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fearful, when we read his notes from England, 

 that this would be the result, as we know that 

 6uch scenes and such characters as he describes 

 are only to be found in the very worst society. 

 Removed from the restraining influence of society 

 at home, we fear our western editor was so un- 

 fortunate as to get into bad company, and thus 

 our hopes of his improvement were blasted. One 

 of our female subscribers in Michigan, calls our 

 attention to the following paragraph in the Feb- 

 ruary number : 



" There are probably now about eight thousand subscri- 

 bera to agricultnral pa])crs in Michigan, viz., six thousand 

 to tlie Mic/ii(;an Farmer, say one thousand to tlie Gewsee 

 Fanner, TwQAnmdmd to the Albaiv/- Cultivator, ani five 

 hundred to all otliers. When we took the MivMgun Far- 

 mer, five years ago, it Iiad about a thoxistAmXf/Hj-ceni sub- 

 scribers, having been published six vears previously, and 

 the Genesee Fanner twenty-fiyc hundred." 



Now, the truth is, five years since we had but 

 705 subscribers in Michigan ; last year, 2,409. 

 The present year we can not say what the num- 

 ber will be, as we are every day receiving orders 

 from that State, but have every reason to believe 

 it will be much higher, having already entered 

 on our books forty new offices, with good clubs, 

 where the Genesee Farmer was never before 

 taken. We hope the editor will make a good 

 Michigan Farmer, and we shall ever rejoice at 



his prosj^erity. 



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Advertisements, to secure insertion in the Farm- 

 er, must be received as early as the 10th of the 

 previous month, and be of such a character as to 

 be of interest to' farmers. We publish no other. 

 Terms — $2.00 for every hundred words, each in- 

 sertion, paid in advance. 



ca.se. the increase is dependent on tlie ammonia 

 of the guano: while in the latter, much benefit 

 Js also derived from the phosphates. , On corn, 

 tl)e exact increase caused by 100 lbs. of guano[ 

 has not, to our knowledge, been determined. Our 

 own opinion is, that it will not pay to apply guano 

 to corn, when shelled corn sells for only 50 cents 

 a bushel. We intend experimenting with it this 

 spring and shall then be able to speak with more 

 confidence. Any of our readers who have used it, 

 will confer a favor by communicating the result 



Inquiries anb ^nsiDcrs. 



(Edward R. Coke.) Middlesex Hogs. — There 

 are but few Middlesex hogs in the country. We 

 believe Mr. JortN C. Jackson, Newtown, Long 

 Island, has imported some fine specimens of this 

 valuable breed ; and that Col. J. M. Sherwood, 

 Auburn, N. Y., and Lewis R Allen, Black Rock, 

 N. Y., have obtained some of them from ]\Ii-. 

 Jackson. 



(J. W, Ward, Louisvile, Ky.) Guano is a most 

 excellent manure for Indian corn ; that is, it will 

 very much increase its growth. The economy of 

 using it, however, depends on the amount of in- 

 crease produced by its application, and on the 

 value of the corn. On good average wheat soils, 

 or such that will produce from 15 to 20 bushels 

 of wheat without the aid of manure, 100 lbs. of 

 good Peruvian guano will produce three extra 

 bushels of wheat On very poor soils, we should 

 expect a much greater increase ; for in the former 



v.^. ^'^''''";''''' "^ ANiMALS.-Will not you, or some of 



our correspondents, give the readers of \he FamiZ I 



table, or rule of raeasurement, by which individuals may 



ascert.-xm the weight, and consequently the value of their 



''Ir"'.,^'!.™''"Vr'!"°"' '^"^'"S to -depend upon the 

 •'say so ' of the butcher. J. Wokk, JT^.-Meadville. 



We believe there is no rule for determining the 

 weight of beef by measuring the live animal, that 

 even approximates to correctness in all cases. We 

 have not sufficient data from which to deduce 

 even a general rule, and we should be glad if any 

 of our readers who have had experience in the 

 matter, would give us their results and conclu- 

 sions. The following, from Stephens' Book of the 

 Farm, is to the point: 



"Assistance may be afforded you in ascertain- 

 ing the weight of your cattle until you are bet- 

 ter taught by experience, and this consists in 

 measuring their bulk, or in wcir/hinrj their live- 

 iveight. The live-weight of cattle is'easijy ascer- 

 tained by placing the animals upon a steel-yard. 

 The rule to determine the quantity of beef by 

 the hve-wcight is to mu]ti])ly the gross weiglit 

 by .605 of a decimal, if the ox is ripe fat; but if 

 not so, by. 5 of a decimal: that is to sa}^ that the 

 offal of an ox in ordinary condition we'ighs about 

 as much as its beef and bones. An ox should not 

 be weighed immediately after it has fed, as it 

 will weigh too heavy, but after it has che\ved 

 the cud, and is ready again to feed. Ascertain- 

 ing the weight by measurement is a more conve- 

 nient method than by weighing; and when the 

 measurement is properly taken, and the ox of an 

 ordinary size, it is about as accurate; though 

 every person can not measure an ox, that process 

 requiring judgment to do it properly and accu- 



rately. Suppos the annexeed figure to represent 

 an ox whose weigth, sinking otfal, is desired to 



