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ROCHESTER N, Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 17 , 1865 , 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
A.M ORtQWAX WKKELT 
RURAL, L1TRRARY AND PASHM NEWSPAPER. 
was that point deemed by the members of the 
Association, that one of them said they would 
not exhibit for $5,000 unless it could be done. 
A rather strong compliment to the value of a 
premium from the State Society. 
Wo regret exceedingly that the exhibition 
could uot have been made, and we think the 
Association over-estimated the injurious effect 
of premiums upon single dairies. The magnitude 
of their show would have entirely eclipsed the 
show of any and all single dairies, while it would 
have been so grand and unique as to have given 
it a world wide reputation. But. we are very 
glad the Executive Board stood fast upon the 
pledged tuith of the Society. Their dnty upon 
that point admits of no question. 
A visit to the Exhibition grounds showed that 
Mayor Bctterigeld will even surpass himself 
in the completeness Of the arrangements for the 
coming Fair. The public will be much better 
accommodated than when the Fair was held in 
Utica two years ago. * 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, 
HENRY 8. RANDALL, LL. D., 
Editor of tho Department of Sheep Husbandry. 
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CLEAN CULTURE 
N. Y. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD, 
Tne late meeting of the Executive Board of 
T be New YoStutc Ac'l Society, «< t tjco, wad 
of more thau usual interest. The appointment 
of the judges for the next Fair, and the final 
arrangements for the details of the exhibition, 
are always important, but in addition to these was 
other business oi more than usual interest. The 
Legislature having at its last session placed the 
sum of $5,000 at the disposal of the Society for 
the purpose of aiding in making a thorough 
trial of the various implements now used in 
tho prosecution of the labors of the farm, in¬ 
volved the question of the propriety of holding 
or postponing the trial to another year. As it 
was too late for a complete trial this year, the 
subject was postponed until the next meeting, 
and the money ordered invested in IT. S. stocks. 
The sentiment among the leading manufac¬ 
turers is in favor ol the trial whenever it can be 
thoroughly and faithfully done. From this 
opinion those who are making defective or only 
recoud quality machines, dissent, and repudiate 
the whole tiling as a sham. When the trial does 
take place, it is intended that it shall be so 
thorough that no man will go away.dissutistied, 
for we are confident that every exhibitor will 
have an opportunity to test his Implement till 
perfectly satisfied as to the impartiality and re¬ 
liability of tho judges. No other test would bo 
satisfactory to the public. 
A very largo and influential body of tbe cheese 
makers were present in the person of the officers 
of the Cheese Makers Association, and proposed 
to hold a show of cheese under the patronage of 
the State Society. They proposed to exhibit at 
least 1,000 cheese from factory and individual 
dairies, and to make a large cheese, daily, while 
the Fair continued—uo premium to be asked, 
but the Society should withdraw its published 
premium list on cheese. A sub-committee of the 
Executive Board was appointed to confer with 
the committee of the Association. There wns 
little difficulty in harmonizing all points except 
one, but upou that they split, and the whole 
scheme for one of the most magnificent exhibi¬ 
tions of dairy products ever seen, was finally 
abandoned. The point which became tho shl<- 
<iua non was the abandoning the premiums which 
had been offered and published in the Society’s 
premium list on cheese. Upon that subied 
COTSVOLD EWE—ONE YEAR OLD, 
Bred by ,'ohn Lane, Cirencester, England. 
'OTSWOLD EWE—ONE YEAR OLD, 
Bred by George Miller, Markham, C.;ui 
Owned by J J. Dodge, New Lyme, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, 
ready sail, been fully recognized, but we are not 
aware that it has been much resorted to in simi¬ 
lar cases on sheep. We recommend a thorough 
trial of it in hoof-rot. It cannot produce any- 
had effects, unless by a too free use of it the 
tissues of the foot are too much eaten away— 
and herein the same effects are produced in a 
still greater degree by nitric, muriatic aud other 
acids, which are constantly applied to sheeps’ 
feet, and, by some, we must say, applied to a 
most injurious extent. It is both barbarous and 
hurtful to apply any of these agents to tho foot 
as freely as is often done — so freely, for exam¬ 
ple, that a number of drops are squeezed out of 
the swab with which it i.- applied and which run 
down into the tissues of the foot and even into 
the cleft between the toes, destroying sound as 
well as unhealthy tissues,'producing Intolerable 
pain, inflammation, etc. Creosote is a milder 
caustic than either of the last named acids, but 
we entirely approve of the care which Mr. Nash 
recommends in its application. Most farmers 
are not provided with tweezers, and for external 
application a small swab on the end of a stick 
would answer the purpose. This external Ap¬ 
plication is, we are inclined to think, the only 
one which is very available. There may be in¬ 
stances where it would be advisable merely to 
puncture the horny covering of the foot and in¬ 
troduce creosote on eottou, as mentioned by Mr. 
N,. but it has always been held that the sheet- 
anchor of the curing process, in hoof ail, is com¬ 
pletely to denude the diseased parts by cutting 
away all the horn growing over them; and this, 
we arc iueliued to believe, is sound practice. 
We shall be glad to receive the results of ex¬ 
periments in applying creosote for hoof-rot. 
eyes, and probably from half to three-quarters 
of an inch from the edges of these orbits. These 
holes are termed the supra-orbital foramina, and 
out of them pass the nerves and blood-vessels 
which supply the forehead. They a re found also 
in the skull of horses, cattle, Ac. On the skull 
of the living sheep, these holes are readily felt 
by pressing down over them with the point of 
the finger. They must be felt for farther from 
the eye, and a little lower relatively to its appa¬ 
rent orbit, than they appear in the naked skull. 
A little examination and experience will enable 
any one to fiud them readily, and there need be 
no mistake about it as there are no other such 
small round depressions to be found on the fore¬ 
head of a sheep. A slight incision with the 
point of a sharp knife directly down into one of 
these cavities, will prodnee a sufficient discharge 
of blood for ordinary purposes. It will flow far 
more freely and rapidly thau from bleeding in 
the ear. As these foramina extend upwards, the 
knife point encounters their lower bony walls 
after penetrating bat a small distance, and there 
is not therefore auy danger of its going too deep 
unless a very unnecessary amount of force is 
applied. 
To Correspondents. - Mr. Randall’s address is 
Cortland Village, Cortlaut Co., N. Y. All communica' 
tions intended for this ltpantnent, and all inquiries 
relating to sheep, should le addressed to him as above. 
TREATING H00F-50T WITH CREOSOTE 
Charles A. Nash, No. 1 1 Waveriy Place, New 
York, a dental surgeon, mil a gentleman whose 
knowledge and accuracy in any statements he 
makes, can be fully reiiet on, has scut us an in¬ 
teresting paper on the iugularly uniform and 
valuable effects of creosc e ou ulcers in all their 
different stages. After r rationing tbe mode of 
application and the resul ■> in the ease of the hu¬ 
mane subject, he says — 1 Now, what I propose 
is to take a sheep afl'cetd with hoof-rot, cut a 
hole in the hoof large inough to remove the 
maggots and pus, rinse cut the cavity, and with 
a pair of tweezers to iut|oduco a lock of cotton 
slightly moistened with creosote, then with a 
sharp pointed stick to apply a little creosote 
around those parts whew cotton cannot be re¬ 
tained, and let tile sheep inn on dry grass or in 
a stable. 1 imagine tkJt no sheep so treated 
will suffer from hoof-rot nr any other putrid dis¬ 
ease of the feet. Where'er such sheep tread all 
innocalablo matter wnuU be instantly neutral¬ 
ized and could infect uc other animals. While 
the creosote remained upon the grass, its odor 
would prevent sheep frou eating it, but it would 
soon pass away without injury to the grass. 
The operator should handle the cotton and 
creosote with a small pair of tweezers to pre¬ 
vent the creasote from exerting its eseharotic 
effect upon his hands. Having uo sheep of my 
own to experiment on, of course I do not know 
positively as to the success of this treatment; 
but this I do know, that uo putridity or ulcera¬ 
tion can exist iu the tissues wbeu they are 
treated with creosote, ,t might be injurious to 
use cotton cvmpltfely saturated with it, for it is a 
atroug eseharotic agent; but where it is only 
moistened with it, uo harm can result to the foot 
of the sheep.” 
We are much obliged to Mr. Nash for these 
suggestions. The term creosote is derived from 
two Greek words signifying Jtcxh and I save. It 
has the property ot preserving meat from putre¬ 
faction. Its great value us .m eseharotic, or 
caustic, on ulcers ou human subjects, has, as al- 
THE BIG-FLEECED TWO-YEAR-OLD 
'Old Abe,” the two-year-old ram belonging 
to J. P. A W. tY. Rat, Honeoyc, N. Y., which, 
at the recent State Sheep Fair, yielded the ex¬ 
traordinary fleece weighing twenty-nine pounds 
two and a half ounces of wool, urge of fleece 
eleven months twenty-six days.) was dropped 
June 1st, 1S6S. lie was got by D. L. Hamil¬ 
ton’s ram of Honeoyc, out of a ewe bred by his 
present owners. His dam was got by a ram bred 
by Calvin Warp, from Infantado stock bought 
by him oi Wm. R. Sanford, Yt. She has yield¬ 
ed eleven pounds of wool of eleven months 
growth. His grand dam was bred by Adna 
Gibbs of Livonia, who kept no recorded pedi¬ 
gree, hut claimed her to be pure blood Merino, 
and no doubt is entertained that she is of the 
Paular family. She used to yield eight or nine 
pouuds of washed wool and raise a lamb. The 
Hamilton ram was bred by Mr. Stick net of 
Vermont, and was got by the old Robinson ram, 
out of one of the old Robinson ewes. He took 
the first prize as a yearling at the Penn Yan 
Sheep Shearing, eight or nine years ago, aud has 
since yielded 'J-Cij pounds of wool of oue year’s 
growth. Old Abe yielded twelve pounds for his 
first fleece. The last year he was housed from 
all storms; and alter October first was fed lj*j 
BLEEDING PLACE ON SHEEP 
A friend at Canandaigua writes ns:— 41 You 
will re-member that at the State Sheep Fair you 
pointed out to myself and others what you term¬ 
ed the German place for bleeding sheep, and yon 
remarked that it was well worth knowing, 
especially to persons unable or unwilling to 
bleed from the jugular vein. I mentioned this 
in a letter to a friend in the West, and he asks 
me for more particular Information. YVU1 you 
givo it to him, both because you can do so bet¬ 
ter thau I, and because if you will do so publicly 
it will be of great advantage to other persons?” 
If any one who picks up a sheep’s skull, al ter it 
is free from its covering, will look at in front, it 
he will observe two holes, each not far from the 
size ot a goose-quill, between the orbits of the 
Hi* fit IS 
