Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1858 — Important to Farmers [ARTICLE]

Important to Farmers

We learn from Mr. John BallenCtne, of Washington township, Higland county, 0., says the Hillsboro' Gazette, that two fine horses belonging to Wm. H. Long, Esq., of the same township, died, from having been turned 1 into pasture on green oats. Ho also informs Us that he has read, of instances of the same kind having occurred_in othpr parts of jhjß country. The cause is attribu - i the rust with which the growing oats is ruinously dffected —so much so that there is scarcely a field in this county that will he worth cutting. Tt will he well for our farmers to remember this fact, and avoid pasturing their stock in oat fields; better to let it rot on the ground.

Thorne, of Thorndale, Washington Hollow, Dutchess county, New York, has a herd of only some seventy cattle, but their cash valuation is over SBO,OOO. For one bull $6,000 was paid in England; for another, $5,000; and another is almost equally valued. One of his cows, “Dutchess SixtySixth,” cost $3,500, at an auction sale in England, and her calf brought, at the same sale, $2,000. Despite the stringency in commercial affairs, Mr. Thorne has found no difficulty in disposing, at high prices, of all his surplus stock. (£]7”A discovery was made after the show at Ayr that the two year old bull, for which _the first prize had been awarded, had been decorated for the occasion with a pair of false horns. The deceptive work had been neatly done. A thin band of gutta: percha was put around the base of the horns, and the hair was carefully placed over it. The skin of the animal had been punctured behind the shoulder, and air blown in, to prevent a slight hollow from being observed. Ocy*According to Monsieur Genin, a French savant, the sex of eggs can be dis. tinguished. All eggs containing the germs of males have wrinkles on their smaller end, whi.le female eggs are equally smooth at both extremities. v <|t i Ohio wool! crop for 1858 promises to be unprecedently large. The prices range from twenty to forty cents per pound.