ham, ill the sams county, of whose stock Mr. 

 Cohiiaa has stated that he had seen none supe- 

 rior. 



The AjTshires ^ve^o also thoroug-h-hred. per- 

 fect iu their kind, aud the cows had the appear- 

 ance of being fine milkers. Two were pur- 

 chased from the .stock of Mr. Andrew MacGreg- 

 or, Damhead, near Kilmaniock, Scotland ; one 

 from Mr. John Young, of Kilmaurs Maine, near 

 the same place ; and one from Mr. Hamilton 

 Cappraiustone, Draghoni ; the bull from Hugh 

 Kighlongmair, near Kilmaurs, Scotland. 



We have seen many fine, high-bred animal.s, 

 and have formed an opinion as to what point.y 

 are desirable in dairy stock ; and according to 

 the views we entertain, \vc think the selection 

 Mr. Beckett has made highly creditable to his 

 judgment, and of which the Society may be 

 justly proud. Surely, the object which the So- 

 ciety have in view, of improving our Xew Eng- 

 land stock, is one highly commendable, and we 

 have no doubt will be justly appreciated bj' the 

 agricultural community. [N. E. Fai-mer. 



Disease in Potatoes. — The attention of ev- 

 ery body is so absorbed by the Pgtato-Ml'R- 

 RAiN, that we should be wanting in our duty to- 

 wards the public if we did not continue to ad- 

 vert to the melancholy subject. Not that we 

 have much to add either by way of advice or 

 consolation ; for the topics coanccted Avith the 

 di.sease have all been already touched upon, 

 more or less amply, by ourselves or our corres- 

 pondents ; and every week's experience .satis- 

 fies us that there is little, if anything, to modify 

 in the opinions we have our.selves ah-eady ex- 

 pres.sed. 



The mischief is, undoubtedly, extensive to a 

 most alarming degree. If we estimate the 

 amount of loss at five-sixths, we shall hardly ex- 

 ceed the fact. In many places the crop is hardly 

 worth the digging ; in others it is totally putrid ; 

 in many more, it .seems to be spreading fast ; 

 and, as we mentioned last week, it has certainly 

 broken out in Ireland. " All m?/ Potatoes," says 

 a correspondent near Dublin, " as well as those 

 of the poor people here, are destroyed by the mur- 

 rain. Two dajs ago, 12 acres were still safe ; 

 they are now gone." Germany, Holland and 

 Belgium, are in the same state as England. A 

 dysentery which has already appeared at Er- 

 furt, is said, by the Gazette dfi Cologiw, to be 

 traceable to the use of bad Potatoes. The Bel- 

 gian papers speak of cholera at Ghent, produc- 

 ed in the same way. Poland, according to the 

 same journals, is so threatened by famine, that 

 the Prussian authorities on the frontier have been 

 obliged to take precautionai-j- measures for keep- 

 ing the starving population out of the Prussian 

 territory ; and, finally, the authorities of some 

 disti-icts in France and Germany, have either 

 prohibited or threatened to prohibit the expor- 

 tation of Potatoes, lest there should be no seed 

 for another year. 



Such is the state of the case. It is u.seless now 

 to speculate on the first cause of this murrain. 

 Our original opinion \\-as, we believe, coneot ; 

 at least, we have not at present .seen anything 

 to shake our confidence in it ; and we find 

 that, with the single exception of Profes.sor 

 MoKREN, the universal opinion among the Bel- 

 gian cultivators is the .same as ours, except 

 when meteors, electricity, and other unknown 

 forces, are appealed to. It is tnie that a mi- 

 nute fungus has made matters infinitely w orse ; 

 f.-iio) 



but that i.s, we quite beheve, a secondary cause. 

 The con.sideration of this part of the question 

 may, however, be very well dcfen-ed. What 

 we have now to look to is an immediate remedy 

 for the evil. [London Gai-aeners' Chionicle. 



Weight of Corn per Acre.— Capt. Ran- 

 dall, of New-Bedibrd, has recently published in 

 the N. E. Earmer an account of the weight of 

 his corn .towu broad-cast on a couple of acres 

 and some rods. He says 35 tons of manure 

 were spread upon each acre. Ten bushels of 

 white, flat, Maryland com were .sown on two 

 acres and 32 rods. The whole was well plow- 

 ed and repeatedly haiTowed, and a heavy roller 

 was applied. Three separate rods of this corn 

 were cut and weighed, and the average weight 

 per rod was 388 lbs. This gives between'si 

 and 32 tons per acre, sown broad-cast, very 

 highly manured and laud well prepared. 



We think 40 tons per acre may be grown by 

 sowing in drills, but the labor would be more, 

 though the seed would not cost one quarter as 

 much. Capt. E.audall says he fed out his corn 

 from 2 acres and 30 rods to 20 cows, three other 

 cattle, and five calves, and it kept them 7 weeks 

 and 5 days, with what they could pick in a dry 

 pa.sture. And he is satisfied that this corn was 

 equal to 15 tons of the very best of English hay. 



But we think Capt. H. puts a wrong estimate 

 on this fodder from his corn field. Fifteen tons 

 of hay would keep his stock through half the 

 winter without any aid ffom the pasture ground, 

 yet while all his stock could bite, bushes and all. 

 his corn kept his stock but one third of the time 

 that cattle are fed in winter. 



Cattle \viil find something in the driest pas- 

 ture and will jiartially fill themselves there, 

 even though jou feed out the richest products 

 of the farm. 



Again, the 2 acres and 32 rods of ground, 

 with this high manuring, would have produced 

 this season 160 busliels of shelled corn, beside 

 all the stalks and husks. This com dealt out 

 in meal would make an allowance of 6| bush- 

 els to each of the 24 rattle for 7 weeks and 5 

 days^or 213 quarts of meal each. That is, 

 about three quarts of meal jjer day for each an- 

 imal besides the husks and stalks. Should we 

 not think it costly feeding? to give out so much 

 iu addition to what could be obtained in the 

 pa.sture ? 



We wi.«h to see more experiments made on 

 feeding out green com, and we therefore make 

 these remarks on the experiment of Capt. Ran- 

 dall. [Mass. Ploughman. 



Price of Guano in England. — The Mark- 

 Lane Express of Sept. 22d, quotes African gua- 

 no, about 1000 tons sold at £i .5s. to £7— [321 25, 

 a $3.5.]— Peruvian i'9 10s.— S47 .50 ; Nitrate of 

 Soda 19s. a 19s. fid. per hundred. 



Guano. At the mcetins of the Monmouth 

 Fanners' Club, Sept. 3, 184.5, it was resolved 

 unanimou.sly : — '• That the best thanks of this 

 club be given to the Editors of the Gardcncra' 

 Chronicle and Afrricultv ml Gazette, for their 

 exposure of the infamous practices of dealers in 

 guano in adulterating it. 



Some decided encouragement should be of- 

 fered for the exposure of frauds in .sell ins: seeds 

 a.ndfruittree.'i in this country. Vou will hear 

 many complain of uifamous impositions, aud yet 

 none will publicly stigmatize the miscreants 



