nmmn 
clear idea, a wtll-dcfiued plan of that yon wish 
to accomplish. If you are not well used to a 
tool make your motions very slowly, aitniug to 
do your work well regardless of time. You may 
safely try to do your work quickly after yon are 
well accustomed to the motions to be used. 
Many mechanics are bungling and uuskillful 
through life from the hurried, nervous and 
disconnected habit of work which was acquired 
in their tirst efforts. l. w. 
Slitejt IttsBattiug. 
BDITBD BT HXNBY S. RANDALL, LL. D. 
To Correspondents.—M r. Kanimll’b addrcsR U Cort 
and Village, Cortland Co., N. Y. All conununlcattons- 
Intended for this Department, and all Inquiries relating 
to sheep, should be addressed to him as above. 
N. Y. WOOL GKO WEES’ ASSOCIATION. 
Tub Annual Meeting of the N. Y. State Sheep 
Breeders’ and Wool Growers’ Association will be 
held in Syracuse, December 12th, at 1 o'clock P. M. 
Henby S. Randall, President. 
H. D. L. Sweet, Secretary. 
NATIONAL WOOL GEO WEES’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Executive Committee of the National 
Wool Growers’ Association met pursuant to the 
call of the President, at Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 26tli, 
and continued in session two days. At the time 
of this writing (Nov. 29th) we have not the full 
proceedings prepared for publication, but shall 
give them next week. 
[With the above paragraph, we received from Dr. 
Randall a report of the proceedings of a public 
meeting held in Pittsburg on the 37th ult., in which 
the Executive Committee of the N. W. G. Association 
participated at the invitation of the ofilters of the 
Pennsylvania State W. G. Association,—but lack of 
space, and the late hour of its reception, preclude its 
publication.—Mj 
IMPORTS OF WOOL AND WOOLENS. 
We have obtained from the New York Custom 
Hou6cthc following statement of the “Imports 
of Wool and Manufactures of Wool into the 
port of New York, during the second quarter of 
1867:’’ 
Quantity, lbs. Value, $. 
Wool Raw,. 8,512,021 1,486,985 
Wool Manufactured,... 5,195,063 
In the table published last week, it appeared 
that the importations of raw wool, except flocks, 
in the first quarter of 1807, were 5,242,815 lbs.; 
of manufactured wool $10,019,044 making in the 
aggregate imports for the first half of the year, 
18,754,880 pound- of raw wool, and $15,214,107 
worth of manufactured wool, which exhibits a 
falling off from the first half year’s imports of 
I860, of 26,250,110 lbs. of raw and $8,986,069 
worth of manufactured wool. Again we say 
the tariff workn / 
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PERICARDITIS. 
Suwankp. Near Kddywille, Lyon Co., Ky. 
Hon. H. 8. Randall, LL. D.— My Dear Sir : 
I have becu intending to write to you upon sev 
oral matters siucc my laet,—but divers disap¬ 
pointments and absences have heretofore pre¬ 
vented the accomplishment of that good purpose. 
I write now simply to describe and ask informa¬ 
tion about a new disease amongst sheep,—at 
least T suppose it to be an unusual, if not a new, 
disease. 1 never heard of its like, nor can I find 
any description of it in books on this subject. 
Last week, as I rode through one of my pas¬ 
tures, 1 found one of the lambs—a half-blood 
Cotswold and South Down, and about five 
months old, — apparently Indisposed, On my 
return, three or four hours later, I found her 
dead. She was exceedingly fat. The pastures 
were high, rolling, dry, and iu appearance pre¬ 
senting all the signs of salubrity. And as this 
was the fifth or sixth case of like complaint and 
death, 1 determined to make, in person, a post 
mortem examination. Upon dissection I discov¬ 
ered—First, that, for a lamb, she was very fat. 1 
should say that, beside an unusual quantity of 1 
fat within, there were two strips of fat running 1 
up each side of the, backbone eight or ten incites 1 
long, three or four broad, and perhaps half au 
inch in thickness. Still I did not consider her 
fat to be at all unnatural either in its quantity, 
or color, or consistency. Second, the liver, 
lungs, melt, gall-bladder, and other entrails, 
and ail internal parts, seemed to he perfectly 
healthy in all their appearances, with these two 
exceptions, viz: a minute edge of one of the 
lungs, about an inch in diameter, was so red as 
to look quite like so much liver. Do you call 
that appearance “hepaliscd?” Next, T thought 
the gall-bladder was unusually large, and it was i 
certainly most fully distended. Third, and here 
is the supposed novelty, the heart wan broken ,— 
that is to say, tha pericardium was burated away 
from four-fifths of its surface and rolled back 
upon Steell inside outward, whilst the rcinaiuing 
fifth partr—upon its right lower side as the dis¬ 
sector faced it—alone adherud to it naturally. 
The organ itself, except as to this small part, 
presented somewhat the appearance of a pale 
red lumps of honcy-combed flesh, or more ex¬ 
actly still, It looked like a heart-shaped mass, 
ragged in points of flesh, aud their intervening 
cavities running up and down, and longer than 
wide. Some three clots of dark red solidified 
blood iu the cavities finishes the description. 
Otherwise the heart seemed to have beCn wholly 
depleted of its proper fluid; and when the knife 
cut apart the fore-ribs aud. brisket, a flood of 
dark blood gushed out of the hollow between. 
This is all I know. Tipon inquiry I learned 
that the predecessors iu this course of disease aud 
death had all beeu alike very fat; that those of 
them, which were lambs, had also been half and . 
half Cotswolds aud South Dowds, and that their 
symptoms of ailment were about thus, viz: a 
I few hours of restlessness and growing fecble- 
! ness—neither of Diem very remarkable—ended 
in a quiet, quick death. In one case the lamb, 
] also a ewe, was lying down. Being raised to its 
feet, it leaned against the shepherd’s leg aud ate 
a few bites of grass, sank again through feeble¬ 
ness, gasped once or twice and was dead. Noth- 
mg was done to them when alive, except in one 
case, to bleed by docking; nor in the dissection 
after death was the heart at all examined. The 
liver alone was looked to upon suspicion of the 
“ liver rot.’’ In my case there was no external 
symptom of disease — tome. Some moisture 
had exuded from the mouth or nose, upon which 
the green flies were settled, and the victim wus 
lying rather upon its breust than On its side. 
What is this case ? 11 certainly presents au 
instance of at least o ue female dying of a broken 
heart. Probably all of them died of the same 
infirmity, I believe there is no other recorded 
instance of like casualty, save that of a black¬ 
smith (male) who “ burst bis mighty heart ” in 
the attempt to lift his anvil. But, jesting apart, 
and these cases are no jesting matter with me, 
w hat disease is thisV and what shall be done to 
prevent or cure it ? I need only add that, except 
their weekly saltings, these sheep have had no 
feed since winter except the grass of their pas¬ 
tures, changed twice, as Timothy, Red-top, 
sedge, (if they would eat St,) and the shrubs of 
the enclosed bushes. 
The common sheep, running all the time, with 
them and having the same treatment, except 
their entering the spring life in a leaner condi¬ 
tion, have neither died nor been sick. Some of 
them, too, are very fat for common sheep. My 
man thinkB, too, that all the fat lambs which 
have so died were those half-bloods, and that 
none of the full-blood South Downs have died. 
I state his belief for what it is worth. But, 
though lie is truthful, I do not myself attach 
much interest to observations so inexact as his. 
Let us hear from the experienced and also the 
scientific shepherds. Elman. 
Remarks.— The above statements—made, we 
may as well say, by Ex-Governor Charles An¬ 
derson, late of Ohio,—present un instance of a 
rare, il not wholly unprecedented, disease in 
sheep. At least wc do not now call to mind 
any previously described instance of it. The 
post mortem examination made by Gov. An¬ 
derson clearly discloses, we think, the effects of 
pericarditis , or inflammation of the interior sur¬ 
face of the pericardium, the membrane which 
incloses the heart, and which, in health, contains 
a fluid which prevents the surface of the heart 
from becoming dry. The appearance of the sur¬ 
face of the heart was due to inflammation and 
the resulting depositions of lymph. Another 
product of the inflammation was that dark red 
dish serous fluid which was found in the thoracic 
cavity or chest, and which “ gushed out’’ when 
that cavity was opened, and was mistakeu for 
blood. Tills was originally deposited between 
the heart and pericardium, and il pressed more 
and more on the lutter as that membrane lost 
its integrity of structure, until it finally burst it 
open and escaped into the chest. Nothing in 
the description shows that the heart itself wus 
“ broken” or ruptured. We wish that the ap¬ 
pearance of the Interior of this organ and its 
cavities had also been described. 
It will not do to assume that the other cases, 
where the condition of the heart was not exam¬ 
ined, were the same. 
There is nothing mentioned in respect to the 
situation, iced, condition or blood of the sheep, 
which was In the least degree calculated to pro¬ 
duce pericarditis oi any oilier disease. No pre¬ 
ventive measures can be suggested except that 
general regimen which tend6 to preserve health, 
aud therefore to avert all forms of disease. 
Of remedies for pericarditis we can speak with 
little satisfaction. If its external symptoms are 
not discoverable until a short period before 
death, as the facts given by our correspondent 
would seem to imply—a matter, however, which 
deserves further and careful scrutiny—it is ob¬ 
vious that no remedy then administered can he 
of any avail. Indeed, we should have no hope 
of successfully combating the disease in any 
stage, after its actual establishment, in the case 
of an animal so little capable of resisting any 
serious attack on its vital organs us the sheep. 
It is idle, therefore, to speculate about remedies : 
until the facts are better understood. 
--- 
A SOUTH AMERICAN SHEPHERD. 
A shepherd’s hut or house iu Buenos Ayres 
is called a pnesto ; the shepherd is a puestero, who | 
is generally paid by an allotment of one-third of 
the wool ami oue-third the increase, besides 
' 
being allowed as much mntton as he can con¬ 
sume. The only hope of success for an emi¬ 
grant is to get an engagement on these terms ; 
for, if the owner of a 6tnall capital, he would 
almost certaiuly lose it and be ruined if he pur¬ 
chased a part of a flock, which some have im¬ 
agined to be the high road to fortune. It is an 
uphill struggle on the plan of “ thirds,” the 
writer having been told by steady industrious 
men, well qualified for their business, that after 
a battle of eight or uine years they were in 
worse circumstances than when they first ar¬ 
rived in the country. 
Puestos, like cstancias, are of various sizes. 
Some arc merely rude huts containing a single 
room, furnished with one or more ox skulls, face¬ 
tiously called “ ivory chairs,” and a hide for a 
bed; whilst others are comfortable cottages, 
furnished in much the same manner as the 
houses of small farmers or laborer? in England. 
Shepherds (on thirds) are generally unmarried 
and live alone. Their dogs are their only com¬ 
panions. Some of them do not hear the sound 
of a human voice for weeks. 1 have been told 
by more than oue, that when they first took pos¬ 
session of their hermitages every day seemed as 
long as a mouth; but that after a time they got 
accustomed to solitude, and did not dislike it. 
It seems an unnatural life, however, and I fancy 
the feelings must become so far petrified. Yet 
many of them are kind-hearted fellows, and the 
stranger is always sure of a hospitable welcome 
at a pucsto. On his arrival the shepherd kindles 
a fire (of fat and Bteep-duug,) roasts or stews 
mutton, prepares tea or mate, produces a bottle 
of cane, and takes every pains, which appears to 
him a pleasure, to make bis guest comfortable. 
On rare occasions the puestcro gives ft party 
(jmbrosa,) ami fellow shepherds ride for leagues, 
after their sneop are in the corrals, to spend the 
night In mirth and sodality. Roast fowls by 
the dozen, mutton galore, biscuits and tea are 
provided lor the bodily needs, and gin and cane 
help to drive away dull care. The spirits, so 
long depressed, rise In an inverse proportion on 
that very account. SoDgs arc sung, jests are 
cracked, and in due time the mirth and fun grow 
fast and furious. The party disperses about 
cock-crow, each member trusting to the saga¬ 
city of his horse to find the way home. 
Herding sheep is all done in Buenos Ayres 
either on horaebuck or on ihe top of the chim¬ 
ney. The shepherd, whilst buBied with his 
household affairs, his quinta or gardeu, occa¬ 
sionally mounts the ladder leading to the cbim- 
ney-top, from which be obtains a wider prospect 
of the camp, and his practiced eye can distin¬ 
guish his flock amongst a jungle of thistles 
when it is invisible to others. He can also guess 
very accurately what hie sheep intend to do— 
whether they mean to remain on their guercncia, 
or proper pasturage, or are inclined to wander 
into forbidden ground. He require? to keep a 
sharp look-out, lest they meet and mix with 
another flock, an accident that sometimes hap¬ 
pens, and which occasions a great deal of trou¬ 
ble, as the separation can only be effected by 
catching and lifting out of the corral every jndl 
viduat member of one of the flock?. Every 
shepherd owns two or three horses, and one is 
always kept saddled and tied up, that he may be 
able to gallop to his flock at any moment. To 
pamperos — the tremendous gales, often laden 
with dust, that sweep across the pampas—the 
shepherd is obliged to be doubly vigilant and to 
keep with hie flock, as the sheep run at full 
gallop before the hurricane, and are often en¬ 
tirely lost. A little before noon in summer 
Bheep arrange themselves into curiously regular 
masses, and sleep for several hours. It is then 
the shepherd, if so inclined, may also take hie 
siesta. — People's Magazine, London. 
—-»»♦ 
HOW SHEEP WERE IMPORTED IN 1810. 
The followin'? old document, containing article? of 
agreement between some Connect* 011 * Merino sheep 
importers in 1810, will be read with curiosity: 
Whereas, the importation of Merino sheep from 
Kpaln Into the United State? of America, and Into 
thi? State, is become a matte of the highest impor¬ 
tance to the Slate, and if successful in imporbifion. 
promises a vast reward to the importers, ami it being 
a voyage attended wW) difficulty and hnv.'iTd. the fol¬ 
lowing I'lan or i Vn ffgr Is contemplated for the sd 
purpose of Importinc a carco of the full blooded 
Merino sheep Into this Stale from Spain, vlst,:—To 
consist of flftv sdiures of $10fl each, so that In ca*c of 
lo»s it maybe borne without inconvenience to Die 
adventurers. Fifty dollarp ou each share 1» lo be 
paid to KILbii Ayer. Win, Rhine and Jonah Witter, 
a? n 'ents for paid company, by the 10»h of April next 
to pros-cute sd voyage The remaining fifty dollars 
will not hr- required unless the vessel be seized, cap¬ 
tured. condemned or lost, in which ease the remain¬ 
ing fifty dollar? will be required by Ihe 25th of Nov. 
next. But if the vessel‘ return, no more, will be 
requirod than sufficient to pay the charter of sd 
vessel, seamans' wage, port charge?, insurance and 
expenses in foreign ports, 
Proposition ^ila? P. Halsey is to go master of ?d. 
vessel, in consideration of twenty dollar? per mouth 
on sd. voyage, and to have one-fifteenth part of all 
the sheep that, shall be landed In the Hutted States. 
Aud Elisha Ayer, Jr..* is to go Iu sd. vessel as super¬ 
cargo on sd. voyage, and to procure sd. sheep, for the 
consideration of two and a half per cent, commis¬ 
sions on s&lc- and purchases, ami also to have one- 
flfloenlli part or all the sheep that shall be landed in 
the If. 8. A. And each seaman t* to have a primage 
of fifty cents on each sheep that shall be so lauded, 
in addition to his wages. And in case this voyage 
should prove successful, the sheep Imported are to be 
kept iu oue entire flock, under the direction or an 
agent or agents, to l>e appointed by the subscribers, 
each share to he entitled to orw votu in the appoint¬ 
ment of such agent or agents, and each proprietor to 
be entitled to liis proportion of the avails of the 
profits of sd. sheep until the majority of sd. pro 
prmtors. according to their shares, ahull order and 
direct otherwise. 
Preston. March 30th, A. D. 1810. 
A PLAN OF THE VOYAGE 
A suitable vessel is to he chartered, valued at $2,500 00 
Cargo. 
30 thousand pipes staves, @ say $60 per M,.. 1,800 00 
100 bushels beans, @ $1.. . 100 00 
Ship's Provisions, 
5 bbls. mess pork. (ft $20 per bbl. 100 00 
8 do to beef, (ft $15. 
1,000 lbs. bread, (ft $7 per cwt. 
Small stores. 
Laying in for Sheej). 
50 bushels corn. (ft $1. 50 00 
100 do oats, (ft 85c ... 35 00 
toue Uay. 20 00 
15 water casks, (ft $2 . 30 00 
Advance wages lor people. 100 00 
Expense for arming. 50 CM) 
Disbursements. 50 00 
$2,500 00 
We, the subscribers, hereby agree to take the 
number or share? affixed to our names in the fore¬ 
going voyage, aud to pay fifty dollars on each share 
Tiy the tenth of April next, to K Ayer, Wro. Kmnc 
aiid J. Witter, a? agents for us to prosecute the voy¬ 
age. And the remuinui: llfty dollars, or such part, 
thereof as shall bo required on the return oi sd. 
vessel, for the purpose? aforesaid, or by the 25th of 
Nov., 1810. 
Subscribers' Residence No - of share? 
Names. Residence. Bn bscribed for. 
Wm. Kinnk, .Plainfield... 1 
Joseph Eaton, .Plainfield. 1 
Dr. J osiAH Fuller, .. Plaiufield.... 1 
John Douglas, Esq.,. Plainfield.1 
Solomon Payne . Canterbury. 1 
Dr.- Harris,. ..Canterbury .1 
Dan’l Putnam, . ..Brooklyn.2 
Dan’l TvLEit,.Brooklyn .2 
Jonah Witter, .Preston. 1 
Elisha Ayeb, _... Groton. . 5 
Geokoe Leonard,.. .Canterbury.1 
The voyage was made aud about 150 Spanish Meri¬ 
nos brought safely home. This contract was recently 
obtained of Lucas Witter, Esq., of Preston, Conn., 
(son of Jonah Witter, deceased, one of the. con¬ 
tractors,) by Mr. Asa W. Fanning of Rochester, N. 
Y., ;to whom we are indebted for the privilege of 
copying, &c Mr. Fanning remembers the arrival 
of the sheep at Gale’s Ferry, New London, Conn., 
and saw them. He says tlioy looked like dwarfs, 
compared with the Merinos of to-day. 
* Mr. Ayer is still living in Ledyard, Conn., aged 81. 
gural spirit tftf Iwjsis. 
Soiling vs. Pasturing. 
Let me recite, says a writer in the New Eng¬ 
land Homestead, the experience and practice of 
a friend or mine. Coming into possession of 
about nine acres of land, In the neighborhood 
of a good market made by the demands of a 
large literary institution, he cast about as to 
what was to be done. Two cows and a horse 
was the stock in trade for neat cattle. He was 
obliged to pay per season, men for pasturage, 
what they thought it was worth, and tit the 
same time it was no amall job to drive his cows 
back and forth. That determined him to keep 
his cows In the barn. The greatest trouble was 
the rapid accumulation of manure. By good 
husbandry he properly secured that—he kept, 
feediug it to his crops. Finding his crops in¬ 
creasing, lie added another cow. Another cow 
only made more tnanuro. More raauure, hus¬ 
banded in the same way, made more crops, 
and the third year he added another cow. 
Now began another serious difficulty. His barn 
was too small. Still, at the cud of the fourth 
year he put in another cow, and set himself to 
work to get up a new barn, and when I last saw 
him he had a new bam with modern improve¬ 
ments, of good size, a horse, a pair of cattle, 
and five cows, and yet had not thought of buy¬ 
ing more land, but wanted one more cow. Now 
people who do not want a large accumulation of 
manure and a gradual increase of crops, should 
not adopt that style. But H seem? to me, that 
ill our towns, where homesteads arc in small lots 
and »ot easily procured, no better course could 
be pursued than soiling the cow, and at the same 
time fattening the soil 
Butter Making. 
A correspondent of the St. Alban? Messen¬ 
ger remarks on hi? process of making butter as 
follows: — I keep twenty-three cow? of the 
native stock, with a slight mixture of Durham ; 
their feed was the fall feed in my mow fields, 
with pumpkins In the morning; the cream was 
gathered in three days from n ilk that set thirty- 
six hours after milking; tb * cream then set 
twenty-four hours, then was churned; when the 
butter came, it was put in a wooden bowl nnd 
washed with spring water until the milk was all 
waalx fl "tit ami the water cessed to be colored 
and remained clear, then the Ashton salt is 
worked in by hand at the rate of one ounce to 
a pound of butter; the butter is then ssetuw&y 
to stand twenty-four hours, then it i» worked 
over by hand, taking a small quantity at a time 
and working out all the brine, then it is pounded 
down iu the tub; the tub is filled within a half- 
inch of the. top, then it is covered with a cloth 
over which is spread a thin layer of salt. Tills 
tuti was packed the 4th of October. Cream is 
not churned the same day It is skimmed, as It 
will sometimes have a peculiar taste which it 
does not have after standing twenty four hours. 
In the fall the pans are filled two thirds full aud 
the cream rises as well, but in summer it should 
be more shallow.” 
The Hog Cholera. 
H. O. Dickson, Talbot Co., Ga., writes the 
Southern Cultivator about the hog cholera, und 
his experiments with his hogs wheu afflicted 
with it. He says:—“Myhogs died rapidly. I 
decided that I would try some experiments on 
them, as it could do no harm. As soon an one 
refused to eat 1 put it in a pen, and if its bow¬ 
els were costive, (which is apt to be the case in 
the first stages of the disease,) I gave it a largo 
dose of salts — say a tea-cup half full to a hog a 
year old or upwards. If it did not act freely in 
live or six hours, I repeated the dose, which al¬ 
ways had the desired effect. As soou as the 
color of toe operations began to change, I gave 
it two teaspooneful of laudanum, iu about as 
much warm water, and repeated the dOfie, if 
necessary, in live or six hours. I never had to 
give the third dose, and often one would answer.” 
Hogs that arc running oft' at the bowels need 
nothing but laudanum. Where a hog is to be 
drenched, turn the animal upon the back aud 
put a stick in the mouth to prevent biting off 
the bottle neck, and the drenching is easily done. 
Yoking Oxen. 
The old story, about yoking oxen by the 
horns, is revived in some of the agricultural 
journals. “A. J. W.,” in the N. H. Farmer, 
says the best way to couple working oxen is 
to have the yoke fitted to rest ou the head just 
back of the horns ; the forehead padded for pro¬ 
tection, and ropes bound around to make the 
yoke fast. This would be a capital rig for cat¬ 
tle engaged in logging—especially when bring¬ 
ing up against a stump or other obstruction. 
In our opinion, this coupling of cattle by the 
horns, for the purpose of securing the strength 
of the neck, is an absurdity, and would be so 
pronounced by the poor beasts themselves bad 
they a voice in the matter. Freedom of the 
head aud neck, while working, is quite as essen¬ 
tial to quadruped? as to bipeds, and from neither 
can a full development of strength be obtained 
if this freedom is hampered or restrained. 
Comparative Yield of Potatoes. 
C. R. Wilson, Tioga Co., Pa., writes the 
Prairie Farmer, Philadelphia, on the compara¬ 
tive productiveness of three varieties of pota¬ 
toes which he tested the past season. There 
were sent to him, from Ohio, two Harrison, 
three Early Sebec, and eight Early Goodrich 
potatoes. These were cut to single eyes and 
planted in drills eighteen inches apart in garden 
soil. They were dug in September. The Sebec 
yielded a bnsbel; the Goodrich gave five bushels 
aud the Harrison about two and a half bushels. 
About half the Sebec died out after having made 
a considerable growth. Two bushels of the 
Gleason were planted as an experiment, cut 
like the others, aud produced about forty-nine 
bushels or nearly twenty-five to one. 
$ural aafl sterns* 
Death of William Garbutt.— One of the most 
painful duties which ever devolved upon na aa a jour¬ 
nalist is discharged in announcing the decease of 
William Garbutt, E?q., who died at his residence 
in Wheatland, this county, on the 22d ultimo, at the 
advanced age of 81 years. For half a century Mr. 
Garbutt ha? been widely known as a prominent 
farmor and influential friend and promoter of Agricul¬ 
tural Improvement, and this notice of his death will 
be read with profound regret by u_any of our readers, 
near ami distant We feel hie loss deeply, for he was 
a true friend and wise counselor for many ycars-first 
as an able contributor, ardent supporter and judicious 
adviser while we published the Genesee Farmer, 
and the same after we started thie journal and until 
the time of hi? decease. Bis influence for good waa 
widespread, and will l>e long feJt. In an obituary 
notice of Mr. Garbutt, a city contemporary says 
that with his older brothers, John and Pullip, he 
settled In Wheatland in 179S, In a locality nowand 
loug known a? Garhuttsville, and truly adds:— 11 The 
Intelligence and enterprise of the biothera Gabbutt 
caused them to be widely known and respected. They 
did much to promote general intelligence among the 
people, and William Garbutt devoted much time to 
reading and study, which he continued till near the 
close of his lire. He wrote much for publication upon 
a^ricnlturat subjects, and his articles were widely 
read and appreciated, aud exerted an Important influ¬ 
ence in creating an interest in improved methods of 
farming. The theories he promulgated were practi¬ 
cally demonetrated upon his own farm. He took 
great Interest in the Improvement of faint stock, and 
was among the earliest in Western New York to 
bring into the country some of the improved breeds, 
' which made the Genesee Valley noted for its fine cat¬ 
tle. It is such praiseworthy effurts as these to bene¬ 
fit community that canse u« to respect the early pion¬ 
eer* of Western New York. They struggled hard to 
diffuse Intelligence among the early settlers and to 
develop the country, and among the most active and 
efficient was William Garbutt, who has now gone 
to his reward—to the reward of those who do well on 
the earth.” 
— Our last visit to Mr. Garbutt was made about a 
year ago, in company with his and our venerable and 
esteemed friend, Lyman B. Lanowokthv, Esq,, (who, 
though an octogenarian, still retail)? bis mental and 
physical faculties remarkably, and is among our most 
valued contributors und advisors,) and well do wc 
remember the interest with which we listened to his 
experience a? a pioneer, and the mournful sadness of 
his farewell -which proved, a? be predicted, our final 
parting on earth, He has "gone before,” leaving an 
unblemished record as a Christian and Citizen. 
A Double Club. —At Claridon (Ohio) the farmers 
got up a club for the discussion of agricultural sub¬ 
ject?, when their wives followed suit and instituted 
one for them-elves. Their meetings arc held in one 
building, but iu separate apartments, on the same 
evenings. 'The men chat away about fanning, and 
the women concerning household affairs, deportment 
and morals, and the moans best Adopted to secure 
good result? in each department. Thi? arrangemont 
will most probably carry the men folk homo “on 
time," as they will be compelled to give their bettor 
halves the benefit of an escort after having concluded 
their agricultural discussions. There i? one draw¬ 
back to the system—the possible demoralization of 
the young people at home, WllOU the supervlflng eyo 
of the mother is withdrawn from them. 
A Sudden Conversion,— “ An Ontario Co. Sheep 
Breeder" wishes us to note the sudden conversion to 
the sheep laith of au agricultural journal (published 
not a thousand miles from Albany,) which bits been 
worn to pitch iuio our State Sheep Breeders’ and 
Wool Growers’ Association—for that whereas it has 
deserted the Short-Horns by inaugurating the genus 
Aries (commencing with the Merino/) as the corner 
stonoH of it? show-bill for 18681 When will wonders 
cease, aud what will Mrs Grundy say ? 
Experimental Farm.— The Trustees of the Penn 
sylvanla Agricultural College have decided to locate 
the Experimental College Farm in the county of 
Chester, provided the citizens thereof will give five 
thousand dollars as a bonus for this mark of prefer¬ 
ence. The Germantown Telegraph thinks this will 
please the Chester county people, but hints that 
unless the managers of the farm are wide awake they 
will be excelled in products and management by 
many of the 'armera in that county. 
Notes fhom Wisconsin.— L. L. F. writes from 
DodgeCo., Nov. 24, thus:—“ Very fine weather all the 
fall. Temperature moderate. “ Dry as a toper 1 1 
Wells are now being dug and drilled over for the 
second lime this season. One-lialf or two-thirds of 
the well? dry enough for a powder house We had 
60 me very lino showers last ni.ht, and water stands 
on the street. The good women are rejoicing over 
the re-filling of their rain barrels and cisterns. Fall 
plowing and work well along." 
How to Burn Coal,—M ost people err in using 
coal by putting too much in the grate at once. Fill 
about half full and let it burn well down, aud then, 
without stirring the other, put in a small quantity 
more. As this ignites, make another small addition, 
throwing the damper back for a draft. When well on 
fire, shake out the ashes, and the fire will be as good 
as new, and much coal be saved. 
Grain Drills, &e., for the South.— “North Car¬ 
olina Subscriber" (and all other Southern subscribers 
interested) can procure a good grain drill on applica¬ 
tion to Mr. W, L. BucErNOHAM, 59ji So. Cbales St., 
Baltimore, Aid, Mr. B. sells a superior drill, and can 
also furnish (or give information about) other valua¬ 
ble machines and implement? He Lb an enterprising 
and reliable business man. 
Commissioner of Agriculture.— The Senate has 
confirmed the nomination of Col. Horace Cafron 
of Illinois, as Commissioner of Agriculture. It is to 
be hoped tbat the Department and the Agricultural 
public will be benefited by this confirmation. 
“Tins Philosophy of Housekeeping.” —In no¬ 
ticing this excellent work, two weeks ago, we stated 
it to be for sale by booksellers generally, but since 
learn tbat it is sold only by canvassing agents, and 
cheerfully make the correction. 
Many Advertisements intended for this uumber 
of the Rural are necessarily deferred. Advertisers 
are again reminded that the space allotted them is 
limited, and that we do the best we can without in¬ 
fringing upon the rights of subscribers. 
W inter was properly inaugurated in this region,— 
with a snow storm, piercing blasts, and a frigid tem¬ 
perature as appropriate accompaniments. 
