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The peas I raised are all of early varieties. My mode of raising 

 peas is to select a new and fresh piece of ground, clear of weeds. 

 Potato or corn ground answers if not highly manured the year previ- 

 ous to sowing. Manure has the effect of producing haulm or vines 

 to an immoderate length, but few pods will form, and what few there 

 are will not fill. 



I plow^ the ground thoroughly, drag or harrow the surface smooth, 

 and sow at the rate of four bushels per acre of the common sized 

 early peas, if large kind and dwarf, I sow thicker and plough them 

 under, using a shallow narrow furrow. 



GEORGE NESBITT. 



Ji)hartj Delaware county, Jan. 8, 1849. 



J. N. BLAKESLEE ON DEVON CATTLE. 



The manner of raising my stock of cattle, all high bred Devons, 

 and for which I have received the first premium, has been to take 

 them from the cows when four days old, bring them up by hand on 

 ■skimmed milk until they are ten weeks old, then wean them. They 

 are thenceforth kept on hay and grass, until they are broko for labor, 

 which is generally when they are two years of age, at from 100 to 

 $125 a pair, which is an annual income from 20 to $25, besides the 

 profit of their labor, which is a good part of the year sufficient to pay 

 the expense of keeping them. 



Since I sold my team in New-York last fall, I have had none iDut 

 two years old steers of which I have five pair, which have done all 

 my work. I breed all my working oxen ; I have not bought a pair 

 in twenty years. I never have been in the habit of giving grain to 

 my cattle, when I have plenty of hay. My stock is of high breed 

 Devons, and there is, in my opinion, no breed of cattle in our country 

 that will grow as much and as fine on short feed, as the Devons. 

 They are sometimes under-size, bat this however may be remedied by 

 good breeding. 



The day has arrived when breeders of fine stoclc should have great 

 £s encouragement for the purity of blood, and expressly for the im- 



