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PREr<nUM BUCK BONAPARTB. 



Bonaparte. — The best Hue wooled buck exhibit- 

 ed at the Fair of the American Institute Oct. 11, 

 1849; the property of S. C. Roe, Esq., Chester, 

 Orange County, N. Y. 



The above cut represents Mr. Roe's prize buck 

 Bouaparte, which received the first piemium for 

 fine wool, a silver cup. It was bred by S. W. 

 Jewett, Esq., of Weybridge, Vt., from a purebred 

 merino ewe which has sheared in six annual fleeces, 

 thirty-six and a half pounds of wool, well washed 

 upon the back. 



Bonaparte was sired by Napoleon: the property 

 of A. L. Bingham and S. W. Jewett. Napoleon 

 was bred by John A. Tainter, from a ram and ewe 

 imported by him from France in 1846. Napoleon's 

 first fleece clipped in May, 1848, at fourteen and a 

 half months growth, was 22 1-4 pounds; and his 

 second fleece, cut in June, 1849, at thirteen months' 

 growth, was 23 1-2 pounds; in 1850, at twelve 

 months 23 pounds. The aggregate of his three 

 fleeces weighed 68 3-4 pounds of unwashed wool. — 

 Copied from Transactions of American Institute, 

 for 1849, /or N. E. Farmer. 



^"A small farm, well tilled and manured, will 

 give a greater profit than a large one with the same 

 labor and manure. 



PEAT CHARCOAL. 



In reference to some articles which we have pub- 

 lished on the utility of peat charcoal for manure, 

 we have an inquiry as to the mode of making it, 

 and whether it is burned in the same way as wood 

 when it is converted into charcoal. 



The article which we published, to which refer- 

 ence is made, was doubtless from a foreign paper. 

 We have not known of any cases of making peat 

 into charcoal, yet peat is used extensively in this 

 country for manure. It is dug and exposed one 

 year or more to the various changes of the weather 

 and to frosts, which tend to decompose it ; and then 

 it is generally made into compost with animal ma- 

 nure, or used in the barn-yard or barn cellar, where 

 it absorbs the liquid manure and becomes decom- 

 posed, and the acid which abounds in peat becomes 

 nutralizedby the alkaline salts in the manure. When 

 animal manure is wanting, after exposing the peal 

 for decomposition, mix with it lime or ashes, 

 which will destroy the acid, and aid in the decompo- 

 sition and preparation of the peat for manure. Can 

 any of our readers communicate the mode of ma- 

 king peat charcoal, and the advantages, if any, froir 

 it? 



