; it stores quite as well or bet 
ter; it Btands the winter better; and if, affords food 
later in the season, even in June.” 
The more we have tested the Kohl-Rabi, the better 
we are pleased with it, becoming more and more 
convinced of its peculiar adaptation to our hot, dry 
climate, and the wants of Amcricun farmers. Tho 
last number of the frith Farmers' Gatet/e recom¬ 
mends it* more general culture by the farmers of that 
country, and gives the following as the best mode of 
treatment. Of course our late springs and rapid¬ 
growing seasons would make so early planting im¬ 
practicable and unnecessary. For sowing in the 
seed-bed in this latitude, the first of May is sufficient¬ 
ly early. 
“ Every intelligent farmer who knows the value of 
root aropB, knowB also that it is injudicious to limit 
his cultivation of that important class of plant* to one 
kind. Were it for no other purpose than merely to 
spread the busy season of sowing over as wide a 
period ns possible, so that there would not be too 
much to do at once, a diversity is desirable; but it is 
still more so from the fact that the effect* produced 
on stock are greater when we have a diversity ut com¬ 
mand, than when we are confined to only one or two 
kinds. Some kinds of root* are good for one pur¬ 
pose; others for another purpose; some kinds are 
suitable for consumption at one period, others at a 
later period, and others, ugain, still later. Another 
advantage is that a variety of root* lessens the risk 
of loss of a supply of winter food from the failure, 
— total or partial,— of any one kind, and hence the 
judicious cultivator will not limit himself to one or 
even two kinds of root crops. 
Believing, as we do, that root culture is of the 
most essential consequence, we proceed to describe 
briefly the cultivation of an extremely valuable 
variety of this class; it being necessary to commence 
operations at the present time, as will be seen in the 
course of the following remarks. 
Althongn ijoni uam oeen ( partialiy hjiiuvummi 
for many years, especially in England and Ireland, it 
is only of lute that its value has become generally 
known, that is, comparatively so; because there are 
still many farmers, extensive growers of root crops, 
who are yet unacquainted with it. This plant is 
sometimes designated the “turnip-stemmed cab¬ 
bage,” the “Hungarian turnip,” as well as other 
names ; but its proper designation is that under 
which it was first introduced, viz., Kohl-Rabi. 
There are eleven varieties In cultivation, those 
best suited for field culture being the Late Green 
or White Kohl-Uabi, the Late Purple, the Oblong 
Green, the Oblong Purple, and the Giant Green 
Globe; the latter, recently introduced from Germany, 
being highly *poken of. Kohl-Rabi may be grown on 
any turnip soil, but if thrives best on heavy lands, 
even when these are of too stiff a nature for turnip 
cultivation. The preparatory operations during au¬ 
tumn and spring are the same as those for turnips, Ac. 
Kohl-Rabi seed may be sown in tho end of April, 
or beginning of May, In the same manner as turnip 
seed; but the better plan is to grow the plants in a 
seed-bed, transplanting them when they arc six or 
eight inches high into drills in the field. The seed¬ 
bed should be dry, and manured in autumn or during 
winter, and the place chosen should be a sheltered 
spot, open to tlie sun. In the end of February Or 
during March sow the seed, in the bed, thinly in 
drills, 12 inches apart. This permits the use of the 
hoe afterwards, for the purpose of keeping the beds 
clear of weeds, as well as stirring the soil, which 
promotes the growth of the young plants. A second 
sowing may be made in the middle of April, and a 
third sowing in the end of May or beginning of June. 
A bed six yards square will afford sufficient plants tor 
one acre (statute) of land, and eight ounces of seed 
will be necessary for the seed bed. The first sowing 
will be ready to be transplanted in May, the second 
sowing in June, and the third towards the end of July 
or beginning of August. 
The plants will be taken from the first sown seed¬ 
bed, and dibbled in about 16 or 18 inches apart along 
the top of the drills. Moist weather is best for 
transplanting. If “clubbing,” or warts, each con¬ 
taining a small maggot, is found on the plants in the 
seed-bed — similar to tlie "clubbing” common on 
cabbage plants,—it has been recommended to dip 
the stems, as the plants are lifted from the seed-bed, 
in the following composition: fresli soot, one gallon; 
powdered saltpetre, one pound: water being added 
‘to reduce it to the consistency of coal tar.' 
The plants obtained from the second and third 
sowings will not produce as heavy crops as that from 
the first sowing. It will be necessary, therefore, 
when transplanting, to dibble in the late plants closer 
than in the case of the first sown. Those trans¬ 
planted in June will be dibble fourteen to sixteen 
inches apart, and those in July or beginning of 
August, from twelve to fourteen inches. The after 
cultivation consists in the frequent use of the horse- 
hoe, until the leaves meet in the drills, with the hand 
hoe to stir the soil between the plants in the lines. 
The leaves of Kohl-Rabi are quite as valuable for 
feeding purposes as the bulbs, and both ‘ are about 
twice as valuable as ordinary turnips, and materially 
surpass the best Swedes. 1 The plant also stands in¬ 
tense frost, and as it keeps well, either stored or in 
the field, it is extremely valuable for spring use in 
the case of fattening sheep or ewes. It docs not 
affect milk or butter when used as food for cows. If 
the plant is stored in November, like turnips, Ac., the 
storing process need not proceed faster than the con¬ 
sumption of the leaves will admit, as it would he 
improper to waste the leaves, considering their value 
I as food; while the frost-resisting properties of the 1 
Tiik Season—Crop ProsI’KOTS.—I n all this region the sea¬ 
son is still backward—so much so that comparatively little of 
the usual spring work has been performed. April has been 
a cold month, and otherwise discouraging to farmers wishing 
to plow and plant largely, though favorable for grain and 
grass. As we write —on the last day of the month — a cold 
rain storm prevail?, and ovt-rooats are in demand. May will 
be gladly wcclomed, in the hope that it will bring clearer 
skies and mote genial atmosphere — weather which will yet 
enable farmers, by extra effort, to sow and plant in season to 
obtain good returns in anturon. 
The Wheat Crop of this section — and, so far as we learn, 
of Western and Central New York — is improving in appear¬ 
ance. Grass is starting finely in well-cared for meadows, 
promising a good yield of an important crop. Letters and 
other advices relative to the Growing Crops in distant parts 
of the country ore generally favorable. The wheat crop is 
believed to promise unusually well— tho papers from most 
wheat, growing Slates affirming that the prospects are most 
encouraging for an abundant yield. Judging from present 
indication?, the States which maiutaln the Union will reap 
an abundnnt harvest, and thus be placed in a roost prosperous 
condition, notwithstanding the War which seems destined to 
devastate a portion of the country. The prospect of high 
prices in autumn—not only on accountof •'tronblons times” 
at home, but the probability of short crops abroad, and per¬ 
haps a European War—should stimulate the fanners of the 
f-’ree States of the North, and of the Canadas also, to produce 
as largely as possible. 
“Chester County Butter.” 
“S. E. M.,” writing to the Country Gentleman, 
Bays:—“The best butter in this country is admitted 
by connoisseurs to be made in the dairies of Chester 
and Delaware counties in Pennsylvania, from 
meadows a hnndred years in grass, and which the 
owners never think of plowing np. The sod is said 
to be a foot thick, and consequently little affected 
by drouth. This batter is appropriated by the mar¬ 
kets of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and 
a person once accustomed to its aroma and flavor, 
becomes fastidious for life fn that article. The dairy- 
people work their butter with a damp cloth, upon a 
marble or hardwood slab, (instead of a bowl or ladle,) 
— rinsing and wringing the cloth in cold water as 
often as it becomes saturated with milk. The butter 
will not become waxy or salvy by this process, as it 
is made perfectly dry, with half the manipulation. 
A single trial will convince of this. Of course the 
butter must be salted and cooled, and time allowed 
for the salt to be entirely dissolved, before it is 
worked for packing or for table. The cloth must 
he close in texture, and not at all linty—a lump of 
ice will prevent the butter becoming oily in very 
warm weather. An ounce and a half will he found 
about the right quantity of salt for a pound of butter 
by this process, as the cloth extracts more salt than 
the ladle. 
BLAMES AND COLLABS 
Ens. Rubai. New-Yorker: — In a late issue of 
your journal, was a letter from H. 11., Drummond- 
ville; and as it had reference to the horse, it claimed 
my attention, and I must say that I fully and heartily 
agree with him in every word that he has written on 
the subject. I have for years noticed the defect in 
the hames everywhere offered for sale, and never 
could, until last year, find any to please me, and then 
I bought some in Montreal, to which the collar is 
attached and the draft placed just high enough to be 
comfortable for a horse to wear. With the hames of 
all my plow horses 1 am obliged to wear a very short 
strap at the top and a very long one at the bottom, 
or longer hames than would otherwise be necessary, 
with a pad at the top, thereby keeping the draft hook, 
or tug, as high as 1 want them to save the points of 
the poor horses 1 shoulders, which suffer greatly when 
the draft is so low as to make the hames and collar 
stand perpendicular, and therefore catch every action 
or motion of the shoulder hone, causing the horse to 
work in misery. If these remarks, added to what H. 
H. has written, (and T think he need not have been 
ashamed to give his name in full,) will have the effect 
of causing horse owners and hame manufacturers to 
consider the subject they will not have been written 
in vain. 
There is another portion of a horse's rig so nearly 
allied to the hames.lhat I may be excused for giving 
my opinion with regard to it, and that is the collar, 
of which there are many varieties. I may begin, 
first, with the greaf heavy Scotch collar, weighing 
about a stono weight, with a side of heavy leather for 
a cap, and a burnRe of straw and a bag of hair in 
each side, and capable of causing and holding a gal¬ 
lon of sweat. Then there is the English collar, 
which is about ball the weight, and therefore twice 
as good, and then the French collar, of Lower Cana¬ 
da, which is a very small, narrow pad, attached to 
the hame, and weighing about a pound. This I con¬ 
sider better than cither, and use them for my own 
driving. With the large collar the shoulders are 
never dry in wane weather, for they are so heavy and 
broad, and have such a largo cap, that they keep the 
shoulder all the time covered, while, on the contrary, 
the smaller and lighter the collar the less sweat is 
raised and the shoulder so little covered that it soon 
dries. Rather than use the large, heavy caps referred 
to, 1 would use, in rain, a light oil cloth cover, and 
in snow, a racoon, or some other small skin, which 
could be taken off at pleasure. Some people may 
think that the small pad I recommend insufficient, 
and that sore shoulders must follow, but it is no such 
thing. 1 have seen hundreds of both horses and mules 
working with the naked hames alone, and never saw 
a scalded shoulder from them. Of course they are 
made a little different from ours, and better fitted to 
the animal. R. R- Denison. 
Dover Court, Toronto, C. W,, 1861. 
The Jackson Co. (Mich..) Ag. Society has elected the fol¬ 
lowing officers for 1861: President — Ransom E. Ai.drtoh. 
Vice Presidents — Peter M Shearer, Waterloo; Jease Hurd, 
Henrietta; E. W. Taylor. Hires; J. C. Southworth, Tompkins; 
Stephen IT. Ludlow, Springport; Wm. B. Remington, Grass 
Lake; Joshua Clements, Leoni; M. Shoemaker, Jackson; 
Marvin Dorrill, Blackman; Joseph Yonnglore, Summit; 
Chester Wall, .Sandttojie; Norman Allen Parma; M. L. Ray, 
Concord; Win. TefTt, Spring Arbor; J. L. Butterfield, Brook¬ 
lyn; James Holley. Napoleon; Alden Hewitt, Columbia; S. 
IT. Holmes, Liberty; B C, Hatch, Hanover; James McMillen, 
Pulnsltl. for. Secretary —Hernando C. Mead, Jackaon. Rec. 
Secretary — Walter Budington, Jackson. Treasurer- R. F. 
Lattimer, Jackson. Executive Committee —5.0. Knapp, Jack- 
son; J.itnet [lePuy, Spring Arbor; Robert H. Anderson, Rives; 
A. li. Delatnater, Columbia; Richard T. Grego, liberty; Mor¬ 
gan Casa, Brooklyn. The Annual Fair is to tie held on the 
Society’s line Show Grounds, in the City of Jackson, on the 
25tb. 26th, and 27t|, of September next —the Premiums .and 
Arrangements for which indicate a progressive spirit 
Colic In Horses. 
Tins disease, says the Valley Farmer, is a very 
common one, and if taken in time may be easily 
cured in most cases. It is not unfrequently con¬ 
founded with inflammation of the bowels, but is 
easily distinguished as follows: Colic h»B no increase 
of the pnlse, which is not over fifty a minute; the 
animal often rolls; the disease intermits, and there is 
but little fever. With inflammation of the bowels 
there is much fever; the pulse is sometimes a 
hundred a minute; the attack is gradual, and the 
disease does not intermit. 
When colic arises from bad food, a pint or so of a 
solution of saleratus will often afford entire relief. 
As It assumes more of a spasmodic character, pep¬ 
permint and ginger may be added. We have used, 
with entire and immediate success, a small spoonful 
of saleratus, the same quantity of ginger, and a tea- 
spoonful of peppermint, added to a pint of nearly 
boiling hot water, and given from a junk bottle. 
Powdered charcoal is one of the best and safest 
medicines for any disease resulting from derange¬ 
ment of digestion, and two or three ounces or more, 
mixed with water, may be given at any time with 
great advantage. 
Inflammation of the bowels is generally increased 
by irritating medicines. A drink of slippery elm, 
hourly, giving the horse but little food, and letting 
him stand, is safe treatment. 
Fig. 3.—section of rolling doors. 
li The Doors are of pine, 
lil and hung on rollers at 
the top. The frames arc 
Wj f two inches thick, put 
|r^ together with iron holts 
j ^ that run the whole 
| \ width. The panels are 
1 /\ v\ an inch thick, fitted 
V I a into a groove ftt the 
top, but outside of tho 
w, rail at the bottom, as 
m seen in fig. 4, causing 
w, all water to flow from 
\\ them, and yet have the 
// \ appearance of a panel 
v | \ door. 
H|| The Windows have 
Bashes that hang near 
i* hi.4, sec. ok window, the lap, the bottom 
pushing outwards, as shown in fig. 4, and are glazed. 
They have to be fastened open, hut they fasten them- 
Belves shut. 
Seneca Co. Ac,. Society.— For several years past the An¬ 
nual Fairs of this Society have been held at 'Waterloo, but at 
a recent meeting of the Board of Managers, it was decided to 
hold the next Fair at Ovid, on the 18tb, 19th and 20th of Sept. 
The Waterloo Observer states that there was entire unanimity 
with regard to the location, and should the results of the 
Fair prove as advantageous a- is anticipated, our County Fairs 
will, In all probability, alternate hereafter between the dif¬ 
ferent ends of the Connty. We learn that the Ovid Agricul¬ 
tural Association has rented, for a terra of years, about 18 
acres of land in the immediate vicluity of Ovid, which will be 
fitted up permanently for a Fair Ground, on which County 
and Horse Fairs will hereafter be held, Tho position of Ovid 
is favorable to the holding of a Fair, and we arc surprised 
that mi itable grounds have not been selected before. 
About Horses,— To he kept in a healthy condition, every 
horse should be exercised regularly—say two hours daily.- 
It is estimated tha t there are 5,000,000 horses in the U. States. 
-A tight girth that is not elastic, fastened around the 
body of a plunging horse, will entirely prevent rearing and 
jumping. Vicious animals want room to swell, and tho tight 
girth checks it.-One end of a chain looped around the 
neck of a baulky horse, and tho other attached to a powerful 
... wud to' cun- me of f ,|, gt inacy. ShoulA 
not be surprised if it did—especially if the team *-<-,« aiartedy 
for either the horse would move or lose his neck!-It is 
printed that a handful of dry wood ashes, In feed once a 
week, given to a horse, will usually kill worms; but a more 
powerful medicine is the soaking of their grain over night in 
a solution of basswood bark for two or three mornings, and 
then physicking. 
Hnnalihm for Corn. 
We again present Rural readers with a clipping 
from Mr. Randall’s essay on Corn Culture: 
An corn, more then '“’■'T nnr cereals, re- 
quii*fs, during the whole perioU of its growth.^ » u 
unstinted supply of sunshine, not only ove*r the sur¬ 
face of the field. hut down, In, through, and among 
it, the economy of planting should always, as far as 
circumstances will permit, be adapted to this require¬ 
ment; the row in the field running as nearly cast and 
west as may he, that the grown and lower portions 
of the stalks may have the full benefit of the morning 
and evening sun. During the corn-growing season, 
the sun during the middle or the day is at an altitude 
so nearly vertical, that its rays find their way down 
through the foliage, and between the rows very readi¬ 
ly. If instead of planting their corn in hills, rowed 
both ways, four feet apart, two stalks in a hill, our 
farmers would plant in drills, six feet apart, running 
always cast and west, having the stalks from ten to 
twelve inches distant from each other, they would 
soon find the benefit of this mode of culture, both iu 
the excess of crops and the earlier maturity of the 
grain. A prodigious yield of pumpkins maybe ob¬ 
tained from a Ih-ld thus planted, and as the vine of 
the pumpkin draws more than eighty per cent, of its 
nourishment from the atmosphere, they return a good 
deal more than value received to the soil, iu the 
grateful shade of their broad leaves during the tierce 
heat of a mid-summer’s day. 
An old farmer, of long practical experience, once 
argued to us that actual sunshine was by no means a 
necessity of the best development of Indian corn, 
provided it was supplied with plenty of common day¬ 
light. In order to test our positions fairly, we plant¬ 
ed twenty hills of the ordinary Kentucky gourd seed 
corn, on the north side of a close board fence ten 
feet high, and ruuuing due east and west. On the 
south side of the fence, we pluntcd a like number of 
hills of the same corn. As from April to September, 
the sun rose and set north of our parallel, of course 
the corn on that side got a little sunshine in spite of 
us. Nevertheless, with exactly the Barne culture as 
its neighbor over the fence received, it only attained 
two-thirds the height, not half the size of stalk, and 
matured ten days later, yielding one very modest ear 
per stalk, while the south side stalks gave us in al¬ 
most every instance three; one on each stalk being 
invariably larger than any three we could find over 
the fence. 
’I'UJHLIY 
Mr. Rural: — t r.otfeo B. T. B. says the pulling my 
stumps cost 18 ejenta each. That was about the cost 
for two men and the machine; then I found two 
teams and my four men, hired by the year, helped 
all the time, and sometimes I had another man. 
Digging the earth from the stump was far more labor, 
after the stump was suspended, than tho pulling it, 
and the earth had to he taken off in order to fill up 
the hole, so as to let the stump down in order to 
turn it over. They were raised by a screw machine, 
and often the earth came up from 5 to 6 feet deep, 
and from 16 to 17 feet square, and such required a 
great deal of labor to clean the earth from. We 
fonnd those where the trees hud been just cut down 
took far less labor to clean from the earth than those 
that had been cut ten years. The earth was loose 
around those newly. Cut, while on the others it was 
both hard and tough. On land like mine, where the 
white oak stumps will last iu the ground for 30 or 40 
years, and the black walnuts may, for any thing I 
know, last 100 years, it. pays well to pull them. 
I only put 40 to 50 bushels unslaked lime to the 
acre in my early liming. Latterly T have put as 
much as 80 to 100 bushels, and 1 believe that pays 
best, lame on such soil as mine will improve the 
crops for 15 or 20 years, if the land is not cropped 
with grain continually. Lime lasts much the longest 
where the sub-soil is stiff clay,— on porous sub-soils 
it soon sinks too deep. 
Near Geneva, N. Y., 1861. John Johnston. 
r IO. 5.— CUPOLA AND CORNICE. 
The roof is nearly flat on the top, for fourteen feet, 
sloping seven each side of the center —surmounted 
by a Vent-Uating Cupola, (figure 5,) and two Ventila¬ 
tors on F.merson's Flan, with ornamental brackets, 
figure 6. This portion of the roof Is covered with 
Russell’s Patent Roofing, laid upon inch hemlock, 
well nailed to joists 2x12 inches. The slope from tho 
center is only lour inches each way, but water runs 
from it readily, and from its exposed situation snow 
cannot accumulate in winter. 
Don’t Kill the Birds I—A writer in the N.H. Farmer '* 
severely after all who destroy the birds—the sweet songsters 
of spring, and protectors of fruits and vegetables. Address¬ 
ing those who “Can't find anything to do blit prowl around, 
inflicting pain and death on the innocent birds, robbing earth 
of its mnsic and animated beauties.” he says:—“You have 
lived too long, already. Instead of marble, you deserve a 
white birch slab, with this epitaph: 
1 Here lies at rest 
A worthless pest, 
Who had no soul to lose or save; 
And these four words, 
Hu Killed the Birds, 
Proclaim his worth who fills this grave.’” 
“ Kidder's Guide to Apiarian Science.”— This is the title 
of a work of 175 pages, claiming to be a “Practical Treatise 
in every department of Bee Culture and Bee Management”— 
a copy of which we have received from the anther, Mr. K. 
P. Kidder, of Burlington, Vt. A glance at its pages indi¬ 
cates that the work contains many interesting facts and sug¬ 
gestions, but we will express no opinion in regard to its 
merits until after a careful perusal. Mr. K.’s advertisement 
in this paper will attract the attention of apiarians. 
Musical Cow. Bells.— It is said that cow bells of rolled 
sheet iron, 10 inches deep, with a mouth 3 by 6 inches, can 
be distinctly heard from three to five miles. A farmer in 
England provides all his cows with bells tuned to different 
Dotes in the scule, and the whole running through several 
octaves. A visitor to this farm is charmed by the music, as 
well as the sleek cattle. Sometimes he hears several notes 
in unison, theD a slight discord, and then a sweet harmony, 
and all varied by distance, and by the rising and falling of 
the breeze. 
Experiences with Hedge Plains. 
A Shaker correspondent of Field Notes gives 
the result of thirty-five years experience with various 
hedge plants by their society. The honey locust 
tvould not hear cutting well, but died out in spots, 
aud made " the worst fence row that ever mortal man 
undertook to dear up.” Then he says:—“We tried 
the sweet brier; it made a pretty hedge, but was too 
weak to turn cattle ; and then large patches died out, 
and we give it up. Then we tried the crab apple, hut 
it would not hear catting nor grow thick enough to 
make a fence. We then tried the buckthorn, which 
made a tolerably good inside fence around an orchard, 
hut it took about fifteen years. We also tried all the 
different kinds of thorns that we could get, but never 
got a hedge that would turn stock.” With the Osage 
Orange they have had ten years experience and have 
succeeded well — having now four hundred and fifty 
rods of good hedge. It is needless to say that it has 
been well tended and trimmed, as without this no 
one can grow a hedge worth anything. 
FlO. 6.— VENTILATOR. 
The other portions of the roof are of spruce shin¬ 
gle, laid upon inch hemlock, with a steep pitch for 
the greater part of its length, and curves out at the 
eaves to give a greater >projection from the building 
with the same amount of roofing, and give a fiuished 
look to the design, as seen in figure 7. 
The save troughs are built with the other portions of 
the roof, and form the cornice. The conductors from 
the cornice form an ornamental bracket, and running 
down the corner, give an additional finish. 
Patent Cow Milkers. — We have inquiries as to where 
these can be bought. Do not know of any which we can 
recommend, aud very much doubt whether there is a good 
machine for milking (except that in the form of Adam or 
Eve,) iu the country. If there is, we are open to conviction 
and conversion 
Wayne Co. Horse Fair.— At a recent meeting of the 
Managers of the Wayne Co. Ag. Society, it was unanimously 
resolved to hold a Horse Fair, on their Grounds in Lyons, 
on the 3d and 4th days of July ensuing, and to offer above 
$800 in cash premiums. So we are advised by Mr. Secretary 
Knowles. 
gnqMrifS ana 
Stretches in Sheep. — Boll one pod of red pepper in a 
pint of water five minutes, and strain. When milk warm, 
add one tablespoonful of Epsom salts, and drench the sheep 
with it. This is a certain relief. To prevent a relapse, give 
succulent food, or turn the sheep on green wheat or grass.— 
fl. A. M., Hebron, Ohio, 1861. 
Rural Gleanings. — Late English papers announce that, 
in consequence of declining health, Mr. Jonas Webb, the 
celebrated breeder of South Downs, has resolved to retire — 
his entire flock being offered for sale at auction, without 
The Board of Agriculture in the Province of 
reserve. 
New Brunswick will hold an Exhibition, Oct. 1—4, at Sussex, 
and offer $3,000 in premiums-At Bangor, Me., a hog that 
measures 3 feet 6 inches high, 9 feet 7 inches long, 7 feet 6 
inches around, and weighs 1,600 lbs., is on exhibition. Great 
that!- At Mr. Motley’s recent Bale of Alderneys, 
Feeding Oats to Sheep. — Noticing several inquiries in 
the Rural relative to the value of oats as feed for sheep, 
together with statements of those who attribute mortality in 
their flocks to the use of this grain, 1 am induced to briefly 
relate my experience. On the 1st of February last, I had 
154 line wool ewes, that I prized above money, to which 1 
began feeding oats. I'p to that date they had been given 
corn, and were in prime order, lu about two weeks, a decline 
in condition was observable, the majority of the flock 
coughed, sneezed, and refused to eat. Very soon they began 
to die. A post-mortem examination was instituted, and 
carefully carried out, which revealed the difficulty to the 
satisfaction of all who witnessed it. Oats and hulls were 
found lodged throughout the nostrils, aud in the cavities of 
the head, and inflammation had completed the work. In 
some of the sheep, the oats had gathered so that they could 
be removed by the half dozen, and the membranous linings 
of the head were charged with blood. Have lost, at present 
date, 23. During past years, have fed oats, and lost sheep 
after their use. Did not know then the cause, but now con¬ 
sider the foregoing as sufficient,— Norton Diver, Rush, N. 
r., April 26, 1861. 
Cheese Making in Onondaga. 
Elisha Peck, of Onondaga Co., thus describes 
his process of cheese making, in the State Agricul¬ 
tural Society’s Transactions: 
My process in making is briefly as follows: After 
my milk is all ready in a large cheese tub, 1 put in 
the rennet, and stir it thoroughly with the hand. I 
let it stand thirty or forty minutes, and cut it with a 
long thin blamed knife. I let it stand about one 
hour, when I djip it into a strainer, lying over a sink, 
and cut it a fnw times; I leave it till morning. I 
Like the same course with the morning’s milk as 
mentioned abqive. In the morning cut both curds 
curd 
Fig. i.—main cornice. 
The barn has a jirojeetion, as seen in figure 8, and 
also in the elevation, that not only 
adds to the finish of the siding, but 
! protects the masonry. 
The approach to the doors on the 
Is west iB grfttled t0 a rise of one f00t 
in ten, and extends to within eight 
feet of the main building. The 
i ~T | protection wall is about four feet in 
height and two feet thick, sloping 
i I against the bank. 
-J The area between the protection 
’ig. 8.— water wall and the building is bridged, 
giving a free circulation of air to 
the basement, as seen in the sectional drawing. 
The cost of the entire structure was about $1,200. 
porcine, 
7 full blood cows and heifers brought an average of $165 
each, and one $280. Nineteen grade Alderneys brought an 
average of $70 each.-A mao in Penn Y'an, N. Y., has 
invented & machine that husks, shells, cleans, and puts corn 
into bags.-A Western wool grower who has suffered some¬ 
what from dogs, keeps a worthless -lut tied up on his farm, 
and surrounds her with meat which has strychnine in it. He 
has dead dogs to bury every day in the week, but considers 
this ounce of prevention better than a pound of cure. 
O'" Western and Southern Money.— In the present de¬ 
ranged state of the currency. «e are unable to u-e Western and 
Southern money, as our bankers will not purchase it at any 
rate of discount. Agents and Subscriber* who cannot obtain 
New York, New England, Pennsylvania, or Canada Money, will 
please send us V. X. Postage Stamps, as they are far preferable 
to any uncurrent bank bills. 
Jaalding; I put iu the morning 
j after that is well warmed up, I put 
[curd into a whey heated a little over 
t hen I think it sufficiently scalded, I dip 
iner laid over the sink, and let it drain 
TARI.E, 
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