» hole, for the la-t year. With reference to the rapid 
multiplication of cheese factories, here and at the 
West, Mr. W. remarks: —“ The opinion has gone 
abroad tuat there is no branch of farming so profit¬ 
able as the dairy. The consequence is that many 
are thoughtlessly changing their system of farming, 
anil rushing into cheese making, when really better 
results would be secured by keeping steadily along 
in the business with which they are familiar. Dairy¬ 
ing is now 60 extended, that it will need the best 
uuited efforts of producers to make the business 
pay. Every increase is fraught with danger, and it 
is important that correct and reliable information 
be disseminated in regard to the extent and profits 
of the business.” As a portion of this information, 
it is stated that the prod net of cheese, in the U nited 
States last year was fnliy 200,000,000 of pounds, and 
that the per centage of profit, on most dairy farms, 
was far from flattering. 
There arc other addresses embodied in the volume, 
as also reports from various factories in New York 
and other States, containing interesting particulars 
concerning the dairy business, but we have not space 
at command to advert to them more in detail at the 
present time. 
- .« » -- 
The Cheese Market — There was quite a little 
hatch of new cheese at the Little Falls market, April 
27th. Farm dairies sold readily for from 12 cents to 
14 cents. Two or three factories were also in mar¬ 
ket. The Fairfield Dairy Association 6oid for 15 
cents. Batter met with, quicker sales at 50 cents. 
Wo have advices from our correspondents abroad 
down to April 11th. American cheese in London, 
at thatdate, was very firm. Fiue continues in active 
request, choice factories being held for 70s. We 
give quotations: — English chedder, 70s. to 90s.; 
Wiltshire double, 56s. to 70s.; Cheshire, 46s. to 80s.; 
Scotch, 54s. to 6Ss.; American extra, 64s. to 70s.; 
Dutch cheese — Edams, 50s. to 60s.; Goudas, 46s. to 
53s.; Derby shape, 50s. to 53s. There is scarcity of 
stocks iu England, and but a very limited supply in 
this country.— Utica Herald. 
them in the ordinary way. But when pampered without 
the advantage of the conditions named. Merino tegs are 
always in serious danger of being attacked by fatal dis¬ 
eases. We don't know hut English sheep, having been 
bred to it for age J , can hear it better; and where muttou 
is the primary object, there is an excuse for forcing—but 
there is no sufficient reason for it with Merinos, aud we 
hope the time will soot come when all breeders will set 
their laces against that vicious practice. 
larger at the same age ; aud vyth good sized West¬ 
ern ewes, there is not that difficulty which would 
naturally be expected in yeaning. The Shropshire 
Down would give both the dark legs and greater 
size; hut 1 have had no opportunity to observe the 
comparative early maturity and other characteris¬ 
tics of this cross. 
English breeders who, from soil, climate, &c , 
find it expedient, for the purpose of growing lambs 
for the market, to breed large improved rams with 
ewes of smaller and easier kept varieties—or with 
those which are from any circumstances better 
adapted to the locality—usually make it a rule to 
stop with the first cross,—that is to say, they do not 
continue to save their half, three quarters, &c., im¬ 
proved blood ewes for breeding,—but sell them and 
replenish the breeding stock with ewes of the origi¬ 
nal variety. I think this will be found expedient in 
the tide-water zone of Virginia, for several eseeutial 
reasons which I will not now stop to point out. 
But it may also be expedient, iu many cases, to keep 
your Western ewes for more than a single year. 
As yon live remote from the route of the Western 
sheep drovers, by far your cheaper course will be to 
send your own ageuts to the West to buy your sheep. 
You will thus escape paying the profits of the mid- 
And it would be a great mistake to have 
smaller, aad the fencing, proportionally, more ex¬ 
pensive. Thus the great objection to soiling — 
labor is turned in its favor. 
SAVING IN MANURE. 
Any system which will enable the farmer to 
double his manure from the same animals, should, 
certainly, commend itself to favor; and this soiling 
will do, by saving in good condition, all the sum¬ 
mer manure, ready for application to the fall crops. 
Besides, the saving in laud will produce food for 
double the number of animals, and thus make four 
times as much maun re as pasturing. It must be 
evident that this increase of manure will improve 
the soil. But, the mass of American farmers, we 
fear, do not fully appreciate the value of manure. 
When our land has been cultivated as long as the 
soil of Europe we shall place a higher estimate 
upon it. Mr. Quincy found that bis cows, while | 
soiling, each made one load of manure per month, 
which he estimated at $1.50 per load, making ihe 
produce of manure worth $9 per cow for six soiling 
months. Johnston informs us that, iu Flanders, 
the liquid and solid manure from a cow is valued at 
$20 per year. All these prove that the extra manure 
will more than pay the labor of soiling. 
SAVING IN FOOl). 
In the pasturing system a large portion of the 
grass is destroyed by treading it, lying upon it, by 
dung, urine, &c. This is lost lor food. But when 
animals are fed in stalls all this waste is avoided, 
We have also found, when animals arc fed green 
food in stalls, they freely eat what they reject in 
pasture. Weeds are no such obstacles under this 
system. They will all be eaten when fed in the 
green, succulent state. Even young Canada thistles 
mixed with grass and cut with a straw-cutter, are 
readily eaten by horses. We have sometimes fed 
them when they composed one-fourth of the bulk 
eaten. Almost every species of -weed may thus be 
turned into food, and this manner of cutting will 
soon destroy them. Boiling will soon make clean 
farms. e- w - s - 
Harrowing Wheat.— We have been somewhat inter¬ 
ested in a certain field of wheat, which we pass by occa¬ 
sional^-, from the fact that the owner harrowed it thor¬ 
oughly early in the sprintr. aurl afterwards rolled it. The 
dry, chilling winds, which this spring have damaged 
winter wheat seriously in Western Ne-w York, seem to 
have blown harmlessly over this field, and the growth is 
rank ami dark green. Has not the harrowing something 
to do with its vigorous growth? The crust of the sur¬ 
face was broken and pulverized, crevices about the roots 
tilled, and the plauts better protected aud kept moist 
tLan if the harrowing had not beeu done. Certainly the 
season has beeu favorable for spring harrowing wheat, 
and we think great benefit has beeu derived by those 
farmers who have practiced it. 
Rheumatism. —A very expert and successful flock mas¬ 
ter of New York writes to us:—“ I have lost more lambs 
this spring than in six years before. My ewes were 
never, I thought, in better plight for lambing, aifi moBt. 
of the lambs come strong, and have a plentiful supply of 
milk. Thirty died in a week, and I buried nine on Fri¬ 
day. Nearly all of them were the largest and strongest 
of the drop -some of them more than a week old. They 
are taken first with a slight lameness or stiffness in one 
or more of the legs, finally become unable to use their 
lege at all, and very soon die." 
A disease analogous to this in external symptoms is 
mentioned at page 165 of the Practical Shepherd, but in 
that, so far a- we had observed, there was not much indi¬ 
cation of constitutional disturbance: the appetite aud 
digestion were unimpaired —the disease was lingering 
and without a strong tendency to fatal results. We be¬ 
lieve that disease to be rheumatism. Whether a malady 
so sudden and fatal in its action as the one now described 
can be rheumatism may well be doubted. But we can¬ 
not form any definite opinion on the subject, without an 
opportunity of petsonally examining its successive symp¬ 
toms. We should be glad to hear from those who have 
had experience with it—to learn the most minute partic¬ 
ulars of all the circumstances of feed and other manage¬ 
ment-all the successive symptoms iu their order and 
the rapidity of their occurrence—all remedies resorted to 
and their apparent cffect-and a careful and minute ac¬ 
count, of the post mortem appearances. We esteem the 
last a very important part of the Information necessary 
to a.-certain the character of the malady. 
Scarcity or Beep Cattle —The batchers in the region 
of Rochester complain of the scarcity of cattle, while 
their customers groan over the high price of beef. By 
way of experiment, one of the Rochester butchers went 
to Kentucky in pursuit of Stock and purchased eighteen 
heavy bullocks, paying eight cent? per pound live weight. 
Transportation to Cleveland costs one dollar per hundred, 
and from that point to this city probably as much more. 
There is a fair supply of good beef cattle in Kentucky, 
and this experiment will tost the question whether 
butchers on a small scale in the ea-r. can purchase their 
stock from remote points to greater advantage than by 
purchasing from regular cattle dealers. 
dleman, 
them sent to New York and transported to Rich¬ 
mond by Bteamer, as you suggest. For economy, 
they should make the entire journey on foot, and by 
the most direct route; and Richmond is as near, or 
nearer, to the proper places of purchase than New 
York. During the periods of 6priug and summer 
when grass is most abundant, the expense of driving 
is quite small. June, immediately after shearing, 
will be a favorable time. 
I cannot name, as you request, the precise locali¬ 
ties where the sheep can be most advantageously 
purchased. These places would not always be the 
game. An experienced Western sheep drover is the 
man to find them. He understands all the “run¬ 
ways” of the trade. He knows precisely where and 
of whom to make inquiries. He buys fifty in one 
place, and there learns who has a hundred more for 
sale. Thus he goes on buying, on a certain route, 
so that he can gather up all his purchases on his re¬ 
turn— without losing much travel. He will get 
better 6heep, and get them twenty-five per cent. 
There are probably 
Paris Exhibition or 1867.—We have received from 
B. P. Johnson. E?q., Secretary of the N. Y. State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, a pamphlet copy of an address delivered 
before that body at its animal meeting by Elliot C. Cod- 
win, with reference to the universal exhibition at Paris 
last year. It embodies a racy grouping of the varied 
products and manufactures displayed on that occasion, as 
well as of the distinguished personages assembled at 
that great focus of European civilization. 
Scab.— “ii. T. B.,’’Sodas, N. Y. According to your 
description of the disease among the docks cd your town, 
it is the scab. It is highly contagions. If the sheep are 
not losing their wool badly, it will be best to leave them 
until alter shearing — dolug the shearing as early as is 
safe. But if the disease is at au extreme stage, no time 
should be lost iu applying the remedy. This consists in 
dipping them In au extremely strong decoction ol tobacco. 
If dipped cow, they should again be dipped after shear¬ 
ing. H there are “scabs " on the skin, as you mention, 
it would be well to break these before dipping, by rubbing 
them with a stiff shoe brush wet with strong soap-suds, 
so that the tobacco water will penetrate to the burrowing 
places of the invisible insect (acarus) which causes the 
disease. The sheep should be entirely immersed, and 
held in the fluid, except the point of the nose, say 10 or 
16 seconds; and if the fluid is quite warm it will pene¬ 
trate still better. If any symptoms of the disease re¬ 
appear, the sheep should at once be dipped again. A 
dipping box, with a grated shelf on one side, like that 
figured at page 187 of the Practical Shepherd, is the most 
convenient one. Several cheaper remedies are given, on 
very good authority, at pp. 310—343 of the same work, 
but we are not practically familiar with their effects. It 
will be understood, of course, that every sheep aud lamb 
in the flock should be dipped at the same time, aud they 
should be kept out of the rain for a few days thereafter. 
Southern Fowls.—G. A. L., Seneca Co., wants infor¬ 
mation from some of our Southern Correspondents in 
reference to Southern fowls. He aske“ As winters are 
less severe aud summers very long and favorable, are not 
fowls more prolific aud eggs comparatively cheap? What 
fowla^are indigenous to latitude south of Mason and 
Dixon’s line t Are Northern fowls, or such as are regard¬ 
ed as good in the North, healthy and as favorably con¬ 
sidered as we hold them?” 
Sugar Marino jn Florida,— A correspondent, writing 
from Florida gives a favorable ucconnt of the productive¬ 
ness of some portions of that State, As an evidence of 
this, mention is made of a man named W eldon, who 
planted two and a quarter acres to cane, at a cost of $166. 
The result was 4,600 pounds of sugar, which told for 
$585 ; 386 gallons of sirup, $288.75. Total, $873.75, or 
$388.33 per acre. 
BREEDS — BREEDING — HATCHING. 
Too many farmers, otherwise eminent in their 
business, are very careless concerning their fowls. 
Interbreeding certainly degenerates — particularly 
when so promiscuously permitted in a flock of 
fowls as is common. There Is, we opine, the same 
good reasons for making choice of the best breeds 
of fowls, as in makiDg the same choice in other 
stock And we are further of opinion that while a 
prime breed is as easily reared, fed and housed as a 
poorer one, there is a decided difference in the re¬ 
turns in favor of the prime breeds. We candidly 
advise the introduction of better stock by every 
farmer iu the conutry, who has paid, hitherto, too 
little regard to this branch of farm productions. If 
properly cared for, we hesitate not to say, that 
fowls of superior order do yield the farmer hie 
largest interest for the outlay. 
We advise the acceptance and multiplication of, 
1st, Dorkings; 2d, Leghorns; 3d, Boltons or Cre¬ 
oles; 4th, Brahmas; 5th, Pheasants. We have 
named these in the order that lODg experience lias 
tanght ns to prize them. We are aware that we run 
counter to the highly puffed Brahmas, etc., but we 
have determined to give the Wets of experience, 
even though our yard contains Brahmas in abund¬ 
ance, 
EDITED BT HENRY B. RANDALL, LL. D. 
cheaper than a 
fifty such drovers in this county, many of them men 
I think I could 
of character and responsibility, 
employ one to purchase for you, if you cannot find 
a suitable person nearer home. But it would not 
“pay” to do this for three Or four hundred sheep. 
The economical way is for neighbors to club to¬ 
gether and send for as mauy as eight hundred or a 
thousand. 
J. F. Leonard, Albion, N. Y. 
A Potato Freak 
sends two potatoes Biumesed in a peculiar manner. It 
appears they lay side by side, and the smaller of the two 
sent forth a sprout which passed clean through the upper 
section of the larger one, about half an inch below the 
surface, 
If you thus engage a foreign buyer it 
would be extremely well to send some one with him, 
to learn the run ways, the modes, and mysteries of 
the business, for fnture occasions. 
The art of raising lambs for market is simple, and 
in your mild climate will be, in some particulars, far 
easier than here. Here, last February, when these- 
early lambs should becoming, the thermometer sev¬ 
eral times marked twenty degrees aud more below 
zero. Such a temperature is no joke with a new 
dropped lamb, even in a close stable, I have seen 
the clover sprouting finely in March in Virginia. 
On this blessed 29th of April, when 1 write this, 
grass has just made a perceptible start; occasional 
bauks of snow yet lie in the deep hollows and 
gorges of the hills; and my breeding sheep are still 
receiving root's, grain aud some hay. Our spring, 
however, is somewhat more backward than usual. 
Western ewes, for lamb raising, usually receive no 
winter feed but hay, up to the time of yeaniDg. 
They arc then fed roots, meal or bran slop, or roots 
and meal, in order to promote the greatest flow of 
milk. A portion of their stable, large enough for 
the convenience of the lambs, should be divided oil' 
by a partition having apertures 6ulficient for their 
easy ingress and egreBS—while it will wholly ex¬ 
clude their dams. In this apartment, they should 
bo fed hay, meal, &c., as regularly a6 the old sheep 
are fed. They commence eating these very early, 
aud it greatly promotes their growth and accumula¬ 
tion of fat. It is better that the ewes nurse but one 
lamb each, as a good one always commands a good 
price in the proper season—while poor ones sell for 
poor prices and are often unmarketable. I need not 
enforce the necessity of perfect regularity in the 
mode and time of feeding—cleanliness — adequate 
ventilation — and non-exposure to the cold spring 
6torms. Yours very truly, 
Henry S. Randall. 
F. G. Ruffin, Esq. 
This would indicate much greater force lhau is 
generally attributed to so feeble a product as a potato 
sprout. _ . _ 
Sorghum Flour.— B. Smith, Cuba, Mo., writes in favor 
of making use of sorghum seed as a partial substitute for 
wheat. He had some of the yellow variety ground and 
bolted last fall, and found it, for pancakes, equal if not 
superior to buckwheat. Usually this seed is thrown 
away as useless, but according to this statement it may 
become an important item iu domestic economy. 
The One-Third Shrinkage Rule.— One of the most 
extensive aud eminent wool growers in Illinois writes 
us: —“ I am glad to see you walking into the one-third 
shrinkagers. You speak the sentiments of all wool- 
growers In Illinois. I will willingly become one of a 
respectable number who will refuse to ship wool to any 
broker (as we are often forced to ship, to sell onr clip,) 
who will not publicly discard the rule of ehriuking un¬ 
washed wool one third, and obligate himself to sell all 
wool on its merits, without regard to other portions of 
the same shipment. The wool growers of the country 
can break up this arbitrary shrinkage business in one 
season if they will tut. make the effon. A large propor¬ 
tion of these middle men are and have been anti-wool- 
tariff men,—and have quite a lively sense of the strength 
and determination of the wool-growers,—and will not be 
found very long standing in front of oar hosts when once 
the column begins to move.” 
Hoi* Planting— A Caution.— A hop grower in Oneida 
Co. cautions amateur hop growers from investing largely 
in the business the present season, assuming that the 
quantity now planted is fully equal to the prospective de¬ 
mand. The late high prices were not owing to short 
planting, but solely to the ravages of the hop-louse, 
which may not. be repeated. 
and of the best blood, paid for at the highest 
prices. 
For breeding purposes, we enclose in a yard ten 
or fifteen ben& of each variety we desire to propa¬ 
gate, and with them one cock; if we have two or 
more cocks whose qualities are equal, we think it 
preferable to change every two days, leaving only 
one cock with the hens at a time. Two weeks are 
necessary to procure full bloods, and we prefer the 
eggs the third rather than the second week. Feed 
highly, keep warmly, water cleanly. 
Be very careful the eggs do not check or crack; 
also that no grouse is permitted to soil their surface 
—even the perspiration of the hands should be 
guarded against. Put thirteen or fifteen egg6 in a 
nest of chali' or fine straw, beneath which a news¬ 
paper is spread as a nonconductor of air. Take a 
“hint” from the success incident to a hen that 
“ steals ” her nest in some sly place, by putting 
your box in some unfrequented position. Take a hen 
that is hot for setting, set her where you wish, 
cover her up securely for one night and day, and 
you are safe. 1 have set hens thus, and with suc¬ 
cess, after conveying them seven miles. Lomas. 
Grahshopper Ravages.— The Fort Scott, Kansas, Ad¬ 
vertiser, replying to inquiries as to the ravages of grass¬ 
hoppers in that State, says the invasions hitherto, 
though formidable us to numbers, amounted to nothing 
in the way of damage to farm crops. The impression in 
this region has been the reverse of this statement. 
ABORTION IN COWS 
Bunches on Cattle. — W. S. H., Sauk Co., Win., 
writes:—“I would like to know the cause and remedy 
for a disease of cattle, known by bunches coming under 
the lower jaw and throat, sometimes on the side of the 
jaw, 1 have several affected in this way, and the disease 
is quite prevalent about here." 
It seems that despite the efforts made by the 
State Societies and liberal appropriations by Legisla¬ 
tures for the purpose of tracing out the cause of 
abortion in cows, the matter is still shrouded in mys¬ 
tery. Some impute it to the employment of imma¬ 
ture or over worked propagating stock; others to 
a want of care during the earlier stages of gestation; 
and a third class to Borne malign influence pervading 
the atmosphere and impregnating the herbage npon 
which the animals are fed; while a fourth one finds 
it in the over-crowded condition iu which masses of 
stock are occasionally placed. It is assumed that 
when large numbers of cows, strangers to each 
other and the question of mastery undetermined 
between most of them, are thrown together in re¬ 
stricted quarters, many of them get injured 8Dd 
abort in consequence. There is an occasional hurly- 
burly among stock of this description, causing lively 
times for a season, but we have no proof at hand 
that abortion is ever a resultant consequence of such 
collisions. The sum of $4,000 placed in the hands 
of the State Society to pay the expense of an inves¬ 
tigation of the subject is pretty much exhausted, 
while the report, in relation to it, confesses that, as 
yet, the cause of abortion has eluded detection. It 
is presumed that should losses from this cause con¬ 
tinue, still further efforts will be made to solve the 
mystery which has so long perplexed farmers aud 
professionals in the dairy regions. 
Ventilation of Dwellings. —R. R., Putnam, want? 
information a? to the beet plan for properly ventilating 
dwelling bouses, and calls on A. J. Warner, or some 
other architect, to furnish a plan not very expensive, by 
which the result aimed at may be attained. 
Wheat in Reserve. —It is estimated that the stock of 
wheat and flour to go forward from the West from May 
1st to September only equals twenty-one millions of 
bushel?. The surplus wheat at Toronto is put down 
at 173,378 bushels. 
Condensed Correspondence, Items, &c. 
F. J. Clute, Schenectady, N. Y., writes us that 
he has bred some half dozen varieties, keeping them 
separate and pure, and he concludes “the Brahma is 
the most profitable. As a market fowl they are de¬ 
sirable On account of their yellow legs aud large 
bodies; and they lay a greater weight of eggs and 
more of them the year round than any other.” 
Our correspondent has touched one important 
point, which iB commonly overlooked when consid¬ 
ering the value of *>wls, and that is, the weight of the 
eggs. Large fowls generally produce large eggs, and 
if not quite as many as some of the small or medium 
sized breeds, the aggregate of the large ones for a 
year, will out-weigh that of the small ones, though 
the latter number more. It ie worth while for any 
one to make the experiment of weighing eggs, aud 
it will be found that a difference exists between the 
products of large and 6mall fowls of from three to 
six: to the pound. If eggs were sold by weight, in¬ 
stead of count, the large varieties of fowls would 
soon prove their superiority over the small ones. 
RURAL BRIEF-MENT10NINGS, 
William A. BaoniE. Geneseo, Livingston Co., N. Y., 
ha? been supplied with Havana tobacco seed for gratui¬ 
tous distribution. 
A farmer in Massachusetts ha? just completed the 
fifth yearly experiment of wintering his cows on steamed 
food, at. a saving, over the old way, of 33 per cent. 
4 TABLEsrooNFUL of chloroform, screened by twice 
the amonut of good mucilage, administered to a horse 
having the botts, will, it is said, expel them at once. 
Wayne Choate, Mills Co., Iowa, says that potato bugs 
can be destroyed by jarring them off about the second 
hoeing and plowing them uuder. They can't get out. 
The Oswego Co. A g. Society are erecting permanent 
buildings on their show ground?. Oue was completed 
last season, and others will be added the present one, 
a Farmers club in Ohio have been laboring the wheat 
and chess question. They decided, by a majority vote, 
that wheat chauges to chess, and the latter to timothy 1 
A terra-cotta manufactory 1? In successful progress 
in Chicago. The clay used i* of the finest quality, from 
which articles for rural ornamentation arc manufactured. 
Joseph Bean, Futnamville, Mae?., has a pair of grade 
Durham and native steers, three year? old In April, which 
weigh 8,200 pounds. One girts eeven and the other seven 
feet acid one inch. 
The N. K. Farmer gives an ewe, the property of Chas. 
W. Hale, Montpelier, Vt., the credit of having given birth 
to nine lamb? within the last 22 months. All but one are 
alive and kicking. 
A sugar planter in the South thinks that a single joint 
of caueis best for planting. When a cane has several 
joint? the first one that sprouts robs the others of their 
doe share of support. 
A farmer in Iowa wart trtmbled by a lawless cow steal¬ 
ing hay from hi? stack, lie sprinkled the bole with Cay¬ 
enne pepper. The cow came, took a sniff, left at top 
speed, and forgot to come again. 
The Germantown Telegraph is rather hard on city agri¬ 
cultural itemizers. Say? they often do not know one 
breed of cattle from another, a cherry tree from an apple 
tree, or a cabbage from a cauliflower I 
Hiram Carson, M. D., Montgomery Co., Pa., asserts 
that plenro-pneumonia aud rinderpest, are identical in 
character, bat vaiying at timet, in intensity- It is now 
gradually spreading in Eastern Pennsylvania. 
The mange i? a cutaneous disease aud contagious, 
When the ?kiu of au animal shows eign? of it, separate 
it from the herd and apply a mixture or flour oi sulphur, 
turpentine and oil—making a plastic ointment. 
Animals of all kind? fallen mom rapidly in dimly 
lighted placeB than when exposed to the full light of day. 
Tnis is especially the case with fowls. Breeding stock, 
however,—especially horsos—should have light. 
been my experience and observation. Hoots are not 
raised for stock here, Our people prefer to expend the 
same labor on corn. - ’ 
Our own experience confirms that of our correspon¬ 
dent, that good, flue clover hay is an admirable and 
healthy winter feed for sheep of aU ages; that sheep In 
good condition In the fall will gain on it all winter; and 
that they will gain more on it than on the best clear 
timothy. We prefer a mixture of grasses for sheep hay 
-half clover, and the other half made up of timothy and 
the grasses which spring up spontaneously with it. But 
ir limited either to clover or timothy, we should prefer 
the former. We speak for Central and Western New 
York. We know that the Vermont sheep farmers judge 
differently. Their timothy and natural grasses are of a 
very superior quality. There is not a more celebrated 
region, perhaps, in the United States than a large portion 
of Vermont, for the fattening off of cattle. There ap¬ 
pears to be a peculiar richness and “heart” in the grass, 
causing fat cattle to tallow remarkably. These proper¬ 
ties must have a corresponding effect on sheep. Clover 
i? little grown there, and the soil is not, we judge, well 
adapted to it. What, therefore, may be true as regards 
the relative value of clover and other grasses for sheep 
in New York, may not be true in Vermont, or in other 
places. 
Our correspondent touches on another point of inter¬ 
est, in the implied conclusion that tegs go through the 
winter more safely on good clover hay than when forced 
forward by high keep, We do not object to &'eery little 
light, bulky gTain feed (like oats and bran) for tegs, and 
we would keep their bowel? in more natural condition by 
a trifle of roots; but both for present safety and the ulti¬ 
mate good of the animal, we would, even if the expense 
were the same, decidedly prefer our correspondent’s 
mode—i. e. hay alone—to a forcing system. Pampering 
Merino tegs with high grain keep, for show , may fre¬ 
quently be carried on with apparent impunity in small 
flocks, with ample accommodations, and watched over 
with consummate shepherd Bkill. Even then the sheep 
do not generally do as well when sold to those who keep 
This Association has just issued its third annual 
report, embracing the operations of the Soeiety for 
1807. It is prefaced with statistical tables, showing 
the general dairying force in the several counties in 
New York, and Also iu Pennsylvania, Vermont, Ohio, 
Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kentucky, Michigan, 
Illinois and Canada, The largest number of cheese 
factories, in any oue State, is found in New York— 
being 464. The number of cows connected with 
these, as far as reported, is 172,338, but there are 
quite a number of factories concerning which no 
reports are given. Outside of the State of New 
York there are 142 factories—27 of which are in 
Canada. 
These statistics are succeeded by the animal ad¬ 
dress of Prof. Wm. H. Brewer in which the subject 
of cattle breeding, in connection with dairy farming, 
i6 discussed, and the character of different varieties 
of Btock considered. This is followed by one by X. 
A. Willard, Esq., delivered at the annual meeting 
of the Society in January last. It embodies a vast 
amount of statistical information relative to dairy¬ 
ing, and especially as respects the manufacture of 
cheese, and the amounts sent to foreign markets for 
a series of years. The shipments of cheese to Liver¬ 
pool for the year ending October 1st, 1867, were 40,- 
670,000 pounds. Aceordihg to the figures presented 
in this address, showing the cost of production ana 
the prevalent ruling of cheese in the English market, 
the business has not been a remunerating one, as a 
Chicken Cholera.—I see that a great many farm¬ 
ers are losing their chickens with supposed chicken 
cholera. You will find below a recipe for curing 
that disease — oue which I have tried and found suc¬ 
cessful : — “ Take fat bacon and cut in pills the size 
of a marble, roll in dry corn meal, and give about 
three or four of the fat bacon pills; take ground gin¬ 
ger and make like dough, and give three or four 
ginger pills—then the fat bacon pills, and the ginger, 
until you think the fowl has enough. Do this two 
or three days and keep them from water, (you can 
give a little water, but not too much.) I will guar¬ 
antee that this will cure, as l have cured some of the 
worst cases. Notice the chickens in the morning 
when they are fed, and if they do not eat, the dis¬ 
ease is coming on. Then commence feeding them 
as per recipe.— Exchange. 
Makino a Nest Egg. — R. L. G., on the 
of making artificial nest eggs, writes: — “ 
common egg, empty the meat out of one end. 
fill the shell with moistened plaster of Paris 
you can remove the shell. Varnish the egj 
will he fit for use as Boon as ury.” 
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