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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



SCRAPS. 



Information Wasted by the Editor of 

 The Farmers' Library. — The names of the 

 Chairman and members of the two branches of 

 the Legislatures of the several States, who 

 composed, at their last meeting, the Committees 

 on Agriculture and on Education ; and particu- 

 larly copies of their Itcpn-ts on these subjects. 

 Also printed copies, if to be had, of the Gov- 

 ernor's Messages, to see in what terms these 

 tv/o great objects of public interest were re- 

 ferred to. 



This request is particularly addressed to the 

 Clerks of the two Houses of the Legislature. 

 The object is the advancement of the public 

 welfare, as far as it depends, as assuredly it 

 does, on improved Education and improved 

 Agriculture, more than on all other earthly con- 

 cerns. 



Where no answer is received it will be re- 

 luctantly inferred, though .scarcely to be be- 

 lieved, that no Report was made. In such case 

 it is yet more proper that the people should 

 know who of their Representatives were 

 charged with tbe.se subjects. 



At.berney Cattle. — Mr. Colt of Paterson, 

 who has already the largest herd of pure Alder- 

 neys that we know of. has written to ask Mr. 

 Colman to procure for him, from the Island of 

 Jersey, a choice Alderney cow and bull of the 

 purest stock. 



They have paid more attention to this breed 

 of cattle there, it is said, than anywhere else — 

 so much so thai the importation of a bull that 

 might stain it witli impure blood is strictly pro- 

 hibited. From this small district it is said that 

 ■4,000 cows are annuallj' exported to England 

 to supply the lovers of pure and rich mil!?^ and 

 cream with a luxury such as none but Alder- 

 ney s can yield in such perfection. 



fW The Irish in AMi'.iurA. it is ascertained, 

 Jicnd to their poor relatives in l^^land more 

 that! a million of dollars a year. 



p^ " La Democratie Pacifiquo" contains an 

 account of an orang-outang on board the Hull, 

 bound from Sumatra to Rotterdam. The ani- 

 mal had attained so high a degree of civiliza- 

 tion that he would never sleep without his night- 

 cap ! 



" Noro fidiUinl whili^ Rome wns burning." 

 It is sairl that never since the establishment 

 of liorseracing in England have there been so 

 many horses in training as there are at j)resoiit. 

 (1100) 



Soap as a Manure. — T. Dalton, a silk dyer, 

 says, in the London Agricultural Gazette, that 

 he u.sos 15 cwt. of soap v\ eekly to discharge 

 I the oily matter from the milk, and forming of 

 itself a kind of soap, the whole of which yields 

 I from four to six thousand gallons of strong soap- 

 I suds per week. This he has lately applied to 

 his farm, and '• its effects are most extraordina- 

 ry." It has been used only one sea.son, and its 

 results cannot be accurately given ; but he con- 

 siders it more powerful than any other manure. 

 [Southern Planter. 

 Many barrels of strong soap suds are annually 

 thrown into the gutter and run to waste from 

 every farmer's laundry. Could not these be 

 poured on the manure heap, or otherwise saved 

 to increa.se his •' bank,'' and thus help to obviate 

 the neces.sity of purchasing foreign manures ? 

 [Farmers' Cabinet. 



t^ In the Ohio Cultivator we find a com- 

 munication signed by Richard Haines, of 

 ^Montgomery Co. Ohio, bearing date March 10, 

 1847, in which are furnished the following de- 

 tails : 



A Lot of Large Hoes. — Mr. H. has raised 

 and fatted, the past seas-on. on his farm {by Ne- 

 hemiah Gaskill). a lot of 22 hogs, the weight of 

 which is somewhat extraordinary. They were 

 a cross of the Berksliire and Kussia breeds; 

 were slaughtered, when only 1!) months old, by 

 Mr. Bimm, of Dayton, and the following is the 

 record of the weight of each : 528, 521, 514, 

 50G, 505, 504, 486, 478, 420, 44G, 455, 430, 457, 

 415, 408, 480, 457, 430, 430, 447, 432, 408, 435: 

 Total, 10,222 lbs. 



If any can beat this, Mr, Haines would like 

 to hear from them. 



l^^ At a meeting of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the New-York Slate Agricultural So- 

 ciety, on the 4th of April, the Secretary report- 

 ed that in ID Counties of this State the yield of 

 Indian corn exceeded 80 bushels per acre ; in 

 11 counties, crops were stated to exceed 100 

 bushels. The largest yield in Cortland County 

 was 154 bushels; in Oswego, 14(i; in Orange, 

 139; in Tioga, 125; and in Oneida, 123 bush- 

 els. The largest yield of wheat reported was 

 in Ontario, a fraction short of (iO bushels to the 

 acre on U])ward of two acres. In eight Conn- 

 tics the yield of oats exceeded 70 bushels per 

 acre ; the largest crop was 102 bushels, in 

 Oneida. 



[This, of course, refers to premium crops. 

 We should like to know whether the whole acre 

 was shelled and measured, and I'.ow, and at 

 what season, &,c,] 



[L©^ Plants, like living animals, require cer- 

 tain descriptions of food to bring ihem to a nat- 

 Ui'al stat'^ of perfection, and llu. iiHiividual who 

 studies Nature'.'i laws in the niana^enu'nl of hia 

 crops, and attends rigidly to their re(iuironieiit><, 

 can scarcely fail in being a successful cultivator 



