gurat Spirit of tUc g 
Communications, Ctc 
Regularity in Feeding. 
Every good farmer knows that any domestic 
animal is h good clock—that it knows almost to ( 
a minute, when the feeding time has arrived. 
If it has been accustomed to be fed with accuracy 
at the appointed period, it will not fret till that 
period arrives; after which it becomes very 
restless and uneasy till its food comes. If it has 
been fed irregularly, it will begin to fret when 
the earliest period arrives; after which it be¬ 
comes very restless and uneasy till Its food 
comes. Hence, this fretting may be entirely 
avoided, by strict punctuality; but it cannot be 
otherwise. The very moment the animal begins 
to worry, that moment it begins to lose its tiesh; 
but the rate of this loss has never been ascer¬ 
tained—it is certainly worthy an investigation— 
and can only be determined by trying the two 
modes, punctuality and irregularity, side by side, 
under similar circumstances, and with the 6ame 
amount of food, for some weeks or months 
together. 
There is one precaution to be observed in con 
nection with regular feeding, whore some judg 
ment Is needed. Animals eat more in sharp or 
frosty, than in damp and warm weather. Hence, 
if the same amount by weight is given at, every 
feeding, they will not have enough when the 
weather is cold, and will be surfeited when it is 
warm and dnmp. Both of these evils mnst be 
avoided, while a little attention and observation 
will enable the farmer to do it .—Rurai Affitir*. 
Our next Volume. — In consequence of severe 
Illness, confining us to honee and limited labor a great 
portion of the time for months past, we have not 
published as much, either in bills or the paper, as we 
intended relative to the ensuing volume or the Rural 
New-York be. We are, however, making such 
arrangements as will render the forthcoming volnme 
not only equal, but wo think greatly superior, to the 
preeent In all respects—Contents, Typography, Illits- 
irutiuns, &c. The paper will be printed upon entirely 
now and dear typo, and all the other ma'erial will be 
now and of the most approved stylo —so that the 
TtORAL will present, an attractive appearance. But we 
regard Its Contents or the moat importance, and 
those will command our greatest attention, labor and 
expenditure. Wchave recently ongagcd^ble assist¬ 
ance in the management of the paper, and are making 
arrangements to secure such contributions to the 
leading departments as will greatly enhance their 
value and usefulness. Our aim is to add interest to 
each department and thereby make the whole paper 
more acceptable and valuable, especially to the Pro¬ 
ducing Classes. While we shall strive to add to the 
intrinsic value of the pages devoted to the interests 
or the Parmer, Woo) Grower, Stock Breeder, Fruit 
Grower, Gardener, Houscwire, Ac., Ac , the Literary. 
Educational, Scientific and Nows Departments will 
be eo carefully conducted that they cannot fall to 
Interest, Instruct and Benefit the various members of 
To accomplish this-and to make Tub 
thrift an uncertain thing. Those fine hogs that 
have received the milk or wliey from the dairy, 
have already been marketed, or are seenrely 
confined in the sty and are receiving a liberal 
supply of corn or barley meal well-cooked to 
harden up the pork for home consumption ; a 
few weeks careful feed and they exceed your 
most sanguine expectations. The watering 
troughs, or may ho the cisterns, have been looked 
to lest a failure of water occur at a very critical 
season. There is perhaps no one thing that will 
add more to the thrift and comfort or a herd of 
cattle, than pure, soft water. Sheep especially 
require, it, for the idea that snow affords suffi¬ 
cient liquid for sheep iu winter exploded long 
since, and is numbered with antiquated notions. 
The stalk and straw-cutter is examined lest a 
nut may be loose and its repair hinder at some 
hurried moment. In Tact, the farmer’s busy 
and careful eye is ever watchful of the various 
odds and ends that make up the sum total of a 
well regulated farm. Those young trees have 
not escaped his notice. The rabbits last winter 
taught him a loug to bo remembered lesson, and 
before snow falls the body of each tree is care¬ 
fully wound with paper and permanently secur¬ 
ed, which will prove * very cheap and perfect 
prevention of all future depredations of the 
midnight pests. The grapery has received the 
required pruning and the remaining canes are 
protected from the frosts. The asparagus bed 
has a warm coating of well rotted manure; the 
strawberry bed aud the lesser fruits have all 
come under his inspection and supervision, aud 
the little care they have received will double il 
not triple the crop of tbe next season. The 
ditches are examined to see if there is a free 
passage for water, lest it remain upon the 
the Family 
Rural not only the favorite, bnt_best Far m and F ire- 
side Journal in America— will certainly be the great 
incentive of oar . (forts, expendltnresCand ..ambition 
daring the publication of the ensuing volume. 
The agents and other kind and influential working 
friends of this Journal— nud especially those who 
have generously and nobly aided it for years past (ire 
entitled to and again tendered our grateful acknowl 
od relents. Wo trust they will kindly increase our 
indebtedness now, by efforts to fully maintain If not 
augment the circulation of the Rural ia t holt respect 
ive localities. And they can rest aesured that any and 
every effort in that direction will bo gratefully appre¬ 
ciated. and rewarded in a proper manner. 
INKANTADO RAM “ EUREKA. 
To Prepare Poultry for Market. 
In order to have any kind of poultry— ducks, 
geese, gallinaceous fowls, or partridges — keep 
fresh and sweet the greatest length of time, cut 
of! the heads, that they may bleed much better 
than when they are killed by “Sticking.” 
Draw them, stretch the skin over the end oft he 
m-ek-boneand tie it, and put the carcasses iu a 
cool place, where the animal heat will soon be 
dissipated, and the llesh become ns cool as pos¬ 
sible without freezing. A convenient way is to 
ppread them on a table where they will he ex¬ 
posed to a current of cold air for six or eight 
hours. 
The next step will be to pack them in,boxes 
for transportation. Procure clean rye straw, 
and spread a layer of two inches thick on the 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, ITEMS, &c, 
6hear and pack them separately. By this process 
the fleeces are made to show to better advan¬ 
tage, and are rendered more salable, as they 
keep cleaner, not being liable to become stained 
by the yellow bellies and breeches, nor molly* 
by the head wool. 
Custom has fixed for these locks the rate ot 10 
, and they are always sold with the 
This rate being universally 
Complaints.—A n obviously very ignorant, but we 
for a time tipped honest-meaning man, residing in Cass 
Co., Micb., wrote us eome months since claiming that 
a scoured fleece of one of his Merino sheep weighed 
nine pound and be also told a marvelous story about 
tho weight of a rum's fleece. V. c called lor ptwtfe 
before publication. A rigmarole of irrelevant state¬ 
ments was soli to us. We lost a part of it and wrote 
again for it. instructing our correspondent how to 
make his proofs applicable to the case iu hand He 
thought on the whole he would not take il.e trouble I 
We bade him good-bye and told him to have icUftss&v 
pif.-cnt tbe next time his, sheep were to perform or 
exhibit a miracle. After a few weeks reflection, be 
returns to the subject, in a most amnsiDg specimen of 
what Eme Ochiltree would term “yepistolary cor- 
respond© nab.” The gist of it is that we have taken 
Taft & Potter’s big story (about the 86>< lb. fleece 
but. declined to take his, and some other men’s whom 
he names. Well, that is so. In the first place, we 
1 •noir Taft A Potter. Secondly, t'ncir rain was 
sheared publicly before more than 50 witnesses.- 
Thirdly, they ask us to believe that their ram pro¬ 
duced only eight pound-* of cleansed wool, and they do 
notask us to believe that without the ceriiflcatc of 
the manufacturer who cleansed it. 
We have alluded to this nine-pound correspondent 
merely for the purpose of making a remark to all 
others who communicate to os extraordinary *vatc 
meals in reepeci to weights of ileecvn, whether scoured 
or unecoured. No man of sense ought over to ask an 
Tasinis Tobacco. — A Convention or tobacco man¬ 
ufacturers has been held in Now York, under (he 
auspices ot the Tobacconists’ National Association. 
Delegates were present from nearly all the States. 
The ohject of the Convention was to concert measures 
to induce Congress to remove tbe tax from manufac¬ 
tured tobacco and place it on tbe leaf. Evidently 
thoro will be a struggle in Congress daring the next 
session over the question of taxing “the weed. ’ 
Tobacco growers have held a Convention in St. Louis, 
and they are resolved, if possible, to keep the tax 
where it now is. Mr. Newton, the Commissioner of 
Agriculture, takes sides with the tobacco growers, and 
per cent, 
fleeces at half price, 
adopted, renders it immaterial whether the woo! 
growers take 9 or 15 per cent, from the fleeces. 
In fact,general usage is to separate more than 10 
percent,, but the manufacturer does not object to 
this practice, as tbe fleece i6, on the whble, in 
better condition, aDd facilitates the assorting in 
the mills. This method produces the same 
result as if the wool were sold at the full priee 
of the fleeces, less an allowance of 5 per cent, 
discount for the lock re and this rule has been 
long established iu the aforesaid conn’ l ies, and 
will doubtless be adhered to because of the jus¬ 
tice it does to both the seller snd the buyer. 
The freight on our domestic wool is charged on 
all as washed wool, not considering the un¬ 
washed with it. 
Having given the striking points only of the 
present customs and referred in part to the nui 
etnec-s of our clip in the so-ealled washed state, 
we will endeavor to describe how it would be in 
th&grease or in the unwashed condition. The 
sheep will suffer less this way than after being 
• washed and under the influence of the wet wool. 
The wool can be quite as well cleaned of dung 
locks and impurities and the heavy bucks packed 
by tliemseves to show what proportion of it 
there is, and not to depreciate all the wool, the 
value of which depuuds as much upon its condi 
tion, and often more 60 , than its quality. 
Wool of dead sheep should always be packed 
by itself. If would be advisable to tear off the 
heads, bellies and legs, which pieces ought to be 
packed separately, or in a sack with either dead 
wool or bucks. By this method of carefully 
separating tae inferior portions of the wool, the 
fleece will be protected against being stained 
yellow if kept for years, and It would greatly 
assist also the grading in the mills, as well as 
the assorting in the market. It would likewise 
contribute to the higher prices for the woo), 
which tbe wool growers would obtain. 
The fleeces ought to be tied by a very smooth, 
thin thread, only once, cross-wise. About fifty 
fleeces packed in each sack, the size of which 
wonld scarcely be two-thirds of what they are 
now, aud the railway companies or transporta¬ 
tion lines wonld probably take it at onc-half the 
rate they an: '5KMV barging for washed wool. 
known that the lighter or heavier 
condition of the wool in the grease depends 
upon many influences, hut principally that of 
the. soil, climate, feeding and keeping the sheep 
well housed in bad or inclement weather; like¬ 
wise a peculiar breed. But. these are no new 
ri-xns or impediments, as there are many more 
to be considered, when valuing washed fleece, 
than unwashed wool, for it is considered as 
pretty correct that, there is the following differ¬ 
ence in the shrinkage of our domestic washec 
fleece wool, viz.: 
per cent 
Virginia on an average about...40 
Pennsylvania, “ fine. 44 
Wisconsin, “ medium and fine about 4R 
Illinois, medium and fine about .as 
New York, “ . 
Vermont, “ u .Xs 
Michigan, “ .Tj 
Georgia, unwashed medium,. 
* MoUy is a word used in England for the wool of 
head and neck of the sheep, containing hay or 
FARMERS AND THE MARKETS 
What is the Matter with the Heifer (—1 have 
a two vear old heifer now sick —cause unknown 
Some oi my neighbors give it as their opinion that 
she has lost her “ cud.’* What. I wish to • know s 
whether the sold opinion now prevalent in tbos. parts 
that lassof “cud ' is a disease iacorrecti And If so 
irlington, Tr. 
Friend Moore : — I would not deprive “ Min¬ 
nesota Girt ” and “ Kansas Boy” (see Nos. 41 
and 44 of Rural) of their mutual sympathy. 
But let us suppose that they, being tired of the 
mucli-abused profession of farming, should turn 
merchants, buy produce of ail kinds and sell dry- 
goods, groceries, &c.; aud suppose they should 
chance to locate in the same city or village. 
They would go East to buy their goods—to the 
manufacturers, if they could not deal to suit 
themselves with wholesale dealers—would buy 
where they could get the best goods for the 
least mouey; then they would sell as low as 
they could afford to in order to secure trade. 
So, In buying produce, they would pay all the 
market would warrant, for If one did not do 
that the othev would buy all the produce and 
secure the trade. 
Now, if all this should happen, where would 
be the ehaDce l'or tho farmers of that favored 
locality to be wronged in selling their produce 
that loss of “ cad — - - 
is there any remedy r—A. B., 
Cessation or lamination, or “loss of end” as onr 
correspondent terms St, is not of itself a disease, bat 
is the symptom or result of disease. It accompanies 
many inflammatory complaints, worms In tho head, 
or a general debility of the system. If no special dis¬ 
ease can he traced, it would be well to give the ani¬ 
mal a dose of Epoaom Salts, sufficient to physic, 
followed on several successive days wltb> dose com¬ 
posed of 1 ounces of salts, 2 of pulverized gentian 
and half an ounce of ginger. 
Goitrb, — L. C. Mead, Cornwall, Vt., writes:- 'I 
wonld like to know how Joshua Healt would ac¬ 
count lor the fact that '.a the same flock and the same 
shed room, tho same amount of exercise and the same 
kind of feed, one half the lambs died with goitre 
eight years ago, and none since, until last eprlng when 
again half the lambs died. 1 have reliable informa¬ 
tion that such was the case with a flock in this coun¬ 
ty.” In the mean time, will Mr. Mead, or some odo 
for him, explain an analagoaB circumstance. It is 
agreed on all sides, by physicians, that impure air 
generates certain human diseases. Yet sonn or these, 
Tike typhus fever, will be mostly absent from localities 
where such air is known to abound, for several years 
-but. eventually, when the exciting causes are appa 
rently no greater, the fell destroyer comes and falls 
with desolating severity on those localities. When 
Mr. Mead explains these facts, we think, he will 
answer his own question. 
Minor Rural Items.—Tim })eal/utr ot last wcuk 
was quite the reverse of the pleasant Indian-summer 
“stylo” of the week preceding. Wo had an abun¬ 
dance of snow, slosh and mud. and from present 
indications the same is evidently, like thejLetiger s 
stories, “ to be continued.” 
Carnets in Texas—.\ letter from Ban Antonio, Tex¬ 
as, says the government camels, the dc»cendant*.of 
the herd imported some fifteen years ago from Egypt, 
excite the curiosity of strangers. They number about 
seventy, arc of all sizes and ages, some still un weaned, 
unly seven of the original lot arc alive. 
County Hogs. — “New Subscriber” is in¬ 
formed that we know of no one who has,( hosier 
Whites for sale In his region— Jefferson. See adver¬ 
tisement In this or recent numbers or Rural for ad¬ 
dress of distant breeders. 
Pea Straw is richer In oil and albuminous or flesh 
forming matters than the straw vf cereals, and its 
woody fiber is more digestible. Hence its great repute 
B* ack Spot.— A very inicnigeui i-c, 
ding in Starke Co., Ohio, writes us that he has a ram 
terr got by one or the most celebrated rams in Ohio, 
and out of a choice ewe, which possesses excellent 
qualities of all kinds, “ but there ie a black, spot about 
the size of a sliver half dollar on one of the wrinkles 
orchis neck’’-and he asks If this ought to be a 
eulflcient reason for discarding him.” We certainly 
would very much prefer a ram having no such spot, 
and wonld not, If we con'd conveniently avoid it. use 
him. Bat it proves nothing against the parity of his 
I blood. He way get lambs all his life without getting 
one black or spotted one, and he may not transmit to 
his posterity any predisposition to breed such lambs. 
We have often hoard ot a qnltc distinguished sire ram 
in Vt. which has a black spot of the size of a dollar, 
on one hip, we believe. 
Scoured Fleece. -The fleece of Messrs. Percy & 
Buroess’ ram “Gold Mine,” which received the 
eweepstakee prize at the State Sheep Fair at Canan- 
daipna, last May, has been cleansed, we learn, by 
Messrs. Spaulding, and yielded 7 lbe. 2 oz. or pure 
wool. A sample of it Is sent to us. It appears to 
have been very thoroughly scoured, and Is of bcautb 
How a Middle-man was “headed.’—a 
Philadelphia paper tolls a pleasing story of a 
dealer in butter in the Girard avenne market, 
who disgusted everybody by demanding one 
dollar a pound for his lumps of butter. A lady 
offered to give him ninety-live cents, but the 
dealer refused, and while the lady was talking 
with him tho clerk of the market came up aud 
commenced to examine the lumps offered for 
sale. Each lump, to the number of forty, were 
fouud to bo under weight. A more delighted 
crowd was never seen than when the clerk 
marched off with tho entire lot in his basket. 
California Farming. —General iiidvveU iu an 
address before the agricultural association of the 
northern district of California, at their late fair, 
says that on his farm in Chico, Butte County, 
“ In thirty-six and aquarter days, forty thousand 
Bix hundred and eighteen bushels of wheat were 
thrashed and cleaned, being over eleven hun¬ 
dred bushels per day.” In addition to this the 
General raised large crops of other grains, and 
has an extensive and valuable orchard and vine¬ 
yard. _ 
Hemp Growing in Kansas. The Lawrence, 
Kaneas, papers state that large quantities have 
been raised iu Douglass Co,, this season, ol a 
quality cquul to any grown iu Missouri. It is 
being shipped to 8t,. Louis, and commands good 
prices iu that market, The soil and climate of 
Kansas are capable of producing as good hemp 
and tobacco as can be raised in Missouri. 
tho 
fodder. 
ROCKWELL'S INFANTADO RAM 
“ EUREKA,” 
writeB 
S. 8. Rockwell of West Cornwall, Vt, 
t0 u5: ‘ Eureka ’ was got by the Victor 
Wright ram bred by Victor Wright, now of 
Middlebury, Vt., he by Hammond’s ‘Long 
Wool ’ The dam of said ram was got by tbe com 
‘ Wooster Ram ’ bred by Mr. Hammond, grand which 
dam a thoroughbred ewe purchased by Ham¬ 
mond & Hall of Stephen Atwood of Conn. 
The dam of ‘Baraka’ is a thoroughbred lntan- 
tado ewe bred by William R. .Sanford of 
Orwell Vt. 1 Eureka’ won the first, prize in hm 
Large Corn.- A correspondent oi me dua- 
Ington Gazette, Va., saysI gathered in my 
field an oar of the Gourd 8eed variety, 
t shelled 1,008 grains, and measured nearly 
ft quart of shelled corn. It had 18 rows of 50 
grains each. Forty such ears would make a 
bushel; and an acre, if planted thick, would 
0 feet deep, 
12)792 cubic feet, 
66 barrels of shelled corn, 
5 bushels In a batrel, 
330 bushels of shelled corn 
