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(II K It A W GAZETTE
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PEE DEE FARMER.
VOLUME IV. CHERAW, SOUTH-CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 20. 1839. NUMBER XLV.
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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. SStimarrti Journal*