OOSE’S EWIiM* SEW-1 
ully concur with the ideas therein contained. 
Many of the sheep breeders in this vicinity have 
been troubled with the diseases spoken ot, par¬ 
ticularly swelled neck or goitre. And I have 
observed that the flocks most, affected with goi 
tro are those most closely confined to small 
yards and dry feed. In my opinion lack of exor¬ 
cise in the ewe during gestation, more than the 
lack of green feed, is the canso of malformation 
in lambs, but undoubtedly both have an influ¬ 
ence. I propose to give you, and if you deem 
proper, the public, a few facts from my own 
experience in wintering breeding ewes, and al 60 
my present mode of wintering. 
Until about 10 or I'd years ago we never had 
been troubled with malformation in lambs, from 
the fact that until then the ewes had been win 
tcred in open sheds, in meadows, with plenty of 
range in all good weather. About that time my 
father purchased 40 owgb from the flocks of 
Sticknkt, Robinson and Bush of Vermont. 
They being af superior quality, and wishing to 
do a good thing with them, were housed, grained 
and treated with more than ordinary care. The 
result waa that from the 40 ewes wc only raised 
one lamb to maturity. This we then attrihnted 
to their previously high fed and pampered con 
ditlon (having been fed and fitted for exhibition 
at the National Sheep Show at Penn Van the year 
previous.) The next winter they were managed 
the same, with but little better result. They 
were then turned with the common (lock and 
wintered in the common way, since w T hlch there 
has been but little trouble with goitre or small 
and weak lambs. Five years ago I had 14 acci¬ 
dental lambs. Five of them were from ewes 
coming two, (from which I do not generally 
breed,) which were wintered with other year¬ 
ling ewes and tegs in a well ventilated sheep 
barn 30 by 40, with water in the barn. They 
were led hay and 10 quarts of oats to sixty, in 
two daily feeds. They did not leave the barn 
till spring opened. Not one of their lambs ever 
stood or even kicked. Some of them (notwith¬ 
standing they were carried two weeks over 
time) were perfectly bare of anything resem¬ 
bling wool, and so deformed that had they been 
found alone, it would have taken a zoologist to 
have told what they were intended for? The 
other nine were wintered in an open shed, with 
free access to a ten-acre field, and never did 
lambs do better. 
From the above and other equally convincing 
circumstances, 1 have come to the conclusion 
that exercise and occasional green feed for the 
ewe, are indispensable to perfect success in 
atnb raising. In accordance with that conclu¬ 
sion I have adopted the following plan for win¬ 
tering breeding owes. In a well ventilated barn, 
•% by 40,1 keep from SO to 100 ewes, and give them 
access to a ten-acre field a part of each day when 
they can get to the ground; when they can¬ 
not, to give them exercise, 1 place feeding 
troughs 10 or 12 rodafrom the barn, and once 
or twice each day give them a feed of Swedes, 
grain or something in the troughs. Then by 
means ol a door hung on rollers, a space is 
open ton feet wide, and away they go to the 
troughs, as though their lives depended on their 
- peed. Since I have adopted this plan of exer¬ 
cise 1 have not been troubled in the least with 
goitre or weak and deformed lambs. Another 
advantage in thus running them daily, is that, 
should any become weak and demand especial 
care, you are apprised of it at once by their lag¬ 
ging in the race, I use, and prefer, flut-bot- 
:omed troughs, from the fact that the feed, 
particularly when grain is fed, is thus scattered 
ever a larger surface, and not so readily picked 
up; and is therefore more evenly distributed 
among the flock. 1 aui wintering 80 ewes this 
winter, to which 1 feed daily 60 pounds of tur¬ 
nips and a peck of corn. 1 fed similarly last 
winter, and raised from 84 ewes 88 lambs to 
weaning time. My ewes have no water. 
Joshua IJealv. 
tra supply of tnilk from the dams, and where the flo< k- 
master well understands his business. Even then, the 
rearing of such lambs is not, on the whole, economi¬ 
cal, unless among breeders who wish to gut their ram 
lambs largo enough to be used to some extent the first 
season. _ 
Sheep F.nokavingb kov. the Rubai..— Oun Pkivatk 
Correspondence.—Pedigrees Wanted.— We stated 
not long since in answer to inquiries from various 
gentlemen “ why their cuts did not appear,” that we 
bad a number on hand, and that consequently It. was 
necessary that they take t heir regular turns In appear¬ 
ing—priority being generally determined by priority 
in the reception of the wood cuts and pedigrees. And 
we farther stated that in no case do we luteretcre with 
the order in which the engravers execute the cuts— 
leaving that, entirely to the arrangements made be¬ 
tween them nnd the. draught,tneu, or the proprietors of 
thr sheep. Is not this plain enough to be understood ? 
Yet wo are still in the frequent receipt at letters 
Stating that cuts and pedigrees were forwarded at 
such and euch times, and expressing great surprise at, 
their non-appearance 1 We have not the least objec¬ 
tion to our friends writing to us on this or any other 
subject, bnt they ought to excuse us from repeating 
explanations in private letters which wo now tor the 
second time proclaim to every reader of this depart¬ 
ment. 
We arc not disinclined to indulge in friendly corres 
pondcncc. We are willing to write private answers 
to inquiries about sheep, where good reasons appear 
why It cannot as well be done through these columns. 
But a considerate correspondent should always allow 
us to take the latter course, if possible, without, com 
pelting ns to write without necessity, or to be guilty 
of the rudeness of refusing without explanation to 
comply with a courteous request. To write fiheen or 
twenty private letters n week, purely about other 
men's concerns, ts no great labor for a few months— 
but if continued /or years, It becomes a wearisome 
tax on one’s tUno. In our case, it has continued long 
years; and it was partly In the hope of escaping It, 
and yet not withhold our small mile of information 
fromonr contemporaries, that we assumed our present 
editorial position. In that, position we expected to bo 
able to "kill a good many birds with one stone." 
Wc stated the fact, a few weeks since, that persons 
whose sheep cuts were in some instances forwarded 
to Mr. Moons month* ago, have not yet sent us the 
pedigrees without, which they cannot appear in this 
paper. This is still true, and many of the former 
w<>aid have been already published but for this omis¬ 
sion. _ 
State Wool Growers' Association of Wisconsin. 
—Illness in our household prevented us from meeting 
wi Ih this body, at the recent Fair at Jftnosvlllo. We 
learn that the session was an interesting one. Its 
highly competent President was re-elected for another 
year. The following Is the list of officers in full:— 
President—u .li Stilson, Oshkosh. Vice Presidents— 
1st. Iir. Fox, Fitchburg, Dane Co.; 2d. C. li. Stewart, 
Danville. Secretary— E. s. Hammond, Fun du Lac. 
Treasurer— John C, Bishop, Fon du Lac. Executive 
Committee—V, Hand, Iiocky Hun, Columbia Co.; C. 
M. Clark, Whitewater; A. F. Bishop, Kenosha; C. H. 
Wi'llams, Baraboo: Lewis Clark,.Beloit. 
An CORA Goats — Bearded Wheat Straw, —M. 
fit. air, Indianapolis, lnd, f asks at what price male 
Angora goats can bo purchased: also, whether any 
one had observed any ill effects to arise from allowing 
flocks of sheep to run at will to ricks of bearded 
wheat straw. We should suppose the beards would 
get into the fleeces, and so far as they did so, it won'd 
be an injury to the wool. Will some of our corres¬ 
pondents give farther answers. 
Communications, (Etc. 
THE MEECHANT AND FARMER. 
C0NDEN8ED CORRESPONDENCE, ITEMS. &c. 
Questions. — gabdinek Dare, Mankato, Minn,, 
propounds to us questions which (for more convenient 
reference) we divide under the following heads; 
Rutting Season.— With coarse-woaled sheep this 
commences with the frosts ol autumn. Dry Merino 
ewes, if In good condition, will take ram almost any 
time—though not so rapidly in warm as in frosty 
■weather. 
Food Best Adapted to the Production of Wool. 
Mr. Dare w ill find various tables and statements on 
this subject in tbc Practical Shepherd, commencing at 
page 2-35 • So far as any experiments within onr 
knowledge have yet proved, hay with straw and with¬ 
out other fodder, produces the largest percentage of 
wool for the weight consumed. But sheep can con¬ 
sume much less of this, owing to its balkiness, than 
•if hay and straw mixed wttta more concentrated food, 
'oas take the lead of most other fruits or grains in 
the production of wool. Rye with salt stands next, 
then wheat, then barley, and then bnckwheat, Oats 
'-'.and considerably below them all. We have seen no 
omparative trial of Indian corn, or oil-meal. 
Kind of Sweep Best Adapted to this Latitude. 
This inquiry of Mr. Dare is ra ther a vague one. On 
.(K«l soils, and in the vicinity of markets where mut¬ 
ton is tho leading object, the Euglieb breeds are best 
adapted to tho circumstances; in other regions, and 
■Where wool is the leading object, the Merinos arc 
most profitable. 
Does Grain Produce Abortion on Sickly Lam ns? 
In this region of country, where sheep are kept 
closely confined in buildings and small yards in win¬ 
ter, and get no green feed from the fields, wc have uo 
doubt whatever that excessive grain feed does strong 
Jy tend to produce feeble, sickly lambs, In the West, 
where sheep are nnconfiued and frequently unhoused 
through the winter, it is claimed that feeding large 
quantities of Indian corn produces no bad effect on 
the lambs. 
Winter LAMBe.-Mr. Dare’s concluding question 
is, whether there is any particular objection, except 
extra caro, to winter lambs? There is not. Winter 
lambs. If provided with a copious supply of milk, get 
an excellent "start” —winter better the following 
winter—and come earlier Pi maturity. But it Is only 
safe to attempt tho rearing of winter lambs where 
there arc good shelters, proper feed to produce an ex 
1 have a friend who is a store keeper. Who 
has not? Can you not, reader, number one, 
and may-be several such, in your circle? Do 
you know, in fact, any store keeper who Is not i 
trcmcly aSabie to you, even on a short acquaint 
aneo. llow easily it is to create a friendship with 
them ! How obliging, how polite, how glad they 
are when you •visit them ! Are you lonely—for¬ 
lorn—abroad in a strange land, perhaps, with 
the memory In your heart, like a bruised flower, 
of dear ones beyond the sea. You can turn to 
no kindred spirit for solace, or warm fireside 
for a welcome and a rest. But have courage. 
Stroll down the ringing pavement. Loiter in the 
stores. Buy in this one. Price the finest goods 
in that, one. Fling u compliment across the. 
counter when a handsome woman smiles at you 
from behind it. Surely you will find a score of 
friends (?) But for the sake of your belief In 
the goodness of the class, scan not the motive 
that impels the word to the smile. Set it down 
in good faith, to the credit of the human nature 
of store-keepers. 
The particular store keeper who is my friend, 
is very methodical in his business. At least It 
seems so to me a farmer with farmer habits. 
I suppose they are all so, and that they do not 
consider themselves so very exact. Once a year, 
he takes an inventory of the value of his stock 
on hand, his outstanding debts, his cash receipts, 
tho cost ol labor to sell his goods, interest on 
capital, insurance, taxes; and then he knows 
just how he stands, how much he lias made, 
what line of his business it is best to cling to 
most in the future; and above all, he knows 
whether he is all right and safe, and what limit 
he mnst set to his expenses. Some of his busi¬ 
ness transactions used to appear to me rather 
small — honest, of course, but showing that he 
sets great store on little things. He will take u 
cent of u small boy for a stick of candy. He 
will carefully weigh out two cents’ worth of 
enull to a poor woman, and when he does not 
happen to have the change for her long-hoarded 
bill, he will spend live minutes in going to the 
bank to get It, instead of generously saying “1 
can’t change that, just now, and you may have 
the snuff and welcome.” He will search all the 
money drawers in tho store, and the safe, too, 
any time, hut that he will get the last penny for 
his goods. If one has an account with him, and 
buys something that costs thirty seven and u 
hull cents, he will charge thirty-eight, to get 
pay, I suppose, for the paper he writes on. His 
boxes, barrels, hogsheads, are all sold lor some¬ 
thing,—his stale goods worked off on certain 
customers. In short, little things arc attended 
to. Nothing is wasted. He knows how he 
stands, ami what, he is doing at all times. And 
he prospers and grows rich. 
I have another lricnd who is a farmer— a good- 
natured, easy, honest, open-hearted farmer. 
But withal he is very alack and loose In his busi 
ness, even for a farmer. Years ugo, when he 
and the merchant were both young men, his 
father died and left him a good farm. He had a 
lair stock, tools aud some money at interest. 
The merchant hud nothing but ills abilities to 
commence lire with. The farmer waa one of his 
regular customers. Ho did not work because 
he disliked to, and thought he was able to live 
without. He spent some of his money in fancy 
farming, and lost some by trjiug to make too 
much out of It. Then he neglected the farm. 
The fences decayed. Briers and thistles multi¬ 
plied, Crops were half tilled and wasted, and 
he fouud, presently, that, alter paying his help 
aud taxes, he waa short of money, nnd it was 
convenient to make a store bill. Somehow it 
never became convenient to pay the bill. At 
the end of each year the merchant took his note 
on interest. Tifae went on and tho merchant 
wanted him to pay the notes — he must have his 
capital to use ip some other direction. Tho 
farmer hadn't the money but would borrow it, 
but he thought It hard for the merchant to 
crowd one ot bis best, customers. Well, if he 
wanted to fix the matter permanently lie might 
give a mortgage ou his farm. Bo it was exe¬ 
cuted, and it proved to be truly permanent. 
Yearly, affairs grew worse with the farmer. He 
began to realize his fatal mistake, hut it was too 
late to retrieve it. His fences and buildings 
were down — his land foul and poor — his stoek 
small, — he could not sustain himself, and his 
farm passed out of his hands. 
1 met the two men a short time since, and 
naturally I contrasted their lives. If tho far¬ 
mer, thought I, had been as careful of little 
things as the merchant — if he had taken an 
inventory yearly — if he had looked closely after 
the pennies, and been always content with even 
a slow prosperity, be had been rich to day, 
He started wrong, and lacked either tho nerve 
or the wisdom to turn again. The same funda¬ 
mental business principles lie at the bottom ol 
Buece.-s in all well established pursuits. And it 
is one of the greatest merits of farming, that It 
will bear up against the constant violations of 
those principles longer than any other business. 
The legitimate fanner does not smash down in 
a year. His course Is slow. If it is upward, his 
increase Is like thut of the ball rolled in the 
snow. If downward his property slips away so 
gradually that before be is aware he may over¬ 
pass the place of returning. Chiei.. 
iuvnl £pivit of ttoc gvegjsi, 
Qualities of Hate 
Tiaioti.i riAtisele; clover for milk; corn 
for fat. The timothy should bo cured in full 
blossom, or a little later. Clover should be cut 
when first reddening, before it is fully matured. 
This is the time, and the only time to cut 
clover. Then all the nutritive juices are in per¬ 
fection. Such hay- or grass cured—has a Blight 
laxative tendency—just what is wanted in winter. 
It will be greedily eaten, even when somewhat 
touched w ith mould—and give milk with profu¬ 
sion. This never fails. On the other hand, tim¬ 
othy, instead of secreting milk, will form 
muscle; hence, the hay for horses, and hence 
preferred so generally. Straw, when early cut 
ai d properly cured — not dried—has somewhat 
lue quality of clover. But oh, how neglectful 
we are ubout the curing of straw, when it is one 
of the finest of employments. There is a 
ftagranee about such straw, and the pale green 
tint, which make it a valuable and a most pleas¬ 
ant lbddcr. 
Timothy then for horses; clover ior milch 
cows; and straw, well cured and cut, for either. 
It Is excellent to mix with meal, or feed carrots 
and beets with. We would, when thus led, make 
but little difference between good barley or even 
oat straw, when early and properly cured, and 
timothy for stock, especially cotvi in milk. For 
young stock, tender timothy is excellent. We 
are so reckless in feeding. We feed j>romiscuous- 
ly; wc feed what we have to feed w ithout taking 
much pains to get a proper selection, or to pre¬ 
pare it well. For instance, we feed few corn¬ 
stalks, raised on purpose for fodder, when yet 
this is one of the cheapest and one of the best hays 
that can be fed; and in the summer, in a drought, 
it Is or the greatest advantage, fed out green. — 
Sural World. 
Agricultural ProspectB of the West. 
The editor of the N. 11. Mirror aud Farmer, 
who has recently visited the West, thus discour¬ 
ses upon its products and prospects : — “How- 
muchsoever croakers may say to tho contrary, 
the agricultural prospects of the country at lurge 
wore never more promising. In this remark we 
have reference, of course, to the North and 
North-western State#, of the prospect* of the 
South, statements are so conflicting, that we can 
form uo correct opinion, for while one class of 
writers and observers represent the people, black 
as well as white, going diligently to work to re¬ 
cuperate the exhausted condition of the country, 
returning lo their accustomed pursuits and to 
their allegiance, another class arc equally confi¬ 
dent in asserting that the blacks are disinclined 
to work, looking for government support, 
riotous and predatory, and the whites lazy, In¬ 
dolent aud murderous, both freedmeu uttdUiiion 
men. Amid these conflicting assertions, as be- 
lorc suggested, it is dlllicult to form a correct 
judgment, but common sense would seem to 
dictate, that impoverished as the Southern peo¬ 
ple have been by the war, the wealthy stripped 
of their possessions, and the common people 
wanting, many of them, lor the necessaries of 
life, that self-preservation would loud all classes 
to exert themselves to tho utmost to bring the 
productive interests of lheir country into their 
usual channels, and to support that policy of 
government that stiatl best protect those inter¬ 
ests. Ileuee we think it will be fouud that tlie 
producing classes of the 8outh, black, or white, 
generally are at work , aud that all interests are 
making us much progress under the cireumstan- 
Ci‘B, as would naturally have been expected. 
Tho statistics of the. agricultural products ot tho 
South the present year, will surprise the most 
hopeful. Andthis is true of the West aud North¬ 
west. 
Speculators have represented short crops to be 
prevalent, inconsequence of drouth, bugs, rust 
and lack of laborers; that the country has been 
completely depleted of live animals, both bipeo# 
ami quadrupeds, by the war—when the truth i#, 
drouth, insects or rust have prevailed to no 
great extent, and the depletion of laborers by 
the war lias been more than met by emigration 
and the use of htbur-suvlng machines; while the 
depletion of animals for slaughter, has been 
more than met by extra exertions in production. 
8o that to day, the West and North-west, the 
granary and meatery of the world, was never «o 
woll stocked with all their great staples. 
Aud the prospects for another year are equal¬ 
ly favorable. Green, luxuriant wheat fields meet 
the eye in every direction, at tills moment, 
throughout the West, and more coming forward, 
so that the first of November will witness a 
greater breadth of cereals throughout tho coun¬ 
try than ever before. Countless hogs are “in 
clover” in every direction, and beeves and 
“young stock” are grazing on all the prairies, 
so that anti-Grahamites can have no fears of re¬ 
striction or starvation. So if provisions are 
high tho comiDg season or year, it must be the 
result of monopoly, not scarcity. 
Ditching Machine. 
We had the opportunity on Monday of wit¬ 
nessing the operation of a new machine for dig¬ 
ging ditches, particularly for laying tile lu. The 
machine consists of a series of 22 spades, placed 
on an axletrce and revolving with it, entering 
t he ground nt such an nuglc that they meet with 
tho least resistance. As the machine advance#, 
the spades are made to extend backward and 
partially under tho loosened earth, taking It up, 
and when at the proper elevation the spade is 
made to tarn one-fourth rouud by a trip, depos¬ 
iting the earth upon a shield, which carries it 
out to one side of the ditch, thus giving all the 
motions that are made in using the ordinary 
hand spade. The machine can be set to run at 
any required depth up to 8 inches at each pass¬ 
age over the ground, and by repeated passages 
to the depth of three feet. The Inventor assur¬ 
ed us that with two meu and two good teams, 
fifty rods of ditch could be cut In an hour. The 
ground on which wo saw St work was very un¬ 
favorable; being a quick-sand the spades did 
not take it out clean, much of it falling ..back. 
The motions, however, were complete, and 
every part worked well, and we can see no 
reason why it will not be a complete success in 
land drainage. The machine U the Invention 
of Mr. Judd Stevens of Wayne Co., N. Y., and 
is now uuder the control of the Chicago Ditch¬ 
ing and Spading Machine Co., (chartered by the 
last legislature,) who will give any farther Infor¬ 
mation desired .—Prairie Farmer. 
Feeding Properties of the Mangold. 
A writer in the Scottish Farmer says:— 
The mangold, like the turnip and all other root 
crops, varies In feeding properties according to 
soil, climate, manorial effects and other circum¬ 
stances under which it is cultivated. According 
to chemical analysis, it is more valuable for feed¬ 
ing purposes than the common turnip or swede. 
In practice, during the autumn and early 
winter months, wc consider it inferior in feeding 
value to good swede turnips; whilst during 
March and April, and as the season advances, 
we consider it almost invaluable, not only for 
feeding, but as food for store stock. We have 
used it rather extensively for some years, when 
pulped and mixed with cut Btraw, and alowed 
slightly to ferment, in which case chemical 
changes take place, enabling the animal more 
easily to assimilate the substance of tho food. 
We have used and found (he roots equally valua¬ 
ble for ewes suckling their lambs, and for dairy 
cows in milk, alwas producing an increased flow 
of milk ; aud wheu given in conjunction with 
oats, beans, and other nitrogenous foods, the 
quality of the secretion is not deteriorated in 
value. The mangold being originally a native of 
a warmer climate than that of tho United King¬ 
dom, other things being equal, wo In variably get 
our best crops during dry, hot summers. The 
past season was therefore unfavorable for the 
production of heavy eropB of this root. Ours 
was greatly under an average of former years. 
Corn Crop and Stock Hogs. 
The corn crop throughout Ohio, Indiana, 
Illinois, and this Slate promises such an extraor¬ 
dinary yield that many consider that the new 
product will not realize over ’.’8 cents per bushel 
lu the field; and in consequence tho farmers, it 
is reported, are generally directing their atten¬ 
tion to the raising of hogs, aud considerable in 
quiry prevails for stock hogs throughout the 
country, which are very scarce. In view of this 
condition of things, tho next hog crop may turn 
out much larger thuu has generally been antic! 
pitted. Many entertain the opinion that hogs 
wiil open at a high figure next fall, which is an 
additional Incentive to the furmens lor the adop 
tlou of this course; hut time alone can decide as 
to its wisdom, as it is loo early yet for any one to 
make any positive declaration as to the result.— 
IxmUville Journal. 
Warts on Cattle. 
A 8UH8CRIBER says that his cow has warts 
upon her bag and teats “long and slender,” and 
asks how he can cure them. The warts can be 
readily removed with caustic, lunar or potash. 
Five cents worth of either lunar caustic, or 
caustic of potash will suffice. Keep the 
caustic in a vial, take a stick of it, wet tho end 
with water or spittle and rub it on the warts. 
Two or three applications will suffice. Be very 
careful with the caustic of potash or it will eat 
too deep and make a sore. We took a large 
wart, from the leg of a valuablo horse by two ap¬ 
plications of potash, and it has not returned. — 
-V. IT. Farmer. 
Corn Fodder.— Not even the best hay is a 
more palatable or nutritious kind of forage than 
early cut and well cured coru fodder. The grass 
crop lias been good, to be sure, but then do you 
not remember —you I mean, and yon, and you— 
how many t imes you have run so close that you 
have been compelled to scrimp your feed in 
the late spring, before grass, and been a little 
ashamed of the appearance of your stock. Our 
advice will come to you late, should frosts this 
year be early, but nevertheless, we cannot for¬ 
bear to say, for Mercy’s sake, don’t be short of 
feed this year I Save your fodder!— TVht. Farmer. 
Thuuouuu drainage will pay a dividend equal 
to the 7-oOa. Tiles are cheaper than stone drains 
and more durable. 
Bttral Notes emit Steins. 
Indiana State Fair.— Ill health deprived ub of the 
anticipated pleasure of attending this Fair-a depriva¬ 
tion the more regretted now that wo hear very favora¬ 
ble reports In regard to the exhibition. All accounts 
agree that the Fair was a great success — beyond 
precedent in the State, 'l'ho‘receipts, in all depart¬ 
ments, during tho week, were about fifteen thousand 
dollars,—while It ts said the entire expenses will not 
exceed ten thousand. We congratulate the Society, 
Its membership, and the Rural aud other Producing 
Interests of Indiana, upon this great achievement. 
When the young “noosier" State excels tho old 
" Empire," we of the latter onght to “acknowledge 
tho cereal" and add three rousing cheers. 
The Indiana Slate Horticultural Society held a 
meeting at the same time and place, (Fort Wayne,) 
and its sessions were rendered interesting and in¬ 
structive by discussions on appropriate topics. During 
the week several prominent persons visited, on invi¬ 
tation, the model residence and farm of that model 
farmer and gentleman, Hon. I. 1). G, Nelson, a mem 
ber of the State Agricultural Board, about four miles 
from Fort Wayne. We regret thut it is impossible 
for us to give even a condensed account of this and 
other pleasant occasions aud re-unions enjoyed by our 
friends during the week of the Fair. 
-- 
Pennsylvania State Fair.— A friend who attend¬ 
ed this Fair sends ns some criticisms upon the man¬ 
agement. Among other things he says:“Itseems 
very evident that the Officers of the I'a. 8 la to Agricul¬ 
tural Society are but novices in the work of ‘ running’ 
a Slate Fair. It Is to bo hoped that some practical 
lessons were learned at Williamsport. Many things 
were to b« noticed which were, to say the least, disa¬ 
greeable-such as the vending of patent nostrums on 
the grounds, and allowing side-shows to vent their 
slang upon gaping bystanders. Many articles which 
were unavoidably duDilued by delays on the railroad 
were not allowed to compete far premiums, not even 
when the articles arrived early Wednesday morning. 
The Secretary’s office was a rongh board Bhanty 10 by 
20 feet. The premiums were all paid by one man, 
making it an almost endless job.” 
But it appears that the Fair was a financial success, 
not only to the Society but to pick pockets, albeit 
“ trials of speed " were the great feature. A Fa. paper 
says that it “,i* pronounced the most suceeseful ever 
held by the Agricultural Society outside the cities of 
l’ittsbnrg and Philadelphia. The receipts amounted 
to nearly fifteen thousand dollars, of which sum about 
seven thousand dollars will go Into the treasury of the 
Society. Owing to tho poor police arrangements of 
the Society, the pick pockets in attendance reaped a 
great harvest, some three hundred persons having 
been relieved of their purses on Friday alone. The 
principal attraction of the Fair was the races, or * tri¬ 
als of speed,’ which have become an Important part 
of the State Society’s exhibitions." 
Agricultural Exports, — The following table 
shows tho exports of onr leading articles of domestic 
prodneo from the port of New York, for nine months 
to October let, in each of the years named: 
First Nine Months. 
1803. 
1801. 
1865. 
Beeswax, lb?., 
130,332 
411,141 
101,387 
Breadstuff*: 
Wheat Flour bbl., 
1,962,066 
1.022,105 
1,037,808 
Rye Flour, bbl.. 
4,727 
2.500 
1,938 
Corn Meal, bbl., 
112,622 
89,178 
102,125 
Wheat, bush.,. 
12,306,018 
11,844,023 
1,756 028 
Rye, bush.,. 
•110,249 
463 
163,419 
Oats, hush., 
117,139 
32,703 
60,187 
Burley, bush., . 
62,4.‘ 19 
150 
Teas, bush,, 
79,WO 
li -0,032 
40,839 
Corn, bush., 
7,390,371 
773,485 
1,830,949 
(,'sttoii, bales, 
10,065 
25,387 
06,701 
Hay, bales, 
10,599 
27,003 
21,814 
Hops, bales,. 
20,411 
17,481 
18 291 
Oils—Lard, guile 
783,412 
323,004 
22,503 
Linseed, galls. 
13,947 
67,723 
12,458 
Provisions: 
Pork, bbl., 
148,309 
114,060 
94 498 
Beer, bbl., . 
31,680 
30,581 
30,311 
Beef, tes,,. 
31,900 
43,190 
41,360 
Cut. Meats, lbs., 
105,906,185 
86,521,811 
80,063,683 
Butter, lbs.,— 
10,241,122 
10,055,479 
9,206,357 
Cheese, lbs., 
Lard, lbs.,. 
Rice, tes ...... 
Rice, bbls,. 
Tallow, lbs ,. - 
'Tobacco, crude, pkgs 
do. mannf., lbs., 
25,111,BID 
90,006,652 
108 
8,210 
31,081,641 
75,791 
2,361,871 
33,837,675 
'17,307,803 
18,027 
26,057,363 
111,097 
3,837,281 
34,2111,043 
19,5011,60k 
68 
17,181 
13,986,650 
121,880 
3,111.568 
Fast Ti m i: —Flora Temple Be aim. - Until recently 
the fastest hone time ever made was by Flora Temple 
—viz., a mile in 2m. 19 ',s. Bnt this has recently 
beeu excelled by “Dexter," a remarkable trotter, 
seven years old, owned in New York, who has made 
his mile cm the Fashion Course, Long Inland in 3m. 
18 l-6s. This is probably the fastest time on record. 
Dexter was Bircd by Rysdyk’a llamblulouian, nnd he 
by old Abdallah, he by Mambrlno, and he by Imported 
Messenger. The dam of Dexter was by imported 
Bellfoundcr, g. <1. Old One liyo by Old llamb'cloni&n, 
and he by imported Messenger. The dam of ohl One 
Eye was ulso by imported Messenger. 
New Way of Filling an Ice-■House Tho Utica 
Herald says that tho lco-houso of L* Lyon of 
Lyon’s Falls, N. Y., has not been empty for twonty 
years, nor has a pound of Ice over boon pnt into It. 
The building is constructed after the ordinary method, 
and when It is designed to HU ». » rose Jet is placed 
upon the water pipe, and as tho water comes through 
it is chilled and drops into iho ice house, where it 
forms one solid mass of ice. 
