EHkTURE 
AGRICULTURE-^ 
‘WHOLE NO. 784 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1865. 
It is brief and imperfect, bat was as good as 
any one within onr reach. Of the symptoms 
of the disease he merely says: —" A hard 
swelling of the glands under the jaws is 
first observed; after a time small pustules 
appear about the head and neck, which break, 
discharging a white matter, then heal, and are 
The difficulty in having five or sis men to man¬ 
age a factory is, that none of them will give the c 
time to it necessary to learn the business. The 
best man in the neighborhood should be put in 
it and devote his time to it — for it requires . 
time to learn all that is to be learned in cheese 
making. < 
Leland of Deerfield.—I am a cheese buyer; , 
and we who huy cheese find the arrangement ol , 
vest ing the sale of factory cheese in a committee 
of three, five or seveu, a very objectionable one 
indeed. We go to the factory to buy and ask 
the agent there if his cheese is for sale; he does 
not know—must call the committee together to 
find out, or the buyer must ride, perhaps, a 
dozen miles in order to see the different mem¬ 
bers ot the committee and learn the price of the 
cheese. Another very objectionable practice 
among committees is that of asking the buyer 
for bis best offer. It is not business-like. One 
man would be likely to sell the cheese better 
than three men. In every neighborhood there 
is one man who would do this business to the 
satisfaction of the whole if he were made the 
agent. It is not necessary to give any part of the 
business into the hands of oue man, except the 
sale of the property. A higher price would bo 
obtained for your products. This season's btisi- 
atiou. ft - 
ranged from 10 to 28 cents. When the excite¬ 
ment ran high, we went to your factories 
making you offers; but yonr committees were 
distracted, divided in opinions, and we could not 
effect purchases — no conclusion was arrived at 
Herkimer county is losing heavily by being com¬ 
pelled to purchase cows that arc not bred 
for the dairy. And men in the west who make 
a business of breeding dairy cows for the dairy 
districts ought to know that it will be money in 
their pockets if they make it a point to breed 
from animals that have a milk pedigree. 
Woodworth of Cattaraugus.—I have a friend 
here beside me who says his cows give five 
pounds of milk per day more by feeding whey. 
(A voice:—“How many cows?” No reply.) I 
give to a dairy of thirty cows a bushel of bran 
mixed with whey or 600 u as it is left to sour. 
By this meaus I can keep one-tliird greater num¬ 
ber of cows on the same pasture. I have fed 
whey separately, as well as with bran as I have 
described. I feed bran in order to make the 
whey go further; feed twice a day. Another 
advantage in feeding whey is, that I do not have 
to go after the cows,— they come to the barn 
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relating to 9 heep, should be addressed to him as above. 
and in 
this"state is destroyed.”’ Now there can be no 
doubt that the tumors, or tuberculous deposits, 
characteristic of scrofula, are liable to appear 
externally elsewhere than about the jaws, and 
that thev are also liable to appear inwardly, as 
for example about the lungs, as in the case 
_, l __ described by Air. Avert. If his post mortem 
She appeared | examination was correct, there is no doubt that 
he fonnd between the lobes of the 
tuberculous deposite occasioned by 
He must be in error, however, in 
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iltby until about 1st of Ang. 8he brought ^he substance 
imb in April, and raised him well. About was a 
rune she was washed, and sheared tlrst of the \,- isea3e 
ecce weighing about T lbs. The first ol - that it had n0 attachment whatever, 
licedihai she looked rather thin, but at- surrounding structures. If Mr. Avery 
** ^ed me w 
lock. I weaned my lambs about the 20th to suppose that the tumors or a portion ofthem 
and left the sheep in the pasture where would have proceeded to suppuration, and that 
m through the summer. They remained Wealthy matter resembling pus would have 
o weeks, during which time T did not see > Jcen discharged from them. Scrofulous tumors, 
■y were then brought home, when I discov- however. ar g verv irregular in their rate and mode 
ling directly in front of each shoulder, and ; n ^j s particular on human beings, 
way from the top to the point of the shoal- - the 5ame wm bo found true in 
) noticed that sue cotig eu as mug » . t eheep The tumors mav remain indo- 
old Within a day or two I examined her re-gara to euetp. j 
ally, aad found that the two swellings of lent for months and then resume their progress, 
ve spoken had each become about half the 0 r they may suppurate in a few weeks. Let ns 
joso egg—and that there was also a bunch be re remark that Mr. Avery ought not to have 
ize of a walnut under each car, 1 separated killed this sheep. When a rare and interesting 
tui dock., nod .‘hough she at* verv heartily disease is present the intelligent observer should 
ned to grow thinner until about the 1 st of u tQ the eud( constantly notiug down in 
'hen I had her killed, and instituted a very and giving the date of every change 
jxsMxnuatioiiwith tbe lolknvtng result*, ^ oftpr rlpqfh has 
wool was pulled off, and wo found there m the symptoms - and then after death lu* 
hundred small, hard occurred lrom the disease, making the post 
feed sour 
MMGWUML 
N. Y. STATE CHEESE MANUFACTURERS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
prices declined, and . *♦ v was lost by those 
who did not accept iCc' first offers. I hope, in 
the organization of factories, you will, for your 
own sakoa as well as the buyer’s, put the power 
to sell in oue man's bands. 
A. Stryker of Wyoming.—On my way hither 
I met a buyer in the cars who urged that I should 
briug this subject before this association. He 
said that when he visited a factory and found the 
selling of the cheese in the bauds of a committee, 
he passed it by—spent no tune to find out whether 
he could buy or uot. 
Other gentlemen agreed upon the subject of 
vesting the selling power in a single agent, and 
the subject was laid on the table. 
tious were growing out of this discussion, and 
it was becoming interesting, it was suddenly 
broken off by an officer ol the Association — 
whose effort seemed to bo directed to prevent a 
continuous, exhaustive discussion of any one 
subject of public interest, aud to keeping the 
meeting iu the greatest possible confusion, iu 
TAXING LEAF TOBACCO 
This question is bung agitated. There are 
two classes opposed to such taxation, and one 
Iiu'ltc and influential class in favor of it. The 
grower is of course opposed to it—we think 
justly. If it is right the tobacco product of the 
soil should be taxed, it is also right the corn, 
rye, barley, &c., produced by the farmer, should 
be taxed; for each urt employed in the manu¬ 
facture of “ luxuries.” as well as the tobacco leaf. 
The* cigar makers ire opposed to taxing the 
leal'. And the groutd of this opposition is well 
taken. The cigar maker cannot use, in his 
manufacture, all tie tobacco he purchases. 
| There is great waste. He buys by weight, but 
peared in a tolerably healthy state 5 but in laying them 
out 1 found between the two lobes a hard substance, 
similar to the bunches round about the shoulder* and 
windpipe, fuff 6 inches long. % of an Inch thick, and 
at the widest end lk inches wide, and a trifle over 1 
inch at the other cud—being of a tongue shape. There 
apparently no membrane to hold this toils place; 
Iu some localities it will be found necessary to 
associate In their establishments, in others indi¬ 
vidual enterprise will be more successful. That 
the cheese factory system will bo sustained, I 
have full confidence. And the influence of this 
organization will be sustained. The dealer, con¬ 
sumer and manufacturer are all interested in it. 
Chapman of Oneida.-I cannot furnish any 
information based upon long experience with 
this system. 1 do uot think it makes much dif¬ 
ference whether the organization of a factory is 
based upou a corporation and trustees, or 
whether it is an individual enterprise, the farm¬ 
ers of the neighborhood adding their milk to the 
manufacturer’s. The private enterprizc is more 
democratic than the corporate there being 
danger of monopoly iu the latter. Oue of the 
greatest dangers to this system is the adultera¬ 
tion of milk. You can scarcely take up a paper, 
in which you do not see that some oue has been 
detected and fined for this practice. I would 
detect such persons — devise some means to do 
it. I believe it can be done. 1 would test every 
man's milk with the hydrometer night aud 
morning, and keep a record of the same. Cont- 
w»s apparently no mcmemun iu umu 
bnt when the lungs were spread open it dropped oat of 
Itself. And the lnocs In its immediate neighborhood 
seemed perfectly dead, and about the color of liver. 
Now, my dear sir, can you tell me what this disease 
is, and its cause? I have examined the Practical 
Shephmi (Which, by the way, 1 think the. best book on 
sheep husbandry that I have ever seen,) and the dis¬ 
ease there described as scrofula answers nearest to the 
disease of this sheep of anything 1 can find. That 
this sheep was fall of scrofula 1 have uo doubt. But 
how came she so r—in other words what is the cause of 
her disease? The man of whom I bought her has 
owned his flock some 12 or 15 years, and they have 
been uniformly healthy. He has rarely lost a sheep 
from disease of any kind. Could this dreadfully dis- 
| eased state of the system have been induced by a cold 
Please give me your opinion 
brought ou by washing t 
either by letter or through the Rural New-Yorker. 
Another question ? Do you imagine that her lamb,— 
a very large, fine ram lamb—would be likely to inherit 
the disease or the dam. so as to transmit the -ceils of 
disease to lambs of his get ? Would U be right or 
honorable to sell this lamb far a stock ram ? 1 could 
have sold him a few days since for all L should consider 
him worth; but it seemed to me there might be a pos¬ 
sibility of the disease being hereditary, and i could 
not conscientiously sell him at any price till 1 had 
asked the advice of some ouo who had had a larger 
experience than myself. Had I better sell him to the 
butchers, or alter him and keep him a few years as a 
| matter of experiment to see whether he would be af- 
Please give me 
keep well. I liml that the more whey aud gram 
I feed—if the latter is produced on my own 
farm—the more profit I derive from my cows. I 
breed and raise my own cows. If I buy a cow, 
I tlo not buy ft poor one at any price. If I find 
a cow that I raise or buy is not a good one, I get 
rid of her. 1 fed most of my whey, last season 
(1S03) to my hogs. The hogs did well on it, but 
the cows suffered. The season of 1804 I feed it 
to the cows; and 1 believe it more profitable 
to feed it to cows than hogs. The difficulty 
more per pound t< produce than did the article 
produced by anchor cultivator, for which ho 
gets but twenty-tiro cents per pound, pays uo 
move tax than tlleikitter. There is another argu¬ 
ment against taxilg leaf tobacco, which is likely 
to have considerable influence — the fact (If it is 
so, as is asserted,Hibftt two-tliirds of the tobacco 
grown iu this country is exported, bringing 
hither gold iu . tc iauge for it. The proposed 
tax would, it is said, destroy tho ability of Ameri¬ 
can exporters to compete in the foreigu market 
with foreign growers. If there must be or is to 
be a tax on tho leaf, it should be ad valorem 
instead of specific. The proposed tax of twenty 
and thirty cents per pouud or. the raw ma¬ 
terial cauuot be just to producers aud ought uot 
to be entertained by intelligent legislators. 
fueled with tuc disease of the parent 
your advice in the matter. 
Believe me, Dear Sir, Respect! 
Glovemille, N, Y. 
answer to above. 
Mr. Avery is unquestionably correct in 
supposing the disease so clearly described by 
him, to be scrofula. Not having then witnessed 
any eases of it ourselves, Mr Spooner’s descrip¬ 
tion was adopted by us iu the Pi'actical Shepherd. 
