^urat gotts amt Sterns 
Season. Crops, Prospects, Ac.—TheTwh^T^T 
is secure, and in splendid order, ir loss „ 0w ‘ ,™ P 
to the grower from wet It will be through hig n ' 
gence and carelessness. A targe crop 0 i no «i wb l' t 
is now in the hands of the fanners of this countv 
Prices cannot rule as high as during the past vear J. 
we cau see no reason for a depression to' a 
where, the producer’s profits will not be fair. Reno,?: 
of the corn crop are not highly flattering. Oat B will 
come in well, and doubtless yield abundantly. ti.. 
season has favored those late 9 owu. Barley 1 a likely 
to be of good quality. Grass is abundant, and pota 
toes arc healthy and vigorous. Such, at least, is the 
crop prospects In this section, and from all we know 
at present, there is a promise of satisfactory bar 
vests generally. 
EDITED BY HENRY 8. RANDALL, LL. D. 
MORE ABOUT MILK FEVER. 
WOOL GROWING IN THE SOUTHWEST 
In I 860 two cows belonging to the writer came 
in early in the mouth of July, one of which was 
not dried off till within about a month of the 
time of calving, while the other was milked 
more or less the whole preceding time. The 
first one was fleshy, and was seized with milk 
fever within twenty-four hours, and died in 
three days. The other cow was in ordinary 
condition, and came through well. Several days 
preceding calving they were kept apart from 
other stock in a cool grove where there was 
scant pasture and an abundant supply of pure, 
soft water. Both were fed with bran mashes, 
and Otherwise treated in the usual manner. 
The surviving cow again calved the year fol¬ 
lowing the latter part of May. As with the 
fatal case the year before, so this 
Local Complacency.— Among the papers embraced 
in the Transactions of the Iowa Agricultural Society 
for is one on the ‘ Acricaltural Advantages of 
Iowa.” by M. V. Ashlet, which we find in a recent 
number of the “ Homestead.” Among other things 
the writer saysTo ns, Iowa is the garden spot of 
the West. It has a better proportion of timber to 
the prairies than Illinois ; is better watered—having 
over forty rivere of convenient size; has a better p 0 - 
silion on the meridian, being nine by ten counties 
affording no chance lot Northern and Southern feeling 
Missouri is too far south for a competitor. Nebraska not 
old enough, and Minnesota is loo far north. The only 
State having fait claims to competition with Towa is 
Wisconsin, hnt even this state agriculturally i„. so to 
speak, behind the light-house. The summing up is 
' that Iowa has no equal as an agricultural State ’ ” 
cow was 
milked to about one month of her time. The 
weather was neither fftld nor hot, and the ani¬ 
mal was comfortably housed In the stable at 
night. The next day symptoms of the disease 
appeared, and within tw enty-four hours the car¬ 
cass was given to the wild animals of the woods. 
A veterinarian practitioner attended both cases, 
hut nothing Mint was done was of the least avail. 
He did not claim to kuow how to control the 
disease, and would like to learn. 
These are the only cases of the complaint the 
writer has had in twenty years of experience in 
the ownership and management of cows. They 
are also the only instances recollected in his 
practice when the milking was continued to so 
near the time of calving. In the first fatal case, 
the animal was fleshy, the weather hot, and the 
udder was carefully kept drawn down before¬ 
hand. In the second, the cow was only in fair 
condition, was not milked before calving, and 
the weather was moderate. Yet the result was 
the same in both cases. 
Our theory Is (it may he crude and irrational,) 
that milking those cows so long bad the effect 
to keep up the secretions down to the point of 
time when nature was preparing for a renewal 
of the operation, and that, on discontinuing the 
MR. wing’s COTSWOLD RAM “GOLDEN FLEECE.” 
te convenience, but bestowed uo care on their man- 
n ' agement or improvement. 
1.V What other farm industry during that long pe¬ 
lf, riod can shown better average record than this? 
’*• The other industries, too, have had their “ ups 
r .Y and downs!” On this topic we can speak, to 
lc some extent, from experience. Wc have owned 
f- sheep from our infancy, and have had the direct 
Lo management of them, and of other branches of 
h- farming—been a somewhat attentive observer of 
l' all them—for more than thirty-live years. 
1- Our experience and observation during the whole 
is of that period, has satisfied us that sheep bus- 
16 ban dry is exposed to no greater risks or vicissi- 
1 - tildes than any other branch of farming, and 
d lias been on the whole as profitable, 
k The recent war changed the relations of things. 
1 - The cost of labor and subsistence, and tuxes, 
1 - became so largely increased that we could no 
a longer compete with wool grown on as cheap 
it lands, and by greatly cheaper labor, in other 
t countries. We called on Congress to make for- 
; eign wools pay as much for the use of our mar¬ 
kets as we ourselves paid. The manufacturer, 
ignoring old fallacies, admitted our equal right, 
t to production, and acted as onr ally. The result 
e was the present tariff: Its c.ff'ects are yet unfelt, 
owing to extraneous causes. A vast surplus of 
> foreign woolens had accumulated in our markets 
a before its passage, which it required time to 
r drain off. The deranged fiuancics of a portion 
. of the country, and the short crops of last year, to price. Mr. Wing mad< 
• have, to an unprecedented degree, depressed the pouring the most highly 
. woolen lri.de, mid Urn, prevented Urn, ootplq. 
Iront being consumed. Our manufacturers have have been so g(Vicrally m 
. encountered a rise in the cost of carrying on flocks, and in iqtf.’v jf noi 
, thdr buotooM, corresponding with the rloo In uSSS’e&S'ST".»££” 
. the cost of producing the raw material; and years. Where eqOal ini pro\ 
1 they cannot make goods to undersell the foreign cured without the cross, the 
ones on Hand, with wool bought at a fair price. 7*' th ]. nk , tliat he judged wi 
Many small mills have stopped running. The dfatinetlv Iwe'^or vS.tv 1 
larger ones have been run on as short time as Britain — are mueh hardier, 
they could be without breaking up, scattering better mothers, than the Lei 
and driving Into other pur.niu, tint .killed ope- SiTtijA iXuho"r S *£“ 
rati ve labor which will be necessary when they does, dilute their goolqualiti 
can find remunerative markets. Many of those Kven should the pure Imp 
who are able to carry their goods— i. c ., keen [ 0II,,( *' 118 we should be prep 
b ‘ ' " to possess quite so earlv mat 
tli mi on hand are dolug so. To add to the tors and their crosses —wliic 
present extreme depression of wool, the country ’ n the world in this particular 
banks, notwithstanding the money plethora in tu litis country this loss 
New York City, are nnwUUng. .ndVoPabl, on- &X2HK8£t?2j£ 
able, to advance funds to country buyers, with do not favor that careful aud 
the understanding that they will help thc-m carry 8 J 9 , t . en) which is necessary t 
their wool over sixty days. cariinosa o I maturity; our rr 
wr 4 .. . . J „ ,, ,, lor it; and as it is not extensi 
Yet it was in view ot all the preceding facts, by the hulders of Lei costers i 
that we recently put forward the assertion that *? Inftsr that they do not deen 
wc never felt Mrongcr hope, of the fntnrc of the an 
wool grower than now; and we reiterate that our great difficulty in proc 
assertion. We will give some of our reasons, shepherds, and the high prlc 
The temporary causes of depression are already P era tivel;y require hardy bree 
Lnirto to ,, ■’ do not demand either too ru 
being removed. The crops are generally abun- attention 
dant 60 that money will flow into the country, Mr. Wing's Cotswold* were 
I he cost of subsistence will diminish. The flocks of William Lank, E 
laboring classes of the North will replenish their Farm , William Hewer, Esq 
“f "T 3 “ utu SSSELS^iS; 3 
icclothe itself Ibis will clean the market of of high reputation. The large 
old goods and make a place for new ones. Just were obtained of Mr. Lane, k 
how long it will take to effect this we cannot l^ rC as the Cotswold Chat 
say, but the time cannot in the nature of things filing oSlS^ 1 . 1 ' Athi! 
r arm Items from Northern Illinois.—H. R. s. 
writes us from Akron, Illinois, that in the latter part 
of July the thermometer showed as high as98 degrees 
m the shade; corn has grown very rank and promisee 
well. V> heat is slightly damaged by rust, bat there 
will be more than an average yield. There are fair 
crops of oats, barley, and rye. The hay crop is splen- 
did, and Was gathered in good condition. The Colo¬ 
rado bug is making havoc with the potatoes, and 
even the the ladies go into the fields to fight them. 
Fruit is doing finely; we have plenty of peaches, and 
grapes wherever there are trees and vines." 
Eoos-A Curiosity,— Capt. E. 0. Williams of this 
city, hoe shown tin n curiosity in the egg line which 
Will bear noticing. It is from the Uenery of William 
Parker, VV alwortb, Wayne Co.. N. Y., and consisted 
of an egg within an egg, both perfect in form, hut the 
exterior shell contained albumen, but no yolk, What 
the interior shell—which is perfect In form and about 
the size of a pnllot’s first efforts-contains Is not 
known, as it remains intact in the extorior shell. 
Hitch doublets are of rare occurrence, hence notice¬ 
able when found. 
MR, WING’S COTSWOLD SHEEP 
Diehl WiiEAT.-Messrs. Swan & Jenklvs, who 
occupy the well known Elisha Harmon farm of 
Wheatland, recently showed us some fine heads of 
the Diehl variety of wheat, of which they are harvest¬ 
ing this season 75 acres. We think Well of this vari¬ 
ety; it is an early, white, bald wheat, and so far as 
we have heard, is yearly gaining favor. Homo of the 
heads we saw had over .SO kernels in them Messrs. 
S. & J. harvested 800 bushels from 10 acres last year 
and they say the present crop is more promising. 
Omo to Nbw York.— The editor of the Ohio Far¬ 
mer. alluding to the State Fair to lie held in Buffalo 
this fall, remarks: “ The Empire State has located her 
Fair as near to Ohio as she could, and Ohio will give 
her a benefit, at Buffalo, on the 1st to 4th of October. 
We love to join company with the stately gentlemen 
of the New York State Agricultural Society; it is 
next to meeting with the solid men of Boston—the 
best groomed of all the silver-grey people. It puts a 
western man upon his propriety to fall in such excel¬ 
lent company.” 
DAIRY ITEMS. 
Chec.sc Factories — Wyoming .—The Attica Atlas 
states that in the early days of dairying in West¬ 
ern New York cheese made in that vicinity won 
a high reputation, under the general designation 
of “Orangeville cheese." This “ville” is the 
geographical center of the Tonawauda Valley 
dairy district, and Attica the commercial outlet 
for the dairy products of that region. Factory 
dairying is fast superseding the old system in 
that section. As a proof of the progress of this 
change, the Atlas names some thirty different 
factories in that region now in operation — 
twenty-four ot them being located in Wyoming 
county, embracing thirteen towns. Not long 
since sixty wagon loads of cheese passed down 
the Tonawauda Valley in a single day. These 
cheese trains are of pretty frequent occurrence. 
Warts cm Cows Teats.—If “Rural Reader,” 
South Haven, Mich., will wash his cows teats 
in alum water several days in succession, direct¬ 
ly after milking, the warts will probably disap¬ 
pear—the operation having proved successful in 
several instances as reported to us. The remedy 
Death of an Agricultural Writer.—M r. Rich¬ 
ard 0. Kendall of Tlilfltlewood, near Philadelphia, 
a noted contributor to most of the agricultural jour¬ 
nals, aud for many years agricultural editor of the 
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, died recently at 
Acto, N. J. He was born in China, of Americau’pa- 
rents, aud has traveled extensively in most of the 
civilized portions of the globe. He was possessed of 
great versatility, his style was entertaining and genial 
and his information full and accurate. 
1 rouble with the Bees.— A. T., Shelby Co., Ind., 
writes ihai “the bees of two hives have come out 
and gone to work between and on the back side of 
the hives. Those are common box hives, set on a low 
bench close to the fence and covered with a broad 
board. The bees also work on the under side of the 
cover. The hives are full to the bottom, and have had 
no honey taken from them for two years. Don’t 
think they have swarmed this season". Will some 
R lira list tell me what I shall do with them t" 
Cheap Wash for Out-Buildings.—T. R. S., Lou¬ 
don Co., Va., writes.-—“I should be pleased to see in 
your paper a cheap and durable wash for out-lm ild- 
ings, to be need instead of paint, and statements how 
long Btich washes will last without being renewed.” 
Perhaps crude petroleum mixed with lime or mineral 
paint is as good as any. We have published several 
recipes for cheap paints, but should be glad to have 
more information from our readers who have experi¬ 
mented with sneh. 
Ihe Best Cider Mill.-(E. R„ Union City, Mich.) 
M c are not inlormed as to the place where you can 
purchase the cider mill you describe. There have 
been two mills advertised in the Rural since the 
commencement of the present volume, but neither of 
them is mentioned as superceding theliaudlingof the 
pomace in the cider-making process. 
tepid state. The result bub a speedy cure of the Cast I® 
animal. Since that time it has been successfully 
used in his neighborhood, and is regarded as a "' heltier 1 
sure cure, if timely administered to the afflicted 
animal. A quart bottle full is usually sufficient ~ 
to effect a cure. The remedy is a simple one, Wheat 
and as most farms supply the weed there can be State was 
no difficulty in testing its merits as occasions the crop v 
for its use may arise. at $1.50 @ 
