Show A L fa M MI ON BREEDING TO PRODUCE 08 THE SEX enesp ENi SP DESIRED IN SHEEP OR CATTLE A correspondent of 0 the country gentleman Gen fieman fleman says the inquiry in relation to the method to be adopted in to produce a greater number of females than males maies in the progeny pro veny reny of ewes opens a very interesting subject to the consideration of all engaged in stock breeding or the propagation of domestic animals of any kind ind if we could discover dle die cover any fixed principle le governing such movements we might athlea at pleasure ure produce ram or ewe owe lambs bull buli or heifer calves alves and so on through tl e whole range of farm stock horses pigs dogs arid and goats included almost every person whose attention has been drawn to the subject has speculated and theorized more cr loss less and some borne few have endeavored to solve the problem by practical and systematic efforts car ear fully tilly f con considered and deliberately pursued but I 1 in post hosi I 1 instances stances ri the knowledge of this experience peri ence has died with the possessor if it he be were successful be he kept it lo 10 himself if be he vas waa unsuccessful h gaid said nothing abou about tit it and the result whatever it may have been remained unknown this secretiveness is part of the capital in trade of every breeder and the facts be may ascertain if g reliable be ascertained about a maiter master necessarily involved in ry probably never were and never will be fu fa ly communicated to the pu kllc the old ord oid hebrew patriarch jacob is represented to have been eminently fortunate in breeding cattle sheep and goats just as he wanted them ning gring ring streaked bieck bleck led leq and mo 11 spotted 1 te d and he was almost equally successful i in begetting male progeny havinga whole handful of boys boya and only one girl but his secret of breeding in order to p aduce sons arill an d not daughters is unrevealed while lils liis method of af propagating ro color in kine and sheep is descried with great clearness and particularity ua ul and hath a relish in it I 1 do not prof ess esa to be able to enlighten your cof coi correspondent respondent from much actual observation of the thing but I 1 think it would be worth orth his hla while u hile bile to try the system eam times tima performed of coupling a young ram with old ewes it he wisher female offs offa offspring pring and an old ram with yong ewes if he desires to have malem males the greater the disparity in the age parents t e surer the result if bib bis ram and ewes are of a bout about the same age the progeny will divide beyes in nearly equal numbers with derance probably pro baby of male malea let him or any other of your readers s BO ci disposed try th s mode ot managing TOtt moat m ittes tera and then let lim him it he does aly it honestly report the r sult suit without any concealment ceal cesil ment for the benefit of other explorers in in the t tie hidden mysteries of nature it is by publication li only that any substantial addition is made to the common store of knowledge for what is known to but one or few persons is practically unknown unknowns ni one trial could not of doarse coarse be deemed sufficient to determine the matter but if if it results tn in the way sum sug ages ed I 1 L will help to promote future and p possibly permanently successful efforts at all ah events it is simple harmless and may be efficacious it ought to 10 be conducted perhaps at the same time in different differ tnt ent places in order to find out I 1 what it any apy influence is produced by a differ ence of climate I 1 DAIRY STOCK AND FEEDING this h I 1 s stock is bred and reared with strict reference to milking qualities based upon an oTi ori original ginal cross of short thor shorthorn horn thorn and holderness Holder hoider nesa the eiro biro of theyo ing cows from six bix years yearb old was from a ame me eer cow fifteen sixteenths durham darham of deep milking family crossed with halton haiton the product of old meteer and lidy L idy barrington B making the hei bel heffers ferB fers none less lebs ess ebs than three quarters durham bl bi od and from three fifteen sixteenths the one and two years old are a cross of 0 those older elder beiter helfers bei hei fers sp with a halt blood ayrshire from the brodie brodle tilli course of feed the first year when the calt calf ig is old enough to suck it is allowed to suck a full meal meat of its mothers first milk which nature setima beems seems to have designed for ic unless the calais allowed its moth mothers ells eils firs laral filipk it will sooner or later scour and nut do will well after a full meal of first milk it is 13 allowed only one quart of new milk mornin morning ir and evenin evening cil gil increasing the quantity half a pint at each successive fee ling till it almouns to ta two quarts morning morning 1 and evening then half a pint of sweet whey or skimmed milk is added at each successive feeding as the calf gets older and requires more bulk bull but no more than two quarts of new milk is allowed at ag age strict cre carels is taken to feed when any at atI blood heat no more or less the milk young teed feed ia is kept antill on till the caltis calt calf ii six weena old ohl then decrease halt half a pint at each feeding till til isted ia ted fed fine shorts none or oat meal witha with a little oil meal is fed in the abey ebey after the calf is six weeks old tue calls callb excrement must be the guide luide as to the amount of any kind of feed it will bebr bear oer der aa as more of any kind of food than it can digest d ii well ia is a damage six quarts of whey y three times a day is k pt on till cold weather when it la is substituted with a pint of oat meal meat or its equivalent daily with good hay and 1 stabling the first win er till turned to grass in the th e 1 spring plenty of grasa grass and good goci d bay or its i 1 equivalent e winters la is ft their hilli keep after helfers f ers are brought in to milk at two years yearb ears earb oll old and kept k ept in the dairy annually th thereafter ere atter after IA A L FISH in the prairie farmer faymer THE ERUSIE eara EATA ARTICHOKE spring laine LAKE villa oct 17 1862 EDITOR 10 DESERET NEWS the jerusalem artichoke lolong lonn long known to american amer Amei ican farmer ej has received but limited notice until daely when its ita val value ue haa baa been discovered and anti begins to be appreciated and in many sections where it has been proven 0 occupies es the first place of vegetables ege tables fo for r stoc stock feeding especially so amborg pork raisers it is extensively cultivated in france w th most satisfactory results often producing feromone from one to two thousand bushels to the acre amon among the advantages this vegetable pos beges seges over any other maybe may be enumerated viz it is exceedingly prolific and perfectly hardy la Is subject to no disease and never fails in in pro producing during a crop it is greedily eaten by every kind of live stock and is particularly valuable able abie for hogs for tor which it does not require i did dit digging gln gin gi n but Is always ready when the ground is lt not frozen J for the hogs bogs to help themselves within a year or two past this vegetable is attra acting much Inter interest estand and attention throughout the western states some who have grown them give the result of their experiments I 1 as high as 1500 bushels per acre in I 1 proof of this great yield I 1 will add that last I 1 year I 1 had sent to me four small roots size of 0 a hickory nut each in a tin mustard box boye from these four stalks were grown which produced three quarters of a bushel nf fi e roots I 1 look hook upon the artichoke as invaluable here where pork is hab and scarce and firmly believe that where the crop is plentifully raised pork may be easily made at eight or ten cents per ib for mitch cows sheep and horses this crop has no equal and is destined here to become a staple with farmers and stock growers J THE BEST VINEGAR IN TWENTY FOUR foun HOURS the following from the S scientific american which bisno debt d imbt just as stated is commended d e d to the attention of all families who desire good vinegar the directions here given place its manufacture within the eaby easy leach teach of all ail alldor for the process is aa as simple as it can be the whole philosophy of the manufacture of lvin ivin vinegar egar is included in the word oxidation oxy dation the alcoba contained if A cider beer or wine combined with the oxygen of the atmosphere bei comes ace ic acid which in a diluted state is vinegar the m ghods usually pursued in the domestic manufacture of this article are to say eay the least of 0 them e of improvement the conversion of cider into good bineger vi neger by exposure to the air in casks requires weeks and even months to accomplish because only a small surface is exposed at one tian ti to the ng action of the atmosphere p h ere by expos espos ng nl a larger surface of the liquor to the atmosphere oxidation oxy dation takes place with wilh corresponding rapidity rapi dicy 7 ana a nittie the process may way be complete in from twenty four to forty eight hours the toe method of accomplishing ibis rapid which has long been known to 8 clenti fi men and manufacture s B may be pursued without difficulty i 1 i private houses as follows take a clean flour batrel and bore auger hov hol hoes tes les all around around ad the sides andente and in inte t e bottom set it over a flat tub or open cask and fill it light with beech shavings which 1 have ave aye been s soaked in vinegar on 01 top efthia of this barrel which ISO is open n lay two strips of wood and res resting t on tapi these a pail filled with cider beer or the like procure twelve or fifteen lengths of cotton vicking wicking about thirty inches ion which after dipping in i n the liau d arrange i round arid tb the e sides of the pail at regular intervals ira tra so 0 t that at one en I 1 or of each wick will be hanging iu in the cider and the other hanging down outside and below the bottom ot of the pail by means of these wicks the pail will gradually be emptied or of its contents which trickling over the shavings will be expose to the air absorb oxygen and finally be received in the tub benrath ben path by returning the liquor into the pail above and suffering this trickling process to be repeated two or three times a splenda vinegar will be obtained the whole secret of the process lies in the mechanical increase of surface accomplished by the shavings COLORING COCHINEAL RED the ruai rwal mcw new ew yorker publishes the follow ing rules for coloring cochineal led zed furnished by correspondents into a clean arbs bri as kettle put one gallon soft sort water then put in one ounce otince best beat cream of tartar next add one ounce pill pirl pulverized cochineal I 1 then add two ounces of tin this will color one pound of yarn or flannel let the liquor come to a boil put in your good goods s stir briskly a few minutes then ay y twenty minutes minute take out into cold mater water a ter rinse and dry in the open air before scouring unrig for one pound of cloth take one ounce of cre ere cream am of tartar and simmer in water a few minutes then add one ounce of powdered cochineal ch ineal when well stirred add two ounces of tin when it boil put in the clo do h or yarn and let it boil twenty min mn 1 utes color in brass and rinse in cold water to de d e one pound of woolen yarn scarlet one aunce eunce ounce c cream re I 1 am of f bartar one ounce pulverized cochineal two ounces of tin infuse the cream of tar tarin tavin warm water set it over the fire and as it boils bolls stir it briskly bri ekly then add the cochineal when well mixed pour in the solution of tin di dip dib the yarn in warm water then dip it into t the adye dye at once stir it around a little let it boil boll eight or ten minute take it out and wring it let it dry then rinse it in suds the ube dye is best made in new tin blur late of tin should be used with cae or it will corrode fr FT one pound of good goods take one ounce of cochineal one ounce cream of tartar and two ounces dunces of tin pound the cochineal fine then put it and the cream of tartar into a sufficient quantity of water to cover the goods brine bring it ft to a gentle bollig heat beat then skim it neit next put in the fo lution of tin and the goods boil boll gently hait halt I 1 an hour stir and turn the goods often wail boiling bolting take them hem out hang hanz han ban up till cool rinse lunge in cold water use e ither either brasis brass or copper ware but not iron in the process FEEDING OATS to horses the same city of given to a horse produces different effects accord ng to the time they are administered ered I 1 have made the experiments on my ray own wn horses and hav always observed there is in the dung a quantity of oats oata not digested when I 1 purposely gave them water after a feed of oats there is then decidedly a great advantage in giving horses water before corn there is another bad habit that of giving corn and hay bay on their return to the stable after hard bard work bein being verv very hungry they devour it eig eagerly erly and do not masticate the consequence is it is not BO so well dg digested ested a ind nd not nearly so nutritious when a horse returns from work perspiring mid and out of breath be should be allowed to rest for a time then given a little bay hay halt an hour afterward water and then oats by this plan water may bp be given fri ovi thoat theat risk rink of cold as the oats acts acta as a stimulant journal of agriculture SMILES IL ES the crocodile if the scaly sealy old hypocrite he is represented to be should ie accredited with smiles as well as tears false smiles are in act fact much more common than false tears nears it is the easiest thina thing in the world to work vork the smile only a fe fea few v gifted indi idi r duals duala have sufficient command over their eyes to weep wiep at will yew pew great tragedians even have the knack ot of laying 11 on the water waters of affliction impromptu but who ever saw caw a supernumerary bandit that could not smile aya apa and smile and arid be a villain or a chortis chorus 8 singer inger or a ballet girl that did not look as if she had not been newy tickled across the lips with a straw ot of artificial smiles there are a greater number tb thin thin in we have space to classia classify y the countess of belgravia has her receiving smi smile amile e a superb automatic essect effect count faro the dist distinguished I 1 n uis ed foreigner who is trying r london dont this apar because bade baden baden agree with him lim shum shuf shuffles mits fits the cards x with ith a am smile ile lle that distracts attention from his fingers miss magnet whose heart and lips dissolved partnership in very early life makes such a cupids cupida bow of the latter whenever an eligible match approaches that fortunes flitter fl itter round her like moths J round a flame the lion hon mr who wants wanti to get into parliament cultivates a popular smile in short smiling is a regular business accomplishment or of thousands of people whose fouls couls have no telegraphic com coca atun i with thir lips but on the other hand thank beavens there area are a goodly number of people who ha smile because they cant help it whose abose happiness P iness bubbling up from their heart runs over in smiles at their I 1 ps or bursts through I 1 b them in jovial laugh er and there is a difference between the false and the true symbol of joy that enables the keen observer readily to distinguish the one from the other ether the f natu al a expression of delight varies with the emotion motion that gives rise to it bit b it the count counterfeit r f smile I 1 is 11 a stereotype and the tone of a hypocrites laugh never varies HOW can CANNON NON ARE SPIKED cannons are |