No. 11. Indian Wheat — Cows — Extraordinary Calf. 



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great. No one can know their value until 

 he has one. 



With good cattle, well constructed, clean 

 well littered stables, plenty of roots, and good 

 hay, with card and curry-comb applied every 

 day, I can have fine cattle and good beef. Those 

 roots should be extensively cultivated. They 

 are within the reach of every man who farmn 

 any land, even one acre, and can be guaged 

 to his wants. The poor man with his one 

 acre and one cow, can at least plant six rods, 

 and till it when be will do nothing else. See 

 my eighty bushels of sugar beet from like 

 quantity. 



Let all raise according to his wants and 

 means of feeding, depending on his own 

 market, and omit raising a portion of other 

 produce which costs him five times as much 

 in both labor and land. This fact I have 

 made plain in the exhibit of the entire pro- 

 duct of two acres of ruta baga, buried direct- 

 ly on the ground as I pulled them, in heaps 

 of say thirty-three bushels, weight one ton, 

 standing as thick as cocks of hay in common 

 meadows of one hundred each. Twenty to 

 one ! To see is to be convinced. 



The poini to gain is to be able to take the 

 greater produce with least labor from the 

 land, and to return the whole or an equiva- 

 lent back again. Keep cattle, raise roots, 

 &c., make manure and one important point is 

 gained; for with manure lean raise roots, 

 and with roots fed to cattle I can make ma- 

 nure and can pay back to the land as much as 

 I received from it. I intend in due tune to 

 communicate the result of the feeding pro- 

 cess this winter, and offer you something on 

 other subjects, provided this effort in your 

 opinion is worth the use of ink and types. 

 Do with it as you please, and I am content. 



I am, sir, respectfully, your ob't serv't. 

 Jno. Sanford. 



Marcellus, N. Y.. Dec. 12, 1837. 



Indian Wbeat. 



This is a new article and is a species of 

 buckwheat. It has lately produced abund- 

 antly, up to a hundred and even a hundred 

 and twenty bushels to an acre ! The grain 

 is valuable for stock yards, especially swine, 

 and buckwheat cakes are celebrated through- 

 out the land. Such an article in addition to 

 our present stock, would be very valuable to 

 the farmer, and would go to multiply his re- 

 sources in unfavorable years. Samples of 

 the grain, and small parcels for seed can be 

 obtained on application to Mr. Oolman, the 

 State Commissioner for an agricultural sur- 

 vey. — Haverhill Gaz. 



Nobody ventures on the high sea of pub- 

 lic life, without becoming sooner or later sea- 

 sick. 



Cows, 



The following statement of the cost, ex- 

 pense, and the avails of a cow for 14 months, 

 made by a gentleman of this city, who has 

 been a practical farmer, and who is no bad 

 cultivator, shows how profitable cows may 

 be, with proper management. A farm of one 

 hundred acres, by such calculation and man- 

 agement as stated below, supposing it kept 

 only twelve cows, would afford an annual in- 

 come of at least .f-lGOO. 

 Z>r.— Cost of cow and calf, $20 00 



Paid for pasturage, 15 00 



1 1-2 tons of hay at $15, 22 00 



One ton of corn stalks, 6 00 



80 bushels bran at 20c. 6 00 



266 lbs. oil cake at Ic. 2 66 



40 bush, turneps and potatoes at 



20c. 8 00 



8 bush, potatoes at 42c. 3 36 



Cr.— By calf sold, $5 44 



10 qts. of milk per day, for 14 



months, at 5c. per quart, 210 10 

 Cow sold for beef, 45 84 



Nett profit. 



$ 261 28 



$178 26 

 N. E. Farmer. 



An Ilxti-aordinai-y Calf, 



There is at present on a farm near Balti- 

 more, a calf which was sfot by a full bred 

 Durham bull, out of a three-fourths Durham 

 and one fourth Devon cow, which, at six days 

 old, weighed 142 lbs., at sixlv-one days old, 

 his weight was 332 1-2 lbs.," and at three 

 months old, he weighed 4.57 1-2 lbs. These 

 respective weights were accurately ascer- 

 tained in the Western hayscales, and prove 

 incontestibly that the cross has by no means 

 impaired or lessened the bulk of this fine 

 animal ; indeed we know it to be the opinion 

 of one of the most intelligent breeders in this 

 country, the Hon. Charle.s A. Barnitz, that 

 for all the purposes of the dairy, one-fourth 

 Devon blood in a milch cow, is a great addi- 

 tion to the butteraceous qualities of a milch 

 cow, it being his opinion that this proportion 

 of admixture increases the richness of the 

 milk without subtracting in the least from its 

 quantity. This fact was most satisfactorily- 

 proved by his celebrated butter-cow. Flora, 

 which when fresh in milk, gave 20 lbs. of 

 butter per week. Flora was sold about two 

 years since to Major Frederick Haines, of 

 Marietta, Pa., who was recently offisred $400 

 for her. She is 3-4ths Durham and l-4th 

 Devon, and is besides one of the most perfect 

 models of a cow to be found either in this 

 country or in England. Her present owner 

 has a fine heifer calf out of her, which we 

 hope may inherit all the good qualities of her 



