MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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NATIONAL SWINE BREEDERS’ CONVEN¬ 
TION. 
Report of Committee Appointed to Prepare 
Work for the Adjourned Convention to he 
Held at Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20, 1872. 
The committee appointed by I ho National 
Swine Breed era’ Convention, held at Coop¬ 
er Union. May 14tli, to name committee* to 
prepare reports upon the history, charac¬ 
teristics, and a scale of points for the re¬ 
spective breeds of swine, and upon the 
question,“ What constitutes thorough-bred 
swine?” also to name the time and place 
for holding the adjourned meeting of the 
Convention, respectfully report to the 
swine breeders of America: 
1. The adjourned meeting will be held at 
Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday, Nov. 20, 
1872. 
2. It will consist of one delegate, at large, 
from each State, and of one delegate from 
each State for each breed of swine raised 
therein. 
8. These delegates shall be named by the 
Slate Swine Breeders’ Associations, where 
such organizations exist. Where they do 
not exist it is recommended that the Ex 
eoutive Committees of the respective State 
Agricultural Societies, or the State Boards 
of Agriculture, call Conventions of the 
Swine Brooders of their respective States 
at the time and place of t he Stat e Fairs, for 
the purpose of naming delegates to this 
Convention. In t he absence of any .'uch call 
the oommittoe recommend that the exhib¬ 
itors and breeders of swine at the State 
Fairs moot, name and accredit such dele 
gates. In ease any States neglect to do this, 
breeders from such States present at Indi¬ 
anapolis, will be recognized and received as 
delegates, so far as is necessary to secure 
just representation from each State. 
4. The Committee think it proper to as¬ 
sert Unit the gentlemen named on the fol¬ 
lowing committees are selected from lists 
of names furnished and recommended by 
prominent swine breeders in the different. 
States and Canada, with a view to securing 
the most impartial representation upon 
said committees and the most carefully and 
intelligently prepared reports upon the re¬ 
spective breeds to be submitted to the con¬ 
vention for its action. 
r>. A circular letter was sent to the chair- 
On Neapolitan. —M. W. PmLirs, Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn.; F. I). Curtis, Charlton, Sarato¬ 
ga, Co., N. y.; Mason C. Weld, Cluster, N. J. 
On Moyle or Poland China. —John M. 
MiLLlKTX, Hamilton, Ohio; Rankin Bald¬ 
ridge, Hagerstown, Ind.; Shepard (of Shep¬ 
ard & Alexander), Charleston, Ill. 
On Nt te Jersey Reds. — DavidM. Brown, 
Windsor, N. .7.; David Petit, Salem, N. J.; 
John C. Tatum, Woodbury, N. J 
On Suffolk* and Other Small White 
English Breeds. — John Wentworth, Chi¬ 
cago, III.; John Snell, Edmondton, Out.; 
'J'. L. Harrison, Morclcy, N. V. 
On Yorkshire and. Other Large White 
English Jirecdx. —O. P. < ’ohh, Aurora, Ind.; 
James Brodie, Rural Hill, N. V.; M. H. 
Cochrane, Compton, Quebec. 
On Victorias. — (hi ari.es Delano, Al¬ 
bany, N. Y.; W. S. King, Minneapolis, 
Minn.; Geo. S. Louuabury, Aiken, S. C. 
Any inquiries with reference to this Con¬ 
vention or the Committees may be ad¬ 
dressed to the Secretary of the Committee, 
(’has. D. Bhagoon, 5 Beekman St., New 
York City. f Henry Stewart, 
Committee M. C. Welo, 
Frank D. Curtis, 
L. A. Chase. 
department. 
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“SHALL WE GO SOUTH V' 
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man of each of the committees named, ask¬ 
ing whether ho would accept the position 
and duty. Responses have not been re¬ 
ceived from all. Only two have declined, 
naming, however, men who would act iu 
their respective places. These names have 
been substituted. The near approach of 
the Fairs renders it impracticable 1o delay 
this report longer in order to receive fur¬ 
ther responses. It is, therefore, recom¬ 
mended that the members of the respective 
committees place thomselvos in communi¬ 
cation with each other and act as they may 
mutually agree — or that each member pre¬ 
pare a written report prior to the conven¬ 
tion, and mail it to Alexander Heron, 
Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture 
of Indiana, at Indianapolis, Ind. 
C. The committee respectfully urge upon 
the swine breeders of the oonntry the im¬ 
portance to them of (he work it is the ob¬ 
ject of 1 His Convention t o accomplish; and 
that since it is to be a delegated and. In a 
sense, ri legislative body, their representa¬ 
tives should be their best posted, most in¬ 
telligent and Impartial breeders; that if 
the work projected is well done, it will in¬ 
augurate a new era in swine breeding, and 
help to protect both swine breeders and 
buyei*s of swine in their mutual relations. 
7. The following are the Committees 
named to report upon “ What constitutes 
thorough-bred swine,” and upon the histo¬ 
ry, characteristics and a scale of points for 
the respective breeds: 
On “ What Constitutes Thoroughbred 
Swlnct'—Jovw F. Reynolds, Chicago, Ill.; 
Fred. Wm. Stone, Guelph, Ontario; S. L. 
Goodale, Augusta, Me. 
On Beflcshtres. —A. B. Allen, P. O. Box 
376, N. Y. city; J. T. Hudson, Kansas City, 
Mo.; Daniel McMillan, Xenia, O. 
On Improved, Cheshires , or “ Jefferson 
Co.”—C. V. Maxon, Adams, N. Y.; J. 11. 
Sanders, Sigourney, Iowa; J. J. De Forest, 
Duanesburg, N. Y. 
On Chester Whites.— Thomas Wood, Doe 
Run, Pa.; Dr. Calvin Cutter, Warren, 
Mass.; W. W. Thrasher, Groves, Iml. 
On Essex.— JosErn Hauius, Rochester, 
N. Y.; Dr. A. C. Stephenson, Greencastle, 
Ind.; George Roach, Hamilton, Ontario. 
I am a reader of the Rural New-York¬ 
er, and in the issue of July 13 saw an article 
headed “Shall we go South?” from a cor¬ 
respondent of a Chicago paper. It says 
several farmers from St. Lawrence Co., N. 
Y., went to Virginia a few weeks ago laud 
prospecting, with a view of settling there, 
but earns home and reported unfavorably, 
and have given up the scheme. Their rea¬ 
sons were that they met with no cordiality, 
and instead of meeting with a warm recep¬ 
tion were given the cold shoulder. Now 
this would give the general impression that 
it is the same all through the South, which 
is the very thing 1 wish to correct. 1 
would say to t hose same St. Lawrence farm¬ 
ers, and to all the readers of the Rural, 
that the above is not true of all t he South¬ 
ern States; but that if they will go to North 
Carolina, particularly in the vicinity of 
Raleigh, Wake Co., they will be os well re¬ 
ceived by both Northern and Southern 
people as they could wish; and there are 
good inducements for the capitalist or emi¬ 
grant. 1 found there a great many North¬ 
ern farmers that were doing well and did 
not. wish to go back North. The soil is good; 
it produces all the grains, grasses and fruits 
of the Northern States and a great many 
that cannot be raised in the North. The 
climate is all that a person cau wish. The 
western counties of the State are very good 
for stock raising; from Raleigh west to 
Greensboro, thence south on the line of the 
N. C. Railroad, through Salisbury to Char¬ 
lotte is all on the same ridge of land, and is 
about midway between the. sea coast and 
the mountains. 
Many Northern ers a re going to Columbia, 
South Carolina, and also to Aiken, sixty-llve 
miles further south from Columbia. Aiken 
is on the South Carolina Railroad, 17 miles 
east of Augusta, Gib, and 120 miles west of 
Charleston, S. It is a noted health re¬ 
sort, line climate, good fruit and cotton 
country,and well represented with wealthy 
Nort hern people. Lands very cjjeap. 
Augusta, Ga., is a line city of some 23,000 
or 30.000 people. The country around it is 
very good and healthy, but perhaps the best 
farming lands in the State are in Green Co., 
in the vicinity of Greensboro. A great 
man} r farmers from Pennsylvania and New 
Jersey have settled in Green Co., within 
the last two years. It is about midway be¬ 
tween Augusta and Atlanta. 75 miles to 
each place; the Georgia Central Railroad 
runs through this county. 1 think North¬ 
ern people, farmers in particular, will be as 
cordially received as in an} - of the Northern 
States. 
I have traveled through most parts of the 
State of South Carolina and Middle and 
Northern Georgia, and through some sev¬ 
enteen counties in North Carolina. I went 
first for my health and that improved so 
fast that I then began to look up a place for 
a home; that, is why I took so much pains 
to look the country over thoroughly. I 
think of settling near Augusta, Ga., as soon 
as I can make my arrangements to do so.— 
J. P. Hodges, Grand Haven, Mich. 
tion from the New York correspondence of 
the Chicago Tribune, tvs follows: 
“ A few weeks since thirty families in 
St . Lawrence Co. decided to form a colony 
and migrate to Virginia. * * * A few 
weeks since they dispatched several of their 
number to select a locality. Tbo latter, af¬ 
ter prospecting extensively, have now re¬ 
turned and counsel ao abandonment of the 
scheme. Their principal ground for so do- 
iug is t he fact that t hey were receivud with 
no cordiality, instead of meeting with a 
Warm reception, t hey report the Virginians 
gave the cold shoulder to them. They found 
many Northerners scattered through (lie 
State, who generally complain of isolation 
and social ostracism. Thu scheme has ac¬ 
cordingly been given up.” 
This is one of the old political schemes, in 
a new dress, intended to intensify the old 
hatred towards the South, of the more sin¬ 
cere portion of the Northern people. It, 
must be plain to every one, who liaa over 
observed the flood t rash that is always float¬ 
ing about among the newspapers, some lit¬ 
tle time previous to a Presidential election, 
if by chance or any other means—it matters 
not to the schemers what—they can get such 
things copied into a useful paper like the 
Rural New-Yorker, it is a great acquisi 
tion to them. This will no doubt make 
many votes for the war party in the coming 
election. 
I have man}' friends in St. Lawrence Co., 
N. Y., the pretended location of the colony 
spoken of, and having lived there some fif¬ 
teen years myself, I can apeak understand- 
ingly of a great, many of the people. 
There are a largo number of the best, people 
in the world, some of whom, however, were 
misguided with regard to the character of 
the Southern people; and, as the old truism 
will have it, some of the worst people in the 
world wore to be found in the same county, 
who were ready to take advantage of the 
circumstances by which some of the other 
extreme wore misguided. It is well known 
how bitterly the lute l’RESTON King .was 
supposed to have hated the Southern peo¬ 
ple. Whether he acted according to his own 
individual feelings or not 1 shall not raise 
the question here; 1 will only say what i 
know—that he faithfully represented his 
constituents. He and myself were school 
mates iu our younger days, and personal 
friends until his death. Our intimate ac¬ 
quaintance enables me to say this much, 
that his apparent hatred toward the South 
had no place in his heart. It was those of 
his constituents ho represented, who never 
had seen the Sout h or the Sout hern people, 
only through tbo eyes of such talking emis¬ 
saries as were sent here, and paid by de¬ 
signing men, to come and receive all the 
abuse their ingenuity would enable them to 
merit, and at a convenient and proper time 
slump the country, with an enlargement 
upon “the outrageous character of tho 
Soul hern people, from personal knowledge.” 
I do not say that the representatives of 
this colony are designing men of this sort; 
and it they will publish their names and es¬ 
tablish the opposite fact, 1 shall be very 
glad to apologize for the seeming inference, 
But, as the matter stands, 1 have good 
grounds for supposing such a probability 
1 have not only seen emissaries before and 
since I came here to reside (about three 
years ago), but, I presume, I prospected the 
State, before 1 located, more than these 
men spoken of (if there ever were any such 
men), and universally met with extremely 
opposite treatment from what ihey repre¬ 
sent. D. S. Howard. 
Richmond, Ya. 
^hn'p Httsbatutrg. 
DOGS KILLING SHEEP. 
The greatest drawback to the business of 
wool growing, or sheep husbandry in any 
form, is the devastation of the sheep flocks 
by sneaking dogs, which come upon them 
when least expected and in a single night 
so dest roy and demoralize a flock as often 
to take the entire profits of a year’s growth 
out. of it, if not, more than this. 
,Sheep - killing dogs are generally groat 
cowards until they become eager in the 
chase of a timid flock. The cunning of 
thOBe curs, both in planning their thievish 
work and in concealing the evidence against 
themselves, is a thing quite remarkable, 
as they usually go a long way from home to 
lind their prey, and after tins mischief is 
done they return in season and put on such 
a look of innocence that a person would 
hardly suspect they had been engaged in 
the bloody work; and often their guilt cau 
only bo proven by finding shreds of wool 
bet ween t Heir teeth. Death without benefit 
of clergy is the only effective punishment 
of these convicted felons. 
But the preservation of the sheep flocks 
from marauding dogs must lie mainly in 
prevention before tho act rather than iu 
vengeance after the mischief is done; and 
we know of no means so effective in the 
prevention of the mischief as the use of a 
good number of bolls upon the shcej). The 
value of a single sheep would purchase quite 
a number of bells, so t hat this sort, of pro¬ 
tection is comparatively a cheap one, as the 
bells once purchased would last u lifetime. 
The bells should be of the noisy, rattle-te- 
bang kind, not little tinkling things, full of 
pastoral, poetic melodies. A mistake is 
often made by putting bells only on the 
largest, leading sheep of the flock; some 
bells should be on such sheep, of course, as 
they cau lead oft’ and make a prodigious 
noise in a stampede; but bells should also 
be put upon t he weak and slow ones of the 
flock, whose legs cannot carry them so fast 
in a race for dear life, as the noise they 
make would be some prot ection against the 
enemy which came upon the rear to catch 
the belated fugitives. 
SAVING STOCK RAMS. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
Eggs on a Cucumber Leaf.—Mrs. C. G. 
S.—If you wish us to name the eggs of in¬ 
sect try and pack iu some way that will 
insure their safe arrival. When placed 
loose in a bottle they are sure to be de¬ 
stroyed. Let us have the eggs in a condi¬ 
tion for hatching, and then wo will try to 
name the insect that laid them. 
It is customary with most wool growers 
at the time of trimming lambs, to save a 
number of the most, promising males with 
a view of their possible capabilities as stock 
getters. Aft erwards, when time has devel¬ 
oped their real qualities, they are used or 
rejected as their merits become apparent. 
“The first, and most important qullfica- 
tion of a stock ram is constitution. No 
matter how perfect he may be in every 
other particular, if he is defective iu this 
one point be is worthless, llis stock will 
be feeble, short-lived, poor breeders, and 
always ailing. Constitution is to be deter¬ 
mined by the full, robust, physical devel¬ 
opment, the deep, full chest, giving ample 
room for the vital organs; a uniform devel¬ 
opment of all the parts, giving a look of 
Strength and vigor. The ram should not 
only be all right himself, but he should 
Come from healthy, vigorous families on 
both sides, else be may 4iave lurking in his 
system the germs of weakness and disease, 
to be developed in bis stock.” 
In size, a stock rain, like that of a bull or 
stallion, should not be over-large, but of 
the most perfectly ripe and symmetrical 
form of his kind. He should exhibit a 
masculinity of appearance, in both form 
and fleece, quite distinct from a female of 
the same breed. A ram with a ewe’s fleece 
or a ewe's face, would soon run a flock of 
sheep into the ground. 
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
In the “ Land Department ” of your issue 
of the 13tli inst., page 27, I notice a qqota- 
Ncw Way of Killing Cut-Worms.— 
The Prairie Farmer says:— Mr. Boynton, 
St. Joseph, Mich,, hud a field of tomatoes 
much affected by cut-worms. Thinking 
they might be baited, lie cut some green 
clover, wadded it uj> into small bails and 
distributed them anioilg the hills of to¬ 
matoes, and found that the worms would 
collect about them, eat, and go into the 
ground near them. In this way lie took 
from the locality of these balls the numbers 
of 37, 08, 70 and 82. He has experimented 
with various poisons mixed with the clover 
to destroy them and at last took boiling 
water pouring it over and about those wads, 
in that way destroying 15,000 in a single day. 
Weak in the Hips.—What ails my sheep ? 
The first indications of disease are shown 
by their refusing to eat, not chewing the 
cud, and lying down as often as they are 
started up. While standing, they show a 
tendency to bear down or forwards, as 
though there were a weight on the hips. 
Nothing passed that we can see. Death 
ensues in three or four days, to a week. 
They are in good condition.—W. Wood, 
Yorktoum , N. Y. 
Sheep on a Itye Field.—My sheep have 
been on a rye field—pretty old now. I no¬ 
tice a bad cough in several. Cau it be 
caused by the beard of the rye? I took 
them off the rye two days ago, but see no 
improvement.—M. Si. 1'., Bolivar, Tenn. 
