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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, FEBRUARY 1, 1882. 5 finds that they succeed equally well in the Northern States, and there are several large herds of them in Canada, to which Mr, Coch rane, (celebrated ower of Durhams) is going to add another. May we not rightly defy the world to produce a breed having more merit?—[N. E. Farmer. Is It Merely n Fashion ? The butter records made by a number of Jersey cows in America, has given a fresh impetus to the interest in that most interest ing breed of cattle. Think of a daily yield of more than three pounds of butter from the milk of one of these gentle, docile little pets—and such butter! There is no longer a blind adherence to black points, wax-like horns—they are no longer bred to non-essentials—to the neglect of essentials. It is no longer a mere fashion to breed Jerseys in preference to other thor oughbreds, but a business, founded on sound principles and solid business considerations of profit. A butter yield of three pounds per day of Jersey butter means, even on our market, $1.50 per day from the sale of butter; or, supposing this to continue for two hundred days, and we have an income of $300, which is ten per cent, on $3,000. The buttermilk from such a cow will nearly pay the cost of her keepihg. Besides, every heifer calf from such a cow will be worth, when six months old, somewhere between $200 and $1,000. Is it not natural that the owner of such a cow should decline to sell her at almost any price ? Sucli a cow is quietly ruminating within less than two miles of where we write to night. We allude to Mr. Wade’s famous cow, “Tenella." The herds of Mr. J. B. Wade and Judge John L. Hopkins can hard ly be surpassed anywhere, and yet it seems difficult for our people to realize the fact. IT IS TUB FASHION for our people to send North for fine stock, and, indeed, tor everything else; but if they really understood their own interest, and the fact that every animal brought here from the North must run the gauntlet of acclimation, they would prefer paying double the price for an animal already accli mated rather than run the fearful risk of acclimatising importations from a more northern latitude. We advise all who are in reach of a thoroughbred Jersey bull to com mence at once grading up their common stock by using their best cows as a basis of the Jersey cross. The great superiority of the Jerseys as butter produces no longer admits of a ques tion. Stock Law and its Influence on Stock- Breeding. The practice of turning droves of hungry cattle upon the public highways to steal or starve must give way before the wheel of progress and the advent of a more just ap preciation of the rights of property. Grass, whether wild or cultivated, is as much the property of the owner of the land on wnich it grows as is corn, wheat, cotton, or any other product, but hitherto our laws have required the land-owner to guard his grass by a most expensive fence, or have it depas tured by his neighbor’s stock. Under the operation of the stock law, which has been adopted in a number of counties in this State, each stock-owner must confine his stock on his own land, or hire pasturage for them from others. The natural consequence of such requirement will be a reduction in the number of stock kept and an improvement in their quality. More attention will be paid to providing suitable pastures for the stock of the farm, which will naturally improve the quality of the stock. It will compel the bestowal of more care upon the stock of all kinds, and those who can avail themselves of the servi ces of thoroughbred bulls will now have an opportunity of grading up their stock, and will no longer be annoyed by the highway scrub. _ (fonts to Protect Nhcop. The fanners of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey, use goats to protect their sheep from dogs, and two are about all each farmer puts in with his sheep. Assoon as a dog enters the field at night, the goats attack him, and their butting propensities are too much for the canine, who soon finds himself rolling over and over. A few repe titions of this treatment causes the dog to quit the field, limping and yelling. Form erly, when a dog entered a sheep-field at night, the sheep would run wildly around and cry piteously. Since the goats have been used to guard them, they form in line behind the goats and seem to enjoy the fun. The idea of utilizing the goats in this way came from the West, where they are put in sheep pens to drive away wolves.[—New York Sun. Cotton Nco«l for Hogs. Geeensbobh, Ala., 13th Jan., 1882. Editob Southebn Wobld: 8. L. G., in the January No. of your valu able journal, will find cotton seed beneficial for hogs if he will boil them with a vegeta ble absorbant—pea hulls, wheat, oat, or rye chaff, or finely cut up straw; in quantity about one-third to two-thirds of seed. The oil of the seed being set free by boil ing, is readily absorbed by the chaff, or straw, which becomes healthy and nutri tious, and is eagerly eaten by the hogs. The chief benefit obtains in furnishing a needful distender to the bowels of the hogs, an essential to the health of all animals. Salt or saline slops, with any kind of sol id, and in fattening season, shelled corn or hominy, in moderate quantity should he added before boiling. It should stand, after cooking, several hours to cool, and then fed in troughs en closed in a full size pen, with floor to pre vent the mud mixing with the food. The hogs should be kept out of the pen ex cept at feeding time, and not let in till the food is put in the troughs. After eating drive them out, and remove what is left to the compost heap. Sows and pigs should not be fed on cotton seed in any form. C. L. S. Pedigree of “Iluko of Marlboro." “Duke of Marlboro,” bay Clydesdale stall ion; stripe on face; some white feet. Foaled May 8th, 1870. Bred by Thomas M. Tod, West Brockley, Scotland. Imported by Powell Bros., Springboro, Crawford county, Pa. Sire, “Monkcastle Prince,” (542), who LIVE STOCK MOTES. Thebe are 175,000 hogs in Western Texas. Fanny Withebspoon, a favorite mare, in Mercer county, Kentucky, sold for $8,000. Siielteb and warmth, with regularity in feeding, are essential to success in the man agement of cattle. Fleetwood Stable, Franklin, Kentucky, has sold to parties in New Orleans, the bay colt, Marctzck, for $5,000. Fob hogs that are kept closely penned, an occasional dose of sulphur, charcoal or ashes is thought to be beneficial. Feed windbroken horses frequently and little at a time. Grind the food. Give plenty of salt and water at a time. Mb. B. H. Gbeeb, who lives in Anderson county, South Carolina, makes a clear profit of $40 a year on one of his cows. One firm in Kentucky, with houses at Paris and Flemmingburg, have dressed and shipped this season 100,000 turkeys. Comfobtablf. housing is all the warmth required for adult fowls. Artificial heat is dangerous, as it is difficult to control. Heat ed houses are a fertile source of many evils. Thebe are lots of people who have been butchering hogs all their lives who do no! know that a dressed hog, if frozen, will not produce good sausage. And yet such is the fact. Pbesident Clabk, of the Louisville Jockey Club, is preparing a review of the breeding and racing interest in the South and south west, which is looked for with interest by turfmen. Two cows, well sheltered in winter, will produce more milk and butter than will gained the Kimossj Premium in 1873 and 1874. He by “ Stanley ” (822) by “ Prince " (603), winner of the Second Premium at the Highland Society’s Show, at Glasgow, in 1850; was Brechin Premium horse in 1851; Lanarkshire in 1852; and traveled Mid- Calder one season. He by “Clyde,” alias “Prince of Wales," (155), winner of the First Prize at the Highland Society’s Show, at Glasgow, in 1844; he traveled latterly in Stranraer district. He by “Clyde,” alias “Glancer," (153), by “Broomfield Cham pion," (95), who traveled one season in Aber deenshire, and was there known as “Aber deen Champion.” He by "Glancer II” (337), by “ Glancer I ’’ (336), by “ Glancer,” alias “Thompson’s Black Horse" (335), who was born about the year 1810, and was the most noted founder of the Clydesdale breed. “ Duke of Marlboro’s ” dam, " Millte,” by Sir “Collin Campbell” (778), who traveled Ardrossan district of Ayrshire in 1855. He by “Prince” (603), by “Clyde,” alias “Prince of Wales” (155), by “Clyde," alias “Glancer” (153), by “ Broomfield Champion ” (95), by “ Glancer II” (337), by “Glancer I” (336), by “Glancer,” alias “Thompson’s Black Horse” (335). ( , Mb. James S. Gbinnell, writing in the Springfield Bebublican, of bells on sheep as a protection against dogs, gives this illustra tive experience: “A good farmer in Leyden, who keeps about a dozen excellent South- down ewes, always belled, was grieved and surprised one morning to find that dogs had raided his flock, killed two, mangled others, and scattered the rest. On collecting his little flock into the yard after a day’s search he found that the tongue was lost from the bell. This was replaced, and never since have his sheep been worried. The experiment is so simple and cheap that it is worth trying.” three unsheltered, though no more than half the food required for the three should be given the two. A wool and wheat grower says: “It is my belief that the real reason why our wheat crops only yield half as much as the English crop, is, that in England farmers utilize sheep as grain growers, while we only con sider them wool and mutton makers.” Fabmebs who have not a large pasture for their hogs, should build a few rods of porta ble fence, and make a small inclosure for them, and move it around as circumstances require. It will make pork-raising more profitable than to keep hogs confined in pens all the time, and keep hogs more healthy. Asheville News : A drove of sheep were shipped last week from this place to Rich mond, Va., over the Western North Carolina railroad. They were bought in Haywood county, and are the first shipment made from thispoint to thatmarket. Heretofore, stock from Western North Carolina has gone to the Eastern market by way of Tennessee. The most profitable way to raise beef cat tle is to keep them constantly in a thrifty and improving condition. It is not necessary to keep very young stock rolling in fat, but there should always be an abundance of nu tritious food to help nature in its develop ment. To allow stock to run down in flesh and become ill-conditioned, simply because it is not designed for market tor some time, is the height of folly. In Japan, with more than 30,000,000 peo ple, there are only 1,000,000 head of cattle, of which only 600,000 are fit for food, or two head for every 100 people, against 73 head per 100 in the United States. Mutton and pork are unknown in the interior, fish being largely the food of the people, many varie ties being eaten raw. Mopln plants are ex tensively eaten, as is also an acorn which grows on a bush three or four feet high. A preparation from malted barley and rice is also much eaten. Stock in Middle Georgia, will ultimately become profitable. A large number of beef- cattle were sent up last fall from this county to Atlanta and other adjoining countiessent to also herds to Atlanta and Augusta. Our enterprising county-man, Mr. Eli A. Vcazy, the other day, sent up to Atlanta, a carload of fine beeves of his own raising. Our worthy friend, Mr. Heyser. of Morgan, bought a fine meadow farm in that county the other day, and will devote it to stock- raising and the dairy business, and will find money in it as well as pleasure, we doubt not.—[Greensboro, Ga., Home Journal. The man who gives his cows water of a temperature a few degrees above freezing, in a place where they can drink it without shivering before they go back, and who keeps them where the manure will not freeze in tho coldest weather, will make ten dollars on each cow during the winter more lhanhe would if they were kept in a cold stable and driven to drink out of a brook or trough cov ered with ice. Tiiese matters of giving cows water of the right temperature, and as often as they will drink in cold weather, and of keeping them warmly sheltered, are of vastly more importance than most people suppose. Mb. Howell Bbown, last week, sold to H. L. Bentley his flock of 1000 head of fine graded ewes, together with a number of fine bucks, camp fixtures, etc. . . . The Tom Green Couuty Wool Growers’ Association, representing 125,000 head of sheep in Tom Green county, asks the Governor that in view of the inefficiency of the existing Jaws for the protection of wool-growing interests in tliis State, and the extreme urgency of such re-enactments as will better secure pro tection against scab and other contagious diseases, in tho event of an extra session of the State Legislature, to include the matter in the proclamation calling the extra session, that it may be acted upon during the same. —[Tom Green, Texas, Times. A Knowing Dog. In connection with a large rolling mill at Cohoes, N. Y., is a stable where their large stock of horses is kept. Two watchmen guard this stable day and night, and care for the horses. Beside the watchmen, a large dog, a cross between the St. Bernard and Newfoundland species, is kept on the premises. This animal is endowed with more than usual sagacity, and seems to pos sess reasoning powers. He realizes that he is assistant guardian of the premises, and faithfully performs his duties. At night, if anything amiss happens to the horses or anything else, he straightway starts for the watchman, and taking his pants in his teeth will not loosen his hold until he had led him to the spot. Formerly, when any of the horses slipped their halters and attempt ed to wander about the stable, he would drive them back into their stalls and mount guard over them until the watchman ar rived fn his rounds and secured them. This practice was kept up until in an unlucky night some time ago, when he attempted to drive a vicious mule into his stall from which he had escaped, when the animal let fly with both hind feet, one of which took effect on the poor dog’s head, knocking out a number of teeth and cutting his face badly. Since that time the knowing dog has not attempted to drive back any of his equine charge that may become loose, but straightway goes for the watchmen on guard. At one time some loose straw and hay lying in the rear of and against the barn by some means caught fire. When discovered the faithful dog was at his post, and, standing in the fire and smoke, was scratching away with all his might, removing the burning moss from the building, and barking lustily (or aid. Although the dog was burne4 somewhat, the building, mainly through his efforts, was saved. A well dressed lady called at a carpet warehouse and asked to look at some car pets. The goods were shown, every pattern in the shop being spread out for examina tion. After looking at every thing about tho place, and driving some very close bargains in the price, the lady selected a carpet for each room in her house, running up a bill which filled the salesman’s heart with joy. When all was completed,he asked where tho carpets were to be sent. The lady replied without hesitation, that she would call and let him know. “ You see,” she added, “ my husband has just bought a piece of ground, and talks of soon building a house on it. If he does, you know, I shall want some new carpets, and then I will call and order these, a? { know the cost.”