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Rich Milk. — Tabular Estimate of Crops for 1844. Vol. IX. 



Rich Milk. 



No error can be greater than that of be- 

 lieving a cow can give rich milk upon a 

 poor, lean, spare diet. There must be in 

 the food that which will supply the materi- 

 als or ingredients of which milk is composed, 

 or else it must be impossible for the cow to 

 produce it. The better the food, the better 

 and richer the milk — the larger quantity of 

 cream, and the supply of butter made from 

 it. Many of our own cows, and most of the 

 imported specimens, whose surprising pro- 

 ducts have been spread before us in our ag- 

 ricultural papers and reports, have had the 

 advantages of great care and abundant and 

 tich feeding, either of the pasture or the 

 stall. It could not have been otherwise ; the 

 effects only followed known causes. 



Great difference exists in cattle; some 

 cows run to fat, and those are apt to be 

 spare milkers; the Jean and well formed are 

 apt to be good ones ; some digest the food 

 better than others, and these do better upon 

 the same pasture or quantity of food ; some 

 feed faster and more constantly, and these 

 are apt to be the best milkers, which run 

 with others upon the same pasture. There 

 appears to be as much diversity among cat- 

 tle in these particulars as among men and 

 women, who may daily sit together around 

 the same table. 



The milk-men can now reside thirty or 

 forty miles from Boston, and have their milk 

 fresh and warm from the cow in two hours 

 or less in the dwelling of the consumer. 

 The farmer finds a new source of income in 

 his milk, and as tlie supply is more abun- 

 dant, the citizen of Boston has it good ; he 

 no longer suspects that it has been diluted 

 with water. There is enough of good milk 

 to supply the demand, and bad would find 

 no customers. Town and city families no 

 longer jar in consequence of trading in cows; 

 and they can much quicker, and oftener than 

 formerly visit by means of the rail-roads, 

 their country friends, without those unplea- 

 sant comparisons between city and country 

 cream and butter. — Farmers' Monllihj Vis- 

 itor. 



Tabular Estimate of Crops for 1844. 



In the eleventh No.of our last volume, will be found 

 estimates of the crops in the United States in the year 

 1843, from the Report of the Commissioner of Patents 

 at Washington. We now give from the same source, 

 those for the past year. These are highly interesting 

 to farmers, and afford, at a glance, not only the aggre- 

 gate of our great staple crops, but also the produce of 

 the individual States. By comparing the tables for 



1843, with those annexed, it will be observed that the 

 crop of corn throughout the country for the past year, 

 appears to have been more than 70,000,000 of bushels 

 short of that of the preceding one, and that the crop 

 of wlieat was nearly 5,000,000 of bushels less. While 

 the produce of these grains in some States was less in 

 the last year than in the preceding one, others, how- 

 ever, have considerably increased their amounts. In 

 1843, in the amount of corn raised, the six following 

 States stood in the following order: Tennessee, Ken- 

 tucky, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. In 1844, the 

 six heaviest corn producers stand as follow: Tennes- 

 see, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana, North Caro- 

 lina. The six States, which in 1843 produced the 

 greatest amount of wheat, stood in the following or- 

 der: Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Indi- 

 ana, Tennessee; in 1844, they stand as follow: Ohio, 

 New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indi- 

 ana. Louisiana in 1843, produced but 97,000,000 lbs. 

 of sugar, while in 1844, her produce was raised to 

 100,000,000; and what is not a little remarkable. New 

 York is the next heaviest sugar producer. While Con- 

 necticut produces almost as much silk as all the other 

 States put together, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana 

 and Alabama, are far the heaviest cotton growers. 

 Kentucky and Virginia are the great tobacco States. 

 New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, have 

 the greatest population. New York may well be called 

 the Empire State, as she now numbers almost as many 

 souls as did the whole " thirteen" at the time of the 

 Revolution. 



While the population of every State is steadily on 

 the increase, we find that the facilities for procuring a * 

 comfortable subsistence are also continually multiplied. •«! 

 We have still, vast territories of unimproved land, in- <i 

 viting to their occupancy the hardy and enterprising ij 

 of our citizens, whose capital is limited, and who 

 would themselves lay a foundation for the wealth, and 

 more easy situation of their children. It is by no 

 means in an improved cultivation of the soil alone 

 that our advancement is to be perceived. The produc- 

 tions of our mechanics and manufacturers will bear 

 comparison with the very best of any country; and the 

 general diffusion of these improvements, leads, it is to 

 be hoped, to a general increase of the common comfort. 

 "There is a beautiful connection," says the Report, 

 "between the progress of the mechanic arts and the 

 deve'opement of the natural productions of the soij. 

 The genius which puts into the hands of the Agricul- 

 turist the machine by which he may plough, mow, 

 reap, thresh, or shell out ten times the usual amount 

 performed by the same number of individuals, of course 

 is gifting him with increased power of turning his 

 labour to advantage, provided the market keeps pace 

 with such advance of product. The same may be said 

 with respect to the great fertility secured by different 

 compounds, which, by the aid of chemistry, have been 

 applied to the soil." As information becomes more 

 generally diffused, and the minds of the farming com- 

 munity more thoroughly set into action, we believe 

 the apparent comfort of all may be promoted, and long 

 periods elapse before the onward march of our country 

 shall have reached the goal towards which it would 

 seem to be aiming.— Ed. 



