No. 12, 



Large Milker. — The Farmers' Cabinet 



375 



the past year, I determined to try the pro- 

 ject, and accordingly, about the middle of 

 February, applied a good coat of manure to 

 a piece of land designed for the experiment : 

 here it lay until the middle of March, when 

 I raked off the longest and driest part, and 

 commenced digging a trench about seven 

 inches deep, the whole length of the land — 

 throwing off the surface-soil, as directed. I 

 then dug up the bottom of the trench a good 

 depth, replacing the subsoil — being careful 

 not to let any part of it mix with the top-soil ; 

 the manure was then raked in on the subsoil, 

 and another trench formed by throwing the 

 surface-soil on the manure, and so on, until 

 the whole was completed. The land was 

 then planted and sown with garden vegeta- 

 bles, each in its proper season, and my crops 

 will now compare with the best in the neigh- 

 bourhood. My success is complete, and be- 

 yond my most sanguine expectations. 



Then, since " like causes produce like 

 effects," is it not reasonable to expect, that 

 if a corresponding system of subsoil plough- 

 ing were adopted on the farm, the same be- 

 neficial results would follow, inasmuch as the 

 fibrous roots of all the crops that are culti- 

 vated in our fields penetrate the earth to a 

 far greater depth than what is moved by our 

 ordinary mode of ploughing? But by what 

 mode this is to be accomplished, I must leave 

 to your enlightened readers, who by their 

 communications on this interesting subject, 

 would confer a favour on 



R. W. 



Chester County, Pa., June lOth, 1841. 



We would refer our correspondent to the engraving 

 of the Deanston Plough, in our last, and point his at- 

 tention to the very interesting account which accom- 

 panies it, of the success attending the introduction of 

 subsoil ploughing, by Air. E. Pfainney, of Lexington. 



Ed. 



Large Milker. 



John Jones, Esq., of the Wheatland Farm, 

 Delaware state, writes as follows to the cor- 

 responding secretary of St. George's Agri- 

 cultural Society. 



" Dear sir, — My cow, Yellow Flower, out 

 of a common country cow, 5 years old, stands 

 barely 12 hands in heiglit, and is estimated 

 to weigh, if slaughtered, 350 lbs. She was 

 sired by my half Devon and Durham bull, a 

 calf out of the Fort Delaware cow. The 

 butter of our dairy, averaging about 90 lbs. 

 a week before she came in, was by her so 

 much increased, that we were resolved to set 

 her milk apart for a week, to see how near 

 Bhe would come to the much-talked-of cows, 

 Blossom and Dairymaid. On the 4th inst., 

 commenced with 26^ quarts, by milking- 

 morning, noon and evening ; on the 5th, 26 i 



quarts. The weather being very warm — 

 thermometer at 90 to 93 degrees — it operated 

 .so much upon the cellar in which the milk 

 was kept, that to continue the experiment 

 longer would have been to do injustice to the 

 cow — we therefore closed with the second 

 day; the 13|^ gallons of milk yielding at the 

 rate of 15=^ lbs. of butter per week. Every 

 thing considered, and without boasting, I 

 think Yellow Flower the best cow in Dela- 

 ware: she was, at the time, in the third 

 week of her milking, and grazed in common 

 with a large stock, on land that ten years ago 

 was dull sale at $10 per acre.'''' 



There are others of our friends who possess large 

 milkers. Would they send us their accounts for record 

 in the pages of the Cabinet ?— Ed. 



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Mr. Editor, — Although I am not the pos- 

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 or to witness the results; for by the time I have 

 visited in a morning my horse and cow — both 

 in the singular number and of the feminine 

 gender — my hog's stye, my poultry yard and 

 hen coops, my very small conservatory and 

 little garden, I seem as completely in the 

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 mind which constitutes the limit, and a very 

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