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THE RURAL MEW»Y©RKER. 
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horsemen that the only reason why Thorough¬ 
bred English horses have always beaten pure¬ 
bred Arabians in speed whenever they have, 
for the last century or so, been matched, has 
been because they were larger. The majori¬ 
ty- of horsemen, however, have beeu of the 
opinion that, size for size, the English race¬ 
horse is sjieedior and gamier than the Arabian. 
A series of races that lately took place at Cai¬ 
ro, Egypt, between an ordinary English Thor¬ 
oughbred and an Arabian of the same size, 
but well known as an extra fine specimen of 
his race, confirms this view; for over short 
and Jong courses the Thoroughbred was uni¬ 
formly thu victor.. 
ACCORDING to the latest Consular reports, 
average American cattle imported into Great 
Britain are better than the similar British 
products. Ordinary consumers are inveter- 
ately opposed to American heel', but eat a 
great deal of it under other names. Ameri¬ 
can shippers should seud ouly cattle fit for 
immediate killing. The frozen mutton trade 
from Australia and South America has greatly 
injured the trade in live sheep from the Unit¬ 
ed States, so that it is almost suspended. Fro¬ 
zen mutton keeps its flavor; frozen beef does 
not. Meat imported from the antipodes is all 
frozen; that from the United States is only 
refrigerated. Consequently the American 
beef trade does not suffer as much as the 
American mutton trade. 
Consul Eeckstein of Amsterdam, says 
Dutch cattle raisers and dealers are much ex¬ 
ercised at the misnaming of Dutch cattle in 
the United States, He complains that some 
or all breeds of Dutch cattle coming to this 
country are called “Holstein*,” whereas 
there does not now exist, nor to his knowl¬ 
edge has there ever existed any breed of cat¬ 
tle in Hollaud called “Holsteins”. 
In the mare the first milk after parturition, 
called “colostrum,” differs materially in com¬ 
position Horn the subsequent secretion. It 
contains principles adapted to remove the 
effete matters collected in the foal’s intestines 
during foetal life, and hence it is highly neces¬ 
sary that the newly born foal should be .-.ap¬ 
plied with the milk from its owu dam, at 
least till the effete matter (meeomium) has 
beeu expelled, aud the bowels have assumed 
their natural function. 
In spite of the purgative effects of colost¬ 
rum, the foal is often constipated, especially if 
the dam has been fed with dry or indigestible 
food during the later period of pregnancy; 
hence many persons make it a rule to give 
the foal a dose of castor oil shortly after 
birth—generally a good practice, as none but 
beneficial effects are likely to result. Injec¬ 
tions of warm soap-and-wator are also recom¬ 
mended when constipation is probable, or has 
occurred... 
There is probability of troublesome skin 
diseases if u foal is allowed to suckle a mare 
when she is over-heated; but the danger from 
heated milk is probably a trifle exaggerated, 
aud is partly due to the fuel that the hungry 
little thing partakes too greedily of the milk. 
Better he on the safe side, however, aud allow 
the mare to cool,and bathe her swollen glands 
with lukewarm water, before the foal is ad¬ 
mitted to her... 
The usual t une for weaning a colt is ut the 
age of five or six mouths, when, if the mare 
has reconecived, or has been, or is about to be 
worked severely, it is beneficial for her that 
the separation should be no longer delayed... 
After parturition a mare should never be 
permitted to graze until she has had a small 
allowance of sweet hay or some other nutri¬ 
tious, dry food; nor should she be subjected 
to work for at least three weeks after foaling. 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Dakota. 
Mandan, Morton Co., March '21.—The 
past winter has been an exceedingly hard one. 
I here have been over 20 real blizzards and 
last Saturday’s was the hardest one. The 
snow that fell was damp,but the wind blew so 
fiercely that mauy u time I could not see our 
stable only some 10 or 12 rods away. The old¬ 
est inhabitants here say they never know such 
a winter. Very many cattle have died, es¬ 
pecially in Montana. The old Missouri is on 
a rampage. The ice jammed a short distance 
below Port A. Lincoln and the water flowed 
back into the city of Mandan to a great depth. 
a. w. a. 
IllinoU. 
Chicago, Cook Co., March 27.—We are 
now fa My launched on the crop season of 
1H87 - March on the whole bus boon a dry 
mouth. Reports say considerable damage has 
eeu.doneto the winter wheat crop, particu- 
41 } in Kansas, and to a less dpgrea jp Mis- 
"mi, Ohio and Indiana, Winfer^whent is, 
however, such a peculiar plant that until it 
begins to greon up in the spring its real con¬ 
dition is cue rather of opinion than of fact. 
What is now needed is a terra of good, warm, 
growiug weather, aud then we shall know 
just exactly how much of the wheat has been 
winter-killed. March and April are the seed¬ 
ing seusous of the oat crop; in Kansas it has 
been very largely sown, but the ground is dry 
and hard, and rains are needed. Some oats 
have also been sown in Nebraska; in Southern 
Illinois the oat crop is a very important one. 
and the area has increased every year during 
the last five. The frost in this portion of the 
State is now so far out of the ground that the 
fields are being prepared for the seed, aud on 
all our well underdrained lands the oats have 
been sown. It Northern Illinois but little 
progress so far has been made with any farm 
work at all. Iowa is iu about the same con¬ 
dition, so far as seeding is concerned. There 
is a great body of snow on the ground in Wis¬ 
consin, and Milwaukee wires us this morniug 
that there are 10 inches on the level. There 
is plenty of snow in Minnesota. All over the 
winter and spring wheat and oat belts of the 
Northwest, there is nothing to discourage any 
one, provided we have good weather during 
April. n. w. 
Cobde.n, Union Co., March 17.—Pros¬ 
pect for peaches good. Wheat is looking fine. 
J. G. 
Virginia. 
Richmond, Henrico Co., Va. March 29 .— 
The leaf tobacco trade has been brisk during 
the week, especially that in finest bright wrap¬ 
pers. Good giade mahoganies are plentiful; 
low grades in moderate, though improved, 
demand. ('mnuiou to good fillers are being 
worked off at heavy losses in old bright stock. 
The market continues active in cutters, for 
which au advance of one to three cents has 
beeu established in the past two weeks in tine 
grades. W est Virginia wrappers are also 
selling from two to four cents higher at unc¬ 
tion sales. Sun-cured old leaf in fail- demand 
and firmer again. New dark leaf rather 
stronger. The better crops average from six 
to eight cents round, while common and me¬ 
dium crops average 4 X 4 to 5>£ cents in hogs¬ 
heads. Planters see that it is useless to prize 
and send to market trashy ami very low 
grades, which barely pay expenses at best. 
The movement of Western leaf to this market 
has been large lately ou account of anticipat¬ 
ed higher freights next month. Manufactur¬ 
ers are fairly busy with miscellaneous orders. 
T. n. E. 
Wisconsin. 
Outagamie Co.—W e have had a very fine 
winter for business; plenty of snow aud good 
sleighing since about Christmas. Our coldest 
weather lias been about 20 degrees below zero. 
Prospect for maple sugar making in this vi¬ 
cinity good with those farmers who have not 
cut their maple trees into cord wood. j. n. 
iiUsrcUanrous AcLmibinfl. 
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