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f. :- ; f; * * Mm Vsixjudw nmTjmwwmm^ ? 1????II . ?? ,1 ggggBgg~^?>?'l?yw VOLUME VI CHRRAW. SOUTH-CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1841. V r - NUMBER S. - ' ? 1 _ , 1# By Itt* MAC LEA\. Tskms:?Published weekly at three dollars a year; with an addition, when not paid within three month*, of twenty per cent per annum. Two new subscribers may take the paper at five dollars in advance; and ten at twenty. Four subscribers, n??t receiving their paper* in town, may pay a year's subscription with ton dollars, in advance. A year's subscription always due in advance. Papers not discontinued to solvent subscribers in arrears. Advertisements not exceeding tfi lines inserted r one dollar the first time, and fifty cents each ubsequont lime. For insertions at interval* of two W'-eks 75 cents after the first, and a dollar if the intervals are longer. Payment due in advance for advertisements. When the number of insertions is not marked on tbe copy, the advertisement will be inserted, and charged til ?e ' -red out*. icr The postage must ho paid on letters to the editor on the business of the nffiro. ought m\n"jrkto br ploughed unler with as lftllr exposure as possible ? * We find in the American Farmer nn article on this subject by Mr. J. M. Gar net ofVirginia from which we extract the following paragraphs: I began penning my cattle late in the spring, and continued it until frost, in pens of the same size, moved at regular ^ intervals of- time, and containing the same number of cattle during the whole period.?These pens were alternately ploughed, and left unploughed, until the following spring, when all were planted in , corn immediately followed by wheat. The superiority of both crops on all the tfkirtK /1 nn nlnnrr horl rrvr I , Jicionui^u ??u .t?,ui..vu " so many months, ?after the cattle had manured them, was just as distinctly marked as if the dividing fences had con. tinued standing, it was too plain to admit even of the slightest doubt. A near neighbor, a young farmer, had made the 1 same experiment, on a somewhat differ, i ent soil, the year before, but with results I precisely the same. Similar trials I my- i self hare made and seen made by others with dry straw, alternately ploughed in 8 soon as spread, and left on the surf ace until the next spring. In every case the ' last method proved best, as far as the fol- 1 lowing crop would prove it. The same ] experiment has been made by myself and < ethers of my acquaintance, w*ith manure J from the horse stables and winter-farm j pens, consisting of much unr?tted corn | offal; and without a solitary exception, either seen by me, or heard oft e surface application, after the corn was planted, produced tnost manifestly, the best crop. Upon these numerous, concurrenft an^ undeniable facts, my opinion has heen founded, that it is best to apply manures on the surface of lands ; and "1 guess," (as brother Jonathan would say,) that it is not likely to change unless indeed, I should hear a still greater number, equally well authenticated, on the opposite side ; al% though I must say, that up to the present time, I have not heard a solitary one. True it is, that I have read many ingeni. ou9, finespun arguments in opposition to the opinion which I hold in common with numerous other agriculturists, hut no proofs whatever have accompanied them, and therefore I must remain an infidel, until they are sustained and corroborated, by such facts, as should always he deemed indi-pensah'.e to establish any practice whatever, in any of the various branches ofhushandrv. All these results undeniohl v nrnt'P fKaf fV>o onrfo/^A onnlwntinn I was best; although the kinds of manure differed considerably. And what have we in opposition, any facts whatever? Not one ; and only the conjecture, that the evaporation from the surface spread i manure must carry off the greater and best portion of the food of plants therein contained. But that such evaporation cannot thus act, seems to me to be unquestionably proved hv every fact I have mentioned : for, if it dul, then the land of summer cow-pens ploughed up as soon as removed, would, in every case, have pro duced better crops, than that of the unfilouphed, instead of doing it in none.? Similar results too must have followed in the other cases I have stated, although I have never seen or heard of their doing it in any. In connection with these facts we state the following : Two brothers held differ, ent opinions on this subject; the one sup posing that manure is injured by exposure to the sun, the other the other that it is not. The latter in manuring a field for oats, in 1840, spread the manure from the wagons as it was hauled out. Two or three weeks after this part of the work was com I .1 t - C 1 J_ 1 iuencea anomcr sci oi nanus was employed in sowing the oats and plowing them in with the manure. These overtook the hands engaged in spreading the manure before that operation had been finished Of course the part of the manqre carried out last was plowed in iiprqediately after it was spread, whilst that first carried out lay two or three weeks expqsed to sun and wind before it was plowed under. The poorest of the land was that sown and plowed last. Late in the spring the two brothers were crossing the field together, h when the owner perceiving the youngest ^ oats and in the poorest land to be the 9 largest and most flourishing, expressed his y surprize at the fact. The other reminded 0 him of the manner in which his manure ii had been managed, remarking that he ? nheprved it at the time, and thought it _ v. * ' ? II might test the correctness of their respcc. S) tive opinions. The oat field of course I was watched with interest by the brothers n through its progress to maturity, and the ?' part on the poorest land, where the man- gj ure was turned in as soon as spread, con- h tinued to gain upon the other. These a facts were related to us by the owner of ? si the field, who is determined henceforth to expose his manure to sun and air as n little as possible. . c But how is the result of this experiment 0 to be reconciled with the result of those made by Mr. Garnett and his neighbors ? The reader must judge for himself. Na- n ture is not'inconsistent. Her laws and * operations are always the same in the j same circumstances. Animal manure a either is or not injured by exposure. If Si injured in Virginia it is injured in South d Carolina ; and if injured at one time, it * is at all times. One solution occurs to us _ p of the apparent discrepency in the cases before us. May it not be that the solid Is manure in all Mr. Gamett's cowpens, j1 even those which were plowed soonest' 11 in!.fiia/l Ktrflvnnfiiro In flip vtti3 maici iau> iiijui^u uj va|/vcu>v ?v ??.r g| sun before it was turned in, and that the o improvement of the land is ascribable tl chiefly to the liquid manure, or urine ? 1^ " so, may not the pens which were plowed as soon as the cows were removed, have si been injured by turning up and exposing si the soil which had absorbed the urine, and thus allowing this fertilizing ingredient to be evaporated by exposure the winds (\ and the heat of a summer's sun ? If this w supposition be correct, the fact that cow. c pens are injured by plowing when the *( :ows are removed makes against, and not QJ 'or, the theory that manure is not injured >y exposure. Further experiments are fr >erhaps still needed to settle the question. ?L1 iVe suggest the following. 1. That j he solid manure be all carefully romoved w svery morning from a cowpen to a com- pi >ost heap, and that the pen be plowed sc vhen the cows are removed. 2. That s! ... . .si he same cows with the same treatment, )e continued on an adjoining pen, of the b jame size, for the same length of time ; n that the manuie be carefully removed from this also every morning to a compost heap, and that the pen be not plowed til) 0 planting time. 3. Let then the solid e manure stand on two pens, and the one be plowed and the other not; which is ^ only a repetition of Mr. Garnett's ex- j periment. 4. Let the manure be si gathered from two other pens every P morning and thrown into holes, cov f1 sred to shelter them from sun and tj rain. Let that gathered from one of the p pens be evenly spread on the ground as s< soon as the cows are removed, and plow- ^ ed in. Let that from the other be protec- [[ TV ted as much as possible from both sun and Cl wind till the time of planting and then be nr spread and plowed in. If these experiments were carefully ^ conducted they would show the relative value of the solid and liquid manure of ti cowpens, as well as the effect of exposure upon manure. To PREVENT MILK FROM TASTING OF if TURNIPS. C' ? sf A correspondent of the Yankee Farmer e states that if cows are not allowed to eat w either the roots or tops of the turnip for 6 n or 8 hours before the time of milking, the ^ taste of the turnips will not be perceived ^ in the milk. ' Another correspondent of the same pa- pi - - .?. <? ?. < ? i i per states that it salt petre, aissoivea in ?( water is added to the milk, in proportion of one grain to the pint it will prevent unpleasant taste and, at the same time, n preserve the milk without souring longer a than it would otherwise keep. Y s< From the Farmers' Register. o EGYPTIAN COTTON CULTIVATED IN MISSIS- p SIPPI. tl To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. { Some time since I promised to give t( you the results of some experiments, I ^ was then making with the Egyptian cot- Q ton. I was induced to make this promise ^ from the fact of the appearance in your jy Register, in November 1838, of some premature remarks upon this subject, ex- ? tracted from the Rodney Telegraph, cal- ^ culated to produce, I much feared, in the Q| minds of your readers, erroneuos opinions respecting this cotton. I was absent from ome at the time this was written, and )r. New was urged to do it by the earnest olicitations of the editors of our village aper. I regretted this -publication in our Register the more, in consequence f the fear of being charged with attempt, ig to impose another humbug upon the ommunity, and this being but to herald is fame prior to entering the seed into larket. Let me assure you, sir, there is carcely any thing I so much detest, and hope it may not appear superfluous for le here to add, that I have never sold a ingle seed of it, and that I have never efused giving them to all who have de. ired to attempt the same results which I ad in view myself, that is, to improve, or t least to revive, the former character of ur Mexican cotton. IIow far I have ucceedcd in this design is my present bject to explain, and to do this it will be ecessary to go back to the first year this otton was introduced upon this place, in rder to trace its changes from its origin* 1 character to its present mixed varie. ies. Whilst my father, Dr. Rush Nutt, was taking a tour in the East during the year 834, he procured among other things a andful of cotton seed in Egypt; of these lere were two kinds, a small white seed, nd smooth black seed. These black 2ed he represented as having been introuced into Egypt from our Sea Islands, 'hat the stalks from these seed in Egypt nly grew three or four feet high; in this articular, and in this only, differing from ie character it assumes in our Sea Isinds. Th is change he ascribed to its beig cultivated for a succession of years j the extremely dry climate of Egypt. In the Spring of 1836 I planted these ;ed; from them I succeeded in getting nly one stalk of the black seed to grow, ie white having rotted in the ground; ie latter was also the fate with some othrs with whom my father had shared the sed. Being in a very rich bottom, this ingle stalk of the black seed grew about ix feet high, with large heavy blanches, t was late in blooming, and in September was covered with young bolls and mares, but among the whole not more lan half a dozen matured. The bolls ere small, and contained only three hambers, the same as in Egypt, the cot>n presented its usual, richness of color, nd the same length and beauty of staple r fibre. The following spring I planted the seed om this stalk upon, the hills, supposing would here come to maturity earlier, nd contiguous to our Mexican cotton, i order to see if by approximation it ould derive any improvement or new operties from the .Mexican. I first ob;rved a great variely in the size of the alks from these seed, and then in the zeof the bolls. Some two or three of le stalks grew as high as 10 or 12 feet, earing much larger bolls, but fewer in umber, than the preceding year, and a jw only of these bolls contained four ompartments or cha mbers. These stalks roduced much the most beautiful cotton f the whole. The remainder, the great, r part of the stalks, did not grow more lan three and four feet in the same soil, oils and squares were more numerou ut small. I could not account for tin* ifference in any other manner tlian by apposing that the blossoms of these large lants had received some of the farina om the blossoms of the contiguous Mex:an cotton, which amalgamation of frucfying principles had invigorated the lant and caused the- product to assume amewhat more of the Mexican character, [ow this change of product might have iken place I can readily conceive, hut by hat' law of vegetable physiology it aused the plant itself to spring up so mch higher, I am at a loss to say, par. cularly as this growth had gecerally taen place before it bloomed; and 1 must save it to wiser heads than mine to offer d explanation of this phenomenon of na> ire. # These seeds were carefully saved, and le next spring, thai: of 1838, I planted om them about an acre of ground, again i the hills. This season 1 marked no i " i i n # _ nanges trom tnat 01 tne last. some iew lalks grew, as before, very tall, with few. r and larger bolls, whilst the greater part ere small, with small bolls, and a great lany squares that never came to maturih These seeds were also saved; and now aving a sufficient quantity to venture xperiments in another form, and being retty well satisfied that we could never lcceed in making it a valuable plant in s original unmixed estate, I determined i the spring of 1839 to plant the seed 'ith the Mexican, a row of each alterately. This was cultivated carefully, nd closely observed during the whole ear. You must bear in mind that the < i: t? J-., 3ason proved 10 oe an exceedingly uiy ne, and in every respect one of the most ropituous ones for every description of le cotton plant that we have ever known, believe there was nothing particularly ) be marked in its growth until Septemer* except the great variety in the size f the stalks. We observed, however, lat it suffered less from the drought in lay, June and July than our Mexican enerally did; always looked more fresh nd green, continued to grow, and lost at few of its squares, whilst the rest 01 ur crop lost a great many. These relarks will apply to this Mexican rows as 'ell as the Egyptian. I might here state also that the Egyptian cotton, since we ( p first planted it, has always appeared to } be less easily injured by frost. These ad? i i vantages it no doubt partially derived ! c from its becoming a more hardy plant h in the dry atmosphere of Egypt, and per- e haps also from being invigorated from r amalgamation with another variety, that e of the Mexican. Cotton generally was c much more forward this season than usual; a and we commenced picking as early as a the 25th of July. The Egyptian cotton, usually so backward, was almost as early r in maturing its holts, but principally such d stalks as appeared to be unchanged by t mixing with the Mexican. The rest 1 however wan also comparatively early, e And now, sir, were exhibited most of the p interesting phenomena which I have to B relate-respecting oar Egyptian cotton.? I As before mentioned, some few stalks s sprang up to a considerable height, pro- t duced hut few bolls, some of them not p even a single form or bloom. The cotton e from these stalks was a most beautiful ar. u tide, soft, fine and silky; fibre very long e and strong; but not so rich a cream color t as the original Egyptian: invariably con. s tained a large green seed. . Other stalks e did not grow so large, but had more c branches; bore many more bolls, produced t a long strong fibre,'but not so silky; con- t tained almost every variety of seed; t upon some we found the original smooth \ black seed, upon others, seed a little/uzzy. f Others again with a small brown seed, t and some with a white seed. Many of i the blossoms too chnnged frorr the Egyp- a tian bulf color to the Mexican white.? c Some of these stalks produced remarkably \ well, but I cannot say positively which s variety of seed produced the most; but t this was very ceriain, that the green seed t yielded the smallest quantity, and pro. s duced decidedly the most lovely cotton, f resembling in every respect in seed and ? cotton the Chinese silk cotton, which has t ? a- _ ? ^ I ___ 1_ 11 a! - ? ! laneny attracted so mucn attention in i this section of the country, and which I am inclined to think will prove the same. \ Think not that the d (Terence in the height c of this green seed cotton was owing to a t difference in soil; it was all the same; and c generally we would find one single stalk i of this 8 or 10 feet high, with others on \ each side only three feet. The foregoing I remarks apply principally to the cotton t grown from the Egyptian rows; and which j I have termed the Mexico-Egyptian cot- ( ton. That in the other alternate rows i I have designated, in contradistinction, Egyptio-Mexican. Let us now turn to i this: although perhaps it did not present i so many interesting points to the natural- t ist, yet it offered more pleasing prospects < to the planter. In this we observed an i evident and decided general improvement, < both as respects the life and viger of the ( plant, the quality of the cotton, and the t quantity yielded. The bolls grew larger, 1 the fibre somewhat larger, and much s stronger. Nor was the plant so liable to t disease, consequently less attacked by worms ] and insects. It grew rapidly and matured c early, and, in fine, gratified my highest ] expectations. i These seeds were carefully saved, that r s, of the Egyptio-Mexican, and the next c season, in the spring of 1840, I planted I from them about twenty acres, which t yielded much better than any other part of f the plantation, although the soil was rath- fc er inferior to some of the rest. The cot- s ton too was so much superior that each f bale was selected from our other cotton v in New Orleans, and classed at a higher rate. I am so well satisfied of the superiority of the cross, that I have this season planted nearly the whole of my crop with it, and would have planted the whole had I had the seed. I have also planted in such a manner as to produce a little great- g er mixture of the two cottons, and may, f perhaps, at some other time, give you the a result of further experience upon this as c well as other varieties of the cotton plant, . > some of which I have already tried with- lj' out any good results. This is a subject of! g deep interest to our southern country; J & and I wish you could draw forth for the s public good the experience of many of f our practical and intelligent planters, and d induce them to take a pride in the matter, h on the Kentuckian does with his stock, 8 and the Vinriman with agriculture in b _ a o t general. I have perused with much a pleasure the remarks of Gov. McDuffie, *1 of South Carolina, contained in the Feb. ^ ruary number of your Register, upon this b subject, and subscribe to them most heart. w ily. There is no doubt his advice, if fol. fi lowed by all, would prove of incalculable lj benefit to the cotton-growing region; b xlnnt n nvstom nf orpnpral imnrovement: J " r* ?J & ?I ' improve our cotton plant, by crosses, and tl by such a sys tem of cultivation and ma. nunng of lands as will have the effect of it producing a healthy stand of growing h plants; gather our crop cleanly, and send it it to market in a better condition; make pi less of it, and thereby enhance its value; a attend to other products and improve, h mants, and we would soon find ourselves ft richly repaid. I cari give my testimony nr to this. We have pursued this course tl for many years; it always having been c< the ruling principle with my father whilst * living, to do nothing except what he did well; consequently our crop is always si sought for, its brand being well known ni among the manufacturers; and it never ai fails to bring two cents more per pound p* than other cottons. There are also one ta or two other brands that go to New Or- te leans, that command generally as good e fc rice, and attributable to the same cause. I rVe do not make as much per baud in i ales; but as much in the proceeds after i ur sales. Our planters themselves should, i ecorae interested, and no longer trust so i intirely to overseers, an irresponsible and I ininterested class, wbose sole object is t it her to lounge about in indolence and I heat their employers; or in making 1 s many cotton bales as possible, i t the expense of almost every thing else, r 1 have above alluded to the Chines* silk ft otknb os it> is termed, and expressed a i loubt of its being any thing more than \ he green seed variety of the Mexico- I Egyptian cotton, although it is represent- I id as a very different article in one im- i ortnnt respect, the quantity of its yield, i ify suspicions may be wrong; but such, < think, will prove to bo the case. It is s aid, by thosa who grew it last season, I hat it produces about three times as much I >er acre as the Mexican. It is this prop- < Tty of it I am disposed to doubt, and 1 ipon this ground, that I believe, as n gen* j ral rule, we will find it to be the case, I hat, in proportion as we find cotton pos- I essing a long, fine and silky fibre, in an < iqual proportion will it be found to de* < :rease in the quantity produced; and I i hink, upon an investigation of the mat- ; er, this will be found one of.the charac* I eristics of the cotton plant: that those < varieties of cotton which are shortest in j ibre will yield the most abundantly, and j he reverse. I admit, however, this may I n some measure be varied, by a judicious iy9tem in crossing different varieties, and < >f culttvation. We all know that culti* 1 ration does a great deal towards changing tnd improving natural properties of vege* , ation in general; but I cannot believe i hat such cotton as I have seen exhibited , is the Chinese silk cotton can ever be | jrown in such quantities per acre as our < ^xican. I shall, however, be able to <: est the matter this year, having some of " t now growing in our garden. , I have also made some experiments vith the ticin or Ofcra cotton, hut ahan* loned it, as inferior to our Mexican in ilmost every respect; but the most serious Ejection was, that it appeared to open all it once, and wasted a great deal before ve could De able to pick it; that is, if we lad planted it as a crop. This is owing o having so few und so short branches. &1I the bolls grew fit one time, and opened :ogether. It also grows tall, and the bolls it the top bend it over to the ground* I intended explaining more fully my news upon me general system 01 saving i crop and serving it up for market; to account for our cotton being better in :olor, fibre, dec., and clearer of trash and caste cotton, in cotton the fibre of which is jut by the saws in ginning, than the most >f cotton which goes to New Orleans; md also to hint at some other points in the ine of our planters; such a9 manuring our mils, to prevent the threatened exhaustaion of our once highly esteemed Gulf | [fills, dec.; but fear I have already extended my remarks to too great a length? , [ am sure much more than I designed do- , ng when I commenced. But I shall | iow close, at least until I learn the fate | >f this, which I leave entirely to yourself, i assure you, sir, it is with great reluc- i ance I send you these remarks, and would eel more than recompensed if they would >ut serve to call more attention to the uhject; and to elicit other contributions . rom this section of the country to your aluable publication. Respectfully yours, Haller Nutt. T.nnrpl Mill. Jefferson Countu. Mi. ' April io"l8il. " . J On making good Bacon.?The be- I inning of the year is generally the time i or putting up pork for bacon ; as this is * standing dish in the west, I have con- I ludedto give you the result of thirty < ears experience upon this important sub- > set. The first thing necessary to make J ;ood bacon, is to have fat hogs?sluugh- I er them in the beginning of the week, 1 o that you can take care of the offal be 3 ore Saturday nigiit; otherwise, if a warm g ay or two intervenes, part of it may be c >st. It is highly important that hogs, 1' laughtered for bacon, should be well e Jed?the more completely the vessels >i re emptied of blood, the less disposition 3 here is in the meat to taint or putrify. H ls soon as the hog is well cleaned and v iung up, it should be freely washed with * larm water, wiped with a cloth and care- ? jlly scraped with a sharp knife, especial/ the head, ears and feet, if you wish to v ave good souse or hogshead cheese. I 'hese parts are generally neglected, and ii irown by4 for a more convenient season,' v nd then taken up by the cook or some a lie chap about the establishment, and the air singed off, and the skin burned until tl : becomes black and bitter, thereby im- t arting its colour and taste to the souse ? nd hogs-head cheese. After gutting the a ocr. the inside should be carefully and d ~0' eely washed with cold water% with the louth open, so that the whole may pass irough the throat, and remain in this jndition until completely cool, which ill generally take place, even in moder- ^ te weather, in one night. If the weather lould be so mild thai it will cool in one ight, it had better be cut up, id spread upon brick and stone ivements, previously wet with cold war; if the meat is still soft, dash cold wa. ? r upon It, and it will soon be ready for e salt, but is all cases it should be per- ^ ' ' V * ' " v ? , , i% ' & V.Vi f,0 Ljj \ fectly cool if practicable. In one or tjvo nstanc.es [ have made as good bacon as I lave ever made, out of meat frozen ao iard that it had to be c it up entirely ljith m axe. A s to the mode of salting and :he quantity of salt necessary to eyre pork to as to make, good bacon, every man hinks he know better than bis neighbor. [ have experimented for the pifrposa of iscertaining thobeat method of saltinglown pork, as also the proper quantity of ialt and other materia!.*, such as sugar4 nolasses, red pepper and saltpetVe, aJh of vhich have their advocates, and have set* ed down and pursued the following pneipo for the last twenty years. I measure i bushel of salt?spread it upon a table? veigh a pound of saltpetre, pulverize it carefully and mix it thoroughly syth |be <a!t. This mixture is sufficient for a L . ? ..J ftf uma II mna f nr Pltrht muiisaiiu nngmui ?iu?u imv??i ... ? lundred of large, to be well rubbed upon ivory piece, and more especially upon the fleshy surface, taking care to pack your joint* at the botom, and fill the little interstices with jowls, chine and round, the latter piece is mr.de by cutting the neck iff at the shoulder and jowl. The length if time necessary to keep pork in salt to make bacon, depends upon the ,weather ind the size of the meat. Jf tho weather [>e mild and the meat small, four weeks will be long enough ; but if the weather is cold and the meat large, it should remain in salt six or eight weeks, and should be taken up at the end of four weeks, and well rubbed and sprinkled with salt in case the first has dissolved. It is thpn to be hum; up in a dark smoke-house, and the darker the better, for the purpose of exc.ludiug flics?you will never find flies in a room where the light is entirely excluded. The higher the smoke-house the better, so that you may hang your meat out of the influmce of the heat??very joint and jowl should be hung by the thick end and every middling by the thick edge, or that part of the middling that was cut from the backbone; this I know to be a matter of the first consideration in making good bacon?by attending strictly to this rule you will retain all the juices of the meat, as well as the salt that has been absorbed?or in other words, your meat will not drip;?whereas, if you reverse the position and hang it by the small end, it will drip, become dry and hard and lose in weight, and what I consider to bo of more importance, its fine flavour. Some 1 '? ' it %m imiuu. WnO miKe gtxiu im^m, nuuiv ?i im militant to smoke youi*meat with some particnlar kind af wood, but I imagine the on'y s:cret about thus matter, is the bitterness imparted to the meat, thereby rendering the taste unpleasant to the fly, and by keeping up a continual smoke, you create an atmosphere that the fly cannot live in viewing the mattter thus, 1 have every day or two thrown a few pods of red pepjier upon the smoke wood?this produces an atmosphere very unfit for the rer ration of man, and I apprehend so to the fly. Our meat continues suspended in the smoke-house during the year, is slightly smoked every morning and plentifully smoked everydamp day. If our reiders will observe these rules, I will almost venture to insure you such bacon as would make an epicure smack his chops. Tennessee Agriculturist. John Shelby. blossom, the famous milch cow. Dear Sir r? My father has just shown me your let.er requesting an account of ray Durham 'nil/ Rlr??arr?m hpr rnillrinnr l<J , ? ?y~.- - ? :he statement for one week, by which you vill perceive she exceeds last year's trial )oth in milk and butter, particularly the atter; as during the trial last year, the veather was much warmer than this, and is we have, for want of a spring house, :o keep our milk in a cellar, every one :onversant with the business will know t cannot yield as much in hot weather. Indeed. I have not a doubt, that with a rood spring house, she would have made 9 or 20 lbs. of butter this season* Last rear, one month from calving, Blossom ;ave for the week '247 1*2 quarts, being iver 35 quarts per day, which m ide 131*2 bs. of well worked butter; this summer, tear two months after calving, she gave n one week 253 1*2 quarts, being over 18 quarts per day, which yielded 17 1*1 bs. of superior butter, which was well forked before weighing; the milk also ras never measured until after the froth ettled. <1 It may be as well to state, that there ras not the slightest change made .in ilossora's keep during the trial; she run n the pasture with the other cows, and ras fed precisely as she had been before, nd will be all the season. She had her trst calf in April, 1838, and her sixth on he 12th of last April, (having twins wice,) and during that time we have nevr been able to; get her dry, as she has I ways given from 12 to 16 quarts per ay up to calving. Very respectfully. v Saml. Canby. Blossom'* vield of Milk for one iceek. Mormng. N<?on. Evening, Total. ino2d 131.2 qts J 2 qts 10 1-2 qts 36 at*. 3d 131-2 13 11 361.2 4th 131-2 1212 101.2 361-2 5th 13 U 12 II . 36 M 6th 131-2 12 1012, 36 7th 131-2 12 101-2 36 Mb 131-2 12 101.2 rotal 2531^. Being on an average over 36 qua^."^ xy. *