acquainted. I procured my seed yesterday, and 
shall 60 W it among my carrots, beets, parsnips, 
cabbages, corn, and after lettuce and early pota¬ 
toes ; in short, wherever I can find space for it. 
Monroe Connty, N. Y., July, 1S65. r. f. 
The above is a little late, but some of its sug¬ 
gestions are timely, and others can be remem¬ 
bered for next season. 
more honest and straightiorward man never 
lived. We did know Governor Jennison, as 
noble a specimen of antique simplicity, probity 
and true dignity as we ever had the good fortune 
to see. He was the Arnold Biederman of Ver¬ 
mont, and the Greeu Mountains of his native 
State can be shaken as easily as his reputa¬ 
tion. Common lame and the voice of his 
neighbors speak well of every witness whose 
testimony we lmve relied on—both the dead 
not exist! If this inference is a sound one, 
Cook eonld never have bred a sheep of any de¬ 
scription, for it is not shown that he ever had oi 
used a ram of any description! 
2. It is assumed that inaamuch as Judge Law¬ 
rence does uot say that Cock bred separately 
bis Escurials, Panlars, or such other families of 
Merinos as he may have purchased, it is to be 
presumed that he mixed them together, and 
that consequently the sheep sold by him to 
Bedell must have been of mixed Merino blood, 
and not pure Paulars. 
This hypothesis, however, iuvolves a sweep¬ 
ing impeachment of witnesses. If Cock deliv¬ 
ered to Bedell an attested foreign certifleate 
as giving the pedigree of the sheep sold to him, 
which pedigree represented the sheep to be pure 
Paulars, and they were not pure Paulars, then 
Cock was a liar and a swindler, instead of the 
perfectly reliable person he is represented by 
Judge Lawrence. If Bedell did not receive 
the certificate from Cock as giving the actual 
pedigree of the sheep and ail of them, tueu he 
was a liar and a swindler. Nay, unless that cir- 
tificate described the identical sheep obtained 
declares that he has read it; Jennison declares 
the same by implication;* and Barium, that he 
has read it “several times.” Rich aud Barn cm 
declare that this document came from Spain 
with the sheep, aud Hurlburt, if not Jennison, 
also impliedly concurs with them.f Ricn aud 
mmiuERT declare that it was “attested” by an 
American Consul.f Rich and Barnum are both 
absolutely “ecmfl&ent" that this formally attest¬ 
ed Snanisb certificate described tfie sheep to be 
“thinks” it so named 
Though the 
Tub Season, Harvest, Cnor*. Ao, 
weather has been cool anti wet much of the time of 
late, our reports in regard to the harvest, and crops in 
this region are. generally favorable, as they are from 
most other regions, near and distant. The fears which 
were entertained by many that hay and grain would be 
injured by the wet weather before they could be 
secured, have not been realized to any appreciable 
extent, we think, in this and adjacent States, while 
accounts regarding the growing and maturing crox>s— 
oats, corn, potatoes, etc., — continue encouraging. 
TO HEAD WOODCHUCKS-MY MODE. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Seeing several 
articles in the Rural about heading off wood¬ 
chucks, I thought I would send another mode 
of getting rid of these pests. Take a mud- 
turtle (they can be found in most alt swamps 
and ponds,) and bore a hole through the shell 
near the back part; put a stout string through, 
that has been previously soaked in alum water 
Next take a small 
Paulars. Gov. Jennison 
them, aud both he and Rockwood testify that 
Bedell called them Paulars, at a period when 
he must have known that the contents of the 
certificate were fresh in the minds of all who had 
seen that document, aud at a period when (al¬ 
though this fact does not appear in evidence) 
that document was still in existence, and was 
still habitually and gladly exhibited to all who 
chose to read it. 
Rich, speaking for his father and himself, 
asserts that their portion of the fioek has been 
preserved pure down to the time ol writing, m 
1844, but that “ some of the flock have been re¬ 
cently crossed,” Arc. (These recent crosses will 
be hereafter advert ed to.) Hcrlbert, who lived 
in Bedell’s family, and had charge of his sheep 
from the time of their purchase down to the 
time of his (Bedell’s) death, asserts that they 
were preserved “entirely free from admixture 
with any other blood.” Rockwood goes still 
further into detail, by declaring that he had 
heard Bedell “advised to cross the blood of 
his flock by using bucks from other Spanish 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, ITEMS, &c 
Send on Pedigrees. -We have several cuts ready 
for publication, but the pedigrees of the sheep have 
not been received by us. Will every person who has 
had drawings of sheep forwarded to an engraver for 
these columns, promptly send ns the pedigrees which 
arc to accompany the cuts ? 
to render it incombustible, 
quantity of powdered sulphur and put on the 
turtle’s hack, near the tail; turn on a little 
turpentine, ignite the same and head the turtle 
Yon will not have to force 
down the burrow, 
him down, for he instantly seeks the deepest 
recesses of the burrow, aud if Mr. Woodchuck 
is at home he quickly leaves the premises, when 
he can be met with a club. Then, with the 
string, pull the turtle out and pay the other 
woodchucks a visit. 
This is the best way to destroy woodchucks 
for those that cannot use a rifle; but a good rifle 
is the thing when any one knows how to use it. 
East Shelborne, Mass., 1865. B. F, Severance, 
Lost Matter.— Wc recently forwarded a number 
of articles for publication in the Rural, which Mr, 
Moore writes ns have never been received—and it is 
therefore to be presumed that they have been lost, 
or are still delayed, in the mail. From the time 
that has elapsed, they are nudoubtedly lost. We 
greatly regret this, a' fc num ber of them contained 
statements or corre»i>ou6onls which were entitled to 
publication; and nnfortf nately we caunot replace oar 
articles, because the r4pid accumulation of manu¬ 
scripts on our hands compels us, as a general thing, 
to destroy them as soon as wc have editorially used or 
referred to them. We ttuet that friends who find their 
tained which furnished Rich this “ satisfactory 
evidence,” viz., “distinctive and attested marks 
and rings of copper in their ears.* t And Rich 
and Hurlbert made these very definite state¬ 
ments for publication in regard to tangible and 
visible facts whose existence or non-existence 
must have been known by a host of persons who 
had read the certificate: and at a period not so 
remote but that some of the keen “ sheep meu ” 
about them would be sure to remember tlie “ dis¬ 
tinctive marks” of a much talked about lot of 
imported Ehuep. They made them, too, when a 
heated controversy was raging about the pedi¬ 
grees of those very sheep, and when, conse¬ 
quently, rivals and enemies would be expeeted 
to have tbeir eyes and ears open to detect and 
expose misstatements. 
We personally knew Judge Lawrence. He 
was emphatically a “gentleman of the old school” 
— intelligent , astute and a keen judge of men, 
hut high-toned 8nd frank as daylight—an able 
farmer — a purchaser of imported 6heep and an 
experienced breeder and judge of them. X 'When 
he made his statement about Cock he did not 
know uny of the Vermont parties to the contro¬ 
versy, nor had he been in any way approached 
by them. Meeting him in 1844, and it chancing 
to occur to ns that he lived in the town where 
Cock had formerly resided, we asked him if he 
knew the latter. He spoke ot Cook in even 
warmer terms tlieh he does in his “statement,,’ 1 
and gave ns many particulars about his flocks, 
his breeding aud his personal history. He dis¬ 
tinctly recollected Bedell's purchase of the 
sheep. Having determined to publish the pedi¬ 
grees, we wrote to Judge Lawrence Oct. IStb, 
1844, asking him if he would repeat on paper, for 
publication, a brief synopsis of so much of the 
Facts About Milk. 
Cream cannot rise through a great depth of 
milk. If, therefore, milk is desired to retain its 
cream for a time, it should he put into a deep, 
narrow dish; and if it be desired to free it most 
completely from cream it should be put into a 
broad shallow dish, not much exceeding one 
inch in depth. The evolving of cream is facili¬ 
tated by a rise and retarded by a fail of tempera¬ 
ture. At the usual temperature of the dairy- 
50® Fahrenheit — all the cream will probably 
rise in thirty-six hours; but at TO® will perhaps 
rise in half that time, and when the milk is kept 
near the freezing point the cream will rise very 
slowly, because it becomes solidified. In wet 
and cold weather milk is less rich than in dry and 
warm. The season has its effects. Tfie milk in 
Spring is supposed to he the best for drinking, 
and hence it would be the best for calves; in 
Summer it is best suited for cheese, and in Au¬ 
tumn, the butter keeping better than that of 
Summer, the cows less frequently milked give 
richer milk, and consequently more butter. 
The morning's milk is richer than that of the 
evening. The last drawn milk, the “strip¬ 
pings,” at each milking, and at all times and 
sviisous, is richer than that first “milked,” which 
ifclever the poorest. —Selected. 
A Good Farm.— We regret to loam that failing 
health has constrained Mr. Robert W. Wilson of 
Henrietta, near this city, to offer hiB excellent farm 
for sale. This farm has for a number of years been 
mainly devoted to the growing of garden seeds in which 
Mr. W. has been remarkably successful. We visited 
the place not long since, and found its many acres of 
onions, beets, lettuce, etc., in as fine and promising a 
condition as we ever saw on any seed farm. The farm 
has been thoroughly underdrained, is in a high state 
of cultivation, and its location renders it very desirable. 
sum of six hundred dollars; that they “were 
descendants of the flock purchased on Long 
Island by the late Hon. Chas. Rich and Leonard 
Bedell of this town,” and that he, Robinson, 
has “ bred them pure to this day.” This is ac¬ 
companied by a certifleate of John T. Rich that 
in the spring of 1S2S he made an equal division 
of his flock with his brother Charles. Tyler 
Sticknky, of Shorebam, (brother-in-law ol Rob¬ 
inson) also commenced his well known flock by 
a purchase from the flock of Charles Rich the 
younger, long antecedent to 1844, and though 
wc have never corresponded with him on the 
subject, we hold an affidavit of his presented at 
a Sheep Show at Penn Yan, N. Y,, some years 
since, which shows that he gave full credit to 
the alleged pedigree of the Rich flock. And we 
know that he kept his own flock pure down to 
1844, first crossing with Jarvis’ sheep at about 
the same period with John T. Rich. We hold 
certificates or letters from the Hon. M. W. C. 
Wright, Prosper Elitiiarp and others, Ver¬ 
mont breeders, showing that as late as 1844, they 
owned pure blood descendants of the sheep 
purchased by Rich and Bedell of Andrew 
Cock, of Long Island. 
If the witnesses we have cited are entitled to 
credit, we have then a clear, connected, full and, 
in colloquial phrase, water-tight pedigree. What 
is the objection now brought against this pedi¬ 
gree, or to its proof that the sheep covered by 
it in 1844 were Panlars; after an apparent gen¬ 
eral acquiescence in all its statements for more 
than twenty years, and until the witnesses who 
were familiar with the earliest facts—Judge 
Lawrence, J. T. Rich, Gov. Jennison, Gen. 
Barn CM, etc.,—are dead; and when, consequent¬ 
ly, all chance to call them to the witness stand 
for further explanations is at an end V Why, L 
Because there is nothing to show that when 
Andrew Cock purchased “thirty (sheep) of the 
Pauiar breed,” there was a Paular ram among 
the number, and because Judge Lawrence’s 
omission to state that fact implies that it did 
* Gov. Jennison could not as a frank, upright wit¬ 
ness say that he had “several times seen the certifi¬ 
cate" aud then proceed to refer to its eontf/de, without 
at. the same time declaring that he had never 7'ead the 
paper i f snch was really the Tact. By this omission lie 
would lead people to suppose he spoke from netutl 
knowledge, whereas lie was nut mini: olf hearsay evi¬ 
dence. on them. And how did he ruler to the con tents 
of the certificate f lie said the paper which be had 
“several times seen” iu the possession of Bedell 
■was the one “ mentioned by Itiah. 1 ' How did hr. know 
Elmira Female College.—As will bo seen by refer¬ 
ence to the announcement of Mr. President Cowles, 
the next term of this institution will commence on tho 
6 th of September ensuing. The reputation or this 
College is such that we need only to refer to the adver¬ 
tisement, which should attract the attention of its 
friends and the friends or thorough education through¬ 
out tho country. 
riWlT.lt j.i.nm a w l l i a •«^v*. a 
am the Inventor ot a straw and cornstalk cutter, and 
wish to inquire of you as to the proper length to cut 
the feed- Some claim that a hair inch or less is just 
the thine, while others say that’s all wrong—Injures 
the cattle’s months— Is swallowed without mastica¬ 
tion &C, Ac —and that Ik- to 8 inches i- right, for 
the reason ihat when so cut it cannot injure the mouth 
or he swallowed without mastication, and much less 
labor to cut It. It Is also claimed that the great advan¬ 
tage of cut. feed Is not tho mere fact that it. is cut into 
short pieces, but that it is put in a condition to be 
mixed and wet. Bv giving your opinion you willcon- 
fer a favor on me. and probably on the public.— war- 
ken Gale. Chicot'*' Fails, Mass. 
Kindness to Cows. 
A correspondent writes on this subject to 
the Country Gentleman as follows ; — “ Cows 
should always be treated kindly, and as far as 
passible always have the same milker. A frac¬ 
tious man should not be allowed to handle a 
spirited cow. Kiudness and gentleness are al¬ 
ways best; beating and pounding should not be 
tolerated. If a cow or heifer persist in kicking 
under kind treatment, take a small rope and 
quietly fasten around the opposite fore toot, 
Whence bring It over the back to hang by the 
milker; when she kicks again, without saying a 
word, draw her foot up to her body. You can 
now handle her as you please. She will struggle 
t.o release her foot, but to no purpose, and 
will soon crouch to the floor. Now let her get 
nn again, and pet. her a little. If 6he kicks 
Cheese Factories — Water Pipe.— Dear Sir: Can 
I Cain any information through the Rubai, on the fol- 
lowine point* :■ 1. Tho locatiou of some model cheese 
factories. 2d. How far water can he carried nnder 
.-round In pipes or logs, and Still be fit for use in a 
Factory 1 5d. The relative economy of lead pipe or 
logs.—J. I. B.. Knoxville, Tioga Co., Fa. 
Borne of the best Cheese factories in the country are 
located In tho vicinity uf Home, Oneida County, N. V. 
See article in Ktral of Jan. 28, for names of owners, 
etc. " ill some one conversant with the matter an¬ 
swer in regard to water pipes and logs ? 
Communications, <£tc 
A FEW SEASONABLE HINTS, 
Few of onr farmers are so fortunate as to have 
all of their land occupied to the best advantage. 
In some places the combos failed to germinate; 
there are vacancies In tho rows of beets, carrots 
and so on. Nearly every field In which there is 
a hoed crop, has some spot which ean be more 
profitably occupied than it now is, and which 
will be much injured by suffering it to he over¬ 
run with weeds. 
In these times when taxes are so alarmingly 
high as to swallow nearly the entire produce of 
a farm, it becomes every producer to look about 
him and see if he cannot add to his income with¬ 
out incurring unwarranted expense. We are 
firm in the belief that there is not a single farmer 
Monroe who may not, with an 
To Hive a Swarm of Bees. 
Mr. Jones of Dutchess Co., N. Y., com¬ 
municates a convenient way of hiving a swarm 
Take a long pole and make 
He says 
of bees. 
the small end bulky by wrapping paper around 
it, make it about as thick as a man’s arm, and 
half as long; then hind a black cloth around it, 
(l draw an old woolen stocking over it,) and secure 
It with a cord, then when the bees are swarming, 
as soon as they attempt to set tle, put that end of 
Hti.L Plow. —Can you inform mo where I can 
ie a stood side-bill plow ? I am not acquainted 
iv or the manufacturers ol plows in your sis 
rofbre trouble you to Inform mo.—J. H. I laog, 
a, Mich. 
-an obtain the desired article at J. Kavalje » 
iimt uud seed warehouse, In this city. Til0 
In the county o; 
intelligent and judicious expenditure of money 
and labor, double the net receipts from his farm. 
Instead of selling his com, hay, straw and vege¬ 
tables, os such, let them be turned off in the 
shape of beef, pork, mutton, &c. And now is 
the time to prepare for such object. 
Soon you will commence thrashing yourgrain. 
Whilst you are anxious to save all of the grain, 
see to it that none of the straw or chaff is 
w sted. Let the straw be stacked with unusual 
care, iu such a manner that the water shall not 
run directly through the middle of the stack, 
souriug the straw, and in the winter freezing so 
hard that it will he impossible to procure suffi¬ 
cient litter for a pig, much less for horses and 
cattle. Bnild up the stack so that it must shed 
tho rains, and ‘not put the bottom at the topi. 
In the vacaut places in the fields, to which 
allusion is made above, sow turnip seed. Last 
year and the year before we sowed the Yellow 
Scotch alter July 25th, and obtained good crops. 
This variety is very excellent for the table, and 
therefore must be for feeding; aud besides, the 
tops furnish a very desirable green food tor 
milch cows and other cattle after the frosts have 
injured the grass In the fall. Now, nine out of 
every ten of the farmers in this county can raise 
from one huudred to a thousand bushels this 
season, and that too upon land which will other¬ 
wise remain unoccupied. Therefore raise the 
turnips. Tho Becd will cost but one dollar ft 
paper, if they can tell mo where I can find a co lc 
account of M Keamuhs Experiments with P«• 
As 1 am compiling a now work on poultry, 1 
very clad io boar from all the readers of tho fic¬ 
tion whatever. The language of an honest witness 
giving hearsay evidence under such circumstances, 
would be: —“I never read the paper, but I think/ 
was told it named them as of ibe f'uular breed.” 
t The reasoning of the preceding note applies equal, 
ly here, flow could Ilurlhm declare positively arid 
without qualification that Bedell “And the original 
kpanish certifleate, attested by the American Consul,' 
it la-hud never read its Contents? And what proba¬ 
bility v.-ould there bo that he wonld have lived fifteen, 
years iu Vie family of Bedel), having alt the time the 
care of this , svy flack of simp, without once perns mg 
a document on which Its reputation and value so 
much depended—a document, too, which it is notori¬ 
ous, Bedell was particularly iond of exhibiting. 
J It was believed by some of the witnesses when 
they made their statements, and more confidently on 
further reflection aiterwards, that, the American Con¬ 
sul who attested the geiiiiiricue«s of the pedigree was 
Hon. Wm. Jarvis, then American Consul ai Lisbon In 
Portugal. But as their recollections at the time of 
writing were indistinct, and us the Tact was not re¬ 
garded as m special Importance, they omitted to men¬ 
tion it. These recollections coincide with all the 
probabilities iu the case. Most ot the sheep brought 
into this country from Spain between 1809 and 1812 
were purchased in the vicinity of liadajos near tho 
frontiers of Portugal, and driven directly uernea the 
latter country to Lisbon. When shipped (tom that 
port, Mr. Jarvis’ certificates or property always ac¬ 
companied them, 
SMr, Jewett had a large number or pure blood sheep 
of this family in 1844. He sent us a bundle of ccriAU- 
cates of pedigree and sale Irom the person* from 
whom he bad purchased at different times. We can 
A CitKAr Tki.kscoph.—I would like to b ,l0 ' v ' 5*12, 
your paper, how to make a cheap teUjM°pe 
eight to twelve Inches long, that will r !l ow ut / b ,. mv 
object from titty yards to half a mile. I w * K lt „, ir 
the number or glasses, the focus of each and 
nosUlon as respect* focal distance apart. 
Bemedy for Bloat in Cattlo. 
The term bloat aiguilles a gaseous distention 
of the stomach and bowels; it is occasioned by 
the evolutiou of gas from food In a state of 
fermentation, which results from an impaired 
state of the digestive functions. The best rem¬ 
edy for the same Is as follows : —Dissolve, in a 
quart of warm water, about two ounces of hypo¬ 
sulphite of soda; then add two ounces of fluid 
extract of ginger, aud drench the animal with 
the same; give enemas of soap-suds about every 
twenty minutes, or uutll the animal passes flatus 
from the rectum, when immediate relief is the 
result. Every farmer should beep a eupply of 
the hypo-sulphite of sod a on hand; itlfl a valua¬ 
ble medicine for flatulency or windy distensions 
iu all its forms, and combined with a small quan¬ 
tity of ginger and golden seal, it makes an effi¬ 
cient remedy for colic occurring In horses.— 
Boston Cultivator. 
Laying Stone Drains.— What is UM> u0t bod 
of laying stone drains ? In laying B'l.m vv bu U bot _ 
do you prefer — to throw the stouo* loom mt ' lhe 
torn of tim ditch, or U> put in ^ 
sides, cover these with flat Slones, and t» 
small stones on top?—B. A., A to ton, A. « 
Wheat Diuu.s.-Oan you tell metJ2f 0 fi2- 
timnsor the Bubal If there Is atHomo 
Itired with drills that rim nearer than BUimtei 
nr thin kind are wanted here.-P. P- Ames, W™, 
Will voa, or some or me 
a Rural, inform me throu 
1 for the Golden Kobln or 
j., Pavilion, N. Y. 
•Will you or any of y 0, ' r 
i, through tho RURAL, wl 
; fowls V Poos corn or cr 
;ook, Madison, Ohio. 
Chicken Fbiul-- 
C ondenla Inform ine, 
est feed for young 
hurt them?—A. J. L 
