he Weed Sewing Machine greatly in demand 
and giving perfect satisfaction everywhere, 
we have given it a more careful examination 
and comparison with other machines, that 
we might, as we always have done, supply 
a premium good in itself. The result of our 
examination is that we have concluded to 
offer the “ Weed” “Family Favorite” again 
this season, for the following reasons: 
It is strong, and will do heavy work with- 
Wo have been so convinced of the excellence 
of these scales that some of the smaller sizes, 
stiitable for use of farmeto and gardeners, 
have been placed in the Rural New-York- 
were bought in the autumn of 1865, and a 
nice Cotswold ram was put with them— 
with proper care ewes will always raise more 
than an average of one per ewe, but say only 
30 lambs are raised, half ewe lambs which 
give, say only 30 fleeces for 1806—but in 1867 
there will be 60 fleeces, and those from the 
year old progeny will be superior wool and 
double the weight of the ewe’s fleeces, then 
in the autumn of 1867 the 15 ewe tegs will 
have become fine “ theaves,” and will swell 
the ram’s services to 45, for it is best to let 
the ewe lambs go to a year and a half old 
before breeding. 1868, say but 40 lambs to 
allow* for accidents among old sheep, to be 
made up, although the t win lambs would bo 
more than sufficient to do it, this would give 
for ews sheep of all ages 80—wethers 50, and 
deducting the 20 ewe lambs would leave 00 
ewes to go to the ram, which ram may have 
been the one first bought, for there is no 
harm when relationship is so wide at the 
start in putting the half breeds to the sire 
for one generation—after shearing in I860 
the SO old ewes should be sold and the 
15 wethers born 1806, leaving the 80 to go to 
a new ram—at this time there would have 
been 80 fleeces in 1806 ; 60 fleeces in 1867 ; 00 
fleeces in 1808, and 180 fleeces in 1869. Total 
to this time 310 fleeces and 45 sheep, sold for 
as stated before to make up for deaths, there 
would be a greater increase than stated. In 
the year 1870 there is a. flock of 90 ewes, 40 
ewe lambs, 40 wether lambs, and 65 older 
wethers, and now, profit is wonderfully in¬ 
creased, for the second addition of Cotswold 
blood increases the mutton and wool inench 
sheep. In 1871 there would he the annual 
sale of oldest wethers and oldest ewes, which 
any one can figure out, but which would oc¬ 
cupy too much spaco in the Rural, if also 
properly explained. Suffice it to say, that by 
saving the ewe lambs every year and culling 
(drafting) out wethers at 3 years old, and 
ewes at 4 years from 1870 to the present 
time, and managed on this system the profit 
of this one year of 1875, would far exceed 
the whole of Prairie Farmers' ten years, and 
the value of the sheep on hand would be 
double all lie made, and the wool sold would 
amount to doublo in the present year of his 
10 years, in fact, ten times what lie states 
can be done, and is done every year on tens 
of thousands of farms in England, for sheep 
are the great source of income to every up¬ 
land farmer, and in short, by the extraordi¬ 
nary results in fertilizing the soil and pro¬ 
ducing heavy crops, the rents and heavy 
taxes are paid. 
Where sheep are kept in great numbers 
and managed systematically, and fed as in 
England, the soil is always rich. The fat of 
American soil in oil cake, corn, etc., goes to 
England and enriches the soil there. 
A Working Farmer. 
DISEASE8 OF THE HORSE 
Darwin sums up the result of his research¬ 
es on this subject in the following para¬ 
graphs : Even if no single fact has been 
known with respect to the inheritance of 
diseases and malformations by man, the evi¬ 
dence would have been complete in the case 
of the horss, and this might have been ex¬ 
pected, as horses breed quicker than man, 
are matched with care and are highly 
valued. I have consulted many works, and 
the unanimity of belief by veterinarians of 
all nations, in the transmission of various 
morbid tendencies, is surprising. Authors 
who have had wide experience, give in detail 
many singular cases, and assert that con¬ 
tracted feet, with the numerous contingent 
evils of ring bones, curbs, splints, spaviu, 
founder, and weakness of the front legs, 
broken and thick wind, melanosis, specific, 
ophthalmia, and blindness, (the great French 
veterinarian, Hugard, goiug so far as to say 
that a blind race could soon be formed,) crib- 
biting, jibbing, and ill-temper—are all plain¬ 
ly hereditary, Youatt sums up by saying 
that “there is scarcely a malady to which 
the horse is subject that is not hereditary,” 
and Mr. Hugard adds that the doctrine 
“ that there is scarcely a disease that does 
not run iu the stock,” is gaining new advo¬ 
cates every day. T itd y add to those facts, 
established by such weight of concurrent 
testimony, what 1 have before remarked in 
general, namely, that it is not the actual 
ailments, such as contracted feet, ringbones, 
curbs, splints, and spavin, but the predis¬ 
posing causes that are transmitted. The dis¬ 
position of parts, the imperfect shape and 
size or the faulty texture, of any tendon, 
bone, or muscle most favorable to a particu¬ 
lar disease, are transmitted from sire to son. 
The name may be said of those disorders 
that affect the internal organs or the whole 
body. The abnormal condition of the blood, 
and notthe scrofulous symptoms it produces, 
is hereditary. The weakness in some of the 
muscles of the larynx that cause roaring, 
has a hereditary tendency. The narrow 
loins and flat sides that give a pronencss to 
attacks of diarrhea and colic, belong to a 
certain lieuage. This constant tendency of 
morbid condition or defective organs to re¬ 
appear in the line, shows how important it 
is that horses selected for breeding should 
be sound in wind, limb, and condition.— 
Progressive Funner, 
Union Soale. 
er’s Premium List, These scales have taken 
first premiums at the State Fair of New 
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indi¬ 
ana, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Virginia and 
Texas. Also at the International Industrial 
Exhibition ; the St. Louis Mechanic’s Asso 
ciatiou and many others. The location of 
the manufactory, in Buffalo, is an excellent 
one for easy and cheap transportation to ull 
parts of the country, and gives the Buffalo 
Scales an appreciable advantage in reaching 
customers. The officers of the Company 
are John R. Linen, President; John W keks, 
Superintendent, and L. Ghkstnutwood, 
Cashier, all of whom are thoroughly practi¬ 
cal men, and acquainted with the business. 
Their time is employed in superintending 
the business, and in adding to the various 
improvements in manufacturing, on which 
its success is based. 
Those of our readers desiring further in¬ 
formation can procure it by addressing the 
officers of the. Company as above. To say 
nothing of the convenience of the large 
scales on every farm, they arc an absolute 
necessity to all engaged in stock breeding, 
and will repay their cost, if bought by any 
neighborhood of enterprising and progress¬ 
ive farmers, in their use by himself and 
neighbors. In many places a few farmers 
may club together and purchase platform 
scales to be used in common, or they may 
each interest themselves in getting subscrib¬ 
ers to the Rural New Yorker until enough 
are got to entitle the club to one of the scales 
as a premium. We can furnish a portable 
platform scale with capacity of 1,200 lbs., for 
a club of sixty subscribers, at club rates, and 
smaller sizes for a less number of subscribers. 
WEEJL) SEWING MACHINE, STYLE 1. 
out being clumsy or unable to do fine work. 
It lias a peculiar adjustment of the under 
thread, which renders the tension uniform 
and reliable. 
It has n straight, direct-acting needle and 
a needle-case which prevents the needle 
breaking nr springing from its place, and the 
needles can beset without tho use of any tool. 
Tho balance wheel has a guard overit, pre¬ 
venting the clress being caught or soiled 
while operating. 
Its parts are few and simple, not. likely to 
get out of order. 
It can be oiled and cleaned without taking 
apart, or even moving a screw, or even lift¬ 
ing from the table, and there is a shield under 
the machine which keeps out. dust and ren- 
THE WEEED SEWING MACHINE 
If, even at ho comparatively a recent date 
as 1841, any one had been told that sewing 
would be donoby machinery, that such sew 
ing would be more perfect than could be 
done by hand—if the speed, as well as the 
elegance, had been predicted, the prophet 
would have been denounced as a dreamer. 
It was not till 1842 that tho first patent for a 
sewing machine was applied for, followed in 
1843 by two others, and then steadily grow¬ 
ing in importance, reaching 72 patents in 
1858, and 87 in 1869—in all over 800 patents. 
Of course so many patents indicated much 
need for sewing machines and much appre¬ 
ciation of them. Some of the patents were 
worthless, and some Interfered with others, 
giving a rich harvest to the lawyers. We 
remember one of the first machines patented, 
—a disk like a large dinner plate, with points 
projecting all around it, on which the work 
to be sewed had to be stuck, and it ha/1 the 
revolving shuttle mounted on a wheel like a 
tea plate for size. It did not seem as if any¬ 
thing like the beautiful, effective machines 
we have now ever would be possible, that a 
business of such hugo proportions could come 
from tho “curiosity’’—for it was nothing 
else—wo examined, 
“To-day is a King in disguise,” says Emer¬ 
son ; “ we do not know its greatness.” And 
those who invested capital for tho develop¬ 
ment of sewing machines could scarcely have 
conceived the great results that would fol¬ 
low. Now there is not a place, hardly a 
house, that has not at loast one Sewing Ma¬ 
chine, while 50 machines is not an uncommon 
number for a manufacturer to have. 
Of course specialties were soon developed. 
One man made a machine adapted only for 
the heaviest work, and as lighter machines 
were called for, altered, but still made his 
model generally heavy ; another started to 
do only light work, and found it necessary to 
strengthen his machine, still leaving the im¬ 
press of the original idea apparent. Some 
claimed one excellence, some another, and it 
took a long time for the creation of a ma¬ 
chine that would do every kind of sewing 
neatly and effectively. Now there are sev¬ 
eral machines which have a fair range of 
work, and the constant effort is to improve 
iu this direction. 
For the past ten years we have offered 
Sewing Machines as premiums, and finding 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN 
WORKING PARTS TURNED UP FOR OILING AND 
GLEANING. 
ders it impossible for any of the oil to got on 
tho operator’s dress. 
It runs rapidly, easily and almost noise¬ 
lessly. 
It is carefully and well made, every part 
carefully fitted, insuring great eff iciency and 
durability. 
Glazed cotton anil linen thread can be used 
with the “Weed” Machine without diffi¬ 
culty. 
Its feeding mechanism is certain and re¬ 
liable. 
A machine perpetually getting out of order, 
requiring great skill to adjust it for various 
kinds of work, constructed especially for 
coarse work or fine work, unfitted for using 
A Brood Mare, heavy iu foal, owned on 
Long Island, broke her hind leg, and instead 
of destroying her as is the almost universal 
custom, a veterinary surgeon placed her iD 
slings, set the leg, and in s’x weeks the mare 
was turned out all right and none the worse 
for the accident. Many valuable horses that 
are killed because they have the misfortune 
to break a limb, might be saved by follow¬ 
ing this humane aud sensible example. 
The Trotting Associations have proclaimed 
the following dates for their meetings next 
season Detroit, July 4 to 8; Cleveland, July 
22 to 29 ; Buffalo, first week in August; 
Rochester, second week in August; Utica, 
third week iu August; Poughkeepsie, fourth 
week in August ; Hartford, Conn., Aug. 29 
to Sept. 1 ; SpriDgfield, Mass., Sept. 5 to 8. 
BUFFALO SCALES IN ALL STYLES, 
One of the Rural staff recently visited 
the extensive manufactories of the Buffalo 
Scale Co. in Buffalo, N. Y. This establish¬ 
ment is, with one exception, the largest in 
the country, and is nowhere surpassed for 
the variety, reliability and delicacy of the 
scales which it manufactures, and which are 
known throughout this and foreign coun- 
PROFITABLE SHEEP 
At page 362, nnder the|preceding heading, 
is an account of what was sold in ten years 
from a commencement with 32 sheep, which 
seems so very ridiculous, that it amuses one 
to see it in print. Of course it is published 
to draw forth comments which should show 
what could be done by common sense man¬ 
agement, so that everybody can see that the 
prairie farmer, instead of doing anything to 
boast of, ought to be ashamed of such 
miserable success for the sums he names. It 
would not pay for one hour’s attention each 
day, saying nothing of aught else. 
Any man beginning with 32 sheep must 
have been a strange character, if he did not 
buy young ewes with only one ram, and to 
have occasion to purchase more, shows he 
muBt have known little of the rapid increase 
under sensible regulation. Say nothing 
about the 32 he bought after the start and 
for the sake of round numbers, say 30 ewes 
BOUDOIR CABINET, STYLE 8. 
certain kinds of thread cr to sew certain 
kinds of goods, would be in most cases a nui¬ 
sance, a source of perpetual annoyance and 
trouble in any house. All these evils are 
avoided in tho Weed Sewing Machine. For 
every description of work, for every kind of 
thread, for skilled or unskilled operators, for 
family or manufacturing purposes, we are 
sure the Weed Machine will sustain its well- 
earned reputation. 
We will furnish Style 1 Machine, price $60, 
for 40 subscribers at club rates ; or Style 8, 
Boudoir Cabinet, price $90, for 00 subscribers. 
Tin's latter style is highly ornamental as 
well as useful. The cut is too smal l to show 
this well, hut it can readily be seen that, 
open, it is a convenient arrangement, giving 
large space for the work and closed, it forms 
a handsome ornament to a room. 
PORTABLE PLATFORM SCALE. 
tries. Beginning in 1858 on a small basis 
the growth of these works has been extreme¬ 
ly rapid, employing one hundred and twenty- 
five hands constantly, and sending out twen¬ 
ty-five hundred scales per month, from the 
immense Railroad and slock scales to those 
used in the nicest and most delicate adjust¬ 
ment of weights. The trade extends to all 
portions of the country, and not a few of 
the standard scales are exported. The com¬ 
pany has several valuable patents on the 
manufacture of heavy scales, which were 
devised by its own members, and which 
