CULTURE 
ROCHESTER N, Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1865 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Next to proper books on the subject, 
and perhaps even more important, is, 
in our opinion, the establishment and 
support of suitable Veterinary Schools 
and Colleges whereat young men who 
have a taste there for may be rendered 
qualified for veterinary surgeons.— 
There are in our country thousands 
of young men who admire domestic 
animals, and know much concerning 
their care, training and breeding, who 
are admirably adapted to the pro¬ 
fession of veterinary practitioners. Let 
us give ali such a chance, and proper 
encouragement. Surely when we have, 
in almost every Ideality, single animals 
worth from $300 to $5,000—and In many 
those valued at several times the latter 
sum—it is worth the while of Amer¬ 
ican breeders and farmers to give this 
subject at least a moiety of the atten¬ 
tion its importance demands. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL, D., 
Editor of the Department of Sheep Husbandry. 
COLORING SHEEP ARTIFICIALLY, 
SPECIAL COJiTIUKCTOKB I 
P. BARRY, C. DEWEY, LL, D., 
H. T. BROOKS, L. B. LANO WORTHY, 
T. C. PETERS, EDWARD WEBSTER. 
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devotee ms personal attention to the supervision of its 
various departments, and earnestly labors to render tbe 
Rural an eminently Reliable Guide on all the Important 
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nected with tbe business of those whose interests it 
zealously advocates. As a Family Journal It Is emi¬ 
nently Instructive and Entertaining—being to conducted 
that It can be satcly taken to tbe Homes of people of 
Intelligence, taste and discrimination. It embraces more 
Horticultural, Scientific, Educational, Literary and News 
Matter, Interspersed with appropriate Engravings, than 
any other Journal,—rendering It rnr the most complete 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper 
in America. 
feJ under our observation! It decidedly beat 
the contraband hne acquired by housing. It 
was a good deal darker and evener laid on — and 
would not fade out or grow streaked for a little 
dash of rain! 
“ To impose on buyers ?” We doubt whether 
any very large portions of them are thus im¬ 
posed on. None of them ought to be. The 
fraud is so old and stale, that no man possessed 
of eyes and ears has a right to be so ignorant. 
The sellers of these sheep assert that they can¬ 
not sell one exhibiting the color of natural 
wool which is exposed to the weather—but that 
they can sell the sheep readily if they inform 
buyers that the sheep are painted! If this is 
really so, is the seller more to blame than the 
buyer ? In the county referred to, we chanced 
to meet two Ohio purchasers. They represented 
themselves Ohio farmers buying sheep for them¬ 
selves. They bought a flock, and before taking 
it out of town had every sheep in it painted by 
parties accustomed to do such things ! 
This miserable practice springs out of a miser¬ 
able fashion—the fashion of regarding a totally 
unnatural color of the sheep as a necessary test 
of excellence. 
“A Kalamazoo County Farmer” wishes to 
know “If these things are so, why we do not 
cry aloud and spare not — and why we do not 
expose the individual perpetrators ? ” We have 
again and again expressed the opinion that 
housing sheep in summer to give them color is 
a folly, and that painting them is a fraud. Must 
we harp on this string all the time, because 
there are dull gentlemen who read only once in. 
five years? Is it our business to “expose indi¬ 
vidual perpetrators ? ” Are we a police detect¬ 
ive? Do we publish, a Newgate Calendar of 
State and petty frauds ? Have we been ap¬ 
pointed the “legal guardians’* of every coma¬ 
tose gentleman, who will not learn that he will 
burn his fingers if he puts them in the fire ? 
If the “ sheep men ” required to be cautioned 
against any new and dangerous swindle — a 
Silvernail swindle, for example — we should 
be derelict in duty if we failed to “ cry aloud 
and spare not.” But our correspondent might 
as well claim that it is our duty to carry a sign 
before a mock auction-room, to warn off the 
gulls, as to claim that it is our business to do 
any more than we have done in the matter, 
which he, by implication, complains of. 
ty For Terms and other particulars, see last pace. 
VETERINARY KNOWLEDGE WANTED 
iron, o.her ouuinng r, to *oj safe from fire, yet 
convenient to the house. The cost will be from 
forty to seventy-five dollars; a suitable stock of 
tools about a hundred more. This estimate 
would be lowered in some .markets where the 
materials could be purchased, and also by pro¬ 
curing timber, etc., from the farm. Many could 
build the shop themselves, buying some of the 
tools first, and thus make them pay in the be¬ 
ginning. Suppose one paid ont one hundred 
and fifty dollars. The investment would not 
need renewing in a lifetime. At seven per cent 
the interest would amount to $10.50 yearly. 
Who would not consider that cheap for the 
use of such a shop and tools? The tools 
required besides those shown in the plan would 
be, four or five planes, a set of augers, chisels, 
bits and bit stock, square, compasses, try- 
squares, saws, adz, rasp, hammers, pincers, 
tongs, cold-chisels, taps and dies, files, a shav¬ 
ing-knife, punches, and some minor tools which 
would be suggested by the want of them. 
Our plan is drawn for a shop twelve feet by 
twenty, with a wide door at one qpd. Eight 
feet is sufficiently high for the side. It should 
have a good floor. The whole of it, inclnding 
the roof, might be of matched boards. The 
frame need not be heavy. The stove can be 
placed so as to admit the pipe into the chimney 
ot the forge. On one side there are no windows 
or doors, which gives a good space for working— 
shoeing-horses, or repaiiing tools. Overhead a 
quantity of diflerent kinds of lumber can be 
stored, so as to have it well seasoned and handy 
at all times. 
the flax, and the scutching-knives, A 
with a smooth edge to dress the flax. 
Figure 2 . 
This machine has been in use two seasons and 
has been thoroughly tested. It is cheaper, and 
mere simple and durable, and wastes less flax than 
any other machine for breaking or scutching 
flax. Two hands with one horse-power can 
brake and scutch from the rough flax one hun¬ 
dred to three hundred pounds of lint, according 
to quality, per day of teu hours, and is easily 
converted into a good Seed Thrasher. The ma¬ 
chine occupies three feet by six, and weighs 
seven hundred pounds; present cost $65. Pat¬ 
ented Sept. 27th, 1864, by Luther Kundbll of 
Eagle, N. Y. For further information, or rights 
and machines, apply to C. M. Kundsll, General 
Agent, Pike, Wyoming Co., N. Y.” 
SALTING CATTLE 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Some time ago, 
I noticed in the Rural an inquiry regarding the 
use of salt for cows, and a desire for the experi¬ 
ence of others. My practice is, to give my cows 
all the salt they will eat, three times a week, du* 
ring the summer season. The amount con¬ 
sumed by them is greater while in flash feed 
than short. The amount of milk returned by 
the cows is from a quarter to a third more than 
when salted bat once a week. It may be that 
some soils are deficient in salt and that stock re¬ 
quire it in larger quantities to equalize the sys¬ 
tem. If so, they will eat less ; they are the best 
judges. 
The effect of salt is to increase the desire for 
both food aud drink. Hence the materials for 
milk. More salt is consumed by my stock when 
fed on a clean grass-patch, where they can mix 
salt and grass, than if in a shed. \ strong solu 
tion of salt in water, irregularly applied on hay 
for either cattle or horses, produces scouring. 
Caueadea, N. Y., Oct. 20,1805. R. E. B. 
RUNDELL'S FLAX AND HEMP BRAKE 
For some years past much attention has been 
given to the invention and manufacture of im¬ 
proved machinery for the braking and scutching 
of Flax and Hemp. The result has been the 
production of a number of uew machines, several 
of which have been noticed in this journal and 
some of them illustrated and described. Among 
the best of these inventions, if not the very 
best, is “ Run dell’s Flax and Hemp Brake , 
Scutcher and Seed Thrastier, Coitibwed,' 1 au illus¬ 
tration aud description of which we give here¬ 
with. This machine was exhibited at the recent 
New York State Fair, at Utica, and many pro¬ 
nounced it tbe long-sought article, as it is cheap 
aud works rapidly, while it is operated with 
comparatively little expense. It is certaiuly 
worth the attention of Flax and Hemp growers 
all over the country, and we rejoice that so valu¬ 
able a machine is the invention of a Western 
New-Yorker. The accompanying Illustrations, 
with the following description by Mr. Rundell, 
will give the reader as clear au idea of ihe ma¬ 
chine as can be imparted in a limited space: 
“There are beaters, A, and four seutehing- 
knives, A , attached to disks. F, F, on the. shaft. 
These knives and beaters run close to the con¬ 
caves, B, B , which rests on movable springs, C, 
C , C, C‘, and are supported laterally by the up¬ 
right parts of the machine and by the piece D. 
FICTITIOUS PRICES FOR SHEEP, 
Mr. Francis R. Davis of Wolf Lake, Noble 
Co., Indiana, writes us an amusing letter on the 
subject named in the caption of this article. 
Mr. D. informs us that he is “ no scholar.” He 
nevertheless has a pretty direct way of telling 
his story, and we judge it to’be true, because in 
every case, he gives the full name and residence 
of the seller whom he has found ready to report 
a sham price to the public. Shall we imitate his 
outspokenness iu this matter? We are very 
strongly tempted to do so. The man who dis¬ 
poses of sheep at a lower price than his neigh¬ 
bor, is not obliged to divulge the fact. But he 
who reports false sales for publication is, mor¬ 
ally, a swindler. Legal swindling is obtaining 
goods on false pretences. In the essence, what 
does that man do but obtain goods on false pre¬ 
tences, who leads the public to believe that his 
sheep.’possess far higher value, and a far higher 
reputation, than actually belong to them, by 
falsely publishing that he has sold portions of 
them for extraordinary prices? There are al¬ 
ways enough credulous people to believe what 
they see “ in printand how are even the most 
PLAN OF FARM WORK-SHOP. 
A is the force with a chimney going ont through the 
roof. B, Work-bench, four feet long, with iron vise 
attached. C\ Grinds cue placed bo that the light of 
both windows will fail upon it. D, Work-bench, 
twelve feet Jong, with a wooden vise attached. E, 
Anvil. F, Door. O, Wooden vise. IT, H, Windows. 
1, Box for old iron. J. Bellows on the outside of 
the shop, covered suitably, with place underndeath 
tor coaJ. Underneath Ibe work-benches should be 
drawers to hold nails, spikes, screws, bolts, and 
such tools as may be desirable to place in them. 
We give a pilau of u work-shop that will be 
suitable for the majority of farms. It is not so 
large as to be objected to on account of eost 
and unnecessary room. It ought to be set apart 
Grain that has been injured and become mus¬ 
ty, may be restored to nearly its original sweet¬ 
ness by pouring boiling water over it, and 
permitting it to 6taud till cool. The scum which 
arises to the surface of the liquid during the 
process of purification, should be carefully re¬ 
moved. Unless the gluten of the grain has be¬ 
come chemically affected—which is rarely found 
to be the case, except in very old grain — every 
trace of mustiness will be removed, and the 
grain rendered fit for use.— W E. Farmer. 
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