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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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ed this, and we hope soon to see an entire change 
in the old method of planting. B>' the pro- 
cess recommended in these agricultural publica- 
tions, for cultivating, manuring, deep plov.'ing in- 
stead of scratching, those who have practised it 
have found to their perlect satisfaction, that by 
Lhe cultivation oi less, land, they raise larger 
crops of all kinds, have a greater supply of all 
the necessary articles for plantation use, work 
less hands, use less agricultural implements and 
plantat'on stock and make more money. All this 
may be traced, directly or indirectly, to the cir- 
culation of agricultural periodicals.” 
A Farmer’s Fife. 
thur readers no doubt remember the speech of the 
the Rev. Mr. Choules, at the anniversary of the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society. They will 
notice, also, his letter, in another column of this 
paper, on the duty of the clergy in connection 
with agriculture. We have the. pleasure now to 
make an extract from a speech of this gentleman, 
on another occasion, which is worthy of a 1 com- 
mendation : 
“1 wish I could see (he says,) in all our farm- 
ers a disposition to magnify their calling ; but T 
have been grieved in many a farm-house, to lis- 
ten to lamentations over what they term their 
‘ hard lot.’ I have heard the residents upon a 
noble farm, all paid for, talk about drudgery, and 
never having their work done, and few or no op- 
portunities for the children ; and I haye especial- 
ly been sorry to hear the females lament over the 
hard fate of some promising youth of seventeen 
or eighteen, who was admirably filling up his 
duties, and training himself fer o tensive useful- 
ness and infiuence. They have made compaii- 
son between his situation, coarsely clad and 
working hard, and coming in fatigued, with some 
college cousin, or young man who clerked it in 
a store, till at length the boy has become dissat- 
isfied, and begged off from his true interests and 
happiness. 
“ I am conversant with no truer scenes of en- 
joyment than I have witnessed in American 
farm-houses, and even log-cabins, where the fa- 
ther, under the influence of enlightened Chris- 
tianity, and sound views of life, has gone with 
his family, as the world have termed it, into the 
woods. The land is his own, and he has every 
inducement to improve it ; he finds a healthy 
employment for himself and family, and is never 
at a loss for materials to occupy his mind. I do 
not think the physician has more occasion for 
research than the farmer ; the proper food of vege- 
tables and animals wili alone constitute a wide 
and lasting field of investigation. The daily 
journa) of a farm.eris a source of much interest 
to himseli and others. The record of Ms labors, 
the expression of his hopes, the nature of his 
fears, the opinions of his neighbors, the results 
of his experiments, the entire sum total of his 
operations, will prove a deep source of pleasure 
te any thinking man. If the establishment of 
agricultural societies, and the cattle shows of our 
country, should have the effect of stimulating 
one farmer in every town to manage his land and 
stock upon the best principles of husbandry, 
there would be a wonderful and speedy alteration 
in the products of the earth, because comparison 
would force itself upon his friends and neighbors; 
and his example would be certainly beneficial, for 
prejudice itself will give way to profit.” 
Great Yield of Corn. 
When, last year, we spoke of .the production of 
bushels of corn from an acre by Mrs. Lewis, 
of Hancock, and expressed our confidence that 
150 bushels might, and wmuld ere long, be raised 
on an acre, in the Southern States, some per- 
sons charged us with making a very extravagant 
p)rediction. Extravagant as it may have appear- 
ed, it is in a very fair way to be fulfilled. 
“ We are informed,” says the Highland Mes- 
•senger of the 23th ult., “ by Mr. Alexander Por- 
ter, the manager on the farm of Thomas T. Pa-t- 
ton, Esq , that an acre of corn was planted on the 
farm the last season with w’hich it was designed 
to contend for the prize offered .by the Buncombe 
County Agricultural Society, and that a few 
days since the corn was gathered and measured, 
and the yield wis one hundred and thirteen bu- 
shels and a half ! Mr. Patton will no doubt take 
the prize. His farm is on Swannano river. 
“ Here farmers, is an evidenee of what can be 
done. Had the season been good, Mr. Porter has 
no doubt the yield would have been one hundred 
and fifty bushels ! 
“To show what industry and management can 
accomplish, wc take the liberty of stating a fact 
related to us by Mr. Porter. He says that from 
three-fourths of an acre of land he produced and 
sold $55.43 worth of Watermelons.! besides a 
large number consumed on the place. We state 
this as an inducement to others to use their 
heads as well as hands, and to show them that 
what they might despise as a small business, 
may be made a source of no inconsiderable pro- 
fit.” 
Horses. 
One of the editors of the Dollar Farmer spent 
part oflast summer in Vermont, and while there 
collected a good deal of information about the 
famous Morgan Horse. In one of his letters, he 
says : 
“I find that the breeding of horses in the last' 
few years has been much neglected. I have con- 
versed with some of the Oesf judges of horses 
and some of the most experienced breeders 
and dealers in the State. There is no doubt 
whatever of this— that the breed of the Morgan 
horse was, and is now, in the few instances 
w'here it can be found, far the best breed of horses 
for general service that ever wasin theU. States* 
— probably the best in the world; and it is re- 
markable that this breed was and is now known 
by many striking pecnliariiirs, common to near- 
ly every individual. They have a full, heavy, 
wavy mane and tail, good head and neck, small 
well shaped ears, are broad between the eyes, 
legs broad and short with large tendons, bodies 
rather thick set ; hut their most striking pecu- 
liarity is in their carriage, legs well under, trot 
quick, short, and springy, forelegs bending re- 
markably, the very reverse of the slow, sloudiy 
movement of the race horse in a tiot. They are 
likewise exceedingly hardy and well tem.pered. 
The great demand for this breed caused all at 
first to turn their attention to it. Great numbers 
were bred and the price fell. In the meantime 
the price of wool rose and everybody went into 
the wool business. But the fame of Vermont 
horses spread abroad, and those that were left 
were nearly all bought up and sent off, including 
most of the finest mares. The people of New 
-York came over in great numbers with their 
horses and swapped them off for the Morgan 
horses. The result is that nov/ there are twenty 
common horses to one Morgan. But still you do 
find an occasional ftlorgan horse, and when you 
do there is no mistaking him for any other breed. 
I saw the celebrated Slrerman Morgan, Black 
Hawk, at Bridport, and I think he deserves all 
the praise that has been bestowed upon hinu He 
is the finest stallion I ever saw. His legs are fiat 
and broad, shoulders well setback, loin and back- 
bone very strong, lengttiof hip beyond anything 
I ever saw, as quick in breaking as the bullet, 
from the rifle, head and neck faultless ; in motion 
mouth open, crest sublimm, legs carried finely 
under him, square and even, and fore-legs bend- 
ing beautifully. 
Sir. Cotterel, of this place, who is as well ac- 
quainted with horses as any man in Vermont, 
says there is not the slightest doubt that the ori- 
ginal Morgan was got by a Canada horse. He 
says the most probable account of his origin is 
this: A man by the name of Smith, at Plainfield, 
N. H., had a fine imported mare. He rode this 
mare to Canada on a courting expedition, and 
while there his mare got in foal. Smith regretted 
the accident, and setting no valut upon the colt, 
he sold it to Mcrgan, a singihg master, who, when 
the colt was grown, rode him about on his sing- 
ing circuit. '•Vhen the coils from Morgan’shorse 
grew up they proved fine, and this gave him cele- 
brity. He was a fleet runner at short distances, 
and this originally induced the people to try him. 
Of the old klorgan’s progeny three became fa- 
mous as stallions, viz: the Sherman Morgan, 
Lhe Woodbury, or Burbank, and the Chelsea.^ Of 
these the Sherman Morgan was greatly the most 
distinguished. I have a'fecertained to a certainty 
that he died in the winter of 1835. Black Hawk 
was sired by him. The Chelsea Mo.gan is the 
only one of the three yet alive. He is said to be 
yet full of vigor. 
“ Such is the family likeness between the 
Canada horse and the .1: organ, that 1 find that 
some horse dealers here believe that the old Mor- 
gan was a genuine Canada. Certainly the evi- 
dence is clear that his valuable and characteristic 
qualities were derived from, the broad-legged 
Canada breed. Mr. Cotterel believes that rite 
Morgan horse would be a fine cross for the Ken- 
tucky horse, but he says he would prefer the 
Canada horse. He recommends that Canada 
mares as well as horses should be taken to Ken- 
tucky. A great msny Canada horses are import- 
ed and sold in Boston. Some of them are very 
fleet trotters and command from SSOOtoSTOO. 
Mr. C. saw last winter a large drove of Kentucky 
horses at Baltimore. He considered them much 
inferior to the \’'ermont horses, and he says that 
the prices asked for tiiem were greatly less than 
the prices got for the Vermont horses at Boston. 
The best place to purchase Canadian horses is 
some distance around Montreal and in the neigh- 
borhood ol Q,uebec. Just around Montreal they 
are much purchased up. The best of them can 
be purchased for $150. The pacing hoise of 
Canada is said to have proceeded from the Nar- 
raganset pacers rode over to Canada by fugitives 
from N'ew England. Very truly yours, g. ww. 
In another letter, speaking of the horses used 
in the wagons on the road from Cumberland to 
Wheeling, he says: 
Such road draft- horses are nowhere else to be 
found on the earth. They are as large and as 
strong as the Eng'ish cart horse, with greatly 
better limbs and more action. Of hundreds tha t 
I saw it w’ould be difficult to match the meanest 
in Kentucky, wheie there has been so much ra- 
cing “ to improve the breed.” This breed of 
horses is known, I believe, as Badgers. They 
are found in Pennsylvania and the norlhern part 
cf Maryland. I hope some enterprising breeders 
in Kentucky will import some of them to cross 
our stock. Racing improves the breed of race 
horses, but the less racing blood the better for 
every thing but the turf. No two animals of the 
same species could well be more unlike in form 
than the Morgan or Canada horse and the racer, 
and nothing could be more manifest than the 
superiority of the former over the latter as fast 
moving roadsters, with or without heavyweights 
We have the racer, (enough for sport, and they 
are fit for nothing else unless it be for an express 
mail); let us breed off from the racer with the 
Morgan and Canadian and the Conestoga. .Some 
people have an idea that the more race blood the 
better for all purposes. The idea is refuted by 
experience in a 1 coun tries. No racer is equal to 
the London cart-horse or the Conestoga lor he 
dray or veagon. None are equal to the English 
hunter for hunting. None equal to the Canada 
pacer for pacing. -None equal to the Canada, 
Vermont orNew York erotte'’r fortrotiing. None 
equal to the F.nElish Cleveland bay li.r "coaches. 
In England they hav"- distinct breeds forevery use 
— amblers for ladies’ riding horses, hunters for 
fo.x-hunting, cart-horses for carring, Cleveland 
bays for carriages, and race horses"for the turf. 
It should be ordered in the same way here. 
Very truly, yours, g. w. w. 
Good— Excelle!it==l!ifailiMe. 
There never was a belter prescription made 
np, any where, lor that most horrible of all dis- 
eases, Dyspepsia. Let these Yankees alone, 
and they’ll find out, some day, a cure for thun- 
derstorms, hurricanes, earthquakes andeclipses. 
Cure FOR Dvspepsi.v. — In a recentconversa- 
lion between a dyspeptic clergyman and a Yan- 
kee, the following occurred: 
“Tell you what, if you ministers, when you 
gits a salary, ’d just git some land, and dig yonr 
own corn and taters, guess as howyou would’nt 
git the dyspepsy.” 
“Right, Iriend — I’ll record that.” 
“ Know Parson H , down here in Beth- 
lehem T’ “Yes.” 
“Beatsa fe ler all holier at mowin’and niich- 
in’. See’d him stick apis last winter, at d haint 
a teller in town can come within a rod on him. 
Grand feller, sm.irt chap— preaches like si.xty!” 
