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separate, and the butter worked separate. 

 It was well worked for market, and nearly 

 every pound sent either to Washino-ton or 

 Philadelphia nn.arket. I have had the making 

 and handling of every pound of her butter 

 myself, and I have kept this account with 

 great care. The week she made 19 pounds, 

 she made one half of it the last tliree days 

 of the week. The 9^- pounds she made the 

 fore part of that week, were weighed in nine- 

 teen diffcient drafts, as put up in half pounds 

 for market — up to that time we had weighed 

 all her butter in that way — a half pound or 

 a pound at a time, as put up for market. 

 She is always milked three times a day. 

 The average quantity of her milk for May, 

 June, and July, was about 23 quarts a day — 

 it is now about 18. She calves again the 

 22nd of December. 



" The quantity made in twenty-eight weeks 

 and five days, from the 23rd of February to 

 the r2th of September, is 316 lbs., being an 

 average for the whole time, of a trifle over 

 11 lbs. per week. The average for the best 

 twelve weeks, from May 11th to August 4th, 

 is 14 lbs. 9 ounces per week — the best week 

 was 19 lbs., and the average of the best three 

 days of that week, is nearly 31bst 3 ounces 

 per day, or at the rate for these three days, 

 of 22 lbs. .5 oimces per week. 



"Her feed the first part of the time, was 

 hay and dry oat, and corn meal mixed — sub- 

 sequently this was changed to slop; two 

 buckets a day, were regularly given her, con- 

 taining about two quarts of corn meal, and 

 as much wheat bran, mixed in a bucket of 

 warm, or tepid water, with a little salt. 

 The week of her great trial, in June, she 

 was fed for about ten days, on three gallons 

 of meal a day, at three feeds, mi.xed as above. 

 She had the ruh of a good pasture, and she 

 was also, for a time, fed on green oats, and 

 again with corn fodder that had been sown 

 broad-cast. Eliza Morrison." 



September 12th, 1843. 



From among the fine animals exhibited 

 by Captain Maxwell, Samuel Canby, E. C. 

 Hewes, Zadoc Townsend, David Gemmill, 

 Micajah Churchman, Major Carr, Alexan- 

 der Moore, Wm. Tatnall, and others, the 

 committee were equally divided in opinion 

 between a cow of mixed Durham and Hol- 

 stein, of Major Carr's, one among ten fine 

 cows brought in by him, and a Holstcin cow 

 of Alexander Moore's ; and when the com- 

 mittee state that Major Carr's cow had given 

 thirty-five quarts of milk per day, for a week 

 together, it is no faint praise to any other 

 animal, to compete with her. The commit- 

 tee being equally divided in opinion, without 

 a vote from Major Carr, who was one of their 



number, he very handsomely settled the diffi- 

 culty, by a vote in favour of Mr. Moore's 

 cow, and to him, therefore, the second pre- 

 mium was awarded. 



Captain Maxwell's Durham cows, and also 

 those of Samuel Canby, have been heretofore 

 exhibited and noticed. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 

 James Canby, ") 

 Bryan Jackson, [ 

 John Jones, [ 



Wm. Robinson, J 

 Wilmington, Sept. ]3th, 1843. 



Committee. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



Philadelphia, Second Month, 1844. 



It is the ambition of the editor of the Cabinet, to 

 m.ike it really useful to the farmer, and interesting to 

 all who appreciate his calling. 



We need not, perhaps, disguise the fact, that we are 

 in tlie very frequent receipt of letters showing the good 

 opinion of the writers, and expressive of their good 

 wishes for the prosperity of our unassuming periodic 

 cal : neither need we disguise the feeling, that the 

 Farmers' Cabinet does not come up to the wishes and 

 the aim of its editor. We ask, therefore, increased 

 aid from our subscribers and friends. While we ten- 

 der in all sincerity, thanks for the many valuable 

 communications with which we have been, from time 

 to time, richly furnished, we Invite, and indeed urge, 

 all who feel interested in our success — and where la 

 the farmer who does not? — to come forward still more 

 liberally with their statements and views, and thus by 

 enriching our columns, make the Cabinet more en- 

 tirely what they would wish it to be, and what it 

 would be a high gratification to its editor to see it. 



A FEW weeks ago, a friend of ours was about to 

 lake a journey on business, and as he would remain 

 some time in a certain district where we had no sub- 

 scribers, he concluded, as well as ourselves, that he 

 might collect a few to add to our list. In a letter from 



him, dated " , Jan. 7th, 1844," he says, " I have 



lately taken a ride of twelve miles from this city, and 

 returned by a different road. I saw but one building 

 that could be construed into an apology for a barn. 

 ' How do you manage without barns,' said I to one of 

 the best farmers I met v.'ith. ' Oh,' said he, ' we have 

 no use for barns, we have nothing to put in them.' 

 ' How do you thresh your wheat?' I inquired: 'We do 

 not make any wheat.' ' Your rye then ?' ' We do not 

 make any rye.' 'What do you do with your hay?' 

 ' Neither do we make any hay,' was his reply. 'What 

 do you give your horses during the winter?' 'The 

 tops and blades of the corn.' ' And how are your cows 

 provided for?' ' We let them take their chance in the 

 fields among the stalks; they make out to live till 

 spring.' This same farmer told me he had not ma- 



