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A VALUABLE FLOOK OF SHEEP. 
IIox. H. S. Randall 8. B. Lusk of 
Genesee County, New York, in tlie first 
week in this month, clipped from ninety- 
eight American Merino sheep twelve hun¬ 
dred and eighty pounds of merchantable 
wool, that, sold in market, ns soon as it was 
taken off, for thirty cents a pound* His 
flock consisted of seventy-eight owes and 
twenty rams, and yielded on an average 
over thirteen pounds each for the entire 
flock. I doubt if this yield has ever been 
exceeded in the State from so large a lloek, 
and think it would have compared favorably 
with the best flocks of Vermont in their 
palmiest days. Mr. L. has raised from this 
flock this season out of “Young Addison,” 
his breeding rain, sixty lambs, that tire be¬ 
lieved to be equal to that, number ever raised 
from one flock in this or any other State. 
While, the depressed condition of the wool 
market for the last few years has occasioned 
many of our best flock-masters and breeders 
to relax ilmir efforts to keep their sheep up 
to the highest standard, or to improve upon 
former at tainments, a few, more confident of 
brighter days and a revival of this agricul¬ 
tural interest, have redoubled their exertions 
to improve and perfect their flocks. These, 
1 think, arc worthy of special notice and 
commendation for their determined per¬ 
severance through these years of darkness 
and depression to the wool interest, and the 
signs of the times now seem to indicate that 
they are to have their reward in the demand 
that is certain to come from this class of 
sheep. s. 
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THE WOOL MARKET. 
In addition to the excitement in this mar- 
kef we find that in Boston, according to the 
Commercial Bulletin, the speculative feeling 
reflected from the producing sections runs 
high, and prices of all grades are rapidly 
tending up. The transactions is domestics 
are not quite so large ns reported last week, 
owing to the fact that old wool has about 
all passed into consumption, and the supply 
of new clip, exclusive of California, is as yet 
very small. There is considerable Western 
wool now on the way, but a large portion 
of it belongs to actual consumers, whose 
agents are in largo force throughout the West, 
and consequently this will not come upon 
the market. The balance is mostly on ac¬ 
count of dealers, who are also buying very 
freely, preferring to take their chances for a 
margin rather than to operate on commis¬ 
sion. They have strong confidence in the 
future of wool, and look upon it, as a good 
investment even at current high prices. The 
process of marketing the Western clip this 
year is likely to ho a very short one, not only 
on account of the short crop (which is esti¬ 
mated at 20 per cent, less than Inst year), but 
principally on account of the urgency of 
buyers. The latter are taking up wool right, 
and left, apparently with but little regard 
for prices, and the competition among them 
is so sharp that growers have an advantage, 
which enables them to make their own terms. 
The season opened fully two weeks earlier 
than usual, owing to the warm weather and 
the presence of operators; and already the 
clips of Ohio and Pennsylvania have been 
nearly all bought up. A considerable por¬ 
tion of this marketed wool still remains upon 
the sheep’s hack, with stipulations that the 
buyers shall have the advantage of one or two 
weeks' additional growth. By the expira¬ 
tion of that lime the entire clip of I lie West 
will have passed out of the farmers' hands. 
Eastern manufacturers will then have no 
farther recourse to the country for supplies, 
hut will have to buy of the regular dealers. 
This will be likely to prevent any relapse in 
the market, at least until the wants of the 
former are very fully supplied. New wool 
is being bought up at such extreme prices in 
the country that there can he no decline 
here without loss to owners. In fact, a still 
farther advance will be necessary to meet 
the actual cost of new wool laid down in 
Boston or New York. Good straight lots 
ol Ohio command fine, on the spot where it 
is shorn ; and graded extra at that, rate 
should he worth at least 00c. in this market, 
though the sales for the past week indicate 
58c. ns the outside figure for this grade, 
which is an advance of fully 10c. above the 
lowest point of Die season. California wool 
continues in active demand, and prices have 
farther advanced. Several large lots have 
been taken during the past week at 4?@ 
47t£c. for good quality, and a very choice 
lot sold at 50c. Foreign wool is very firm, 
hut a liule less active than last, reported, as 
both buyers and sellers are holding ofT for 
the next public sale in London, which takes 
place on the 27tii inst.— N. Y. World, Jane 
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The Future Wool Market. 
The following extracts from an n 
the N. Y. Economist show the view 
future of our wool market enterta 
one of the bitterest enemies of the wool 
tariff, and by a print which has habitually 
labored to keep down the prices of domestic 
v*K)l : 
The market is bare of domestic fleece, and 
scarcity generally begets demand, and an 
active demand begets high prices. Such is 
the condition of our market for this staple at 
present. Usually, at tbis season, when the 
new clip is being shorn and pul upon the 
market, buyers are wont to cry down prices, 
and they would gladly do so now, but they 
can’t, for supply and demand, as ever, regu¬ 
late values, and the demand now is in excess 
of the supply. The mills (for the most part,) 
have generally been more or loss successful 
llm past season, if not twelve months, in 
finding a market, for their goods —some of 
them, at, least, at lucrative prices, and as 
there has been no floods and no drouth, as 
yet, to check operations, they are all now 
mostly running their machinery with full 
speed, and, consequently, they require stock¬ 
ing up, at least the large mills, as none of 
thorn are burdened with stock. Rather than 
allow their supplies to become exhausted, 
many of them have sent their agents In the 
wool growing districts to supply their future 
wants, lest they may bo obliged to close up 
their mills for want of wool. The great, 
ease in the money market, and the low rate 
of interest prevailing, afford ample induce¬ 
ment. to mill owners to supply their neces¬ 
sary requirements, for, anomalous as it may 
appear, there is nu over supply of money on 
the seaboard seeking for investment, at ex¬ 
traordinarily low rates, and yet the banks 
and bankers cannot employ their enormous 
balances. 
lu view of these circumstances, we cannot 
condemn, as a contemporary does, the course 
of wool buyers in seeking for wool in the in¬ 
terior, even before it is shorn off the sheep's 
hack. Our mill owners arc the best judges 
of their own interests, and they know full 
well now that wool is not going to decline 
at an early day, and that it has not yet 
readied the highest altitude. Nor is wool 
high by any means. Good fleece wool has 
brought as high rates in gold, in days gone 
by, before the war, as it now commands in 
greenbacks, and it will never he raised ex¬ 
tensively at much lower rates in these North¬ 
ern latitudes, as, owing to the length and 
severity of our winters, it requires a good 
deal of care and lodtlcr to keep sheep. * * 
* The hulk of Hie California dip has found 
purchasers already, among manufacturers, 
&<:., and consequently but little is now com¬ 
ing forward for a market. Nor is there any 
stock ol moment on sale. The market for 
these wools has continued active during the 
week, and large sales have been made to 
manufacturers at very full rates. 
Southern wools are coming forward more 
freely, and Texas finds ready buyers among 
manufacturers, at high prices, say 38@40c. 
for fine, free of burrs, and even 42e.; medium 
fine burry brings 33@87c., and coarse do., 
30@83c. While all attention is now diverted 
to wool growing districts, our own market 
continues lively enough for this season, and 
aside from fleece wool, which is very scarce, 
considerable sales are being effected at very 
full rates. Foreign wools especially arc ac¬ 
tive 1 , but those arc also scarce, and under our 
present blundering tariff, command high 
figures. 
PIG-PEN PAPERS. 
Tin; Chester White Chafe With a Cob. 
Tell .J. A. R., Delaware, O., (see Rural 
New-Yorker May 27, page 331), to chafe 
his hoar inside the forelegs with a gob, or 
something that is rough, so as to open the 
issues, and 1 think lie will get along.— r. u. ii. 
Scour* in Fiat*. 
Tell J. A. K., Polk City, Iowa, to feed 
his pigs coffee made as for table use, only 
somewhat stronger. This remedy has been 
used successfully for all kinds of stock on 
the Crabs' Farms for years.—R. M. Crabs, 
Moore's Hah Works, 0. 
SpnylnK Sown. 
“ Veterinarian,” in the Western Far¬ 
mer, gives the following instructions in re¬ 
gard to this operation :—“ Place the sow up¬ 
on her left side. Put a cushion of hay or 
Straw under her side. Make an incision 
about, four inches in front, of the hip, or pin 
bone, and about three inches below. Let 
the knife he sharp and clean. Cut very care¬ 
fully through the skin mid flesh, Insert the 
forefinger of light, hand ; fee] carefully for 
the ovaritis, which are soft and pulpy to the 
touch, draw them to the opening, and with 
a knife or scissors, separate them from tlie 
uterus (the womb). Return the severed ends, 
put in two or three stitches, then put upon 
the wound a little common salt; put her 
into a dry place for three or four days, after 
which she may be let out. Hog flesh, as a 
rule, does not take on much inflammatory 
action, and soon heals by nature’s own ef¬ 
forts,” 
0> itorstman. 
KICKING horses. 
In the last volume of the Rural New- 
Yorker, page 266, arc two inquiries for the 
prevention of kicking by horses. R. S.’s, 
Warren Co., Pa., horse is addicted to this 
vicious habit in the stall, and O. Newhale's 
mare goes through the same “ unpleasant" 
performance while attached to a Imggy 
when the rein gels under her tail. As thu 
same contrivance will be equally applicable 
to each, and effective in a cure, I will give 
a method that will be of avail in all cases 
of kicking by horses. The beast.should 
have a good pair of hits in his month, to 
which should he attached a strap or rope 
sufficiently long to reach hack between and 
behind Hie fore legs about eight, inches, and 
should pass through the girl, or surcingle. 
A loop should ho made in this, the hack end 
of the rope or strap, about two inches or 
more in length. Now take a rope about 
seven or eight feel long. (The length of the 
rope will depend upon’thc size of the horse, 
and <). H. will not want so long a one for 
the same sized horse as Mr. Niswiiall; for 
the rope should be long enough to allow of 
a free use of Mr, N.'s mare’s hind legs in 
traveling.) Pass one end of the rope round 
the leg, upon the inside, so the fastening 
shall conic upon the outside, to prevent In 
terlcring, and bring it round upon the out¬ 
side of the leg and pass the end over and 
around the middle of the rope and wind it 
round the rope upon the outside of the leg, 
as illustrated in the upper figure in the 
sketch. Draw the noose up round the pas¬ 
tern— i. e. } between the fetlock and hoof, 
and pass the unfaste ned end of the rope 
through flic loop hi the tope or Stlup which 
passes through the surcingle as shown in the 
lower figure, and fasten the end round the 
other leg, as was done the first lime in fast¬ 
ening, This mode of fastening is simple, is 
easily done and undone, and will not work 
off, provided the noose is drawn up lightly 
nrounil the pastern. 
Mr. Newtiall can now harness up his marc 
and drive out. Get, the rein or line under 
her tail, and let her kick just as long and as 
frequent as she wants to. After she gets 
through kicking, pat and caress her, so that 
| she may not gel frightened and start off 
again ; get the rein under her tail and let her 
play mule again if she desires to, Start along 
once more, keep getting her tail over the 
rein until she ceases kicking. Take her hack 
to the Stable, and take her out again in a few 
days ami “hitch up” ns before, and perse¬ 
vere in your well doing until she abandons 
the kicking. If she becomes broken of the 
| habit, when the rope is round her legs, hut 
continues to elevate her hind irons when the 
[ rope is not on, Mr. N. can have her tail 
docked if she displays indisputable signs of 
j becoming an inveterate kicker. 
Now, a word to horse drivers. Nearly 
every mettlesome horse will become very 
nervous for the time, if his tail gets over the 
rein, and a little rough treatment or boister¬ 
ous talk will set them to curling up,and per¬ 
haps to kicking. If your horse, in attempt 
ing to drive away the blond-sucking flies 
with Ids tail, gets it over tlie rein, instead of 
quickly drawing up the rein, do just the op¬ 
posite slacken it until it gets below the end 
of the hone, and it can then he easily drawn 
up without displaying any temper or fretting 
your horse. If Mr. N. will follow the above 
advice, he will experience no great, difficulty 
in bringing bis mare out of her habit. 
li. S. must exercise great patience and 
forbearance, for it will take a long time to 
break His borne of the habit, especially if lie 
kicks against the side of the stall instead of 
kicking straight hack. By the constant ap¬ 
plication of the rope, he can effectually cure 
the latter style of kicking in a short time. 
Tlie former habit will require more time to 
entirely cure him ; hut time will bring the 
change about if his horse is not too old in his 
iniquitous trick. g. r. d. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
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EFFECT OF NEUROTOMY. 
In tlie Rural New-Yorker for. the 
week ending May 27th, is a statement of the 
manner in which ringbone is treated by a 
party in Ohio, and an inquiry as to whether 
it will effect a euro without injury to the 
horse. This operation is termed neurotomy, 
ami consists in dividing the metacarpcl 
nerve, which supplies the foot with sensa¬ 
tion, thereby causing instantaneous relief in 
all cases where the affected part is below 
tlie point operated upon. To take away a 
portion of this nerve is evidently to separate 
the medium through which pain is transmit¬ 
ted from the foot to the brain. Feeling can 
no more travel along a divided nerve than 
electricity can along a broken wire. 'Flic 
operation is certain relief; lad that, relief is 
of uncertain duration. The divided nerve, 
after a lime, reunites, and tlie junction thus 
made performs all the functions of the per¬ 
fect structure, and in some cases tlie lame¬ 
ness returns as acutely ns ever. 
An animal subjected to the operation of 
neurotomy should have feet as free from 
contraction as possible ; the hoofs should be 
strong and thick, llm wall upright, and a 
concave ground surface. In such a case the 
operation may be performed with the host 
hopes of success. A horse that lias been 
foundered, or with naturally weak feel, 
should not, under any circumstances he 
neurotomized. The feet will probably sus¬ 
tain no external injury, hut the heavy tread, 
attendant upon a loss of sensation will so 
batter them that suppuration will be in¬ 
duced. A weak foot is unable to endure 
abuse of this kind, and will, inconsequence, 
he cast off, and the animal rendered entirely 
useless. 
After an operation of this kind lias been 
performed, it must at all times be remem 
bered that the animal is unconscious of pain 
below the point where the nerve is divided, 
and might receive serious injury without 
evincing any displeasure.—-J, G. i\, JShreve , 
Ohio. 
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NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
To It. V. for hi* Windy l’ony. 
Cut all of the. hay that you feed, (sec Ru¬ 
ral New Yorker, .Tune 17), in a box that 
will run it about one and a-qunrtor inches 
long. Moisten the “chop” (one-half bushel 
is enough) with pure water, and let it stand 
from one feeding time until the next. Have 
some feed mixed as follows:—One part (by 
weight) of Indian corn, to two of oats, ground 
together. To this meal add an equal meas¬ 
ure of coarse middlings and mix well. When 
ready to feed, make your chopped hay very 
wet, and stir with it from two to four quarts 
of your mixed meal, and throw on about, a 
teaspoonlul of salt. Leave off bran mashes 
and flax seed until she is sick, (which will 
not be very soon if slm has regular exercise, 
or even hard work), and an airy, dry stable. 
If driving, or working very hard, give at 
noon a feed of clean, wet oa.ts, and the 
chopped feed only night, and morning. If 
the above described feeding does not prevent 
tlie annoyance, add half a teaspoonful of 
saturated solution of carbolic acid to each 
pail of water for her drink. Do not drive 
fast immediately after a full meal or large 
draft of water. It is better to keep a pail of 
water where horses can sip as they choose 
when limy are not heated.— Experience, 
('oldie (tier, Mich. 
Remedy lor Colic in Hornem, 
Tins morning I had a horse attacked with 
“ colic,” as farmers and horse owners often 
have; and as tlie cure ] used in this instance 
has proved the best thing ever tried by me, 
and as I have used it many times with suc¬ 
cess, L concluded that so perfect, and simple 
a cure should he made known in l lm columns 
of your paper. As soon as the animal is cl is 
covered to he unwell, get some common table 
salt (a pint or so) mid place on the hack im¬ 
mediately at the point where Hie back-hone 
and hips unite, and sprinkle with water from 
a basin or pail every few minutes until tlie 
salt, dissolves. Then apply again as before, 
and leave the horse with the damp salt on 
the hack. This has cured the most in¬ 
veterate eases, and I ha ve never seen it fail. 
Whoever uses It may depend on a cure.—P. 
W. S., East Lamin'/, A r . Y. 
Sirup of tini'llc. 
A correspondent asks how sirup of gar¬ 
lic, which he sees recommended frequently 
as an anti-spasmodic medicine for horses, is 
prepared. We answer:—Take four ounces 
of bruised garlic, six ounces each of acetic 
acid and water; let the garlic macerate for 
five days; express the liquor and strain it; 
then add two pounds of while sugar; boil 
over a slow fire until it, is of the consistency 
of sirup. Dose, two to four ounces. 
To II i fell Horne* Tliroe Aln-eii*f. 
In tin; Rubai, New-Yorker, April 15, 
Air. J. Q. A . Kink gave a good arrangement 
of lines to drive three horses abreast. Will 
lm please give us the way horses wore hitched 
to the wagon, and whether a tongue or thills 
were used, and oblige—IT. J. F., Essex, N. Y. 
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InqoIrli'M lor IlnrxeMien.- A cci-respondent at, 
Miiyville, S. V., writes: “ I Imvo a horse with 
diseascil feet, and would like to know how to 
fpe licrb&man, 
DISEASED OATOE IN MICHIGAN. 
Will you, or some one of the numerous 
readers of the Rural New-Yorker, please 
name and prescribe a remedy to the follow¬ 
ing described disease, which has caused the 
death of two young cattle for me. Last fall 
I lmd a beaut iful heifer about sixteen months 
old, which was taken with apparent stiffness 
in her hips. About six hours after I discov¬ 
ered that site did not appear right, 1 noticed 
that her left flip began loswell near the stifle 
joint, and she very soon lost all use of that 
limb; the hip coni in tied to swell rapidly, 
and two hunches of the size of a man’s fist 
soon appeared just in front of where the. 
jump hone attaches to the hack hone, or di¬ 
rectly over the region of the kidneys. She 
died in about thirty-six hours front the time 
she was first taken. 
On getting a neighbor to assist, me in skin¬ 
ning her, the next day, we found that morti¬ 
fication was doing its work rapidly—-so much 
so that it was with the utmost difficulty that 
we could perform the operation; and all 
along Imr back, and around the left, hip in 
particular, the blood had settled, the flesh 
was very dark, and between the skin and 
flesh was any amount of blubbers or blisters. 
This was about the last of December. This 
spring, about three weeks ago, I bought a 
pair of two-year-olds, brought them home on 
Monday, turned them into the barn-yard, 
where I had left, the quarters of the heifer 
above described for my fowls to eat. The 
flesh of the heifer had been nearly all picked 
from the bones by the fowls, and I did not 
discover there was any unpleasant smell pro¬ 
duced by her remains. The Steers both made 
a great ado over her bones, pawing the 
ground and bellowing at a terrible rate; they 
were both in good, strong condition. On 
Thursday night, when I fed my cattle, both 
appeared lively and well. Friday morning, 
when I went to the barn to feed one of the 
steers,] noticed him lying under the shed. 
I went to him and drove him up, and discov¬ 
ered that his left hip was swollen just like the 
heifer’s. He appeared every way and in 
every particular just like the heifer, mid at 
II o’clock, P. M., died. When skinned, lie 
appeared just like the heifer; the limbs be¬ 
low the gambl'd joint swelled hut very little ; 
neither did either show signs of suffering 
much pain. These facts suggest three ques¬ 
tions which 1 would like to have answered : 
1 What is the name of tiie disease? 
2. Wluit the remedy ? 
3. Is it contagious V 
I have been particular in my description, 
as the disease was something entirely new to 
me mid my neighbors. I thought the facts 
required it. d. c. b. 
Spring Lake, Mich. 
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NOTES FOR HERDSMEN. 
The Cost of Raisinc Cattle North. 
In answer to your Texas correspondent, I 
will try and tell him what, it costs to raise a 
steer till he is three years old. First, take a 
calf at the first of May. Feeding him milk 
and a little meal for the flrstsix months, $5 ; 
then he wants a pint of meal a day for tlie 
first winter—say four bushels, at 75c.., about 
market, rales, $3; three-quarters of a ton of 
hay at $10 per ton, $7.50. The second year, 
thirty weeks at pasture,25e. per week, $7.50; 
a quart of meal a day for twenty-two weeks, 
$3.75 ; a ton of hay, $10, beside running to 
astraw stack. Third year, twenty-six weeks 
pasturing at 50c. per week, $13; two tons 
ot hay, $20 ; lour quarto of meal a day for 
six months, twenty-four bushels, $18. 
We now have a three-year-old steer at the 
cost of $87.75. The steer will now, if he 
has not been pinched much during the sum¬ 
mer. weigh 1,600 pounds or over, and will 
sell for fie. to Oj^'c. a pound—probably the 
latter price—say $108, or a profit of $20. 
The manure will pay for the care and more 
too. If 1 am wrong, will not Mr. .T. M. 
Reeder, or some one that lias had more 
experience, tell nte?—S. Star key, A'. Y, 
Why <ln Animals Need halt ? 
Prof. Jas. E. Johnson of Scotland says 
that half the saline matter of t he blood (fifty- 
seven per cent.) consists of common salt,and 
as this is partly dissolved every day through 
the skin and kidneys, the necessity of con¬ 
tinued supplies of it to the healthy body is 
sufficiently obvious. The bile also contains 
soda (one of tlie ingredients of salt), as a 
special and indispensable const ituent, and so 
do all tin* cartilages of the body. Stint the 
supply of salt, and neither will 1 lie bile he 
able properly to assist digestion, nor the car¬ 
tilages to he built up again as fast as they 
naturally waste. It is better to place salt 
where stock can have free access to it. 
cure him. It, is what I should call dry rot; can 
pick the inside of Ids feet out as easy as you 
could old plaster." II. K. I'., RidircWii.r, Kansas, 
writes:- “I own a good horse Hi.it. is troubled 
with what some call “moon " eyes. About none 
a month his eyes will become coated with a 
milky white or yellow film, and he will be en¬ 
tirely blind for several da vs, and* then iret, ap- 
paron1.ly well again. Will you, or some of the 
readers of the Run a I, Nkw-Vohkek, tell mo 
whether there can lie a permanent cure, mid if 
so, how is It fo bo effected V” 
A Heavy Six Month*’ Hull. 
John H. Bradford, Monroe Co., Ind., 
writes the Rural New-Yorker, that holms 
a bull which weighed, at six months old, 
seven hundred and twenty pounds. He 
does not tell us the breed, feed nor cost of 
feeding, ns lie ought to have done. 
