nlutstrutl f opics. 
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
ThrouRh the Colton mid Tobacco Staten. 
From Chattanooga to Atlanta we pass 
first through the rich mineral regions of 
year, 1870, the stock on this farm has been 
sixty head of beef cattle, eight horses, six 
oxen, and six cows—making eighty in all. 
The average crop of corn for the last ten 
years lias been seventy-five shelled bushels 
to the act ; wheat, twenty-five bushels; oats, 
fifty bushels; and the hay crop, two and a 
half tons to the acre. The wheat crop the 
last season has been much under an average 
lacific Slept. 
CALIFORNIA RURAL NOTES. 
Winter Climate —The Season and Pro¬ 
spective Crops—Sheep Herdlwr, ifec. 
We have just returned from a two weeks’ 
etc., and some gold. Coming down to 
the valley of the Ckattahooclie River, we 
pass abruptly from the lime to the sand¬ 
stone formation, The valley of the Eto¬ 
wah is very well adapted to cotton glow¬ 
ing, and this, like the whole valley of the 
Chattahoochee, is the best cotton region of 
the State of Georgia. 11 is also well adapted 
to corn, Wheat and clover, and all these 
crops arc largely cultivated. 
Atlanta Isa very growing city, and a great 
railroad center; or rather, I should say, it is 
like Chicago on a smaller scale, a great fun¬ 
nel through which the products of the lower 
country must pass in its way to the North 
and East. Among the live men of Atlanta 
are Richard Peters, who lias done so much 
measurement of a field of thirteen acres and 
sixty-one perches, and also the measurement 
of the cribs in which the crop is stored, mak¬ 
ing tiic extraordinary amount of rather more 
than 110 shelled bushels to each acre. 
It. becomes a question of great interest to 
know how such a mighty change in the pro¬ 
ductiveness of the same acres could be 
brought, about in the lifetime of one man. 
There are no marl-pits in Pennsylvania, 
neither bi d they any alluvial meadows to 
draw from for the benefit of the uplands. 
But the use of 
Lime ns a Fertilizer 
was then becoming known in that neigh¬ 
borhood. It was tried sparingly at first. 
Soon its value was proved, and it has been 
to introduce improved farm stock and a bet- Soon its value was proved, and it, lias been the ground was saturated oniy auoui a iuoi 
ter style of fanning into that State; and Mr. used at short intervals since, until between deep. Yet there was plenty of moisture for 
Sam A. Echols, the proprietor of an im- two hundred and three hundred bushels grass and grain, which were looking gicen 
mense agricultural implement, and seed have been applied to every acre. Most of the and thrifty, although the cool weather had 
warehouse, who is also a good friend of the land now seems saturated, and it is not so oft- prevented as rapid a growth as is some- 
Rurai. New-Yorker, and through whose eu used; still, when a field shows any signs times seen at this season. To show that 
kind attentions we have several hundred of failing, lime is applied. Lime stone is quar- vegetation cannot be very backward, we 
readers thereabouts. ried in the neighborhood, and probably will say that on the first day of February we 
From Atlanta my course lay through the underlies this farm. Plaster (sulphate of lime) plucked a bunch of wild oats, of this season s 
rntmn m-ion of Wen. Georgia to Augusta, has also been used. At, first it was drawn growth, that measured fifteen inches; a shoot 
about plowing for the next season's crop. --- -~ 
Have arranged to Intve 800 acre, plowed Fot> , „ _ TI , e CentTa , 
(summer fallowed) for wheat, to have sta- HO a Union Pacific Railroads have authorized the 
tiling for nearly forty horses to be employed ticket agents of railroads In the Middle. Eastern 
in plowing, erecting a house, &c., on our and Southern States to sell emigrant tickets 
« rnnfflewnod *» from Omaha to San Francisco for«60,curn 
lanch at Jun S>“ instead of * 72 , the price lately paid-leaving the 
Rains and Vegetation. Ihe great ( . a) j^ r nnt 9 the privilege ot choosing such of the 
clamor is for rain, rain—while, in fact, there competing tinea east of Omaha, as they can 
lias thus far been all the rain in Solano and make terras with the most favorable to them- 
-y 1 Hie rontmioua counties that is wives. There will doubtless be a great influx of 
Yolo, and the contiguous count .s, mat IS immjgrantft Jnto California the coming season ; 
needed for the present. Befoie the rain of a „u now is the time, if they intend to be ready 
February 4lb, and subsequently, the ground f 0r the business of the coming season. 
was too wet to admit, of plowing among **"*" 
the rolling hills that skirt the plains and L&- r4.» * 
lead to the foot-hill* of the Coast Range of ([; 1)0 it)01‘USttTiTlT» 
mountains; although in more tenacious soils 0 
the ground was saturated only about a foot - 
length, and the barley two and a-lialf feet, 
with heavy heads of .veil filled grain. This 
will do for February. 
A Bird-Architect. —Among the ever¬ 
green foliage of a live oak tree, standing near 
ihe springs at Jungle wood, we noticed a 
bird’s nest, large enough for t hat of a pigeon 
or turtledove, which had an awning or arbor 
built over it, some six or eight inches above 
the nest,, of small slicks, leaves, &c.—evident¬ 
ly built as a screen against the hawks, as 
well as to keep off the burning rays of the 
mid-day sun. It exhibits a very judicious 
instiuct, if not a show of reason. 
--- 
Emigrant Fore* to California.— The Central 
and Union Pacific Railroads have authorized the 
ticket agents of railroads In tlie Middle. Eastern 
and Southern States to sell emigrant tickets 
from Omaha to Sail Francisco for *50, currency, 
instead of *72, the price lately paid—leaving the 
emigrants the privilege ot choosing such of ihe 
competing lines east of Omaha, as they can 
make terras with the most favorable to them¬ 
selves. There will doubtless be a great influx of 
mbs m;tu. 
cotton region of Eastern Georgia to Augusta, has also been used. At. first it, was drawn 
which has been a great, cotton market, and a in wagons sixty miles, proving how much it 
very pretty town, but like Macon, is now was valued. Ditch banks and other rich de- 
very pretty town, but lute macou, is now 
rather a dull place for business. 
At Augusta we cross the Savannah River 
into the State of South Carolina, through 
•which I made my way to Charlot te and Dan¬ 
ville,via North Carolina. Here we come upon 
the tobacco region, which extends north¬ 
ward to Richmond, Va. This tobacco region 
posits were drawn into the barn yard for 
and thrifty, although the cool weather had 
prevented as rapid a growth as is some¬ 
times seen at, this season. To show that 
vegetation cannot be very backward, we 
will say that on the first day of February we 
plucked a bunch of wild oats, of this season’s 
growth, that measured fifteen inches; a shoot 
from Hie root of a Buckeye tree that meas¬ 
ured eight inches in length, and the buds 
had fully burst into leaf; and the manzanitas 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
Col. F. D. Curtis, Charlton, Saratoga 
Co., N. Y., a careful observer, writes the Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker that the story about the 
foot-and-mouth disease having been brought 
into this country by a drove of cattle driven 
from Canada docs not, in Jiis mind, appear 
reasonable. The distemper is Luo wide 
spread and lias appeared in too many diffe¬ 
rent, counties at the same time to give even 
plausibility to the statement. There is no 
disease. In his own experience, lie says: 
“ In every case tlieliver was in a high slate 
of inflammation or rapid decay. The gall 
bladder was enormously enlarged, while the 
bile, in its efforts to escape, bad discolored 
the caul and other integuments for a consid¬ 
erable distance from its position. It was 
supposed, and I think correctly, that Ihe dis¬ 
ease was parasitical in its origin. The liver 
was found, upon careful inspection, to be 
eaten lull of holes, and in some cases the 
grub was actually round pursuing its death¬ 
dealing work. A cure is hardly to be hoped 
for. Yet. I have known several cases to get 
well of themselves. But each case of resto¬ 
ration was where the animal passed through 
a stage of violent purging, which lends me to 
the belief that this is nature’s form of cure, 
and if it can be assisted any by art, a cure 
may lie sometimes effected in that way. 
Some medicine Unit will greatly arouse the 
action of the liver, and enlarge the gull-ducts, 
so as to disseminate the bile, and at the same 
time carry off jnto the intestinal canal, the 
parasites or other causes of obstruction, 
would seem to indicate the philosophy of a 
proper remedy. The great difficulty is the 
fact Umt the danger is unknown until too 
late. The animal will keep fat and hearty, 
until it often falls off its feet, and dies. At 
other times it is known by the swelled limbs, 
when putrefaction has already begun, or its 
presence is manifested by a sudden and pow¬ 
erful purging, which, if it does not soon kill, 
is a prognostic of a favorable result. The 
disease is mostly found following a dry sum¬ 
mer, and warm and dry lull, and confined to 
those pastures where the stock have no ac¬ 
cess to pure and cool water. Drinking from 
stagnant pools, or low, marshy grounds, they 
imbibe the elements of their destruction, 
either in the form of parasitic or miasmatic 
poisons.” 
—-- 
NOTES FOR HERDSMEN. 
Lice on Cattle. 
O. B. Fisk writes the Rural New-York¬ 
er :—“ Last year, having about one hundred 
bushels of potatoes, which, owing to the 
jriJhlLS j . - - -- —j -- » * 1 41 • 1 1 I 11 . f \ ♦ 1 --» -.o 
composting. Soon clover grew freely under were in blossom nearly a month before; and doubt whatever, he thinks, out mat wu-i i ow prices, were hardly worth marketing, I 
this system. These were the fertilizers that the filarec, which had not been fed off, was any animal in a herd is affected that the dis- commence( | ( iV l>ouL March 1, to feed them 
this system. These were me lerunzera mat 
gave the start. Soon the fields produced 
crops of the natural grasses—white clover 
aud the green and blue grasses. Where 
these grasses grow, grazing becomes the 
the most thoroughly exhausted for agij- most profitable use of land, and lor sixty 
cultural purposes, of any land I have seen in 
the South, and decay is written all over the 
face of it. People arc leaving the Old Norlh 
Slate in great numbers, for Texas and Ar¬ 
kansas, and the wagons of emigrants were 
the most moving spectacles to be seen on the 
road. Some of the farm lands in the State 
of North Carolina are equal to any in the 
South, and all they need to insure the ut¬ 
most prosperity, is a diligent and intelligent 
years 
Tim Fee ill UK of Reel Cattle 
has been the primary object on the Worth 
farm. The beef, like the bulter, produced 
on the Brandywine region, 1ms long been 
highly prized in the Philadelphia market, 
ami commands the very highest prices. 
This system of grazing has not only been 
profitable as a business, but the best possible 
system for the land—taking off less than 
from three to four inches high—as was also 
the wheat in the neighborhood, that, was 
sown early; and the ferns had attained a 
growth of a foot or more. This was at 
“ Junglewood,” on our Solano ranch. 
So that, if we have only the ordinary 
amount of late rains, we need have no fears 
about good crops the coming season. Last 
year, some of our heaviest rains came alter 
the 19ih of February; and in February, 
18G8, we had 5.35 inches rain; in March, 
5.55, and in April, 2.55 inches; or, altogeth¬ 
er, over 13 inches after the commencement 
of February. iJ u tc g, we no reason for 
apprehension as yet. 
Short Feed. —The main reason why 
ease becomes infeotious, and the separation 
of the animal from the others should imme¬ 
diately be made to prevent spreading. Not¬ 
withstanding this fact, the trouble may be 
superinduced, in the first instance, by other 
causes. He has known foot rot in sheep to 
break out on a farm, and in a flock where it 
was never seen before; and it couldnot.be 
accounted for by the theory, or fact of infec¬ 
tion from other sheep. The past summer 
and autumn were unusually dry, and calile 
have suffered for water and have sought, for 
it in swamps aud mud holes, which were 
never dry before. These wet places, hereto¬ 
fore covered with water, have had the nox¬ 
ious and infectious gases generated by the 
nlmi-nf which thev are now sadly other crops. Hay or straw are never sold, Short Feed. —The main reason why ions and infectious gases geneiauxi y w 
’ and even the grain is chiefly fed upon the sheep and stock are suffering on account, of decomposition ot the vegetable matter in 
deS l.l ill l C. .. « <•» i *i i* . j* « ■ i • . s i ... r. 1 .. Ot* i .. . if. 1< t >/.■!. f /I i t'fir* t /'nil f .11 O .t \V 11 11 tllti (OCt 
to four cows and t wo yearlings at, about the 
rate of one bushel per day, with, occasion¬ 
ally, a feed to the horses and colts, all of 
which were lousy; and long before the po¬ 
tatoes were all consumed, no lice were 
found, and the stock was in good condition. 
Did the lice leave of their own accord, or 
did the potatoes have something to do 
with it?” __ 
Onions Lice Exicrmlimtors. 
Asa Baldwin, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., 
writes the Rural New-Yorker that fifty 
years ago a veiy lousy cow r of his ate ten or 
twelve onions, and in fifteen hours alter, the 
lice had disappeared. He has tried the same 
remedy many times since, with the same re- 
deslilute. 
The City of Richmond. Va. 
Beautiful for situation is the city of Rich¬ 
mond, the capital of the Old Dominion, 
from whence I write these notes of travel. 
From the plain old Stale House on the hill 
one can lake in a view of the country sur¬ 
rounding— the low bills on three sides, 
and the valley of James River which flows 
to the sea. 
The State LoKislaiure 
II IUL to *-*i*v-*^j I-- -- r>l|UCj^ »vl A*-l Cl' rvyiv • .. -- I ^ # . I * ‘ /.oqa 
The original farm buildings were short, leech is because it has been fed off too them brought into direct contact with t ie ee M1 111 0,1 1 11 
1 1 ./'ll.. 'l' I. n it 
mere sheds. In 1809, when the lima began 
to tell its story, a barn, forty by seventy feet, 
was built. It was in the Pennsylvania style, 
a double-decker. The neighbors who assist¬ 
ed at the raising all said it would never be 
filled ; but in ten years more room was re¬ 
quired, and a hay house, twenty-four by 
fifty feet., was added, and this also was soon 
close the past year. A neighbor of ours, 
who started into the winter with 1,500 sheep, 
has lost, his shepherd informed us, 500 head, 
beside the greater portion of his lambs, for 
the want of sufficient feed ; while in our 
own band of 850, the loss, thus far, Inis not 
and respiratory organs of the cattle. Then 
there are the poisonous sulphuric and phos¬ 
phoric combinations generated in such 
localities, which make muck a poison to 
soil, and a miasma to man; why not to a 
beast? All over the country have been 
toinje-iforir. 
been more than about two per cent., and complaints of sore legs, and swelled legs, 
the loss of lambs has been less than the in¬ 
filled ; now there are great stacks besides. crea8e by twins. We had, when we left. 
is in session, and a look upon the House of 'j>| ie Worth farm lias not only grown in pro- some 250 lambs from about 240 ewes, and 
Delegates is suggestive of the great change 
which lias come over the political condition 
of public affairs. It was not so startling 
to see a large colored representation in the 
Legislature of Georgia; but to see negroes 
sitting in the Capitol of Old Virginia was 
something no one could have dreamed of 
ten years ago, but I have seen that very 
thing here to-day. 
American I’niiioloirlcal Meetlnir. 
Richmond is the place for holding the 
session of the. American Pomological Socie¬ 
ty, in September next, and those ot our 
Northern and Western friends who give 
themselves the pleasure of attending that 
meeting will see things which will give 
them very great, satisfaction. It will be 
worth many miles of travel to look upon the 
city of Richmond in the ripeness of its 
autumn time; besides they will be doing a 
good missionary work in this garden region 
of the South. By all means let the Fruit 
Kings of the North aud West avail them¬ 
selves of this opportunity to share the hos¬ 
pitalities of the politologists of Old Virginia. 
s. D. H. 
.-— — -- 
THE WORTH FARM. 
Sticking to the Homestead of liic Fathers. 
Dr. Trimble read before the Farmers’ 
Club of the American Institute, the follow¬ 
ing concerning a Pennsylvania farm :—It is 
tlie well known “Worth Farm,” on the 
Brandywine. The Turin originally contained 
820 acres, but much incumbered with a debt 
due other heirs. This land, like nearly all 
the rest in that region, at that day, liad been 
worn down by the old style of agriculture, 
the fields grown up with sedge grass; hedge 
rows of briers and bushes a rod wide on 
both sides of forlorn fences. The crops of 
corn were then ten, fifteen and sometimes 
twenty bushels per acre; wheat, from five to 
ten bushels. The hay of the farm was all 
produced by irrigation—the rivulets being 
led by ditches so as to overflow a few acres. 
The entire stock at that time consisted of 
about ten head of cattle—four or five cows 
—the rest calves or young animals. This 
ductiveuess, but lias they were being dropped at the rate of 25 a had never observed nature. 
Increased in Size day, on the average. But we had been for- There are undoubtedly hundreds ot cases 
in the same proportion. In 1817, 35 acres lunate in having an abundance of grass of of this kind. Mr. Ouktib thinks that this is 
were added, costing $100 per acre, making the old crop, and the earliest product of the a milder form of the same disease; that is, it 
$3,500 ; in 1825, 93 at $50. $4,650; in 1838, ne w. is the rusult of tUe same causes wblcU pr< ?’ 
03 at $80, $7,540; in 1852, 93 at $98 $9,114; Green peas were in blossom; beans and duce the more severe form of foot-and-mouth 
in 1867,240 at $135, $32,500; making a total other vegetables tip, and looking promising affection. Where the lat ter has been devel- 
of $57,304. 'Fite farm now being nearly 900 The Yolo Mail of Feb. 8lU says:—“The oped, there have been worse exposures to 
acres, divided into four parts, and managed rains do not satisfy every individual in the miasmatic influences; and the blood ha\ing 
under tbe supervision of the owners, by the community. There are not two persons, of become corrupted, careful treatment of the 
four young men of the family. The number our knowledge, who hold the same theory herd must follow, to get lid ot the taint, ihe 
of acres under cultivation in 1870 has been j n judging the future by the past. The only breath of one of these animals could not be 
about 150; 132 have been mowed; about 50 thing that experience has taught farmers is healthy. The sore lips would be caused by 
in timber; leaving about 500 in grass for i 0 doubt. We were tokl the other day that sucking up the swamp water, and thus hring- 
sore bags and lame cattle, "which were not so 
severe as this foot-and-mouth disease, and 
which correspondents generally said they 
had never observed before. 
There arc undoubtedly hundreds of cases 
of this kind. Mr, Cuutib thinks that this is 
a milder form of the same disease; that is, it. 
is the result of the same causes which pro¬ 
duce the more severe form of foot-and-mouth 
affection. Where the latter has been devel¬ 
oped, there have been worse exposures to 
miasmatic influences; and the blood having 
in timber; leaving about 500 in grass for 
grazing. 
Tlie Stock of 1*70 
was 60 bead beef cattle, 106 head cows, 16 
head oxen, 18 head young cattle, 22 head 
horses, 50 head sheep, and 116 large and 45 
small hogs, making a total of 433 animals— 
poultry in vast numbers not included. 
The Farm linihtines 
on the different divisions of this property are 
like those of all other well-to-do farmers in 
in 1862 there were thirty-six inches of rain¬ 
fall, and that, liad it not been for a shower 
in May, there would have been a total fail¬ 
ure of crops. Another year but twelve 
inches fell, and the crops were immense. 
We have only liad in this valley, up to the 
present time, about five inches, and the 
ground is wet deeper than it commonly is 
with seven inches of rain-fall.” 
In Sacramento the rain-lall, up to Feb. 
breath of one of these animals could not be 
healthy. The sore lips would be caused by 
sucking up the swamp water, and Ihus bring¬ 
ing them indirect contact with the infectious 
muck, or by inhaling the miasma. Ulcera¬ 
tion would follow as a natural consequence 
—corruption of the blood, difficulty in eat¬ 
ing, emaciation, and weakness. 
He is clearly of t he opinion that, instead of 
cursing Canada for this disease, or consider¬ 
ing it an imported affection, we should ac¬ 
cept it as a home production, treat it accord¬ 
ingly, keep the cattle out of the swamps, atul, 
, PIG-PEN PAPERS. 
id legs, • - 
e not SO Soup and lion: Cholera. 
se, and ,T. T. Busby, Lancaster, writes the Ohio 
id they Farmer that he had known hogs said to 
have this disease dissected, and the stomach, 
>f cases bowels and liver found to bo full of worms 
t this is three and four incites long, the ends of them 
mtis,it. being pointed and sharp, and of a hard, 
ch pro- rough, wiry appearance. In one instance 
l-moulli the cavity of the gall was crowded full of 
n devel- these worms. Ilis Poland pigs were nttack- 
iures to cd with cholera. He caught the pigs, placed 
. having them on their hacks, one boy holding the 
it of the legs and the other the ears—and gave each 
nl. The pig a tntflcspoonfiil of soft soap morning 
not be and evening for three days. The second 
used by day he observed iu their droppings long 
is bring- stringy substances, which be found to be 
flections the skins of what be supposed to be worms, 
Ulcera- which was proof to him that the soap liad 
equence u,e desired effect. He also put soft soap 
y in eat- into the swill and fed his other hogs, which 
has improved their appearance very much. 
istead of - 
muskier- Improved Cheshire Swine, 
amid ac- J. A. R., Delaware, O., writes:—“ I see by 
l accord- a circular published by Messrs. Clark & 
ups, aiul, Green, Jefferson Co., N. Y.,that. the famous 
He com- Cheshire hog originated with Mr. A. C. 
this part of Pennsylvania, Thu dwellings of 4th, had been blit about four inches, while if diseased, away from the others. He com- Cheshire hog originated wuu jji . • • 
stone, two stories high, and four or five rooms g. m Francisco it has been, up to this bats the idea that this is a disease of the Clark of that county. I learn also, by read- 
1,4 ^ __ i I. n .a t 1 . A f 4 1 . i r 
on a floor. We were in these houses, even 
the kitchen of one of them; it was large, 
light, and neat as wax; (here were t he range, 
the hot and cold water pipes, in fact, all the 
modern conveniences. We counted five 
great barns, all double-deckers. 
The Fences 
were all of chestnut rails. These are cut 
from fifty acres on the “ barrens,” a few miles 
off. The chestnut on such lands is of rapid 
growth, and bears cutting off clean every 
fifteen or twenty years. Hedges of Osage 
orange were coming into use. The question 
was asked, “ Have you trouble in getting all 
the labor you want?” “ Not any,” was the 
reply—[Concluded next week. 
-- 
Roller and Piaster Sower.—E. M. HATHAWAY 
and another correspondent ask if there is a field 
roller made with a plaster sower behind and a 
grass seeder before the roller. Wo do not know 
of any eueli implement, but presume there is 
ono. IT there is, it would tm well to make it 
known to the public. If there is none, it would 
pay to invent one. 
date, (Feb. 15lh,) 814 inches. The range of glands only, (are the legs glands V) ami hence 
the thermometer in Sacramento, for the 
week ending Feb. 4th, was from thirty-six 
to sixty-five degrees. In Yolo and Solano 
counties, near the foot-hills, about the same, 
although the mean temperature of the latter 
region was several degrees higher than that 
at Sacramento. The rain-fall in Nevada 
county, thus far, has been over twenty-six 
incites—one inch more than last year at this 
date. 
Accounts from Stanislaus, Merced, Tulare, 
Nevada. Earn, Sonoma, Napa, San Joquin, 
Colusa, Yuba, and, in fact, nearly all the 
northern and middle counties of the State, 
represent the crops as promising, and with 
the usual late rains, a full harvest may be 
expected. 
The Union Democrat of Sonora. Tuolumne 
Co., of Feb. 11, slates that a friend brought 
into that office the day before, several stalks 
of wheat and barley that were grown in that 
place, the wheat being over three feet in 
the flesh is healthy to eat. Sores nnd ulcer¬ 
ation are not suggestive of healthy meat. 
Breathing a miasmatic atmosphere would 
infect the system of a cow as well as a man, 
and when thus affected the beef is not fit for 
human food. The fever accompanying this 
disease is the result of the infection aud poi¬ 
son, and not the disorder itself. 
-- 
BLACK LEG IN CATTLE. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the RURAL NEW- 
Yorker, at Webster City, Iowa, asks for a 
remedy for Black Leg in young cattle, or for 
a preventive; also one for what is called 
“ Dry Murrain,” or “ hake in the stomach.” 
He says these diseases are prevailing to an 
alarming extent. We leave lost cattle with 
what is called “black leg,” and never saved 
ing an English work on the pig, that they 
are claimed to have originated in England. 
Why such a difference of opinion ? Messrs. 
Clark & Green claim to he selling the im¬ 
proved Cheshire. In what respect are they 
tin improvement over the imported Cheshire? 
I would also like to hear something of the 
Yorkshire liog. I would like to learn some¬ 
thing of their history and who is breeding 
them, their cost, &c” 
A Five Month* Old Fig. 
In the Rural New-Yorker of Dec. 3d, 
TnoMAS P. Mason writes of two good pigs, 
weighing, at six months old, 175 pounds 
each, on foot. Yesterday, one of a litter of 
ten that I have, five mouths and fourteen 
clays old, became injured in the pen, so that 
I was obliged to kill it* It weighed, when 
dressed, 179 pounds. Seven of the litter are 
one attacked with it. A correspondent of equally good; two are lighter. Breed, part 
the Country Gentleman, at Belmont, O., he- Chester White, (supposed,) and part un- 
lieves the “ Black Leg” is only the result of! known.— G. H. K., Jr., South Jxirtland, O. 
