eUEEP ‘ ble ofreristing disease, tlis 
The Sheep Department is much better repre- luxurious and idle. 
sen ted than it was at Saratoga last v ear. It is-- - if we ap pi? these princi 
pronounced very good,—especially are the long- kdited bt henry 5. randall, ll. ®. breeding ot' domestic ariia 
wools well represented. F. \V. Stone, Gnelph, -- ~ ~ ■ ~ lieve that to obtain hardy a 
Canada, has in the pens over thirty South Dow ns MANAGEMENT OF STOCK EAMS. the sire and dam should be J H I 
and Cotswolds. The other exhibitors of long _ and v ig 0roU5 condition, and consequently be Winter Feed.— Andrew Black, Warkworth, 
wool are L. L. Lomuu. auo, several pens of Ptl habitually kept free from pampering and aocuB- Northumberland Co., Canada, writes ue1 am one 
South Downs; John Snell, Ontario, Can., 13 Ouk spirited contemporary The Western Ru- Ujmec , * a 6affic5eijt amount of exercise. It is of the few farmers in Canada that patronise flue 
Cots wolds and Leicester*; John Ginn, Canada, ral, (published at Chicago andDetrm1,)Btrongly bc t down to a wooled sheep. My flock at present numbers about 
. ,, On sens, endorses the views presented by us, 8ept. -ilst, v 7 ^ ., . . sso, »s of them lambs. In former years I nave fed, 
12 bM.i Uo«^n Q ““” »n d r to bJd of “ F«ll and Wtoier Maw- moderate degree of mere BMh.de.. at thepenod 
ton, Can., several pens of Li • . closes its remarks with of copulation and gestation, if the Sfleda of wea feed of hay to my ewes and store sheep, and I have 
D. WiNO, Dutchess Co., shows Cotewolds, among mflnt of Sheep, ness and degeneration have been sown in their fed thc iambs with shorts, turnips and hay. They 
which is the ram “ Golden Fleece,” whose por- these wc I ,u v-ont. systems at other periods — say by a hot-bed pro- have all done well, and my losses daring the three, 
trait was given in a late Rmun, and who sheared “We have little doubt that. If s* use of young, higi- ^ Qf cxtreme forcing while they were attain- yeara j have bad them have been less tbnn one per 
20 lbs , and took the Randall prize atlast State ly fed, and prematurely developed rams, coupled wi growth. Nor is it quite sufficient that cent, per annum, and almost all by accident. 
Sheep Show. J. Aiken, Duchess Co., shows ^ ^dam should oJ^have been prop- “Turnips with us this year have failed, and I have 
“Bouther Johnny <u.d some ewes Geob • Ktll)ordinatc to lhe desire to keep them In a healthful also should bc descended from ancotmr* that have ?10 to $12 per ton. Peas 
Brown, Dutchess Co., South Doans, U b. uonnul condition, would do much to diminish the been properly treated, so that no hereditary taint arP frnm ,- fl l0 70 rx . nt a per eo lbs.; or, we may say, 
West, several pens of Grades and cross-breed*; immber of untimely deaths of lambs > y carlin S s and — uo bad results of the bad management of pro- ^ ponI)d of pea8 t0 tw , 0 of hran or shorts. Now, 
Walcott <fc CAMi'imu., N. Y. Mills, some im- breeding ewes." genitors—shall linger in their systems. will you be kind enough through the Rural to let me 
ported Lincoln rams and ewes, and also Lfii.es- ^- e d j d n ot epcclficallj include the proper y be f lltucsg acquired on grass, without extra know which would be the roost profl'sbh* to feed, 
tens. Angora Goats are shown by Messrs. Dm- nwnagfiment of bt ock rams in our article, hav- ^ st i ma ihtlng feed, is not a pampered state — and what quantity would suffice, along with bay and 
kbk, Alden, twelve in number. One imported rcpCa tedly done 80 on former occasions, and bnttooinuch fatness in the ram, even thus ac- P™ straw, to keep ewes in good condition, and 
back .beared tour rrud one lrrrlf pound. 01 wool u |( (or Knulted t u„, ,H would und.-r.tund w u not u favorable condition at the opening “d,ether bran or .bon- .lionld be fed wet or dry. 
o, lralr, .aid to »• "MUl «mr tolUrmipcr prmn.r M tnoee cnu.e. wbleh tend to Uc.111, and of cou ,, Ung „ „„„,d bc bettcr-lf »*” “ «U “e^ r.rnip. would be other 
We were inhumed ml g ■ • gtrength on the one hand,or illness and debility breederb were willing to take that degree of roobi _j, um pkins and cabbages answering well in the 
rail fence or stone wall rc.i< i j, - • • on the other, must extend their effects to both paint _to j £(!t ,p p. down not by starvation, which aeBWn of them. The sheep bring accustom** to 
mount a board one. They are jar o con me We have, however, just received tnqm- would rc . ducC the strength, but by exercise, green winter feed, we should be very anxious to keep 
iu a pasture. W. B. Djnsmouij also two pens oi ^ ff0m ft £rlcn( j i who u ft breeder of distiue- whk , h w(mld _ive flrlun css to the muscles and it no, especially with ewes near yeaning time-and if 
Angora’s. Parson’s, Monroe Co., has some Uo _ covering the very point* in regard to stock nQt mit ftuv extra deposition of fat. It unable ».<> do so, should prefer not to hare the lambs 
Hampshire Downs. m alluded to by The Wes torn Rural; and In m b( . rc „ ardl . d ns a vcr} - comical spectacle dropped until crass started in the spring. One or two 
There arc also some famous Merinos. Bush ^ ^ ^ ^ thc vlcW8 of that to aee t fac shepherd leading or driving a »«*' 
& Peck, Alexander, hbow tm ‘“ d ^ on journal and our own. But it may bc well to his ove r fleshy ram lour or five miles a day “for at)d preparing the system for a proper 
Pv hfbi,[' C among others the yearling give BOmo 0 f the facts and analogies on w ic exerc i &c ” — to prepare him for the working 6ecret j on 0 f milk. Turning thc sheep for an hour or 
CO., Vt., exnmiu, F /oar old “Gen WC found our opinions. season —yet there is no absurdity discovered in tw0 t . ac ], da y. when weather and depth or snow per- 
ram “ Young Addison, ■ *'■' ' ’ That ftnlma i 8 to a certain extent inherit physi- the groom doing this for a stallion under his mitPi 0B a pasture not too closely gnawed down in 
Fremont, and u i-y . f ,, , ,. (mf iu{ on>l a s well as foruiand other peeuli- charge, which perhaps did not cost half so much, the fall, would be a good sub.- til ate so for as available. 
Drop." AIM tour nun., nun »«d b, B toe “ c ,71u«n r r, from Mr parent. wfMlnWn.ic.Hj vulnublca.thcram. Bran. M. .ml pra. .n, .11 M> for 
Fleece,” two bj • ft*, of BbM Drop, nnd “ ra ,nb',i„„.,,, wc tblnk, by 4nd .uttar over ««h, or not, tta rnm Mould *9 of .1. ..... El,bur or .U tome, .prmkled 
one bv Sticknes’ 8 “Robinsott” ram. E. D. and ancestors, n- ... . , .. with the latter (the peas comprtring say a third or 
Monger Middlrburj, Vk, .how. tbc tour-jeur- common observation, and «ruu«ly .u.Wntd I j receive adoercc otcxcrclet dnrtojabi coup mg to „ rthofHl „ bul k |con.tltnte» tfrjtecd wblcbrannot 
the form of the bones, muscles aud other etruc- him closely confined In a small pen or stall, ana though it would perhaps be desirable to do bo for 
lures but their actual qualitws, such as density, put him on higher feed — according to the too < .wes"ycaDing before grass, and deprived of their ac- 
tirmnees and' strength, —- or, on the contrary, prevalent system—caunot but be injurious aud cuxtamed green feed. It is an approximately correct 
porosity flaccidity and weakness. This is rc- n^afe. All well trained grooms give daily ex- rui e to say that equal weights of the different kinds 
motclv shown by the phenomena of species, erdsc to the stallions. We were told thc other of grain (Including wheat bran) or pulse ordinarily 
How could different species originate from a day of a very celebrated one (wc forget his name) fed to Bhcep, contain equal nmonuts of nutrirmro - 
?:;,nr.Lk-u,c j«..**, 
and long -lived, tbe other weak, tender, and any circumstances, until he had ta cn is mom I cJ( j c what j a t h e ^.apest feed In hia own market. We 
short-lived—if these characteristics (however in- ing exercise —a drive of several miles. It was bc j icv( , ^mt bright, early cut hay, with bright, well 
duced) were not transmitted from generation to a most salutary arrangement. cured pea straw, with occasional green feed, is good 
generation ? They certainly are not first pro- The eccend n ,i e Q f the Dishley Society, estab- enough feed, without grain or pulse, for breeding 
duced by external circumstances, such as feed, ju^ed by Mr. Bakewell, was : — “ No member ewes, which are of good age and enter the winter in 
Climate, treatment, Ac., in each individual case. BhaU ,' e hiff rain8) at any smtson of the year, condition, up to six or eight woeta before!*^ 
The Scotch Mountain sheep is bw a hardier ftny othcr food than green vegetables, hay ^ T,'a euTo?'oaJ Thrad 
animal than thc high-kept English Leicester, tnd straw whether this great breeder had ^ Old or poor sbee.p and tegs had better receive 
because at thc moment of yeaning it can safely . Q (j 1)8an y other object than the ostensible one tbat atnoun t of grain or pulse all winter, with some 
withstand a degree of cold or other exposure because he regarded pampering rams as injurious accession, according to circtimBtances, after the let of 
which would prove fatal to the Leicester lamb. f or breeding purposes — wo cannot say, for he February. Wo apeak of Merinos kept for ordinary 
Analogous facts are to be found among all , c ., re f u n v and, judged by American staud- and woo) growing purposes. 
mount a board ouc. They are hard to confine 
iu a pasture. W. B. Djnsmobe also two pens of 
Angora’s. Parson’s, Monroe Co., has some 
Hampshire Downs. 
There are also some famous Merinos. Bush 
& Peck, Alexander, show the famous three-ycar- 
Old ram “Kilpatrick.” J. E. Parker, Addison 
Co., Vt, exhibits, among others, the yearling 
ram “ Young Addison,” the two-year-old “Gen. 
Fremont,” and four-year-old “ Young Gold 
Drop.” Also four rams, one sired by “ Golden 
Fleece,” two by “ Prince of Gold Drop,” and 
one by Stjcknex’s “Robinson” ram. E. D. 
Monger, Middleburj, Vt, shows the four-year- 
old ram “General Butler,” John Bottolph, 
Vermont, shows the two-year-old ram “Mor¬ 
gan,” and A. Baldwin, Vermont, one pen of 
ram6 and one of lambs; Wm. Haemon, \ t., the 
ram “ Duck-leg,” uud U. E. Bun w ki,i,, Bridport, 
Vt., the ram “Silver Ring,” of Hammond blood, 
whose fleece cleansed ft lbs. and l-’ozs. Towns¬ 
end & Tai.madoe, Pavllllon, exhibit a large lot 
of fine wool sheep, the most famous of which is 
the yearling ram “Tariff,” bred by Hammond 
and sired by “Green Mountain,” dam by 
m Sweepstakes.” Wm. CbaaoikrTjIN, Red Hook, 
has several pens of Silesians—about fifty in all. 
John Suei.don & Son, Moscow, show three 
rams; 8. B. Lusk, Batavia, two pens of ewe 
lambs; n. M. Boahdman, Ontario Co., fifteen 
ewes and lambs, and John A. Thompson and H. 
Leapp, Clarence, show some fine ewe and ram 
lambs. This list comprises nearly all thc exhib¬ 
itors of sheep. 
horses. 
The crowd manifest very little interest in thc 
horse6. The display of this stock Is only toler¬ 
able, and thc dust impedes a <rood exhibition 
the track. The stalls are built along the course, 
aud visitors encounter the full force of thc storm 
of dust, only to find in many cases the animals 
iu their stalls, locked from observation. Aside 
from the display usually made on the track, thc 
show of horses at our fairs is very unsatisfactory; 
for all chances of vomparison and examination, 
the animals might as well be at home, and the 
department is worthy of but little attention 
from the people or press. 
SWINE. 
This kind of stock is numerously represent¬ 
ed; it is, indeed, the best display of swine 
that has been seen at our Slate Fairs. It is no¬ 
ticeable that Die principal exhibitors are from 
Jefferson Co., this State. A. C. Clark, Hender¬ 
son, Jefferson Co., shows 50 ImprovedChesWrcs, 
cross of the Yorkshires and Cheshlres. Thc breed 
is famous for early maturity, small bones, tbiu 
skin, little hair, and profitable feeding qualities. 
h Ui FHSTiTEH. from the- same county, has 
stronger, less subject to disease, and better capa- i 
ble of resisting disease, than the children of the 
luxurious and idle. 
If we apply these principles to the practical 
breeding of domestic animals, we of course be¬ 
lieve that to obtain hardy and vigorous offspring 
tbe sire and dam ebould bo habitually in a bardv 
and vigorous condition, and consequently be 
habitually kept free from pampering and accus¬ 
tomed to a sufficient amount of exercise. It is 
not enough that they be brought down to a 
moderate degree of mere fleshiness at thc period 
of copulation aud gestation, If the seeds of weak¬ 
ness and degeneration have been sown iu their 
systems at other periods—say by a hot-bed pro¬ 
cess of extreme forcing while they were attain¬ 
ing their growth. Nor is it quite sufficient that 
the sire and dam should always have been prop¬ 
erly treated. It Is far better and safer that they 
also should bc descended from ancodar* that have 
been properly treated, so that no hereditary taiot 
— uo bad results of the bad management of pro¬ 
genitors—shall linger in their systems. 
The fulness acquired on grass, without extra 
or stimulating feed, is not a pampered state — 
but too much fatness in thc ram, even thus ac¬ 
quired, is nota favorable condition at the opening 
of the coupling season. It would be better—if 
breeders were willing to take that degree of 
pains—to keep it down not by starvation, which 
would reduce thc strength, hut by exercise, 
which would give firmness to the muscles and 
not permit any extra deposition of fat. It 
might be regarded ns a very comical spectacle 
by some, to see thc shepherd leading or driving 
his over fleshy ram lour or five miles a day “ for 
exercise” — to prepare him for the working 
season —yet there is no absurdity discovered in 
the groom doing this for a stallion under his 
charge, which perhaps did not cost half so much, 
andisuot half so intrinsically valuable as thc ram. 
Aud whether over fleshy or not, thc ram should 
receive a degree of exercise during tbe coupling 
difficulty in raisingtegs, in the premature deaths 
of costly aud valuable rams, aud in the reduced 
longevity and ptamina of the flocks misman¬ 
aged in the particulars we have discussed. 
Condensed Correspondence, Items, &c. 
$urat gtotfjs irotf gtem$ 
Yield of tub Wheat Chop.—Now that the «-heat 
crop of the whole country ha* been harvested, ‘ind to 
s large extent thrashed and measured, it appears that 
the yield will a-.'gre ate far less than was anticipated. 
The result proves that all parties overesilroj.-. id the 
yield—the press, growers and dealers. The cummer- 
ciat papers almost invariably overestimate the pros¬ 
pective yield every season, and this year the Apricul- 
tural Department and Journals have, no doubt inno¬ 
cently, committed the same error. We think the 
yield will be full fifteen per conL below the general 
estimate, which must make a vast difference when 
the crop of the whole country is taken Into the ac¬ 
count. Of course the prices of breadsinffa must ad¬ 
vance rather than recede, and growers and others 
having wheat on hand will bc likely to govern them¬ 
selves accordingly. 
The fact that ihe wheat crop of Great Britain also 
proves short will have a tendency to further au.ment 
prices in this country. A telegram just received 
from Washinuton says:—“Information has been re¬ 
ceived ot the Treasury Department from an official 
source that rhe thrashing shows the crop of wheat in 
the United Kingdom of Grcnt Britain to be short in 
quality as well a- quantity. Competent judees, with 
whom the writer has conversed during the month of 
September, estimate Ikatif, will fall twenty per cent, 
below an average crop.” 
■season. 
motely shown by the phenomena of species. erc j sc to the stallions. We were told the othcr 
How could different species originate from a day of a very celebrated one (we forget his name) 
common stock—the one species strong tough, 
utid long-lived, the other weak, tender, and 
short-lived—if these characteristics (however in¬ 
duced) were not transmitted from generation to 
generation ? They certainly are not first pro¬ 
duced by external circumstances, such as feed, 
climate, treatment, &c., in each individual case. 
The Scotch Mountain sheep is bom a hardier 
animal than the high-kept English Leicester, 
because at thc moment of yeaning it can safely 
withstand a degree of cold or other exposure 
which was never allowed to serve mares, under 
any circumstances, until he bad taken his morn¬ 
ing exercise —a drive of several miles. It was 
a most salutary arrangement. 
The second rule of the Dishley Society, estab¬ 
lished by Mr. Bakewell, was: —“No member 
shall give bis rams, at any season of Hie year, 
any othcr food than green vegetables, hay 
tnd straw.*” Whether this great breeder hud 
in tins any other object than the ostensible one— 
because he regarded pampering rams as injurious 
which would prove fatal to the Leicester lamb. for brecd } Df r purposes — vre cannot say, for he 
Analogous facts are. to be found among all 
classes of animals, including man. 
Thc same fact is also proved by every day ex¬ 
perience among men and bruteB of the same 
species• ifiC strong individuals are. more likely 
to beget the strong, the weak to beget the weak. 
And if the parents arc naturally strong and 
healthy, but have lostUiese qualities and condi¬ 
tions, by want of exercise and high keep, (wliat 
among human being* would bo termed idleness 
and luxury,) their progeny fall oil somewhat from 
thc natural stamina of their paresis, but usually 
not fatally, because beneficent nature constantly 
struggles to save and restore rather than to de¬ 
stroy. But if the indolence and pampering are 
kept up in the second generation, the stamina of 
its progeny goes down another stop, and roeot- 
ery becomes less easy,—and so on, under the ope¬ 
ration of like causes, the process of degeneration 
continues to advance and become confirmed. 
We see this in human beings. No nation, or 
family, ever kept up a continued course of idle¬ 
ness and luxury without producing corporeal 
effeminacy and decay. History,trumpet-tongued, 
proclaims this in all ages. We are aware that 
physical analogies between men and brutes are, 
8.P.HR.P8TATRR Horn «>» «oantj f ta o w i ugto Rionilii n dotli or cauRea .hid. »f*d 
U.iny.Rl„GVGrks 1 ,lrc 5 o„ 0 NlnlRt , cR..»RR «R "f ^ rul er and not tbc InUcr. verj defective. 
March tugs being very fine. T. T. Cavanagu _ „ii f nt ira ” 
March pigs being very line. 1. i. u.wanagu 
shows thirty-seven improved Cheshire?, one 
litter of which, consisting of eleven, (one year 
and four days old,) will average nearly five hun¬ 
dred pounds each. All of these are kept for 
breeding, but arc in good flesh for the butcher. 
James Bropie shows nineteen thorough-bred 
Yorkshires from imported stock. James F. 
Converse has also pure bred Yorkshires. W. 
B. Dinsmoke has a large number of improved 
Suffolks, aud C. E. West one Berkshire sow 
with a litter of small pigs. They are black in 
color. 
POCLTliY. 
There is a fair show of fowls, some of them 
fine, but most of them having room enough 
for improvement. Thc principal exhibitors are 
Lewis F. Allen, Black Rock; E. A. Wendell, 
Albany; R. H. Nichols, Loekport; L. L. Lok- 
illakd, Dutchess Co.; G. H. Warner, New 
York Mills; and Robert Bell, Rochester. 
Thomas Gould, Aurora, has a fine litter of 
lop-eared rabbits —the ears on some of them 
measuring nineteen inches iu length. Master 
J. S. Holmes, Buffalo, has on exhibiHou in this 
The comparison rarely goes “on all fours.” 
But wc love to resort to it, because, for obvious 
reasons, it brings home the lesson more con¬ 
vincingly and with more impressive effect to 
the majority of minds. 
It is important to oar argument to uote the 
fact that the loss of physical integrity and stam¬ 
ina, occasioned by the above-named causes, does 
not necessarily include a loss of the proper farm 
of the carcass or of any of its structures. Nay, 
thc enfeebled animal may possess a much hand¬ 
somer form—one perhaps indicating more prof¬ 
itable properties in some particulars —one even 
as consistent with absolute health. The Leices¬ 
ter is as perfect in the shape and arrangement 
of its organic structures as the Mountain sheep. 
Thc idle and pampered descendant of idle and 
pampered human ancestors, may present a more 
shapely and even better adjusted bodily machine 
tliau the toiling and frugal descendant of toiling 
and frugal ancestors—yet the lattc-r is ten times 
as capable of withstanding hardship, ten times 
less subject to disease, aud ten times more likely 
moBt carefully, and, judged by American stand¬ 
ards, most meanly concealed, as lar as practica¬ 
ble, all bia modes and processes of improvement. 
We can, however, imagine no other motive. 
That he regaJ5V.il tRo fivtuoco uoqui.oa >>y th* 
Leicester rams, without pampering, as objection¬ 
able in the working season, distinctly appears 
from the. statements of Marshall cited by 
Vohatt. ne says: — “ Before the season of 
business, the rams were reduced from the cum¬ 
brous state of fatness iu which they were shown.” 
In what manner reduced docs not appear. 
It is not probable, nay it is impossible, that 
American Merino ram* should do the amouut of 
work often required of them—serving 250or300 
ewes iu thc season— without some grain Iced. 
Mr. Bakkwkll’s rams covered only Irom 100 to 
120, with only a single service each.) But an 
excess of grain feed to keep the ram fat aud 
stimulate him to work beyond hi* natural ca¬ 
pacity, must be regarded a* prejudicial to his 
progeny and destructive to himself. 
It is this, connected with close confinement, 
which is killing nearly all the most, valuable 
Merino rams in the country before they have 
attained half the uatnral period of useful life. 
To demonstrate by tangible fact* that the get, 
especially the later annual get of an overworked 
ram, are not bo good iu all particulars as the get 
of a moderately worked one, may be very diffi¬ 
cult—but upon every sound principle of physi¬ 
ology, every analogy iu nature, we can entertain 
uo doubt whatever of that fact. Aud this should 
be especially true of ram tegs aud yearlings, pre¬ 
maturely developed by high keep. There can be 
no such exhausting strain on the vital powers 
and on the constitution as un unbounded aud 
artificially stimulated indulgence of the sexual 
passions during the immaturity of youth—it is 
equivalent to adding debauchery to idleness and 
luxury among human beings—and if conditions 
are inherited in any case, can we possibly expect 
thc get of an animal thus prematurely forced and 
worn out and burnt out, to have all the vigor aud 
excellence of the progeny of animals subjected 
to no such unnatural and ruinous treatment? 
The idea is preposterous. 
There is another mode of overworking rams, 
which exhausts aud injures them equally with 
too much work, without their accomplishing 
any extra amount of work. It is permitting 
them to serve ewes too frequently. It is better 
that a strong, full-grown ram should not be al- 
New York State Fair.— The Aunual Fair of the 
N. Y. State Ag. Society, held at Buffalo la?t week, is 
•pronounced oDe of the most pucivcesful ev L -r held iu 
the State, when pecuniarily considered. The receipts 
aggregated $21,000, and of course the attendance must 
have been large to yield that amount to the treasury 
—though probably not greater than st some of the 
Fairs held in Rochenter many years ago. when the 
price of single admission was only 12,V cents. But, 
although n pecuniary success, the Fair has not result¬ 
ed to thc credit and reputation of the Society in some 
respects. Buffalo, Rochester and other papera Bpeak 
most disparagingly of thc- arrangements for and man¬ 
agement of the Fnlr, mid from their testimony, aa 
well as that of our own reporters, we infer that the 
Society lust both popularity and influence by the 
course pursued, —a result wc sincerely regret, and 
which muKt be deeply deplored by tbc. fanners and 
othcr industrial classes of the State who have so long 
sustained and taken pride In the institution. In this 
and the next Rural will be found sundry notes and 
comments by our associates and reporters who at¬ 
tended the Fair, and bad an opportunity to see the 
elephant iu all bis proportions. 
Ohio State Fair.— This Fair, held at Dayton Sept. 
2.1-27, was largely attended,— some 00,000 persons 
having visited the grounds during its continuance. 
There w as no entrance fee for articles competing for 
premiums, no exhibitors or family tickets sold, but 
a unirorm entrance fee charged for each person visit¬ 
ing the grounds. Carriages and porsons on horse¬ 
back were excluded as were also all kinds of “ shows.’’ 
The show of horses, principally draft, was very large, 
and that of cattle very creditable. The sheep de¬ 
partment was less fall than common, but that of 
swine more than usually large. The Fair, as a whole, 
was a very successful one. The receipts were about 
$20,000—exceeding those of any previous exhibition. 
$Uie gmittrjj farl 
AMERICAN POULTRY SOCIETY. 
A regular meeting of the American Poultry 
Society was held at 37 Park Row, New York, 
Oct. S, the President, Mr. John J. Finnik, in 
the chair. The committee on room* and exhi¬ 
bition reported progress. Notice was given of 
motion to be made at next regular meeting to 
amend certain sections of the constitution aud 
by-laws. 
On motion, it was resolved that the subject of 
discussion at the uext regular meetiug be “ The 
adoption of the Standard of Excellence as laid 
down by the London Poultry Club, aud pub¬ 
lished by Tkgktmkki, with such alterations aa 
may be deemed advisable for this country.” 
The Secretary was instructed to uotify all mem¬ 
bers of the election, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, and 
urgently request their attendance. Also, to call 
their attention to the importance of attending 
the next regular meeting, Oct. 10, in view of 
the subject then to be discussed. 
The Society then adjourned to Wednesday, 
Oct. 9, same hour and place, 
FATTENING POULTRY. 
The London Field states that poultry, properly 
fed, will acquire all the fatness needful for mar¬ 
keting purposes, in a fortnight or three weeks at 
most. Their diet should be Indian, oat or bar¬ 
ley meal, scalded iu milk or water —the former 
is the best, as it will expedite the fattening pro¬ 
cess. They should be fed early in tlio morning, 
at noon, and also in thc evening ju6t before 
going to roost. A plentiful supply of pure 
fresh water—plenty of gravel, sliced cabbage 
or turnip tops. If the fowls are required to 
he very fat, some trimmings of fresh mutton 
suet may be chopped up and scalded with their 
other feed, or they may bc boiled in milk alone 
and poured over the meal. This renders thc 
flesh firmer than it otherwise would bo. When 
fit to kill, feeding should be stopped for twelve 
hours Or more, that the iutestines may become 
comparatively empty. 
J. 8. Holmes, Buffalo, has on exhibiHou in this to recover from disease, lhe finer machine, ^em to serve pwes too freque 
department a cage of white cats, aud there is though covered with veneer and varnish, is tbat a s t ron g, full-grown ram 
also one of puppies. The cackling of the geo6e composed oi soft, weak, badly seasoned wood i owed t Q SCrV e ewes (by single 
and crowing of the coek6 announce thc loca- —the coarser one, of solid oak and iron. And once j n ^ wo qoura—ayearlin 
tion of the poultry coops far and wide over the we repeat, that these conditions, a? well as forms, t -. )Ur i x0ll rs.—atjd that the day’ 
grounds, and their visitors are numerous. are transmitted to posterity, ihc offspring of tended bovond twelve hours. 
-—-- thc wild Tartar, the roving Arab and the North nQt Blu)W ' on the carcass, or 
Bee Food. —The Bee Journal has an article American Indian, at Hie very moment oi birth, linder gfrundaht and stimula 
on the importance of anew plant found iu the well as during the earliest periods of infancy muB t i^ll on the coustitutioi 
Rocky Mountain region, superior to anything -before they can have acquired any artificial Nq p I bab i ywiu e ffe 
titherto known ior supplying food for bees. It toughening -encounter exposures and depnva- T , pf>val „ tn fe falUes 5l1 tho trea 
The Best Fowls,—The editior of the Ger- 
own ram should not be &1- man t own Telegraph, discoursing of barn-yard r 
(by single leap) oftenerthan fowls, gives it as his opinion that none of the 
Illinois State Faii: —This State exhibition com¬ 
menced at Quincy, Oct. 1. There were about 4,000 
entries upon the books at the dose of the second dny. 
There were 5(AJ stalls filled with horses, aud others 
lu preparation; 150 pens filled with sheep, while 
many were outside waiting for pens to be made. Of 
cattle and sw ine there was the largest exhibition ever 
seen in the State. The show of machinery was very 
large. All the other departments are reported to 
have been superior In character aud ihUnees. 
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Indiana State Fair.— There was a lively time at 
Terre Haute on the opening or the State Fair on thc 
let Instant. The entries were very numerous—those 
of stock alone numbering over 500. The horse dis¬ 
play was very large and fine. The throng of people 
was great, showing that a successful exhibition woe 
a foregone conclusion. 
Fattening Hogs.— Feeding hogs coni or corn meal 
is hardly a paying business, unless they are of the best 
breeds for laying on flesh, and have good care and 
shelter. How much more than ten pounds of pork 
can you make with a bushel of corn ? Ten cents per 
pound will hardly make good the price of the grain in 
market. Wouldn’t it pay better to make mutton? 
Sulphite of Limb— Last week we noticed thc use 
of Sulphite of Lime in preseiving cider. The types 
made ns say Sulphate of lime. The two substances 
are wholly different in their action on fermenting 
liquids. The Sulphite is Jbrmcd by the combinatio* 
of sulphurous acid with lime, aud the Sulphate by the 
combination of sulphuric acid with the same. 
Tine Wheat Fields.— See that surface drains are 
cut and cleared. Protect exposed knolls by spreading 
a light coat of long manure on them before winter 
sets in; straw or leaves will answer. Perhaps a cost 
of plaster would pay if applied soon to wheat that 
has a small top. 
low a State Fair.— This Fair opened at Clinton. 
Oct. 1st. and at the close of the second day the books 
showed about 2,000 entries. Every department was 
represented, making a show superior to any previ¬ 
ously witnessed at a Fair in that State. 
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Awarding Premiums.— The Liviugaton Republican 
censures the committee on horses, at the recent Fair 
in that county, for declining to award a premium to a 
certain horse because hL owner bad been awarded 
the first honors on several previous occasions. 
Fall Plowing.— Plow deep iu the fall, and plow all 
you can. Leave the surface rough. Fall plowing i« 
an effectual way to destroy many kinds of weeds. 
Plow the garden, at any rate, and barley and oat 
is denominated the American Bee Plant— Cloeme tions which would prove almost universally fatal 
Integrifdia—ls a strong grower, much branched, to the offspring of the idle and luxurious classes 
like the common mustard plant, hut its flowers 0 f Europe. But we need not take extreme eases, 
are of a bright purple hue aud last from mid- or g0 so far, to prove our position. Every ob- 
eummer till the frosty weather of autumn. The serving person knows that the children of the 
t»ees prefer this to all other flowers—not except- laboring and unpampered classes, in our midst, 
in<' the buckwheat—while the honey made from are no t only brought forth more safely, both to 
■ 1__4II 3 -AX’_;__ I-.4 4La 4- ihnw Liuta 
them is ol a superior character, 
mother and offspring —but that they are born 
once in two hours—a yearling once in three or 
four hours—afid that the day’s work be not ex¬ 
tended beyond twelve hours. More work may 
not show on the carcass, or diminish alacrity, 
under abundant and stimulating keep,—but it 
must tell on the constitution. 
Nothing probably will effectually correct thc 
prevalent follies in the treatment of rams, or 
those follies in the treatment of owes, comment¬ 
ed on in our article of Sept. 21st, hut experi¬ 
ence, the belt, but sometimes a tremendously 
expensive teacher. It is already giving its bit¬ 
ter lessons ia feeble and diseased lambs, in the 
* Yooatt, p.ISlT. 
t Marshall, died by Youatt, p. 316. 
imported varieties have proved as desirable or 
profitable as those the country already possessed 
in what are denominated “narives.” This is 
certainly at variance with the commonly received 
opinion, hut it may be true nevertheless. What 
say the Brahma and Silver Poland advocates to 
this estimate of foreign varieties of fowls ? 
Eggs fob Use and Market. —The Maryland 
Farmer says that hens will lay just as many eggs 
it kept from intimacy with thc males as when 
allowed unrestricted liberty in this respect. It 
is added that eggs produced without impregna¬ 
tion keep much longer than with it. If this is 
so, it would be good policy, at the commence¬ 
ment of the season, to isolate all the hens hut 
such as are designed for propagating purposes. 
Union Fair —Hemlock Lake.— The Agriculural 
Society comprising the towns of Livonia, Lima, 
Richmond, Canadice, Springwator and Conesuu, will 
hold their next annual Fair at Hemlock Lake on 
Wednesday, Oct. Pith. 
Horse Shows.— The first of October seems to have 
been prolific in Horse Fairs. There was one at Kala¬ 
mazoo, another at St. Lottie, Mo., a third at Paterson, 
N. J., and a fourth one at New Haven, CL 
Seeding with Timothy, —If spring seeded field* 
fail to show a fair amount of grass, it ia not yet too 
late to harrow them well and sow timothy seed. 
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Chautauqua Co. Fair, —The Receipts of the recent 
Fair at Fredonia amounted to $2,270; 
