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winter bite. Make artificial pools in your pas- 
tures for watering your stock, if there are no natu- 
ral ones. 
Prepare for the Cotton Harvest. — As the cotton- 
gathering season is rapidly approaching, prepare 
baskets and sacks for picking, as your leisure will 
admit, particularly wet or rainy days. 
Making and Collecting Manure. — This may be 
attended to as directed for the north and west. 
Kitchen Garden. — Sow beets, carrots, cabbages, 
endives, shalots, dwarf and pole beans, lettuce, 
(shaded situation,) mustard, tomatoes, (cover the 
seed,) melons, cucumbers, squashes, Indian corn, 
peas, turnips, (in new ground,) radishes, (long and 
short,) split onions, cauliflower, and roquet. Fre- 
quently stir the earth around your plants in dry 
weather ; water them in the evening. Prepare your 
ground for removing plants that are coming on. 
Fruit Garden, Shrubbery, tfc. — Preserve white or 
yellow cling-stone peaches, and wild and domestic 
plums as soon as ripe. Destroy suckers about trees. 
PROFITS OF POULTRY RAISING)-. 
Dr. H. S. Chase, of Woodstock, Vt., makes the 
following statement in one of our exchanges, on 
the Management and Profits of Poultry : — On the 
27th of March, 1848, I purchased four hens and 
one cock, and kept them until the 15th of Novem- 
ber, when I killed them. During that time, I re- 
ceived three hundred and eighty-six eggs, as the re- 
sult of their laying. I fed them on grain I pur- 
chased — seven pecks of corn at 75 cents per bushel. 
The account will stand as follows : — 
386 eggs, average price 1 cent each, - - $3.86 
7 pecks corn at 18^ cents per peck, $1.31 
1 peck oats .... 0.12—1.43 
Net profit of four hens for less than 
eight months, .... $2.43 
Average number of eggs laid by 
each hen, ----- 96 
My family is very small and will account for the 
limited scale on which I tried the experiment. The 
fowls had the liberty of a barn in which they were 
constantly kept, excepting about an hour before 
sunset, when they were let out. A part of the 
floor was taken up, however, that they might 
have constant access to gravel. Corn, lime, 
and water were kept in vessels, where they could 
help themselves at any time.. I occasionally gave 
them grass, chickweed, &c, which they ate 
greedily. 
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SALE OF MR. VAIL'S SHORTHORNS. 
We had the pleasure of being present, June 13th, 
at the sale of a part of Mr. Vail's fine herd of 
shorthorn cattle, at his farm, two miles above Troy. 
There was a very respectable attendance from the 
neighborhood, the adjoining states, and Canada. 
The animals were generally in fine condition, and 
commanded fair, but not extravagant prices. On 
many of them, the bidding was quite spirited. 
Three young bulls, each about twenty months old, 
brought respectively, $135, $147.50, and $150. 
Of those on the catalogue, 20 head, and these 
mostly young aninals, brought $2,015, and four 
calves, from two to seven weeks old, sold for $142. 
50, making an aggregate amount of $2,157.50 
This result, though far from flattering, shows 
spirit on the part of our farmers, and considering 
the apathy which has for some time existed on the 
subject, may be considered a favorable augery for 
the future. Wc are glad to notice that five choice, 
young animals, two bulls and three heifers, were 
purchased by our enterprising friends, the Messrs. 
Burgwyn, of Hillside, Hallifax, N. C, whose inter- 
est, we trust, will be decidedly promoted, by the 
improvement of their herds from these thorough 
breds. Judge Jessup and his friends, from Mon- 
trose, Pa., also bought three fine animals, to con- 
tinue an improvement, already successfully com- 
menced with former importations. &• 
We observed, Mr. Vail did not offer any of his 
thorough-bred Bates stock, though most of those 
sold had one or more crosses from this importation. 
We suppose these are held in reserve for future 
breeding and higher prices, which present appear- 
ances renders probable he will hereafter obtain. 
DICE'S ANTI-FRICTION CHEESE PRESS. 
Fig. 47. 
The annexed cut represents Dick's anti-friction 
power for pressing cheese. By its use, the whey 
is entirely removed with half the labor usually re- 
quired. The power may be increased to any ex- 
tent without danger to the press, as the working 
portions are made of iron, and consequently are 
capable of sustaining the force that may be applied. 
This implement is a perfect plat-form scale, so 
that the cheese can be accurately weighed before it 
is removed — a matter of great convenience and im- 
portance to the manufacturer, as well a-s to _ the 
purchaser, who can judge very nearly of its weight, 
as marked, when taken out of the press. 
