lorsttiron. 
OUT AMONG THE HORSES. 
One day last week, vvlio should appear at 
our desk In the Rural New-Yorker office, 
(where we have been imprisoned these four 
weeks 1) but our friend Miss Midy Mono an, 
the tall Irish lass, who knows all about 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
Stifle Jtewedn 
Mr. Morgan asks for a cure for stifle. 
Take the white of an egg, and salt; beat 
thoroughly, then apply to the parts and heat 
it in with a shovel or flat iron. I have used 
it in a number of cases, and it cures prompt¬ 
ly.— J. M. Smith. 
“l>ry licit ” 111 the Hoof. 
You can tell your Muyville, N. Y., corre- 
liorses and such; and who invited us to spoudent, (sec Rural July 8, page 11,) that 
spend a day at the Scarsdale Stud Farm of if lie will pare out the bottom of his horse’s 
Col. Lewis G. Morris, where she is mistress hoof, hold it up and pour the cavity full of 
of the rancho during Col. Morris’ absence kerosene oil, set it on fire and hold it until it 
in Europe. 01 Course we accepted the invi- burns out, it will cure his horse of dry rot.— 
tntion, for two efficient reasons—one, he- R. B. C., Wnmhachic, Terns. 
cause it came from a woman, and the other, _ 
because it was to see horses; for WC hold Kentucky Ilorse for Ohio. 
that a thorough-breti horse and a woman are Mr. L. C«. Delano of Chillicothe, mem- 
nearest alike of any two animals in creation. * ,er of the Ohio Slate Board of Agriculture, 
Scarsdale Station is some twenty miles up recen *ly purchased of W, W. Adams of 
the Ilarlem Railroad, aud the stables of Col. Woodford, Ky., a chestnut colt (gelding) by 
Morris are two miles east of the station, Kentucky Clay, three yearfi old, fifteen and 
over the hills, for which walk of two miles three-quarters hands high, and has showed in 
we had our revenge out of Hit abundance of 1be ue 'ffl'*jorhood of three minutes. The 
ripe blackberries that grew along ihe stone l^ r ' ce P^d was eight hundred dollars, 
walls by the roadside. „ , ~- 
Getting u Gml for Jlorncs. 
Now, of all pomological pursue, we love The American Artisan says:—“An in¬ 
to capture and devour live blackberries, just genious German has gained a great reputa- 
becftuse the ri sislance of the thorm makes lion in New York by his success in training 
the puisuil inlet eating, and torn doling and coach horses to a grand gait, lie used no 
scratched skin are honorable wounds, thow- burr-bit or other cruel contrivance, and pee¬ 
ing how sharp was Ihe conflict; just as Ve— ole could'nt see how he did it. tin i i 1 ii 
intwstral ffiopirs. 
VACATION LETTERS, 
A WORKING EDITOR OUT OF HARNESS. 
Trees by llie Iton<Ni<lr. 
It is so common to see a row of maples or 
Lombardy poplars along the roadside (when 
any areseen), that I always delight to record 
an exception when any chance offers. Now, I 
like sugar maples. They are symmetrical 
and beautiful trees, and useful withal. But 
i do abhor sameness, monotony, in anything. 
If I have to hoe corn, I like to skip over and 
hoe a hill or two on my neighbor’s row, so 
that he may keep up with me! And I don’t 
like straight rows of anything, except of 
corn, potatoes, drills of wheat, grain and 
vegetables, where an entire field is cultivat¬ 
ed. But of trees, no straight rows for me in 
permanent planting. In Ihe nursery it is all 
well enough. But J don’t like rows of trees 
along the roadside. I had milt or have trees 
think I might have hit upon some profes- Gi 
sional question that he could have answered. 'til 
But, is agriculture to he taught as a profes- <£> ' * j), 
sion ? Lot our agricultural colleges answer! - — --- 
Storing: Farm I„,,,.,.„,e„t*. WHAT KIND OF WOOL TO GROW 
I went mto Swampscot s tool-house yes- _ w tr-KUW. 
terday to get out of the rain. Jlis grass is With the late impetus to wool growii 
cut, and he will have no further use for his in this country comes the next question "a 
mower. The orthodox way of doing with what sort of wool will best meet the fmi n *’ y 
a mower, on many farms, is to unhitch from ate and prospective demand. Durin<' Hi'" 
it where the last hay cutting is done, and high tide of Merino wool growing, rionnstD 
leave it in the field. Swampscot must be a to 1807, there was a constant remount m ^ 
heretic I I found his mower packed away <>u the part of dealers and munufaeUir' • 
in one corner of his tool-house, as snugly as that our wools were loo much of „„ e * 
il it had been built there when the tool-house and that tho least desirable of all Y<> • 
was built., and had never cut any grass. I that flock masters will he likely to breed °dl 
noticed il had been thoroughly cleaned and their available ewes, tbe coming se t M ,'| 
the bearings oiled. I rather liked the idea ! they should consult the market, so as to'*"’ 
I said so. Swampscot said, “why that’s cure ready sale and the best price for thin' 
the way I make money. I’ve used that mow- future product. In our perambulations 
cr six summers, and it is a belter mower to- among ihe wool houses of llie Eastern cities 
day than .Ton Feet’s that ho bought last wc find this universal feature —the wooC 
year; his laid in the field until November, which stick in the lofts arc the finoish slmn 
and was then put into an open shed where staple, full blood Merino, and the i-ours" 
the sheep run and the liens roosted. It was harsh, long staple Cotswold of the C-m 
„ • it- i ■ . . > • . . i 
was httilt, and had never cut any grass. I 
noticed it had been thoroughly cleaned and 
the hearings oiled. J rather liked the idea! 
I said so. Swampscot said, “ why that’s 
the way I make money. I’ve used that mow¬ 
er six summers, and it is a better mower to¬ 
day than .Toe Feet’s that ho bought last 
year; his laid in the field until November, 
and was then put into an open shed where 
the sheep run and the hens roosted. It was 
. ....... ""tV H WW , It* 1 • • « Mil I | l 
in rows than no trees. But if I were Gen- u n,ce Ioo “ ,n 8 object this spring; and I style; then* is too much of both these styles 
end Dictator in the mailer of tree planting knmv 1,0 expended $15 upon it before be of wool. The kinds most in demand me 
1 ! * TITt .. • i , is. i t M \ 
there should he a radical change in this 
matter. 
At intervals, and not too seldom, I would 
plant groups of three to five trees together, 
in elegant disorder; and no two of the trees 
should be of the same species. Some ol 
mg now suaip was me eonnici; justasVe— pie could’nt see how lie did it until it was these groups should he put outside the load 
t hat is to say, a young fellow for instaicc, found that he put magnifying goggles upon fence and others just inside. Then occa- 
ikes to capture live kisses from rose-bid his horses, which made cobblestones look sionally I would plant a single tree alone, 
lips, amid the pretty resistance of slaps ant like boulders, and they acquired a grand In the planting 1 would select largely from 
scratches which makes that conflict interest- tread by trying to step over them.” the nut hearing trees, fruit trees (for inside 
Dig— 00 far as our memory serves us in the ' . m.. ,.r ..n ........ ... ., . * 
could make it run. Why,sir, he never took light, long staple, three-quarters blood Mci- 
ihe sickle out of it from the time he quit, no, andfine clothing woo),of which very little 
using it until he wanted to use it again; nor is produced in this country. Of this lust , vc 
did he oil it.” cannot advise American farmers logo into 
I noticed the hoes, cultivators, harrows, the growing of, since it con never foe profit- 
Plows, Ac., Ac.., were all snugly put away by able to produce such light fleeces or to raise 
mg—so lar as our memory serves us in the 
premises. All this while consider that we 
are only picking blackberries, with the pur¬ 
ple juices of Pomona’s slaughtered gods 
reeking upon our lingers and dripping from 
our venerable heard 1 
And this brings us to the Scarsdale Stud 
Farm, where the gracious Midy meets us 
With her queenly ( equineh/) salutation, and 
after cooling off (equindy) from our two-milc 
heat, we proceed to the fields and stables, 
where the equine beauties are taking their 
mid-day siestas. And here we are right 
among old acquaintances! “The Marshall,” 
late chief of the stud, has been presented to 
the Cornell University“ The Marshall- 
sire Lexington by Boston; dam Ariel by 
imp. Sarpedon ”—that sounds like old Ken¬ 
tucky once more, in the days before the late 
unpleasantness, when we were wont to dis¬ 
cuss horse and Bourbon with Jim Clay, un¬ 
der the trees at Ashland ! Ah me! there’s 
an end of that now; the war lias sadly de¬ 
moralized the horse-and Bourbon of Ken¬ 
tucky. And this beautiful brown mare 
Jennie is by imp. Monarch. John Reber 
of Ohio purchased Monarch of Col. Morris 
years ago, and Ohio fair-goers know how 
Monarch colts look, and Fashion’s, too, and 
how they can go. 
At tho head of ihe Scarsdale stud stand 
Orion and A returns, Orion is steel gray, 
Remedy for Poll Evil. 
In answer to a correspondent A Vetcrina- 
ri»n says:—" Il il has broken, wash the sore 
clem with caatile soap ancl warm water, 
thenjnjuot'und dress it. with spirits of tur- 
planling) of all sorts that would thrive, and 
one-fifth or more should be evergreens. J 
have never seen my ideal of roadside tree 
planting yet; but Jim Stilton has planted 
trees along the roadsides in a way that 
ought to he commended. He has apples, 
1* ,, , LwuiiiivmiLU. iiu il III III 
£ ,0 ; F 1 r“| d ' <■"<«'“». I**™, «k«U.»b. I.iclc.rite 
vc y E „ ,l ,-flt.ct on ...I mmlml ,.i. ; v.:r v ,roi ... 
pans, fen soon, however, as the parts show ..... ...... , ^, . 
Swampscot. I mention these little things 
that you may know why he has the reputa¬ 
tion of being a thrifty, thorough, liberal farm¬ 
er. He has more cur cut literature on his 
big dining-room laid'; evenings than most 
literary men would care for; but you ought 
to see his hired men go through the papers 
mid magazines I And they share the good 
things they read with each other and the 
family, and discuss the same with no small 
degree of intelligence, 
a disposition to heal, dress with tincture of 
aloes and iiyrrh. Keep the bowels open.” 
CWmwIi in lln: iii'nil, 
A correspon dent of llie American Stock 
Journal has a valuable horse that has a 
cough, runs at he nose, and has been so 
about six months. He is advised liy a Vet¬ 
erinary Surgeon u, “ take balm of Gilead 
buds, one ounce; skunk cabbage, three 
drachms; slippery elm, three ounces; lobe¬ 
lia, two drachms; a)| powdered line and 
mixed ; divide into three, powders, give one 
at each feed. The discharge from the nose 
can he cured by Ihe following catarrh snuff, 
powdered bay berry hark, hloodroot and 
lobelia, equal parts, to be blown into the 
nostril with a quill.” 
Treating Ring-bone by Cutting. 
In your issue of May 27, Mr. fiios. Mil¬ 
lard of Sulphur Springs, Ohio, asks wheth¬ 
er ringbones can he cured by cutting, with- 
lo }.2 hands, foaled July, 1800, by Rysdyks out injury to the horse. 1 would answer, 
llamblctoniun; first dam May, by True 
Messenger; second dam by Revenge. There 
is a good deal of horse, for his inches, in 
Orion. Areturus is a DWwi bay 10 hands 
foaled July*, 1867, by Rysdyks ITonble- 
tonian, first dam June, (sister to May,) by 
True Messenger Areturus is a splendid 
type of carriage horse. Col. Morris lays n 
large figure ou these two stallions. The 
most showy horse of this stud is True Mes¬ 
senger—a perfect black speckled gray, foaled 
in 1855, 10 ! 4 hands, by Texan; dam by' 
Day’s Messenger. This old fellow has made 
his mile iu three minutes, and with all his 
weight iias the style of an Arab, and not a 
blemish about him ; his fore feet stand back 
under his girth, as firmly as a four-year-old. 
Miss Morgan lias for her own saddle a 
beautiful Seven-yenr-old stallion, New Lou¬ 
don, by imp. Balrowiiie, out of imp. Sacri¬ 
fice. Here are blood and bottom and action 
to suit an equestrienne , with good temper 
and a gentle maimer. Miss Morgan would 
like to sell this animal to some person who 
could appreciate a good saddle horse. The 
Scarsdale slud embraces a good many oilier 
animals, of which are a lot of likely year¬ 
lings; some of them promise to make fast 
UoLlers. Miss .Morgan will send catalogues 
to such persons as desire particulars. 
Seeing a large photograph of a lady on 
horseback, in Miss Morgan’s room, we asked 
who and what it was. “It’s myself, jn my 
hunting suit, taken over twelve years ago, 
silling on mv favorite horse, a colt of Mickey 
Free.” There it was again! When the 
Darby Plains Importing Co. of Madison Co., 
Ohio, sent agents to Europe, some fifteen 
years ago, .Tim Foi.ungton, late President 
ot the Ohio Stale Board of Agriculture, be¬ 
ing one oi t hem, brought over from Ireland 
a Mickey Free, brother of this same horse in 
the pic’..re, and just such a looking horse. 
All pleasant, sublunary'tilings must have 
an end, and so had our day at the Scarsdale 
Stud Far in, whence returning by the same 
way' we went, we took another turn among 
the blackberries, with the same satisfactory 
results.— s. D. n. 
they'can; it does not injure lie horse in the r i , ,, . . „ 
, J „ plied to agriculture is increasing, 
least. My uncle, Benjamin Stanton, r** 0 d , , 
, .... ’ , . ’ . , “But do they practice? Can you hud 
had forty-five or fifty years experience with . i,.,. , . 0 ,. T , 
A mat i"fciMiiish yonder? Here is my knife 
ilia, process, as described by ll, Millard, (ilI)(1 , (lr0u bu(Willtf k(life obtain0t1 
and says helms never failed *vith a ln»d foot, ()fBLISs) . n , MV shmv me , 10W to hlu , a roso 
M.er carefully Cutting ont the feeder under iUltl lc „ me wby you do wJ)flt y0l , do< » 
the wart on the hack of the pastern joint. Y mmg Prof. Blank couldn't do it.; said 
We soap the hoof next the 1,air, all round, lhey , 1|U , udl y , t been t:u ,, ht lo blld , lllt 
for a month, or until Uc hoof starts to grow they « expected to go into that next term.” 
:UI ^,7' . „ ‘‘Well, wind do you practice? Have you 
I he cutting stop.* all growth of bone, 1ml bee „ taught v hetl.er it is better to hill pola- 
Lho lameness often continues until the hoof toesornol? and the pl.ysiologi.gd buy which 
starts to grow mow. I have a horse under governs the growth of'llm potato ?” 
treatment now; that we cut July 20th, TT „ . , 
, , ', ,1 ’ He confessed that he had not. 
when so lame hat he could hardly bo urged „ ur ,, , , , . 
“Well,you have been studying botany; 
to trot; now be trots freely, with a slight , • , , , , , Z ' c 
, ,, . , T -j T -. ,, ’ here is a grass, 1 lake it. Is it not a mass? 
nod of Ihe lead.—R, D. Stanton, Albany « r , , . ' : 
y o y y " " If SO, what is it ? Can you analyze it? I 
-- think il is a grass likely to he found on the 
A Foundered Mare’s Hoofs, College Farm," and 1 handed him a stem of 
We hive a mare that was very badly Poa annpressu. 
foundered about six years ago, which caused lie looked at it in great bewilderment ; 
her fore feet to be tender, and we have kept said lie knew that it was a grass, and that 
her tfiod ever since until about eight months corn, and sugar cane, and bamboo belonged 
ago* her feet had become so rotten that to the grass family; but, he had not pro- 
tiny would not hold a shoe hut a few days, gressed far enough in field botany to be able 
Since that time she has been barefoot, and to tell me the name of any grass I might 
oOt*n so lame that she can hardly walk. We present to him. 
Iifve used her but little during these eight “ Do you go into the field at all iu pursuit 
months. We have poured hot lar and till- of botanical knowledge? " 
I, v ( . m ,lie fool to in of her fi-et, and are now He Imd not done so yet, hut expected to. 
greasing them daily w ith tallow. The outer .< u* n „ , ,, , ' , 
part of the hoof (on which the shoe would W ell, can y mi tell me whether subsoil 
work) nppears to he rotten ; it, is soft, with PlO'vngis any gam on any soil foruny crops 
black streaks running up through it. We or not,mid why?” 
have trimmed it off at the toe until il. is They had not “come to plowing yet,;” 
about an inch above the inner or tender and he had seen but two or three of the 
part, ot llie hoof, and those black streaks, n , fMw!llir 
wJ.ich are merely cracks filled with a black . . . , 
substance or rotten hoof, still extend up the W as ttie Professor of Agriculture with 
hoof, but get smaller. I think, trimming them leaching them how to hold a plow ami 
one-halt inch more would remove them, how to git age it?” 
There is a hard crust on the outer part of No; llie' superintendent of the farm was 
the. hoot, about one-sixteenth of an inch ..., . 
in his locality, except the beautiful hemlock, 
White 1 »ine and American larch. Why these 
are left out, I cannot conceive. But no man 
passes over the highway through his domain 
who does not set. him down as a progressive 
farmer. This is hint enough for those who 
desire to use it. 
Wiiut A ifficaII ii r/i 1 S/'liools Do, 
I met young Mr. Blank, who had just 
returned from a certain '‘Agricultural 
School ” to spend his vacation on the farm. 
Of course, he was pregnant with science, 
lie .bad most wonderful theories. His little 
learning was a dangerous tiling. But, under¬ 
stand me, T am not depreciating tlie knowl¬ 
edge acquired. Il is only seed with a germ ; 
and if il fall on good ground it will bring 
forth fruit. I asked about the pupils—how 
many there were who intended to become 
practical farmers. The reply was, “Precious 
few. They expect to make agricultural 
editors and teachers. You know, sir, pro- 
lessors of agricult ure are scarce, ami the de¬ 
mand for men learned in the science as ap¬ 
plied to agriculture is increasing.” 
“Bui do they practice? Can you bud 
that lMiuiiush yonder? Here is my knife 
(and 1 drew mu my budding knife obtained 
of Bliss); how show me how to bud a rose 
and tell me why you do what you do.” 
Ymmg Prof. Blank coiiMu’L doit; said 
they had iml yet been taught to bud, but 
they “expected logo into that iickI term.” 
“ Well, what do you practice? Have you 
been taught v helticr it is better to hill pota¬ 
toes or not? and the physiological law which 
governs the growth of the potato?” 
lie confessed that he had not, 
“ Well, you have been studying botany; 
here is a grass, 1 lake if. Is it not a grass? 
If 60, what is it ? Can you analyze it? I 
think it is a grass likely to be found on the 
College Farm," and 1 handed him a stem of 
Pun eumpresm. 
He looked at it in great bewilderment ; 
said he knew that it was a grass, and that 
i*™ i^cicnttfic anir fistful. 
undock, nP 
the kind of sheep which hear them. South 
America and Australia can alw ays excel es 
in the production of fine clothing wool 
Of the other desirable kind—the long sta¬ 
ple medium, wc can grow it to profit, and in 
the growing of it, raise a kind of sheep which 
are otherwise desirable- a strong, healthy 
animal, with a good size fleece, both of which 
will find ready sale for the respective pur¬ 
poses of goods and meat s. 
The growing of common long wool, such 
as Cotswold and Leicester, has been over¬ 
done, as to fleece, and is only profitable 
where the meat can he marketed to good ad¬ 
vantage. 
. t • *wv ui.v men * i i «/| ,|(i i t 11 ; i i . . , 1 .1 t 
thick, which looks sound, Ihe affected part Sl,wi ^» win ne ! u ' b - v aml . ll,e b( As were 
1 :_ \ .i .1*. i , * nl.iic mu' ii i.om • I , inn ( T . . I ft... 1 F.... 
being between this and Ihe tender part of 
the foot. It is only at the toe that the rot 
is so had, and as we have not, trimmed the 
heel any, she still walks about. If we were 
to trim off all the rotten part, I don’t think 
tlliu she could walk. Can yon tell me what 
to do for her ? If not, can some one inform 
me through the Rural New-Yorker?— 
W. J. E., Ely ton, Ala . 
plowing alone-; I confess I did not find from 
this young professor that he was learning 
anything that cannot be learned at almost 
any school. It may he I did not strike the 
right lead, and that a year or two more will 
enable him to “gel to” what he is supposed 
TO MAKE MATS FROM SHEEPSKINS. 
A fresh skin is more easily prepared than 
one a little diy. A strong soap-suds is used 
to wash the wool, first letting the water cool 
so ns to be slightly warm to the hand. In 
the mean lime, pick out all the dirt from the 
wool that will come out; then scrub it well 
oil a washboard. A table-spoonful of kero¬ 
sene added to three gallons of warm suds 
will greatly help the demising process. Wash 
in another suds, or until the wool looks white 
and clean. Then pul. the skin into cold 
water enough to cover it, and dissolve half a 
pound of salt and the.same quantity of alum 
in three pints of boiling water; pour the 
mixture over the skin, and rinse it up and 
down in the water. Let it souk in the water 
t welve hours; then lumg il over a fence or a 
line lo drain. When well drained, Stretch it 
on a hom'd to dry, or nail it on the wall of 
the wood-house or barn, wool side toward 
Ike hoards. When nearly dry, rub into the 
skin one ounce of powdered alum and salt¬ 
petre, (if the skin is large, double the quanti¬ 
ty ;) nil) this in for an hour or so. To do 
this readily' the skin must betaken down and 
spread on a table or flat surface. Fold the 
skin sides together, and hang the mat away. 
Rub it every day for three days, or till per¬ 
fect ly dry, Scrape off the skin with a slick 
or a blunt knife till cleared of all impurities; 
then rub il with pumice-stone, or, if more 
easily' procured, rotten-stone u ill do. Trim it 
to a good shape, and you have an excellent 
door-mat. Any intelligent house-wife can 
dye itgreen, blue, or scarlet with the so-called 
" Family Dyes,” either in powder or liquid, 
and she will have as elegant a door mat as 
she could desire. Lambs’ skins can be simi¬ 
larly prepared and made Into caps and mil¬ 
ieus. Dyed a handsome brown or black, 
they equal imported skins. Still-horn lambs, 
or those who die very young, furnish, very 
soft skins, which if properly prepared would 
make as handsome sacks, mulls, and tippets 
as the far-famed Astrachan. Any' farmer’s 
daughter could easily prepare skins enough 
to furnish herself with a handsome suit.— 
Mechanic and Inventor. 
--♦-*-♦-- 
USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 
'Grass in Brick Walks. 
A Kentucky Subscriber is informed that 
if lie will cut his grass off close to the walk 
and apply a liberal quantity of salt to it lie 
will effectually prevent it. growing, we think. 
We do not know what is the best and cheap¬ 
est paint for brick pavement. We should 
hesitate to apply any. 
Whitewash that Will Not liab Off. 
J. R., Lancaster, Erie Co., N. Y., asks for 
a recipe for making whitewash that will not 
rub off. We have already printed the fol¬ 
lowing as such, but do not know, from ex¬ 
perience, whether it will or not“ Mix up 
How shall we proceed in the breeding of 
the most desirable style of sheep for the pros¬ 
pective demand of wool? We answer: Se¬ 
lect the ablest bodied, roomy Merino ewes 
and breed them to Leicester and Cotswold 
rams. In choosing rams for this purpose, 
take such as are good types of llu-ir race, but 
rather under the standard size, for which 
purpose young animals will he most availa¬ 
ble; but when young rams are selected they 
should not he over-worked. A cross of this 
kind will produce si style of wool wiili llie 
desired length and fineness of staple, which, 
as the market now stands, would go quick 
at 70c., while short staple, full-blood -Merino 
slicks at 00c.— s. D. u. 
--- 
SHEEP IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 
II. D. B., Newberry, S. C., gives his expe¬ 
rience in growing sheep, in the Southern 
Cultivator. It may interest our Southern 
readers. He says:—“ The first thing I did 
was to buy a flock of the best ewes that I 
could get in the neighborhood. I then 
bought a good thorough-bred buck and put 
with them (llie ewes). As I live near a good 
market, 1 prefer Io raise imiltmi sheep’ and 
for this, think the South-Downs or African 
broad tails are preferable. 1 tried the Meri¬ 
nos—they'are hardy', but. a very poor mutton 
sheep; 1 have never seen a fat iimtlnn of 
that breed. Their wool is fine, hut short 
and nappy. I had rather shear two sheep of 
any other breed than one Merino. 
“ My plan is to raise early lambs, feed them 
well, ami sell off to butchers in early spring. 
By selling the lambs early, 1 got, a good 
price for them, as the old sheep of the coun¬ 
try are not fat enough for market, and fresh 
meat is in great demand. To raise early 
lambs, I have small grain lots for the ewes 
to run on when the luinbs art: ytjimg. Ry e 
lots 1 believe best; not Unit sheep are more 
fond of rye, but because it, grows faster after 
being eaten down Hum any other grain, i 
also let my ewes rim on mv out field part of 
the time. I don’t think il injures oats to he 
lightly pastured by sheep. 1 pen mv sheep 
regularly every night, with inv cows and 
count them so that 1 know when any arc 
missing. I am heller able to save their ma¬ 
nure (which, by' llie way, is tbe best immure 
made on the farm), and it also prevents tlie 
dogsnltaekiiig. the sheep at night. J put a 
bell on every fifth sheep, and find that the 
constant tingling of tlu: hells, especially 
when miming, is n good preventive against 
dogs and rogues. A friend w rites me from 
Virginia that strychnine put on pieces of 
bacon and thrown around I he pen where the 
sheep are kept at night, is capital to keep 
dogs from getting into the pens. 
“I salt my sheep two or three limes a 
week, but a, better plan is lo keep salt lying 
where they can get it whenever they want 
it. This prevent. 1 - - scours, dirly tail-, Ac. In 
lambing time, tbe sheep (ewes) require good 
shelters and good 1ml; sometimes in very 
cold weather, lambs (when first dropped) 
get chilled and soon die, ifemnelhjng is not 
done for them at once. My plan is lo bathe 
in water as warm as will permit the hand to 
lie put in without burning, and then rub dry 
Willi a flannel cloth, 1 also give a tcaspoon- 
iiil of brandy or good whisky in enough 
sweet milk for a feed—a good shelter for the 
to go to an agricultural school to learn. If ! pour it into the whitewash w 
he had beeu a medical or law student, I J it well and it is ready for use.” 
half a pailful of lime and water, take half in !«. mlji “B li , mc 1 ' l ; li " k 
, - . .. „ , , , My experience as to profits is, that the Root 
a pint of flour and make a starch of it and w f n p .{ y more lban t ‘ be expenses for keep- 
pour it into the whitewash while hot; stir jng, and the increase aud manure are clear 
profits.” 
