VARIOUS BREEDS OF COWS AND THEIR MILK. 625 



itary Frontiers, 49 ; Venice and Corinthia, 33 ; Dalraatia, 20 ; Galicia, 13 ; Sea- 

 coast and Istrica, only 12 out of 100. In 1840, says Darby, between the eleventh 

 and twelfth part of the whole white population of the United States could not 

 either read or write. 



And what, demands some caviler, has all this to do with Agriculture ? Can't 

 a man plow as straight a furrow, and maul as many rails, though he may not be 

 able to read or write ? As a mere practical, or money question, then, into which 

 some people are for resolving everything, let me quote you, Mr. Editor, a single 

 passage from some judicious and high-spirited " Remarks," attached to a printed 

 Report of the proceedings of the last Annual School Convention of Newcastle 

 County," Delaware — placed in my hands by a self-made and most u*eful man 

 of that county ; one who, from being originally a brick-layer, to his honor be it 

 noted, and refused credit for a "husk-collar" but a few years since, has in the 

 mean time made a large, poor farm, now one of the most productive in the county, 

 pay for itself, and exhibit to the whole State a model of intelligent, enterprising 

 and vigorous management. I allude to Maj. John Jones, of " Wheatland," Dela- 

 ware. I know not by whom these " Remarks" were written, but they do credit 

 alike to the head and heart of the w^riter, whoever he was. As to the pecuniary 

 advantage, then, of only learning to read and write, and the addition it gives to 

 a man's productive capacity, and therefore to his usefulness and value as a mem- 

 ber of society, it is stated in these Remarks : 



" A few years ago, accurate examination 

 was made in maiiui'acturing establishments, 

 upon railroads and other public works to as- 

 certain wlltether the laborers and jiersons em- 

 ployed, who had received a common school 

 education, had any advantage with respect to 

 capacity and conduct iu securing better wages, 

 and leading to promotion from lower to higher 

 stations, and increase of compensation. It 

 w^as found to be the actual result, proved by 

 ledgers and accounts, that laborers and per- 



sons having had benefit merely of common 

 schools, possessed great advantages over those 

 who had been destitute of tliis benefit — sur- 

 passing them in many respects, bettering their 

 employment, and improving their condition. 

 It was thus pro\ed, practically, that the pros- 

 pect of a person with a common school edu- 

 cation, for livelihood, for good management, 

 for success, for usefulness and respectability, 

 is far better than that of a person without — 

 more than two to one." 



[^Ve regret to be obliged to postpone the residue of our correspondent's remarks, as in them 

 he gives a more practical view of the agricultural products of Austria, comparing them with our 

 own, &c. The preceding has been a long time in type, as might be inferred from some of the 

 ft,cts. Ed. Farm. Lib.] 



VARIOUS BREEDS OF COWS AND THEIR MILK. 



GREEN CORN AND CORN MEAL AS FOOD FOR COWS-QUERY? 



In this Journal for last month, page 55, will be found some useful practical ob- 

 servations on the subject of Milk — its weight and yield of butter — taken from the 

 Boston Cultivator. 



Among other dairy facts well established, and yet not always well considered 

 in the selection of cows, experience proves that the milk of one cow will some- 

 times give nearly double as much as another ; proving that for a butter dairy, 

 the greatest millvcr may be far from being the most profitable cow. The value 

 of the animal depends, therefore, on whether the cow-keeper's object is to sell 

 milk or to sell butter. The milk-sellers in and near London, keep the large 



(1H5) 40 



