Farmers' gazette, and Cheraw advertiser. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1839-1843, February 09, 1842, Image 1
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VOLUME VII , . . VLIEUAW. SOU I'H-CAKOLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, IMS. NUMBER 13. jj
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B-/ The following account ol a New Eng. | f,
land farm is taken from Gov. Hills 1/onth- tl
|y Visitor. Although the greater pari tJ
of it is inapplicable to Southern Ag icul- "
lure, we copy it entire, on account of the 1
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vJ&L V. example which it sets forth of thrift re- (j
suiting front industry and systematic a
management. J
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Mr. Piiiuney's farm is situated five ^
miles from Concord, and ten miles from
_ - 'East Cambridge, at h Inch last place, .
being in the offieoof clerk of the principal
business court for that extended and ^
V/-jiiiporfant county, he spends five days in ^
v each week, and at the .seat of the courts ^
>; at Cambridge, Cowell, and Concord is ^
*T^pfesent ut all times, during the setting of ^
Vjfc^Krc court. For the |Htr|x>?c of supcrinVtwnding
his farm and his numerous family *
* concerns, he rises, at all seasons cf the
[ ^ Tear, at five o'clock in the morning : by n
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bis owti example instructing each and
every member of Ins family (he has rear-; ,r
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cd ten sons and daughters, the young- J
est of whom is ten years of age) in those
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habitant industry, care and attention, to
which he is personally so well inured. ^
What with the cares and labors of instruc- I '
ting and directing in his taimiy, and lay- J
- "c> -ing <ml the occupation of half a doze-. 1
hir?-d men, and the severe duties of a very ! ^
\ luiiofious office ia the public employmeui
it may he taken for granted that there are j ^
IW farmers in the ancient Commonwealth
who |K*rform a more arduous per- i ?
soi-al labor than Mr. Phinncv. j
Mr. Phinnev took the cultivation of this j (
f;irru from his father when it produced an- j |J(
ntxiljy not much over ton tons ot hay. uue | ;jj
?i limited'tons is now its annual product, j
H'^tlicii kept a pair of horses, two yokes j cr
of o\eu. and two or three cows, and was j
t obliged purchase hay to carry them ' yj
through the winter. Ho now has twen- lh
9 lyd'our tine milch cows, keeps six horses, j j|(
three or tnore yokes of oxen, and two to j n)
r three hundred sheep; ami the keeping of j 'p
tiiis stock is hut a minor business of the jj
farm inasmuch as the largest and most hi- ; je
crative share of its product is taken uway^|r
in the vegetables, roots and fruits sent p
twice a week or more to the Boston mar. j)(
ket, and ten Wh* of pork annually raised s(
for sale. I
We linvc of late remarked that, gencr. \\
nHy; in the vicinity of land of one pre. u
vailing character, there is at no very
great distance, lane, of an opposite char, c
ucter, in the intermixture of which an w
extremely sterile way lie converted into j cl
n productive soil. In the midst of arid c;
" .l?i..cu><i ti/iu- rwf llimi SU'nilllLC in r li
|P??SI?IO MW 1* filiva Miv?t v* w .. M
winch are black vegetable mould, clay, cr j g
marl; ond, in some instances, it has j 01
. been discovered that the exchange of'd
Siiex for clay or mould, and clay for sand j;
or grave!, having wrought wonders in ti
cultivation. The rough ridges of Lex- ;c
jngton, in the miust of which Mr. Piiin- o
ncy'a farm is situated, are interspersed , y
with hog or peat meadows, some of which y
have a vegetable mould of great depth. g
Grand oj>eraiion$ upon a Peal-Meadow. w
Passing by this meadow, the traveller I "
would little sus|>cct the quantity or the h
quality of the hay which it produces; pas- ll
sing over it after its burden had beer, taken j *
on, he would hardly dream of the extent *
of labor or the excellence of tlie prepara- c
lion of this field of several acres in ex- '
lent. Rut the plain field, as well as the j a
new orchard which we shall presently d
notice, has t>een cleared ol hundreds ami ' j;
thousands oi tons of stones; and all of v
Ihetn are placed beyond the eye or the I
ken of the stranger : and where arc I hev? t
In the first place a ditch lias been made 1
at the edge of the whole semi.circle of the 1
meadow,on this side, between the soft 1
ground of tin; meadow and the~ hard pan !r
of the rising lull, just deep enough to cut (4
off the cold springs, which formerly fed '
the meadow. This outside ditch is filled
at the bottom with rocks large and small,
leaving the water room to percolate i>ctwecn
tnem. These ure covered with
hassocks ortough sward sods, and after*
wards w ith the soil, to a depth so as not j f
to be reached by the plough. .Transverse '
ditches, covered in h'ke manner, connect. .
trie outside with ^
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onf'enient distances, te Jhe level of the
invest meadow; and through a main
litph tlie*whole water is carried off to the
invest point in the lot. Hat this has only
ecn a parfr'of tl?e underground work
vhich has made of this moatlow (out of I
rhich, when mowed at the driest season
f the year* Mr. P. said he had, when a
oyywhilfc#oling the hay off, often sunk
a the ar/n pits^-a field which will pr>du<e
bejnrges t. crop*ol hay for the whole life j
fa'man. "Tn the most sunken part of
i?e meadow, Mr. Pliinney has caused '
itches to be made, of some el"ht to ten
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jet ire width, extending towards the een*rof
the meadow fronrfhe ditch at the |
dge. Into these ditches, in the winter, j
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if iiDiii tin; u> >v?>< .... (
merest pebble, are drawn while the1
round is frozen?filled with the stones !
:> the proper height. The coal black J
?il of the meadow is dug out so as to !
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irm a new ditch, covering the rocks to
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le depth of twenty inches and more, so
int the plough cannot reach them, and ,
lising the surface several inches above ,
s former portion. This pr?>cess has!
ben repeated, filling one ditch by the |
iggingot anoiner, until the go id part of i
n acre of ground has been gone over <
itb a substratum of stones covered by a ) 1
cli soil, which produces year after year ,
le largest crops of bay. The effect of; !
le deposition of rock is the proper drain j 1
ig of the whole surtacc of the meadow j J
ithin, so that the land is proof against ,
jll? wet drought, and the ground may ! '
* readily tilled with the plough and hoe, \ (
?often as it may be deemed expedient .
> break up the sward. The low meadow (
nd, drained and prepared in this way, is 11
lid tube excellent for raising early pota- |
>es for the market. This crop, on that 11
maud fears no drought; the potatoeri
i.icn arc free from rust. On this same
i udow we saw, at a dis'ance, two '
. ars ago, when we inade a hasty visit '
i this place, in the absence of Mr. Piiinev,
a crop of corn growing, of a great
zo ; and then supposed I lie meadow was
kcllie common intervale upon our river,
lu re the Indian corn is always raised, j
i 1540 the corn field was put down to a . ,
op of small grain ; and this year, for (
ie first crop, throe tons to the acre of the |
ist lviglish hay had boon taken from ,
10 ground, and a luxuriant second crop
as now "rowing. Two or other side of
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ie highway, more recently treated in 1
losame manner, last year planted with
>tntoes, were this year sowed down to
jrds* grass in April. The grass sprang
once, so that a great crop of this first
Ie 11av was taken ofi'in Julv, and unothw
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crop was nearly ready for the scythe.
The tncadow made thus valuable, (and
fr. P. thinks will yield him an annual
iconic equal to six per cent, upon fi^'e
indred dollars to the acre,) was prepared
: nn ex Dense far less than its real value.
no liodios of stone upon the ground in
ic; vicinity must ho taken somewhere
ft at any point above ground, they are
inch in the way. Upon this farm, Mr.
., before he adopted thisincthod had disused
of many thousand tons in tiie conruction
of several hundred rods of doule
wall for fences, until the entire farm
as partitioned into convenient enclosres.
A Splendid Orchard.?In the same en*
losure with this meadow to the southest
of the old orchard and upon a delivitv
facing towards the meadow at the
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ast, is Mr, Phinney's new orchard of five
undrcd trees, nearly all of which are
rafted wiih the Baldwin apple. This |
rehard produced last year seven hun- t
red barrels of picked apples. Mr. P. j
i of opinion that, if the whole number ot 1
rees had been left standing in the or- j
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hard, the production would have reached
tie thousand barrels. In the severe
-inter of 1832, a portion of the then
oung trees, which stood in the rich
round at the lower side of the orchard, i
ras killed, or sn injured as to die after ards.
Mr. 1\ attributes the destrucion
of trees on that part of the orchard, at
his time, to the too great fertility of the
oil and more rapid growth of the tree;
lie body of the tree having more sap and
irculation upon the rich than upon the
uss fertile ground. This orchard had
!s<> sullered one winter from the dreprolations
of mice under the snow, the mice
[nawing oft*the hark entirely, just above
rliere the tree united with the ground.
The proprietor had saved tlie livesof these
recjfc', in almost every instance, by insering
a shoot or scion in throe different
daces around the body of the tree under
he hark, both above and below the injued
part, and binding a cloth.girdle so
is to cover the whole of the tree where j
he hark had been peeled. In this man
icr the sap was conducted from the roots J
>f the tree upwards, into the body,
hrongh the shoots.
The new orchard covered - a space of
en acres. This ground had from year
o year been cultivated more with a view ,
0 the growth of the trees than to the
;rops jiom the earth. The ground was
lot forced by stimulating manures, nor
quantity was, from time to time, applied.1
Phe growth of the orchard is promoted,
and the trees kept in a healthy state, by
frequent stirring of the ground.
The trees of the young orchard harZ
been set in the ground only fifteen years,
and were seventeen years from the seed.
The bodicsof many of them had already
spread to the size of large apple trees;
some of them had borne several barrels of
fruit in a ye ir. The large body and limbs
lo the size of a man's body and thigh. de?
noting their rapid growth, were of the
yellow sm ?oth skin of a quick growing
limb in a well managed nursery. Mr.
P. lias given a direction to the limbs in
stead of the common angle upwards, run.
niug out horizontally from the body;
thereby contributing to increase its capacity
for bearing and its strength, as
well us the convenience of hand picking
the apples from the points of the limbs
farther from the body, Mr. P. has found
his account in the excellent management
of this orchard of twelve acres. It yields
him the income of a capital often thousand
dollars, and will undoubtedly increase
in value for several successive
years.
Mr. Phinncy's peach orchard is eight
or ten years Irom the stone. It is on
elevated groun I, with a declination to the
northwest, looking on the Wachusett and
Monadnock, at tql distance of forty and
?ixty miles west and noitliwest. Mr. P.
thinks this position better calculated to
inurG the peach tree to the climate than
land with a declination towards the south
md east, been use, during the winter seafoil
the orchard will not so often go
through the process ofobstinate freezing
und thawing, which is most of all conducive
to the destruction of the peach
tree.
Mr. Phinney's peach orchard iscultivated,
ploughed, and manured, with
a view exclusively to| the growth and
preservation of the trees. No crop is
raised on, that, with the exception of a
crop of English turnips sown in August,
which will mature so late in the season as
to do no injury to the trees. The orchard
consists of some three or four acres.
At the upper extreme is a grapery clinging
to a* trdliscd frame structure running
nearly the width of the lot. On either
side of this grapery the ground has been
cultivated for vines, which had been prolific
in the production of the cnntelopc,
one of the sweetest of the melon species.
Tim crranes nre the kind 44 christened Isa
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bulla," we believe a foreign variety, re[{iiiriug
a longer season than the grape
natural in this part of the country. From
time to time he has4fyick down the native
grape vines from the aides of his durable
double walls. These have spread so ns
to cover the wall, and the ripe clusters of
the large native grape hung in a position
which invited the passer by to taste and
eat. The peach trees of .VIr. Phinney's
on. hard, as arc his other fruit trees in oth.
er places, are treated with a cover of salt
hay laid over the ground within the shade
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directly under them. This deposite undoubtedly
hasits advantages in protecting
and perfecting the tree.
Hut .Mr. P. is not satisfied with this as
the addition to hisoriginal apple orchard;
he has another consisting of about six
acres, covered with the exception of the
outside row of a kind of apple sent ihitn a
few years since from Ihe nursery of Judge
Bud, in Albany, pleasant as fruit for win*
ter use, entirely with engrafted or inocu*
lafed sweet apples. The progress of
this Inst orchard has been surprising in
the last two yea-"'. The trees are of
different ages, some of them having been
transplanted the two Inst seasons. This
orchard is upon a rocky, but somewhat
moist side hill, where the original growth
is poplar and white birch. About two a.
ores of this orchard was* cultivated with
carrotsand sugar-beets, of which Mr. P.
has been in the habit of producing from
seven hundred to a thousand bushels to
the acre, lobe fed in winter to his sheep
anil cattle. Un these two acres, anu indeed
over nbout two-thirds of this orchard,
corn, of ihe kind called Phinney corn, was
grown two years ago, at the rate of sixty
bushels to the acre. The remaining four
acres th's year had a potato crop, we think
a little better than we have seen any
where else?even the good crop now
(Sept. 15) growing green and large upon
our own premises. iMr. Phinney is of
opinion that the use of a sub-sod plough,
not the Dcauston plough imported from
England, but one invented by himself,
wiil increase the crop of carrots, heets,
and potatoes nearly one-half. His subsoil
plough is a large and heavy wooden
instrument, in the shape of the Cultiva
lor. It has three large iron bolts at the
centre, running all the distance, say of
eighteen inches, one behind the other.
These bolts, an inch and a half or more in
diameter, and eight or ten inches clear
below the wood, are stump-footed at the
bottom, pointed so as to perforate the
ground. This stump-footed half harrow,
half cultivator, drawn by a team of throe
heavy yokes of oxen, follows the plough
in the same furrow, and roots into the
sub-soil, some two, three, or more inches
according to the hardness or softness ol
the ground upon which the prongs operate
jSub-soil ploughing is but of receni
practice, even in England, whence it wai
introduced into this country. Connectet
with under-draining, where the wet
whb^ij.resiinglon^ near tbesurface,^pro
| duclng heaviness, find retarding and pre|
seating the progress of vegetation, is carried
offiliiseen, and the upj>cr soil is left
dry and light, sub-soil ploughing adds
wonderfully to the capacity of the land
for production. This matter is well understood
and practised in Great Britain.
It is adding hundreds of thousands to the
profits of farming in that country. Mr.
Phinney, with the philosophy which he
has applied to other things, seems at once
to have stepped into the true process of
sub-9oil ploughing, of which we have the
evidence before us in the case of this carrot,
beet, and petatoe cultivation.
Success of Under-draining.?A considerable
portion of Mr. Phinncy's meadow,
or (>ay land, is of that heavy kind which,
in a rough country, is to be found at the
H ot of hills, where the cold springs either
, o erlow or come n. ar the s. r ace; in
i the hollows which are overflowed by
i / nnfinmwt miria j? rwl unnn whirli (lip Wfi.
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(or sometimes long rests; or on the verge
of .small brooks, in which waters flow n
part of the year. Mr. P. attempted to
remedy the evil of too much water upon
the surface, by ridging the ground at in*
tervals, so the water might souk or run off
in the hollows. This had o good effect
| for a time. Still it did not prevent the
. whole surtace of the land from contraci
ting a closeness and hardness, which re:
quired much new labor for its restoration.
! Mr. P. has introduced, in the place of
this process, under-draining, as the most
effectual method of giving fertility to the
soil, and, at the same time, forever, dispo
sing of the large amount ot surplus stones
that abound upon his farm.
By continued improvements of this
; kind, Mr. Phinney has been able to in.
crease his crop of hay four-fold. He
gets a great quantity on a small space of
ground. On the kind of land natural to
the production of hay, his practice has
been, for several years, to invert the sward
to the depth of six or eight inches, with
the Prouly and .Menrs (dough, udjusling
the edges so as to leave no crevice ; pass
over tiie ground in the first instance with
a heavy roller; spread on ten or a dozen
loads of compost manure; harrow t >e
ground lengthwise of the furrows; sow
with herd's grass and clover; harrow or
brush it in, and roll down close a second
time. In this way the. field is left in the
smoothest condition. The unmoved
sward at the bottom has n fine effect upon
the subsequent annual crops, making
the grass hold on much longer than if
I* k...l kai.n ji n/.L- m I rlnlVH ir> fhfi IIsLIaI
li I1C1U IA;uii OIWnVM w. ?r ...
way. Mr. P. had one Held put down io
this way, which, without other pre|uirations,
had continued to produce, for five
years in succession, full two tons of hay
to the acre.
The method of stocking down to grass
i first, after a crop of corn and potatoes is.
! found to he the best in the drained
grounds. Mr. Phinnev *owed herd's
n m
grass in Aprifupon about two acres, and,
instead of the long process when the seed
is sown with grain, of obtaining a crop of
herd's grass in two years, he was able to
cut a large crop of hay in less than three
months from the time of sowing.
The unevenncss of Mr. Piiimiey's farm
enables him much to increase his crop of
hay by irrigaton. The effect of pure wa;
ter on grass ground, applied at the pro|?er
! time and in the proper manner, issurpris*
' ing to those who would suppose that the
! pure element intrinsically has no fertiliz,
ing quality. Mr. P. has ascertained that
> lar d will produce large crops of hay, year
| alter year, with no other application than
i ^ dm aitrimr tvfmn fresh water
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makes bro <ka that become dry a great
part of the summer. He lias contrived
to turn a stream of water, issuing from a
pond that is never dry, which soured or
killed the grass when all flowing in its
natural confirmed channel, over an extent
i of several acres, by running channels on
; the brow of the lull so as to overflow or
leak out on the lower side. Wherever
this water touches and flows off, the cro]i
of hay is much increased.
Irrigation in the country seems to he
but little understood and practised.
There are many places where the water
can be passed over fields, where the proprietors
have never thought of the great
advantage resulting, but where a very trilling
expense, judiciously, applied, would
much increase the crop of hay and grass.
Mr. Phinney has for years had an eye
especially to the main chance" of rt?%
! farmer?the manure heap. Without the
aid of large quantities of manure, he
could never have brought the splendid
farm, which he owns and occupies, toils
present production. Although he ma)
he styled a fancy farmer, in all cases, Ik
, seems to have consulted rather utility thar
the mere gratification of the eye. If we
look at his trees for ornament, they are
such as are profitable for their fruits. I
we turn to his splendid garden crops
they are all intended for the food of mat
1 1 ' ^? aL.?. Ifn nnp
anu DOQSt, or lor iue Iiminci, n? j,..,
1 sues the laborious business of farming, a
1 well to gratify the pride of the eye, as t<
' be able to realize that there is profit in lh<
; occupation; and we cannot doubt that h
docs realixe a living profit in the occupa
^ tion, notwithstanding he does everything
! with hired help, at the best prices, am
t depends on the faithfulness of his work
J men, when much of the time he is absen
' from necessity.
? As the only practicable piode c
of his farm, i
j being ton distant and too expensive to
, purchase and bring manure from the sta|
hies of the city, he commenced rearing
swine. For several years his common
! average number was one hundred *nd
fifiy. Every one who keeps swine will
realize how great is the quantity of food
consumed by a score or two of this voracious
animal?that few of the largest
i vegetable and grain farms will produce
1 enough to keep in growth so great a num*
ber. To keep up the number, Mr. P. resorted
to the Boston market, anJ frequently
purchased damaged grain and rice,
ihe refuse ship bread from returned voyages,
and other material to be found in the
ciiy. Boxes of damaged raisins, with
other injured imported fruits, were some.'
times converted into thanksgiving food
for the grunters. All the time the brutes
were made workers for the benefit of the
farm. His. swamps and low grounds
have furnished abundant material for the
hog pen; loads of black mud or muck are
comtantly lying on the ou sde, to be
thrown in and worked over by the nose of
the hog as fast as it may be profitably added
to the work already done. * After it
is thus worked, is is generally carried to
the barn-yard to he trodden upor. and j
mixed with the droppings of the cattle, or
the daily collections it the winter of. the
stables, where the whole is accumulated
in mass fit to be applied in the spring of
the year to every glo ving crop. The
well-arranged barns on these premises are
so co lstructid that the urine of the cutle
passes underni at:i into cellars where
every thing is saved. The hogs are generally
kept in small pens, with two apartments,
one for the inud, and the other as
a place to rest upon a dry floor. ">Thoy
work, for the most part, either singly or
in pains; and itsceins to be a part of
their daily business to root and chatnp the
fresh black mud that is thrown to them.
And it is as much the business of the
workmen to supply and take out of the
pens, as it is periodically to milk the cow
or to sow and hoe for the crop.
Mr. Phinney's present number ofhogs is.
about seventy five, tie says he cannot '
afford to keep a number beyond this, while
Indian corn costs a dollar a bushel, and
. pork so I Is for only six cents. When
! pork sold for eight, ten, and twenty cents
to the pound, ho did well, even when he
had to purchase a portion of food for the
keeping, to keep as high as the number
of one hundred and fitly. He has accu.
mutated, by their means, as many as five
hundred full loads of the best manure in
a year; and he has made sales of pork to
the nmount of between two and three
thousand dollars in a season. By great
attention and expense he has succeeded
in rearing n breed of hogs, we think a little
better than that of our friends, the Sha>"
kers, at Canterbury. His whole herd of
swino are of the Berkshire blood of the
latest and best importations. lie has
engrafted this blood upon another impor-!
ted breed, which ho has nom< d the Mackey,
and in some instances mixed both
with another breed from the fir East,
which he calls the Machey." The J/aclrey
breed he obtained from a ship captain
ofthat name, well known as sn.ling out
of Boston, who went to the bottom, with
the whole ships crew, in the hurricanes of
last March, about the time of the lass of
the President. This breed of hogs 1 Rppily
blend the mild dispositions, broad backs,
and full hams of the Berkshire breed,
with the long bodies and deep flanks in
which they were deficient, in short, by
the mixture, he obtains a breed which
gains and fattens on the smallc t quantity
of food, and which is of sufficient activity
to perform all the labor which any reasoni.ble
man may require of hogs. In the
admixture of these breeds it is curious to
1 percit.ro the red color of the original beikshire
now and then breaking ou: in asin|
gle individual of the litter, while others
' are pure white, some nearly white, some
nearly black, and some mixed with spots
> of black in a red or whits groun I.' Mr.
Phinney, within the last six or eight years,
has furnished many breeders to be sent
into different parts of the country. For
' these he has received prices in pairs,
when young, from ten to twenty, and
. more dollars. Persons who have obtained
this breed of hogs, at a cost when brought
I home as high as thirty dollars the pair,
have found themselves the ultimate gainera;
as the lessened expense of keeping,
orwt of Ihfi imnroved breed
i would in n short time compensate ail.
s Besides the confined pens, .1/rPhinney
I has a large yard in which from twenty
i to fifty hogs, of the different sizes and
' ages, from the gieen Berkshire boar of
s eight^hundred to the smallest squeaker,
i congregate aud work together, up to their
i bellies, in the mud and other material
i with which they are constantly kept supf
plied.
, Improved Breeds of Animals.?To jml
proved breeds of animals, Mr,I Phinoey
- has been in the habit of paying fancy
s prices, (hundred of dollars for a bull or
o cow,) and still higher prices for the bet.
B ter I) reed of Worses. In his pasture was
e a ifforgan mare, which Imd been bought
- and sold as high as 8500.
g Mr. Phinney has a herd of fine cows,
d the milch .of w hich is daily sent to Boston
> inarKct; uj?. income or rne^wemy.^^
t cow* fromthe--spare uiilk is fromfiv&tc
if feed," or the number giving milk: in the
irscvmdrou^Bf^lace summer thv
quantity df milk has everv where been
lessened. Mr. P. has several fine Dur- I
haru cows to appearance, of noble forms,
a^0S^ ^e ?>f ^e^OJr* '^c^e^e
t6t,fif ^b|S^Uh ?W Whicil WHS the r"^t
much.'? pov ?
range of cattle upon his hay1
grounds, flu thinks the feeding of meaddcfes
fo be highly injurious to tiie subsequent
corpse ar.d info that portion of hie
closu^ and fruit treetf
a nno'l d ^u ?to grcaj
iny for two or three years, followed by
pasturing a siwtlarjerigth of timo (carry.
would soon make thi farm of fifty acres
a source of greater profit then the ordinary
farm of two hundred acres.
v?v; ? ? -r - :r I
From the Connecticut Farmer's Gazette.
f fM
- In the January niunber of the New
Genesee Farmer, which has just come
under the editorial supervision of Rev,
Henry Column, we find an extract from '
?l?# ....Mll/.mnn'w fiiilfftl ftiOOrt Oil tfiift Alf
ricultureof
in press in Beaton. Mr. Uolrtmn, it <vi!l
bcftrecollected, haa for several years filled . *V..
the important office of Agricultural Com.
missioncr, and the Report is an official
three pages in the Farmer, and is wholly ->
readers some particulars relating to the
.Wing at affording f> our farmers a fair
cows when kept on the '** short pastures" <
in the immediate vicinity of this city.
ven, Connecticut, had eighteen cows of
the Durham Short-Horns, frtlj,blooded or
j in part, which were kept for supplying
quarts, sides the milk and butter us<d
given by the int liigentcomniittoe of tb(^
^^^favepr Agricultural 8oci6ty^:
re at a loss to know how many cows, y / . uere
in milk at a time, whether nil or a
pa t odv, aridlov ranch hotter ami milk
was usoj in the fiintiy. The family, it
is siid in another place, was large.
I have had the pleasure of se.ung this
remarkably beautiful stock. Tlwir appearance
was in the highest degree favorable
tojheir character and keeping.
The average return of milk, as &bovev
was 6 2-9 quarts per day, exclusive of the
required quantify.
8: < I subjoin an extract of ale iter from.: H
| ?nc ofth? most intelligent and public-. - 1 r
Hpirited farmers in Sew England, Henry.
Whitney, of New Haven, giving an :to. '
count of Jiis Improved Short Horn ,stuck,.
Perfect.-eJiance may be placed on it, nnd;
it will be read with much interest. Mr..
Whitney's personal improvements in agnculture
an<| gardening* his liberal e.\j?ep^
ditures in his importations, with a view u*
improve our live stock, and the intelligent
and effectual aid which he is rendcri^u*
^hSgreafc cause of an improved husbandry*
Cfliiiii; Mitii lu ifw .Kiakvijir iwouv,
agricultural community. Many wen ax* 1
like the spindles in a factory, whieUittaii.eE
a groat deal of buzzing and racket,. ^ et
perforin a very humble part. Jfp. WW.
ncy, without noise or ostentation, raoves
i with the force of a power wheel He
turns the spindles, which the huie
with their head* always erect, iiaagfne