Jail® Huskiulrg 
acre at this time, and early in spring the 
same quantity of clover seed is added, and 
the average wheat crop is at the rat > of SO 
bushels per acre. The land now remains in 
grass five years, the first crop being retained 
on the farm to be fed out to stock, but the 
succeeding four crops are sold, and the hay 
usually brings $22 per ton. 
THE DAIRY 
consists of from 15 to IS head of native and 
grade cows and heifers. They go to pasture 
about the 1st of May, and remain in pasture 
without any extra feed until about the 1st of 
December, when they are brought to the 
stable. There is a good spring house on this 
farm which is fed by a large spring of cold, 
sweet water, and the milk is set here in pans 
so as to have a constant flow of water sur¬ 
rounding them while tire cream is rising. 
The dairy is emuloyed exclusively for butter, 
which goes to Washington and sells for 50c. 
per pound. 
STOCK fOR THE SHAM3LES. 
Mr. Jannky does something at fattening 
stock for the butcher. From 25 to 30 head 
of steers are annually turned for this pur¬ 
pose. The steers arc purchased in the fall at 
the Stock Scales in Baltimore, and are fed 
during winter on rough fodder. Good steel’s, 
weighing from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds on hoof, 
cost in the fall at the stock yarns about 4c. 
per pound. The best are fed soft corn m mb 
dition to coarse fodder, and after that get 
four quarts of corn meal per day, and they 
are ready to go to the shambles in FebrimiT, 
and will bring Go. per pound, live weight, the 
gain in flesh being from 800 to fOOppuryli, 
and the not profit from fattening stock, is 
from $20 to $25 per head. Those' anmialf 
which arc not fit for marker, in the spriug 
are turned to pasture and are sold during Me' 
early summer. 
MAKING M4TT0N. 
Mr. Jannky also fattens a, considerable 
number of sheep. They arc purchased at 
the stock yards at from $2.50 to $3 per head, 
and are turned into the nflorfeed and are 
fattened so as to go oil in February. After 
has now passed from the McTavisii family, 
but the present owner resides at the farm 
buildings, not caring, it is said, to live at the 
Folly and keep up an establishment suitable 
lo such a place. We looked through the 
building and found various pieces of marble 
statuary apd some line oil paintings '•(ill re¬ 
maining. The house is in excellent, preserve^ 
tion, and the baseipout, which is arranged 
for storerooms and for the Spyvaubs? quar¬ 
ters, has the doom aud windows provided 
with heavy iron grates, so that when, prop¬ 
erly closed all egress or ingress is prohibited. 
THE OLD CARROll MANOR HOUSE 
is several miles further on, and is approached 
from the lodge through a long avenue of 
noble old trees—a portion of the original 
forest. The driveway is beautiful and well- 
kept, and the lawn and grounds about the 
manor house are arranged with great taste. 
The house is of brick and is about SfjO feet 
long, with wings, the chapel being at one 
end. The central part of the building is 
constructed of large brick imported from 
the mother country. The wings and some 
other additions wore made, we wore told, by 
tho lata Chaulks CAUKoi.r., who also mod 
cruized the exterior of tho original and cen¬ 
tral part of t he structure, Tho houso seams 
to haye been built ou tho English plan of 
country rasideuces, and is quite imposing 
lVom its extent and massiveness. The room* 
in tho old part aru paneled with oak and arc 
hting with family portraits and other paint* 
pigs. Some, of tii© portraits were painted 
by Sir Bkn.t.auin Waive. Tho place has «u 
historical interest, connected as it U, with 
thn founder of i he manor and os the resi¬ 
dence of hitf .suoewsaur, “Chaiilks Gahholi. 
of Carrollton,” of •'Revolutionary notoriety ; 
but our space is too limited for further de¬ 
scription or allusion to its history, Opposite 
to and a short distance from the lodge is 
a Catholic college, erected i>y the umuiU- 
concqof one of tliu Cannon.*. 
The road leading from tha manor houso to 
Baltimore is broad and, .smooth and is kept 
in excellent, condition. And as you approach 
Baltimore there is a .succession pf tasteful 
and elegant places, charming country houses 
and palatial residences, making one of the 
most delightful drives that wo hud during 
our tour through Maryland. 
UONCIUSION. 
In closing our notes on Maryland it will be 
proper to say that wo have endeavored to 
give a plain statement of our impressions of 
the country and of the manner in which 
farms are conducted. The people whom we 
met wore thrifty and intelligent. They are 
an exceedingly pleasant, people, kind and 
hospitable to strangers, and in no place 
whore wo have traveled have we met with 
more genuine hospitality and true polite¬ 
ness. Our visit was one of great pleasure, 
and we desire especially to return thanks to 
Dr. Thomas and Mr. Jannky, the latter of 
whom took us over the country from 
Brighton to Baltimore and gave ns much 
valuable information concerning the agri¬ 
cultural resources in this part of the State. 
ary, with six pound* meal and shorts per 
day, after winter set in. Aud pow having 
fed her thus three years, 1 will commence 
with the 2'.Wh day of October, 1810, when 
she dropped her calf Flora. Our six months 
winter (feeding mouths) in this olimate are 
from the 1st of November to the 1st of May. 
She gave during these six months 0,535 
pounds of milk, nnd dried off in September 
following, giving during the year 10,854 
pounds or milk. 
During it portion of the winter I weighed 
her feed and water from day to day. I 
found slip would oat 38 pounds Of hay at id « 
pounds of mo a I (com meal and shorts) per 
(lay, and di-ink lOEKto 130 ponndSof water, ] 
would change tho quantity of hay, feeding 
83, 3(5 and 83' pounds,-' and with each change 
'or hay the cow varied in her milk, giving 
mo exactly pound for pound ; milk for hay! 
Tlieso close experiments wore in midwinter, 
t ho mercury ranging from near zero to 10" 
below, drinking the largest quantity of water 
On the coldest day. 
During thufhil of 4871 L fed a quantity of 
buckwheat chaff to my nows, and to pay me 
for, my foolish economy rny good cow, Lilly, 
djod on tho 13th day Of November, two days 
nftcrconJjncmMnt. A post-mortem coutirmed 
the judgment bf the doctor, “ Died of buck¬ 
wheat chaff,” aud any one who will food tho 
*t)uff may expect to kill: 
And now comes Flora, Oct, 2.9, 1870, by 
Short-Horn and Devon bull.' out of Lilly, 
%thn Short-Horn, Flora’s calf, Lilly, Jr., by 
Durham and nativo bull, was dropped Oct. 
13, 1373. Lilly, Jr., rau with the mother 
seven months and until good feed came. 
Flora had a calf again Jan. I, 1374, being 
three years and two months old. and gave 
me 1,000 pound* of milk during the month of 
J nnuary. 
I handle my calves so freely 4fed fully that 
they are perfectly broket) before they come 
to milk, and will ask me to milk them nearly 
every time they come into the stable, anil 
always coming up with their dams to tho 
milkers or to get the little good bit of some¬ 
thing which they are sure to And in the man¬ 
ger. I found when Lilly, Jr., was eight 
months old, that I must stop pretending to 
milk her or 1 would have a young cow on my 
hands to milk regularly ; bo I let her alono 
until she was twenty months old, merely 
handling her sufficiently to keep her tamo. 
T found her bag iilling with milk and took it 
out to prevent garget. She gave one pint a 
day (milked once a day) for about a mouth ; 
theu one quart per day (milking twice) for 
about two weeks, increasing gradually until 
August 13th, when she was 1 year and 10 
months old. At this time she gave one quart 
at each milking—two quarts per day ; and 
increasing her flow until the 23d day of Au¬ 
gust, she gave seven quarts per day and 
dropped a calf. At the present time she 
gives nineteen (19) pounds of milk per day. 
All of the old stock were of the tlc-shy-bag 
kind and subject to the garget, and l found 
by drawing the milk as soon as it made its 
appearance T could prevent tho garget, in a 
great measure, aud in fact almost entirely. 
My experience thus far has fully satisfied 
me on the following points: 
That it docs not all depend on the kind or 
blood of stock to get good milkers, but 
largely on the handling or treatment. 
That buckwheat chaff is good to kill cows 
with calf, and poor and dangerous feed for 
other*. 
That a good cow, giving milk, requires 
not less than three tons of hay and 1 000 
pounds mill feed during the feeding season. 
That garget may often be prevented by 
drawing the milk as soon as found to settle 
in the bag. 
That my little cow, one year and eleven 
months old the 18th day of September, 
gives me from 18 to 19 pounds of milk per 
day, from which 1 make one pound of but¬ 
ter per day, and this when the mercury 
stands about. 90' at mid-day, and flies very 
troublesome, and the pastures badly dried 
and scorched up from a long and severe 
drouth. F, D. Pakmkuck. 
Hillsdale, Mloh., Sept. 10,1874. 
quired from year to year. Hence some 
change in the manner of farming is required 
and must soon be imperative. 
THE JANMEY fARM. 
Samuel A. Jannky has a good farm in 
Brighton, about 25 miles west of Baltimore. 
It contains about 160 acres, 15 of which are 
in timber. The soil hero is a stiff clay and 
what is locally known as a chestnut soil, and 
is well adapted to grass. 
THE PASTURE 
embraces about 50 acres, lying along the 
Haulings river, und has not been broken up 
for the past twenty yearn. Hero we found a 
good, thick sod well set with different vari¬ 
eties of grasses and affording excellent feed. 
Wot only upon Mr. Jannky’,* farm but upon 
other farms in Maryland we found grass 
abundant in old pastures, showing that when 
they have u chance grass is enduring und 
yields well from year to year. But under 
the system of frequent cropping and light, 
seed mg when the land is put down to grass, 
and especially when only two kinds of seeds 
are used, pastures cannot be expected to be 
thick set or to yield a large amount of feed. 
The remedy, it is obvious, is in cropping less, 
thereby giving the land time to recuperate, 
and theu seeding with a larger auantit.Tr and 
MOVEMENT OF CHEESE AT THE PE 
terboru’ factory. 
Phokkssoh WtoKSON of the Utica Herald 
gives a description of a novel plan for con¬ 
veying cheese from tho make-room of the 
Peterboro’ factory to the curing rooms. He 
says the make-room is 85 feet from the 
curing-room, and down a ateep hill at that. 
There is a quarter-inch galvanized wire 
reaching from the window of the curing- 
house down an angle of 15’, nearly, to the 
door of the make building, and then we did 
not know by whose patent it was possible to 
telegraph a cheese from one place to another. 
But the matter was simple enough. A small 
sheave wheel rkles on the top of the wire, 
aud beneath the wire a carriage ia suspended, 
in which a cheese is placed, and the whole is 
drawn up to the curing-room by a rope on a 
light Aviudlass located in the curing-room, 
turned by one hand. The wheel rides safely 
on top of the wire, held by its flanges. At a 
little distance one cannot see the wire, but 
seas a cheese shooting up out of the galley 
like a rocket—a novel sight, and one which 
occasions wondering comments from passers 
on the road. But the arrangement is very 
effective. Cheeses can be moved from the 
presses into the curing-room almost at the 
rate of one a minute, and with less effort 
than to carry one up a single flight of stab’s. 
Coo lino Milk Suddenly. —Nearly all 
dairymen now think mUk is injured by being 
cooled too suddenly—by ice or patent appli¬ 
ances. Also that warm milk should not be 
mixed with cold, as by pouring milk into a 
can that contains milk already cooled. 
