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Hoven Cattle. — The Milk-Cmo, SfC. 



V. 



ductive industry and trained to no other oecupatinn ex- 

 cept to shoot foreigners always, and their own country- 

 men occasionally; while here, the whole energy of all 

 the nation is directed with intense force upon peaceful 

 labour. A strange spectacle this, of one, and one only, 

 unarmed nation on the face of the earth! There is 

 abroad a wild struggle between existing authorities 

 and popular pretensions, and our own example is the 

 common theme of applause or denunciation. It is the 

 more important then for the farmers of this country 

 to be true to their own principles. The soil is theirs — 

 the government is theirs — and on them depends mainly 

 the continuance of their system. That system is, that 

 enlightened opinion, and the domestic ties are more 

 stable guarantees of social tranquillity than mere force, 

 and that the government of the plough is safer, and, 

 when there is need, stronger than the government of 

 the sword. If the e.xisting dissensions of the old world 

 are to be settled by two millions of soldiers, all ours 

 will soon be decided by two millions of voters. The 

 instinct of agriculture is for peace — for the empire of 

 reason, not of violence — of votes, not of bayonets. 

 Nor shall we, as freemen and members of a domestic 

 and fireside profession, hesitate in our choice of the 

 three great master influences which now rule the world 

 — force, opinion, and affection — Xhe cartridge-box, ihe 

 ballot-box, and the band-box. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet., 

 Hoven Cattle. 



Mr. Editor,— In a late conversation with Capt 

 James Cooper, of Haddonfield, lie informed me of a cer- 

 tain cure for lioven cattle, which ought, I think, to be 

 made universally known, for the good of the commu- 

 nity. It is this — 



Make a twisted band of straw, the size of the wrist, 

 and place it in the mouth of the animal, drawing it 

 tight, and making fast the ends over the head, just be- 

 hind the horns : tliis will cause the beast to endeavour 

 to rid itself of the inconvenience, by chewing the band, 

 and the act of moving the tongue and jaws will open 

 the gullet, and permit the pent-up air to escape. The 

 eliiciency of the mode here recommended, was tested a 

 very short time ago, on a valuable cow belonging to the 

 Captain, by one of his neighbours, who, finding her 

 most dangerously atfected in this way, instantly ap- 

 plied the twisted band of straw, and was quite aston- 

 ished to find that, in a moment, the air rushed furiously 

 out of the distended stomach, and in a few minutes 

 more she was perfectly recovered. 



Now, I consider your readers indebted to the Captain 

 for this communication, to an amount far more than 

 the value of a year's subscription to llie Cabinet, but, 

 in return, he only asks every one to do good, by com- 

 municating, by means of its pages, whatever they may 

 know which would be at all likely to benefit the world 

 by its publication. J. R. 



JVcM Jersey, 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 The Milk-Cow. 



A DIALOGUE FOUNDED ON FACT. 



JV.— Capt. J., is it true that you have paid fifty dol- 

 lars for a milk-cow ? 



Capt. J. — Yes indeed it is ; and you would not get 

 her, were you to offer me a hundred for her. 



JV'. — Oh! it is a monstrous price, she can never pay 

 it, never: I would not give more than thirty dollars for 

 the best cow I ever saw. 



Capt. J. — Come now, let us talk over the subject, and 

 see if we can't discover that it is quite possible to 

 make a cow pay for herself, even if she costs fifty dol- 

 lars. Can you tell me what is the interest on fifty dol- 

 lars for a year 1 



JV.— Why, three dollars, isn't it? 



Capt. J.— And how many weeks are there in a year? 



JV.— Fifty-two, to be sure. 



Capt. J.— Well, then, before I purchased this cow my 

 butter cost me a dollar and a half a week, besides what 

 I had to pay for new milk for my family ; now I save 

 all this, sell a dollar's worth of butter a week, and have 

 all the skim-milk for my hogs. Now, do you think I 

 put the value of all this too high at three dollars a 

 week? 



JV.— Well, perhaps not. 



Capt. J. — Then, you see I pay the interest of the fifty 

 dollars— the price of the cow— for the whole year, by 

 one week's receipts. And am I right when I calculate 

 I have the remaining fifty-one weeks' receipts, with 

 which to pay the principal and her keep ? 



JV.— I guess you are, and I am fifty dollars the wiser 

 for our conversation upon the subject. 



To Correspondents. 



"AGR!coLA"t is reminded of the utter impracticability 

 of estimating the quantity of hay in the mow by 

 measurement ; so much depenJs on the nature of the 

 hay, whether it be up-land or low-land, and how much 

 it had heated in the mow, neither the seller nor the 

 buyer would be satisfied with anything short of weigh- 

 ing, and that accurately. 



" Tycho Brahe's communication is very acceptable ; 

 truth ought to bear the most rigid scnitiny ; we only 

 bargain for the duty of withholding any thing that is 

 personal ; it will appear in our next number. 



Will our friend of the "old school" excuse the non- 

 appearance of his article? to insure insertion, commu- 

 nications should be sent in before the first day of the 

 month. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the 



9th month, (September,) was 2.502 inches. 



John Conead. 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, 10th mo. 1, 1840. 



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