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Food for Cattle. — Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. XII. 



of their labour. The marts of commerce 

 must be their market, and the demand and 

 supply which meet in those marts must go- 

 vern their prices. The demand for home 

 consumption, as an element in that market, 

 must directly and deeply interest them, and 

 should be carefully cultivated and encour- 

 aged, while all the other elements acting 

 with it, and constituting together the de- 

 mand of the market, should be studied with 

 equal care, and, so far as may be in their 

 power, and consistent with other and para 

 mount duties, should be cherished with equa 

 care. 



TO BE CONTINUED. 



Food for Milch Cows. — At a large 

 milk establishment near Newcastle, Eng- 

 land, the cows are fed in the following man- 

 ner: 91 pounds of clover hay, — cut or chop- 

 ped — 168 lbs. brewer's grains, 12 lbs. ground 

 flax seed, 2 lbs. salt, are mixed together, and 

 equally divided as the daily food for twelve 

 cows. The hay, after having been cut, is 

 put into the mash tub and scalded with boil- 

 ing water. The other articles are then 

 mixed with it. It is stated that a good cow 

 thus fed, will yield an average of fourteen 

 quarts of milk per day, for eight months in 

 succession. The owner of the establish- 

 ment, Mr. Arundale, stated that he had one 

 cow which had not had a calf for two years 

 and a half, that was giving an average of 

 eight quarts per day. A great point ob- 

 served is, that the cows never fall off in 

 condition. — Cultivator. 



Fat Animals and Large Crops result 



ALIKE FROM ABUNDANCE OF PrOPER FoOD. 



The profits of crops, as well as cattle, de- 

 pend mainly upon the return they make for 

 the food and labour bestowed upon them. 

 The man who grows a hundred bushels of 

 corn, or makes a hundred pounds of meat, 

 with the same means and labour that his 

 neighbour expends to obtain fifty bushels or 

 fifty pounds, has a manifest advantage; and 

 while the latter merely lives, the former, if 

 prudent, must grow rich. He gains the en- 

 tire value of the extra fifty bushels or fifty 

 pounds. This disparity in the profits of ag- 

 ricultural labour and expenditure is not a 

 visionary speculation — it is a matter of fact, 

 which is seen verified in almost every town. 

 We see one farmer raise 80 bushels of corn 

 on an acre of land, with the same labour, 

 but with more foresight in keeping his land 

 in good tilth, and feeding better his crop, 

 than his neighbour employs upon an acre, 

 and who does not get 40 or even 30 bushels. 

 This difl"erence results from the manner of 

 feeding and tending the crop. — Vt. Chronicle 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



iVlMERICAIT HERD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Tenth Month, 1847. 



We have received the second number of T/ie Iowa 

 Farmers' Advocate, edited by H. Gates, and published 

 weekly at Burlington, Iowa, in a quarto form of 10 

 pages, at $] a year. It is well filled, and cannot fail, 

 from the promise before us, to be highly useful to our 

 Western farmers. 



We understand the Chester County Horticultural 

 Society's Annual Exhibition, at West Chester, was a 

 very spirited affair, greatly creditable to its members 

 and the neighbourhood. There is much horticultural 

 taste and skill in the vicinity, as well as substantial 

 means for their improvement and display. Numerous 

 premiums were awarded, both for fruits and flowers. 



By an extract from the Ohio Cultivator, on page 82 

 we learn, as indeed we have learned from various 

 other papers of the State, that the disease of the pota- 

 toe has quite extensively appeared in Ohio. We do 

 not hear much of it in the Atlantic States, and we 

 hope the general crop will be a tolerably good one. 

 The potatoes in this vicinity, are very fine, though the 

 crop is not a large one. 



The Burlington Gazette says, the Horticultural Ex- 

 hibition in that city last month was well attended; 

 and that Burlington County was well represented by 

 the produce from the ample gaii^ens and well managed 

 farms of the vicinity. *" 



It is stated in one of the Ohio papers, that peaches 

 were produced at the recent Fair of the Columbus 

 Horticultural Society, measuring more than a foot in 

 circumference, and weighing 14 ounces. 



We are advised, that a dairy farmer in Lancashire, 

 England, lately realised £i%\is. M. by the sale of 13f 

 cvvt. of cheese, the product of thirteen cows, in thirty- 

 eight days; full 40 cents a day for each cow. 



We have thought the Address of Ex-Governor 

 Wright, was well worth an insertion in the Cabinet. 

 Part of it will be found on page 98. It will be recol- 

 lected, that he died suddenly at his residence. Canton, 

 N. Y., on the 27th of 8th mo. last. It is said he com- 

 pleted it only the day previously. It was read at the 

 Exhibition by John A. Dix. 



Prince's Catalogues — 3Gth Edition. 



Wm. R. Prince & Co., proprietors of the Nurseries 

 at Flushing, L. 1., have just published their new Cata- 

 logues at an expense of above $1000. The Descriptive 

 Fruit Catalogue is the most complete ever published, 

 and the glands, size and colour of the blossoms of the 

 peaches are given in addition to all other information. 

 Terms $1, post paid, with the application. The old 

 edition will be seni gratis. 



Sept. 15th, 1847, 2t. 



