No. 8. 



A Good Cow, ^'C. — Agricultural Nuisances. 



241 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



A Good Cow— Good Butter^ and a good 



deal of it. 



Mr. Editor — As a n^ood deal has been said 

 relative to the quantity of butler, exhibited 

 eotne short lime since, by Mr. Kenworthy, 

 made from one week's milking of a single 

 cow, I was curious to ascertain the facts, as 

 well with regard to her keep avS the produce. 

 I accordingly inquired in the proper quarter, 

 and was informed that the cow Filton now 

 about seven years old — was purchased of John 

 Zane, of this county, witii her dam, both for 

 thirty-eigiit dollars. Filton at the time of her 

 purchase was four months old. This is all 

 the information I have been able to obtain. — 

 Mr. Kenworthy informed me that her keep 

 was as follows : a small quantity of hay in the 

 morning, then a mess of bran, while eating 

 which she wasniilked, then about half a peck 

 of grains, well mixed with a suitable portion 

 of cut stuff, with the addition of a little salt. 

 She was then well curried, then watered, and 

 especial care taken that she did not drink too 

 much. If the weather was favorable she was 

 permitted to run in the barn-yard, if not she 

 was stabled again, and fed with hay only. — 

 At rHX)n and night she was treated in the same 

 way as cbove described in every particular, 

 except that the grains were omitted at noon. 

 Milked, morning and evening, the quantity 

 of milk varying from twenty-two to twenty- 

 eight quarts per day. The following is the 

 produce of butter from the two weeks' milk- 

 ing: 



First week's butter 18 pounds. 



Second week's 16i 



Three pans of milk, belonging to the 

 second week's milking were frozen, and 

 thereby lost. The butler was very beau- 

 tiful in appearance, and of a very superior 

 quality, and we hope that many of our fair 

 countrywomen will follow the example of 

 Mrs. Kenworthy, who deserves no little credit 

 for her care and attention to the duties of her 

 dairy. J. M e. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Agricultural IViii§ances. 



Every good man slioiiU) Innd a hand to remove a com- 

 mon nuisance. 



The Cabinet, by its extensive circulation, 

 having become the organ of communication 

 among farmers, and the seeds of useful infor- 

 mation having been sown broadcast by it 

 throughout the country, I ask the privilege of 

 occupying a few inches of one of its pages to 

 represent a grievance, and to inquire for a 

 remedy. In most neighborhoods there are 

 respectable, careful, conscientious farmers, 



who not only look to, and regard their own 

 interests, but are considerate and watchful in 

 respect to those circumstances which may in 

 any way interfere with, or prejudice the in- 

 terests of their neighbors. Besides these, and 

 often beside or contiguous to them, tliere are 

 a kind of farmers, of a very different descrip- 

 tion and character, who not only neglect to 

 promote their own best interests, but are to- 

 tally reckless in respect to the performance 

 of neighborhood duties. One of the most 

 common defalcations of this sort is that of 

 permitting weeds of all the usual pernicious 

 varieties to grow up to maturity, and to dis- 

 perse their seeds throughout their neighbor- 

 hood to the great annoyance and injury of 

 others as well as themselves. The St. John's 

 wort, mullen, wild carrot, thistle and numer- 

 ous others, which it may not be necessary to 

 enumerate, are sown through whole districts 

 of country, by the unpardonable neglect of 

 duty of comparatively a few individuals. — 

 Where the seed is light the wind conveys it 

 for miles, and where it is heavier and is not 

 supplied with wings, as is the thistle, in tho 

 winter when snow covers the ground and its 

 surface is encrusted, the seeds of the mullen, 

 wild carrot and St. John's wort are blown to 

 incredible distances, and it often happens that 

 he who raises the seed has least of it depos- 

 ited on his own premises : while his careful, 

 painstaking, industrious neighbor suffers a 

 grievous infliction, in the shape of myriads of 

 vile pests growing among his grain and grass, 

 partaking of the precious nutriment which 

 had been carefully provided forthe sustenance 

 and growth of his own crops. The winter of 

 1837 — 38, when the snow furnished the most 

 complete means of conveyance for this de- 

 scription of seeds, the mullen and many other 

 seeds were scattered broadcast through the 

 land, to the dismay of many a worthy farmer; 

 and as many of these plants are either bien- 

 nial or perennial, if very vigilant means are 

 not resorted to the approaching spring, heavy 

 loss and damage will result from the presence 

 of these unwelcome intruders on our premises. 

 A universal declaration of war should be de- 

 clared against them at an early period, and no 

 quarter given ; nothing but extermination will 

 do the business. 



But the main question is, what are we to 

 do with those farmers who constantly pre- 

 serve, and are the means of perpetuating the 

 stock of these intruders and robbers? ^Thm 

 is the disease for which we want a remedy. 

 Would it be too much for these republican 

 people to ask their legislature to pass for 

 them an act. si.[nilar to that which is in force 

 .in France? Where, if a farmer neglects to ex- 

 tirpate the weeds growing on his grounds, any 

 person aggrieved may employ hands at the 

 expense of the delinquent, and cause them to 



