§I)trut tht i&ontb. 
NOTES OF TRAVEL SOUTH —III. 
BY P. BARRY. 
“ nodules” of irregular form, varying in size 
! from that of a man’s fist to twice and three 
times that.; of a whitish color, like marl, 
sometimes four or five feet below the sur¬ 
face. of the ground, and again at the surface. 
A gang of some forty or filly negroes were 
at work taking it out, removing the earth 
from it, and preparing it. for transportation 
ates. This new growth is very unlike the 
original forest around. The pine is gener¬ 
ally rather low, short-leaved, full of limbs, 
very sappy. Where the, original timber is 
scarce they are used for fence, in which 
capacity they test only three years. The 
cedar is much more durable and is often j 
used for posts. This peculiarity of the lands 
to the number of acres or shares each holds. 
Lfct twenty-five acres represent a share, and 
twelve shares would represent a territory of 
three hundred acres. We will suppose them 
to purchase the best mower and reaper, hay 
tedder, grain drill, Ivvo-horse corn and gen 
oral field cultivator, field roller, plaster and 
other artificial manure distributor, horse 
a small clearing, and, at distant intervals, 
stations, with a few huts, and always a group 
of ill-clad, idle negroes. 
The timber of this immense pine, region 
consists principally of the Loblolly Pine 
(Pimm i/vda,) and tlio Long Leaved Pine 
(Pimis australis.) This latter is a very 
striking and beautiful tree, especially when 
young. The leaves are in large masses or 
bundles at the ends of the branches, of a 
clear bright green color, and nearly a foot in 
length. The young plants of this species, 
which wo could see, from the ear windows, 
pushing up their bright green plume-liko 
heads from among the grass and weeds, were 
the most agreeable objects within the range 
of our vision. 
As we approached Charleston the land 
seemed to change and improve in character 
and quality. Deciduous trees became more 
numerous, and among them we noted the 
noble Evergreen Oak ( Quercus virens.) Gar¬ 
dening bad fairly commenced, and in one 
field we saw pens several inches in height. 
This was oji the 14 tlx of January. 
Charleston had not the appearance of pros¬ 
perity which we expected to find. There 
was a general compla int, of dullness in trade, 
and every tiling looked dull. A large portion 
of the best part of the city lies in ruins, 
caused by the great tire which occurred 
about the commencement, of the war. Whole 
streets of warehouses seemed to bo unoccu¬ 
pied. We were told of a fine block o»f stores 
that before the war could have been sold for 
$ 200 , 000 , were sold a few days before our 
arrival for $ 10 , 000 . 
This, I suppose, is a fair sample of the de¬ 
preciation which has taken place. The im¬ 
mense bank capital, some $14,000,000, before 
the war, was totally lost, and now the whole 
bank capital is some $700,000. The bank 
“ Wando Mining and Manufacturing Co.” in 
Charleston, where it is prepared. This com¬ 
pany is now using four hundred pounds sul¬ 
phuric acid, four hundred pounds refttse meat 
dried and ground, to the ton. 
The nodules referred to arc taken to a 
kiln and dried, then ground into powder, 
mixed with sulphuric, acid and some ammo- 
niacal substance, such as guano, refuse meat, 
&c. It is sold at sixty dollars per ton, and 
I understand, that so far us it has been used, 
it has given satisfaction. 
This phosphate bed is of immense impor¬ 
tance to the South. Without fertilizers they 
can grow nothing with profit. Most of the 
soil of the South is light, exhausts quickly, 
and needs the application of manures or fer¬ 
tilizers regularly and in abundance. A great 
portion of the cultivated soil wo saw ap¬ 
peared lo he in a state of extreme poverty. 
In that, line climate where cattle might lux¬ 
uriate all winter In green pastures, we saw 
not a green blade of anything in the fields, 
and the few animals we saw were reduced 
to skin and bone ; 
These phosphate beds cover an area of 
some sixty to one hundred square miles, and 
it its fertilizing properties are as great, as 
represented, it, will be of more value to the 
South than a gold mine. 
I had almost forgotten to say that, the 
negroes we saw at work at, the phosphate 
beds, and some other places here, doing quite 
as much and doing it, as w'cll as an equal 
number of Northern white laborers would 
have done; but they were selected hands, 
well paid and well treated. 
The importance of fertilizers to the South¬ 
ern planters and farmers is indicated by the 
space occupied in all tin; papers advertising 
them. Very many are fraudulent produc¬ 
tions, but fanners have no means of testing 
rate of interest is oue pen •cut., a month; but them but by applying them to their fields, 
most borrowers pay from one and a, hnlf to and then they very dearly buy experience. 
two per cent, and little to bo bad at that-♦♦♦--- 
But Charleston must recover and be a pros- FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 
porous and beautiful city, as soon as peace Nature a ml Condition «l Heathen Rands, 
and prosperity has returned to the Southern 
States. As to the character of the Southern lands, 
We visited the principal gardens about the there is so great a diversity that it would be 
city, but as a general thing they were ne- difiicitlt to give such classifications even, 
glected. In one, that of Mr. Jennings, for- not to say descriptions, as would he of much 
merly known as the. finest in Charleston, we value to a stranger. The wridc, level fields 
saw a nohlo Camellia, filly years old, as we > n the east or lower country of North Caro- 
Avere informed. The stem near the ground Una, with their rich sandy loam and alluvial 
was some eighteen inches in diameter, and deposits, may sometimes be found contiguous 
the head, or branches, full twenty-live feet to unditched ami undrained swamps, or 
in diameter. fields whose deep, dear sand indicates the 
This was the single red, the most hardy of absence of all organic matter, or, mayhap, 
all the Camellias. We saw many others of fields whoso scanty products, like the faded 
smaller size just coming into bloom. In the gowns of a broken-down aristocracy, tell a 
same garden we saw fine Laurustinas, Lager- sad tale of the lost pow er of other days. In 
strosmias, Pittosporums, Cape Jasmines, &c., the West there is similar variety in adjacent 
of great size. . lands. On a mountain side you may find 
Bananas had suffered slightly from frost, only a stunted growth here, signs of fertility 
as the foliage always does, I presume, and 
were wrapped up in matting. We met 
with fine specimens of Cri/ptomiuia jajionka, 
(the Japan Cedar,) (Jup reman Junebris, (the 
there, and in the dark valley below you may 
dig many feet sometimes before you find the 
bottom of the rich alluvium. It would he 
easy to find a farm of moderate size on 
Funereal Cypress,) with Magnolia Grandi- which is almost every gradation of soil, from 
flora, PittospoKpm, green and variegated, 
Japan Eitonymus, Tnmarix, of immense 
size, Palmettos, Yuccas, Ac., &e. 
Of the Magnolia avc saw one specimen 
full forty feet high, and as much.in diameter 
of branches, and two feet in diameter of 
trunk. You may Imagine our enjoyment 
among such trees xvith the temperature ( 10 ° 
Fahrenheit in the middle of January. 
Very little is done in fruit culture here. 
We found some fine Seckel pear tre.ees in 
one garden, and were told they usually beat- 
well, but the fruit is taken or stolen befbrelt 
is ripe. 
Strawberries do aa'cII and ripen in the 
month of April. Currants and raspberries 
fail. 
the light sandy to the very heavy and stiff 
There is a marked difference, in different 
localities, us to the susceptibility of improve¬ 
ment. I do not refer merely to the nature 
ol the surface as more or less steep, so 
as to wash more, hut. rather to the rela¬ 
tive capacity for retaining manure. Not 
lar trom my residence I know some land 
that rapidly loses the effect of manuring. It 
seems to need a compact substratum—or 
more firmness in the soil itself—to prevent 
the rains from permeating at once so rapidly 
and deeply as to carry down the elements of 
nutrition beyond the reach of the roots. To 
expend heavily on such land is not compara¬ 
tively profitable, if it be so at all. But I am 
happy to say that, while there is much 
3farw I’ccnotnjt. 
SEWERAGE PIPES. 
I send you herewith a drawing of a new 
mode of making pipes for eewers, conduits, 
underground air ducts for ventilation, Ac., 
which is original with me. T find them 
made after this mode very economical to 
construct, durable, the most, efficient and 
least liable to clog of any form of pipe that o r( ?un<l ready to sow on the same day, and 
1 have ever used. The thawing exhibits a drilling would he ample to put in 
flivtnn ! 11 . _ Uivfvr O n l*Art nit... 1.. 1. : • « 
cross section of the pipe. 
m ... wmmm, 
%w / 
It is made by excavating a ditch a sufil- 
cient width to receive the length of the cov¬ 
ering flags. The V shaped gutter is then ex¬ 
cavated, the banks neatly trimmed and plas¬ 
tered with good hydraulic cement mortar 
one inch in thickness. The level batiks on 
eit her side are then plastered with cement to 
the depth of half an inch, anil the flag cov¬ 
ering bedded in it. 
Rough flags, with rough, irregular edges, 
answer well, ns the openings in the joinlsare 
closed by covering them with thin,‘smaller 
flags, bedding them in cement. 
A common laborer can construct a sewer 
of tiiis description without the services of a 
mechanic. 
r I’his form of sewer is loss liable to clog 
than any other, and Is as desirable as those 
built with 1 trick side-walls, and its cost very 
much Iohs than terra cotta pipes, or any 
other material. It is not adapted to use for 
very large sewers, but for those one foot in 
depth and one foot in width at the top it, 
is well adapted. —j. av. 
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COOPERATION AMONG FARMERS. , 
The culture of garden vegetables for the variation in this regard, yet this extreme is 
l rniita has been a strong tendency, lor the w ri, „ 
hist fifteen years, in regular farming districts, water cm 
for the large farmers to swallow the small will last i 
ones. The most approved machinery is too ,, A J "\" t 
expensive to be purchased by the small Int* w »vou to , 
mer, and where lie performs the labor by no fear n 
hand Avhich may be done by horse power, he un * f,Ha 1,1 
cannot compete xyith his more prosperous ^vh**»-o Hi 
neighbor. This discourages him, and he round im 
sells out and works for others, or moves Wheuh 
W cst upon cheap land. oration tt 
T 1»0 aggregation of small farms into larger .^ontTha' 
ones may not materially lessen the produc¬ 
tion, but it is a step hi the wrong direction. -P- 
Division, not extension, should be the rule 
for landed property in Ibis country. The 
concentration of all the lands in the hands '_ 
ol a few is quite congenial to a monarchy or • 
an aristocracy, but not to Democratic Amur- ’ ^ — 
tea. This annexing the small farms together 
to make large ones, has had many bad effects, ^ Y nci' 
in numerous Instances breaking up thriving farm gate 
district schools, leaving large districts with Tompkin: 
small population. This must constantly ere- [J 1 ;; chlirUc 
ate more and more disproportion between thick “m 
the population of country and city, until, at monsiona 
no distant day, all political power will grav¬ 
itate to the cities. A sad day Avill eomo to 111 r ouu*V 
the great Empire State when it succumbs to your subr 
the easy virtue of its citicH, and allows all its potato pa 
great, interests to be Avieldecl by pot-house p " ,UIIt m 
Avard politicians. 
The farmers of this country wero the bal versaliy i 
last that held the ship of state steady through generally 
the great storm of rebellion. Let us do all , 
we can to increase, and not diminish, the Mmi: id 
sixty acres ot grain, which is as much as 
generally is sown on three hundred acres. 
In haying and harvesting each could use the 
mowing and reaping machine in rotation, 
and it, would easily cut all their grass and 
grain. The horse power thresher and straw 
cutter could pass from one barn to another, 
and perform all the work Avitli time to spare. 
The cutting of hay and straw to each would 
lie of more value in a single year than his 
part of the horse pOAver straw cutter. One 
set of machinery could, no doubt, under 
proper system, work even four hundred 
acres in small farms. 
Resides, this co-operation would improve 
t he social relations of a neighborhood, Avhjch 
sometimes is sadly needed. It would bring 
farmers more into business contact with each 
other, and they might, in thn course of a few 
years, see the possibility of Farmers’ Unions 
extending over large territories and looking 
to more uniform prices for their products. 
1 ’liey might discover that an association, and 
perhaps a combination, among farmers, 
would be likely to effect as much for them 
aa “Mechanics’ Uniops.” “Trades Unions” 
or “ Boards of Trade” have lor other classy-. 
Why should tanners he so much behind 
other classes in associating themselves to- 
gellier for the promotion of their own inter¬ 
ests? We propose to discuss this question 
further hereafter.— e. w. h. 
-♦ ♦ ♦ — — . . 
Wooden Wafer Pipe, For (lie conveying of 
water from springs, wells, rivulets, for tho use 
of stock, culinary purposes, irrigation, und in 
bmt for any and every purpose, when a small 
supply, is required, wooden pipo or luhinp; is 
oiien per than either lend, tin or iron; docs not 
corrode hy use, and tho witter l» not Impregnated 
with h deadly poison, ns In the case of loud. If 
Wft tor continues pawing through the tubing It 
will last a. generation. 
A Joint.cun be made without soldoring, and if 
tho ends of inch length of pipe (which are from 
sevon to nine feet in length)are properly banded, 
no fear need lie apprehended of I heir bursting 
unless Under tho pressure of a heavy head of 
water. Nevertheless there are ninny oases 
where the laying of wooden tubing would be 
found Impracticable. 
When health and cheapness are under consid¬ 
eration there need lie no doubt as to the choice. 
Hero it costs from seven to eight cents per foot 
at one hardware store.— L, p. Snook. 
A Farm Gate.- 1 ). L. Aikkn, Bull eld Center, 
N. V., sends us thn accompanying sketch of a 
farm gate, which, ho says, is extensively used in 
Tompkins Co., and called tho host In use. Any 
mechanic con readily build one from tho sketch. 
“The frame is made of timber three incites 
thick," Mr. AriuaN says, but ho gives no other di¬ 
mensions. 
——-4-44-- 
Potnio Purer.— I would like to have you (tele 
through the columns of your paper if any of 
your subscribers or readers know of a successful 
potato purer. I have been told there is such a 
patent in existence, but have not heard after 
diligent, inquiry of its coming into use. 
I think that a good potato purer ivould bo uni- 
vefaulty appreciated by farmers nml people 
generally. A StniHcninem, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Northern market is carried on to a consider- quite rare, and a purchaser need not fear but nnmi •• re '• ' o.cuinmifm, the 
able extent, and is likely to be prosecuted on that he will have good opportunities to nm>- ' 1 " ! '* (' m * ,H 11 ' nt ll<IH of ^ 1C 
1 B opiKjrwinuies to pur- gojl And to this end some moans must be 
a large scale. We heard of very extensive Chase lands with a good clay bottom. But mUM V w 
arrangements being made by some Northern it is a matter worth noticing f tI '*l mft ai ui(a in possession 
partta on one of Uic M«mls-*100,000, it There is plenty of timber yet-en im- , . 11T " S ‘“V 1 ? ut * wiU ' 
was said, had been invested in glass and mrnsity of it in some sections But how i ■ . nllu lln( l - v ' v ' l,Jlout ' any 
other material for gardening. In a stroll long ,L will eon,hum it is no, Sfot 
through the market we found a good supply prophesy. Certainly the ax is wielded Avan- farmer ti • • uCre 
of apples, of both Southern and Northern tonly, ail there is still a seeming cnSe ^Tof wT!! 
growth — tho latter were mostly Northern against the forest. When land becomes so . t - > ei 0 ^ adjoining fanneis 
Spy, and sold for more than twice tho price poor that it Avill produce nothing, it is nee «fan°thr^ VeM ° 0,< '' : v "! tlu! purchase and 
Of the Southern fruit. “ turned out ” The people geueral./do not Zvll > 
Ot Southern apples Ave saw very feAv, ex- trouble themselves to make compost in any B i, oll i t i r ' ’ '."‘l 1 ‘ ° ° IKr i ', v< , * ocleUt *> 
cep, “ Stack** » which wo .net frcptcntly .pmntity, und they an.. able t„ buy ex' “sLitol ,,"‘aSml 
and over a great extent ot country. pensive fertilizers, even were they so dis- q nnn , P ‘ 
We visited the famous phosphate beds at posed. Hence tho continual “clearing” to 0 ad, or so manv smaTn’ own ng ,|( V acres 
a point where they wen, being worked by a got fresh land, in the ventral, hilly talons "' 1> ' 
company, sotne seven or eight miles Iron, of the Stain, when a held Is “turned out ■■ 
parties on one of the islands — $ 100 , 000 , it 
Avas said, had been invested in glass and 
other material for gardening. Tn a stroll 
through the market we found a good supply 
of apples, of both Southern and Northern 
growth — tho latter were mostly Northern 
Spy, and sold for more than twice tho price 
Of the Southern fruit. 
I,inan over the Hhonhlera In Harrowing.—H. H. 
Msnoit objects to the recommendation of some 
ono of our correspondents to wear the linos over 
the shoulders In harrowing, bocuuse he lias 
known many accidents to happen in conse¬ 
quence of such practice, the horses getting 
frightened ami drugging the driver to death. 
-. 
A Self-fth ii ruing Churn.— Tell that man who 
inquires for a flog or sheep power for churning, 
©nslwnbrn. 
n. 8. RAND Abb, I.b. D., EDITOR, 
Ok Coivn.iNn V ni.Mjn, Corti.anp County, Nkw V. 
All these implements would cost about 
?t,000, making a share $Sfi.:jfi, which would 
he within tho reach of even a twenty-live 
acre farm, and, omitting the thresher and 
separator, a share would be only $t}5 — a 
fifty aero farmer paying only $130, and hav¬ 
ing the use of all these implements as fully 
as if owned by him alone. 
It may he, objected that six or eight farm¬ 
ers could not ho accommodated with the 
same set ol implements; but this must be 
groundless, as their united farms do notcon- 
iain more land than is generally worked on 
one large farm. It, Avould not often occur 
that more than one farmer would have his 
farmer. This is easily accomplished bv the that there is a better machine in existence. I 
union of four, six or eight adjoining farmers TZT* nt th< *i ^ Jo f ph ^ ch ‘ ) Co - Fafr - 11 
. 1 . °. J uguuxnejs could be wound up and would run ami churn fif- 
m a co-operative society for the purchase and 
use of all the expensive farm machines in 
common. These small co-operative societies 
should he formed in every neighborhood 
where small farms do abound. 
Suppose five farmers, owning fifty acres 
each, or so many small farmers as shall rep¬ 
resent, two hundred to three hundred acres, 
teon or twenty minutes— Lewis Miller, Three 
Riticrs , Mich. 
■ --—— 
nccompoxing Hirnw.— Wm. Mokkv, Royal ton, 
N. V, Lluio will hasten the tho decomposition 
of your Btnrr, but. muck, or oven common soli, 
with gypsum, should be added, hi order to secure 
for use tho gases liberated by decomposition. 
"-- 
llnspncrry Hry.lbmxn. — Oko. Mather asks 
Charleston. This phosphate is a very singu- it grows up very rapidly in pines and cedar ^oemuon tor tin* purpose, 
,arformation. It, fo„h„ h, whhuici -5 U» ^ 
should form an association for tlihs purpose for a a dry-houtso for drying black rasp- 
atul piircliaw! a!, the move expeneivo ft™ Wh""7»vh“ SS5I5 SJtt ^ 
implements to he used ni rotation, according plan and description for publication? 
. WEST VIRGINIA WOOL GROWERS. 
I me Slate Wool Growers’ Assoriafion of 
West Virginia met at Wheeling, March !>th. 
j T1 "‘ Preskleut. being unablo to attend, Mr. 
, ,T - n - Kelly of OJtio county, was called to 
I the chair. 
Report, of the Treasurer Avas received. 
The Chair appointed tho following Com- 
’ toil let! on ResolutionsMessrs, C. 11 Beall, 
J. C. Gist, G. G. Quit ami Samuel Archer. 
On motion, the present, officers were re¬ 
elected for I he ensuing year, viz President, 
’ Hon. Taos. Sweeney ; Secretary, J. c. 
Palmer; 'I’reasurer, Thoaiah BuciCanan ; 
Members of Executive Committee of Na- 
tional Association, Messrs, — Davis and 
Samuel Archer. 
Committee on Resolutions reported as 
follows. 
Hi'soltrtl, That avc are opposed to nnv treaty 
, with Canada or any other country, looking to 
the iidmtsHlon ol wool and woolens op nnv other 
conditions than under the present tnrifi, and wo 
, (itvnro that it. romalu for tho present ,is it now is 
in turbo. 
i H 1 -! tolvcti, 'I tint wo litNirtlh- endorse tin* resolu¬ 
tions Plowed by t|,o Now V"oik Wool dowers 
j\Ht*OQlimon, Riiil wn would Coiiimriid 
to Uio attention of our >,egis[atois and otlieers 
of tho UoVOVmueut the gO, HI, lih and silli reso¬ 
lutions. 
li' xulvi-n. That wo vospeotl ully protest against 
ho making m any Irouty or other urrangeniont 
ny wbh-l, I bo irado and nouitnertai bctAvi-r'ii our 
country and U\e Ijritish I’rnvinecs shall im 
placed on any othov or digorent basis I him it Is 
wlih all other Nations und Provinces, 
et’so/tvi/. '1 luil Widlo wo ure ready and willing 
lo boar our Jimt proportion of the taxes made 
necessary by iliolato vwbellion. Avolnsba Hint the 
produdiou Of our farm cm bo ontllled p> pro¬ 
tect ion against.foreign competition equally with 
I lie pi nduutlon Ol thn uiumifaetu>»r« of tho 
various art ielos Hail are consumed in l jm coun¬ 
try, and Hint It would be numltestly unjust to 
force us to purchase all i lint avo eim«ume, not; 
produced on our farms, at the cnltauecd prices 
created by thoiiigh price of labor, and tho taxes 
laid tty tbo Government on such articles of con¬ 
sumption, and at I im same time take from us 
our present protection us provided in our turiif 
laws. 
/iVso/»vv/, That the enhanced cost of farm pro¬ 
ductions, created by Hie ilobta td‘ tho country. Is 
In nowise less than is tho enhutiocd oe.st of m«n- 
ulae.tnred iiriielos; and wo cun no mure submit, 
l«) vnM om murkoir lo ilie untaxed productions 
ol i lie Lril isli i'revinees, than can tho I)iani j fae- 
l-Urprs of ninths. Iron or any other commodity. 
hrsulreil, i Imf we, ns farmers, urn entirely un¬ 
willing to bo traded oil In any other fmtiy that 
bus lor itsobjeel. tho promoiioti of eonmierelal 
or other iutoronh 1 , at our peuse. Nellhor will 
•he llnuiieiid londllloo of (he eonmry luPtllA 
llu> deducting from the national rnveiuioa tik« 
duties now paid on British t olonial productions, 
nor am our flnanduil oflfaJrs, us farmers, so i.ros- 
peroufl as lo justify t.lm building on of these 
I rovluces mto a gu*at. and rich nation at our 
exponso. 
On motion of Dr. Girt, the report of tho 
Committee was received, and after some re¬ 
marks, was adopted unanimously. 
The following resolution was unanimous¬ 
ly paused: 
Uisnlvctl, That we sympathize with our worthy 
l resident, Mr. Tlmiuus Sweeney, In his protract¬ 
ed Ulness, and assure tdm of our earnont wishes 
tor Ids speedy reati.ratlou to healtli. 
On motion of Mr. Beall, the Secretary 
Avas instructed to furnish tho cify papers 
copies of the proceedings of ibis meeting for 
publication, and requesting all other papers 
friendly to our interests to copy. 
On motion, it, was agreed that our next an¬ 
nual meeting he held in the city of Wheeling, 
on the second Tuesday of February, 1870. 
On motion, adjourned. 
,T. B. Kelly, President. 
Samuel Archer, Sec’y. 
4 ♦ » 
blioaM Corn bo Kindled and Ground for Klirept 
— “ A tiubscriber,” .Icffersou, , write*:— “ it 
is flat common practice in ibis Shite to feed our 
sheep corn in the cur. Wouldanythltigbogained 
by shelling and grinding it. lor them ?" Sheep 
fed corn In the ear become broken mouthed - 
i. C. lose tlielr front tooth much earlier; and 
therefore It ia not expedient thus to feed valu¬ 
able breeding owes which it is though! desirable 
to retain until they become old. (Tho same ob¬ 
jection exists to feeding uncut turnips.) In re¬ 
ward to grinding corn for h tote sheep, it is not 
usually thought to pay. 
- _ -»♦»- 
Sheep in town.—J ohn B. Whir, Pilot Cirr/ve, 
Leo Co., Iowa, writes; “Tho destruction of 
sheep in this Stale bos been vory grant. Thou- 
eands of them have been killed for their pelts, 
ami as.many mote will die from disease and neg¬ 
lect. i do not thick half as many ohoep will Ijo 
slieared in Iowa tiiis hjiring as there were last 
spring, q ho high price of. beef, pork and wheat 
has killed she«-p in the West, until liiere is an ad¬ 
vance in wool, lint lam satisfied that our farm¬ 
ers "’111 ho us anxious to get hack limit- sheep, as 
they buvo been to gat rid of them.” 
--- +++- -- 
Mutton Consumption. According to Monthly 
Report of tho Department of Agriculture, the 
number of sheep and lambs received nt Now 
York In 1KB7 wiia l.l«S,«60; In IHfiR, 1,400,CS. There 
worn received at the Union Stock Yards in 
Chicago in 1868,270,875 sheep: re-shlpped, 81,773. 
There were received at St. Louis in 1868, HO,209 
sheep; re-shlpped, 9,200. The receipts of sheep 
in Boston were 400,510 in i860; 111,813 in 1807 • 
•182,874 in 1808. 
Sample*—J ohn n. Whir, Pilot Grove, Iowa :— 
Tho Namples of Merino wool sent by you nro of 
very good quality, but tis a general thing are 
rather short, with (lie exception of ram number 
two and ewe number one; and these two are as 
good samples ns any in the lot. If thn sheep 
wero not summer housed last year, (as they do 
not appear to have been ibis your,) the weights 
of fleeces named by you are hu-go. 
-4-^4-- 
Best Feed for Venning Uwes.—“ o. Tt. C.” nais 
are believed to be better than corn for increas¬ 
ing the milk of yeaning owes. Bran slops are 
excellent. Roots add mueli to the milk, when 
owes are otherwise confined to dry feed. 
