380 Manures. — Clover in Corn. — Exhortation. — Yield of Milk. Vol. lY. 



the safety sought by the erection of the con- 

 ductor 1 Much has been said as to its height 

 and position — is any consideration due to its 

 diameter? Our friends would confer a favour 

 if they would communicate instances within 

 their experience, where buildings guarded 

 by conductors have been struck by the elec- 

 tric fluid ; they would be highly interesting, 

 and may lead to investigation and important 

 results. 



Product from Manures. 



Experiments in Germany have led to the 

 following conclusions : 



If a given quantity of land, without any 

 manure, yields three times the seed employ- 

 ed, then the same quantity of land will 

 produce — 



Five times the quantity sown when ma- 

 nured with old herbage, putrid grass, or 

 leaves, garden stuffs, &c. 



Seven times when manured with cow dung. 



JVine times with pigeons' dung. 



Ten times with horse dung. 



Twelve times with goats' and sheep's dung. 



Fourteen times with human manure or bul- 

 lock's blood. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Clover in Corn. 



Sir, — In a late conversation with a first- 

 rate agriculturist, and a member of the state 

 Senate, I found that he is accustomed to sow 

 a full crop of red clover in his corn, at the 

 time of the last cleaning, laying the land 

 as level as possible for this purpose ; and he 

 assured me he had always succeeded in ob- 

 taining heavy crops, without the least injury 

 to the corn, and which, in its turn, shelters 

 the clover by its shade, and encourages a 

 very rapid growth. Will our friends try it 

 by way of experiment the present season ? 

 It is believed that it may be made intro- 

 ductory to a new course of crops, which 

 might relieve the country from that terrible 

 scourge, blight, in all its different varieties, 

 fly, rust, smut, mildew, &c., which is sup- 

 posed in a great measure attributable to the 

 present mode of cropping and manuring. 



D. H. 



Philadelphia, June 24, 1840. 



An Exhortation. 



Our fears are, not that there are not many ex- 

 cellent dairy women in the land, but that the 

 benefits of their knowledge and practice will 

 be lost in the new generation that is spring- 

 ing up. Hundreds and thousands of farmers' 

 daughters leave tfie homes of thoir mothers 

 and seek other employments, as if with a dis- 



relish of that which maybe practically more 

 and more scarce. The occupation is stripped 

 by the demand for young women as instruc- 

 ters of youth, as operatives in factories, as 

 milliners or sewers, shoe-binders or straw- 

 braiders, or in some other mechanical occupa- 

 tion. How short do such as are thus em- 

 ployed come of the qualifications of the 

 virtuous maid who obtains the best part of 

 her education under thereof of her own father, 

 from the instruction of the mother that knows 

 how to do every thing coming within her 

 province as the wife of a thriving farmer — 

 who is entirely at home in all that pertains 

 to the dairy, the economical use and due pre- 

 paration of articles of food and clothing, and 

 who suffers none of her household to " eat 

 the bread of idleness !" 



If not to the rising fair generation, to whom 

 shall we look for the hands that are to supply 

 so important a portion of subsistence as the 

 products of the dairy 1 The farmer may keep 

 his forty, fifty, or a hundred cows : if there be 

 no help-meet to oversee and lead in the pre- 

 paration of the milk after it goes to the dairy 

 room — if there be no female to prepare the 

 vessels, none to direct in the straining and 

 setting of the milk, the extrication and dis- 

 position of the cream, the churning into but- 

 ter, the separation of the buttermilk, the 

 clean and perfect salting down — if all this 

 is expected of men, and not of women ; how 

 miserably shall we hereafter drop away in 

 the produce of a most profitable and most 

 useful article in the production of the farm 

 at that precise time when there is the most 

 sure encouragement for the farmer to enter 

 upon and persevere in the business of the 

 dairy ! — Visitor. 



Great Yield of Milk. 



Mr. James Gowen, of Mount Airy, near 

 Philadelphia, gives, through the Philadel- 

 phia Inquirer, the following table of the 

 quantity of milk obtained for one week from 

 his imported cow. Dairy Maid, of the short- 

 horned Durham breed. She calved about 

 four months ago. The yield exceeds eight 

 gallons a day. - 



Dairy Maid''s yield of mi Ik in one week,frnm 

 1st of June till 1th inclusive. 



morn'o. noon. ev'o. total. 



June iPt 12 quarts Pi Oi 30 



2cl, 121 9 ]0i....32 



3d 13} 9J . . . . lOJ :«J 



4th ^A\ 9}.... lOJ.... 35 



.5th 14i 10 .... ]0i....35 



0th, .... 14!^ 10 .... lOi .... .34i 



7tli, . . . . ]4i 9J .... lOJ .... 34i 



Total, 235} 



Being on an average more than 33^ quarts 

 per day. 



