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(II K It A W GAZETTE AND PEE DEE FARMER. VOLUME IV. CHERAW, SOUTH-CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 20. 1839. NUMBER XLV. _ ^ me EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS: if paid within throe months, - . $3 00 li paid within three months after the elose of the year, 3 50 tf paid within twelve months after the close of the year, ....... 4 00 If sot paid within that time, . . ? 5 00 A company of eight new subscribers at the same post office, whose names are forwarded together, and accompanied by the cash, shall be entitled to th9 paper for $20*; and a company of fifteen new subscribers for $30. No paper to be discontinued but at the option of the editor till arrearages are paid. Advertisements not exceeding sixteen lines, inserted for one dollar the first time, and fifty cents, each subsequent insertion. Persons sending in advertisements are requests*. .o specify the number of times they are to be inserted; otherwise they will be continued till ordered out, and charged accordingly. Q*Tbul Postage must be paid on afl comma ffpfc --s STATEMENT OF THE COST AND PROFITS OF AN EXPERIMENT IN FEEDING HOGS. To the Editor of the Farmer's Register. Philadelphia.. April 20/A, 1839. When agricultural experiments are fairly and carefully made, and their results recorded, i thmk they have great vahie, (let the results be what they may,) for which reason, I send you the following account of the cost of baying, raising, and feeding a lot of hogs, and the value produced. I am encouraged so to do because I have every confidence that implicit Veliaoce may be placed in the statements of my friend who furnished me with the account. It was not prepared for publication, but was eftt to me in course of a familiar correspondence. I have lately mentioned to my friend my wish to send it to you. He did not object, but as bo -did not specifically authorize me to attach his name to if, I must send it without. I will mention, however, that he is one of the most succesful pupils of the late George H. Walker, and that he is doing much to improve his farm, which is m New Jersey. PETER HULME. I herewith send you an account of expense land profits arising from feeding hogs, as taken from memoranda strictly kept. These porkers were fcd with my own hands from beginning to end, and all their feed was measured and charged by myself; so that you may rest assured, upon my responsibility, that every thing is as correct as possible. I atn convinced that had i had a good breed, instead of one of the worst, I should have been the gainer by at least one-third. But as it has turned out, it is decidedly preferable for a former (removed from market^ to feed away all his grain than to sell it. As I fed my hogs a great deal on boiled food I went to the ( expense of purchasing wood, although ! had sufficient on my farm, that no expense might be incurred without being justly charged. As 1 killed my bogs very early, their weights are not heavy?another loss ; as I now consider the longer a hog is fed, (if he is a good feeder,) the more profit. That is, when a hog becomes lazy with fat and is inclined to spend all bis lime, except while eating, in lying about and sleeping, he puts on more fat than in the early stage of feeding, when he uses a good deal of exercise. However, as I intend next year to feed my porkers till they become something worth looking at, and as I shall still | keep an account with them, I shall be more ' fully prepared to speak positively on this i question. The fact is, every farmer who wish- i e* to try experiments in feeding, should have j some means of weighing his cattle weekly, to , that he might tell to & certainty whether he , was making or losing money, as well as what food was the cheapest, or rather, gave the most nourishment. There is entirely too much Eess work io all our operations, which must the case until study, capital, and liberality i in the use of mosey, are united to our cxer~ < tions. As it is not necessary to give you a list of every purchase, I wdi set down the cost of ( hogs, the expense of food, wood and pasture; and give you items of credit in pork, shoals, lard, &c. This account is somewhat lame as respects the worth of the pasture and manure. My hogs fed till harvest cn three acres of ground covered thickly with trees (an apple orchard, trees forty feet apart, interspersed with peach trees,) which owing to the dry summer, would not have netted me $10 per acre in any other crop, and which I consider & fair valuation f* r the pasture. After harvest they had the run l of a fifteen acre field. The after-math you may value at what you please. It was of no i use but to pasture, and 1 do not consider that , farmers ought to take it into consideration, as it is the only way it can be applied; and I doubt not, the manure left upon the land well pays for the pasture eaten. However, tosuui up the whole concern, 1 think the rnanUfe in my barn yard made by the hog*, worth a great deal more than the use ot the land before harvest and ail the grass after. 1 would not take, at a rough guess, $75 ror my hog dung. Ttoeir pasture before harvest consisted of white clover; (the held had been idle two years and covered itself with grass,) after harvest they bad the run of a stubble held for three weeks; and after that red clover pasture. During their pasturing, which was from May 5th to September 3rd, they had no drink hot water, with exception of my small pigs, which had, in addition, after they left the nows, a weak swill, the slope of the house and Indian corn and oats ground together. I had not much milk to spare, a9 I only keep five cows, and have a large family to consume a great deal of that article. The feed of my hogs, from the commencement until killing was entirely men hantable food?corn, oats, rye, bran, and oil cake, and charged at a price I should have had to give for those articles if I had bought them. On the 0th of March, 1838, I purchased nineteen hogs at a vendue, for which I paid $1U0. Four of them gave me twenty pigs on tbe 12th and 13th of April. On the 19th of March, i brought home a sow and eight pigs, three days old, for which I paid $14. The eight pigs 1 killed this winter for rny own use. the weight of which I will give you presently. Besides this, one of my sows stole a bore and had six pigs on the 27th of June. Now the whole cost of hogs, first coat and feed, (excepting pasture,) until killing time, amounts to the sum of $494 91} HW llllMWia?W r I fM?B?S?M?M i My credits are a8 follows: 1 1838, By 38 lbs. pig pork, eaten by the family at 9 cents, $3 42 Dec. 6, by 20 hogs, wt. 4 517 lbs. at 9c. 415 53 8, by 93 lbs. gut lard, at 14c. 13 02 11, by 50 lbs. pig pork, at 9c. 4 50 15, by 5 shoats sold alive, 14 30 31, by 3 do do, T 50 1839, Jan. 15, by 9 spring pigs, wt. 1706 lbs. at 9 cents, 153 54 Jan. 16, by 36 lbs gut lard, 1 at 14c. 5 04 j 16, by 16 shoats, (on hand,) valued at $4 each, 64 00 $660 85 By balance credit, $186 93J So you see I have been paid a market price for all iny food, and received $185 93J for profit. January 23d, 1839. Prom the American Farmer. 1 m rr% n j rrx7'T n 1*j*v^ I iVJK.il i Oil 11 Lin.?qucutucs oj ay ferent breeds?circumstances which give J preference to one over another; , No. II. t In No. 12 of the American Farmer we t promised to go into this subject more in de. j tail at some more leisure moment?That r moment we begin to appreheud will never ? arrive. When amoved from office by the f resistless power of Executive will, on which a so many thousand better m^n depend for ,< bread, one of the evils we npprehended was ? want of occupation?a situation more dan. gerous than the battle-field?one to which, c without rare fortitude, no man can be t exposed with impunity. Instead however of ^ having nothing to do, we have never had less c leisure?We only wish that the pay was in ^ any proportion to the labor-we do not mean a the labor of editing the Farmer, but of maintaining the correspondence which has n already opened upon us from every quar. { ter about selling lands, horses, cattle, sheep 0 and hogs?their breeds and qualities, not forgetting Moms Mukicaulis. If an editor |( charged, as does the lawyer and doctor for 7 his time when consulted, as he might fairly do, he would make something to meet the necessary demands of baker and butcher j ?Speaking of the butcher, let us return to cattle. On looking over the best authorities, we J find the general impressions expressed in favour of the North Duvons, for the Atlantic and especially for the slave-holding states fully confirmed. J But it may be well in the onset to lay down the points that constitute a good form j ?for instance : the head and neck should ^ be light and clean, the carcass large, the ^ chest deep and bosom broad, with ribs s anding out full from the spine, approach* Q ing the barrel form, and running well home, Q leaving a small space between the hips and short rib. This form allows room for the >lny and action of the lungs and heart, generates more blood and gives it freer circulation, and greatly contributes to the soundness of the constitution. In a milch j cow the thighs should be thin, and the udder ^ bin and flabby when empty, standing well ^ forward, with largh milk veins. In the bull or ox the thighs should be full and come low |j down, the tail small, and legs short, clean ^ and not large. The Holderncss breed on ^ which the Short Horn has been built, had i% large shoulders and coarse necks ; the ^ sides were flat and the head thick ; the coarse parts were bulky, and the prime ones a reduced in size, and they were almost the reverse of what the agriculturist would se- t| lect. They were however bulkier than the native breeds, and they were better milkers than the generality of the cattle of that day. They would by dint of feeding, grow to an enormous sixe, bu* they had not the apti* in fniinn nni iliu onrlu mnftirilu. to t IMUW IU iUIKUl UUi ?,iw vwV J |. which they have been since indebted for ' their triumph over every other breed." Such t are the observations of the Rev. Henry x Berry, in the best history of the Short horns, (of which he is a large breeder and seller.) which has appeared, published lately in the e Whip in New Fork. We shail transfer it to the American Farmer at an early day. ^ We venture again to predict that whenever ^ the Shoruhorns are exposed to the same careless treatment that cattle are in the re* gion we have described, stinted in feed, and left ad libitum o breed promiscuously? they will goback to their original unthrifty coarse, ness, and become inferior to our country J cattle, which nature, doing always what she can to resist man's abuse and improvidence a towards her creatures, has adapted to, and ' made as good as they c an well be under I their circumstances. But Mr. Berry is of opinion that though the Holderness was * the base, we may say the woof of the im- t proved Short horns, yet that the latter was 1 manufactured by filling in with other ma- \ terials. 44 No reasonable doubts," says he, 44 can be entertained that they proceeded on a judicious system of crossing with other breeds, because it was utterly impossible to raise such a stock as the Teeswater from pure shoit horn (meaning Holderness) ' blood. One crop to which they referred ; was in all probability the white wild breed j i and if this conjecture be well founded, it will be apparent whence the Short horns derived a color so prevalent among them." The dam of the bull Hubback, the Godol* i phin Arabian, of the short horns, we are i told was 44 owned by a person in indigent < circumstances, who grazed bis cow in the: highways. When afterwards she was re. moved to good land near Darlington, she became so fat that she did not again breed." Has not this quality lo fattr n and liability not 10 breed, come down from the dam of Hubback, to her descendants even to the present day ? and does not the short horo I.maosJ nP/iaulu Nicomkto in ihptp nnifltS. 0f Ui^CU UI V.(tUIV> * II*utw I#w ? r liability to excessive fat ond uncertainty of breeding, as well as in some other points, Bakeweli's small bone, round barrelled, made-up breed of New Leicester or DLhley sheep ? The reader will keep in mind our original problem?the cattle best suited to the planting states. The objections which have been urged ?or rather the imperssions which appear . 0 prevail are that the Drvons want site tad w.email mi kefs. Now suppose it admitted as it cannot be denied that they are tot as targe as the Short-horns, it would be 1 nonsequitut, to contend that, therefore hey can in no circumstances be as valuable, ind the same remark m <y be made as to nilk?The true question, not the compara- i ive weight of two animals of different ireeds, but how much meat can you get Vom a given space of land, or a given juantity of food ; and with ninety-nine plan- i ers out of a hundred, the dairy question is. < vhich breed will give him most butter from I lie pasture and feed, such as he has on his < xtate. A good and to nil appearance an < mpartial writer says : 411 think any given i lumber acres of grass will yield when f d i iff by Devons, niore butter than when eaten < >y any otlv-r breed." The same writer thus < lummarily expresses our own impressions. 11 1 The Devons have many parts unrivalled' j ?tliey are more hardy?-more readi y ac- i [uire fat, are more gentle and .locile as i ?xen, and more capable of aciive motion i han any other known breed. When re- < luced by labour, they are restored in two I >r three weeks to good condition." In ad- i litio i they are the most beautiful of cattle, 1 nd their flesh isol the finest grain." t On the score of size, they are by no t AoC-l/in,?T nt itifiBA who am sirpn . i itoaija uciiwitui?u?.' ??? , ical on that point look at the splendid herd f Devons in the field ol Mr. George Pat- I srson, near Sykesville?-or read the fol. < jwing from the old American Farmer, vol. i , pngH 210, and vol. 13, page 67 : i Winchester, Litchfield co. Conn. ) 1 IHk Sept. 1825. J I '. S. Skinner, Esq. t Sir?You remarked in your valuable pa- 1 er of the 8th of Julyr-^ar yoa supposed ^ ro eovkl give you some particulars, some * weights and measures illustrative of the ( uality of tho Devons; what they have 1 ieided in milk, butter, cheese, beef, dcc. aod ' ow they have compared in the yoke, at ' ur cattle shows, with or her breeds. When ? he fact is considered that Holkham is the 1 irst bull of the Coke Devon breed ever in ( Connecticut, and that his oldest calves are ' rdy 4 years old, no specimens of large fat ' *en can yet be expected, nor of large ' uantities of milk or butter ; but of the hei. 1 )n we can say we have never known tho?o < f any breed to give as rich milk, nor have J ver owned cows that gave as much milk ' t the same age, with the same advantages 1 f feed. This is a general remark of ull 1 hose who own the slock. The breed is so ( ighiy valuable in Connecticut thut few 1 ave been slaughtered. We, however, [ ive you the account of three bulls, the 1 nly one we know of the kind that have ' een killed, as contained in letters from 1 lessrs. Cowles, Spencer and Lewis. { New Hartford, 2d, August, 1925. 1 Iessrs. S. Hurlbert dt Co. 1 Gentlemen.?It will be difficult for me to 1 ive you an exact statement of the weight J nd feed of my bull, but have collected all le information from recollection, possible. * Weight of quarters and hide, 912 lbs. ( Tallow, including leaf, 100 lbs. < 1012 lbs. J Total 1012 lbs. which is the exact weight. ' to mn with >ho rniva through the summer 1 mil about the 1st of September. At that 1 me was put to feed for the purpose of fatming. and had pumpkins given him occaionatly until December, and then he was ent into the stable and fed with a half bust). I of rob meal per day, until tlie first of Feb. uary, at which lime he was slaughtered, its beef was very good, i remain your riend and humble st. N? B- The above bull was about 2 *ears and 9 months old, w: en killed. HARRY COWLEo. East Rati ford, August 30/A, 1825. tfessfts. S. Hurlbert & Co. Gentlemen. Yours of the 24;h inst. came ittfely to hand, requesting me to give you he weight of the bull I purchased of Mr. Hudson, and the manner of feeding hint, ifou doubtless saw him at the cattle show, md noticed the condition he was in at that | ime. I then sent him into the s'ahle, and ed him on meal and potatoes (principally mlatoes.) three months ; then killed him. < Weight as follows?Tallow 150 lbs. Hide and quarters, 1139 i 1 i Total, 1289 The stock from the bull, in general, is rery fine. I have several of his calves* yearlings, that will weigh 400 lbs, if slaughtered. Yours Respectfully, JOSEPH SPENCER. Note.?We sold the above bull to H. Hudson, Esq., of Hartford, when about sev. en months old. He was sired by Holkham, and out of a smallish native cow, that weigh, ed alive, at the time we sold the calf 812 lbs. At the time we saw him at the cattle show lie was not in high order, nnd when killed was 3 years and nine months old. Farm ngton, 12/A, A ujust, 1825. Mgssas. S. Hurlbs&t & Co. Gentlemen.?I received a line from you respecting the weight of my bull which was killed last March. His qurrters and bide weighed 1210 lbs. Tallow, 124 Making in all, 1334 He was put into the stable in August, when he returned from ^lorihfield, and was fed, with coarse poor hay, without any other feed, until some time in December, calculating to keep him another season. He being somewhat cross, I concluded to fat him. From thai time till the 20iti March, he was fed with meal and potatoes, and then killed. I remain, yours. blias lewis. N B. Said bull was three years and two months old, when killed. m. - ? I he sup riority of Ihe Devons does not j consist io largeness of size, (as that is not desirable wite the other qunh ies usually at. tached to it,) for in that respect they will about average with the native breeds of New England. Their properties for mak. ing beef are smallness of bone; a great inclination to fatten ; the hue quality of their b'ef. and its unusuel proportion in the most desirable parts ; and their heavy weight compared to the size of their frame. O ?v. ing to the great demand for bulls of this stock with us, few have been altered for ox. so. S x or seven pair only have k'en train2d to the yoke, the oldest of which are four years old ; three pair of whic'i we im. prove. They appear to possess all of the requisite qua|i i<>s desirable in the laboring 3x, being remarkable for docility, activity, and to endure heat and fatigue. Their colar, a beautiful mahogany red, has always >een a favorite one in the northern states of working oxen. A pair of unspotted bright red oxen would always, in consequence of heir color, sell from six to ten dollars high. it than any other description of color of squal size and shape. We noticed a letter published by Mr. Powel, written to him by a Mr. E. Wolcott, )fE. Windsor,Connecticut, which appeared n the American Farmer of the 15th July prher in is stated, ** ! have seen the impored Devons, both in Connecticut and Maryland, and have never had bu. one opinion of :hem, which is thnt they are inferior to our intive stock.'* We are unacquainted with Mr. Wolcott, he never having, in his trav.. do, callod upon us to see our stock ; but we lave the candor to believe, had he resided n Litchfield county, the district where the Devons, are principally owned, and had been >etter acquainted with them, his prejudices igainst the Devons would have changed nto warm partialities in their favor. Perlaps he did not have the pleasure of attendng the last cattle show at Hartford, where vere exhibited from Farmington, a number lalf.blood Devons, sired by Holkham, which vere so much admired, and in competition rail every other breed, short horns not ex:epted, took every premium. They were rom five months to three years old. The lame was the fact in regard to our last catleshow in Litchfield, the account of which, iwing to an unfortunate circumstance, has lot been published. Mr. W. speaks of the ielebratcd Bissel ox, slaughtered in Boston, n 1809, which he supposes a resembled he improved short horn breed." Is he not iware, that ox had long spreud horns. In irder to show by the straws which way the vind blows, as the saying is, we will copy (Iio Pnnnopfi/?iif M irr??v a nnnpr nnh I it/Ill UIW v?/imvvi'vu? I ?# J w ishcd in Hartford, a paragraph published toon after thf last cattle show in that city. * The Devonshire breed of cattle?Whoiver went about the South Green, on the lay of the show and fair of the Hartford :ounty Agricultural Society, must have ob? served the beauty, size and color of the cattle exhibited. The best of them were of the Devonshire bred. They not only obtained ill the premiums, but drew the most atten. ion from the by.standers. There were nany other fine specimens efcattle, but we tave been told that farmers almost universaly preferred this breed.?Ed. Corn Mirror," Our object, when we commenced* was nerely to give the weight of the three bulls n doing which we thought best to introduce he leiters from the three very respectable armers wno owned and killed them. From heir feed and age, those experienced in natters ofthis kind, will be enabled to judge )f their propensity to faiien. Hereafter we nay furnish you with some more par'icuars, as to weight and measure, what they yield in milk, butter, cheese, &c. &c. ? - ??.nir..n we remain, n?3|joui,uujrt Your most obedient, SAM'L HURLBERT&Co. Devonshire Oxjn. Pedigfee and weight of a pair of Devonshire Oxen, raised mid fattened by S. & L? Hurl but, of Winchester* Ct. To tho Editor of tho New York Farmer Sir,?Having been occupied from my earliest years, in that rurul and primary sci. ence of general husbandry?Agriculture, ?I assure you I feel much pleasure in handing to you, the annexed copy of a leL ter I received from S. &. L. Hurlbuf, Csqrs. of Winchester, Conn., in which they state the pedigrecsand par iculars of a pair of extraordinary fat and handsome Devonshire Oxen, which were bred, worked and fattened, by those gentlemen on their farm. Winchester Conn. March, 12,1831. "Sir,?The pair of fat Devonshire oxen of ours, butchered in New York last week, were sired by our full blood Devon bull, Hoikham, which we purchased of Mr. Patterson of Baltimore, when four mouths old, in the autumn of 1819 ; and is doubtless, one of the fine st bulls ever in America. He is from a cow and bull sent to Mr. Patterson by the Hon. Wm. Coke, of Norfolk, England. " The two oxen were out of two cows termed native breed, which breed originated from England, and were brought over by the first settlers ofConnecticut, and were doubtless originally Devon, as they resemble that breed very much. " The pair of oxen have labored on the farm since they were one year old, until within 21 months. They were, when killed 7 years and 10 months old. B .-low, you have their weights. Yours, respectfully, S. &. L. Huelbut. To Mr. Fish<T? Near tide Ox. Off aide Ox. Quarters, 1433 Quarters, 1528 Tallow, 175 Tallow, 213 Hhie, 117 Hide, 115 i 1730 lbs. lbob lbs. To the above we here add a communication from a gentleman of close observa. | tion and strict impartiality* and do not hesitate to congratulate the readers of the A- | merican Farmer on its having attracted h's notice, in the earnest hope that lie will occasionally favor us in the same way : < Philadelphia. 2'2d Aug. 1839. To tho Editor of the American Farmer: ( Sir?In your paper of the 14. h inst. there , is an editorial article which has afforded me great pleasure. I allude to the one in which you state your opinion of the respec. live merits of different breeds of neat cattle. As you mention your purpose of writing more fully on the subject in some fbture number, 1 think it may not be amiss to furnish you with extracts from the notes taken by j me during a residence of some months in | England ; so that you may have facts, in addition to those which 1 doubt not you al- ( ready possess, to sustain what I think a te- . nable position, namely* that the North Dev. ( ons are decidedly the best breed of cattle t that can be introduced into this country. ( 1 believe ! go farther than you do in , esteeming the Devons superior to the Short- J horns even for the fertile glass and corn lands of Kentucky and Ohio. But (do so ( esteem them, and a conversation 1 had some , months since with an eminent grasier and j cattle dealer from the Sciota vulley tended strongly to confirm me in my opinion. He , staled that he had had much experience with ( Short-horns and their crosses ; that thtore , was uo d ubt of their great aptitude to feed ( well and at an early age, and to acquire ( great weight; but there their advanta* < ges stopped ; that they did not bear a jour- j ney well. In fact, he found that they lost flesh, when in a drove, about in a proportion f us they were well bred. A quarter bred t animal would drive better than a bulf bred, ^ a half bred than a three-quarter bred, and ( so on. Now, if the short.horns do not ( drive well, where is their superiority for the | districts mentioned . They have not a nome market to consume their cattle, which must be driven. The grazier above men* j tioned said the difference in loss of weight was so great as forcibly to attract his attention at a time when the Short.horns were in very high favor with him. 1 have for. ' gotten the exact proportionate loss that he ( mentioned, but it was so large a per ceoage as to make him very chary of starting the half-breeds in a drove. There is one point which I think the western graziers i overlook in preferring the short-horns, ? namely, the weight of beef that can be raised < on a given quantity of land or food. The < preference is given to the largest animal, < the one that makes the greatest weight on I the hoof. I believe the Devons will make I a groat deal more beef from a given quantity < of food than the Short-horns, but it is true < there must be a few more of them to carry it. I But to the extracts t When in Norfolk, < England, I spent some time with Mr John Bloomfield, at Warham, who has a large i farm, a part of the esiate of the Earl of Lei. < cester (Mr. Coke.) His farm is within 3 or 4 miles of Holkham, and is acknowledged to be one of the best managed of the estate. Mr. Bloomfield is a man of great exactness, observation, soundness of judgment, and the strictest integrity. Every confidence may j be placed in his statements* and his opinions nfe not to be lightly esteemed Amcng the 1 notes of information he gave me, made at 1 Wateham, I find the following : " Medium 1 sized stock to be preferred as yielding more beef, mutton, wool, milk, &c. than either large or small stock, under similar and or. dmary circumstances." Again : " Mr. til n i ?t i i* aA . J J Ulonmeia a dairy 01 au cows proaucea an average of four pounds of butter for each cow per w<ek during the whole year. Strict accounts were kept during several years, and the result was nearly tho same in each year." Now although 4 pounds a week may not at first sight appear to be a large yield, I should like any one to try if they can find a regular farmer's dairy of an equal number of cows yiedling as mnch. Mr. B. frequently challenged gentlemen attending the sheep*shearings at Holkham to match it with any other breed than Dev. ons, but he was never met. It may be well to state distinctly that the average of 4 lbs. per cow was the net produce from all the 20 cows, in profit or out of profit, after suck, ling their calves for a few days, and supplying the family with cream. Another note: 44 Mr. Bloomfield's hotter is of the best quality; this is attributable to a variety of causes.?The cattle are of a yery good breed,?Devons,?and are well t taken care of, being in remarkably fine condition. 1 never before saw a dairy of cows Jk in such order. Great care is taken io the management, as to milking, dec, of tho J cows, and tife method of making the buttef contributes not a little to render it good." Yet another note : "Sept. 1834. Rift Hancock, a London butcher, was brought by Mr. Coke to see Mr. BlOomfield's Der. ons. Hancock expressed himself highly delighted with the dairy and stock* Speaking generally of Devons, he said, there are no cattle yield such good beef, except a ver^ few of the Very b^st Scots. He also said he took ten shillings worth more of fat out of Devons than out of any other sort (samo sized animals )?Agairi he said the sirloin of a Davon was longer hy 5 inches* than of any other breed, (same srzet) and that he cut three sirloin pieces out of a Devon, when he could only cut two from any other sort. And further, he said there is this difiference between Devons and Scots: the former have less off.d beef and mere roas. ting meat than the latter, or than any breed that he has tried. He always pfefefs buy* ing Devons when he can procure them. This Mr. Hancock is the butcheir Who was heard to say in London by a butcher of Wells, Norfolk, that the two very beat bullocks he ever hung up in his shop were of Mr. Bloomfield's feeding.* Now, sir, if you deem the above of any value you are at liberty to make what use you please of it. ( should prefer your incorporating auy portion of it in your proper sed remarks on cattle , but if yoo think fit .Lll.L Y UAMA ma o puunsu 11 av a cormnuuiccuiuii, i iiars uv abjection. Hoping you may succeed in catling at. ention to the beautiful Devons* I remain, &c, P. H. But them tS) for the generality of planters ret another and a serious difficuity^Supnosing the objections to qualities of the lis. proved Short horns, as compared with the Oovons, to be untenable in reference to * :ountry where cattle, and especially beef% ire not primary objects, hut where the principal objects in view by those who da rear hem are working oxen and butter?In a country where the cultivation of artificial ;rasses, and even the care of natural meslows is but little attended to, and where no provision whatever is made of roots or succulent food, stilt there is for most people an nsurmountable difficulty in the price of the improved Short horns. A gentleman near this c|:y of ample means irid having every facility there, lately sent aut to his agent in England to send him some Shondiorn heifers of indisputable peiigree and good points, if to be nad, fbr not exceeding 60 guineas there, and was an* iwered that his order could not be filled it lis limit. The editor has just received a letter from in eminent Irish breeder, who lays, * I prould charge for two good young bulls ISO guineas, say seventy-five each, and for holers such as ! would recommend, in calf !o my best bull, fifty guineas each, delivered by me in Bedfast, a shipping port, or Liverpool ; my agent seeing them shipped, all expenses charged after they are pot on board. For my best bu?'^ I expect eight hundred guineas, and for my two year olda from one hundred and fifty to two hundred guineas!" If any of our friends destre to import, rur agency is at their service ! Destroying Lice on cnttle, Mr, Jabez Besse Jr. of Wayne, imforms js that ho rocemiy tried an experiment far destroying Lice on cattle, whicb was very successful. He took old beef brine, made [>f of salt with a little salt-petre, anJ put it an the backs of his cattle, and it destroyed both lice and nits. This remedy has no bad effect on the cattle, as tobacco and ather applications for lice have, but on the contrary the cattle like it?it tends to make hem peaceable* as they will stand and lick another with apparent satisfaction. The remedy is simple, cheap, and easily abtained, and well worth the consideration ? . , ?.L , oi tnose irouDiea wiui lousy caives or cuuc* Maine Farmer. Tomatoes. At this season of plenty, for 'tone of the best things in this world," and when they ire to be had in the market at forty cents a bushel, we do a good work in advising our readers of the various uses that may bo made of the Tomato. One use, to which it may be applied, we copy as below, from an exchange paper. Tomato Omelet.?1 a quart of of ripe tomatoes, chop and put them downlosimmer for about twenty minutes, with as much water as will cover them; chop a few onions" very fine, and throw them in with crumbled bread and a lump of butter?and when nearly done, beat up lour eggs, ana stir them in for a few minutes, and serve the omelet up. Bait. Patriot. Soap Ley, has been accidentally diecoV* ered by a sonp boiler to be excellent for garden walks or house yards. He spread in a wet state the black sulphurous residuum of the ley tubs on the alleys of his garden ?which would not raise any grass or weeds afterwards, nor permit any growth within some inches of the place. Delighted with the discovery, he had merely put a covering of the sand over the refuse to obtain the finest walks possible f and having had occasion to re-pave his yard, he used the like soft refuse, instead of mortar, which soon hardened, and cemonted the stones so wall that the heaviest carriages occasioned no disadjustment. 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