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our old i^ervanls who have long been hoij-minilers, 

 that tlic first lilter of pigs from a young povv, or, as 

 they call ihem, gilt pigs, are naturally oi' a leeble 

 cousiiiution and iinihrifty, and diOicult to raise, 

 and even i^rui^ed, never perhaps acqiiiie ihe eize 

 and weight that litters of the same sow do after- 

 wiards." And, in addition to this, I would pay, I 

 have raised more tlian twenty calves from yonnir 

 cows — their first calves — and liave never laded in 

 olitaining them fine, strong and heahhy ; nay, il 

 I were to double the number, I shoulii not be be- 

 yond the (ruth. Can any of'your readers account 

 ibr a phenomenon that is so generally accredited, 

 as to have grown into a proveib — " the call' of a 

 young cow, the pig oC an old sow." 



From the Farmers' Cabinet. 



-BLoasoM. 



The properly of Samuel Canby, Esq. of JVood- 

 side, Delaware, 



Pedigree — Blossom, roan, calved in 18.35 ; bred by 

 C. H. Hall, Esq., of New York : got by Fox's Rep:eiit, 

 dam Leonora, (a great and constant milker, imported 

 by Alderman Ferris of New York,) by a son of Lan- 

 caster ; g. d. out of Elvira, by Yoinig Phenomenon, 

 and he by Favorite. Fox's Regent, (sire of Blossom, 

 bred by 0. H. Hall) was got by Imported Regent, dam 

 Snowdrop, got in England by Fitz Favorite, and the 

 first heifer dropped in America, by Blanche, a great 

 milker, presented by Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin to Mr. 

 Hall. 



This remarkable animal (remarkable for her 

 breeding as for her 7nilking) is a beautiful roan, 

 with a countenance the most gentle that can be 

 conceived. Her capaciiy Ibr deep milking is ob- 

 servable in the peculiar l()rmation of ihe udder, 

 and prominent milk-vein, her quiet and peaceable 

 disposition tendinggrealiy to Ihe secretion of that 

 flow of milk, which has never ceased since the 

 day of her first calving, which was on the 5ih of 

 Aprii, 1838. On the 4di of July she brought 

 twins. Liberty and Independence, and on the 

 16ih of May, 1840, she had twins the second time ! 

 These were named Romeo and Juliet. Thus hns 

 this wonderful animal brought (iirih five livins; 

 calves in the space of twenty-five months ! Her 

 milk has averaged twenty quar:s per day durinix 

 the whole of this time, and with her first calf she 

 gave twenty-five quaris per day, making nearly 

 twelve pounds of butter per week. Such constant 

 draining has justly been considered unfavorable to 

 health and bodily strength, and for this reason 

 she has never carried much tle.=h ; but it has been 

 impossible to dry her milk, even Ibr a {"ew days 

 belbre calving, although she has been kept from 

 grass Ibr that purpose : her condition, however, is 

 generally good, and she shows sreat vigor and 

 eprighiliness. She is again incaif, by the imported 

 bull Washington Irving, and her time is calculated 

 for the month of March. Her first calf Z)e/atoflrc, 

 took the first premium at the late exhibition ofthe 

 Delaware Stale Agricultural Society, held at Wil- 

 mington, as "the best animal raised in the coun- 

 try." 



But it is a singular circumstance, ihat her last 

 twins, Romeo and Juliet, are white, althougli her 

 own color is roan, and that is aluo the color of the 



bull ! This shows that she is breeilini? back, be- 

 ing herself descended from Comet, 15-5 (1,000 

 guineas), who was while. 



Here Ibilows an account of Blossom's yield of 

 milk lor one week : 



Total, 247^ 



Being on an average over ihirly-five quarts 



per day, yielding 1.3;^ lbs. of well-worked butler, 

 one month from the time of her calving. 



From tlie Journal of Commerce. 

 A KJNGDOM KMBANKJED FROM THi] SEA. 



Rotterdam, {Hollaiul,') Sept. 25, 1840. 

 It certainly strikes an American as very singular 

 that a country — a whole kingdom — should actually 

 be lower than the sea : yet such is the case with 

 Holland. Nothing but the dikes, and sand hills 

 on the coast (called Dunes), keep it from being 

 submerged. Thus every river and creek is lollow- 

 eA up in all its \> anderings and ramifications, each 

 side carefully diked up — canals, oullets, sluices, 

 dams, and docks placed wherever required, and 

 thus, the whole kingdom is garrisoned as it were, 

 requiimg constantly a large body of engineers at 

 every part to watch and guard against ihe inva- 

 sion of their subtle enemy (the water) which is 

 unceasingly wearing anil washing away the em- 

 bankments, requiring instant and energetic mea- 

 sures ibr repairing what injury may be sustained, 

 and preventing their (be from overspreading the 

 country. Much of ihe land has been reclaimed 

 from ihe water. The lake of Haarlem, 28 miles 

 in circumference, averaging G Itet of water and 8 

 leet mud, the washiiigs of the Rhine, was once 

 land, antl they have now commenced draining if, 

 to make it land again, which will take about 6 

 year.s. Part ofthe imn)ense number of windmills 

 seen here, are used Ibr the purpose of drawing olf 

 waler from ihe land and pumping it into canals 

 that lead finally into the sea. You can stand on a 

 dike, and see lour or more levels of water, all 

 wiilun a few leet of each other. They have few 

 lence.=;, the houses in the country being surrounded 

 by litile canals, with bridges, over which are gates 

 which are of course a protection against intruders. 

 Many have small turning bridges, turning on a 

 pivot placed on the house side, so that when you 

 pass over, a small jerk with the foot, places the 

 bridge your side o( the canal, and prevents ingress 

 from the opposite baid\. In Amsterdam there are 

 from 2S0 to .300 bridges through the city. It is 

 surrounded by a fosse 80 leet wide, its walls a 

 demolished, hut it has 23 bastions, convened inia 

 corn mills, and is entered by 8 gates, (poortcs). 

 Ft is built in ihe Ibrni of a half circle on ihe V. 

 The Amslel river enters the city, S. E. side, and 

 iis waters are then conduclcd round and through 

 the cilj', communicating with ihe Y, which llou-s 

 into the ZuiJcr Zve. There Ls a ship canal through 



