lot out before her. She looked at them sly¬ 
ly, turned them oyer with her nose, smelled 
first oue and then another, but was quite un¬ 
able to distinguish her own from those of the 
Chester While sow. So down she lay for 
them to suck, and took to the whole lot at 
once.” 
IIow Mhp.1i a Hoff will Shrink. 
Sometimes it is very convenient to know 
The leading dairymen having decided t hat, 
milking pails are every way more desirable 
if made of tin, one bas been constructed by 
the same Company, with a bottom on the 
principle of the can. As is well known the 
sides of a pail will wear out two or three 
bottoms, this is a great improvement. The 
bottom being convex, and at the same time 
sitting upon rests, is kept out of the dirt, 
and therefore the bottom ol your pail is al¬ 
ways clean. 
aoknowledjred to be the cheapest and most re¬ 
liable cure yet discovered for scab or ticks in 
sheep; it is quite eqnnl in efficacy to the decoc¬ 
tion of tobaco. is much cheaper than tlie old 
and very unscientific mixture of tobacco and 
sulphur united,(the sulphurwosalmost useless,) 
and more reliable because the quality of to¬ 
bacco (as wo all know to our cost) cannot he de¬ 
pended upon, whilst floor of sulphur is always 
penuiue. At this period of the year, after our 
sheep are shorn, all diseases ol' the Skin to which 
they are. liable are more easily cured, and there 
is no risk ol' deteriorating the value of the wool 
bv soiling, which all dtppfOft*, even of hoi water, 
are apt. to do, when the staple has advanced in 
growth to any extent. It cannot, therefore, be 
too extensively known that even one dipping in 
the adovesolution is euiUeteut to cure the most 
inveterate ease of scab in sheep (even when its 
pelt has.assumed the rhinoceros eharuefer) with¬ 
out in i lie slightest degree injuring the health 
of (lie animal or the fiber of its wool; but on 
the contrary, by absorption it. passes into and 
improves the constituents of tho blood, and 
stimulates, through its action on the natural 
perspiration, tbogrowth of ilia wool. To enable 
sheep owners to banish scab, once and forever, 
drum their thicks. I am Induced to ask you to 
publish the recipe for the preparation and use 
of "thesolution of snlphuretof lime.” 
Take oue hundred pounds sulphur, (flour of.) 
fifty pounds lime, (quick, if procurable, or a 
larger proportion of slacked,) one hundred gal¬ 
lons of cold water. 
Put these Into a boiler, keep mixed by con- 
stoni ly stirrinK until they both and then keep 
boiling and stirring for about ten minutes, until 
a clean, dark-brown, orange-tinted solution su¬ 
pervenes, then mix oue gallon of this solution 
with three gallons of hot wuler, and make your 
dip or batj), heated to 100 or Hi* of Fahrenheit, 
and plunge your sheep over head in it for about 
a minute. Whan they are dry, the cure is com¬ 
plete; but to prevent the risk of re-lnfectlon, 
and to secure yourself again-it the chance of an 
imperfect muster, a second dip, after ten days, 
in a bath one-half the above strength will rentier 
assurance doubly sure. I sincerely believe that 
a compulsory simultaneous dipping of all sheep 
in Victoria during next January, would render 
the cost of scab Inspectors and boards of advice 
unnecessary, nud save I tie country many thou¬ 
sands of pounds. As a most, valuable testimony 
of the effect* of this euro on tho wool of dipped 
sheep, T send you a copy of a letter I have re¬ 
ceived from Mr. John Sanderson, the eminent 
wool merchant of Melbourne; it will also prove 
valuable just now, to persons engaged In wash¬ 
ing t bcir sheep. I believe Mr. Sanderson dipped 
his sheep when the fleece was about half grown, 
and if he is able, by the use of a little more soap, 
ro remove all traces of the dip, so that, as be 
says, tho color of his wool is perfect, nothing 
more can ho desired, I regret that this gentle¬ 
man has not. given Ua the contents of his soap, 
so that the quantity of soap required might bo 
known; but perhaps bo will supply this nmls- 
ttslmnirni 
to ncrntii 
arm 
IMPROVED DAIRY UTENSILS. 
The constantly increasing magnitude of 
the dairy interest in this country, has ren¬ 
dered desirable a class of utensils better 
adapted to the wants of dairymen, than those 
for some years in general use. Cans for 
transporting milk to market, and more re¬ 
cently for taking it to. the cheese factory, 
have uniformly been made of’tin, as Ihe host 
material for keeping clean aim sweet. The 
only objection to cans, as usually made, lias 
been their tendency to leak, from the strain 
CHOLERA, 
wrought,^ 
UTS IDE Hoop 
iron cr.An m iOK pa ro¬ 
ll ow much a hog will shrink niter being 
dressed, especially if a person wishes to sell 
either on foot or dressed. For that purpose 
I herewith give the result of one we killed 
lately. After it was stuck and bled, it 
weighed 277 pounds. After being dressed, 
hung up and drained for four hours, it had 
shrunk 34 pounds--Or a small fraction over 
eight per cent. This pig was not fed any¬ 
thing for twenty-four hours previous to be¬ 
ing killed. Undoubtedly they will vary a 
little either way, according to condition, &c. 
—Geo. S Parsons, Qonverneur, AC Y. 
lipsj 
of handling when tilled, opening the seams 
at the bottom, or forcing from its fastenings 
the hoop riveted at this junction, with the 
wood bottom, as a protection to the can. 
To obviate these defects, and meet a public 
want, there lias been construet.edu can which 
the inventor calls “Iron Clad,” of which an 
illustration is given herewith. The bottom 
is made of one piece of wrought, iron, heavily 
tinned, and swedged or pressed into shape, 
with a convex bottom, and a rim or tlungo 
on the upper surface, some two inches in 
width. Tho concavity of the bottom giving 
additional strength, leaves the outer edge as 
a rim on which the can may be moved from 
place to plane, without danger of injury or 
leaking. This feature will be more readily 
understood from the cut of the can bottom 
here given. 
arsmatt 
A Horse that Curbs Himself. 
A correspondent of the Massachusetts 
Ploughman asks how to prevent a horse 
standing with one hind foot over the other 
and corking himself, and is answered:— 
“ Wear a stout leather boot made for the 
purpose, while the horse is standing. It can 
he put on and taken off in a moment, with¬ 
out trouble. Tt. buckles around or just over 
the top of the foot. It can lie found at most 
of the saddlery stores. You might wear 
side corks put on to the sides of the shoe in¬ 
stead of at the ends. The first is the better 
way. It is a matter of habit induced by 
some disease, or weakness, the object being 
fACTORY MILK 
HANDLE OB’ COVER OF IRON CLAD CAN. 
to rest the tendons or joints of t he leg. The 
leather boot covering the hoof is a complete 
protective, but some insert a thin piece ot 
sheet iron between two thicknesses of the 
leather which covers the hoof. It makes the 
boot hold its form and makes it stouter, but 
is ordinarily not necessary, the simple boot 
being sufficient.” 
\/\/F{0UG HT \RQ\\ 
77 NN ED. 
The Mule Business In Texas. 
The Turf, Field and Farm, of January 20, 
says:—“Texas is going into the mule busi¬ 
ness, and we predict that it will pay much 
better than the raising of mustangs. Last 
fall we met a Texan in the West, who was 
selling his half-breeds to the farmers, at an 
average of $40 each. Taking into consider¬ 
ation the rearing and the transportation of 
the stock, there could not have been much 
money in the enterprise. But mules can lie 
raised as cheaply on the plains as horses, and 
they command much higher prices. Col. 
Henderson recently sent South, from Ken¬ 
tucky, twenty-six head of full-blooded jacks. 
At New Orleans he found a purchaser in 
Capt. King of Nueces county, Texas. Capt. 
King will breed these jacks to the common 
mares, and he thinks Unit the progeny will 
I lie a moderate sized mule—such an animal 
Rented jan. 4,1879. 
THE IRON CLAD CAN. 
The can is constructed by setting the 
cylinder inside of the hoop or flange in the 
upper side of the bottom, to which it is riveted 
and soldered and again soldered on the out¬ 
side which, it is claimed, does away will) all 
leaking and carrying cans to the shop for 
repairs, as they are better fitted to stand hard 
usage, rolling on the edge, dropping, &c. 
The bottom is claimed to be very durable, 
and lighter than those in general use. It is 
very convenient for using in cold water as a 
cooler, there being nothing to rust or swell. 
The can is perfected by the cover aB shown 
in the cut, which is stamped from one piece, 
and has no seams to come apart or gather 
impurities, is easier to keep clean and more 
durable than the old style. Upon the cover 
Mr. Rowe sends us the accompanying 
sketch of a spiral and outlying yards ; a is 
a yard to receive ewes; b a yard to receive 
wethers; c the yard into which the sheep 
are first driven, and thence into the center 
of the spiral yard through the three gales 
at 1; d an extra yard, into which sheep are 
hand-drafted from ihe circle,and where they 
are allowed to remain at will. At 1 are 
oeen tuiee gates, through which sheep are 
driven from the yard e into the center of 
the spiral yard, and are closed the moment 
the sheep are in. They are thus aggregated 
in narrow circular lines. Mr. Rowe’s yard, 
when full, holds 4,000 sheep, (he does not 
give its diameter,)and is filled in a few min¬ 
utes. The sheep then follow the spiral and 
one another until they arrive at. 3, where 
there is a gate which swings on a center 
post, and which moves back and forth against 
the sides of the opening, only allowing one 
sheep to pass at a time for drafting—suy 
ewes from wethers, or fat from lean sheep 
as they pass through the trough containing 
the arsenic water which is here located, at 
the exit; it is a small gate through which to 
hand-draft sheep out of a small yard (made 
by closing the gates 5 and 6) where he cuts 
and tails Ids lambs; 5, 6, 7 and 8 are gales 
which are closed as the sheep are driven up 
towards the race or trough at the end of the 
spiral, and prevent sheep from crushing back. 
The following is the correspondence al¬ 
luded to by Mr, Rowe in the foregoing com¬ 
munication : 
To the E' 1 jyr of the Ovens and Murray Advertiser: 
oLR:—The solution of sulphur and lime (sul- 
phuret of lime) is now pretty weLl known and 
A Prolific Ewe. 
The Farmer (Scottish) says:—“ At, present 
there is, on the farm of East Kinlieth, in the 
occupation of Mr. Moffat—whose reputation 
as a breeder of Cheviot sheep ranks very 
high, as shown by the prices which his stock 
realizes at the Edinburgh ram sales—a 
Cheviet ewe, which lias produced no fewer 
than thirty-three lambs. As a yearling she 
threw one lamb, and ever after she has 
brought twins. Her nge is now eighteen 
years, a longevity which is almost as re¬ 
markable as her fertility. 
\ NOTES FOR SWINEHERD. 
Trnnsferrlnff Pies. 
i Wm John Whatmore, Dunleith, Ill, 
#-jpl writes the Prairie Farmer;— 1 “ Having 
llgij a Chester White sow that brought 
SilP morc P 5 ? 8 than she could raise, and 
W not liking to ‘knock them in the 
^ bead,’ I took some of them away. 
These I put in a four bushel wheat 
sack, together with four others, born 
the same day, of another sow; tied 
the bag up and put them away in the 
‘brush,’to tumble and roll about, out of 
hearing of the mothers. The sow to whom 
the four pigs belonged, was very uneasy 
at losing her pigs when so young. In 
the course of an hour, 1 emptied the whole 
.Y 
Coixwold Sheep for Mutton. 
A correspondent of the New England 
Farmer, why is engaged in butchering, says 
that he finds too many mutton frames with 
but a very slight covering of meat and a still 
lighter covering of wool. Consumers are 
calling for better meat, or for more meat and 
less bones; but the butcher cannot get it un¬ 
less the farmer will grow it for him ; and he 
caunot much longer afford to pay farmers for 
bones, because the American people have 
not vet learned to eat them; and, therefore, 
we cannot find a market for them. 
SIDE HANDLE OF IRON CLAD CAN. 
ns will sell for much more limn a mustang 
horse. It. is our opinion that the breeding 
of mules can be mude very profitable in the 
Lone Star State.” 
TOP OF IRON CLAD CAN. 
are placed wrought iron tinned handles, 
and the sides are finished with wrought and 
malleable iron handles, tinned, which will be 
readily understood by tlie accompanying cuj. 
Tlu: side handle sets closer to the can than 
any other, and is considered the best in use. 
Inqnirki for Horsemen.—” A Rural Render,*’ 
Baltimore, asks for u method of making; bulky 
horse* go; also. how to Uranic a horse from pull- 
irur his halier.—B I). H. ms Us for a remedy l’or ft 
horse afflicted with Water Farcy (dropsy.) Tho 
right hind lew Inis enlarged to twenty inches In 
oircumferonco around the hock joint. lie asks 
it’ the disease is contagious. No. 
