undeniable pedigrees; no mixed up alloyed gen¬ 
tlemen full of cart horse blood, which give sub¬ 
stance only in appearance, aud that is not propa¬ 
gated in the stock. Avoid under-breeding in 
your bulls; cull, draft, and sell bad milking 
cows and doubtful bad breeders; stick to milk, 
to size, to robustness of constitution, and suc¬ 
cess must attend your efforts.” 
wild marsh more or less for a dozen of years, I 
would prefer the Hungarian. All that l wonld 
ever expect lrotn the best of wild marsh hay, 
would be, with good shelter and care, for the 
sheep to come out of winter in as good condi¬ 
tion as they went iuto it; but with Hungarian 
they would improve. 
Hungarian seed is very convenient to have on 
hand, though we may not calculate to sow it. 
The hay crop often fails to be good, and then 
Hungarian hay is the very best to fall back 
ujjon. Some years ago our hay was very light 
on account of the dryness of the season. I 
plowed up eight acres in the middle of June; 
there was no rain after it came to wet down to 
the roots of the grass until it was cat, yet we 
had one tun per acre. This year I sowed it in 
good ground, well prepared, and expected two 
tuns, yet we had but one. It was too wet a 
season for it. G. Harvey. 
Albion, Noble Co., Ind., 1S05. 
effectiveness. Agricultural journals in the dif¬ 
ferent 8tates are requested to copy the Resolu¬ 
tion. It is as follows: 
Jtcsotml, That the Executive Committee of 
the National Association of Wool Manufactures 
he instructed to invite the State organizations of 
Wool Growers to meet them at — , in the 
_of-, for t he purpose of consulting in re¬ 
lation to the representations to be given respect¬ 
ing the wool X'roducing and manufacturing 
rom obtaining any profit, or even compel h m 
to enbmit to a loss on his pure blood ewer 
entire cost, he will not be seri- 
Secondly, be- 
equaling their 
ously inconvenienced thereby, 
fore buying such ewes, be should possess, or be 
able to avail himself of a reasonable share of 
skill in their management. There is no more 
mystery in the management of sheep than in 
the management of an equal number of any 
other domestic animals, 
ewes cost t- 
ter greenhorns, 
Beware op Pretended Agents for the Rural! 
—The season nas arrived when swindling sharpers 
are again strolling nbont the country, pretending to 
be agents for tbe Rural New-Yorker. Beware of 
them, for, as wo have often published, we have no 
traveling agent*, and give no certificates of agency. 
Under date of Nov. 7th, icst., Mr. W. Bird, our ciub 
agent at Mi, Pleasant, Iowa, writes ns“ One of oar 
most respectable fellow citizens from the conntry, just 
Informed me that some fellow calling himself T7u>mp- 
eon, has been getting up a club in hts neighborhood at 
$2 per copy I lie said he then had his club of twenty 
just full and would send oil’ immediately,—bat as 
some five or six weeks have elapsed since, the victims 
are beginning to feel that they have been diddled, 
done for, cleaned out, &c." 
The man is undoubtedly a swindler, and will soon 
appear In and dupe the people of some other locality. 
The fact that the Rural is offered, by any one, at less 
than Its lowest club rate ($2.00) is good evidence of 
fraud. Don’t trust any traveling man, or indeed any 
one who offers you tho paper for less thau its pub¬ 
lished rates. The beet course le to remit to us direct, 
or join a club being lornied by some person with 
whom you are acquainted. 
Selecting Milch Cows. 
A correspondent of the N. Y. Farmer’s 
Club, says that Col. Woodman, in the State of 
Maine, for about forty yeavs has kept a dairy, and 
generally reared his own cows, He has alwaj’s 
found, in his experience, that if a heifer's first 
calf urns a mule she never proved to be much of 
a milker—indeed, that she in subsequent years, 
never gave more milk thau on her first calving, 
but if her first product was a heifer she was sure 
to represent all the milking qualities of a valua¬ 
ble mother. He did not know how this might 
be in other’s experience, but in forty years of 
his own, he had known of no exception to the 
rule above indicated. Coming from a man so 
trustworthy in every respect as I know him to 
be, I thought I should like to submit it for 
the consideration of other farmers and stock 
breeders. 
Tariff and Revenue 
interests before the IT 
Commission. 
After consultation with representatives of wool 
growing interests present, the place and time of 
such meeting were fixed at Syracuse, New York, 
on the 3ud Wednesday (13th) of December, 1S65. 
‘ i. But hundred - dollar 
too much to be practiced upon by ut- 
i. Let sueh first take off the raw 
edge of their ignorance on cheap, common 
sliccp 1 
If there is a sight we detest it is to Bee an ex¬ 
perienced, able breeder with smooth words and 
glowing representations tanning np a “ sheep 
fever" in the bosom of some enthusiactic boy, 
or some poor adventurer, or some wholly inex¬ 
perienced person, until he is ready to pay enor¬ 
mous prices for stock, when that breeder ought 
to know that the chances are ten against one 
that such a purchaser will never see his money 
hack again. We always think, in such cases, of 
a great glossy snake charming a bird — or a 
smooth old gray-whiskered cat stealing on a 
mouse! The manly breeder will always throw 
a wet blanket on such parties, when they propose 
t,o soar into the regions of “fancy prices.” 
On the whole, the prospects in favor of a con¬ 
tinuance of good prices on sheep were never as 
favorable as now. American farmers who live 
well, and educate their children and pay govern¬ 
ment taxes, cannot compete in cheap wool pro¬ 
duction with serfs, and demi-savages, and dirt- 
eaters of other descriptions, in other countries. 
This fact may as well be distinctly avowed by 
farmers, and understood by all. Our wool must 
have government protection, in spite ot all L topian 
free trade theories, or else we must throw their 
production on other countries, and thus kill our 
own sheep farmers; and this too without bene¬ 
fiting the consumer, for without the competition 
of the American grower, the control of prices 
would be thrown into hand6 which could, and 
therefore would, use it on those purely selfish 
- rinciples which control all the operations of 
commerce. The trouble has been hitherto in 
our so-called protective tariffs, that certain keener 
parties have kept the oyster to themselves and 
given the shell to the wool grower. And even 
such “ protection ” as the latter thus obtained, 
was generally unstable as a Jane frost! Our 
“protective tariffs” have usually lasted about 
lnnu enonuh to encourage idle and unsubstan- 
LARGE SCOURED FLEECE 
Lima, N. Y., Oct. 80,1S65. 
Dear Sir In buying wool the past season I 
determined to have the heaviest fleece I bought 
cleansed, by way of experiment. This proved 
to be the fleece of the ram “Osceola,” owned 
by Josiah Taft of West Bloomfield, N. Y. It 
weighed in the dirt 30 lbs. when I bought it. I 
was informed that it weighed 30k/ lbs. when 
taken from the sheep, hut that it had been re¬ 
duced thus much by giving away samples. I 
took it to Mr. Mather’s mill at Hemlock Lake, 
and had it worked into yarn, and here is Mr. 
Matiibr’s statement of results i 
Mr. Moulton :—When I took the fleece of 
Mr. Taft’s ram from you it weighed 30 lbs. I 
cleansed it myself thoroughly, dried it perfectly 
dry, and obtained from it eight pouuds of well 
cleansed wool. I worked it into mixed yarn, 
and had six pounds of the first quality three- 
threaded yarn, worth $3 50 per pound. The ac¬ 
count with this fleece stands thus : 
30 B»s. wool (after one-third shrinkage) at B0 
cents... $1000 
Cost of cleansing and working. 4 B0 
Potatoes, 
How to Use Diseasei 
A writer in the Agricultural Gazette, Lon¬ 
don, says: —“ Many years ago I went to reside at 
Mossicy Hill, about three miles from Liverpool, 
and Ihere I cultivated for my own use about thir¬ 
ty acres of land. I found it advantageous for my 
horses, cows, and pigs, and poultry to plant ten 
or twelve acres with potatoes each year. The 
first year I lost about half my crop by the dis¬ 
ease. A neighboring farmer told rue that my 
land was too rich, and that I should have better 
potatoes if it was poorer. So I got off a nine- 
acre field a crop of wheat, and carted a large 
quantity of sand to mix with the soil. But it 
was in vain. Nearly half the crop was again 
diseased. But noticing in ‘The Times’ a re¬ 
commendation that, as quickly as possible after 
the potatoes were dug. those net absolutely de¬ 
cayed should he washed, boiled or steamed, 
crushed, and salted in layers, I determined to 
try it, and the next year I planted in the same 
Held nine acres. As soon as the tops began to 
show blight we commenced getting up, and 
carefully separated all which exhibited even 
the slightest tendency to disease. Each day at 
noon these were taken to the farm-yard, were 
well washed in a fl.it and somewhat shallow tub 
with a birch broom, and then received a second 
scrubbing in a second vessel. They were then 
boiled, tor I had no steaming apparatus, and 
laid in one coruer of a shed which I bad parti¬ 
tioned off, aDd were then crushed by a wooden 
beater till they formed a layer three or lour 
inches thick. A sprinkling of salt was then 
made over the layer, and iu the evening the in¬ 
termediate getting np was similarly treated. 
So we proceeded until all were got up, and I 
found that we had a heap of potatoes the size of 
the partitioned space, nine feet long, five feet 
wide, and six feet high, and the whole became 
one mass of poUtcj.ulp, with just as much salt 
as kept it from* pu Jffactioo. During the wiuter 
ProfosedNew England Agricultural Colleges. 
—At a meeting of tho Trustees of the Maes. Ag’l 
College, on the 1st tust., progress was reported in 
regard to the selection of a location for the proposed 
building. As there was a difference of opinion 
respecting the creation of the college building, etc.. It 
wa3 voted that the bonding committee be instructed 
to procure tbe services of a competent landscape gar¬ 
dener, who, together with the architect shall view the 
grounds and report to tho Board their opinion as to 
tho best place for locating euid college building; and 
also a general provisional plan fbr the grounds and 
buildings. Tbe building is to be pushed rapidly for¬ 
ward as soon as the spring opens, work having already 
begun at tho quarry in getting out materials, and gen¬ 
eral preparations are making for active operations at 
the earliest practicable moment. This will probably 
place Massachusetts in advance of all other States, 
except Michigan aud Pennsylvania which have agri¬ 
cultural colleges in operation. 
The proposed Vermont Agricultural College is to be 
connected with the University of Vermont at Burling¬ 
ton, the commissioners on location haying so conclu¬ 
ded. As the scrip for 150,000 acres of public lands 
would be Inenfficlout to properly euslaln an indepen¬ 
dent establishment, the connection of an Agricultural 
department with the University Is a judicious measure. 
The Trustees of the Maine Ag'l College have decided 
not to locate it at Orrington or Topsham, but to further 
look for sites and pecuniary inducements. It is un¬ 
derstood that the college should be located east of the 
Kennebec river. 
Boiled Potatoes for Milch Cows. 
A successful farmer informs us that he 
has practised, the last summer, giving to each 
of his milch cows five quarts of cold boiled 
potatoes a day, and that they were worth half 
a dollar a bushel for thU purpose. His old po¬ 
tatoes were worth nothing in the market, and 
so he boiled up soma twenty-five or thirty gal¬ 
lons at a time. He says that he could see no 
benefit whatever from giving them old potatoes 
in a r.tw state. There is a period from the first 
of July to the first of August when cows need 
some additional food, «ud if boiled potatoes 
will help them hold out their milk till it is time 
to feed out the Southern corn, we may hope to 
carry cows through the whole summer season 
in a condition to yield a good profit, especially 
on farms remote from the market.— Me. Farmer 
By 6 1bg. yarn, at $2 B0. 15 00 
Net gain... . fib 
It. is proper that I say that Mr. Taft had no 
knowledge that the fleece was to be cleansed 
separately, until it was done; and that my ob¬ 
ject was not so much to see how much wool I 
could get from it, as to ascertain the amount of 
waste. 
Yours, respectfully, N. Moulton. 
Husbandry. 
Bt husbandry, the ground gives us every¬ 
thing necessary for food and nourishment, 
aud such things, likewise, as afford the great¬ 
est pleasures. Yet, though it gives us plen¬ 
tifully of all kinds of things, it does not allow 
us to reap them in sloth and idleness; but excites 
as to health by the labor it appoints us. 
The practice of husbandry makes men strong 
and bold, enabling them to defend their country. 
He was surely a wise man that said husbandry 
was the mother and nur6C of all the other scien¬ 
ces ; for when she flourished, all the other scien¬ 
ces and faculties fared the better; but when the 
ground lies uncultivated, and brings no crop, all 
the sciences and arts are at a los6 by land and sea. 
It is healthful employment that breeds good 
men, and occasions generosity of spirit and good 
will towards one’s friends and country. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, ITEMS, &c 
Sale of Sheet at Hamburg Fair.— It is etated in 
the Practical Shepherd, Appendix, p. 439, that tho 
“highest priced foreign Merino sold at tbe (Interna¬ 
tional) exhibition (*t Hamburg in 1833) fetched but 
£40 or $200.” Luna Fischer of Wirchenblatt, Prus¬ 
sia (from whom Wm. Chamberlain of Rod Hook, N. 
y. ? obtained tbe origin or his flock of Silesian Meri¬ 
nos) wrote to Carl IIeyke, Sept.. 88, ISOS:— 111 1 sold 
at the Hamburg Fair two rams for three thoneand rive 
hundred thalers,” The rate of the thaler (or rlx dol¬ 
lar) of Prussia is fixed by law in the United States at. 
09 cents, so that the two rams sold for $2,415. The 
authority on which our statement was originally made 
was given in the same paragraph from which that, 
statement was taken. 
Profitable Poultrt Keepino.— la a recent letter 
Mr. Sylvester Lehman of Schoharie county, sends 
to the Rural New-Yobkku this report of what he 
has received the past season from a small flock of 
poultry‘ Last spring I had 88 hens, They began to 
lay in March. Through the month of June eight of 
them set; two or them died in the summer, two I 
killed, and from the lot up to tho let of November I 
received 8,600 eggs, or 800 dozen. All who can figure 
can Judge whether or not it pays to keep hens at that 
rate. Tbe receipt of egg* each month was as follows : 
March, 100; April, 716; May, 720; June, 590; July, 
420; Aug., 556; Sept., 316; Oct, 152. Breeds, Golden 
Pheasants aud Ilamburgs. Feed, buckwheat standing 
in a box, so they could eat when they wished.” 
Care of Stock in the Fall. 
Coming out well involves the necessity of 
going in well, as a rule. The farmer who neg¬ 
lects his stock, of whatever kind, in the fall, 
with the view of “ feeding them more in the 
winter,” will find that, having run down, they 
will not only absolutely require leedlng the 
more, but that they will not even then come 
out in the spring in as line condition as they 
should. Having got your stock in good plight 
on the fine grass feed of this remarkably fine 
summer, don’t suffer them to decline in ilesh 
for want of proper care in the time ’twixt grass 
aud hay. Begin in time, with your lock of hay 
and handful of grain to eke out tbe waning sum¬ 
mer feed, aud so keep your animals up to the j 
proper standard. —Kansas Farmer , 
Tue Hogs.—Now is the time to fatten the 
hogs to kill this fall. See that they have a good 
warm aud dry nest. Many farmers are iu tbe 
habit of boiling pumpkins and mashing them 
with meal. This makes very good feed, as it 
combines the growing aud fattening properties 
accessary. One of the best hogs we ever fatten¬ 
ed was fed in this Yvay, hut an important pre¬ 
caution was used in taking out the seeds lrotn 
the pumpkins before cooking. The seeds are 
powerfully diuretic aud prevent the animals 
from fattening. Let their food be comparative¬ 
ly dry. Mix a little salt with their food, and let 
them, if convenient, have a Little charcoal. 
Above all things do not teach them how to 
squeal .—Maim Farmer, 
Strength of Different Kinds of Wool.— A. F. 
Moon, Paw Paw, Mich, aeks us which is strongest 
and will make the strongest cloth, coarse or fine wool. 
Fine wool is decidedly stronger In proportion to di¬ 
ameter than coarse wool; Bnd Cue wool if spun Into 
as large threads as those of coarse wool which are 
employed in heavy common cloths, would make a 
fabric more than three times as dnruble as the latter. 
Protection against the Cattle Plague.— It is 
stated that tbe collector of the port of Boston is co¬ 
operating heartily with the Cattle Commissioners of 
Massachusetts to prevent the introduction of the 
murrain into that State. He has ordered aU officers, 
who may know of any cattle about to land on our 
shores from Kurope, to hold them in quarantine till 
they can be examined by the Commissioners and pro¬ 
nounced free from Infection. The Mass. Ploughman, 
remarking on the above, truthfully says that “ if all 
custom house officers throughout the country, would 
adopt, the same course, or if Congress would pass a 
law subjecting such animals to a rigid quarantine, we 
should feel confident of escaping the infection.” 
Correction.—Loan J. Burgess, North Hoosick. N. 
Y, requests us to say there teas an error in the pedi¬ 
gree of his “Little Queen ’ (published by us Oct. 21;) 
that instead of being bred by the Messrs. Rich and 
sold by them to J. L, Buttolph, 6he was bred by the 
latter out of a Rich ewe. 
Communications, €tc 
Tell your Neighbors.— We wish those who already 
take, read and appreciate the Ruual would remind 
their neighbors that the preecut la a capital time to 
subscribe. Winter, with its comparatively leisure 
days aud long evenings, is at hand, when the farmer 
and every member of his family ought to have an 
abundance of good reading. Reader, if you have a 
neighbor wbo does not take the Rural, please do him 
and us tho favor to tell him how mnch pleasure and 
interest aud instruction he and bis family lose by the 
omission. Nhoiv him a number, point out the several 
HINTS FOR A ” MINNESOTA GIRL 
By whom arc the “ mercantile rules of the 
market,” which fix the price of the farmers’ 
produce, made ? Why must the farmer humbly 
ask “How much will you give”? When the 
farmers, by uniting in a confederation or mutual 
compact, can regulate tho fall of rain in sum¬ 
mer or the degree of cold in winter, then may 
they hope by confederation or compact to regu* 
late the price of their produce. 
But why must the farmer 
you give 
WOOL GROWERS’ AND MANUFACTURES’ 
MEETING, CALLED AT SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
The Government oi the National Association 
of Wool Manufacturers met at the St. Nicholas 
Hotel in tbe City of New York, on tbe Sth inet. 
and unanimously passed the subjoined resolution. 
We were present at the meeting and participated 
in its proceedings. We have not space in this 
i sgue to make a report of these, or the general 
facts observed by us and the impressions we 
formed in respect to the objects and labors of 
this already powerful Association. We purpose 
to do this in our next number. In the mean 
time we call attention to the important resolu¬ 
tion below, remarking that we most sincerely 
trust that every State organization of Wool 
Growers will not fail to be represented at a con 
ference which, particularly if a common policy 
is agreed on, must exercise so important au in¬ 
fluence on the action oi the 1.8. Tariff and Rev ¬ 
enue Commission and through it on the action 
of Congress. 
It was understood that the proposed Conference 
would only be attended by the Excutlve Commit¬ 
tee of the National Wool Manuf’rs’ Association 
and such other members of that body as the Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee i-bould select to accompany 
them, on the one 6ide, and on the other, dele¬ 
gates from the State Wool Growers’ Association, 
selected and accredited by those bodies or 
their officers. The number of Committeemen 
to represent each State organization was not 
ii xed—it not being material -as it could not he 
expected that iu such a body any of the impor¬ 
tant. questions brought before it wonld be dis¬ 
posed of by a der capita vote. It is hoped that uo 
But why must the farmer ask how much will 
Because the merchant as a part of 
his business keeps himself informed in regard to 
the supply and demand for every article of farm 
produce in which he deals. If the farmer wu6 
as well informed, he need not “ humbly ask 
what will you give,” but might confidently de¬ 
mand its full value. To obtain from the soil its 
life-sustaining elements in form suited to our 
needs requires a certain amount of intelligence. 
No amount would be wasted in the process, hut 
no less Is required to turn the surplus of our 
wealth of soil or agricultural products into 
greenbacks. The farmer cannot find time to 
read. Neglecting to read, the farmer must toil 
many hours, both early and late, to pay the 
merchant for the hour he needs rest—for mer¬ 
chants arc men and will sometimes take ad¬ 
vantage of the Ignorance of their customers, 
“ kindly helping them out of the market.” 
This is no new subject, I am aware, yet if by 
this I could induce one farmer to subscribe for 
and read any well conducted agricultural paper, 
iu which tho markets are correctly reported, 1 
would uot think my time lost in writing. 
A New Hampshire Farmer. 
Ilow a noo Sweats. —Not like a horse or a 
man, but through his fore-legs. There Is a spot 
i j uuu » —C* - * 
on each leg, just below the knee, iu the form of 
u sieve. Through this the sweat passes oil', 
and it is necessary that this be kept open. If 
it get, closed, as is sometimes the case, the hog 
will got sick; he will appear stiff and cramped— 
and unless ho gels relief it will go hard with 
him. To cure him, simply open tho pores. 
This is done by rubbing the spot with a corn 
cob, and washing with warm water .—The Jhtral 
World ._ 
Bleeding Hogs.— A recent writer says: 
“Bleeding is a remedy for most of the discuses 
to which a hog is liable, and one of the best 
places to bleed a hog is in the roof of the 
mouth.” He objects to bleeding from the 
artery inBide the fore-arm Just above tho knee, 
because it is more difficult to stop the flow ot 
blood there thau In the root of the mouth. Iu 
tbe latter place it is stopped by applying a cloth 
well saturated with cold water. 
The Price of tub Rural is much lower now, 
compared with the prices of most farm products, 
provisions, etc., than It was before the war, or even 
ton or fifteen years ago. Therefore tr any object to 
the price, state this fact,- and if they aay they can 
get other papers cheaper, a*k them to compare con¬ 
tents, style, illustrations, aud the other essentials 
which constitute a first class Rural and Family Week¬ 
ly. We invite such comparison, aud place the claims 
of the Rural solely upon its merits. 
Fine Weather —After some/weeks ot cow- w-' 
and generally unpleasant weather, we arc this wool 
favored with agreeable, Indian sum merlsh wcathcr- 
or were on Sunday and Monday, and hope for a con 
tlnuanco. of course farmers and others having out 
door work to be done will lose no time while thej 
HUNGARIAN GRASS - MARSH HAY 
Warts on Animals.— It is said that warts on 
young cattle or colts can be eradicated by wash¬ 
ing them repeatedly with the juice of poke ber¬ 
ries. Another remedy is to wash the warts with 
a decoction of poke root. Alum w'ater is also 
recommended to remove warts. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker : — Iu the Rural 
of Oct. 14, I saw an inquiry whether “Hunga¬ 
rian hay is as good a forage for sheep as good 
wild marsh hay.” I have fed both, and as far 
as mv experience goes, and I have been feeding 
