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MOOSE’S BUBAL NEW-TOEKEE, 
AS OKIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
The proper kind of shelter is very essential. 
Dryness is one of the first requisites. Sheds 
are often deficient in this quality, being con¬ 
structed so as to keep off the storms from 
above, but are wet under foot There should 
be a good descent from the back of a shed to 
the middle, at least, of the yard In front. If the 
soil is naturally wet the bottom should be paved, 
or otherwise floored, and drains made under¬ 
neath. Sheds are likewise very liable to be vis¬ 
ited by too brisk currents of air; the wind 
blows under them, and the snow is whirled in. 
In such cases cattle or sheep will huddle into a 
eorner, and we have sometimes seen them pre¬ 
fer the open side of a barn, where the wind is 
broken off, to the shelter of a shed that is sub¬ 
ject to strong currents of 
two summers ago, in exn<Y9ive numbers. 
He considers this louse Ip source of the 
honey dew and black blight. Small as 
they are, these lice have minute worms 
residing in their bodies which feed upon 
and destroy them. The lady bugs also 
consume immense quantities, in Eng¬ 
land they frequently destroy ibe crop, 
but not many years in succession. Dr. 
Fitch has also an article on the cucum¬ 
ber bug, in which its habits and modes of 
injuring plants are well described. The 
remedy proposed is boxes to cover the 
hills. 
One of the best and most readable 
things we have seen for a long time on 
grapes and wine is given in the Transac¬ 
tions, under the heading of “ Grape Cul¬ 
ture in Stenben county, by G. Dennis- 
tos, Prattsburg." It ia illustrated by 
engravings showing how the vine is 
trained, and by several excellent maps, 
exhibiting the exposure of the land, and 
the course and number of the streams, in 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL, D. t 
Editor of the Department of Shoep Husbandry. 
P. BABKT, o. DEWEY, XX, D., 
H. T. BBOOKS, L. B. LANGWOBTHY, 
T. 0. PETERS, EDWARD WBBSTBB. 
The Hu rai. Nkw-Tobebk is designed to be unsur¬ 
passed In Value, Purity, and Variety of Contents, and 
unique and beautiful In Appearance. Its Conductor 
devotes ms persona] attention to Uie supervision of its 
various departments, and earnestly labors to render the 
Ktjral an eminently Reliable Guide on all the Important 
Practical, Scientific and other Subjects Intimately con¬ 
nected with the business of those whose Interests it 
zealously ndvocawe. As a Partly Journal it Is emi¬ 
nently Instructive and Botortaining—being bo conducted 
that it can bo saTely Ufcon to the Homes or people or 
intelligence, taste and discrimination. It embraces more 
What is needed 
in shelter is perfect dryness underneath and 
overhead, and a still, pure atmosphere. Base¬ 
ment stables where the earth is hanked against 
two or three sides, though warm, are liable to 
dampness from the walls, and from the earth 
under foot. Many have better success in win¬ 
tering flocks of sheep at stacks in the open 
GROUP OP INFANTADO TEGS 
H. DEAN”, WEST CORNWALL, VT. 
committees it has selected, and every other step 
it has taken, most unequivocally evidence that 
desire. 
Beacon Farm, Northpoit, N. Y„ > 
Oct- 21, 1S65. S 
AIy Deab Sib : — In reply to your correspond¬ 
ent about Lincoln sheep, it is probably not too 
much to say that Lincolns, for the last seven 
years, have been gradually working their way to 
the best position (a combination of mutton and 
wool,) of English sheep. It is, and probably 
will remain true, that their peculiar flavor and 
fineness of qra in will never equal that of the 
bouth Down; still, to all but epicures, it is 
about the same, with a greater proportion of fat. 
Regarded as mutton only, the next in quality to 
the South Down is the Shropshire. After those 
the Lincoln family lays claim To the best table 
mutton in England. In weight of carcass it is 
equal, and to take a general average, superior to 
the Cotswold and New Leiccsters. The largest 
SHELTERING STOCK, 
This important subject should now engage 
the attention of fanners. One can 6leep but 
nnquletly when the cold night rains of the late 
autumn, often mixed with sleet, are beating on 
the unsheltered herds and flocks. They should 
have convenient access, at sneb times, to com¬ 
fortable barnyards and sheds, and in remote 
pastures, cheap but durable shelter ought to 
be placed. In permanent pastures imrr#Table 
sheds should be built. Some kind of a struc¬ 
ture that could he put together in sections or 
moved on wheels might be used In lots that are 
only temporarily pastured. Everything that 
tends to keep stock thriving at this season- 
gaining flesh and gradually hardening for the 
winter when grass ia growing scant, and the 
weather Is inclement—pnts money in the farm¬ 
er’s pocket. In the West especially, much food 
is wasted by the lack of suitable shelter for fat¬ 
tening animals. We have known herds of cattle 
fed liberally with corn in the shock In open lots 
that did not gain seventy-live pounds per head 
all winter. If the com had been ground and 
STATE AG. SOCIETY'S TRANSACTIONS. 
The Transactions of the N. Y. State Agri¬ 
cultural Society for 1S64, is one of the most 
valuable books for farmers and frnlt growers to 
read and study that 1ms been lately published. 
Compared with the last Report of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture It will extort the highest 
praise. The National Report ha?, of course, a 
greater diversity of subjects, but the State Re¬ 
port, while confined to a smaller range, exhibits 
more vigor and thoroughness. 
The Executive Committee of the Society 
report that the condition of the Agriculture 
of the State is most gratifying. The farmers 
have secured good harvtBtB and prices, and 
taken as a whole the agriculturists of the State 
are improving. They are striving to obtain 
larger crops, make greater improvements, and 
rear better stock than heretofore. Agriculture 
Is acknowledged to be increasing in importance, 
and it Is likely to be placed in a superior posi¬ 
tion to any other interest. Farmers have, to a 
great extent, paid their debts, and are now in a 
better condition than ever to meet all demands. 
The demand for farm implements was never so 
great, and It is owing to the plentiful use of 
improved machinery that farmers were enabled 
to get in and secure their crops, when so great a 
part of the laborers was called to the army. 
To Correspondents. -Mr. Randall's address is 
Cortland Village, Cortland Co., N. Y. All communi¬ 
cations intended for this Department, and all inquiries 
relating to sheep, should be addressed to him as above. 
MR. F. H. DEAN’S INFANTADO SHEEP, 
F. H. Dean, West Cornwall, Vt. 
writes to 
us. — The group of five ewe tegs drawn by Mr. 
Page, were bred purely from stock bought of 
Edwin Hammond . They were selected from a 
flock of fifty owned by me. I have bred en¬ 
tirely from the Infantado stock for the last thir¬ 
teen years, and have now (Feb., 1865,) a flock of 
seventy breeding ewes. 
SELECTING SEED COIN, 
inn best time, practically, to selfct seed 
is when husking. Each ear of eori then j 
separately through the busker’s h: nds. E 
leisure to 
examine aud choose, 
length of the stalk, 
her of ears on it, 
likewise judge of the earliness of .he corn, its 
soundness and other qualities. The be6t 
way to save such ears as are deemci suitable, is 
to break them from the stalk, so as to leave 
most of the husks attached to the lower end of 
the ear. These c ars should then be collected to¬ 
gether, and braided by the busks in strings of 
convenient weight, and then linn* on a pole 
under cover, in a dry, still atmosphere. 
beed corn should never be suffered to become 
soaked with water from rain or ether causes. 
Ears tnat have been wet, before husking, should 
never be saved for seed, however perfect in other 
respects. Wetting and drying weakens the 
power of germination, and if V c;y wet late 
in the season, they are liable to be frozen iu that 
condition, and the germ destroyed entirely. If 
dry, sound ears are saved, und kept as we 
have described above, there is no dimmer of having 
together wii the 
, are seen at a glance. E 
mb. dean’s in fa n r ado bam 
My ram “Little Wrinkly” was bred by 
Henry Hammond. I purchased him of Henry 
Hammond and my son, H. F. Dean, who owned 
him together. Ele was got by “ Sweepstakes," 
out of Mr. Hammond's pure blood Jufan- 
tado ewes, 
| the Lincoln and Cotswold. Afterwards it (the 
I cross) deteriorates in weight, form and quality, 
and also in wool and mutton. As a wool sheep 
[ the Lincoln is superior to all other English 
| sheep, both in weight, quality and length of 
{ staple. 
I A friend in Lincolnshire, for many years a 
j breeder of note, writes me: - “My flock, in- 
onr friend Mr. Beebe for j chiding shearlings, (1. e., one year old,) averages 
replies to the questions of | nine pounds brook-washed wool; my ewes 14 to 
re shall be very glad to 17 pounds; rams, 18 to SM pounds." It mast be 
remembered that this Is a celebrated breeder, 
who obtained the first and second prize at the 
Royal Society’s Show at Plymouth, 1865. The 
general average clip of an ordinary pure Lin¬ 
coln flock is 7 to 8 pounds of i cell washed wool. 
An ordinary fat sheep will dress 46 to 45 pounds 
The farmer 
LINCOLN SHEEP 
the world ever knew, in domestic animals of 
almost every known variety, to need turther 
argument or elucidation, aud the best and most 
popular cattle now in either England or America 
Mr. A. likewise 
that our dairy herds, instead of 
are the fruits of this practice, 
fully believes “f 
yielding but 350 or 400 pounds of cheese, or but 
150 or ISO.pounds of butter to the cow, on the 
average, aslthey uow do, t an, by properly breed 
ing, and care of cow, be increased twenty-live to 
fifty per cent, beyond these figures.” 
From au Address at the Annual Meeting of 
the Society in Aibauy, by Asa Fitch, M. D., we 
learn that the insect that did the most damage 
iu our State the past season, was the Hop-louse. 
It appeared, for the first time in this country^ 
below. We feel authorized to say that the 
N. Y. State Sheep Breeders’ and Wool Growers’ 
Association will bo gratified to have Mr. Beers 
exhibit bis imported Lincolns at Its next An¬ 
nual Fair. That Association, we mav be per¬ 
mitted to remark, desires impartially to foster 
all the valuable breeds and varieties of sheep in 
the country, and its premium lists, the viewing 
per quarter at 15 to IS months old, 
above alluded to, had oae at the Smithfield Fat 
Cattle Show that dressed 67 pounds per quarter, 
oue of the heaviest sheep ever killed. 
The best place to see Lincolns, farmers’ 
flocks, and those in perfection, is the Lincoln 
The Farmhk, as has been truthfully asserted, 
ia ever the last man to be subdued whenever 
aud wherever Liberty has been subverted, and 
always the last that corruption reaches —the 
last to become a slave. 
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