ROCHESTER N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 29. 1365 
MOORE’S RURAL REW- YORKER, 
AX OBTOTNAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
Secondly, your Laying, when you read this, 
ought to be all finished up, but it isn’t. Do me 
the favor to remember that, with the exception 
of some tall grass, in wet, cold land, grass that 
has stood till the first of August, bns lost in value 
more than would have paid the whole cost of 
cutting and securing it two or three weeks 
earlier, when it ought to have been cut. So be 
prompt and finish up witLout delay, pay what 
you will for help. 
The rule to draw in every load of hay as soon 
as it is fairly ready, {and if you have a shed or 
scaffold to spread It in, it is -eady as soon as it is 
wilted,) will also apply to ah kinds of fodder and 
ail kinds of grain. There are yet great quanti¬ 
ties of oats, beans, buck-'heat, eorn fodder, 
&c., dec., to be secured. Now if, in view of the 
uncertainties of human life, and above all, the 
uncertain times when U Kill -ain, you adopt the 
rule to drop everything and “ draw” as soon as 
you get a chance, you will s;. a the self-reproach. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL, D., 
Editor or the Department of Sheep Husbandry. 
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AQBICULTUBAL, llTEKABT AND FiSCUT HEWsrAJ’BB 
in America. 
But the old gentleman is in error, for no age 
or class can escape the necessity of labor. He 
was a pioneer; and the aim of his life was to 
transform the wilderness, if not strictly to a 
garden, at least to a fruitful farm. But had not 
Nature favored him in one respect he might 
have iailed. Stored in the bosom of the earth 
was the accumulated fertility of ages, waiting 
only lor the sunshine and the rains tofall on the 
sown seed to send up rank harvests. Happily 
he was not obliged to think much of rotation of 
crops, or feed cattle and sheep to make manure. 
Nor was his land foul with weeds. His labor 
was to swing the ax, to build, and prepare the 
ground for easy cultivation. And while he ac¬ 
complished this, he exhausted the original fertil¬ 
ity of the soil—the capital that Nature gave him 
to carry on his work. 
As the children of the pioneer take possession 
of the improvements he has made, they must 
adopt a tclfttupporliug system of farming. The 
land must be ftd now as well as burdened with 
harvests. Crop after crop has drawn from it 
its stored-up richness. The sodden places that 
were made light by the mould of decayed forests 
must be drained, and they must adjust the 
balance between the products that are removed 
from the land in their raw state and those that 
are consumed by their stock to supply again the 
fertilizing elements. 
SECURE HAY AND GRAIN PROMPTLY. 
Mr father had a rule which he rigidly adhe&red 
to, and which I sort of adopted for myself, but 
have broken it twice within a week, at my cost. 
At this present writing, on this rainy afternoon, 
(July I9th, j as I look out upon four or five loads | 
of hay in good order to put in the barn two 
hours ago, and now looking worse than seven¬ 
teen half-dressed fashionable ladies, my father’s 
rule comes to me with great force and signifi¬ 
cance ; it is this;—“ XTht never you have a hod of 
hay ft to go into the barn, put it in without delay." 
He seldom forgot to add—“ Get it ready as soon 
as possible.” By shaking out hay and turning 
it, you may make it two or three hours or a 
whole day sooner than if you omit to turn it, or 
leave it to make in the swath, as vou can do in 
ANT ADO EWE, DRAWN FROM LIFE. 
The inclination manifested, long after the 
period of the importion of Spanish sheep into 
the L nlted States, to magnify the relative Im¬ 
portance of particular cabanas, grew out of 
extraneous circumstances. The Saxon sheep 
began to be imported in 1334. They soon be¬ 
came the rage. Nine-tenths, if not nineteen- 
twentieths of all the Spanish Merino flocks in 
the country were crossed with them. The Sax- 
0nE _ hr - ld a n undisputed supremacy until about 
1*35. Then a few persons began to advocate 
the restoration of the ‘‘old-fashioned Merinos,” 
a> those were at that time called which were 
descended directly from sheep imported from 
Spain. 
This restoration, i: not complete, was rapidly 
progressing in 1340. In that year French Me¬ 
rinos were first introduced into this country. 
They found many warm admirers, and their 
praises were loudly sounded. They found a 
decided and most able advocate in the editor of 
a prominent Agricultural journal, the American 
Agriculturist. Mr. Allen honestly believing 
that the French were superior to the American 
Merinos, and that the latter could showno pedi¬ 
grees, opened his columns to attacks on them. 
Mr. Jewett, Mr. Avert and others, who had 
asserted the purity of blood of their American 
Merino sheep, were handled “without gloves or 
mittens.' W hen the former individual further 
claimed pure Paular blood, it provoked a storm 
THE TERMS PAULAR AND 
AG.mcn/cciui, 
”• vtaclt 01 Loekport, N. Y., asks 
ns our authority for applying the above names 
to families of American Merinos; and he pro¬ 
pounds various other inquiries on the same 
subject, which will hnd their answer in what 
follows; 
Mr. R. , Smith, Chicago, HI., asked us, some 
weeks since, “what is the necessity or pro¬ 
priety” of those designations, “provided we 
cal! all the sorts American Merinos'” 
“ Sentinel, ” Middlebury, Vt M savs, “Why 
not name each flock after its breeder, and thus 
let every man have his due, as Rich Sheep, 
Robinson Sheep, Atwood Sheep, Hammond 
Sheep, dec., Ac.?” 
Before answering any of these questions, let 
us make some preliminary remarks and explana¬ 
tions. 1. We do not regard the name* at the 
head of this article, in themselves considered, as 
of the least possible importance. The sheep 
thus designated would be lust as valuable if they 
were called Fequods and Potiawatomies. 2, We 
go a step further. We do not regard the fact of 
their being descended from the particular Span¬ 
ish families above named, as a matter of any 
importance. They would be worth as much and 
would sell :or as much if descended from any 
other of a dozen different Spanish cabanas. We 
call them, then, by those names, simply because 
we believe they are descended from sheep of the 
cabanas or families bearing those names, as we 
call one sheep a Sonth-Dowu and another a 
Hampshire-Down, because sprung from South-1 
Down or Hampshire-Down progenitors. 
“ A Chiel'g atnang ye T akin notes 
An faith he'U prent 'em.” 
Farmers (and I am one of them,) pay too 
little attention to supplying their tables with 
plenty of summer fruits and- vegetables. Just 
now they will feel the of them. The 
cherry crop has failed, ai.a^ie good old-fash¬ 
ioned currant, that used toiland by us all sum¬ 
mer, has succumbed to itirB-e, the worm, and 
unless previous forethouitl has stocked the 
garden with seasonable sii.i» fruits and vegeta- 
system: in farming. 
If “ Order is Heaven’s first Law,” System is, 
at least, its twin brother. It is, in fact, the law 
of success. Whoever attempts to operate on 
natural things, to fashion matter or mould cir- 
eutzii fauces to a desired end, must invoke its 
aid, or ignominiously and disastrously fail. 
System is the relation and connection of facts 
to one another. .* ' ‘ 
relation and connection of facts will 
A correct knowledge of snch 
—l teach us 
the right way of doing a work, and that way 
will be systematic. If corn planted in mellow 
and fertile soil, and well cultivated, will produce 
an hundred fold, it is systematic labor to prepare 
the ground, enrich it, and faithfully tend the 
plant to its maturity. If it be a fact that, at the 
start, we have no manure wherewith to enrich 
the soil, it is systematic to buy a sheep and 
fatten it for the butcher, and through its in¬ 
creased value get back our purchase money and 
the cost of our food, and for our labor retain its 
manure. If it be a fact that wc shall raise more 
corn if no weeds art allowed to grow by it, and 
if we stir aud mellow the soil often, then system 
demands tbut enough labor be employed to 
accomplish these results. And if we know that 
one crop draws from the earth to an exhaustive 
degree certain elements that are material to its 
ihe black-cap raspberry ^ lone of the easiest 
fruits to grow and healthiefalo eat; and it laps 
nicely on to the retiring sfl fwberry and holds 
good till blackberries comet? The sets should 
be put out in the spring, and the next year, like 
the strawberry, they will boar a crop. Don’t 
try to transplant old bushes—as a neighbor of 
mine once did — thinking to pick their fruit the 
9ame year. He failed that year, and forever on 
those bushes. Tree fruits are not so certain as 
berries. There need be no failure on strawber¬ 
ries, raspberries aud blackberries, and they will 
supply the table ail summer. But the cherries 
may rot in a day, the curcuiio will sting the 
___J at a . .. 
A good season is better for the farmer than a 
liberal dressing of manure, or even tile draining 
I was about to write better than thorough till¬ 
age. But while a good season will make a fair 
crop on poor land even, neglect In tillage may 
let the weed6 choke it, and at least lay the 
foundation of much future trouble. The weather 
of this season has been very favorable compared 
with that of last year. A flue spring gave us 
time to get our crops in early and in order, and 
timely ruins have brought them to a rich yield. 
I remember, last year, a certain lot of oats. The 
constant raitt kept it from being sown till the 
last days of May, and the long drouth of summer 
headed them out very short. The yield was ten 
bushels per acre. The ground was considered 
too poor for wheat, and this spring it was again 
sown to oats and seeded, and now, owing to the 
favorable tstason, the yield promises to be three 
or four times as great. How much manure 
would it take to accomplish snch results ? 
I have just found a spot of Quack Grass on the 
farm — the first and only piece there is on It. It 
infests some of the neighboring farms, but I can 
think of no way by which a spot should be 
planted by itself, far from any other, unless the 
birds brought the seeds. But the question now 
Is how to kill it. It wont do to plow and drag 
it with the rest of the Held, for that will scatter 
the roots over a greater extent, and every joint 
will grow. 1 think I shall cover it deep with 
old straw, and let it lie a year. A neighbor ex¬ 
terminated a patch in that way, and there is 
certainly less risk and trouble with it than to 
endeavor to hoe it out. Did any one ever know 
of this grass being exterminated after it got 
plenty in the laud? It is worse to get rid of 
than the Canada thistle, but as it may be of 
some use as a grass, it may, perhaps, be better 
tolerated. Chibl. 
strung excellence, and they were satisfied with 
what they had. 
Nor have the ablest European investigators 
and writers on the subject, so far as we know, 
come to different conclusions. Our own Liv¬ 
ingston, a very thorough and accurate investi¬ 
gator, when describing the best Transhumautes 
or migratory flocks of Spain, never drops a hint 
that a Paular is esteemed there, or elsewhere 
any more vuluable than a NegrettJ, or an Infan¬ 
ts 10 than a Guudcionpe. Col. Hotfbrets 
who resided for some time In Spain, and whose 
interest in a race of sheep which he considered 
it one of the proudest acts of his life to introduce 
into his native country, would have led him, one 
would think, to pick up the Spanish ideas of the j 
English Herd Book f Is it not done on the assertion 
I of the breeder,” Jtc. 
The assailants of the American sheep sedu- 
lousy coufiued the issue to “pure Paulars.” It 
narrowed the means of defence, and it called for 
more proof. It compelled the friends of those 
sheep not only to prove them pure blood Me¬ 
rinos, but pure blood Merinos of a single family, 
when it was well known that in a great majority 
of cases those families had been mixed by Arner 
iean breeder*. 
A tart public and private correspondence 
ensued between the writer of this and Mr. 
Allen, in 1344. In the October number of the 
American Agriculturist, the latter sharply cate¬ 
chised Mr. Jewett and Mr. Randall. The 
following is one of the questions which he 
addressed to us; — “ We also request Mr. Ran- 
dlll to Inform us where the ‘pure Paulars in 
nay as soon a& it is rally ready. I know well the 
inducements to delay, us, for instance, in the 
case oi my hay that now stands, or lies, or half 
way between, taking the rain, tumbled together 
or tumbled round in a half frenzy. When we saw 
all of a sudden that it was going to rain, we 
thought that as there was but four or five loads 
tit to go in, and the weather looked promising 
in the morning, and we were to draw in the 
al'temoou with three teams, we could make one 
job, aud get up all together; and “ there it is 
as Daniel \\ erstek said of Massachusetts—but 
if anybody cau get any comfort out of it, I can’t. 
It will take twice as long to shako it out and dry it 
as it would have taken to put it in the barn, and 
then it lias depreciated at least two or three dol¬ 
lars on each load by getting wet-for no hav cau 
get wet after being cured, without destroying 
from one-lourth to one-half of its value. ’ So, 
“ burr y U P Y° ur cakes, boys; ” make bay while 
the sun shines, and smack it in the first‘chance 
you get —no waiting for a convenient season. 
relative excellence of the different cabanas, does 
not, so far as we can discover from his published 
writings aud from a number of his private let¬ 
ters on the subject of his sheep, ever even men¬ 
tion one of those cabanas! Mr. Jarvis, who 
imported sheep from a number of the beet 
Spanish flocks, declared that “ he thought there 
was so little difference that he concluded to mix 
them all together; ” and again, speaking of the 
pedigrees of Col Humphreys’ sheep, he said: — 
“I never could learn out of what flock these 
6 heep were obtained, but they unquestionably 
were 
pure blood Transhumautes, which 
only j act of importance worth knowing. * 
* See his letter to L. A. Mokbbia, Arneuc,. 
herd, pp. 390, 391. 
