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a large quantity of glutinous and nitrogenous 
matter as well as sugar and gum. It will 
hang in thick strings from the door of a car 
loaded with grains until it reaches the ground, 
and will dry on the car like glue. To dry by 
centrifugal machines would cause the loss of 
• this valuable matter and leave the dry husk 
much less nutritious. 
The method of preservation by ensilage has 
been in use for many years. I have kept 
them pressed in flour barrels for six months 
without difficulty or waste, and have packed 
100 wagon-loads in an ice-house (without ice, 
of course), with perfect success. There are 
extensive daliymen in Westchester Co., N. 
Y., who have long practiced ensilage for 
keeping them. The silo is a stone pit at the 
end of the basement cow stable and opening 
into it by a door at the bottom, from which 
the grains are removed for nse. The floor and 
Bides are cemented and the open top, on a level 
with the ground at the end of the barn, is cov¬ 
ered with a shed. When the pit is filled, the 
mass is covered with some straw and then with 
planks closely arranged. The mass Betties by 
its own weight sufficiently to exclude air, and 
no pressure is required. Many thousand bush¬ 
els are thus put away every season and a year’s 
stock is laid in when the supply is abundant 
and the price cheap. 
Corn starch waste, which is the same as the 
corn sugar or glucose waste, or “ maize slump.’ 
is another fodder substance that could be 
utilized in a similar way so as to be available 
for carriage to a distance cf hundreds of miles; 
whereas in its soft and moist condition, like 
brewers’ grains, it cannot be freighted profita¬ 
bly over 100 miles. H. Stewart. 
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A Good Way ol Plowing, 
Having tried all of the various ways of 
plowing, please let me suggest a plan of my 
own, which for convenience, ease to plowman 
and team, and also for expedition, I think 
cannot be beaten, especially whqre sulky plows 
are BBed. 
If the field is fenced, run a farrow across 
each end Bix steps from the fence; if not 
fenced, five steps from the edge of the field. 
This will leave a strip five steps wide to plow 
in either case. Then rim a back-furrow fifteen 
or sixteen steps, as the case may lie, from 
either side; back-furrow on these until a strip 
is left the same width as at the ends; then 
forty steps from the back-furrow run another 
back-furrow, and plow until yon have back- 
furrow off twenty steps; then you will 
have a land of the same width; that is, twenty 
steps: by laying off a field in this way, you can 
plow to the end furrow, throw out your 
plow and turn easily both team and man, on 
good hard ground, obviating all lifting and 
tugging for man, and backing and jerkiDg for 
team. After all is plowed within, then com¬ 
mence on the outside strip, plowing from the 
fence, and you will have an evenly and well 
plowed field without any hard places and few 
back or dead furrows, and by this means, a 
flat field can oftentimes be drained. Successive 
plowingB in this manner will raise the field 
into beds, using the dead furrows as ditches to 
carry off the water. C. A. mc C. 
Princeton, la. 
linesman. 
OUB ANIMAL POETKAITS. 
Jersey Heifer* .Patricia and Pandora, and 
Short-born Cow Lady Carew 3d. 
—‘Ike the agriculture of Great Britian, the 
Koyal Agricultural Sociely of England has had 
much ill fortune to contend against for the 
last few years. Just as an excess of wet 
weather during the growing and harvesting 
season used to grievously damage the farmer’s 
crops, so a tropical downpour during its an¬ 
nual great show dampened the spirits of the 
visitors and curtailed the receipts of the Socie¬ 
ty for the last two or three years. The hai - 
vest throughout England, however, by all ac¬ 
counts, will be a fair average one, as com¬ 
pared with those that cheered the farmer 
before the late era of agricultural depres¬ 
sion, and the laet show of the " Royal ” 
•hared in the bright fortune of the 
industry it was founded to promote. 
This great show took place at Derby from 
Wednesday, July 13, to Monday, Jaly 18, both 
days inclusive. The weather was all that could 
be desired, except that the brilliancy of the sun 
had a trifle too much heat in it. The num¬ 
ber of visitors was large and highly apprecia¬ 
tive of the unusually fine exhibition prepared 
for their pleasure and Instruction. A short 
time back the success of the show was greatly 
endangered by the prevalence of foot-and- 
mouth disease which led the Privy Council to 
issue Orders forbidding the movement of cat¬ 
tle, sheep and pigs, but the outbreak abated 
Ust in time to enable the Conncil to relax ' 
this order. Of horBes, cattle, sheep and pigs, 
there were 1331 on exhibition, the cattle num¬ 
bering 396, for which ,£1475 were offered in 
premiums. In Jerseys Mr. J. Simpson's sil¬ 
ver-gray Patricia, which had just calved, won 
first prize in the Jersey class “ for heifers in 
milk or in calf” and in the yearling class he 
again came to the front with another of bis 
silver-grays. Pandora 3rd. Of these the 
Agricultural Gazette (from which we have re- 
engraved the accompanying likenesses) says 
that they had divided between them the cham¬ 
pion prizeB for the two best cows at the Royal 
Counties' show at Salisbury this year, and 
that Patricia has been exhibited five times, 
winning five first prizes, while Pandora has 
been exhibited four times, and taken four first 
prizes. 
Ladt Carew 3d.—In Short-horns there were 
133 entries, but scarcely a hundred were on the 
ground. The Cow Class was a grand one. 
There were ten entries of choice animals, and 
after thorough deliberation the first prize was 
awarded to Mr. John Acker’s Lady Carew 3rd, 
a beast with a grand, massive, level form, re¬ 
markably full and thick over the hips, with 
well sprung ribs and of good length and depth. 
Her only faultB are said to be rather gaudy 
rumps, excessive fat, and a slightly stained 
nose. At theEesex County Fair, this year, she 
won the 100 guinea Challenge Cup for the best 
Short-horn in the yard. She also bore off the 
honors at the Bath and WeBt of Eogland Show 
the other day at Tnnbridge Wells, and since 
> then has alBO won the Havering Park Challenge 
Cup and had some other triumphs. Alto¬ 
gether, she is no doubt the best showyard 
Short-horn cow in England to-day. 
iorsnitan. 
FIRING FOR SPAVIN CRUEL, AND OFTEN 
USELESS. 
C. W. Gregory, an English veterinary sur¬ 
geon, says in the Live Stock Journal, “During 
PATRICIA—FIG 394. 
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an active practice of 30 years, for the last ten 
I have not fired a single horse, although here 
iu Bristol, the neighborhood being hilly, horses 
of all classes are severely worked. I have 
found mild and almost painlesB treatment 
more speedy , more ejfeclioe, and more permanent 
“ In my opinion firing is unscientific. It is a 
cruelly painful and prolonged operation. Its 
results are very uncertain, and do not justify 
the operation. It considerably blemishes and 
consequently depreciates the money value as 
well as the owner’s respect for his horse ; and, 
finally, firing seldom removes, often does not 
diminish, and sometimes increases the disease 
under treatment,” 
Two years ago a favorite horse of mine, then 
at my country place, had become badly spa¬ 
vined on each leg, making it so lame as to be 
entirely useless, Although then 30 years old, 
it was so fine an animal, gentle and intelligent, 
I could not bear to give It up, and bo called in 
the advice of a veterinary surgeon to see if 
the spavin could not be cured. He applied 
mild blisters and ointment, and in three months 
the horse became well enough to be used at 
light work, and has shown no lameness since. 
The spavin swellings are not reduced in Bize, 
still they do not blemish the legs. 
Some years ago, every now and then, a car- 
horse used for city work, became spavined. I 
then had it fired and turned out to pasture for 
four or five months before it was sufficiently 
cured to be brought back to town. This was 
not only expensive, but a cruel operation, and I 
permitted it only from the advice of a skillful 
veterinary surgeon, who said a cure could not 
be effected in any other way. I have been 
greatly rejoiced to find since that a milder and 
more humane treatment of a horse is equally 
effectual. A. B. Ali,kn. 
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Watering Horse*. 
In the Rural of July 3d, some good 
advice is given on the above practice; but 
while looking at the circumstances as they 
actually exist, we readily see that in a majori¬ 
ty of cases in the country where teams are 
used, it is very inconvenient and often impos¬ 
sible to water the teams as often as we would 
wish to; and the idea of drinking troughs in 
every field is simply impossible lrotn the fact 
that no water could be conveyed into them. 
Now, if farm and other teams are watered 
regularly in the morning, twice at noou and 
at night throughout the season, no particular 
inconvenience will be felt, a3 it is well known 
that habit largely controls the desire for drink¬ 
ing both of man and beast. Care should be 
taken to water at regular intervals during the 
entire Bummer—not several times a day for a 
part and only a few times for other parts of 
the season. If circumstances are such as to 
allow watering five or six times a day during 
warm weather, so much the better; but do not 
do so a part of the time and not all the time. 
I have known farmers that only drank at meal 
times and suff ared no inconvenience from their 
moderation even in hot weather, it being the 
result of habit. Scribe. 
jiiuntt-gi'rt). 
CHEAP PRODUCTION OF PORK. 
Col, Curtis gave an excellent example 
of this in the Rural of Jan. 29. A resort 
mostly to grass, clover, soiling crops and 
roots, is the only way iu which the Eastern 
can compete with the more fertile Western 
States in the production of pork; and this I 
know from my own considerable experience, 
when rearing large numbers of swine years 
ago. There are other great advantages ob¬ 
tained by this method. The labor is much less, 
the pork is of a better qualily, and the animals 
are kept almost perfectly healthy. If Western 
swine breeders would adopt this system set 
forth so clearly and simply by Col. Curtis, I 
am persuaded we should hear no more of 
“ Hog Cholera” there. This would put an end 
to the foul, destructive disease which has 
caused a loss of millions of dollars annually 
to the farmers of the West for years past, and 
still continues there to a greater or less extent. 
I am for calling IhingB by their right names, 
and plainly stating facts. It is the only way 
to get at the truth of the matter, and Insure a 
greatly needed reform. I Bay that “Hog 
Cholera” comes from mere filth, want of 
proper exercise, pure, fresh air, and feeding 
the animals almost exclusively in the hot sea¬ 
son on highly fattening corn. A variety of 
food is what swine require and this should be 
mainly of a succulent character to help keep 
them healthy, especially in hot weather, and 
give them a due proportion of bone and muscle 
to the fat. Learned treaties by the dozen have 
been written on “Hog Cholera,” and any num¬ 
ber of remedies have been prescribed for it; 
and what have all these amounted to ? Just 
nothing at all but a continuation, if anything 
worse, from year to year, of the loathsome, 
destructive disease. Swine breeders read what 
Col. Curtis has now written on rearing pigs 
and keeping their dams, and go and do like¬ 
wise. This will put health in their boues, 
money in your pockets, and afford you the 
consciousness of acting rightly and humanely. 
A. b. A. 
Inhsirial Implcmrats. 
THE “DEERE SPRING” CULTIVATOR, 
This implement, made by Deere ite Co., 
Moline, Ill., has given complete satisfaction 
during the two seasons since its Introduction 
in which time over 30,000 cultivators, wc are 
told, have been sold. Among its many merits 
the makers claim that the new coupHug aud 
BpringB hold the first place. By shortening or 
lengthening the chains the weight on the 
springs is regulated according to the condi¬ 
tion of the ground and the required depth. 
By the method here employed for attaching 
the springs not only are the shovel-rigs easily 
LALY CAREW 3p. AS A HEIFER IN 1879— FIG. 396. 
JERSEY EBIFER, PANDORA 3d— FIG. S95. 
