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Great Sale of Imported Cattle. 



Vol. IL 



are collected into a reservoir. Our farmers 

 can certainly be little aware of the expense 

 and trouble they niiglit save themselves by 

 attending to this. Many, I have no doubt, 

 will say, "But look at the expense to begin 

 with." I will engage to prove that the ex- 

 pense of constructmg the reservoir shall, in a 

 very small farm, be paid three times over tiie 

 first year. It is really lamentable to say, but 

 nevertheless true, the system generally pur- 

 sued is quite the reverseof what it should be. 

 At what expense do many agriculturists 

 procure their manure, when all this expense, 

 labor and trouble might be saved by a little 

 management. Mr. Stafford, who has writ- 

 ten much on this subject, is of opinion that 

 four barrowsful of new manure, properly fer- 

 mented and reduced to a liquid state, are suf- 

 ficient to manure half an acre of land. The 

 drainings from stables, &c., when properly 

 fermented, is by far the most powerful ma- 

 nure we have, either for farming or garden 

 purposes. How strange this valuable article 

 should so generally be suffered to run to 

 waste. There is no vegetable matter which, 

 if properly managed, with the help of this 

 liquid, may not be reduced to excellent com- 

 post. 



August 11th. 



Sir, — Mr. Ashford requests information as 

 to the cause, prevention, and cure of the 

 spotty and finally mouldy state of some of the 

 berries in bunches of grapes. I am not tech- 

 nically acquainted with the botanical terms 

 proper to be employed in my inquiries; but 

 in my vinery, in which I have no flue, I am 

 much annoyed and disappointed by the de- 

 cayed and burnt appearance of many of the 

 sprigs — or perhaps the proper word may be 

 foot-stalks — from whence my berries proceed. 

 They thus become red, instead of being black ; 

 and sour, instead of being sweet ; and the 

 whole stalk speedily decays, and the fruit 

 falls. If this was general, I should attribute 

 it to a bad border, too much or too little heat 

 or air ; but it is partial, only affecting some 

 bunches, while others are quite healthy. 



I also solicit from yourself, or some corres- 

 pondent, the cause, prevention, and cure of 

 this disease, or bad gardening. 



John Mills. 



August 17. 



[As the defect described by Mr. Mills ap- 

 pears to be only a partial failure, it is extreme- 

 ly difficult for us (as strangers to the general 

 condition of the vines) to name the cause of 

 this failure. We can only surmise whether 

 there may not be too great a crop on the vines, 

 or whether they may not be suffering from 

 the want of moisture at the root, or, more pro- 

 bably still, from the great heat of the sun, in 

 unusually hot summers. — Ed.] 



<]ireat Sale of Imported Cattle. 



The great sale of imported cattle, was held 

 at Powelton, near Philadelphia, on the 12th 

 inst. An immense number of persons at- 

 tended the sale. We are truly gratified at 

 the spirit evinced on the occasion — it is evi- 

 dent that the spirit of agricultural improve- 

 ment, already great, is still extending and 

 diffusing itself Success attend the pur- 

 chasers, as well as the enterprising importer. 

 The following catalogue of the animals and 

 the prices for which they were severally sold, 

 will be of interest to our readers. 



COWS. 



Purchaser. 



Amount. 



Ruth, 

 Adelaide, 

 Minna, 5 

 Lucilla, 5 

 Empress, 2 

 Brighteyes, 4 

 Beauty, 4 

 Vermillion, 4 

 Nonsuch, 3 

 Media, 3 

 Ruby, 3 



Mayflower, 3 

 Profitable 3 

 Clarkville, 2 

 Virginia, 2 

 Woodbine, 2 

 Belicia, 1 

 Celebrity, 3 

 Isabella, 5 



6 yrs. old, 

 6 « 



J. R. Neff, 



do. 

 Clarkson, 

 Neft; 

 Cunningham, 



do. 

 Neff; 



Wetherill, 

 Warwick, 

 Fisher, 

 Rotch, 



Cunningham, 

 Neft; 

 do. 

 Cunningham, 

 Robinson, 

 Andrews, 

 Wetherill, 

 Wolbert, 



$460 

 490 

 520 

 480 

 420 

 490 

 540 

 430 

 410 

 380 

 370 

 515 

 550 

 630 

 690 

 400 

 450 

 480 

 405 



Total, $14,980 



