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Wool in thk Stomach. — “ IT.,' Newstead, E. ie Co., 
N. Y., inqulree If elieep “ever become diseased by 
getting wool In their stomachs, and if eo what are the 
symptoms and cure ?" We have never seen any case 
of disease which we were enabled to trace to that 
cause. That balls of wool arc sometimes found in 
the stomachs of lambs that, have died of disease, is 
certain, but we suspect tbe same would be sometimes 
round In the stomachs of healthy lambs. At aU events 
balls of hair are found in the stomachs of healthy 
calves killed for the table. Will any person having 
good reasons to believe differently in regard to these 
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A Cheap Ice House. 
The following by a correspondent of the 
> T . Y. Farmers’ Club will furnish information 
desired by many at this season: 
I see in the papers a great many inquiries 
about the best method of making a small ice 
house. I want to give my experience for the 
The “Trial Trip” ok the Rural has thus far 
exceeded our expectations. We have received scores 
of trial subscribers daily for over two weekB past, and 
the orders arc Increasing. As wcare prepared for this 
—having added several thousand to our edition to meet 
the anticipated demand—we hope agents and other 
Influential friends or the paper wtU continue their 
efforts until we cry “bo'd, enough." Meantime, our 
thanks are tendered to near and distant friends 
for what they have done and arc doing to extend the 
circulation of the Rural by introducing it to the 
right, class of people in their respective localities, and 
also sending copies of the Trial Quarter gratuitously 
to friends in other States, Canada and Europe. 
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Thk Cattle Plague in Onto.— The Cleveland Her¬ 
ald reports tbut. it hears of the death ot quite a num¬ 
ber or cattle in that city and vicinity, from something 
similar to the cattle plngne; and adds—“Thoy have 
died very suddenly, and no applied remedies have 
appeared to have auy effect. Very few of the cows 
have survived more than twenty-four hours after being 
attacked. The general symptoms are, loss or appetite, 
eudden drying up of the milk, and a violent fever. 
Wo heard of one instance where a noble cow gave 10 
quarts of tnilk in the morning, at night, was complete¬ 
ly dried up, and was dead the next morning. It is 
the cattle plague ?" 
— Wo are loth to believe the above, or at least that 
It is the plague now prevailing in England, (which 
latter is said to be increasing and spreading, the Lon¬ 
don cow-houees having been decimated.) 
c. TAFT & J. POTTER'S RAM “OSCEOLA 
Communications, <£tc 
sheep in the United States. The public have 
been again and again informed that the “20 
pound fleeces 1 ' of this day were chiefly com¬ 
posed of “ grease and filth,’’ and that- v, hen ti ied 
by the test of scouring, they would be tound to 
contain no more wool than the fleeces of twenty 
years ago or the fleeces of Spain! Yet here we 
have American Merino rams producing as much 
scoured wool, as, according to Mr. YocaTt’s es¬ 
timate, the Merino rams of Spain produced on 
the average, of unwashed wool, in their best days; 
and at least twice as much Ec-oured wool as, we 
believe, any native Spanish rams can be shown 
to have produced! 
We don’t know Mr. Sears’ ram, but we do 
Mr. Court's. His portrait and pedigree were 
published in this paper Aug. IS, 1804. He is a 
A HINT FOR THE FARMERS. 
BY “MINNESOTA GIRL.” 
Scarcely hoping that my communication 
will tind a place in your columns, I venture to 
send you a few ideas on a subject, which has re¬ 
cently claimed considerable of my attention, it 
is this — the apparently unjust and one-sided 
manner in which the farmer is dealt with re¬ 
garding the sale of his produce. I claim to 
know something, at leasf, of the hardships at¬ 
tending a farmer's life, as I have lived on a farm 
during the greater part of my existence; and 
for the last twelve years have participated in the 
a Western life, and seen how the 
MANN or Altona, George Booth of uammirg, or io 
the Secretary, W. Marsh, U. S. Consul at Altona, 
Germany. _ _ 
A N*W Recruit. —The October number of the 
American Agriculturist announces that Mr. Lucius 
Tvtfli known Boston publisher, (for several 
of the firm of Cuase & Nichols,) has fie¬ 
ri eso dated with Mr. Juno In the proprietorship 
A. Chase, a 
years past c 
come i_ 
and management of that Journal, The new partner 
is to devote his whole energy and experience to the 
business department of tho Agriculturist. Whllewc 
welcome Mr. Chase, we congratulate Brothel Judd 
upon the acquisition of such an efficient “& Co.,’’ as 
it must relieve him from much care, labor and respon¬ 
sibility. Success to tho new firm \ 
•V T.- ♦ > 1 ~ 
American Herd Boos.-We are glad to observe 
that Hon. Lewis i\ Allen of Black Rock, N. 1., the 
veteran editor or this etandard work-almost indis¬ 
pensable to our breeders of Short-Horns— proposes, 
inn circular recently issued, to issue a new volume, 
(the seventh,) some years having elapsed since the 
publication of the last volume. The volume will of 
course prove of great value to breeders, a class that 
ought to see that the author is well remunerated for 
his services in their behalf. _ 
Appointed to a Professorship. -We have inad¬ 
vertently omitted to chronicle the fact that Luther H. 
Tucker, Esq., of the Country Gentleman, has been 
appointed Professor or Agriculture in Rutger’s College, 
New Bronwlck. N. <1. ’ 
deprivations of 
farmer toils early and late all through the work¬ 
ing season to prepare the soil, sow the seed, 
secure the harvest, thrash the graiu and draw it 
to market — and all for what: Why, when he 
succeeds In getting it to a place of sale, he must 
humbly ask, “How much will you give for It?"— 
and so, whatever price the mercantile rules of 
the market please to fix on tbe fruit of his labors, 
he must take end “ ask no questions.” But ou 
the Land, if the farmer wishes to purchase 
m return v»- A-: ** —-‘ * ,,,v 
eouutry,) a i Aj^vioods from the merchant , he 
must again po,n humble question, by asking 
6ball be impaired or burte, onpainc of rurtfcUaro 
for every such gash or cutt in any hide or skin, 
twelve pence.” 
THE OHIO WOOL-SCOURING TEST 
Though we do not consider 
the position any more useful or honorable than hia 
present one, we congratulate Professor Tucker upon 
his appointment. _ 
A Veterinary College has been inaugurated in 
New York City, under the title or “ New York College 
of Veterinary Surgeons.” A regular course of lec¬ 
tures is to coinmcnco in the institution ou the 0th 
proximo, aod terminate the last of February. We 
trust the College will prove worthy of the patronage 
which a good veterinary Bchool in this country ought 
have likely agitated no new subject, i am weii 
aware there is great force In repetition, and hope 
I am excusable, at least, for my presumption. 
Tr. thi. D f*rfnrv with the numbers, but without 
Ihcaamt oUlm owne^ ‘-^e fleeces must be dellv- I 
r-rnd free* of expanse to the Boftnl, at tho SUito Agri 
cultural Rooms! Sol umbus, Ohio, ou or heroic the llrbt - 
day of August, 1S65. ’ 
Mr. Kliitart, the Secretary of the Board, t 
states that the fleeces received were carefully i 
weighed and numbered, and then aunt to the : 
Columbus Woolen Factory to be cleansed, The l 
results of the cleansing were not received by the 
Committee of the Board in time to d raw up their 
report before the Ohio State Fair, but to satisfy 
the public cariosity the Secretary was requested 
to communicate, through the Ohio Farmer, the 
following statement of gross and net weights 
returned by the Factory: 
Gross Weight. NetWt. Loss. 
It'S. OZ. 11)8. OZ. ft 8. OZ. 
1 . Chas. Stoolflre,. 15 8 B 4 7 \ 
- 2 . Thoa. Gorby,.84 4 B 8 3 lb 2 
•> iv A. Geese,...18 2* B 8 11 9 7 
4, H. J. Starr.... 81 15 B 5 11* 10 8% 
5. Curtis Kelsey,. ») 8 B 0 10 14 2 
44 *4 .16 1 B 5 14 30 o 
% J.Bircbfield,. 21 U B 6 18* 14 13* 
8. I. J. Anderson,.11 14 L 4 4 7 10 
g 44 ‘4 .,, , 12 2 E 4 5 7 18 
io! W.H. Cochran,.11 1 E 4 4 <112 
11. Curtis Kelsey,.10 12 E 4 . 0 8 
12 H. J Starr,...14 lo E 0 0 8 15 
IS - . Thos. Jamison,.82 14 B 4 7 18 7 
J4 “ “ ..... 80 12 B 0 18% 18 14% 
J5. Ell Keller,. 14 « £ 5 W « 5* 
10. K. Matchcm,. 18 4 B 4 6)4 8 li% 
17. L. L. Sears,.. 23 1 B 8 8 14 14 
18. A. T. Read,.12 4 J>_8 0 12 
05 0 104 1% 201 4>; 
10 15 13-18 5 12% 11 2 8-9 
* Contained 6% lbs. of other wool. 
We do not understand the meaning of the 
note appended to the gross weight of one of the 
fleeces. It would seem \o moan that the fleece 
had received a fraudulent addition. But apart 
from this, It appears that two of the scoured 
rams 1 fieecC6 exceeded 8' lbs. of wool apiece In 
weight- that, several approached 7 lbs—that one 
ewe produced Gibs., and another 5lbs i Antici¬ 
pating a full and discriminating analysis of tho 
facte and of tho conclusions derivable from them, 
from the able committee having the matter in 
charge, we slum not attempt to anticipate its 
labors. But we may be permitted to say that 
this test more than sustains the claims we have 
heretofore made in regard to the amount of 
scoured wool produced by the Improved 4»im- 
Forest Leaves. 
If gathered in the fall aud placed in the 
yards, or mixed in large hcap3 with fermentable 
substances, forest leaves will, in a short time, 
decay, and become excellent manure. The 
leaves of all trcc6 contain phosphates and other 
valuable dements of vegetable nutrition of a 
mineral character, us well as the ingredients of 
humus. In order, however, to facilitate the de¬ 
composition of the fibrous substances of the 
leaf, it is well to mix a liberal quantity of lime 
or ashes with the mass, and to see that it is kept 
moist until decomposition commences, unless 
the putrescent iDgredlents of the heap are suf¬ 
ficient to effect tbe object. Brakes, mosses, 
email bushes, and, indeed, ail succulent and 
easily decomposable vegetable substances, arc 
Of no value in composting. They decay rapidly 
and leave behind a residuum which is found to 
be singularly salutary to almost every descrip¬ 
tion of crop.— England Farmer . 
LETTER FROM FREE MISSOURI 
Eds. Rural New’-Yorker: —I see almost 
dally accounts in papers published in Wiscon¬ 
sin, Iowa and Minnesota, that make It appear to 
those who think of coming to Free Missouri 
that they ere not safe la doing so, on account of 
Of course these 
number of sheep entered. As my first report, 
to which you listened, was unprepared, I might 
have made &ome mistake of which I was un¬ 
aware. My report in the Agricultural Commis¬ 
sioner’s Report for 18G8, I think Is correct in 
every particular, so far as I know. 
1 supposed the first prize was the first prize, 
and so did others at Hamburg. I w as so in¬ 
formed by my interpreter, upon whom I relied 
for all the information I received at Hamburg. 
Austin Baldwin of New York, gave me the In* 
I formation regarding inquiries made by German 
Agricultural Societies for American sheep. Mr. 
Baldwin is at the head of the American and 
European Express Co. 
Please accept many thanks for your kind note. 
If you please to publish the substance of this 
note in the Rural you will confer a lasting 
favor on Your friend, 
Daniel Neediiam. 
Hon. Henry S. Randall. 
the rebels and bush-whackers, 
papers think they publish the truth, but I will 
tell you how they get their reports, then you 
w ill see the truth of the matter, and I trust pub¬ 
lish to the world through your valuable jour¬ 
nal that emigrants from the east, may know that 
Free Missouri ia as quiet as New York State, 
and that all the rebels and busb-W’haekcrs are 
“ played out." 
Those papers iu tho North-west get their ifi- 
ports from rebels wbo have wisely left our sec¬ 
tion of the State, (alter having beeh disfran¬ 
chised by uu act ot our State Convention,) and 
of course they do not tell the people up there 
that they are rebels, but that they have been 
excessively loyal and must leave Missouri on that 
account. All these persons who go away from 
Missouri with such reports about trouble in tbe 
State are universally disloyal , and cannot he citi¬ 
zens and vote, or they would not go. We like 
to have them leave, bat do not like to have them 
misrepresent ns to those who desire to come to 
our state to live. I hope they will be good citi¬ 
zens when they get into other 8tates, and pre- 
tbey will be, as the last three or four years 
vui’ui j »viu w ***« ,1 rrnnft 1 
hundred pounds, und the plants produce it 00 
for eighteen or twenty years. The growth of tea 
not affected by dry or wot weather, or by storms, 
staggers in Horses. 
Staggers Is a general term applied to several 
diseases of horses. Mad or sleepy staggers is 
Inflammation of the brain, a rare but fatal com¬ 
plaint marked by high fever, a staggering gait, 
violent, convulsing struggling, usually termi¬ 
nating in stupor, and treated by bleediug, lull 
doses of physic, and cold water to tho head. 
Grass or stomach Btuggere is acute Indigestion, 
usually occasioned by overloading the stomach 
and bowels with tough hard grass vetches, or 
clover, or a full meal of wheat, or other indi¬ 
gestible food. It is most common in eutnmer 
and autumn ; is indicated by impaired appetite, 
distended atrorocn, dull aspect, unsteady gait, 
and is remedied by full doses of purgative med¬ 
icine, such &B six drachms of aloes and a drachm 
of calomel rubbed down together and given in a 
quart of thin, boiled gruel. Frequent clyster/*, 
with hard rubbing and hot water to tho belly, 
are likewise useful. When the dullness Increases 
stimulants should really he given .—British Agist. 
uu’ttt* will not indent the plants. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, ITEM8, Ac. 
Gkue in the Head— O. F. J. of Martin, Mich., 
writes asking us or some of our correspondents “to 
tell him what to do for his lambs which nr# dying 
from Grab In the Head.” He says“ They began to 
die when about four months old, and 1 have already 
lost 18 out of 87. I examined the heads of 10 and 
found from 2 to 6 grabs like those described in the 
Practical Bbephcrd. home died without, showing any 
symptoms cd disease; others grew poor and wandered 
off by themselves, acting stupidly, with tfieir heads 
down and a slimy snbstance running from the hobo.’ 
We never before heard of the grab so fatally attacking 
young lambs In mid summer, and arc inclined to bo 
lievc that the disease Is something else—and that the 
appearance of the grabs Is rather a coincidence (per¬ 
haps an Injnrious one) tlian a cause. Characteristic 
symptoms arc not sufficiently described to enable us 
1 to determine with any certainty what the actual dis¬ 
ease is. U correspondents can throw light on the 
subject, they arc invited to do so. 
A blind’ Farmer, -The Vermont Recoru 
Joel Ordway of Chelsea, Vt., who many ’ 
owing to a premature discharge of v°v do 
blasting rocks, become totally blind, ha*** de 
lent care of hts garden, which is more hue 1 flre 
limn most gardens cultivated by . 
blessed with eye sight, lu nddttlch to th ^ 
has cultivated an acre Hnd a half of P ° M ° e 4 . , hc 
lto/1 tbrxri mi ill A in ih« armv. one ot whort die n 
Total 
sume 
experience has taught them a lesson not easily 
to he forgotten, 
Let me say here that this section oi Missouri 
bids fair to beeome very quickly settled up by a 
good elm of farmers and mechanics from the 
East, who, by their industry and their educa¬ 
tional aid religious habits, will make it the par¬ 
adise of the West. For every man who would 
like a g(od and cheap home, in a good climate, 
Mlssour offers better Inducements than any 
other State that 1 know of in tbe West. 
Brookfield, Linn Co., Mo. Stanton. 
To Stabt a Bai.uy Horse. — Ti>“ ' ju “ 
says“ FLU bis month with dirt or gravel ft 
road, and he’ll go. Now the philosophy of th 
la; It gives him something *'ls0 to think abon 
have seen It tried a hundred times, and it » 
failed.” __ 
Linseed Cakb.-Bo “0 farmers, who ft 
meal, frequently purchase in the summer, 
it is cheaper than in winter. 
