9 
^ pure blood flock -winch uniformly exhibited this 
peculiarity. The outer hall of each ear Avas tan 
r or leather colored at birth, but tailed somewhat 
with ago. The new born lambs were very fre¬ 
quently spotted over the body with red, and 
occasionally one was as red all over as as a lox, 
except that the tail ivould almost unitotml) in 
such cases he tipped with white-suggesting to 
the believers in such things, that the young ani¬ 
mal Avas “marked after” a fox. The red Avool 
soon disappeared, and it never rc-appcarcd on 
the animal. The Taular or Rich sheep, when avc 
first knew them, had not the bnfl face, but they 
had the tawny car, the broAvn spots on the nose 
and about the eyes, and the lambs at birth Avere 
not unfrequently spotted with red on the body. 
The Inlantado or Humphrey sheep, as avc first 
saw them in the hands of Mr. Atwood and 
other breeders, had less of this brown and red 
marking, yet they were by no means destitute 
of it. 
Eiustus Robinson Avas an able improver of 
sheep, and it is conceded hy all who knew him, 
that had he lived he would scarcely have had a 
superior as a successful Merino breeder. When 
he told his son that the brown spots Avere marks 
of “good blood,” he undoubtedly bad his eye 
on the fact that the earliest pure blood sheep 
owned by him were thus marked. And that 
they were thus marked in Spain can he shown 
by many writers. Youatt quotes, with full ap¬ 
probation, a description of the Spanish Merinos 
written in 1811, from Avliich avc take (he follow¬ 
ing sentences: — “ The Merino hue, so variously 
described as a velvet, a fawn, or a satin colored 
countenance, but in which a red tinge not unfre- 
qnenl ly predominates, still indicates the original 
colors of the indigenous breeds of Spain; and 
the black wool, for Avhieh Spain was formerly so 
much distinguished, is still apt to break out 
occasionally in the legs and ears of the Merino 
race. In some flocks, half the ear is invariably 
brown, and a coarse, black hair is often discerni¬ 
ble in the finest pile.” (Youatt on Sheep, p. 
145, note.) Arthur Young describes a flock of 
Catalonian Merinos seen by him in Spain, as 
having white or reddish legs, and some of them 
Avhite and some of them red faces. (Annals of 
Agriculture, vol. 8, p. 195.) 
Do avc consider the sheep of the present day 
“worth any the less” lor being marked like 
their pure blooded ancestors ? lie do not. 
But. inauy breeders have been at considerable 
pains to breed out these markings on the nose 
and cars, and some flocks now rarely exhibit 
traces of them. This is more particularly the 
case among the fnfantados, though the Paulftrs, 
too, have much less of them than formerly—par¬ 
ticularly those which are crossed most -with 
Infantado blood. There is no objection cer¬ 
tainly to breeding out these Bpots. Every per¬ 
son has a right to consult his OAvn taste in this 
particular. The only trouble is that when fash¬ 
ion gets to running in a particular channel in a 
matter of no real importance, the difficnJtiea of 
the breeder are unnecessarily increased: he 
must get rid of peculiarities which are of no 
consequence; In effecting this he may often be 
called upon to exclude from bis flock some of 
the best animals in it; and, to be consistent, he 
must sell these animals at an inferior price, be¬ 
cause, by his own imaginary standard, they arc 
marked Avith a defect. The attention of buy¬ 
ers, too, is divided between real and fanciful 
points of excellence. There arc always breeding 
quacks enough to exaggerate the importance of 
these trivial points of fashion; and there are 
always greenhorn s enough, among buyers, to 
look more at such shadows than at the substance. 
CAUSES OF GOITRE. 
H. R. Clark, Hampden,-, says, that two 
years ago he wintered 50 breeding ewes on marsh 
hay and straw, giving them corn and oals mixed 
equally, and about three baskets of ruta bagas 
per day. The lambs were all sound. A year ago 
ho wintered 100 breeding ewes, feeding them 
timothy hay once and straw once u day, corn 
and outs mixed, and potatoes tAvice a week. He 
lost 85 lambs. The ewes in both winters drunk 
hard Avater from a trough. He believes timothy 
hay to be the prime cause of “imperfectly de¬ 
veloped aud golteral lambs." lie says, many 
of Ills neighbors flocks sullered equally with 
his own, and In every case, so far as he could 
learn, the ewes were fed on timothy hay, while 
those fed on marsh hay and 6traw had sound 
lambs. He remarks that the disease could not 
have been produced In his ease by want of ex¬ 
ercise, as his ewes had a large yard, Ac. 
Mr. Clark may be entirely right in the latter 
conclusion, hut there is no rational probability 
that he is in the first one, viz.: that timothy hay 
is the prime cause of the disease. Timothy hay 
has been principally fed to sheep from time im¬ 
memorial in the New England States, in Eastern 
ami Southern New York, and in portions of most 
of the Northern States; aud the flocks thus fed 
have been as free from goitre, or Imperfect de¬ 
velopment in their lambs, as any others. In¬ 
deed, It was proclaimed by a very intelligent 
gentleman at the winter meeting of the N. Y. 
State Sheep Breeders’ and Wool Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation at Syracuse, last February, that many of 
the farmers of Steuben Co., N. Y., were disposed 
to attribute this malady, or these maladies, to 
clover hay 1 The different kinds of pasturage 
which cover the earth, and which domestic ani¬ 
mals graze on with natural fondness, may be 
more or less nutritious, but to suppose any of 
them positively injurious to animal life — pro¬ 
ductive of fatal and exterminating maladies—is, 
in our judgment, almost an impeachment of the 
benevolent order of Providence I The sheep 
has no Instinct which teaches It to avoid the 
above supposed cuuses of such diseases. Aud 
those causes are found, if these theories are cor¬ 
rect, In natural productions which form the 
greatest and moat profitable foddering crops of 
the temperate zone—without Avhieh large flocks 
aud herds can scarcely In these latitudes be prof¬ 
itably carried through the winter, in old settled 
regions of country from which natural pasture- 
ages have disappeared. Is t his probable ? Does 
it comport "With the harmony and economy of 
things? Must we have marshes 01) our farms 
to raise good hay for sheep, when marshes under 
ordinary eircuinstances arc proverbially un¬ 
healthy summer habitats for them? We have 
extended these remarks, not merely to reply to 
our correspondent, but to suggest to all to look 
into the reason of things, before they adopt crude 
theories, based on a few accidental coiueidencos. 
WINTER DROPPED LAMES. 
“I. F.," Riga, Lenawee Co., Mich., writes 
strongly in advocacy of winter dropped lambs. 
He had nine accidentally impregnated ewe 
lambs between the 8th and the 15th of Febru¬ 
ary. They run in the fields night and (Jay until 
within a few days of lambing, and the first one 
lambed iu the suoav. They were then boused from 
falling snow, rain or Avind in an old log barn, 
Avhero the temperature Avas not more than two 
degrees above that, of the open air. They were 
tolerably well fed, getting a little grain and 
Swedes, with hay —but they often refused the 
latter when grass could be got. Seven dropped 
twins, the other two one a piece; and at the 
time of Avrittng (April 24) the lambs Avere 60 
large and strong that L F. is well satisfied that 
no April or May lambs, however- pampered, can 
ever overtake them. Accordingly-, Avhcn his 
turnip crop promises well, he will always have 
his ewes inlambed so as to have them yean thus 
early. He believes some people nurse their 
sheep too much; that “nice, Avnrin stables are 
detrimental, if the constitution is good; that 
sheep should have plenty of air and exercise, 
making the fire burn outward from within, 
instead of inward from without.” In conclu¬ 
sion he aske:—“What say you?” 
We reply that in the comparatively mild 
climate of Michigan — in little flocks of very- 
hardy sheep accustomed to exposures and ac¬ 
customed to summer and winter ranging—with 
turnips at command — Iambs dropped in the 
very heart of February, in a temperature but 
little above that of the open air, may do avcII 
enough, especially if the open air is particularly 
mild for the season! But persons having flocks 
of considerable size, and which ore accustomed 
to the degree of care and shelter which a vast 
majority of flock masters regard as both neces¬ 
sary and economical, would, in our judgment, 
find I. F.’s precedent a very unsafe one to follow 
in the same latitude. Lenawee county is in lati¬ 
tude 42 deg., corresponding with the north line 
of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and very 
nearly with the north line of Connecticut, Ohio 
and Indiana. We perfectly concur Avlth our 
correspondent, boAvcvcr, that 6hccp can be 
nursed too much ; that they can he, and often 
are, stabled so carefully as to unfit them for 
xyhfrl Tvuvy levmctl tlto cooftomicM of 
exposure; and that to preserve the constitution 
in its normal vigor, and maintain robust health, 
they should be so treated and fed that in cold 
weather they can rely as much on a vigorous 
discharge of the functions of the lungs, as on 
barns and stables, for the necessary degree of 
animal heat. 
“OVERFLOW OF THE GALL.” 
R. N. Stewart, Colfax, Jasper Coq Iowa, 
writes us: — “I have lost five of my fattest 
sheep with what I call overflow of the gall. 
The sheep became stupid, refused to eat, aud 
sometimes they staggered and run sideways. 
They run at the nose badly, aud died about the 
4th or 5th day. I first thought it to be Avorm in 
the head. I opened two of their heads, how¬ 
ever, without discovering any worms. I then 
opened the carcasses of two others, and found 
their gall bladders three times as large as they 
should bo, and the tallow on their entrails per¬ 
fectly colored with the gall." 
“OvcrfloAv of the gall” holds a place, wo 
believe, in the popular list, of ovine diseases, but 
avc have always supposed It. rather to be an effect 
of some disease. Wc have seen an enlargement 
of the gall bladder, though not to the extent 
above stated: and avc have seen the entrails 
stained with bile which had escaped from it. 
The last is, indeed, not an uncommon appearance 
after death. Tho distension of the gall bladder 
might arise from two causes, an unnaturally 
large secretion of bile from the Jiver, indicating 
a diseased state or disturbance of the functions 
of that organ, or from a mechanical obstruction 
of the biliary duct by calculi or by the efleets of 
inflammation. In either case, there Avould be 
wanting a discharge of healthy, bile into the 
duodenum, and consequently that conversion of 
the chyme into chyle, or, in other words, that 
separation of the nutritive and innutrltivo parts 
of the former, without which pure, healthy 
blood cannot be produced or nutrition sus¬ 
tained. But in this case wc should rather 
expect symptoms like those of jaundice to 
mauifest themselves before death. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, ITEMS, &c 
Lite M EMiiERS. — The following persona sent In 
their names as Life Members of the New York State 
Sheep Breeders' and Wool Growers’ Association daring 
the week ending May 6th: 
Frank Jerome, Esq.... .Pompey. 
George E Welles, Ksq. “ 
Wheeler Brothers. Ksqrs.,.Watervale. 
Horace Wheeler, Esq.,. “ 
Lion. George Geodes,.Fnltroount. 
Arttu Thayer. Esq..Hooslck Falls. 
Thomas II Williams, Esq.,.Naples. 
M. A B. Salisbury, Ksqrs.,.Little York. 
Alexander A mold, Ksq.,.Avoea. 
John Johnston, K»q.,.Geneva. 
John B. Cooley, Esq.,.Canandaigua. 
Austin Childs, Ksq.,.Hopewell. 
Stafford 8. Lusk, K»q.,.Victor. 
George T. Washburn, Esq.,.RusbvillC. 
Franklin B. Green, Esq.,. “ 
Horanee Arnold, Esq.,. “ 
. L. D. Gage, Esq ,. “ 
1 Lorenzo Babcock, Esq.,.Riga. 
Nett Cause op Wool Pulling. — A. T. Clark, 
Raymondville, N. Y., writes:-“I had in Nov. last 
100 coarse and middle Avooled sheep. They were 
iu good condition and 1 housed thorn in stormy weath¬ 
er and cold nights all the fall. With one or two ex¬ 
ceptions they have not pulled their wool. On the 8th 
Dec. I bought 60 ewes of about the same grade, that 
had run out without any care or shelter, and were 
poor. 1 put them all together aud gave them the same 
care. Iu a short time a number of the 60 I bought 
began to pull their wool. Or examination I found 
they were literally covcrod with very small white lice, 
much resembling those found on hens. 1 dueted 
Scotch snuff into the wool, and the seeoud application 
killed the lice and stopped the pulling in every case. 
The coarse long Avooled sheep Avere the only ones 
affected.” 
Scrofula.— J. D. Wheat, Cannon Falls, Minn., 
gives some account of a malady in his flock which, so 
far as tho symptoms are mentioned, more closely re¬ 
sembles scrofula than anything else that we are ac¬ 
quainted with. But the symptoms are not described 
minutely enough—their beginning, progress, final ap¬ 
pearance, and effects—to give us much coulldcnec in 
any opinion avo could form on the subject. The case 
is an unusual one, and avc should be very glad to have 
Mr . W. furnish us with further particulars. 
Cure for Scab.—John G. Sherman, Wakeman, O., 
Avrites “The following recipe will cure scab without 
fail, as I know hy experience. Make a strong decoction 
of tobacco, into which put white vitriol at the rate of 
3 lbs. for 100 sheep. Shear the sheep, then dip them 
as you would lambs to kill ticks. I have applied It to 
sheep having the disease very badly, and it cured by a 
siugle dipping.” 
Parturient Fever.— R. II. Patterson, Blendon, 
Franklin Co., O., describes symptoms of a disease 
which avg are inclined to consider part urient fever, 
though they do not accord exactly Avith those given by 
Mr. Seaman, quoted in the Practical Shepherd (p. 831.) 
As Mr. P. has the last named work, let him look there 
for the beet remedies which are known to us. 
Samples op Wool.— F. B. Saavvkr, Webster, N. H., 
send? us samples of wool from a Hammond ram two 
years old, and a Si Hammond ewe teg. The first, lack¬ 
ing a week of a year's growth, is inches long, the 
other 8Jtf Inches long. The quality and style are good, 
internal yolk abundant and of a yellowish tinge. 
fuval spirit of tfte 
Selecting Seed Corn. 
“ When seed corn has not been saved in au¬ 
tumn,” Avrites an experienced person, “it should 
be selected from the erlb with much care. 
Choose tho long ears, Avith large kernels aud 
small cob. Let every car be broken in tAvo, be¬ 
fore shelling. If the pith and cob be bright, the 
seed will vegetate; but. If they appear to have 
been water-soaked and arc dark-colored and are 
somewhat mouldy, the vitality of the germs has 
been injured, if not entirely destroyed. Then 
with an ax cut off an Inch top end of the 
ears selected, and all the ima^A) kernels at, tho 
large end. They oait bo oJ^Pr quicker than 
shelled off. The small kernels on the tip, and 
fkc irregular ones on the butt of the ear will not 
prod uce as much, nor as handsome grain as t hose, 
that grow in the middle of the cob. By contin¬ 
uing to plant the small k* rnels of the little end 
of ears, for a few years in succession, the cars 
will be shorter, and the kernels smaller; aud the. 
irregular kernels of the butt end will produce 
ears destitute of kernels in rows for a few suc¬ 
cessive years, and the product is short, thick 
ears, the kernels of irregular form, not iu rows, 
on large cobs. When seed coni is obtained from 
another part of the country, It will usually ripen 
earlier a. lion carried south of tha locality where 
it grew. A few miles, however, would make no 
preceptlble difference. Tho practice of some 
farmers in Central New York Is, to obtain seed 
that grew near the shores of lakes and rivers, 
which bad ripened ten to fourteen days before 
that grown on the upland. By this means their 
corn is usually fit. to cut up a few days sooner 
than it would have been, if they had planted 
their own seed, and will often escape early 
frost. ’ ’ —American Agricult wrist. 
Breeding Fowls. 
Talking about breeding fowls a Avriter in 
Wilkes ’ Spirit says : 
I am a great advocate for choosing young 
birds for this purpose, and recommend that 
early pullets be selected every year for slock the 
following season, aud put with tAvo year old 
cocks: for instance, pullets hatched iu May at¬ 
tain their growth and become perfoct in shape, 
Bize and health, before the chills of winter. 
They should be put with cocks of two years old, 
when they will lay on the first appearance of 
mild weather, and their produce has thu same 
advantage as these have had before them. I 
do not advocate having young 6tock fowls so 
much on account of their laying early, us I do 
for the superiority of their breeding. Neither is 
it desirable to breed from fowls of all the same 
age. Where It. can be done, it is better to put a 
two year old cock Avith pullets, and vice versa. 
It is well to introduce fresh cocks of pure breed 
into the yard every second year; this prevents 
degeneracy, and for the same reason no cock 
should be kept more than three beasous, nor 
a hen more than four, if it is intended to keep 
them in the highest possible perfection and 
efficiency. 
Management of Resitive Horses. 
A correspondent writes“ 1 have a valua¬ 
ble mare of very high spirits. Last fall she 
began to be restive about starting, so much so 
that it was dangerous to drive her single. She 
was impatient to start, and if held in, Avould rear 
and pitch about, sometimes throwing herself 
down. Finding the matter becoming serious, I 
undertook to cure her, and succeeded perfectly. 
The modus o/xrandi Is this:—Let the driver have 
the entire charge of her, and tako pains, hy gen¬ 
tle usage and kindness, to be on good terms 
with her. When she is to ho driven, let him 
harness her himself, talking to and patting her 
during the process. When all is ready, go to her 
head and stand, Avilliout holding, if possible, till 
everything is in the buggy but yourself. Now, 
holding the lines step back ft puce or ttvo. She 
will probably start. If she does, pull her up 
without a jerk, speaking kindly to her ns soon 
as she is still. If she backs up or rears, bold 
her by the head, hut do not strike her. Repeat, 
the process till she is mud enough to stand still, 
and take that time to get. in. Now, If yon order 
her to start, she will probably make more 
trouble; Avail, therefore, till she is ready—you 
can tell by watching her cars-then give her the 
Avord and let her go. By pursuing this plan a 
fcAv weeks a radical cure may be effected; this, 
at least, is my experience. One very important 
point is, never on any aeconnt use any severity 
with a horse of that disposition ; it can never do 
any good, and is almost sure to do hurt. It 
should be remembered that, Avhile it is never 
necessary to give up to a horse, it is often advisa¬ 
ble to liumor them.— Exchange. 
Rendering Timber Durable. 
A correspondent of the London Builder 
states that the Belgian Government hoav requires 
all the sleepers used on the State railways to be 
ercosoted, aud the Government of Holland has 
adopted a similar resolution. The creosote 
tised for this purpose is simply whut is called 
the “dead oil” of coal tar. M. Crepin, a Bel¬ 
gian engineer, has also made a scries ot experi¬ 
ments Avith creosoted timber in harbors and 
docks; and in bis report, lately published, he 
&t.ates that timber so treated was found success¬ 
ful in resisting the attacks ot marine worms. If 
this he So, there Avould appear to be no reason 
why timber to be used for the purposes named 
should not, in all eases, he treated to a similar 
application of the "dead oil” of coal tar. We 
believe, however, that the experiments made In 
this country with cresotcd timber have not beeu 
so generally satisfactory as the above. 
Autumn and Spring Manuring. 
Wm. Walker of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 
reports on a prize experiment to test the rela¬ 
tive results of autumn and spriDg manuring, 
lie makes out a difference in favor of the latter, 
in the turnip crop immediately succeeding, of 8 
tuns 11 CAvt. in w r cight of roots on two acre plots, 
against which there was a loss In weight of tops 
of 1 tun 4 cwt.—net difference iu favor of spring 
muituring2 tuns 7 cwt. This crop was succeeded 
by oats, Avithout further manuring, wiilch yield¬ 
ed 00 bushels of dressed grain, weighing 89 lbs. 
per bushel, on the two acres autumn manured, 
aguin&t 102)bushels, Aveighing 40 lbs. per 
bushel, on the two acres spring manured. In 
all other respects the treatmeutof the two crops 
is &ald to have been precisely alike, and the 
quality aud previous treatment of the soil for a 
long course of years the same. 
Rural Notes ant) (Queries. 
Farmers’ Taint. 
Farmers will find the following profitable 
forhouseorfeucepaiut:- Skim milk, two quarts; 
fresh slaked lime, eight ounces; linseed oil, six 
ouuees; white Burgundy pitch, two ounces, Span¬ 
ish white, three pounds. Thu lime is to be 
slaked in water, exposed to the air, and then 
mixed rvith one-l'ourtU milk; the oil, iu which 
Die pitch is dissolved, to be added, a little at a 
time, then the rest ol' the milk, and afterwards 
the Spanish white. This was sufficient for 
twenty-seven yards, two coats. This Is for a 
white paint. If desirable, any other color may 
be produced: thus, if a cream color Is desired, 
iu place of part of the Spanish white, use the 
ochre alone.— Working Farmer. 
Cows Leaking Milk. 
A correspondent once said he cured a cow 
by bathing her teats previous to her mukiug bag, 
with melted talloAv, every three or four days 
till she calved. It can be done after milking us 
Avell when the hag Is empty. There is an article 
called collodion or liquid cuticle, Avhieh may be 
Obtained of the druggists. Apply this to tho 
end of the teats after milking the cow. It at 
once forms a thin, tough skin, and closes tho 
orifice. At the next milking, this skin can be 
broken through, and alter milking, the collodion 
again applied. After a few applications iu this 
way, the defect will be cured, and no more need 
be applied. _ 
How to Cleanse a Cistern. 
Another simple thing I have accidentally 
learned; and it, too, if not generally knoAvn, 
ought to be relating to staguant, odorous wuter 
in cisterns. Many persons knotv how ADDoyiug 
this somet imes becomes. After frequent clean¬ 
ings and other experiments, all to no positive 
permanent utility, I was advised to put, say 
two pounds of caustic soda In the water and it 
purified it in a few hours. Since then, Avhen I 
tried what is called concentrated lye, I had quite 
ms good a resulL One or both these articles can 
be obtained at almost any druggist’s. — Ex. 
Remedy for Scratches. 
In answer to the query for a remedy lor 
scratches, I will give one which 1 have used for 
thirty-five years with complete success, having 
never failed in one instanceTake white piue 
pitch, rosin, beeswax and honey, 1 ounce each, 
fresh lard, one-half pound, melt well together 
over a slow tire, then add one-lialf an ounce sul 
phatc copper (verdigris,) stir till it is quite thick, 
so the parts may not settle and separate. This 
makes an excellent application for harness galls 
aud cuts and sores of all kinds, on horses and 
cattle.— Maine Farmer. 
Wind Puff on Horses. — H. L. Hinklky ol 
Iowa, writes tho Rural : —“ Tell 8. II. II., Mem¬ 
phis, N. ¥., to try alum dissolved lu alcohol. 
Apply two or three times a day, rub well. I 
have cured callouses caused by clogs on horses 
legs with it. 
Season able Hints.— Plan your Work, in advance, 
and thereby save time aud loss by preventing delays. 
Now, of all seasons, labor should be done well aud at, 
the right time. — Oood Implements are requisites to 
good aud profitable farming, and it is wise and eco¬ 
nomical to have them ready for use whenever wanted. 
“Gel the best,” and remember that “delays are dan¬ 
gerous." — Pure Seed or the best varieties obtainable, 
Is what every farmer and gardener should seek, and 
then plant at the right lime, on good soil aud in the 
best manner.— Four Teams must be kept in good 
heart, by being awII and regularly ted and eared Tor, if 
you would have them perform all the work necessary 
u> tills busy season, and prepared for the summer 
campaign. — “ Plow Deep while sluggards sleep,’)-yes 
plow deep, any way, without regard to the. sluggards, 
and it will prove a good Investment. —Breeding Ani¬ 
mals require extra attention now a days. A little 
neglect may cause material los-; timely care and feed, 
with good shelter, are important. — Spare the Birds, 
bnt kill all varmints, whether Insects or four-legged 
depredators upon trees, plants or crops. You must 
watch aud work lest they prey upon and destroy your 
most promising products. “ An ounce of preventive," 
&c. — The Best Tools, (hoes, rakes, forks, etc.,) should 
be given to the boyfc aud weaker workmen. Honff 
give them the poorest aud then complain because they 
are behind in time and execution. — Paint arul Shelter 
are indispensable to the preservation of machines, im¬ 
plements, Ac , and each should be counted and used 
among the important economies. — Good Bonds are 
wanted in mauy sections or the country, and there are 
few localities iu which the public highways may not 
be materially improved. Reader, is there not room for 
improvement alongside your premises or in yonr 
neighborhood? — Good Fences, Oates, die., are gener¬ 
ally regarded assure imlicatlousof good aud profitable 
husbandry. They are certainly useful, convenient and 
commendable. Of course evory Rural subscriber 
knows and appreciates all this, and wc only mention 
tho matter for the beuefit of borrowers, etc. 1 — Drain¬ 
ing should be done on many fields and farms. If you 
are unable to make underdralus, surface drains avIU 
answer in many cases—and a single plow furrow Avill 
often prove of vast benefit. 
Colman'b Rural Would.— This handsome double 
quarto semi monthly, (a continuation of the Valley 
Farmer, as we have already noticed,) reaches us regu¬ 
larly, and improves with age. Now that the rebellion 
is substantially over, brother Colmar will have a wide 
and ere long fruitful field or labor, aud avo trust his 
Rural World will soon number its lefts of thousands 
of subscribers. When avc were about starting tho 
Rural Nkw-Yof.ker one of the oldest agricultural 
journalists in the country advised us to locate at Cin¬ 
cinnati or St. Louis, aud gave some cogent reasons 
therefor, but we thought from fifteen to twenty years 
must elapse before such a paper as wo proposed would 
succeed there, und hence selected, the heart of West¬ 
ern New York. But the time is now at hand when a 
first class agricultural and Family wetkly can be sus¬ 
tained in the South-west, and avc predict that the 
Rural World will at no distant day become such, in¬ 
stead of a semi monthly. The World is published by 
N. J. Colman, St. Louis, Mo., at $2 per year. 
Do— i nr, c’Lwvtn seed !—Tlicre is danger that the| 
present high price of clover seed may deter many farm¬ 
ers from their usual seeding. But Mich u course would 
be poor economy. OwiDg to the drought aud other 
causes, the seeding of last season, was generally a fail¬ 
ure. This fact makes it the more Important, to secure 
a good “catch" this year, lu order to preserve that ro¬ 
tation which is ludlspenelble iu good farming. I re¬ 
peat my " text" with emphasis— 1 ' sow the clover seed /” 
—P. P. B., April 3,1865. 
Tun above should have appeared weeks ago, bnt 
was mislaid. The advice is good, and we hope it Is 
not yet too late for many to becd the samu. 
Great Sale op Ayrshire Cattle.— We have in¬ 
advertently otniUed to chronicle the result of the sale 
of .the herd of Ayehior# belougtug to II. H. Peters, 
Esq., or Sonthboj’o, Mass , by many believed to be the 
best herd or the breed in Ibis country. The sale took 
place on the 11th of last month, as previously adver¬ 
tised in the Ritual, and comprised fifty-four cows and 
heifers and eleven bulls. The average price of the 
former was $211, and the latter, a little over *100. 
The total proceeds of sale amounted to *12,680. The 
sale was largely attended, aud prominent breeders 
were present from nearly all the New England States 
and New York. 
Failures in Life. -The story thus entitled, given 
tn our present number. Is an Instructive one, impart¬ 
ing au Important, moral lesson. Prof. Webster al¬ 
ways writes well, but this sketch is an improvement 
upon bis former efi'orlH in the same line. By the way, 
Prof. W., who was for several years the efficient aud 
popular principal of the Rochester Free Academy, has 
resumed the practice of law, ns w ill be observed by re¬ 
ference to Ills card in this paper, lie is a gentleman 
of the strictest integrity, in whom any of our readers 
having occasion to employ an attorney can place im¬ 
plicit confidence. 
-Proximity op Hou-Pkns and Granaries.— On this 
topic a correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: 
“ l would say to all intending to build bog-pens, not 
to build granaries over or adjoining them, as I know 
two cases where grain stored In euch places was so 
impregnated by the elfiuvia of the hogs as to be unlit 
for human food, amt 1 doubt the propriety of feeding 
bogs with grain so saturated, and 1 doubt if pork fat¬ 
tened tn damp, dark pens, where sun aud winds have 
no purifying influence, be fit to eat." 
Anotiikii “ Bio Thing.” — Tho N. Y. Tribune pub¬ 
lishes au account of the great value which the French 
farmers have discovered iu a new forage plant origin¬ 
ally from the Carolina#, it is fulled the Schrader 
Brume. As usual with new things It is wondotful:— 
grow# on any soli, yields four and even five crops a 
year; compared with Luzerne, H Increased the tuilcl) 
of cows 10 per cent., Ac. All which reminds ns of tho 
palmy day# of Moru# MuRiealfs, China Tree Corn, 
etc., as well as of some more recent vegetable wonders* 
Lower Canada Ao. Fair.— 1 Tho next annual Agri¬ 
cultural aud Industrial Exhibition of Lower Canada is 
to be held (at Montreal, we presume.) on the 26 th, ‘/Ith, 
SStli and 29th days of September. Tho premium# of¬ 
fered are liberal, and tho list embraces a wide range ot 
animals, products aud maim fact uacd articles. 
Tjuc Wool Clip.— It ts said that about three-fourths 
of the anuual clip of wool of tht# country 1 b usually 
thrown upon the market during the third and fourth 
weeks of June. 
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