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THE NORTHWESTERN WOOL 
GROWERS. 
We were indebted to the Western Rural 
for advanced sheets containing proceedings 
of the Northwestern Wool Grower’s and 
Sheep Breeder’s Association, but were una¬ 
ble to publish a synopsis of them before this 
week. The Association met at Turner's 
Junction, Hi., February lGth, the President, 
D. W. Gates, in the Chair, G. E. Morrow 
of the Western Rural, Secretary pro tern. 
On motion of Mr. Towne, a Committee 
on Resolutions was appointed by the Chair. 
Messrs. B. Alden, G. E. Morrow and D. 
Kelley, were so appointed. On motion, J. 
S. Towne and J. Herrington were added 
to the Committee. 
The time of holding the Annual Sheep 
Fair and Sheep-Shearing Exhibition, before 
appointed to he held at Belvidere, ill., was 
fixed on the 181 h, 10th and 20th days of May 
next. 
The following resolutions were unani¬ 
mously adopted: 
Resolved) That as showing the unity of feeling 
among the wool growers of the country and of 
the different Wool Growers’ Associations, and 
as fully expressing tbo views of this Associa tion, 
wo heartily endorse and adopt as our own the 
following rcsolut Ions of the Illinois State Wool- 
Growers’ Association: 
Resolrr.fi, That we rocognizo in the existing 
tariff upon the importation of raw and manu¬ 
factured wools, mi equitable promotion to the 
growers and luiinui'uctuivrs of in tin- 
United States, and that wo demand for it such u 
trial as will put to tho fullest tost the wisdom of 
its provisions. 
RamLctd, Tlmt we are in favor of a jointexhi 
bition of wools and woolens in t he West, In 1880, 
and will,as wool growers, heartily join the wool 
en manufacture™ insuota an exfiitrftiou, upon a 
basis that shall be mutually advantageous and 
satisfactory. 
RcsnlvtxU flint wo also heartily adopt ns our 
own tho following resolutions of the New York 
State Wool Growers' and Sheep Bl eeders' Asso¬ 
ciation, u., most completely covering the whole 
subject, and expressing fully the views of this 
Association. 
[Here follow the nine resolutions passed 
by the New York State Association, at its 
annual meeting, Jan. 27th, and which have 
been heretofore published in these columns.] 
Mr. Morrow called attention to the great 
importance of co-operation between western 
wool growers and wool manufacturers, to 
the value of joint expositions of their pro¬ 
ducts, amj also to the Exposition of Wools 
and Woolens to be held in New York this 
year, and hoped the West would be well 
represented •there. 
The following resolution was unanimously 
adopted: 
Resolved, Tbut wo heartily accept, the Invita¬ 
tion ol the Woolen Manufacturers' Association 
of the Northwi-u to wool growers to tic prescut 
nt tlie annual mooting of that Association to ho 
held at the Tromont House, Chicago, March 17, 
mid that this Association will sona delegatee to 
represent it at the meeting. 
On motion of Mr. Kelley the President 
was instructed to appoint five delegates, 
lie appointed Messrs. J. IIeriungton, D, 
Kelley, B. Aldisn, J. S. Towne and C. 
Wightman. On motion of Mr. Towne, the 
President, D. W. Gates, was made ex-ojjlcio 
chairman of the delegation. 
President Gates proposed that cash pre¬ 
miums, entry fees, and admission fees he 
dispensed with, and the Exhibition made 
free to all. 
The Secretary offered a resolution em¬ 
bodying the President’s suggestion, which 
was amended on motion of Mr. Towne, by 
the addition of a final clause, and adopted 
as follows: 
RouAvcrt, Thai, at the approaching sheep-shear- 
ingexhlbtiion of this Association,cash premiums 
by tho Association, entry and admission foes bo 
dispensed with; and that the Diploma of the 
Association be awarded to the successful com¬ 
petitors. 
Mr. Herrington moved that the Classifi¬ 
cation of Sheep be into three classes — Me¬ 
rino, Long-Wools and Middle-Wools, not 
dividing the Merinos as hitherto. The mo¬ 
tion was lost. 
Mr. Kelley moved that the classification 
used last year be again adopted. The motion 
was carried. 
On motion of Mr. Towne the following 
resolution was adopted: 
Re&thvAl, That, the scale of points used at the 
last exhibition be recommended to tie used by 
the examining committees, but its use shall not 
be obligatory. 
It was decided to hold discussions at the 
evening meetings during exhibition, and on 
motion of Mr. Kelley the following topics 
were selected for discussion: 
Feeding and care of Blieep. 
Time of Lambing. 
Time of Shearing and Mode of Preparing 
Wool for Market. 
After passing a highly complimentary 
resolution to the Secretary, the meeting 
finally adjourned. 
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a SCAB —TOBACCO. 
3. What proportion of Rood natural leaf to¬ 
bacco, water, and how tong boiling to each hun¬ 
dred head of sheep ? 
3. If it is necessary to have any other ingredi- 
eni than tobucco in tho wash? What should It 
be and how much ? 
1. Wore it your own case, what would bo your 
mode in detail of treating the disease? 
I would very much tike to learn t hat tobacco 
juice alone would euro the disease, na it Is en¬ 
tirely innoxious to sheep and no danger to hands 
administering 11. Will you please reply in tho 
Rural Nkw-YOBKER. I am very respectfully, 
Alfreds Phelps, IVQluwvstown, Lewis Co., Mo., 
Feb. 10,1809. 
Remarks. —We have known scab cured 
by a single clipping of the sheep in a decoc¬ 
tion of tobacco, with a trifle of turpentine 
added when every third or fourth sheep was 
dipped — the scabs being previously scoured 
ofi’ with still brushes dipped in a suds of to¬ 
bacco water and soft soap. There is no 
doubt that it has often been cured by tobac¬ 
co decoction alone — but it is not safe to de¬ 
pend upon a single dipping. Two should be 
administered, ten to twelve days apart . And 
it makes the process much surer in bad cases 
to break the sc.;’ b ’ r uling them with 
the hands during immersion, so that the fluid 
will certainly he brought in contact with all 
the acari or scab insects, which are burrow¬ 
ing below. For the same reason the sheep 
should he immersed, say fifteen or twenty 
seconds. The amount of tobacco necessary 
for one hundred sheep cannot he determined, 
it varies so greatly in strength. The sound 
rule is to put in plenty of tobacco and boil 
until the decoction becomes nearly black and 
slightly sticky—in other words, until it, is 
about as strong as it can be made. It is far 
cheaper to waste a few pounds of tobacco 
than to have the, thing to do over and over 
Were it our “ own case" we should not, 
at the present time of year, resort to this 
thorough tobacco dipping unless the disease 
was extraordinarily virulent — for it would 
be quite expensive; and we should have 
some objections to thus handling ewes 
heavy with lamb, or wotting any sheep all 
over and saturating their fleeces, unless 
the weather was very mild, and we. also had 
close, warm shelters for them, in case of a 
change of weather, until they became 
thoroughly dry. We should prefer to pont¬ 
on tobacco decoction (or some other fluid 
scab remedy,) rubbing it on sore spots where 
the wool was detached. Tins would be but 
a make-shift until after shearing, and then 
we would give them two thorough tobacco 
dips. At present we should apply the 
remedy only to those exhibiting the dis¬ 
ease, pouring on sufficient wry strong decoc¬ 
tion to wet the parts affected. We would 
not permit in lambed ewe3 eit her to be 
thrown down or roughly handled in this 
operation. 
Every extensive sheep grower, at least, 
ought to raise tobacco for the use of his own 
flocks. Sheep and lambs, though unaffected 
with scab, should be dipped in tobacco water 
every spring after shearing, to destroy ver¬ 
min, &c. It is a most, wholesome, external 
application to sheep. We have heretofore 
stated the curious fact that the best fed sheep 
eat and readily become fond of tobacco, con¬ 
suming the dry unpicked leaves and pealing 
the stalks. Farmers who raise tobacco, and 
have allowed their sheep to feed on it, thus 
in winter, generally consider it, entirely in¬ 
noxious to them; indeed, most regard it as 
beneficial. Some consider it good medicine to 
sheep that are pining and off their feed. 
This sounds strange to us; but wo know 
experienced shepherds who have implicit 
confidence that such is the fact. 
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MANAGEMENT OF EWES: 
Green Feed for Inlambed Ewes. 
generally healthy in given localities, and 
bring forth their young well developed and 
strong. In other seasons, when the condi¬ 
tions are not apparently more unfavorable, 
the reverse is the case. The same is true 
in respect to all animal health and life. We 
assume theories of the causes ot disease, but 
we cannot always visibly detect or trace 
their connexion with effects. Impurity ot 
the atmosphere produced by decaying vege¬ 
tation, filth, &c., is supposed, and doubtless 
justly supposed, to be an inducing cause of 
typhus fever among human beings—but this 
malady often mostly passes over tho foulest 
and least ventilated quarters of cities, to tall 
destructively on the cleanest, best ventilated 
and most healthy situated rural abodes. 
When such diseases prevail among human 
beings to a great extent, independent of 
apparent local causes, they ore termed epi¬ 
demics — among brutes, epizootics. 
When no epizootieal influences of any 
kind arc prevalent, sheep and other animals 
will endure some defects of food or treat¬ 
ment with entire or comparative impunity to 
themselves and, in the case ol females, to 
their unborn offspring. There are “ good 
winters" and “good springs," when even the 
oldest crones drag through alive, — when the 
tegs grow large and thrifty, and when the 
now-horn lambs skip almost as soon as they 
are dropped. In the “ bad winters and 
springs,” under the same treatment, the old 
sheep grow feeble and die; the tegs, it large 
and tieshy arc, perhaps, attacked by some 
malady of the brain; if not, they may be 
assailed by the fatal “ pale disease,” and 
when spring comes the lambs are yeaned, 
half of them weak, stupid and worthless. 
Does such doctrine as this discourage all 
effort,? Not a bit of it. There is not a do 
rneslic animal which grows—not a species 
of grain—not a fruit—not a flower— which 
is not subject to equal casualties. Nay, all 
these casualties increase, as improvements 
in management and Culture advance. The 
primal blessing of labor will evidently slant 
forever, in spite of all improvements am 
labor-saving processes. Be it. so. This hu¬ 
man hive would be a bad place if all the* 
livers hi it were drones! 
The mariner cannot avert or always out¬ 
ride tho tempest. Should he therefore in 
good weather neglect any reasonable precau¬ 
tions? Should he not aim constantly to 
lie in the most perfect state of readiness for a 
change to bad weather ? And if bo prepared 
is he not more likely to escape when tho 
storm comes ? Precisely the same is true of 
the farmer. He cannot always escape the 
desolating epizootic. But he is bound, by 
observing the laws of nature—by following 
out those conditions of treatment which ex¬ 
perience and good sense have demonstrated 
to he the proper ones—to be always ready 
for whatever comes. We therefore say to 
“ A Subscriber," that his confinement of his 
inlambed ewes strictly to dry feed for three 
months, is not good management—that their 
continued confinement to it during March 
and April will be still worse management— 
and that in all bad management there is 
“ danger.” 
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will also assist, in obliterating' what truce of hos¬ 
tile prejudices remaining on tho other side—on 
tho growers’ side—for liberality begets liberality, 
and friendliness begets friendliness. 
Inquiries, — a. M., St, Louis, Mo.—Proper re¬ 
plies to tlie seventeen inquiries which you make 
would cover some twelve or fifteen quarto 
pages. We have spent years oi our life in writ¬ 
ing replies to such Inquiries, received, as iu your 
cose, from total strangers; and wo should uot 
hesitate to continue such labors were it at all 
necessary- But every topic you touch on has 
boon discussed, to the boat of out - ability, iu t he 
“Practical tihophord,” —a work which you can 
Obtain, postage paid, by Inclosing two dollars to 
D. D. T. Moore, 41 Talk Row, Now York City, 
l’his sum would not half pay for the time tt 
won Id i u kt: im to ro-wri Us the same mu i i or. Wo 
t rust, therefore, that you will not. regard it ns a 
departure from what you term our “ well-known 
courtesy " if we suggest that you obtain from 
the tibovo named work the information which 
you rook. "Wo feef tho less delicacy In malting 
this suggestion, as wo have no pecuniary interest 
iu tho salo of tho “ Practical Shepherd." 
cp 
BRAHMA FOWLS. 
ra an ox- 
breed of 
the following re- 
Hon. H. S. Randall, Dear Sir;—I have a 
flock of eight hundred sheep, and the scab is 
among them, some seventy or eighty now 
showing evident murks of tho disease. My 
object in addressing you this note is to inquire 
of you; 1. Will tobacco juice alone, without 
other ingredients, tho sheep being immersed in 
a bath of the juice, cure the scab? 
“ A Subscriber,” Cortland Co., N. Y., 
writes; — “You say that breeding ewes 
ought to get to the ground, or to be fed green 
feed occasionally, in order to avoid costive¬ 
ness. Snow has deeply covered the ground 
here, as you know, dlirlug almost tho entire 
winter, and my sheep have scarcely been 
out of the yard, nor have they received any 
roots; yet I have, not observed any unusual 
degree of costiveness in them, and they are 
lively and well. Is there any danger while 
this state of things continues? " 
The facts are not here sufficiently given. 
Our correspondent should have stated the 
feed and condition of liis (lock — all the sur¬ 
rounding facts. Wo do not think he can 
decide from any ordinary or casual inspec¬ 
tion whether Ids sheep are more or less cost¬ 
ive than usual, when they go to no extreme 
in either direction. But it is certain that 
animals restricted to dry feed must, under 
ail ordinary conditions, be more costive than 
those which receive a portion of green feed. 
The degree of costiveness which is produc¬ 
tive of “ danger" depends upon a variety of 
circumstances. For example, a very high 
kept ewe, with a tendency to plethora, (ex¬ 
cess of blood,) would be more subject to 
danger from this or almost any other abnor¬ 
mal condition, than would a ewe on ordinary 
feed and in ordinary condition. Then again, 
it depends upon “ the healthiness of the sea¬ 
son"—tlie presence or absence of epizootieal 
influences. Some seasons breeding ewes are 
Bulletin of tlie National Association of Wool 
Mauufaoturcr#.—The first number of a quarterly, 
published at Boston, under the above name, 
made its appearance in January. It. Is edited by 
John L. Hater, E.-:q., Secretary of the Associa¬ 
tion, and how far II is to bo regarded aa tho of¬ 
ficial organ of that body, thug appears from the 
editor’s salutatory: 
“The primary object, of tbo Bulletin of tho As¬ 
sociation will ‘bo to communicate to its own 
members Ihc transactions of the several meet¬ 
ings of tho Government, and of the Executive 
ConnniHee representing the GovermricnEnnd re¬ 
ports of diseussiouH at those meetings, as well .is 
the more tonn.it reports of committees and 
officers. 11 Is contemplated that meetings or the 
Government shall hereafter occur at stated pe¬ 
riods, and it. Is hoped that free discussions and 
conversations wlil take place upon practical 
questions relating to the wool manuiaeiure. 
The reporting of th.-~e discussions will give a 
stimulus to investigation, and a motive for im¬ 
parting Infonsi-tiou, which was not found under 
the former system of irregular uud formal pub¬ 
lications. 
Beside* tho publication of proceedings and ptv- 
nrj-.iiuUu-irr.mil bv Mr; Association, the eon, duct¬ 
ing of this journal will involve other labors, the 
responsibility of which will attach loss to tho. 
Association than to the editor, aud of which it 
becomes film to speak modestly." 
The first number contains Introductory Re¬ 
marks, Proceedings of the Association, articles 
on Custom House Samples, Joint Exposition of 
tlie Wool industry or United States, Stat istics ol 
ttu* British Wool Manufacture, Wool Industry 
Miscellany, and Correspondence, embracing 
eighty-eight octavo pages. The matter is all 
creditably gotten up, and tho paper is beauti¬ 
fully printed. 
We think this work will be productive of miteh 
good. Its primary object, aa stated above, Is a 
valuable ono. Tho country, ami especially the 
wool growers, want to hoar the manufacturers 
speak for Ihenwclvr.s on t opics affecting their own 
and related Industries. Mr. Hayes, we cannot 
doubt, will discharge Ids duties well. Ho Is a 
polished and able writer, and is always Industri¬ 
ous in the collection of his materials, lie has 
been tho Secretary of the Association from its 
organization, and in all the stops loading to tho 
friendly oo-oper icion between tho manufactur¬ 
ers and growers, which secured the passage of the 
present wool and woolen tariff, and in subse¬ 
quently preserving the entente cordiale between 
their National Associations, lie has been under¬ 
stood to belong to the most liberal sldo of those 
he lni-s acted with. Carrying this Just iirul ca: i- 
olic spirit into the Bulletin, ho can aid materially 
in strengthening the pact, by presenting such 
facts as will tend to reconcile to it a baud of 
doubters among wool manufacturers, and espe¬ 
cially among wool dealers. And the same course 
A correspondent of an exchange say 
pcx-ieneo ot five years in keening this b 
fowls, has been productive of 
suits: , 
i . q’iic knowledge that these fowls are unequal- 
cd, as winter layers. 
3. Thai their eggs average larger and richer 
thau those of any other breed. 
a. Iheirhome-like domestic qualities quality 
t.hont for confinement in small yards, which, wi! !i 
little or no disposition to roam, make them a 
desirable lowl ror cities or villages. 
4. Tla-ir superior quality for the table ermuot. 
be dented, if illand pa le one. ami you have wmio- 
Ihing that, will do tor a meal lor a fair-sized 
family. Due will weigh as much as t wo com¬ 
mon fowl.-, and often times more. 
tt. TUoir chickens are hardy, easily raised and 
grow rapidly, and, last of all, they m e fine, hand¬ 
some looking fowls, stitch ns a man can take 
pride in showing to his friends. 
Evidently tho one who wrote the above 
liaa not yet completed his poultry experi¬ 
ence. The first of his conclusions is cor¬ 
rect ; but there It ends. The Brahmas uro 
splendid winter layers. In summer they arc 
not worth shucks. They are forever want¬ 
ing to sit. They will sit anywhere and 
at all times. You “break them up,” or think 
you do, and they will lay from half a dozen 
to a dozen eggs and sit again. Take them 
off the nest and pen them up alone, and 
down they will equat. on the floor and sit 
there, apparently as well contented as if on 
a ueBt full of eggs. 
The second assertion, “that their eggs 
average larger and richer than those of any 
other breed,” wo deny in toto. The Black 
Spanish are far ahead on both points, and 
the Creve-Cmura and Houdans are as much 
further ahead of the Spanish. There are no 
fowls in the world that will lay a greater 
weight of eggs in the year than the Houdans, 
and the Creve-Coamu are nearly if not quite 
their equals in thif respect. For richness 
nothing will equal a Oreve-Ccour egg. They 
are the nc plus ultra of excellence. 
The third assertion in regard to their 
“home-like domestic qualities” must also 
be qualified in favor of the French breeds, 
which are all that is claimed for the Brahmas. 
The fourth is correct in itself, if not ap¬ 
plied comparatively. But the Dorkings will 
outdress them pound for pound; and the 
Houdans and Creve-Creura will excel both. 
A Brahma hen and a Crcve-Camr lM;n of 
equal weight alive will dress twenty per 
cent, in favor of the latter, and tine. cocks 
will show a still greater difference. I am 
aware that, tho Brahmas will attain a much 
greater weight than either tho Houdans or 
Crovc-Cocurs; hut take two lots of a dozen 
each, picked up at random as ordinarily 
bred, and the Creves or Houdans will out¬ 
weigh the Brahmas. 
The fifth assertion is correct; but applies 
with equal force Lo the Houdans, In fact I 
think of the two the Houdans are the mor c 
hardy and vigorous, and in rapidity of 
growth they heat all other breeds put to¬ 
gether,— a Houdan chick being fit for the 
table before the Brahma has fairly com¬ 
menced growing.—H. 
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tough, dry and stringy. And an egg is an i 
egg, whether large or small, delicate in flavor, 
or tough and rank. 
You can’t tell them anything about fowls. 
Oh, no! Why, they raised fowls before we J 
were thought of. Well, how were they W 
raised? li' the truth were told, the liens 
stole their nosts in the clumps of elder bushes 
or blackberry vinos behind the house, and 
managed to raise a few ehiekeus, which were 
allowed lo roost under the hovel or in tho 
wagon shed, dirtying up the tools and carts, 
and allowing dollars’ worth of the most 
valuable manure on the farm lo go to waste. 
And this they call “raising chickens.” 
Thank my stare that 1 am not. a chicken on 
such a yard. 
Ask them about the chickens, add all the 
answer you can get is, “ Well, I don’t know; 
tho women folks look after tlie fowls.” 
You can’t convince them that there is more 
profit in a pure-bred fowl for stock purposes, 
costing from five to ten dollars each, than in 
a dunghill at from fifty cents to one dollar 
each. All the argument in Christendom 
would he lost on such folks. The only way 
to approach them is through the pocket, 
and sometimes It will tail even there. We 
ask such men, How much money do you 
make by keeping fowls that, lay fifty ctrgs a 
year, Instead of one hundred and fifty, by 
breeding fowls that weigh from three to five 
pounds each, instead of those that weigh 
from six to eight pounds ? This is a practi¬ 
cal view of the question. “ Don’t keep fancy 
poultry," merely because it is fancy, but be¬ 
cause it pays. It is certain that it does not 
cost any more to keep a good cow than a 
poor one, and it is just as sure in regard to 
fowls. 
Because a dunghill chicken was good 
enough for your grandfather, is no reason 
why it should be good enough for you. 
Stage coaches were good enough for him in 
their time, but are they good enough for the 
present. generation ? Surely, we don’t refuse 
the benefits conferred by steam, electricity, 
and machinery simply because our ancestors 
had no such blessings. You are not satisfied 
to breed horee .3 that can trot a mile iu three 
or three and a half minutes, because that was 
the highest speed attained in your grand¬ 
father's time; and why not carry tlie same 
ideas of improvement into the poultry-yard? 
—A. M. H. 
C0MM0N vs. IMPROVED FOWLS- 
It must be apparent to even an ordinary 
observer, that there is much difference be¬ 
tween a lean piece, of meat and a fat one, 
and that the difference can often be ac¬ 
counted for in the breed of the animal from 
which the meat is obtained. Everyone who 
has hud the opportunity for observation will 
acknowledge the superiority of good South- 
Down mutton over a mongrel carcass, and 
to which the preference is to be given, 
whether to a short-horn bullock or a western 
steer, the offspring of a hundred generations 
of mongrel stocks. Almost every farmer of 
ordinary intelligence will answer the above, 
and tell you how much more profitable, for 
every purpose, is the thoroughbred stock 
over the “ natives." 
And yet these same persons, — be they 
farmers, citizens or others,— are very slow to 
see or acknowledge that there is any differ¬ 
ence between one kind of fowls and another. 
A chicken is a chicken, whether it weighs 
two and a half pounds at maturity or ten 
pounds; whether it is leader and juicy, or 
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Know for Fowls.—The subject of “Snow or 
Water for Fowls in Winter” is ouo that should 
ho thoroughly rested. Wo all wish to prevent 
suffering, if only in tho brute creation ; and if 
fowls suffer for want of water in winter we 
should care fully give It to them. Let US get at 
facts:—“ N. B.6." and •* W. M." say, In the last 
Rural, that iheir experience leads them to de¬ 
cide in favor of giving fowls water In winter, as 
they think they do not thrive oa well upon snow 
for drink. I had been experimenting some upon 
this subject, before the article of lust, week ap¬ 
peared, and my experience is; — I have not given 
my Fowls a drop of water this winter, and the 
feel has been corn, screenings of wheat, occa¬ 
sionally sea Mod corn meal, hot or cold, either 
way, ami the leavings of the table, with now and 
then a few egg shells. They rango under a long 
shod, and get to tho bare ground at ail times, 
and the result Is, the few hens I have, have laid 
continually since the beginning of January. I 
tried to keep them *in water lust winter, but ob¬ 
tained no morn eggs, — not so many per hen. 
But one thing should not bo forgotten — fowls 
are laying an unusual amount of eggs this 
wlnler, nJl through this section, at least.. — J. 0„ 
Wilson, Niagara Co AT. Y„ Feb., 1809. 
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Poultry Figures.— I herewith send you my 
account with my poultry yard for the year end¬ 
ing Feb. 1st. I commenced with thirty hens: 
Gathered four hundred and thirty-live 
dozen eggs, which, at the average mar¬ 
ket. price, 34 cento, amounts to. ..$104 40 
Fowls sold. 30 00 
Twenty-live fowls killed for family use, 
at 50 cents each. 12 50 
Increase of fowls on haud.. 37 00 
Amounting to.$179 90 
Deducting cost of feed (30 bush corn, at 
$1.25).. . Iff. . 83 50 
Leaves clear profit. $H7 40 
My actual profits vary somewhat, from the 
above figures, as 1 advertised and sold some 
eggs for sotting, at higher rate*. My fowls aro 
11 uro Silver I’lioumnls. I claim that tho ma¬ 
nure, if wived and properly applied to tho corn 
field, intreuses the crop sufficiently to feed tho 
fowls. 1 have no fowls for sale at present. If I 
conclude to ship fowls or eggs the coming spring 
1 shall advertise them in tho Rural.—G. War¬ 
ren Cone. 
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Kliaefrr’s Egg Tenter. — This instrument for 
testing tho quality of eggs bo fur us Indicated by 
their transparency consists of a little cubical 
box, divided diagonally by a mirror, and having 
one aperture above Into which to put tho eggs; 
another iu front, through which the observer ex¬ 
amines its transparency. If the egg gives a 
bright, clear disc, ills good; If a black, opaque 
ono, it is bad; and of oourae there is an infinite 
number of gradations between these two ex¬ 
tremes. 
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Who Bents This.— I have a pair of Brahmas, 
hatched the last of August, the cock weighing 
nine and a half the bon nine and a quarter 
pounds. Wlli some of the Bubal readers inform 
me who beat ) this so I shall bo better posted In 
regard to this breed of fowls? —H. 0. Preston, 
Batavia., N. Y„ Feb. 13. 
min ’T-jacex: 
Fowls.— There is a great and continued in¬ 
quiry in tho Rural parish for Houdan, C'reve- 
Cosur and other fowls, and for the eggs of ihc 
same. We cannot give the desired information, 
if it is not found in our advertising columns. 
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English Poultry Book.—J. G.—“The Henwife," 
by Mrs. Ferguson Blair, is accounted among 
English and Irish poulterers a most excellent 
work. 
