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ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 186-5, 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN OKtGINAI, W2EKLT 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FA MILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, 
CHAS. D. UR AO DON, Associate Editor. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., 
Editor of the Department of Sheep Husbandry 
poor feed, or forage. The firmer whose pastures 
Jo not afford an abundance of rich succulent 
food, should not put Dnrhams nor their grades 
upon it— Devons will be better The farmer, in 
selecting his dairy stock, must consider whether 
he is going to depend simply upon what his farm 
produces in the shape of forage, or whether he 
will add slops or mashes; if the latter are to be 
added, the Durham grades would doubtless be 
as good as any. Pure Devons are not equal as 
milkers to well selected native stock. I have to 
cull the Devons .is I do the Natives, in order to 
get good milkers; and the proportion of culls 
&.YPJJ Tiusbuntlrn 
threshold, before even its first symptoms become 
visible to uninstracted eyes. All the supposed 
lacts cited by Air. Hat ha wav will, we affirmed, 
be found to come under some of these heads^ 
unleas it is the 4th: and we beg to assure our 
correspondent that it never has been “ demon¬ 
strated ” in Ohio or elsewhere, -‘that salting on 
the ground frequently is an infallible prevent¬ 
ive” of “bloody murrain.” 
W e spoke of the folly of dosing and drugging 
animals in perfect health, and not then exposed to 
any of the exciting causes of disease, in order to 
guard against future diseases when the excitin'* 
causes should be present. The “commonly 
understood” doctrine of preventives in such 
cases is, that- certain snbstances guard against 
the attacks of certain maladies as a horse shoe, 
or slip of rowan, i mountain ash,) over the door, 
was once believed to guard against the entrance 
of witches! We knew a man who, 
it is not a little amusing to Tvatcli the wry 
faces now made by a class of men at the exac¬ 
tions of “ middle men,” who but a few years ago 
laughed at farmers for trying to shake off the 
power of this same go-between class. Now 
there is manifest an anxiety to get into closer 
communion with farmers. “ Why,” said one of 
our city friends the other day, “I cannot get a 
larmer to sell me a bushel of apples nor potatoes, 
nor a pound of butter. Ask him for it, and he 
says no; the buyers come to my door for it, 
pay my price, and I cannot afford to peddle it 
arc in still I out in driblets at the same orice.’ So wp 
To Correspondents.— Mr, Randall's address is 
Cortland Village, Cortland Co., N. Y. AH commnnica- 
tions intended for this Department, and all inquiries 
relating to sheep, should he addressed to him as above. 
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S3T"For Terms and other particulars, see last page. 
j b Y os (April 23d,> in respect to the use of pre¬ 
ventive medicines for sheep. We regret our 
want of space in this department to present his 
article entire, and in our abstract of it will aim 
to give each of his propositions fully and fairly. 
He cites the following supposed facts:—1, that 
” it is asserted that there is a region west where 
borses nct-rn have the heaves, and that horses 
taken there* with” it “speedily recover” — that 
“it has been suggested that rosin-weed is the 
medicine which prevents or cures:” 2 that 
“the Eh'imourgrfc Reiiete relates” that a General 
and his staff escaped the deadly sickness which 
prevailed in the attacking army in the siege of 
Belgrade, by daily taking Peruvian hark infused 
in brandy: o, that “the same work roiares” 
that in the case of two British war vessels cruis¬ 
ing off the coast of Africa, the crew of one 
suffered severely from coast-fever, while that of 
the other escaped —the “cause assigned” for 
this exemption being a defect in the cookin ' 
aor-amus which kept the vessel filed witn 
smoke between decks: 4, that it has been 
“ demonstrated ” in Ohio, that salting on the 
ground frequently is an infallible preventive of 
the bloody mnrrain, which was so fatal during 
the early settlement of the country: 5. that 
during the prevalence of yellow fever in Phila¬ 
delphia, it was “ observed. ” that some persons 
surrounded by influences believed to be pre¬ 
ventive,” were exempt, etc.: 6, that “ it is well 
known” that persons who have remained in 
cities during pestilence “have with ri.cz 
uu:5 ^ on uie Native cow Is a very 
good one tor milk. Devons give a good quan¬ 
tity of milk early in the season; but later in the 
season the feed goes on to the ribs and not into 
the milk. As before said, the cross of a Devon 
bull on Native cows giTes a desirable animal — 
rather smaller than the pure Devon, but with 
large teats. In nine cases out of ten the male 
gives external character to the progeny. In 
quality dairyrnen would understand him —the 
Devons excel all other breeds. I do not know 
any better cows for general use than grade 
Devons. I have not had experience enough with 
the Ayrshlres to give an opinion concerning 
them. The Ayrshire bull on the Natives pro¬ 
duces smaller animals than the Devon grades. 
Leaxder Wetherell of the Boston Cultiwt- 
tor said the cow must be selected with reference 
to its adaptability to the farm where she is to be 
Jvcpt, atiu no UutlmT breed lias been Introduced 
into this country adapted to all localities. Hence 
the difference in opinion and experience with 
reference to the same breed must be varied ac¬ 
cording to the character and forage product of 1 
the respective localities of breeders and dairy- ' 
men. It has been said: “Species, God makes; i 
breeds, man makes.” You may sav the Im¬ 
proved Short-Horn U a breed. You mav take 
— - —™ UU| in perfect 
health, and amidst perfectly healthy surround- 
physicked himself at regular intervals, 
because he considered it healthy to be physicked 
at regular intervals. We have known many 
men who considered Mr. Hathawat’s 7th rem¬ 
edy a sovereign preventive of nearly all the 
future ills that flesh is heir to ! We have known 
not a few sheep larmers who periodically ad¬ 
ministered tar, sulphur, niter, etc., to perfectly 
healthy sheep, exposed to no unhealthy influ¬ 
ences. and threatened by no disease whatever, 
because they considered these substances 
•healthy to sheep,” and thns calculated to 
prevent their being attacked by disease. Against 
this class of preventives—against the adminis¬ 
tration s, t anv kind af medirina. to healthy 
animals p midst healthy snrroundings — we 
entered our protest, and most earnestly do 
we repeat it. Under such circumstances the 
MEtQlOTMJL 
-ULdVlNlr rYnunPCt&r in V. ^**0^4 ctoj ad, ltic 
wind apparent!}-rising, and being nearly ten Jong 
hours reaching Utica, we were prepared to find 
few cheese men gathered together in response to 
the call of the officers of this Association. But 
the attendance the first day has been a large one. 
The hall in which the meeting has been held has 
been pretty well filled. The Association was 
called to order at 12 o'clock, by President 
\V iLLtAMS, who congratulated the members upon 
the influence it had exerted during the brief 
P ® ri ,? d , BlnC ? its or P‘Dization, by the discussions 
.. . . --*6 meeting. Be thought 
meeting had saved 
increased the qoon- 
- —l the quality 
elicited at last- winter' 
the facts brought out at that 
much to manufacturers, had _ 
tity of cheese produced, aud that 
had reached the maximum required for export 
There was little left to be desired in order to 
compete with foreign cheese, except, perhaps in 
adapting the form and size to the peculiarities of 
the market. 
Little work was done beyond the appointment 
ot Committee-s, preliminary to going to work, 
and the Association adjourned at 2 o’clock. 
Best Dairy Breed, 
While waiting for the Committees Mr. Mat- 
toon, of Oneida, offered the following resolu¬ 
tion : 
That Native cows are the best and 
most profitable for dairy purposes. 
He said that while he offered the resolution 
for the purpose of creating discussion, he could 
not say that he had decided in his own mind 
which is the best breed. In Now England, the 
httle Devon cow is not regarded the best milker. 
He has experimented with Durham cows aud does 
not regard them so profitable as the Devon. Has 
examined cows bred on the Western prairies, 
and found them fine looking, handsome cows, 
but does not believe they are the best milkers. ’ 
Thomas A. Moore, of New Hartford, N. Y 
said he could only give his experience—could 
not undertake to advise any body. In the out- 
M M p'iKbei 1 all his cows, and he found a 
vast difieronee in the urnount and quality of the 
milk they gave. He had Durhams, Devons, Ayr- 
slnres, Alderney*;, then Grades and v,"„ i 
oe most aecutecny object to any person’s 
making a show of proving by actual facts a posi¬ 
tion affecting the life and health* of men or 
brutes, in Shis loose and unsatisfactory manner. 
The man who takes hearsay, or prevailing opin¬ 
ions, or unsupported assertions, for facts, is 
very liable to be misled himself and to mislead 
others; and the greater his personal weight and 
character the greater is the danger of his infusing 
erroneous opinions into the minds of those 
not particularly acquainted with the subject. 
Whether Mr. Hathaway’s supposed facts are 
really such or not, we will not now pause to 
ascertain. This would open a branch of inquiry 
which we have not yet raised. We confess we 
think him mistaken in not a few of them. 
RIGHT vs. LEFT HAND PLOWS. 
U. Marvin, of Richland Co., 0., writes tha 
Rural "I was brought up to a right-hand 
plow, but when setting up for self, procured a 
left-hand one, and, after twelve years practice, 
could uot be induced to return to the right-hand 
one. And further, I never yet met any one hav¬ 
ing had experience with both, but decidedly pre- 
fered the left-hand one." Affright; our corres¬ 
pondent s testimony is is good so far as it goes; 
but he omits the important thing after all. HTiy 
do you like the left-hand plow best* TU1W 
makes it better than the right-hand oue? A 
man's opinions and preferences are worth little 
to the public who know nothing of him, person¬ 
ally, unless they are backed with good reasons, 
N\ ill all correspondents remember this * 
week, we cannot of course publish all their 
communications as soon as they are received. 
In determining their priority of publication we 
are go\erned by various considerations. Prior¬ 
ity ot date only controls where all other things 
are equal. e choose a particular article to 
publish, or a particular question to answer in 
this or that issue, because it is appropriate to 
the season, beeause it throws iight on a question 
ihen attracting the notice of sheep breeders, 
because it imparts variety to our reading matter,' 
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