Please tell the inquiring friend to top his 
Jennings recommends bleeding from the 
Lysandeu W. Babbitt. 
WHITE COCHIN FtfWLS. 
Will you be so kind as to give a descrip¬ 
tion, and a cut if you J/ave it, of ayhile 
Cochin fowl in your valuable papers By 
so doing you will greatly oblige a timber 
ot amateur poultry fanciers here, and t ours, 
respectfully, R. H. K., Atlanta , Oa,, &71. 
In compliance with the request *)f our 
correspondent we herewith give an Illustra¬ 
tion of a White Cochin Cock. Cothiua of 
Ibis color possess tbe same characteristics as 
tiie other colored varieties of this breed of 
fowls, (which have been fully described in 
the Rural New-Yorker,) and should be, 
in build, or general shape and action, simi¬ 
lar to ;hc Lemon, Bull’, Cinnamon, Grouse, 
or other colored birds of this variety. 
The white Cochin cock and hen should 
have comb, face, deaf-ear, and wattles of a 
brilliant red color; plumage pure white 
throughout. Tbe cock as /roe from yellow 
tinge us possible; legs, light yellow; other 
colors are considered a disqualification in 
show birds. 
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HYBRID BETWEEN THE TURKEY 
AND BARN-DOOR FOWL. I 
The last Poultry Bulletin contains the 
following:—E. II. RooerSj of Tuscaloosa, 
Ala., sends a description <>f an interesting 
hybrid produced by mating a turkey cock to 
a common hen. He writes : 
“I have twenty-one fow)9, the result of 
this union. At bate lint they resembled 
chickens in their fora and also in their 
chirping, though sonewliat larger. After 
feathering, they assuned the color of the 
turkey and the tails instead of being like 
that of their materml parent, were square, 
resembling that of he turkey. The bills 
resemble both tlml« a chicken and a tur- I 
key. Some of thetnimve combs very promi¬ 
nent at hatching, rcembling much those of 
the common cock, ilitf'gh turned a little to 
one side. The otli*rf have no combs at all 
on Matt part of th$ iead where the comb 
grows. There is a sntmth place, at the up¬ 
per end of which isA little projection re¬ 
sembling that of tie fir key gobbler. They 
will be three moitli old to-morrow; they 
have changed bit ijlllc, and are as tall as 
common hens. ecpect to show them in 
different States t'is /all at the Pairs, and I 
am in hopes yowwill sec them. 1 send you 
a feather from te wing of a threef months’ 
old fowl, that yu may see its character for 
yourself.” 
The feather en. differs from the wing 
feathers of ouriwi young turkeys, but not 
enough to detemhe anything positively. 
Air. R. referslo;he postmaster and to tbe 
express agent rjhiscnloosa, not mentioning 
their names, aAeing ready to corroborate 
bis testimony i/regard to these fowls. 
There is uoirnliahility that this hybrid 
can In; perpetded. Still it is possible that 
civilization hasp modified the nature of one 
or the other pteot breed, that, as in the case 
of the cross belreen the buffalo and common 1 
cow, it will Wound fertile. Such an event 
would i»c wijimt precedent, as the parent 
species are midi more widely different than < 
liny which hie heretofore been crossed and 1 
produced nffiing, fertile among themselves. 1 
It is more piJuble that some of the pullets 1 
may uuuIfuJ a tendency to lay, and these £ 
mnv pro c itile if paired with their own t 
sire, o will some vigorous rooster. We 
hope te experiment of breeding them will 
be fahfulQr tried, even though for a few 
geuerinns but a single chick or two reward ^ 
the pus. 
at any and all times; also, burned broken 
bones and lime. Yet they will lay shell-less 
eggs, and not only lay them but eat them. I 
think sometimes it is because they are kept 
too well. Who knows r—A Rural Reader, 
Windham, 0. 
How to Judge of (lie Ago of a. Fowl. 
One of your subscribers desires me to in¬ 
form liim how to tell the age of hens. In 
corn, 'brow the tops of four hills together, 
keep the tops nice and even and then strip 
the 1 gives off (or all those that are green) and 
lay Hem on top till they are thoroughly wilt¬ 
ed & pretty near dry; then take one bunch 
and turn topside on tbe next bunch, so be will 
haie the dry leaves in the middle of the 
shraf; then lie up; put ten sheaves in a 
sb>ck, tie them close at two places so they 
wll turn rain if any should come; let them 
WHITJI] COCKIN' FOWJiS. 
genera), it is a matter of experience as much stand a month or s 
I as anything else. No one sign is infallible, dry day draw it in 
I be legs of a young lien, as a general thing, must be cured in an 
look delicate and smooth; her comb and open the barn dooi 
wattles are soft and fresll, and her general you can smell the 
outline even in good condition, rather light lodder. By curing 
and graceful. An old hen will have rather danger of it geltiug 
hard, horny-looking shanks; her comb and ton Co., 0. 
wattles look somewhat harder nml drier, - 
aud more scurfy, ami her figure is well filled T *‘* ,u 
out. Any of these signs may be deceptive; name^Whnf isV 
you must use, closely, your powers of ob- —L. S. Miller Po 
servation, and try and catch tbe old and Tnr , ’ > 
ViN WmKUi ' r," - *?- £ 
raps, 
FIELD NOTES. 
' 
Rubbit-foot Clover. 
Can you give me the name of tbe inclosed 
plant ? I found it a few weeks since in my 
meadow.—J. D. P., Havana, X. T. 
Its name is Trifolium arveuse, more com¬ 
monly known as Rabbit-foot or Pussy clover. 
It is a worthless weed abounding in poor, 
dry soils. 
Flaming Fotntoe* lu Htrnw. 
A correspondent of the Western Farmer 
out-generala the potato bugs by placing the 
potatoes on the ground and covering them 
with straw, instead of planting them in the 
usual manner. Has Lried the plan two sea¬ 
sons, and has never been troubled, although 
the bugs are plenty all round him. 
PffLTRY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
,o*« of Fowls by Paris Green. 
A eighbor lost, in July, about two dozen 
fowlswith some strange disease, and he im- 
agint poison was the cause, as he had used 
I .u i/ gi ecu on his potatoes. Have any Ru¬ 
ral renders had a like experience?_A 
Reader, Clarksville, Iowa. 
Distemper lu Poultry. 
Will some one of the readers of the Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker tell me what ails my 
turkeys and chickens? Their heads swell 
and t urn purple; they droop and decline eat- 
ing anything; they drop down and die in a 
\ few clays. Can a speedy cure be effected, 
and in what way?—D. H., Upper Freehold, 
\jy» j % 
_ 
Pigeons Nesting Together. 
I would like to know if pigeons nest well 
together—that is, suppose I have a flock of 
t*i or twelve pigeons and have a box big 
enough to hold them with four rooms in it. 
Mill more than two pigeonsgou^^^^KP 
ftn J st!i y Peaceably 
Iet those Laving experience with pigeons 
r 
1 * --- 
* liens that Uny Shell.less Eggs. 
We cannot agree with you about soft 
shelled or shell-less eggs. I have kept about 
forty bens this summer; they have had for 
fi'iA /1 ml. A..A — « 
Clustering Mublenbergin. 
Please tell me the name of the inclosed 
grass ; also its agricultural value. I have a 
marsh of sixty acres that is covered with it, 
and if it is of good quality for feeding I will 
let it glow. No one here here knows any¬ 
thing about it.—C yrus L. Brown, North 
Plains, Mich. 
I he name of the grass is Muhlenbergia 
gUrmrata, and is common in swamps and 
low grounds and of no agricultural value. 
It grows from one to two feet; the pani¬ 
cles long, contracted, interrupted, glomerate 
spike. 
Ilorst; Netilc. 
Will you please tell me the name of the 
inclosed brier. It is the worst pest in this 
country. One man says lie has dug it, plow¬ 
ed it, scalded it, salted it nml still it thrives. 
The richer the soil the better. Please tell 
us how to kill it.— H. A. Hine. 
The plant is known as horse nettle, Sola¬ 
rium carolinensc. It is a native of the South¬ 
ern States, but lias gradually spread north¬ 
ward until it occasionally is found in New 
York. It is a great pest and difficult to ex¬ 
terminate. A thorough cultivation of the 
ground wlitre it grows with some hoed crop 
will desU^yit^yjj, plant can exist for any 
the leaves and stems are 
TonstanilPfmoved. Plain a field with corn 
and then run the cultivator through the rows 
often enough to keep down all weeds, and two 
years of such cultivation will annihilate horse 
nettles or Canada thistles. 
Corn Fodder. 
Something has been said of late in the 
Rural New-Yorker about corn fodder. 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
Remedy for Huii. Around. 
J. R, IIarshberoer writes the Rural 
New-Yorker that he has cured run¬ 
arounds on horses by washing tbe parts well 
with alum dissolved in chamber lye. 
Wauls lo Kno«v How to Cut n Muddle Clotli. 
I have a saddle cloth, and I want to make 
a saddle out of it by putting pads under and 
girts on it, and don’t know how. I don’t 
want any stirrups. I would like to know 
how to cut a saddle cloth out of felt.—R. P. 
S. P., Kansas City, Mo. 
Scrntcbes—Remedy. 
Here is a remedy for scratches that I have 
never seen published iu the Rural New- 
Yorker, which has proved effectual on my 
horses when others have failed. Tuke gun¬ 
powder, dissolved iu the best New England 
rum and after washing tbe parts clean with 
Castile soap and water, bathe with the gun¬ 
powder and rum three times daily.—F. N. 
P., Waterbury, Ct. 
Callus on tbe Knee of u Horse. 
I would be much obliged to you or some 
of your readers if you could inform me what 
would remove a callus or a hard lump from 
the knee joint of a horse. I have a very 
fine mare, which I supposed got her knee 
sprained some two months ago, It gathered 
and broke, and then healed up and formed 
a bard substance over the joints; the leg is 
not stiff.— Wm. Thompson, Cloud Co., Kan. 
Mule wltli a Sprnlncil Knee. 
I have a mule that sprained its knee two 
months ago. Will some of your corresnond- 
euts inform me what to do for it.—H. A. J., 
Corinne , Utah. 
plantar or plate vein; warm fomentations 
to tbe part; when the inflammation is re¬ 
duced, npply once every day for several days 
the following ointmentIodine ointment, 
one ounce; blue or mercurial ointment, half 
an ounce; mixed well together. 
A Lnmc Marc. 
I have a mare thirteen years old, lame one 
year, doctored for ringbone with no effect. 
When she stands in the stable for some time, 
quiet, and is taken out, she will walk a few 
rods without limping; but at tbe first un¬ 
even place her foot seems to go out of joint 
and she can hardly walk. Her pastern will 
rattle when I shake her foot. Can she be 
cured? She is worth $150 if well, but not 
that many cents as she is.— r. g. w. 
If our readers can advise our correspond¬ 
ent to bis profit, let them do so. 
stand a month or six weeks and then on a 
dry day draw it in the barn. Corn fodder 
must lie cured iu such a way that when you 
open the barn door any day in the winter 
you can smell the sweet fragrance of that 
fodder. By curing it in this way there is no 
danger of it geltiug musty.—W yoming, Ful¬ 
ton Co., a. 
Italian millet. 
Inclosed, find a specimen of grass for 
name. What is it, and what is it good for? 
—L. S. Miller, Poole's Mill, Ky. 
The plant is known by several names, 
such as Italian Millet, Bengal Grass, etc.; 
it9 botanical name is Setaria ltalica, or Oer- 
manica, as it is known by both these specific 
names in botanical works. It is a rather 
coarse growing grass, three to five feet high ; 
seeds produced iu a long spike or panicle, 
six to nine inches in length. Sometimes 
cultivated for fodder. It is quile common 
iu various portions of the country, as the 
seed was distributed by the Department of 
Agriculture, a few years since, under the 
name of Italian Millet. Being a very large 
und coarse growing species, it will yield a 
great amount of fodder, even upon rather 
poor soils, and for this reason it may be 
quite valuable in some portions of tbe 
country. 
i or suit an. 
NOTES AND QUEEIES. 
A Hone Crusher for Domestic Use. 
At the last fair of the Smitbfield Club, 
Islington, the bouse of Hancock & Co. ex¬ 
hibited a new and exceedingly useful inven¬ 
tion, namely, a machine for crushing and 
grinding bones by baud, so that a cook could 
break, crush or grind bones to any desired 
size. As a quarter of a pound of bones con¬ 
tains as much gelatin as a pound of meat, it 
stands to reason that a machine that enables 
us to recover the whole of this, and, ut the 
same time, reduce the bones lo a condition 
ready for conversion into superphosphate, 
must prove decidedly successful. Thccmsb- 
er is made of steel and cast iron, and can be 
screwed to a block or solid table; aud it costs 
in London, £1 12s. 
A n lawn Corn-H nslt pr. 
A MAcniNE lias been invented by a crip¬ 
pled boy in Powesheilc County, which is 
described ns follows in the Scientific Ameri¬ 
can “ This invention relates to a machine 
that, when drawn through a field of stand¬ 
ing corn, gathers the cars, drops them into 
an elevator, cuts off tlic knobs, slits tbe 
shucks while on tbe ears into traverse rib¬ 
bons, doing such cutting at the same time 
the cars are being elevated, drops the ears 
from the elevator into the shucker, slrips off 
tbe husks, throwing them out of the ma¬ 
chine, and finally conveys the ears off to one 
side of the apparatus, where It lets them fall 
into any receptacle that may be provided.” 
A Pcnugylvnnin Harrow* 
1 send you the draft of a barrow which 
fllMtMTtfMttttftlfft 
has been in use here some fifteen years, and 
we like it the best of any we have ever used. 
—G. W., Montrose, Pa. 
A 00RRE0TI0N. 
In your issue of the 14th October, you 
have made a slight, 3 *et important mistake 
in reporting the premiums awarded at “ Tbe 
Swine Exposition” ut Chicago. You say 
that “Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania and 
Michigan divided the premiums offered on 
Chester Whites.” You made a mistake in 
leaving out Iowa, If you will examine the 
list of awards you will find Unit L. W. Stu¬ 
art of Monmouth, Jackson Co., Iowa, took 
the second premium on Chester White brood 
sows. I desire this mistake corrected, be¬ 
cause I am personally interested in its cor¬ 
rection. The sow of Mr. Stuart’s taking 
the second premium is the mother of two 
sows and a boar now owned by me, and 
from which I have raised three litters of pigs, 
and 1 don’t want Illinois to carry off what 
belongs to Iowa, and at tbe same time de¬ 
prive my stock of the credit of beiug sons, 
daughters and grandsons and daughters of a 
sow that was found worthy of a second pre- 
milim nmnilff fit Tf» llifxnctinrl lirxsva 
ARBORIGULTURAL NOTES. 
Onnirc Orange NortU of 41*. 
Noticing quite a discussion regarding 
tbe Osage Orange for hedges in the lati¬ 
tudes north of 41% I thought my observa¬ 
tion and experience would not come amiss 
to some of the interested parties. In the 
winter of 1870 all tbe Osage was frozen to 
the ground in this vicinity, 43° north lati¬ 
tude. One of my neighbors had a lot that 
were planted at least ten years ngo for a 
hedge and left to take care of themselves ; 
had grown up to the Light of fifteen or 
twenty feet; the bodies, many of them, four 
inches ie diameter, were frozen lo the 
ground. Another had a beautiful hedge 
just large enough to make a complete fence, 
also frozen, so as to present an unsightly 
mass of dead brush in the spring, instead of 
a living barrier, the admiration of all pass¬ 
ers by. My father planted some about 
thirteen years ago, which were very large; 
these were killed iu the same way. In our 
nursery, out of about 20,000 oue-year-olds 
there were probably filly that survived the 
severe winter. Since these experiences I do 
not recommend the Osage at all, but am 
substituting the Honey Locust, which, with 
proper treatment, will make a good hedge, 
and is perfectly hardy.— Jno. D. Long, Erie 
County, X. V. 
Ah Erie Co. Apple Orcburd, 
In a recent issue of your valuable pnper, 
I noticed a brief description of an apple 
orchard iu Western New York that was very 
interesting to me. Allow me to bring to 
tbe notice of your many patrons another 
orchard that I recently visited in Aurora, 
Erie Co., N. Y. It comprises twenty-five 
acres, and contains sixteen hundred trees. 
It was planted in 1861, aud lias been under 
cultivation with potatoes and corn until the 
present year, when it was seeded down to 
clover. 
The soil is a gravelly loam, with a slight 
stratum of clay intermixed. The soil is na¬ 
turally drained—no surplus water ever re¬ 
maining on the surface, which accounts for 
its wonderful growth. A great many of the 
trees are over two feet in circumference, 
and for beauty and uniformity cannot be 
excelled. They are mostly of winter varie¬ 
ties—tbe Baldwins numbering over a thou¬ 
sand trees. The Baldwins were fruiting a 
good deal, and it was a charming sight to a 
denizen of the city to observe the huge red 
fruit sandwiched in with the rare autumn 
leaves. This valuable orchard belongs to 
Seth Fenner —R. C., Buffalo. X. T. 
laricttlfitrr. 
FL0RI0ULTURAL NOTES. 
Culture of Water Li Ilea. 
Can water lilies be naturalized to our 
climate? and will they thrive if simply 
planted in a swampy spot? I have long 
coveted them, but do not know how to ob¬ 
tain them. Will someone who is charitable 
and Jacks au opportunity for doing good 
send me some roots by mail, und receive in 
return specimens of such native nml culti¬ 
vated plants or Beeds us I possess? We 
have iu our garden more than a dozen kinds 
of lilies, but none, I think, equal to the fra¬ 
grant, old-fashioned white and creamy bull 
ones.— Mary M. Bowen, Sycamore'Bale, 
Harrison County, TUtsl Va. 
Water lilies will thrive iu your locality if 
planted in a pond where the water is two or 
more feet deep. In ordinary swamps the 
water usually dries up iu summer, leaving 
the soil nearly or quite dry, and, of course, 
pond lilies would perish in such a situation. 
If you receive seeds throw them into the 
pond this fall and they will sink to the bot¬ 
tom, and be iu a proper position for growth 
next spring. 
XV inter I UK Rost- Rusties. 
We expect lo remove West in the spring, 
and want to know if it is possible to lake 
up rose bushes and keep them through tbe 
winter, and how to do it?—P. Coffman, 
Edginton, 111. 
Presuming, from your inquiry, that it 
would be advisable to have the bushes where 
they could be packed before the frost is out 
of the ground, we would advise the taking 
up this lull and heeling-in, covering pretty 
deeply with soil- Before heeling-in, the 
steins should be shortened to about one-half 
their original length, as this will make them 
more convenient for packing as well as for 
handling this fall. After the bushes have 
been lieeled-in, and just before tbe ground 
freezes, throw on sufficient straw to keep 
out the frost,and when the plants are want¬ 
ed for removal they can be readily dug out. 
If there is a swamp near by, gather some 
moss now, and put it away iu tbe cellar, 
where it will be ready for use when wanted 
for packing. If you pack tbe rose bushes 
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