IEW-YOEEIE. 
frames I -, inchc* thick; saeh l?f inches thick—coun¬ 
ter check and trimmed with * priDge. 
Doors. — Two in first story and two above them in 
the second story, as rhovs u, all hinged and trimmed 
complete. To be a (tight of plain stairs from first 
floor to loft as shown; steps of l A inch plank. 
The partitions, that form pens, will be in two thick¬ 
nesses of inch planed and matched white oak, with 
2 + 4 inch scantling* flatwise between, and capped 
with a 2 4 Inch pine scantling, planed and corners 
rounded. All tho above partitions will bo 8% feet 
high. 
TYoughs —Wlil be of 2 inch white oak plank, made 
in the form of a V a* shown; one plank M inches 
and the other 12 inches wide. Spouts will be of \A 
inch plank set as shown. Slide doors, in the pen 
partitions to be 3 feet wide and 2 feet 6 lnchee high, 
and those in the outside will be J ft- 8 inches wide 
by 2 feet high for putting out manure; all to be loca¬ 
ted as shown on plan and made of 1inch planed 
and matched lumber to elide sidewise and trimmed 
with hooks; guide strips to he put on bottom and top. 
Fainting. — All outside wood work — except shin¬ 
gles—^including tin gutters and pipes, sash and doors; 
both sides will be painted with three (mats of the 
beet of lead and oil made of the proper color. Glass 
to be of the beet American, leaded and tacked. 
Foundations - Will be of good quarry stone laid 
IS indies thick, 3 feet below the surface or the ground 
and one foot above, solid, In good quick-lime mortar. 
There will be two piers built up, under each sill, 20 
inches square, of stone laid in mortar to go 3 feet 
below ground surface and one foot above. 
To famish and set two cast iron boiling kettles in 
brick with fire oven, arch and grate of cast or wrought 
iron, with ash pit beneath grate one foot high, and 
the space in front of ash-pit and fire to be sunk 18 
inches below the level of main floor and paved with 
hard brick. The floor, so marked on plan, to be filled 
in to a depth of 10 inches with stone and brick chips, 
made level with gravel and paved with hard brick to 
come level with the top of plank floor. 
All brick work, connected with tho boiling arch, to 
be of hard brick laid solid in mortar* A chimney 
flue,0 > 24 inches, inside plastered smooth, to connect 
with tb<j fire oven und built from top of arch to a point 
AA feet above the ridge of the roof. 
paper of Dec. 3d and Ctb, 1865, to which my 
plan in your issue of June 16th, 1866, may be j 
i considered an appendix. 
I advocate gbearirg In the unwashed state as 
being more profitable to the growers. 
They can shear their sheep in May, regardless 
of unfavorable weather, cold or dirty water, and 
risk of health. There is a saving of expense; 
there is not the risk of the wool being injured 
by keepifig two or three years, as it keeps better 
jflttg gtpartmrot. spirit d ik f was. §nml fmf |§atte. 
CHEESE MAKING 
ENGLAND. 
IN a letter published in the Utica Herald from 
X. A. Willard, Esq., who is visiting the Dairy 
Districts in England, wc find the following ac¬ 
count of cheese making in Gloucester one of 
the principal dairy districts in that country. The 
Trichianosi8 in Iowa. 
The Dubuque Heraid of a recent date, con¬ 
tained a statement by Asa Hop.n, M. D., in ref¬ 
erence to the deaths of several persons caused 
by eating raw ham. The first cases of Trichina? 
occurred in Marion Township —three young 
The Weather. C’aors. Ac.—The weat her or August 
was unusually cold for the season—unfavorable 3 for 
corn and other growing crops— aud many farmers 
were discouraged. Prof. Ukwet, our “ Clerk of the 
weather,” reports the mean temperatnreof the mouth 
at 62 6 deg., which Is 5.8 deg. below the general aver¬ 
age-ranking this the coldest August on our local 
in the unwashed state, is not so liable to injury writer says—“ Jn the regular Gloucester dairies girts and three boys being rendered very sick in record ’ 8nd nearly three degrees colder than any pre . 
by moths, and will bring more than two-thirds the cheese is made thin —eight of them only consequence of eating ham sandwiches at a '“‘Oas one for thirty years. No frost occurred during 
EDITED BY HENRY 8. RANDALL, LL. D. 
MARKETING DOMESTIC WOOLS. 
Dear Sir :—Allow me to reply to the remarks 
you made in relation to my ‘ ‘ Plan for having our 
Domestic Wool brought to Market under a proper 
System," 
Before entering into the necessary explica¬ 
tions, I -would respectfully state that I submit¬ 
ted the plan without any partiality, but not¬ 
withstanding it would—to the best of my know¬ 
ledge aud belief—operate to the advantage of the 
wool-growers, if adopted aud adhered to. Your 
remark, that I ask the growers to put their wool 
in the extra condition in which it is sold in the 
European markets, is not quite correct. I mere¬ 
ly alluded to Up? system in use in Silesia and 
Saxony as having been proved by long experience 
to be the most profitable to growers wbo con¬ 
vinced themselves by various experiments, one 
of which I subjoin, that the Idea may be more 
properly understood, viz; Growers of consider¬ 
able flocks divided their wool very carefully, so 
that each half was of the same value,—and then 
put up onq half in the usual manner, and of the 
other half every fleece was carefully skirted 
and cleaned. Both lots were sent to tho same 
market and sold at the same tirno. It was found 
that that half which had been skirted and clean¬ 
ed found a more steady sale and better prices, 
say from S to 5 cts., and would always do so. 
Is it not qutiee natural for buyers who 
examine a lot of wool containing locks, bellies, 
etc., to estimate a larger proportion of looks, 
etc., than there actually is in the lot? And if 
they find dead wool, or unwashed, in several 
fleeces, have they not to calculate enough, and 
oven more, in order that they may come out on 
the safe side? But as soon as all such doubts 
are removed, as by my plan they will he, can 
there he any other estimate than a correct one ? 
I desire to see 6omc of our growers who have 
large flocks try a similar experiment, and I feel 
convinced that they will adopt my plan and be¬ 
come advocates of it to all their neigh bors. You 
say that most wool growers will not give up 
their present customs until the buyers learn that 
honesty is the best policy. 
it seems you misunderstood me and took this 
policy of honesty as something personal to the 
growers, which idea I never connected with it, 
but simply that every person who is a producer 
or manufacturer will find In the long run that 1 
honesty is the best policy. Take any manufacturer 
who wants a permanent, reliable, quick market 
and full prices for his goods, he will look care- \ 
fully alter their uniform quality, full measure, 
&c.; so it will be with a miller whose brand is , 
knowu as reliable; and in fact through every 
branch of trade. 
Occasionally men who do not believe that 1 
honesty is the best policy succeed, but this is 1 
the tvxcpHou and not the rule. The wool buyers 
found it almost impossible for y earn to j udge the , 
right value of wool, even after it had been j 
graded in the Eastern markets, and for this t 
reason the agents in the interior could not be ? 
expected to know better, and were instructed to 1 
to buy at an average price, according to the 1 
better or inferior sections in the .various 
States. This baa practice will [drop as soon as , 
the wool is properly prepared for market, so i 
that its actual value can be easily and correctly l 
ascertained. i 
Let the wool be prepared in the manner I have 1 
indicated and you will soon he convinced that 
buyers will pay more for it than for wool put up 
in the present manner—the actual value of which i 
no one can correctly ascertain. Should there i 
still be left any doubt6 about it I shall be 1 
pleased to convince you by actual sales of sorted 
wool. 
Allow me to call attention to my article on ! 
“ Washed or Unwashod Woolf published in your 1, 
c by moth*, and will bring more than two-thirds 
* (X) prtce of the washed. I think you oueht to 
■ advocate this plan as it is to the best of my be- 
, lief favoring the interest of the growers, and as 
e unwashed wool preserves better for years all its 
- good qualifications for manufacturing, and will 
i work better than the washed, it is only in this 
1 latter respect favoring the maoufactnrer. 
In reply to your advice 11 to continue our mis- 
• sionary labors, but first Introduce our proposed 
’ reforms at home amoDg the buyers,” I beg to 
say that we have already done so, and buyers 
have given strict orders to their agents to care- 
j fully examine every lot of wool they wish to 
j buy, and pay a price according to its condition 
and actual value. They arc in general anxious to 
) do 60 but experience in most instances much 
t difficulty, except with those fine and superior 
clips, the owners of which take a pride In doing 
1 their wool up right aud receiving a correspond- 
1 lng advance in price; also wool coming from 
1 markets as being the clips of careful and reliable 
growers. 
j I would also suggest the establishment in each 
Stale, of various wool fairs—at different dates— 
j to allow buyers to visit each of them, one after 
the other, and create the desired competition for 
> obtatatag the highest value, as it has been found 
r most expedient In Silesia and Saxony as you are 
\ probably aware. 
Hoping you will kindly publish this reply to 
your remarks—to do me justice—believe me 
Veiy respectfully yours, 
II. D. Tellkampf, 
New York, August 15,1866. 
Condensed Correspondence, Items, &c. 
Infanta do Sheep.—D r. F. B, IIathkwat, Milton, 
Vt., whites that he is breeding Atwood & Ilammond 
j Sheep, aud wlehee to know by what family name they 
should be called. We have hitherto assigned our 
reasons for believing that the eheep Imported by Col. 
Humphreys, from which the above flocks are de¬ 
scended, were from the Infantado cabana in Spain. 
The principal breeders of these sheep usually desig¬ 
nate them as Infautadoe, and they are generally 
known by that name. The name is applied lo them 
because it is believed to belong to them, and because 
it is convenient aud proper to have family designa¬ 
tions. But it neither adds to, nor detracts from, their 
value. They would be just as valuable, and sell for 
just ns mueh, were they descended from any other 
prime Spanish cabana. 
Recipe poi? Foot Rot.— Harris Mop.se, Beloit, 
Wie., writes:—*' Take equal parts blue vitriol, alum 
and saltpetre well pulverized and saturated with 
urine. One application after (he foot is well pared 
will cure. The foot should be pared so that the med¬ 
icine will come in contact with all that Is diseased. 
1 have, tried this lor year*, and know it to be a sure 
cure.” Applied at the very outset of the disease, as 
all remedies should be applied If practicable, and 
with the feet pared so that "tbe medicine will corns 
in contact with all that is diseased," Mr, Morse's rem¬ 
edy, and perhaps fifty more that have been used, 
might prove a “sure cure.’’ But in advanced stages 
of the disease "one application,” we venture to 
say, would not. 
Names Claimed.—John H. Thomas of Orwell, Vt., 
claims the name of “ Legal Tender” for a yearling 
Paular ram bred by himself. lie was got by Rich's 
Mountaineer, out of a ewe purchased of the Messrs. 
Rich. 
Messrs, Baker & Uaiuui.a.n, Comstock's Landing, 
N. Y. ( claim the name or 11 Cashier” for an lufautudo 
ram lamb by Hammond's Green Mountain, out of a 
ewe by n. W. llAMMONn'r Paymaster; also tbename 
‘'Engineer” for an Jnfuutudo ram lamb by 11. W. 
Hammond's Kearearge, dam Lady Hammond by 
Sweepstakes, out of dam of II. W. H.’s “First 
Choice of Old Ewes.” 
Bale of Wool.— S. R. Phillips, Lake, Stark Co., i 
Ohio, complains bitterly of the conduct of wool buy¬ 
ers in that region, and wishes to know if arrange- , 
ments cannot be made to forward the wool to honor- ] 
able manufacturers in the East, who will pay a fair 
price for it. We presume that such an arrangement 
might bo made. If all the wool of a town, or region, * 
was forwarded by a suitable agent to New York or 
Boston, he doubtless could secure a good sale for ii 
at market prices, or he could leave it in safe hands for j 
arise in the market. It rarely pays, however, for i 
the grower thus to send small lots to market. , 
s the cheese is made thin — eight of them only 
o weighing one hundred and twenty pounds. They 
- are made twice a day. They commence at seven 
5 o’clock in the morning and finish about ten to 
s eleven o’clock. In the afternoon they com- 
I mcnce with the evening milk about five and 
b finish again between eight and nine o’clock. 
These cheeses have a came in the cheese con- 
- earning world as the famous Berkeley cheese. 
I They are rich and sweet, if made well. 
5 At a nice farm in the eouthern part of Glou- 
8 cester, which I visited to see the operations of 
making “Single Glostcr cheese,” the dairy con- 
3 sisted of tliirty-five cows. There were short- 
1 horns, large, handsome stock, but pot showing 
3 extraordinary capacity for milk. Thq dwelling, 
1 dairy and out-buildings were all of stone, large, 
r commodious, and everything kept in the neat- 
’ est manner. 
The place where the cheese was made was a 
1 spacious room, with 6tone floor, clean, and well 
i ventilated, and as cool and sweet an apartment 
as the most fastidious cheese-maker could desire. 
The utensils or appurtenances for cheese¬ 
making consisted of an unpaiuted tub to hold 
the milk, leaden vats for holding the whey, a 
circular wire curd breaker, having an upright 
handle springing from the center, dippers, skitn- 
5 mere, Arc., with two box presses for pressing 
cheese. * * * The milk was \ieing 
’ made up twice a day, making eleven cheese, (of 
fourteen pounds each,) for every two days, the 
cheese being about three inches thick by four¬ 
teen to fifteen inches broad. There was no heat¬ 
ing apparatus in the room, and none is required 
in the “ Single Glostcr” process of cheese mak- 
’ lng. As soon as the milk Is all deposited in the 
tub, the rennet is added when it is left to eoag- 
j ulate. As soon as properly coagulated, It is 
broken up with the wire breaker, by moving itup 
. and down, which has a tendency to pulp the curd, 
more than to break it, as the word breaking is 
generally understood among our cheese makers. 
Thu mass is thus left for the curd to settle, and 
after it has arrived at a proper degree of firm¬ 
ness to he handled the whey is dipped off down 
to the curd, the tub canted up to drain oil' what 
whey remains, aud the curd gathered to the up¬ 
per edge of the tub. The whey being removed, 
the curd is cut across and heaped up and pressed 
with the hands to expel a; much of the whey as 
possible, when it is put to press. It remains in 
press till morning, when it is taken out, turned, 
and salted on the outside. It is then returned 
to the press aud goes through the same opera¬ 
tion for four to six successive days. When taken 
from the press It is put upon the shelf for a few 
days, to be turned every morntag, and finally 
goes to the cheese room, when it will be ready 
for market in two or three months, if prices suit. 
This cheese room, or drying room, is in the up¬ 
per part of the dwelling, and the cheese when 
taken here are placed close together upon the 
floor.” 
Mr. Willard visited a cheese warehouse In 
company with a Bristol dealer who tested the 
quality of the cheese by walking on them as 
they lay spread about on the floor. If they bore 
the weight of the man without cracking or 
caving in they were pronounced marketable. 
Mr. W. docs not think that American cheese 
makers will care about copying the Gloucester 
process of cheese manufacturing — implying of 
course that the practice of our own dairymen is 
preferable to that generally prevalent in England. 
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LITTLE FALLS CHEESE MARKET. 
Yesterday, (August 28,) was a remarkably 
dull day for cheese, prices ranging from 14 to 
I7%c. for private dairies. Sixty cheese from the 
dairy of Benj. Wilcox, sold for ISc., which, we 
house at which they stopped while on an excur¬ 
sion. The meat was the ordinary smoked ham, 
aud eaten in a raw state. All these parties were 
rendered very ill, but recovered In consequence 
of the powerful cathartics administered before 
the worms had time to multiply. The account 
say6:—“Soon after the attack these cases came 
under the care of Dr. Ristine of Marlon, who, 
after careful observation through several weeks, 
recognized the true source of the sickness, 
though not until other persons in the town 
showed symptoms of the Eame disease. Portions 
of the meat from the hog from which the ham 
used In the sandwiches was made were put un¬ 
der the microscope, and found swarming with 
myriads of trichina;, which, although apparently 
dead, once in the stomach would become living 
and prolific worms. The corresponding ham, 
as also the one first mentioned, after being 
cooked, was eaten harmlessly by seven other 
members of the family and by visitors. The an¬ 
imal was selected for its healthy appearance 
from a herd which had been infected with the 
hog cholera, was fattened for family use, and 
killed in January last. 
The cases in Marion were nine in number, 
members of one family of that town. They 
were Mr. Bemis, aged bis wife, 57; their 
two sons, Whittier and Hen-rt, aged 20 and 
23; their daughter, Mrs. Lansing, with her four 
small children. These all became ill about May 
1st, after having eaten freely at several times of 
raw smoked ham from four to ten days previ¬ 
ously. Mr. Lansing ate as freely of the s&me 
ham well cooked, and showed no symptoms of 
disease. The severity of the eases was thought 
to be In direct proportion to the amount of raw 
meat eaten by each person. 
Five of these nine eases proved fatal,—one, a 
little boy, June 1st; Henry B., on the 3d; an¬ 
other child on the 8th; Mr. Bemis on tho loth, 
and Mrs. B on the 17th. Examinations after 
death of two of the bodies showed the parasites 
in the muscles, estimated by others and myself 
3t about 200,000 per cubic iuch. Some were 
also found in the lung** and spleen.” 
The farmer owning the infected hara fed the 
balance of it to a sow for the purpose of curing 
her of a propensity to eat her own offspring— 
having been informed that this would prove a 
sure cure. It proved effectual, in a certain 
sense, for the sow died io a few days thereafter. 
Samples of her flesh were examined, and found 
to contain he abundant infusion of the trichina, 
Farming in South America. 
A corespondent of the N. Y. Times gives 
an account of a farm, in the neighborhood of 
Buenos Ayres, which is a province in itself. It 
is owned and managed by Senior Don Jose db 
Urgoza, and contains five hundred and seven¬ 
ty-six thousand acres. This is all In one body, 
but be has other farms beside this in other sec¬ 
tions of the country. On approaching the resi¬ 
dence of the proprietor an avenue, eleven miles 
long, shaded with trees, is passed through—the 
land on each side being in a high state of culti¬ 
vation. The grounds in the immediate vicinty 
of the home mansion are stocked with apples, 
peaches, pears, apricots, nectarines, grapes, 
pomegranates, quinces, tigs, bananas, oranges 
aud lemons in rich profusion. The vegetable 
grounds are on u corresponding scale and equally 
varied in their products. The animals sent to 
the home slaughter bouse annually average fifty 
thousand head of cattle, and sheep in propor¬ 
tion. His flocks are so numerous as to require 
several vessels to convey the wool to the English 
market each year. His stud is on a correspond¬ 
ing scale, having horses enough on hand to 
mount the cavalry for a large army. So numer¬ 
ous arc his employees or dependents that he can 
the month, though s visit from Jack was almost daily 
expected. The rains daring the month were abun¬ 
dant, 4 Tl inches of water having fallen. The weather 
of the month reminded the seniors of tho cold sum¬ 
mer of islfi, when the frost tilled maize in the early 
part of August. But Septbembr opened with very 
warm weathar, and the present prospect is quite 
favoroble, thongh It is feared that Indian Corn will be 
caught by the frost. All other crops, except apples, 
will yield well. Peaches are more abundant than 
was anticipated. On the whole oar report In regard 
to the Season and Crops of this region, for the first 
week In September, must be favorable. 
Mors Potato Bugs.-G. W. C„ Faribault, Minne¬ 
sota, sends ns a couple of fully developed potato bugs 
of the new variety fonnd in the Weet. This Is what 
Bent, D. Walsh, Entomologist, Rock Island. 111., de¬ 
nominates the “Ten-striped Spearman” beetle. Oar 
correspondent states that these bags or beetles are 
quite active in their movement*, and do a vast deal 
of Injury in the way of devouring the leaves and 
smaller stems of the potato vine. Tney have Jnst 
appeared In that section, and are regarded with dread 
by the farming population. It is stated, in the Wis¬ 
consin Farmer, that torkies hunt these beetles with 
avidity, but in the absence of these the best known 
way to get rid of the beetles is to take a pan or pail 
and brush them into it. When fall destroy them and 
fill again. This requires patience and time, but is 
known to be effectual as a remedy and the only one 
that is so. 
■---- 
Premiums to the Boys.— The Managers of the Joe 
Das less county (III.) Fair have gone in for the en¬ 
couragement of the boys, to certain of whom special 
premiums are to be given. For example, they offer 
to the boy of 16 who exhibits the best specimen of 
mechanical work, £ 5 . To the boy of like age who can 
make ihc besi show of vegetables, fruits or flowers, 
cultivated by himself, *5, For the best trained yoke 
of steers, $5; and $3.50 for the second best. To the 
boy exhibiting the best pony aud horsemanship, $5; 
and the' sahie amount far the best trained rat terrier! 
The managers furtrish the rats for the trial of the ter¬ 
riers. There is music In this last premium, or will 
be when the rats are turned loose. All right—en¬ 
courage the boys! 
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Grain Harvest in Cana*a.— The Strathroy (C. 
W.) Vanguard states that, owing to the wet weather 
prevailing in that section of Canada, “ laige quanti¬ 
ties of wheat left cither standing or cat in the field, 
have grown greatly. Spring and winter wheat are 
alike injured. ’ We believe injury is local and con¬ 
fined to an inconsiderable portion of the Province. 
— Since the preceding was written we have re¬ 
ceived the 1 oronto Globe which epcaks of damage in 
that region. The barley crop has suffered most. 
Kicking Cows— Remedy.— M. E. K. proposes this 
remedy for kicking cows r Put a rope aronnd the an¬ 
imal just in front of the bag and back of the hip 
bones, passing up through the flanks. Draw snugly 
before fastening, If a bad ldoker, and fasten as in the 
case of a bleeding cord, He has tried this on a noto¬ 
rious kicker, and been able to milk her with perfect 
case. 
- «4i 
Addresses at FAins.-Oea. N. P. Banks is to de¬ 
liver the annual address at the Monroe Co. Fair, in 
this city, Sept. 20. P. T, Barnum, Esq., the renowned 
showman, Is to deliver the address at the Union Fair, 
Brockport, in this county, which is to be held on the 
21st and 22d lust._ 
IIbad the Advertisements.— Many of the new 
advertisements in our present number are timely as 
well as appropriate. Read them all-especially those 
of Nurserymen, Manufacturers of Implements, &c. 
A Well-Dressed Editor—Home Manufacture* 
-Ex-Mayor Moore of the P.ural New-Yorker, has 
recently donned a new suit, which attracts attention, 
especially when its history is known, Over a year 
ago Mr. Moore offerod a prize or fifty dollars for the 
heaviest scouted fleece from an American Merino 
shec-p, in proportion to live weight of animal. The 
premium was offered under the mm- pices of the State 
Sheep Breeders’ and Wool Growers^ Association, and 
Induced considerable competition at tin- Fair of said 
Association in Canandaigua last year. The competing 
fleeces were there shorn and weighed, and subse¬ 
quently scoured at the Syracuse Woolen Mill*. The 
prize was u warded to Mr. A. H. ( 'larc of Onondaga 
(Mr. Moore's native county, by the way.) The fleece 
was of one year’* growth, and when shorn weighed 
believe, was the only lot sold lor that price. In ous arc his employees or dependents that he can nearly te^pounda ®KhwdTaSriHvSfnnST® 
factory, the rairheld Factory, Cold Creek, place in the field at once an army of twenty after being thoroughly scoured. The live weight of 
(Hopson’s,) and Avery & Ives, sold for IStfc. thousand men anxious to execute his commands. JStffi 8j?ffto 
The receipts for the day amounted to 3,500 boxes. This is probably the most extensive individual LEN '< Esq or the O atka Mill*, at Mnmford, in this 
We extract from yesterday’s Tribune market agricultural establishment on the Western Con- 
report, as follows -.—The cheese trade has been tinent. is mainly composed. Mr. Allen has justly become 
celebrated as a manufacturer of excellent woolen 
goods, especially easeimeree, and we are glad to note 
this evidence of the merit of his establishment in 
that line. 
The whole history of the fleece aud salt ts credita- 
Scae. — “ A New Subscriber,’’ Skaneateles, N. Y., 
aeks how to cure Scab. The various modes of doing 
this have so oftcr been repeated in this paper, that 
we cannot now take up space to describe them. An 
article from the pen of Mr. Kendall, published some 
time since, will give one of the most approved modes. 
For answers to tbo various other questions asked, 
see the Practical Shepherd, where all the subjects 
named aro protty freely diccueeed. 
Combing Wool.— W. B. Foster, Chauncey, Athens, 
Co., Ohio, “ Combing wools,” usually so character¬ 
ized, arc produced by the Lincolns, Cotswolds, Leices- 
ters and some other English varieties. Long Merino 
wool is combed, but for a different class of fabrics. 
We are not informed who have good English sheep 
for sale in your vicinity. 
St. Johns wort.—John G. McKees, South Ac- 
worth, N. H. The emptoms you describe precisely 
resemble those which sometimes follow from eheep 
being put in a field where St. Johnewort is growing. 
The usual remedy is to rab the sore spots with lard 
mixed with sulphur. 
Republishing Cuts.— We should be glad to oblige 
Mr. McKeen by republishing the cut of Gold Drop,— 
but can hardly do so with propriety while a large 
number of unpublished cuts are remaining in our 
hands. 
Founder. — Nelon Richards, Yergennes, Ver¬ 
mont. There may be such a thing as founder in 
sheep. But we have never seen a case of it, nor 
shall we be convinced of its existance until we do. 
We extract from yesterday's Tribune market 
report, as follows -— The cheese trade has been 
very active during the past week, aud large 
quantities have been sent abroad at 18; i to 19c., 
for strictly fine factory, and 18c. for good. To¬ 
day it is a hard matter to get over lSj^c. for 
strictly fancy; a little was sold yesterday at 19c*, 
but so little and so fine they hardly come into 
general account. The Heavy decline in gold and 
exchange since yesterday, causes a weak feeling, 
with little or no inquiry. Common cheese, and 
lots a little out of order, sell very slowly, and at 
much lower rates. 
Deep vs. Shallow Milk Pans.— Writing to 
the Rural on this subject, Mr. M. A. Richard¬ 
son of Sherman, N. Y., says:—“ Whether move 
cream can be obtained from deep or shallow 
pans, is an easy matter to settle, without even 
an experiment. First—It takes time for cream 
to rise; therefore, Second —It will rise in a 
shallow pan sooner than in a deep one. Conse¬ 
quently, Third—In warm weather, when milk 
will thicken in a few hours, Ehallow pans should 
be used or the cream will be caught in the thick¬ 
ened milk and the skimmer won’t find it. But 
in cooler weather, when milk will remain thin 
long enough for the cream to rise, deep pans are 
preferred by some. Even then sweeter butter 
can be made from shallow pans. 
Mr. Dubes of Woburn, Mass., thinks cows 
are at their greatest perfection as milkers when j 
they are about the age of their mother at the ! 
time of their birth. 
Underdraining Land-Its Effects. 
Experiments in underdraining land were 
made in Scotland last year for the purpose of ble to the parties named:—to Mr. Moore for oft’eriug 
determinin' 1 * the effect on the ten-men tore /if thn a Prize to test an important question—to the AeeoeiA- 
r . tuca on me tempeature 01 the tiou which 60 ad mir„bly superintended the nutter 
solr, compi led with that m the Eame vicinity that the report of lta committee thereupon attracted 
which was not drained. The result was that the ? t UcBUon lbr /°.i gh .2 ut LU l s <£. un . tr y all(i Eaxopc-to 
. . . , u lu ' 5 the grower of the fleece for bis important demonstra- 
dratnlng raised the temperature 1.5 degrees, tion—and, last nor least, to Mr. alles for producing 
equal to a removal of the land from one hundred from .^ e *U>w? fl ^ ce a rabric which enhance * hi* 
, , , , „ v-ocuunurvu reputation and at the same time is a potent argument 
to one hundred and fifty miles south. This is in favor of home manafactune.-iite/;. Daily Union. 
an important consideration connected with --- 
eon-mart hrnvrsniU -roW/ieA v. „.■ AGRICULTURAL FAIRS. —The following announce- 
c pact, htaty sous, whose retentiveness of mente of Fairs have been received since the pubiiea- 
water renders them cold and comparatively in- tion of the general list, Aug. 25th: 
ert with respect to vegetation. Draining land „ . „ ov halve. 
involves coo.ider.ble expense, but It, incased 
productiveness soon repays this, besides assur- Kennebec, Keadfletd Corner.Oct. Iff—13 
tag increased profits for the future. ' NonU IWj8C0t ’ Lmcoln VUJage ’. 0ct * 4 
MICHIGAN. 
Branch, Coldwater,....Sept. 26—28 
Horse Distemper. Cass, Cassopolie.Sept. 26—28 
™ Gratiot, Ithaca,.Oct. 4—5 
this disease, says a correspondent of the Ingham, Maeon,... 
North-Western Farmer, is principally Incident ^.f’^DeVr"'I"'.'"I .inl4 
^---« FiAuwpwjj luwuciu Lapeer, Lapeer.Oct. 10-12 
to young horses — appearing about the fourth Tuscola, Wauousville,.Sept. 25-27 
year and generally is the spring season. It is Illinois. 
preceded by a cougb-a discharge from the nos- oflg 
trils of a yellowish (color, mixed with pus—the McHenry. Woodstock,.Oct. 2— 4 
membrance of the nose very red and a swelling So^jSSn^e"'\icpti §l8 
under the jaw. When the tumor becomes ap- — —.Oct. ff—12 
parent apply an active blistering plaster. When fgg£ f -.Ift 8=£ 
raised wash off—repeating the process till the WabaeUVaUcy, Baris.Sept, is—21 
irritation is allayed. If the swelling is soft and Winnebago, Rockford,.Sept. 18—22 
filled with matter, lance and let if out Bran Uhion Ag q society, TrumanTaVg.Sept. 18-20 
mashes or fresh cut grass should be led the ani- iowa. 
mal till a cure is effected. Clayton, Farmersburg,.Oct. 4— 6 
