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JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
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Graves, Boston, $10. 99. Best trio Fowls or Chicks (any 
breed), G. H. Warner, New York Mills, $5. 100. Best 
Black Cochin Hen, G. H. Warner, New York Mills, $5. 
The competition in some classes of fowl was very close 
indeed, and the judges devoted the greatest attention to 
such cases. In some instances feathers were plucked and 
compared, and a steelyard was even employed to bring in 
correct weight as one criterion. 


Stems MHuteresting and Amusing. 
kes A FARMER at Augusta, Ga., has discovered his dog 
milking his cow. 

be@s~ A PERFECTLY white deer was shot in Pike County, 
Pa., last month. 
_ k@s> Derr are very plenty in Pike County, Pa., this 
season. 
bes Two Mountainville trappers have caught one hun- 
dred minks since the trapping season commenced. 
bes- A PoUGHKEEPSIE sportsman shot thirty-seven wood- 
cock in one afternoon, near New Paltz. 
kes> ‘‘ You don’t do that again,” said the pig to the boy 
who cut his tail off. 
BGS> WOLVES are so plenty around Crown Point, Indiana, 
that sparking has fallen off at least one-half. 
pes~ WHAT is it that isa cat and nota cat, and yet isa 
eat? A kitten. 
ges~ THERE were pigeons on exhibition at the National 
Columbarian Society’s show that were worth and would 
bring $200 each, and upwards. 
ges> Tue Duchess of Geneva, the famous $40,000 cow, 
died at the farm of Samuel Campbell, at New York Mills, 
recently. 
g@s- A BLACK BASs was caught in the Delaware recently 
that had in its mouth thirteen hooks, with pieces of lines 
from a half to ten yards in length. 
kes Mr. H. Lowery, of Pine Bush, took up a skip of 
bees recently, the honey from which weighed one hundred 
and twenty-six pounds. 
keg~ DuRING a recent snow storm in Sullivan County, a 
legion of black and dark brown worms were discovered in 
the snow that fell. They varied in size from three-fourths 
to two inches in length. 
' ges Iv is said that chestnuts can be preserved any length 
of time by simply putting them in a box or bag, and sprink- 
ling common saltamongthem. The salt not only keeps the 
worms from them, but prevents them from becoming hard. 
ge@s> A sHEEP was found in Maine the other day under a 
snowdrift in a hole seven or eight feet deep, where it had 
been for at least twelve days without food. It was alive, 
and being pulled out, ran briskly to the barn, apparently all 
right. 
ga@s~ A cargo of two millions of dollars worth of silk 
worms recently arrived at San Francisco, on their trans- 
continental journey to France. They were purchased in 
Yokohama, China, by the French government, and arrived 
at San Francisco on the 15th of December. Only three days 
were lost in transferring them to the freight cars. 

pas>FouL Promorion.—‘ Why did the General take 
you on his staff?’’? was asked of a young Hussar, not long 
ago, by an enthusiast. “Oh! I’ll tell you; because I cut 
——’ ‘Through the ranks of the enemy, you hero !”’ inter- 
rupted the enthusiast (she was a lady). ‘‘Oh! dear no, 
nothing of the sort; it was because I cut up a turkey so 
weil.” 
ges> CATTLE AND WHEAT —We have before us the sta- 
tistics of two great products, the cattle crop of Texas and 
the wheat crop of California, both for the year 1873.. For 
the cattle sent from Texas the sum realized by dealers of 
that State was $8,000,000, and for California wheat crop ex- 
ported from San Francisco the receipts are estimated at 
$10,000,000. It will thus be seen that, vast as the California 
wheat crop is, the Texas cattle crop is not far below it. 
pe@gs> DisrAases or Pias.—Many of the diseases of pigs 
are contagious, and the instant a pig is observed to be sick 
it should be removed to a separate pen; and it would be 
well to regard this single case of sickness as an indication 
that something is wrong in the general management of the 
pigs. Clean out the pens, scald the troughs, scrape out all 
decaying matter from under and around them, sprinkle 
chloride of lime about the pen, or what is probably better, 
carbolic acid. Dry earth is a cheap and excellent disin- 
fectant. Use it liberally at all times. Whitewash the walls 
of the pens; wash all the inside and outside wood work, 
troughs, plank floors, &c., with crude petroleum; it is the 
cheapest and best antiseptic yet discovered. 
ses" Dr. BUSHELL, physician to the British Legation at 
Pekin, not long since made a journey through inner Mon- 
golia to Kalgan, and thence northwesterly to Shang-tu, the 
old northern capital of the Yuan dynasty, described by the 
great Venetian traveler, Marco Polo. This place was built 
by the famous Kublai Khan. Dr. Bushell found the site a 
complete desert, overgrown with rank weeds and grass, the 
abode of foxes and owls, which prey on the numerous prairie 
rats and partridges. The walls of the city, built of earth 
faced with unhewn stone and brick, are still standing, but 
are more or less dilapidated, and the inclosed space is strewn 
with blocks of marble and other remains of large temples 
and palaces, while broken lions, dragons, and the remains 
of other carved monuments lie about in every direction, half 
hidden by the thick and tangled overgrowth. 
pe@g~ ARAB Horses.—The experience of French and 
Prussian authorities appears to go against the Arab, as the 
best horse for the service. A German correspondent of the 
London Veterinarian, writes: ‘All the Prussian cavalry 
regiments have had to report to the Emperor William their 
experience of the French horses captured and utilized dur- 
ing the war. Though differing on many points, the reports 
agree in general, that the German military horses are pre- 
ferable in every respect to the French, and especially to 
those of Arab race. This’’ the correspondent adds, ‘‘ confirms 
what was stated to mein September, 1870, at the camp at 
Beverloo, in Belgium, when I went to see the French pris- 
oners there, who had a number of their horses with them. 
The Belgian officers and the French cavalry sergeants (there 
were no French officers in the camp) all declared to me that 
the Arabs, of which there were fine specimens in the camp, 
would be considered, in a military point of view, only as 
pretty toys.” 
