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ORCHARD GRASS. 
The present wet season has clearly shown 
what orchard grass will do under such cir¬ 
cumstances. Thes growth is immense. The 
tufts spread out a foot to afoot and a half in 
diameter. The leaves are perfectly green 
and lush, affording the tenderest and best of 
feed. A peculiarity is, there is not that ten¬ 
dency to shoot up as in timothy and other 
grasses, after the first mowing. And in this 
tine pasture condition it remains till late in 
Hie fall, affording feed when other grasses fail. 
When to this is joined the fact that this grass 
is among the most nutritious, as well its pala¬ 
table, no more, we think, need be said. 
1 n a drouth it has also a reputation superior, 
to most, if not all, grasses. In this respect 
it agrees with clover, the two (June clover) 
mating well. But perhaps the best way is to 
give the land to this grass .alone, especially 
where it is not desirable to raise clover. 
The second cutting must necessarily par¬ 
take of the nature of aftermath, improving in 
quality on that account —the nitrogenous 
element prevailing, or increased. But its 
yield is, nevertheless, a good one, and is 
readily cured, having no large sUtns, only 
the ribbon leaves, which are very long and 
line, reaching often to the length of two feet. 
After the second cutting there will at once 
be a good growth; and the third time the 
scythe maybe passed through, and still leave 
a protective crop. If not, you cannot well 
winter-kill this grass; you only deprive the 
soil of its nutriment. Our second cutting (of 
a small plot) gave a growth thereafter that 
in a few weeks covered Um ground with a 
dense coat lit for the fullest pasture, and in a 
short lime more, lit for the scythe. We 
leave it to look at, and for a coat for winter. 
In the spring it will he the earliest again, 
and at once rank—not the rankness of Die 
strong water-grasses, but a sweet, tender, 
nutritious herbage. 
It is almost a miracle to see how soon it 
rises in the spring, thus showing—as by its 
i.ite fall growth also—that it is suited to the 
wet as well as the cold. It seems to like a 
dry soil, that is, drained; this to develop its 
sweet juices. 
A handsomer grass, when in leaf alone, is 
not to be found. Like tufts of hair, it 
spreads over the field, a uniform and a per¬ 
petual green, a dark green save in the spring, 
when its rapid growth with little sun pre¬ 
cludes this. It is Hum pale green. 
It is strange that we do not see more of 
this grass, and yet a native. When a field 
is given to it it will occupy it. Weeds find 
il hard to thrive there. For this it should be 
considered in our weed-cursed land. 1 lie 
English appreciate this grass. Our time will 
also yet conic. The timothy !>y-antl by must 
make way for it, and even the clover in 
part, as it enriches the soil almost it not 
quite equal to that plant, having abundant 
roots, and with its large and many leaves 
drawing from the atmosphere. Besides, it is 
lasting, makes a permanent, tenacious sod. 
But it is best as a feed, both in quality and 
quantity. 
At this late day (November.) when flur¬ 
ries of snow are in the air and the ground is 
whitened, the deep, rich green of this grass 
is seen through the snow, in tufts like wigs, 
crowning the field, a cushion and a mass of 
feed,—but, better, protection and fertility,— 
that it will pay a man to come a distance to 
sec. The sheep and calves lay hold ol it as 
in summer. It is, eminently, t he late and 
the early grass. While it is thus enriching 
the meadows the other grasses are perish¬ 
ing; the severe frost, repeated, has seriously 
interfered with these. 
Seeing what we have of this grass during 
the present season, we cannot help but speak 
in its favor. Timothy is good if properly 
managed; clover, it would seem, is indis¬ 
pensable; but this grass has more of the 
good qualit ies than any other grass, if not all 
others together. But we arc afraid of it. We 
like clover and timothy, and we look with 
suspicion upon tins “ stranger,” this intruder, 
as it seemed the past summer, following the 
lanes and occupying the vacant spots. Those 
who ha ve tried it, have given a uniform testi¬ 
mony in favor of it. 
But, like the cooking of food for stock, it 
lias an objection. There is too much labor 
in the cooking, and stock wilt do well with¬ 
out it, so cooking is dispensed with general¬ 
ly, yet applauded. In like manner orchard 
grass is highly commended. “ But it looks 
so; there are the tufts; and it team* so like a 
water grass. Besides, it makes land uneven, 
and the soil is tough to plow.” 
Now all this is simply ridiculous. Culti¬ 
vated close, there will be an even and dense 
growth of sod, and the appearance will he 
good (to the intelligent) when the quality is 
considered. Is it nothing to have late feed, 
on the very edge of winter, and a richer and 
more luxuriant growth than can be obtained 
any other way? And in the spring, when 
there is no other grass, here is feed, two 
weeks in advance of the June grass and 
clover. And it will keep green through the 
season— wants to be fed off constantly, or, 
resting but a few days, it will be prime for 
the best, the tenderest feed again. It is the 
plant for the drouth ; and the plant particu¬ 
larly for thT* rain—for the col/i rain; hence, 
for our Northern climate, admirable. 
Three cuttings may as well be had as one, 
the first when the stalk is pushing out the 
blossom before it is fully in bloom; indeed, 
when Just beginning to blossom is best. The 
other cuttings are but the low, ribbon-like 
growth without stalks, but yielding well, as 
the growth is very dense on anything like 
decent soil These last two cuttings of 
aftermath are the densest and richest kind of 
feed. Nothing is better for all kinds of 
stock, if A\ r e except clover for milk. As its 
ribbon-like leaves cure readily, there is no 
difficulty in harvesting it. It can tlius he 
cut and harvested later than other grass, 
and this it Avill bear also in view of its late 
growth, for protection during the tvinter. 
Here, then, from four to six tons the acre 
can be realized yearly; and, we think avo 
are safe in saying, on an average, taking 
three cuttings, which can more readily be 
had than tAvo of clover. 
It should be sown at the rate of three 
bushels per acre. f. o. 
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POTATO EXPERIENCE. 
From Summit County, Utah. 
Early Jiosc. —L:ist spring I planted two 
pounds Early Hose potatoes in single eyes— 
one eye about every ten inches, in a hard 
clay ground. Had to irrigate to get them 
started ; irrigated once a woek, at the same 
time using three or four gallons of kitchen 
and chamber slops on each row. I dug three 
hundred and twenty-five pounds, or an in¬ 
crease of one hundred and sixty-two from 
one. 
Willard. —I also planted one “Willard” 
potato, weighing three ounces; cut it. 
into twelve sets; planted them one foot 
apart; irrigated each week, also putting in 
the slops at each irrigation, and have dug 
twenty-seven pounds of fine potatoes, or an 
increase of one hundred and forty-four from 
one. 
These are admitted by till who ssav them 
Avliilo growing and Avhcn gathered as the 
most vigorous and productive potatoes seen. 
The llamon Potato is certainly entitled to 
the character “ very productive,” often tAvo 
hills Avould till a peck measure; they aston¬ 
ished all Avho suav them. 
Thomas Bullock. 
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SWEET POTATOES ON PRAIRIES. 
YV. W. Rathbone, Marietta, O., Avrites 
the Country Gent leman“ Having made a 
specialty of the sweet, potato for many years 
—it. being now the only crop I raise for sale— 
my experience prompts the folloAving man¬ 
ner of reasoning:—Prairie soil is too rich— 
too mellow. Supposing the soil has been 
in corn or Irish potatoes the previous sea¬ 
son, harrow it thoroughly without breaking, 
when ready to form the ridges for planting. 
The ridges should consist of but one furrmv 
slice instead of two or four, as is so often 
seen. While I advocate deepest plowing 
for corn and other crops, I plow shallow for 
my sweet, potato crop. The theory is—and 
I prove it by practice—as soon as the root¬ 
lets or young tubers reach the hard pan or 
uuploAved soil, the tubers thicken and form 
junk-bottle specimens. Therefore, on ex¬ 
tremely mellow land, it is best not to break 
the soil at all. I would also recommend to 
plant in hills instead of ridges—to use coal 
ashes, say a half shovel per hill. My ex¬ 
perience condemns Southern seed. After 
trying many kinds, 1 plant nothing but the 
Yellow Nansemontl. It is acclimated, early 
and good.” 
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EARLY ROSE PRODUCT. 
Let me give you my experience with po¬ 
tatoes this year. I sent to J. H. Gregory, 
Marblehead, Mass., for one peck of Early 
Rose potatoes, cut them into single eyes and 
planted two eyes in a hill; hills three feet 
apart each >vay. They occupied just twenty 
rods of ground. When they were well up I 
went through them one way with double¬ 
shovel plow; afterwards Avcnt through the 
other way, and just before hoeing plowed 
them again, Avhich avos all the labor or care 
that was bestowed on them. 
My hired man mid myself dug and meas¬ 
ured them carefully and accurately yester¬ 
day, Oct. 13, and had fifty-five and a half 
bushels. Some of them were the largest 
potatoes I ever saw. 1 had dug about twenty 
bills during the summer, which, if they had 
been left, would have added Iavo bushels 
more. • 
The soil Avas a sandy loam; had lain in 
pasture for a number of years. If they had 
been hoed and hilled properly, the amount 
would have been considerably increased I 
think. I weighed several single tubers that 
weighed from two pounds three ounces to 
two pounds seven ounces. J. W. PEIRCE. 
Kalamazoo, Midi., Oct. 14,1869. 
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LABOR FOR THE SOUTH. 
A correspondent of the Rural recently 
stated that, after all, the negro is the best 
laborer for tbe cotton fields. At the same 
time he confessed the. common objectionable 
peculiarities of the race. Other gentlemen 
think differently, and are anxious to see 
crowds of immigrants from Europe and Asia 
arriving in our ports. The Trade Journal 
of Philadelphia is much exercised on lire 
subject of Chinese immigration, and believes 
that while it is desirable for other portions 
of the Union, it would prove disastrous to 
the South. I propose to give a few plain 
propositions on the important subject, with 
the facts and arguments to sustain them. 
First, the negro will be the main laborer 
at the South for a number of years to come, 
whether he be the best adapted or not. This 
is plain from the fact that lie is already here, 
and in such large numbers ns no foreign race 
could expect to equal for a long lime. Just 
as the institution of slaAwry effectually ex¬ 
cluded immigrants in its day, so, though not 
in so absolute a sense, the presence of the ne¬ 
groes prevents the advent of foreigners now. 
Another striking truth in the premises is the 
general preference for the negro among 
Southern people. This is seen in the fact 
that while a few individuals in some sections 
of the South have made limited efforts to 
abandon the employment of the negro and 
secure emigrants from the Old World, the 
great mass of tbe Southern population have 
gone on quietly with the negro, thereby giv¬ 
ing practical proof that they preferred him, 
whatever they may have said and written. 
It is simply out of the question for a nation 
of Europe or the East, to expect to supplant 
in a few years a race of established occupant'# 
who have the vast advantage of a start of 
three or four millions. 
As to the prospect of the waste and reduc¬ 
tion of the colored race by death from vari¬ 
ous causes, it may safely be affirmed that it 
is not so signal as was declared, and as it ap¬ 
peared soon after their emancipation. The 
crowding to the cities and towns, and conse¬ 
quent idleness and Avantof food and clothing 
for the first year or Iavo, occasioned more 
mortality among them than has occurred 
more recently. While they may have di 
minished in somelocalities and districts, they 
have considerably increased in others. With- 
in the bounds of my own observation they 
arc healthy and multiplying. The census 
next year will |tkriy tell a very different 
story from the gloomy Inferences which have 
been made from exceptional localities. 
My second assertion is that tlic negro is 
really the best laborer for tbe South at its 
present stage. He is thoroughly acclimated, 
besides being naturally adapted to a hot cli¬ 
mate. He is familiar with the peculiar Avork 
of the South, having been bred to it. True, 
he may need much instruction aud improve¬ 
ment, but he does not need to be taught from 
the very beginning and at every step, like 
one who is utterly ignorant of our manner of 
living and working. He speaks the 6ame 
language, adopts much of the same mode of 
living, and professes the same religion. As 
to relative cleanliness, honesty, industry, 
skill, obedience and general pleasantness, be 
need not fear a fair comparison. If he is 
often found deficient in some of these quali¬ 
ties, so arc many of those races who arc 
(locking to our shores. Give him the same 
attention, and the same special and general 
treatment as a laborer which will he neces¬ 
sarily given to immigrants, and it is believed 
he Avill suit the Southerner as well as they, 
if not far better, iu most , if not all, these re¬ 
spects. lie needs the counsel aud firm, yet 
generous control of Caucasian intelligence 
and refinement. If, instead of neglecting 
him in the vain hope of getting better in his 
stead, it were accepted as a fixed fact that lie 
Avas to be the chief laborer for many years to 
come, and was instructed accordingly, and 
disciplined Avith that \ r ie\v, he would certain¬ 
ly grow in all the points of special adaptive¬ 
ness to the demands of the section and the 
day. If, instead of being manipulated licen¬ 
tiously by a spirit of demagogism, with a 
vieAV to his unenlightened vote, he were edu¬ 
cated kindly and pcrseveringly for such work 
as he understands, he would find his freedom 
worth far more than he has found it yet, and 
would prove himself immensely more valu¬ 
able to his country. 
My next proposition is that in giving 
preference to the negro, other laborers, 
whether native or foreign, are not excluded 
or intentionally discouraged from coming 
among us. On the contrary, they are de¬ 
sired and requested to come. Owing to the 
immense area of not only unoccupied but 
uncultivated land, and the tendency under 
improved cultivation to contract the size of 
farms, there is a great demand for thousands 
of immigrants. We want them to come and 
help develop our vast resources. True, we 
are not able to promise them what we could 
if we Avere more prosperous, but wo will 
welcome them to cheap lands and safe habi¬ 
tations. Instead of their industry and skill 
causing contention and opposition, we Avill 
rejoice in them as examples and stimulants 
to ourselves and the negroes. 
Lastly, I affirm that neither the Chinese 
nor any oilier foreigners need take counsel 
from the pretended fears of such articles as 
haA r e recently appeared in the Trade Jour¬ 
nal. Why there should be more danger of 
the Mongol and African falling into serious 
strife than of either of them with any other 
race is not easily understood. The negro 
lias no special hatred for John Chinaman, 
so far as is known here. He knoAvs nothing 
about him, and up to the present cares 
nothing about him. It would be humane, to 
'y the least, towards both races for the 
press to refrain from publishing such articles 
as tend to beget the very jealousies and 
strifes against which they affect to give 
warning. A Southern Man. 
North Carolina, 1869. 
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DOES IT PAY TO TAKE A PAPER? 
Some men are too wise to need a news¬ 
paper. “ What do book men know about 
farming?” they say. “They never held a 
plow or pitched a ton of hay in their lives. 
Don’t come to us Avith your papers.” And 
60 they go toiling along as that class has 
for time untold and unknown. 
“ You don’t wan’t a feAv nice young pear 
trees, I s’posc," said a sharp-eyed vender of 
fruit trees to one of this class the other clay. 
“ Wal, no—can’t say as 1 do. Might see 
what. lh’ ole woman says, tho’. She’s been 
at me those two years to set out some pear 
trees. S’pose I should take a dozen, Avliat 
’ould the damage he ?” 
“ Three dollars and fifty cents apiece,” 
replied the vender promptly, who saAv his 
man and how to manage him, “and delivered 
at your door one week from to-day. You 
don’t often sec finer trees either—plump six 
feet high, smooth, and fair as you ever set 
your eyes on." lie ilid not add, as he might 
have done with truth, that they were mere 
Avhips, shot up to six feet, perhaps, but not 
worth a quarter of their price. 
This ancient farmer plowed and sowed 
bis ancestral acres ten miles from the near¬ 
est point of contact with the live, business 
world. Year in and out it Avas the old 
routine. About four inches measured the 
loosened 6oil of his corn field; low, SAvampy 
land, of which he had twenty acres ten 
years ago, lying splendidly for draining, was 
t wenty acres of Ioav, swampy land still, and 
likely to be for another generation. “ None 
of your * drain-tile’ for me.” 
About four days after the conversation re¬ 
lated above, 1 chanced to drive to tbe rail¬ 
road station. Leaning against the packing 
boxes were some half-dozen or more bunches 
of pear trees, Avretehedly put up, roots ex¬ 
posed to the sun and cold, dry wind, but fail- 
looking trees for all. As I stepped toward 
them, the same sharp-eyed man that I had 
seen before did the same. 
“Bad for these trees,” said I, “dryingthis 
way. I wouldn’t have it for half their value, 
if they were mine." 
“ O, they Avon’t hurt for a day or two. 
Can’t get them out to old B.’s to-day.” 
“ These,” said I. pointing to the fine, fibrous 
roots, “ have already ‘ hurt,’ and that badly. 
The trees may barely grow, and you get 
your money, but no one else will be much 
the better off. By-lhc-Avay, Avliat do you get 
for them?" I asked, turning the attached 
card so as to read the figures. 
“ Three dollars apiece.” 
“ And does Mr. B. pay you that?” 
“ 0 .3’cs. I put on a little more at first, 
and when I fell to three dollars lie thought 
he avus driving a sharp bargain." 
And so, thought I to myself, this is the 
man Avhoin, year after year, I have urged to 
take an agricultural paper, “Why, look 
here, neighbor Q.,” he would say, “ my old 
father and gran’ther B. ’s been on tliis land 
well-nigh on to fifty year now, and I reckon 
what’s good enough for them’s good enough 
for me. If I should get one of these ’ere 
bright, spankin’, clean, new papers, full of 
picters ancl nonsense, the boys ’ould be get- 
tin’ their heads full of goto’ to Virginny or 
Calyforny or Iderlio, and the girls ’ould be a 
slickin' to the picters when they’d enough 
sight better be a spinnin’ or cuttin’ apples. 
No, sir, I ain’t such a fool yet as to be spend- 
in’ my money that way.” 
And so he runs in the old groove, plows 
with the old plow, harrows with the old 
machine his grandfather did, sows, reaps 
and mows as they did a generation back, 
and pays thirty-six dollars for a little lot of 
fruit trees that ought to have cost him ten 
or twelve. So he goes on, little dreaming 
that he is losing enough in this single opera¬ 
tion to pay the yearly subscription for the 
Rural half a dozen times over, ancl bringing 
up sons and daughters so that they must 
either stay closely guarded in the home-fold, 
like their father’s lamb, or be devoured by 
the “tigers and tigresses” that lie in wait 
for such in the wide, wicked Avorld. 
M. Quine v. 
<Tbc ijerbsman. 
BUFFALO HUNTING. 
Here is a letter from Michigan asking in¬ 
formation concerning buffaloes: 
Mr. C. AY. Walker —Dear Sir: I want to get 
some young buffaloes next spring. I hear of 
buffaloes in Kansas. Are there any in your 
Vicinity? Or Can you gi\ r e mo any information 
or advice where to go for them ? 
Yours respectfully, 
Merritt Richardson. 
Otvnsso, Shiawasso Co., Mich., Oct. 4. 
Yes, there are young buffaloes in the vi¬ 
cinity of Washington, Kansas; but, so far 
as 1 knoAV, they arc tamed ones. They can 
be bought, at. a fair price — say from $10 to 
$20. About one hundred miles west of 
Washington buffaloes roam in immense 
herds, and one has only to take them and 
they arc his But care must be had of the 
Indiana, lest, they pounce upon him, take his 
buffaloes and himself too. They are in the 
habit of doing such things, and it is not safe 
for one to go alone hunting buffaloes. 
Fifteen men went out from here some 
time since with their wagons, arms and am¬ 
munition, found and took a plenty ot buffa¬ 
loes to fill their wagons with splendid jerked 
buffalo meat, and started for home. After a 
short drive they saw half a dozen more 
buffaloes, more or less, and after a few mo¬ 
ments’ parley they agreed to give them 
chase, thinking, though Avcll supplied with 
their flesh, they might add a feAv hundred 
pounds to their loads. 
Noav, as they had seen nothing of Hie In¬ 
dians, they.Avere quite courageous, and many 
of them doubted if there were any. Hence 
they were less careful and on the lookout 
than they should have been. Their wagons 
were not together, and they who were to 
return afoot, joined company somewhat 
ahead of the wagons. 
One, a Mr. Dixon, and his aid, avci-c 
hitching up, Avith his wagon completely full 
of clean buffalo meat, Avlien lo! a bugle 
horn peals its blast. 
“ What is that, John ?’’ says Dixon to hi3 
companion. “ Did you hear that liorn ?" 
“ Yes,” says John. 
They knew there was no horn in their 
company. They cast their eyes upon one of 
the prairie swells, and, coming full tilt , upon 
their well trained horses, av.-is a an hole com¬ 
pany of Indians armed to the teeth. They 
leaped upon their wagon, Dixon, a power¬ 
ful man, cutting blood at every stroke upon 
the horses, steering straight for his com¬ 
pany. The horses, snuffing the danger, and 
feeling the terrible sting of tbe lash, raced 
rapidly, when lo! one forward Avliecl flew 
from the axle and down went the wagon. 
But Dixon, seeing it, leaped from the wagon 
to his feet, unhitched Hie horses instanter, 
sprang upon one and his comrade upon the 
other, and reached their company just iu 
time to save their scalps. 
The Indians immediately encircled the 
company, fixed their arrows and tightened 
their botvs, -while their chief rode up and 
demanded pay for their buffaloes, as they 
claimed them to be. But tbe company had 
a courageous man among them, avIjo marched 
directly up to the Indian chief and told him 
to leave or lie Avould shoot, him through, at 
the same time pointing liis gun directly at 
his iireast. The Indian quailed, retired, and 
Dixon and company were safe, but minus 
their meat aud their wagons, which the In¬ 
dians made sure to take. 
Bucli are the risks of buffalo limiting. 
Washington Co., Kansas. C. W. Walker. 
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Short-Horn Sole liy Juiues M. Brown’s 60119 , 
Berlin, 111.—There was a fair attendance at this 
sale Oct. 27. The following are the reported 
sales and prices: 
Cows and Heifers. 
Martha Clay, 4 years. H. Tunisun. Green Co., til., $210 
White Rose 2d. 2 years, Mr. AValkcr. Ill. 125 
Retina 4th, 6 months. J. L. Mills. Lnsulle. Ill. 55 
Apntc 2d, 2 years. Mr. Lewder, Ind.. 170 
Agate 41 h, 9 months, E. R. French, Green Co., 
Illinois,. 251 
Josie, 7 years, w. R, Duncan, Towanda. Ill. 300 
Ludy Sheffielder 6 th, 5 years (and calf,) Jos. Hol¬ 
ton, 111.. 375 
Fannie .6 years, Mr. Boys, III... 200 
ran Fern, 9 months. E. P. Brock way, Ripon, 
Wts. 310 
Ze.nnhin, 4 years Mr. Boys, III. 150 
Bessie, 2 venrs. M. Snieddcre, III.,. 145 
Easter Pay, 2 years, G. Sprapue. Iowa,--- 300 
Juno.2 vi-iira. J. H. Spears, 111.,. 100 
Red Hose 2d. 8 years and calf. Mr. Cown. Ill. 502 
Red Itoae nth, if years, and rulf. A\ r . R. Duncan. -. 400 
Daley 2d. 7 years, J. It, Mills. La 6 alle. Ill. 105 
Daisy «h. one vest. Air. Lancaster, Iowa. 118 
Charity 2 years, Jlr. Lowder, Ind. 200 
Lady of Athol 5th, one year, Mr. Holton, III...... 201 
Beauty 3tb, 7 years, Mr. Lowder. Ind.,. 200 
Beauty 12tu, 1 year, N. Per vines. Sangamon Co., 
lihnola. 105 
Marparrtta 2 d, 2 years, and calf, J. C. Buna, 
Sangamon Co., III.,. —... 155 
Emma Maxwell.3d, 8 months. G. Sprague, Iowa, 132 
Lady fUiofltelder 9th, 2 yearn, M. Lowder, Ind. 115 
J.ilac, 3 years, G. Sprague, Iowa,...'. 355 
Lilac 2d, b months, G- SprBgue, Iowa. 285 
Bulls. 
2d Puke of Illinois, 1 year, Mr. Golf, Warren Co., 
Illinois. 325 
Colfax, 1 year. C, Gillman. Ill. 220 
Longfellow, J year. Mr. Tuuison, III.. 300 
3d Duke of Illinois, 10 months, J. L. Walker, Ma¬ 
son, HI. 4- ! >0 
The Oar, 8 months, J. H Mills, III . 190 
8t. Elmo, 7 months, G. Hoover, Pike Co., Ill. 255 
The Pearl, 0 months, Mr. Lancaster, Iowa,. . 140 
Duke of Ridgeway, 5 months, Mr. Lowder. Ind., Ill 
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Cons Sucking Themselves. — ALLEN, in hta 
“ American Cat tle,'’ says he nevor had a creature 
of the kind, and if he had he would not take the 
pains to make the complicated machinery for 
Its protection, unless she were of very choice 
blood ,4vhose preservation Avas worth an.vamount 
of pains to keep her under proper coutrpl. 
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