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CONTTSTS OF TJIF. FARMERS REGISTER,
NO. XI VOL. IX.
Original Communication.
Mellior again, Address to the Agriculra!
Society of Cumberland, Growing potatoes
under straw, Arisfida olignntha? i
poverty eras---hen'* nest grass, Ground
of preference for different kinds of wheat.
Surface manuring, Green-sand of James
. river. To the suhscibors to the Farmers'
* Register. Root culture in France.
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Of pruning. Sweet potatoes, Prairies of
Arkansas, Malaria, Extracts from (Jen.
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State Agricultural Societv, Essays on the
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discovery in agriculture and horticultural
Society of Henrico, European
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per^article* for exhibition at agricultural
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akefeton, Hiving bees, Medium sized vs.
large hogs, Horn-ail, A day at Ridge,
niont. on pent, Dr. Boucherie's process.
On cider making. The remedy ofeach in. '
dividual against non-paying hanks, American
wonder?. Transplanting trees.
From the Ohio F ee Press, (at Xenia,)
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SILK CVLTUHR.
Since tlio rntiitio>iulis mania has sub. j
itied, and people have c?nne to their sober
Senses, there is a lair project that (he
business will he prosecuted in a judicious
manner, end will richly rcpuv the labor
and capital expended in it. The Western
Citizen, published at IJrhana, Champuign
county, says several of the citizens
of that county have turned their attention
lo the culture of" silk, and have made it
profitable. 0 :c fur trier, Mr. Nathaniel
Kidder, has manufac tured sewing silk !
the past season, to the value of more than j
two hundred dollars, which the editor !
considers equal, if not superior, to the best !
foreign article. Those who have engaged
in the business, he snvs, have
found a rendv market for their silk, while
other productions of the farm are a dead
weight upon their hands.
4 VVe k now that several of the citizens j
??f our county have, for a few year* past,
paid some attention to the mulberry, but
we have not yet heard of much silk being
?narfe bv thein. We hope some of them
will soon report progress for the encou- f
ragement of other-!. There reed he no j
fear about a market for the cocoons.?
There is a prospect of a manufactory being
established at Columbus, under the
management of Mr. Fox, [ I he author of
the following Le'ter,] ihat will renuirc all t
that can he supplied for some time, and
others will he built up as occasion may
require. Should this not he the case, it
can be profiinblv made into sewing silk,
by families, without any expensive machinery.
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fttf. Pleasant. (0.) Sept. 20, 1841.
" PkarSik: In yrtur last, of August '
19th, you requested me for your satisfnc- |
tion, as well as others in your section of
country, to give you mv real unvarnished ;
aontimnnts on the silk busir.CSS. With \
the greatest pleasure I comply with your
request. Still [ am persuaded that all I !
have written and published will never
wholly remove the deep-rooted prejudice
Intent in the minds of thousands, originnting
chiefly for the want of reflection and
observation ; and as there is nothing like
ocular demonstration. I have enclosed a
few patterns wove in our factory from the
silk we have raided this season; but Ii
want something- that will prove more
effectual still. I wish von would bring
500, or more, I had like to have s iid unbelieving
Jews, to witness our establishment.
I am confident they would return
home prosclvted to the silk faith.
But, as you wish a more minute detail,
I will commence from six years back.?
? About that time I engaged with G. Rapp,
Esq.. of Economy, Pennsylvania; and I
there wove the first piece of silk velvet ;
' ever manufactured in this country; also,
with hat plush, &c. When I first visited
them thev only had one loom?now seven,
Three years back mv eldest son
arrived here from London. He engaged
with Mr. Rapp and I came to Mount
Pleasant. During his stay with them he,
with the assistance of some of their ingenious
and patriotic Society, built a
French riband loom, at a cost of 81,000,
with other looms for flowered silks.? :
They can now compete with France or
England in point of excellency and ele- |
gancc of fabric. Miss Rspp received a
premium of upwa da of $509 last year
irom your State Legislature, for the silk
raised that season. Now, sir, if the silk
trade is a humbug, let us have more of
it.
When I came to Mount Pleasant under
the patronage of J W Gill, Esq, in April,
1839, there was not the vestige of any
thing appertaining to a silk factory. I
felt discouraged, hut I and my youngest
son went hard to work, and by January
1st, 1840. built six looms, with all the ne.
ccssarv tools for weaving, and brought
out one hundred yards of velvet, hat
plush, ladies' plush, and figured velvet,
all from these trifling pieces of sticks
called multicaulis cutting3. Now, sir, I
feel very proud in being a member of the
humbug and silk mania society. Since
then we have made safe but slow advances,
owing to the many difficulties we
had to encounter, in reeling, winding,
twisting, tramming, and dying, in order
to bringout our silk for weaving equal to
European splendor. These difficulties
are all obviated, and we are now going
ahead. From 'April, 1839, to the above
date, we have manufactured two hundred
yards of silk velvet plain, forty-five yards
of figured velvet, one hundred and seventy
yards of hat rp!ush, one hundred yards
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plain lustring, twenty yards or uwo corn
for vest inn, two hundred yards of flow,
rred si'k vesting, twelve dozen black silk
handkerchiefs for cravats, seventeen
dozen bandanna handkerchiefs, making,
in the whole, about 2,110 yards in two
years and a half, and nil from such a discouraging
beginning. The whole of the
nmchinery, looms excepted, is propelled
hv steam power; we employ about twenty
persons in the factory, and in feeding
time eight, including mv son and Mr.
Wrn. Gill. J Watson, Esq., magistrate
of this.town has weighed off 704 pounds
of cocoons raised by them this season. I
believe few will heat this. Yet, sir, good
but mistaken men will say, Ah! its all a
humbug.
Permit me, sir. to make a few"remarks
upon the futile objections of our oppo.
nents,'which I will endeavor to do with
humility and plainness, as I challenge the
Union to controvert successfully, what I
have or may advance. Let us revert to
the your 1833. when John Fitch, Esq. of
.Mansfield, Connecticut, first started the
silk weaving business in that region of
country. When I visited him he had on
a si'k vest wove from silk of his own raising;
he was a gentleman somewhat,
above the mediocrity of intellect, being a
counsellor at law; and if you have had
anv business with thein vmi know, sir,
thev are prcttv smart g ntlemen. Well
he told me it was his opinion that sooner
or later the silk trade would he a staple
business in this country, and his remark
is rapidity verifying. From Connecticut
it made its uav to Massachusetts. There
it bcijon under the same discouragements
as in Connecticut; but now witness the
results of care and perseverance.* From
Massachusetts if winged its way to Now
Jersey and New Yolk, w here thev' are
now raising silk to nn incredible amount.
From there to Pennsylvania, where almost
every rountv is engaged in it more
or less, and some to a great extent.?
Economy, Beaver county, is now the
pride of the Union. Our establishment
is denominated bv other States, "The
Slur in the West." If so, Economy
miM be the Regent of Night. Again
t takes its flight to Oh o, and there diffuses
its blessings from Cleveland to Cincinnati;
then from .Mercer county crosses
the State again to Jefferson county,
leaving behind it traces of cultivation,
industry, and reward. Children that
heretofore were running idle about the
fields and streets, having their morals
corrupted, are now seen picking the
leaves, feeding the worms, or reeling the
silk, with healthful and smiling countenances,
hymning forth the praises of their
Creator and Redeemer, while engaged
in their various departments; surely
there cannot be any humbuggery in all
this.
But does it stoi) here? No; inlefati
gable in its exertions, and benevolent in
its designs, w ith an eagle's pinion it takes
its way to Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,
Tennessee, and Georgia ; there factories
are building; thousands of acres of our
worn out cotton lands are now luxuriantly
clothed with the foliage of Italian and
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morns muiticaulis trees. The slave and
free population are now recreating themselves
upon the light, pleasant, and lucrative
employment of silk raising. It
affords employment for the child and the
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invalid, uie cuiuvuuji ?mu ...v.
(he artisan and the tradesman, and is destined
to be a source of wealth to this
countrv. Surely there can he no imposition
here. *****
Another difficulty seems to pervade the
minds of many that are somewhat friendly
to the silk cause. They say, what
shall we do with our silk? We cannot
weave it as France and England can.
To this I answer, go to Economy ; come
to Mount Pleasant; then go to Northampton,
Massachusetts; E'lizabethtown, New
Jersey; Now York ; Nashville, Tennessee
; Providence, Rhode Island, and several
other places, and then you will see the
objection removed ; for what can he done
in one place c:.n ho done in a thousand :
nil that is wanting is enterprise, patience,
and perseverance. There are a number of
silk weavers from London now in thb
11 country, and if not enough, many would
be glad to come over were there a pros,
pect of employment; but as I want to
i f ncourage domestic industry, I would say
(there is not a female that has wove a
! piece of muslin but could weave herself
j a silk dress with a little instruction. The
i loom, harness, and reed would not cost
I more than 33 00, and would last fifty
years wiih a litllo harness once in two
years, \vl,ich would cost about one dollar.
The next ob&tacio thrown in our way
is, tiiat it will injure the cotton trade,??
| This is for want of knowing better; they
are not aware that hat plush, ladies' tipI
pet plush, lustres, chamberries. tabinets,
j Italian snrsnets, collar velvets, Dutch veli
vets, Genoa velvets, and many flowered
silks, aro filled with cotton; so that, instead
of being an injury, it will tend to
promote it, and give a fresh impetus to it.
Another will say, look how your worms
have died off. I grant it, and this season,
too, in many places, which has caused
me to institute enquiry. One writer informs
me that being absent two days
1 upon business, when he returned home
! his worms were dying. Another that he
' wrnt to meeting, cone twplve hours, left
Ft is worms without food and ventilation;
tho next morning they sickened and died.
The third, owing to age and ill health,
was not able to attend to them, and they
died. And a fourth, that his eggs were
kept in a cold, damp receptacle; they
hatched out and died. A fifth, that beng
short of food,, he gave them oak and
dogwood leaves, and they died. A sixth,
that, for the want of vigilance, the rats
and mice devoured thern all. A seventh,
that he kept his cocoonery in a loft, the
roof being out of repair, a drcadfid gust
with rain felj and washed his worms from
the shelves, and they died. A person
has just called upon me from the Lakes,
and says, owing to taking the worms out
of the ice-house and putting them in
again. 300,000 of them died. Thus you
see the principal cause of the late failures
is owing to carelessness, neglect, and inattention,
and not from any law of Nature
dooming its innocent victims to
death. Upon the third or fourth moulting,
like the human family, they are exposed
to disease, but, like us, have their
remedies. A/uch has heen said and written
upon the disease called the muscorroine
or jaundice, but by the application of
; lime, judiciously sprinkled, they may be
I cured in six hours. I strongly and conI
scienfiously recommend Mr. E Morris's
Bontington frames for the use of feeding,
as I am confident they arc conducive to
the health of tho worms, besides rendering
every facility to those employed:
they are highly appreciated by those that
have used them. Another question of
importance is, how can we expect to raise
silk equal to France, China, or Italy?
! If my word, honor, and knowledge are to
! be taken, I say, without hesitation, we
can. 4* But what do you know more
about the silk business than we do?" Because
I was born in it, and brought up in
J nn/rn trii/l in f ho
il in Lionuon, ami, ueiu^
business there for thirty-five years in all
its various standings, branches, and bearings,
I must have had an opportunity of
making some acquirements. For the
last ten years I was the purchaser of many
thousand pounds of silk, from a Bengal
-ingle to a Piedmont, and in point of fragrance
and brilliancy the American silk
is superior to any I have seen from
France, China, Italy, Valencia, or Piedmont.
I am aware the fragrancy of imported
silk may be lost, in most instances,
IVorn being so long on the ocean nnd expo.-e
I to the saline air, but the brilliancy
i is a quality peculiar to America, when
j the worms are fed on the Italian or multi[
eaulis.
For the encouragement of the fair sex
' who raise and reel their own siik, we have
no objection to manufacture it into dres;
st s upon equitable term?. The tariff bill
! is now passed into n law at 20 per cent.,
and we have nothing to fear; the humbug
is changed to reality, and the maniac is
at least convalescent.
I remain, dear sir, dzc.'
JOHX FOX. SF.X.
P. S. I have just received news from
j Economy that Miss Rapp has raised tliL
season 3.500 pounds of cocoons, the greaj
test amount ever raised in one establishment.
Well done, Pennsylvania!
FROM THE BALTIMORE PATRIOT.
PRX VSYLVANIA SILK.
Mr. Editor: The Public seern to be
quite ignorant of the extent to which the
silk business is now carried on in this
country, and therefore it mnv not he in.
appropriate to throw a little light upon the
subject. I have this morning received a
j report of the silk operations in a portion
' of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. J
am sure it will afford you pleasure, if il
I do not excite your surprise. The report
states as follows:
Charles Ilerr raised and reeled 552 lbs,
of cocoons.
John Lummy and brofher raised 534
pounds of cocoons, and reeled 60 pound'
of silk, and are now purchasing cocoons
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| HUM lixnn^ minj <
i Charles Carson raised and reeled 524
j 1-2 pounds of cocoons.
Dr. Bowman raised 188 lbs. of cocoons
John VVissler 44 364 1-2 41 44
Mr. Millen^en u 160 44 44
? John Mitzlcr " 79 M 44
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[ PerkerdfcKentz** 143 " "
Mr. Demuth w 190 " 11
Two young ladies
at Litze" ,08 " 11
Numerous others raised smaller quantities,
say 20 to 50 pounds each.
The above-named quantities will, of
course, yield two hundred and seventy
pounds of reeled silk. If every county
in the United States were to do the same,
what would be the result in reference to
our monetary affairs? Yours,
GIDEON B.SMITH.
Baltimore, Nov. 23, 1841.
From the Farmers' Monthly Visiter.
EUROPEAN FARMING.
I think that the superiority to be observed
in British and Flemish agriculture
is to be aUrinuted to the nice adaptation
of crops?the perfect system that prevails
in every department?the free outlay for
manures to invigorate the soil?the patience
that never tires in the completion
of a task once undertaken, and the industry
that in no kind of weather, at no season
of the year, fails to remember and
perform its tasks and duties.
England is remarkable for confining to
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] certain disrricis, me prouuuuous muui
flourish best in those soils. Thus the
light sands of Norfolk are best adapted to
turnips, barley and clover prevails. It
was by this course that Mr. Coke (Earl of
Leicester,) reclaimed from perfect barrenness
his splendid estate at Holkhnm.
Warwickshire is famous for beans as a
first crop, wheat and timothy following.
Not less perfect is the system: each one
has his part and his duties assigned to
him?he is there at all times, and in all
weathers, and he stipulates to be only
there. And this system pervades all
things on the farm.
Upon a farm in Surry, where I spent
six pleasant and agreenble months, I had
opportunity to see the use and the profits
1 of systematic farming. It was a hay
farm, ofless than two hundred acres?
the rent paid, about $2000. The whole
farm, except the garden was mowed.?
After the liny was taken care of, the
fields were all shut up until there was a
good feed upon them. Then Mr. R.
went to tho nearest fair and purchased
large beeves nearly fat. In these fresh,
luxuriant pastures, where the grass grew
almost fast enough to render not fabulous
Sir Boyle Roche's story of the kite
thrown into an Irish meadow over night,
hidden by the grass next morning, the
beeves became in a very short time fit for
Smithfield or Old Leaden-hall. After a
few day's rest, the fair was resorted to for
a second drove of cattle of smaller size,
hut in ?rood flesh, which soon shared the
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lot of nil fat oxen, nnd became the roast
beef of old England. Tlie fields wee no
longer in a condition to make beef and
therefore were to furnish the predicament
"nearly fat" to take the "first bite" in
some unfed meadow. The fourth course
was a herd of small Welsh cattle to be
merely improved. Fifth and lastly came
sheep to be kept till the meadows began
to start in the spring, when they were
sold and the meadows shut up.
To recruit this farm, the carts which
took the hay to market returned laden
with manures to he used as a top-dressing.
When not bringing back provisions lor
farm use I think 1 may say they always
came hack with manures. I hnd some
years ago, in mv possession a book, which
was borrowed by some friend or other,
who liked it so well that he forgot to return
it. This hook gave the best account
of the English practice with resppct to
" 1 Iibiia noon If was
! manures, 01 ?nv i n??^
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said in that hook that five thousand tons
of mnnuro had been applied in one year
on a single estate. I know that the quan.
tities are immense, nnd that the lands in
that country are kept in a high state of
fertility by the axiom impressed on the
husbandman that food is as necessary to
the earth as to the human body. But do
not think that I have selected a pattern
farm ftJr the subject of the foregoing remaks.
It was in all respects only a medium
farm, There could not be the same
opportunity for the more elaborate practices
ofhusbandry that there is in large
Yorkshire farms. It is my opinion that
some of the best managed Jarms in Eng. I
i land were on the estates of t e Duke of
> Buchingharn at Sfowe, in Bucks. It is, I
i however, the fashion in England, to pat
ronize agriculture : heaven grant it may
1 become so hero. You (ran form no idea
1 with what ease an American can intro!
duce himself to the English, if he is fond
" of farming, The gift of a few ears of
| Indian corn to the Horticultural Society,
brought me tickets and invitations without
number to their gardens and fetes at
Chiswick.
| From the Gleaning of Husbandry,
j Burke bounty, (Ga.) Aug. 16, 1841.
Friend Holbrook:?Allow me through
[ the columns of your valuable little Jourrial,
to lay t?ef?re vour patrons and the
, pubiio the result of a very new species,
called the Cluster Cotton, which I must
confess excels any thing yet seen of the
staple of our country. Much has been
said in favor of the Petit Gulph, Texas i h<
and Multibollcd Cotton?and ?ach has n
had its day, as every other humhuggery, si
but the Cluster Cotton is not to he sup- Ir
planted by any pros or cons. gi
Description* The s a!k grows up with lil
branches in a conical f rin?more sub- b:
s'antial and better {.b'e to sustain its L
fruits from falling to the ground than even a<
the Petit Gulph, its leaves too are of some- gi
what different shape and of a greener th
color; its brnqehes at the ground, are a
rarely over two feet in length, graduating g<
to the top from three or four inches. gi
Production. This seems to be the si
great desideratum with the genius and a
the agricultural skill of our country, and
O *
it is eminently attained in the introdur.
tion of the Cluster Cotton, which is 50
per cent above any other species of.C<>tton,
as is admitted by those planters who rj
have had the good fortune to get its p
seeds. The bolls are very large, and k
when fully grown, crowd each other on k
the branches?possessing a staple equal di
to the Multibolled Cotton, which has been C
clashed with second qual.ty of Sea Islands
by all competent judges ; its stalk boars n n
boll4 when it puts forth a brapch and
blooms anew between the grown bolls, ^
which together with its thousands of c
c
forms has never been before observed of
any other kind of cotton. The forms are ^
produced in Clusters of from two to four ^
boils; irorn whence 1 presume, it proper- S(
ly derives its name, and there is never n
less than two bolls on different sides of b
the branches. n
The joints of the branches arc nearer t<
together than in common cottons, con.se. n
quently there are more bolls and forms. t<
There are at this early season, on single I
branches not over ten inches in length, ^
from six to eight full bolls with as many
blooms and forms. '
This is indeed a rare species of cotton,
fully demonstrating the wonderful devel* }
opements that arc going on in the agrieu!.
ture of the country. IThe
gentleman upon whose farm I j
have seen this only acre of cotton, tetls H
me, he preferred planting it upon pine j
land, that he might give it n fair cxpori. r
tnent upon an exhausted soil, which has n
been so, for mnny years past, and without c
any additional help but that of mere t
ploughing and hoeing; he is sa.-guine of I
realizing over a square ha/e of cotton for I'*
hisaere of pine land, and he farther adds *
i in a letter that 1 have just received from
him : since I visited his farm i uMv '
Cluster Cotton is the thing?I shall gath- ^
er (if nothing befalls it,) a pound of Cot.
ton to the stalk?! shall pick it out and f
count the stalks ; Inst year, you rcmem- f
her, I had in my garden only three stalks fl
that hore me many seeds, and from those t
three, I planted this year one acre (hare, c
!v,) of old pine land?one stalk producing f
rne one pound and n quarter of cotton, a
I am chiefly of the opinion, that upon our | 1
old exhausted grev lands, this cotton, 7
planted in hills, at two by three and a (
half feet apart, when manured with conpost
or stable manure, will vicld in nnv
ordinary season, from 1500 to 2000
pounds of seed cotton per acre?then '
what will it not do on virgin lands?
1 have watched it closely during the
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last two seasons, through all its stages, ;
and am convinced that it can stand all ^
the vicissitudes of climate better than }
anv other cottons I have ever cultivated. c
1 have already engaged seven bushels ^
of the seeds and sh <11 realize more from I
them than the best twenty acres of cot- f
ton in this county at fifteen cents per r
pound, will yield "
This is from not only n practical, expe. f
I rieneed and successful planter, hut any 1
opinion of his agriculture, is authority in e
the section where he resides. *
PLOUGHSHARE. [
An extraordinary fact was mentioned '
the other day at the sitting of the Acade- s
my of Sciences. One of the members !
stated that the Agricultural Society of '
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| Brest had, upon the proposition of a member
of the committee, sown some wheat
upon land without any preparation of
ploughing or digging, and in one of the 1
worst soils possible, and after having *
merely walked over the ground to press *
the grain on the surface, had covered it '
with fresh straw to the thickness of two
inches. The produce was, it is asserted,
more abu idant, nhd infinitely superior in t
quality to corn raised from the same seed {
in the ordinary way.?English paper.
From the Farmers' Register.
GROWING POTATOES UNDER STRAW. 1
Some remarks in a late number of the
. T-? _---i t.i n'r/xvinrt
Farmers' uegisicr, rumu?<;
potatoes under straw, induce mc to make
'the following statement:
Many years ago, my lather had a hank
in his meadow (near Philadelphia) which
could not he irrigated in the common M
way, on account of the thin, porous soil ]
resting on a bed of loose sand stone. |
The water from a fine spring had been ,
turned on, hut it sunk down an<t disap- i
peared. Recourse was then had to flood- \
ing. An embankment sufficient to hold I
aM the wajer that could collect in twelve i
ours, was constructed; so that, every
iilht and morning, a tide swept over the
irface, and good crops were obtained.?'
i process of time, however, the floodite
ceased to perform well, and weeds of
tile value for hay got possession of the
ink! \ new plan was determined on,
ate in spring, when vegetation was well t
1 vanned, we laid potatoes among the
ass and weeds at proper distances, and
ion covered the whole With straw about
foot in thickness. 'The product waa
iod, though the season wa9 dry; the
rass and weeds were smothered and deroved
; arid the year after we h&d
fine crop of clover,
D. T.
Greatfield, Cayuga co., N. Y. )
11.00 2,1841. \
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1TKUV fiJlKii i in i>ar?n? vr
rom a communication in the Kentucy
Cultivator, from the pen of that well
nown and eminent breeder, Lewis San*
ers, Esq. giving a "history 01 Imported
'a'tiff" we make the .following extract!
To improves the breed of caftle of fc
eighborhood, or upon a single farm. Iff
le shortest time, with the least cost lathe
reat des'deralum. Now beginners should
ommenee with such cows as they may
hance to own. Sell or otherwise diso>e
of the ill-shaped, coarse and old ones.
l prejudice exists against black; it i*
est to yield to it. and part with them al<
a; retain the young and well formed fe*
lales; if good and well bred, so much the
etter. The hull is the important instrulent
whereby the improvement is effec2d.
Select a good young bull, having due
eg^rd to the blood of the cow he ia to go
a; the more remote of kin the better.?
jet him be from one to three years old;
iecan serve from fifty to sixtycowa from
he 1st of April to the 1st of September,
be best time for a bull to be with the cows;
iftpr getting two sets of calves, sell the
Mill. If he has been well kept, he will
etch his cost or more, then procure il hull
>f different blood from the last, and suits,
de for the young stock, Aftef breeding
his bull two seasons, sell him and toly
mother; and so^n progressively, Pdrsn.
ng this method, the whole stock of a
:ountry inav be speedily changed ftom
in inferior to a superior race, without any
ixpenso or cost whatever, except
he risk of the life of the bull and
he interest on his cost; hy reinvesting
he money, it wdl not be lost, unless thef
mimal dies. Carry out this system, and
>enefit must be the result, and in pro>ortion
to the care and abilities bestowed
>n the subject. A neighborhood now
ellingone hundred bullocks a yearofthe
:omrnon breed, loses two thousand dollars
>n that number, bv not breeding to a
till blood bull, and so in proportion to
i greater or less number; a feeder will pay
en dollars mere, for a two year half-blood.
"I than he> will tlA WllltMCr to ffjvO
or a 3 year old of the common breed?
i vfar's keep, risk of life and inte est of
nonev, is worth ten dnllasr. Ten dollar*
retired, and tea dollars saved ia twenty
lollars.
i ' *
tiik badrn cohn.
#
Nottingham, Md. Oct. 29th. 1841.
To the editor of the American FarmerI
have come to the conclusion that
here can bo no impropriety in informing
ron. through the public# of an experiment
have made this season upon the corn
:no\vn by the name of Gourdseed, and
dr Joseph N. Baden's prolific. I made
:hoice in the spring of a small piece of
'round, and in order that each sort should
inve the same ad vantage relative to the
brtility of the soil, and that each should
eeeive the same cultivation, I thought it
vould be best to plant one row of the Ba?r?/4
onnffi^f /if the Goitrdseed.
IUII, UIIU UllVllll.t ?' - ?(IW
hrough the lot, making of ?'ns:h kind an
qual number of rows. Last weftrk I
fathered and carefully measured th*
jrourdscel, and obtained it hashefs?I
hen ga'hered the Baden corn, and if
ncasurecl *23 bushels. As thre difference N
o great, I will say that if anv one should
-ntertai-.i a doubt of the correctness of it,
t can be removed bv such testimony as
ie may reasonably desire. ' J
!\Ir. Baden's corn not only yields by
ar the greatest quantity of grain, hut
tear'ly double as much fodder ns any
>ther I ever cultivated?of this fact I am
'o well satisfied that nothing can induce
n'anl anv nfKof.
IIC iw |/IM||| Ull T WHIX/..
if ours respectfully, J. Holyday.
[The prolific varieties of corn are adap.
edto rich soils. In poor soils a single stalk
ind a single ear to the hilt will proluce
most corn. Ed* Far. Gat.]
1
eXTENSIVB bear shooting ix new je|.
??y.
Last Wednesday, as Mr. Bodine Cnf.
in* son of iMr. Willianr Coffin, ofHamil..
on Glass Works, was out hunting, about
:our miles from the Works, he discovered^
;oming out of the swamp, ti large bear*
ivhich he immediately shot, when another
sprang on the dead one, which heato
killed, when a third came and made for
him, but his dogs at'ncked him, sod be:*
sprang upa tree, when he ahot him alio.
Coffin is considered the beat shot in that:
part of the country. He had his three in. ,
the Philadelphia market last Friday j
ing. j