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It is very apparent that he hates us most heart¬ 
ily: and in relation to us and our affairs, his 
facts are generally false, and his deductions 
erroneous — wickedly and maliciously so, it 
seems to me. 
This is a beautiful country, and in the accu¬ 
racy and perfection of all its agricultural opera¬ 
tions, is uneqnaled. Agricultural pursuits are 
here held in much hi.’•her respect than with us, 
and command the practical attention of their 
first men in intellect and in social position. 
Many men of high rank are good farmers and in¬ 
telligent and successful breeders; and the gen¬ 
eral estimation and standing of the profession of 
Agriculture is far above our standard. There is 
a general cultivation of a taste lor rural affairs, 
and of all the surroundings and adornments that 
make a country home attractive,— the close 
clipped hedges, the perfectly kept roads, the 
number and variety of climbing vines, the gen¬ 
eral verdure of the country and the prettily 
chosen sites for dwellings, all these combine to 
give an attraction to English country life, and 
to educate the public taste. 
On the Continent, exeept in Belgium, the 
averaee arable husbandry is not conducted 
much better than with us. The absence of all 
lnclosures makes soiling of cattle necessary. In 
agricultural implements they are far behind, 
many of them being very primitive. Labor 
being so very cheap there is not the induce¬ 
ment to make labor-saving machines that we 
have. 
I have seen as good cattle at home as any 
I have seen here; and the herds of Messrs. 
Thorne, Cornell, or Sheldon will com¬ 
pare most favor. 1 with the best. No¬ 
where on tbe Cont^fa.*- are I seen cattle that* 
would compare wifi the general average of 
Cortland Co., N. V. In coarse wool sheep, 
England far excels us; but no fine wool sheep 
any it here compare with our best, for general 
utility. And as for horses, I think that Europe 
does not know what a good horse is, according to 
our standard—the horse for ail work—of general 
utility. The position you occupy among our 
agriculturists—the Interest you have already 
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was got by “ Tottingbam ram,” by “Lute Rob- 
insou ram,” by “O’d Robinson ram,” «fce., &c. 
The dam of Mountaineer was a favorite ewe of 
the Messrs. Rich, bred by them from their old 
Paular stock. His first fleece weighed 1 7% lbs. 
Weight of carcass after shearing 101 lbs. 
Daisy, three years old, bred and owned by 
the same gentlemen, exhibits the characteristic 
form of a first class Paular ewe. 
CATTLE PLAGUE IN ENGLAND 
FARM ECONOMY 
London, Aug. 2, 1S65. 
Henry S. Randall, Esq. — Dear Sir: The 
question of supply and demand for food is bo very 
nicely balanced in England that anything likely 
to seriously disturb the general cquallhrium dis¬ 
turbs the public mlr.d t>; once, and Immediately 
attracts the attentionuLGovernmenL You have 
probably of late seen frequent allusion in the 
papers to the mortality now prevailing here 
among cattle. It is 1 . t a month since I saw the 
first notice of this disease, and it is not more 
than six weeks since the first case occurred, and 
already more than 2,500 cattle have died. A 
similar complaint visited England 125 years 
since, introduced from Holland, from which in 
Nottinghamshire alone 40,000 cattle died in six 
months, 
Messrs. J. T. & V. Rich's Paular ram 
Mountaineer was dropped in -April, 1863. He 
It is supposed to be the same disease 
as that which has prevailed for several years in 
Eastern Europe, (fffleial returns in Russia show 
that ill 1864, of 159,476 cattle attacked, 104,114 
died. The same disease also prevailed in Egypt 
in 1804: 1,700,000 cows are said to have perished; 
and llie Nile at Damietta was so covered with 
iheir floating carcasses that dogs crossed it on 
the floating bodies. At this season of the year 
nearly one-third of the supply of beef cattle for 
the London market is imported from the Conti¬ 
nent — mostly from Holland and Germany, but 
Deumark, Spain and Portugal each send some. 
It is pretty generally conceded that the origin of 
the prevailing disease was from a lot of cattle 
from Holland taken to a fair and sold,—and thus 
spread the contagion to all the cattle there. 
Many- of them being taken into various parts of 
the country, the disease thus soon become quite 
general in Southern England—many of the im¬ 
mense dairies that supply London became inocu¬ 
lated, and the disease raged with great fatality, 
Most accounts agree that the disease can only 
be communicated by contact with diseased ani¬ 
mals, their remains or their excrements, while a 
Norfolk farmer publishes that he has not 35 bead 
of bullocks out of 38 that could have had ho con¬ 
tact with any of the above mentioned exciting 
causes. The average mortality la from 70 to 80 
per cent. At a meeting held at Norwich on Sat¬ 
urday last. Sir S. Reed, M. P m prc&idiHg, a report 
was hud from Mr, Smith, veterinary surgeon, 
stating that the disease was identical with the 
dreadful Russian “Steppe Murrain” or “Rin¬ 
derpest,” and that it 6eemed to him that it was 
spreading in all directions with great rapidity. 
It is a typhus of most virulent type, very rapid 
in its progress, aud no medical treatment has 
thus far been of any avail. 
The whole matter has been referred by the 
Lords of tho Privy Council to Professor Simond 
of the Royal Veterinary College, with directions 
to make an elaborate report as soon as possible. 
In the meantime he has submitted to them a 
scries of suggestions, a part of which I inclose. 
I will send you Professor Simond’s report as 
soon as It is received. Much is said here relative 
to the small pox prevailing among sheep,—that 
It does exist to some extend, I do not doubt, but 
I thiuk this as well as the cattle disease are both 
exaggerated. The fact is, “John Bull” is 
very fond of making a fuss about something, and 
is, I thiuk, somewhat given to exaggeration. 
SIGNS OF A PROSPEROUS FARMER, 
We clip from an exchange the following ap¬ 
propriate observations on the signs of a success¬ 
ful farmer, and we earnestly commend them to 
the consideration of every thoughtful reader: 
When lights are ^een burning in bis house 
before the break of lay, in winter especially, it 
shows that the day will never break on the 
breaking in of the winter of adversity. 
When yon see his barn larger than his house, 
it shows that he will have large profits and 
small afflictions. 
When you see him drive his work instead of 
his work driving aim, it shows that he will 
never be driven from good resolutions, and that 
he will certainly work his way to prosperity. 
When you see in his house more lamps for 
burning lard or grouse, than candlesticks for 
more expensive purposes, it shows that economy 
is lightening his way to happiness and plenty 
with that light which should enlighten every 
farmer in the world 
When he has a house separate from the main 
building purposely for ashes, and an iron or tin 
vessel to transport them, it shows that he never 
built his dwelling for a funeral pile ior his fami¬ 
ly, and perhaps himself. 
When his hog-pen is boarded outside and in 
it shows that he is “going the whole hog or 
none ” in keeping plenty inside his house and 
poverty out. 
When his sled is safely housed In summer, and 
his farming implements covered both winter 
and summer, it plainly shows that he will have 
a good house over his head in the summer of 
early life, and the w inter of old age. 
When bis cattle are properly shielded and fed 
in winter it evinces that he is acting according to 
Scripture, which says that “a merciful man is 
merciful to his beast.’’ 
When ho is seen subscribing for a newspaper 
and paying for it in advance, it shows that he is 
speaking like a book respecting the latest move¬ 
ments in agriculture, and that he will never get 
his walking papers to the laud of poverty. 
instances. The local mode of estimating the 
size of a farm is by the sane standard that Watt 
estimated the power of the steam engine — as a 
one, two, or ten-horse farm. It is considered 
that one horse can cultiva.e thirty acres —hence 
the basis of calculation. The natural grasses of 
the peninsula differ mater illy from those of the 
Northern States: the leaves being broader, and 
the surface of verdure not so dense. But I am 
convinced they would produce geod pasture if 
cared for. Along the sides of the road where 
cattle and hogs have commonage, the pasture 
was very good. The local grasses seemed to 
be very nutricious, and from all I could ob¬ 
serve and ascertain withstood both heat and 
frost. Along the roadsides, rod in yards 
near buildings, white clover appeared and 
seemed adapted to the climate. Running 
streams are plentiful, more especiallj north of 
Eastville. Good clear water can be obtained 
anywhere by sinking wells from ten to .wenty- 
five feet. 
With regard to the diseases of the regku I 
questioned a number of old and intelligent 
medical practitioners, and found that disease u 
not severe in character, but of a milder type 
than in the Northern States. During the sum¬ 
mer month6 cases of ague oocur, but are readily 
J cured. My owu impression is that it is the 
healthiest portion of the Atlantic plateau south 
of New Jersey; and that a Northerner would 
1 enjoy as good health as in any portion of the 
North. I could not but notice the large num¬ 
ber ol aged and active persons I met with 
! everywhere. 
Ttila region seems to be the home of com and 
oats. Wheat proves a profitable crop, although 
although not 90 productive or the grain so fine 
as in some of the Western States. The peach 
succeeds better than in Delaware,—the trees 
attaining a great age, and bearing profusely. 
Fig trees attain a large size and produce abund- 
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