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is about 16 lbs. per cow, and that of whey butter 

 about 25 lbs. per cow per annum. About 2h lbs. 

 of salt are used to a cwt. of butter. 



Comparative estimate of thp several applications 

 of milk, viz ., to the feeding of veal, and to the 

 making of cheese and butter. 



In feedinir calves for the butcher, it frenerally 

 takes seven weeks to leed iln-m lo about a civi. 

 each ; and they consume the lollowinfr quaniiiy 

 ol' milk in the seven weeks: About 10 ijallnne 

 the first week ; 16, the second ; 20, the third ; 24, 

 the fourth ; 27, the fifth; 30, the sixth ; and 32, 

 the seventh ; so that, it lakes 159, or say 160 sh\- 

 lons of milk to produce 112 lbs. of veal. The 

 average money value of the above modes of con- 

 vertincr milk into a marketable commodity will 

 stand thus: — 



100 gallons of milk produce 



112 lbs. of cheese of the best 



quality, which at 6d. per lb. 



is - - - - £2 16 

 And 5 lbs. ofwhqy butter, which 



at 8d. per lb. is - - 3 4 



Value of 100 gallons of milk, 



when converged into cheese £2 19 4 



100 gallot)s produce ol" milk 



butter 34 lbs. which at lOd. 



per lb. is - - - £18 4 

 And of cheese ofthe worst qua- 

 lity 74 lbs., which at 3d. per 



lb., is - - - - 18 6 



Value of 100 gallons, when 



made into butter - £2 6 10 



160 gallons produce 112 lbs. of 



veal, which at lid. per lb., is £3 10 

 But calves, when dropped, jre- 



nerally sell at 10s. each, 



which being deducted - 10 



Leaves, as the value of 160 



gallons, and therelbre the v.i- 



lue of 100 gallons m feeding 



veal - - - - £3 1 17 6 



Thus, making cheese of the first quality is more 

 profitable than either making milk-butter or feed- 

 ing veal; yet many farmers continue to feed 

 calves durins the early part ofthe sjiring — a prac- 

 tice not justified by an examination of results, but 

 persevered in from habit, as many practices are, 

 where active pursuits are not conjoined with a 

 spirit of inquiry and comparison. 



From the farmers' Cabinet. 

 ANTI-LIME. 



Mr. Editor— Being informed by a neighbor, 

 that you offer to publish experiments made in 

 agriculture, lor the inlbrmation of your readers, I 

 take the liberty to send you an account of the fo\- 

 Jovving, which I made lasi summer, to test the re- 

 lative value of the several difiercnt manures in 

 raising corn. I selected five acres of worn out 

 land, in one piece, and of a quality as much alike 

 as possible, and ploughed it flat, some time in 

 April. On one of these I spread one hundred and 

 ^fiy bushels of marl, procured from Woodstown, 



in this county ; on another, one hundred bushela 

 of drawn ashes; on the third fifty bushels of fresh 

 slacked lime ; and on Ihe fburtji, Ibrty bushels of 

 bone dust, so called — that is, bones groum), say 

 three pans into small fragmeiiis, and one part imo 

 a coarse dust or powder — whicdi 1 procured at a 

 iMiiton lactory in the neighborhood of Brid<reton. 

 The filih acre 1 left without manure of any kind, 

 in order to test the actual value of the difierent 

 luanuies used on the oilier four acies. Cost ofthe 

 manures was as follows : the marl, which i hauled 

 about ten miles, I put down at ten cents per 

 bushel, including the carting, that is, fifteen dol- 

 lars lor the first acre ; ashes, ten cents per bushel, 

 or ten dollars lor the manure of the second acre ; 

 limp, sixteen cents per bushel, including the cost 

 of hauling, will make eight dollars for the third 

 acre; and bone dust, for which 1 paid forty cents 

 per bushel, to which add four cents per bushel lor 

 hauling, makes seventeen dollar^ sixty cents lor 

 manure used on the fourth acre. The cultivation 

 ofthe whole five acres was the same ; and the re- 

 sult of the crop taken and measured, from each 

 acre, was as follows: 



Bone dust produced twenty-six bushels ; ashes, 

 twenty-four bushels ; marl twenty-two bushels; 

 lime only six bushels ; and the unmanuied acre 

 six bushels also. 



Much has been written in favor of lime. As far 

 as ni}- experience froes, and 1 have tried it on 

 several occasions, I have never found any, or but 

 very.litile benefit Ironi it the first season: but in 

 two or three } ears, it will generally produce a very 

 sensible increase on some of the crops lollowing, 

 especially on oats and on cloven. I do not there- 

 fore consider lime as the poor man's friend ; though 

 in those parts of the country where ashes, marl, 

 or bone dust, are not to be readily procured, 1 should 

 recommend its use. 



Abbott Atkinson. 



Pitiss;rove, Salem county, JV. J. 

 Feb. 10, 1840. 



From tlie Providence Courier. 



A farmer's life and duties. 



If we were ever envious, it was of the farmer 

 — the intelligent, independent larmer, who owned 

 his land, his house and barns; who was free Irom 

 debt, whose family were growing up prosperously 

 around him, upon whom God smiled and blessed. 

 We have seen such a ftjrmer ; and in truth, we 

 know of no man so happy, and no business so 

 permanently profitable — none that makes the 

 owner so independent. An independent farmer 

 has his house to live in — it is his own — he has 

 earned it by the labor of his hands. He has liis 

 granaries tilled with the production of his (arn), his 

 barns wiih the stock reared, and the hay raised 

 upon his farm. His cedars are filled vviih the ne- 

 cessaries and comlorts of lilti. Almost every thing 

 necessiiry to feed him and his faniily, grows 

 around him. He may raise his own pork, fatten 

 and kill his own sheep, cat his own poultry and 

 his own eggs — live upon his own home-made 

 bread — weave his own cloth — raise his own wool 

 — knit his own stockings, through the agency of 

 his wile and daughters — make his own butler and 

 cheese ; in short, live and dress comfortably, with-. 



