No. 6. Agriculture and Co?)imerce. — Dairy of only one Cow. 



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hood of tliG old market, whose business and 

 piofits were intimately connected with it, 

 oppo.-=ed its removal. There was fear of a 

 rival market bein<^ <iot up on the other side 

 of the city. The city would lose the tolls, 

 which are now received at Smithfield, and 

 which, in the course of the year, make up 

 no inconsiderable revenue. The meat, if 

 the animals were slaughtered out of the 

 town, would, of necessity, have to be con- 

 veyed to the city in carts, whereas, now, 

 much of it is killed directly in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the market. These and many 

 other reasons were urged, but, perhaps, 

 would not have availed, excepting for the 

 fact, that Smithfield was discovered to be a 

 chartered market, for the sale of cattle; and 

 the twelve judges of the high courts de- 

 cided, upon consultation, that this charter 

 could not be abrogated; and even in spite of 

 an act of Parliament, which was obtained 

 in the case, this great public nuisance must 

 be continued. — Colmari's Ag. Tour, No. 4. 



Agriculture and Commerck. — Professor 

 Wines, in a late lecture in New York, ad- 

 verted to the prevailing false opinion, which 

 estimates Commerce as comparatively more 

 important than Agriculture. The principal 

 cause of this he supposes to be, that the 

 gains of Commerce, lying nearer the sur- 

 face, are more open to the scrutiny of the 

 mass of men, while the gains of Agriculture 

 seldom obtrude themselves on the public at- 

 tention. To prove this, he stated "that 

 Great Britain is decidedly the most com- 

 mercial nation on the globe. Her trade 

 vvith the United States is nearly two-fold 

 that which she carries on with any other 

 country. And yet what think you the en- 

 tire annual movement of this commerce 

 both ways amounts to] About as much as 

 the value of the annual crop of oats and 

 beans in the former country. The whole 

 foreign commerce of Great Britain, in pur- 

 suit of wiiich she overshadows the ocean 

 with her fleets, and plants her colonies in 

 the most distant islands, is actually less in 

 value than the annual grass crop in the 

 British islands. The bread stufls annually 

 extracted from our soil, amount to more than 

 800,000,000 bushels, and their value is almost 

 triple that of the aggregate exports and im.- 

 poris of the whole country. Our grass crop 

 is worth $1.30,000,000, which is just twice 

 the value of all the exports to foreign coun- 

 tries. The annual Indian corn crop of Ten- 

 nessee and Kentucky alone amounts to more 

 than 100,000,000 bushels, and fully equals 

 in worth our exports to Great Britain and 

 France, which constitute the bulk of all we 

 part vvith to foreign countries. And what 



is not a little remarkable, the corn crop of 

 these two states is equal in value to the en- 

 tire cotton crop grown in all tlie States and 

 Territories of the Union. — Troy Advocate. 



From the Ohio Cultivator. 

 Dairy of only one Cow. 



Mr. Editor, — I tliink it very kind of you 

 to appropriate a department in your paper 

 for the use and benefit of the ladies; and for 

 fear you may think they do not appreciate 

 the privilege as they ought, from the fact 

 that they contribute their mite so sparingly, 

 I have presumed to indite a few lines, think- 

 ing they may be better than none, about my 

 Dairy ; for I keep a dairy, although I have 

 but one cow — now I think I hear some one 

 say, you had better stop, for you cannot have 

 mucli to say about a dairy, with only one 

 cow. Be patient friend, and you shall hear 

 what I have to say, and I will promise not 

 to exaggerate in the least. 



I commenced making cheese the 3rd day 

 of August. What ! make cheese from one 

 cow! Yes, and independent of any one — as 

 I like to be. I had only the milk of one 

 cow. I continued making till the '3rd of 

 November. In tliat time — only three months 

 — I made 207 lbs. of cheese. During the 

 time, we used what milk we needed for the 

 family; besides that, the calf was not wean- 

 ed the first three weeks after I commenced. 



Perhaps now you may think my cheeses 

 are little hard things; well, they average 

 over 10 lbs. each, and if you want to know 

 whether tliey are hard or not, you must 

 come and see. Since I have done making 

 cheese, I have made 9 lbs. of butter a week, 

 and it was not weighed with a "shirt on," 

 either. My cow has not been fed on dain- 

 ties, but has had a common pasturage, and 

 fed a little whey — without any butter on it — 

 and a few pumpkins. Now, Mr. Editor, if 

 you think this worth a place in your valuable 

 paper, its insertion may be the means of 

 bringing you another communication from 

 the Dairy Maid. 



Waterforrl, Wasliinqton co., O., Nov. 18-f5. 



Ammoniacal Salts of Urine. — Plants 

 watered with a simple solution of sulphate 

 of ammonia, — an abundant salt in cows' 

 urine, — are fifteen days earlier than those 

 watered with pure water. Grass land wa- 

 tered with urine only, yields nearly double 

 to that not so manured. In a garden, on 

 land of very poor quality, near Glasgow, 

 urine diluted with water, nearly doubled 

 the grass. But upon wheat, sown upon 

 clay land, it did no good; it injured barley- 

 potatoes grew rank and watery — and on tur- 

 nips the effects were only half as good as 

 mere unfermcnted dung. — Farmers'' Mine. 



