SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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EATING MEAT. 
The Americans are the greatest eaters of animal food. 
The pork consumed in the United States is three times 
the quantity consumed by the same number in Europe, 
if statistical accounts are to be believed. Animal food is 
very generally set on the table three times a day in the 
western country. An Irishman writing home and extol- 
ling the luxury of his condition in the new world, added, 
by way of a clincher, that he commonly took meat twice 
a day ; upon which his employer asked him why he did 
not state the whole truth. He replied, that if he had said 
three times, all his friends would have believed that he 
lied. This was going a little too far for common credulity. 
But after all, the Americans are a spare, hungry- looking 
people, not appearing as if well nourished. The inhabit- 
ants of northern Europe and Asia are physically and 
morally weak, though living mostly on fish ai^d flesh. 
The Scotch and Irish, who eat but little meat, are strong, 
capable of great labor and fatigue, and more able-bodied 
men than the English, who are more addicted to animal 
food. The strongest men in the world, of whom we have 
any account, are the porters of Smyrna, w'ho never taste 
flesh. The South Sea Islanders are very powerful men, 
upon a diet mostly of vegetables and fruit. It is said that 
the soldiers ofGreece and Rome seldom tasted meat, though 
qualified by physical courage and endurance for the con- 
•quest of the world. The suspicion is quite strong that 
Jonathan would gain flesh and improve his general ap- 
pearance, by the substitution of bread and vegetables as a 
part of his diet for animal food. 
POULTEY CaiOIJSEA~‘‘KITTLEWELL’S EENO- 
VATOE,” &C. 
An esteemed friend, at Beaufort, S. C., writes us as 
follows ; 
The “Cholera,” has carried off all my ducks and many 
of my turkeys and fowls ; but lately a friend trying the 
spirits of turpentine for “gapes,” I wms induced to try it 
for “cholera” also, and with unexpected success. I have 
had it also tried upon my plantation, and it has proved de- 
cidedly the beet remedy that I have tested as yet. The 
oxyde of iron 1ms failed as a preventive, and the feather 
in the neck, and doses of pepper and whiskey as a cure, 
as far as I have tried them. 
I tried this season “Kittlewell’s Renovator, or Agricul- 
tural Salt,” largely, upon long-stapled cotton, and the re- 
sults were very promising, until the tide during the late 
gale overflowed all my cotton fields, and cut off two-thirds 
or three-fourths of my crop. This manure has, in this 
neighborhood, proved much better as well as cheaper for 
cotton than Peruvian Guano, and the consumption of it, 
•though already large, is likely to increase. It gives good 
growth of W'eed, with proportionate fruitfulness, while 
Guano fails in the latter respect. Guano I have tried upon 
corn and cow-pe<ts and with very satisfactory results. 
It was strewed, at the rate of one bag per acre, in the bot- 
tom of a furrow turned out of the bottom of the row with 
a two mule plow, and then two similar furrows thrown 
back over it, for corn. The peas had four lurrows and a 
rough bed, as the land w'as very weedy. 
Yours respectfully, R. C. 
Remark. — We have tried many remedies for the “Poul- 
try Cholera,” but as yet do not claim to have discovered 
a specific. Stimulants, like common table mustard, mixed 
with water, (dose, a teaspoonful) and “ Radway's Ready 
Relief” (half a teaspoonful) are very useful, and constant- 
ly repeated, will often cure, ifadmiiiistered in time. — Eds. 
The L.ArxGEST Hoo. — Martin Roberts, who resides on 
the river some six miles below Madison, in Kentucky, has 
a hog that weighs 1,900 pounds, which he has sold for $200. 
THE BANNEE MILK COW, 
“ WiLLOWAY Farm,” West of ) 
New Petersburg, O., Nev. 16, 1854. ) 
Thos. Brown, Rsq., Editor 0. Farmer ; — At your re- 
quest, and in the fulfilment of promises made other ag- 
ricultural friends of some half dozen States, I present you 
for publication, the following statement of the Banner Milk 
Cow of the Union ! honored with first premiums at our 
State and National Fairs in October last. 
“Madame Giantess” is a thorough bred cow, of the Pat- 
ton and Short Horn cross, an orange red and white, vari- 
gated with clusters of beautiful spots on the back, resem- 
bling the English grape. Her horns are symmetrically 
fine, with a slight inclination upward. Age, 7 years ; 
weight in the last 15 months, owing to condition, from 
1 ,600 to 2,000 pounds ! 
MILK AND BUTTER RECORD. 
In June, 1854, in ten successive days, Giantess gave 
76S pounds of milk, (her calf then 4 1-2 months old ) 26 
pounds, making a pound of butter. In May she gave on 
nn average, being grain fed and left to grass, 88 pounds of 
milk per day. On one occasion she produced 26 pounds 
of milk in six hours ! 
GROSS BEEP RECORD. 
Giantess has raised two calves this year, her own, a bull 
calf, and an orphun, a heifer, he being calved January 30, 
1854, she March 16, 1854. The weight of the calves on 
the Isi of October was 1 ,425 pounds, his weight 925 lbs. 
The calves, until the 1st of September, had not been fed 
anything in the shape or of the nature of grain ; reared 
entirely upon milk produced by Giantess, with the grasa 
found in their lot. I think I might challenge the world to 
a compariaon ! 
TREATMENT OP COW. 
Since 1 purchased her in August, 1853, Giantess has 
had plenty of grain feed when necessary, and in grass 
season, a variety of the best grasses, with the liberty of 
ranging over some three or four fields of about 50 acres, at 
all seasons. I use no hay in winter ; fodder, with plenty 
of corn in it, is Madam’s principal diet during the winter 
season. 
If the above facts are worth a place in your excellent 
paper, you are at liberty to publish them. 
J. W. Brock. 
We clip the above account of the “ Banner Cow ” from 
the Okio Farmer of the 9ih of December last, mainly to 
show how little is known at this time of the milking qual- 
ities of cows of the very highest pretentions. Notwith- 
.standing “Madame Giantess” took the first premiums at 
the late State and National Cattle Shows in Oiiio as the 
best milker, we suspect that she is little better than a mam- 
moth humbug. Mr. Brock de-serves no premium nor 
credit for his “ Giant” cow unless he can show that 100 
pounds of grass, corn, fodder and corn meal yield in her 
•system more milk, cheese and sugar than the same quan- 
r.ity of food will yield in the system of a good common 
cow. This important point, he and the societies to which 
he alludes, have entirely overlooked. They have shown 
nothing but the barren fact that a big cow, having all the 
grain and other feed she can eat, gives some more milk 
than a poorly kept little cow will give! 
Value of Agricultural Papers. — A subscriber in 
Connecticut, writing the Albany Cultivator^ says.— “I am 
much indebted to the Cultivator for remedies which have 
saved me two cows, thereby saving enough to pay for it a 
life-time, besides the great amount of knowledge obtained 
from it on all other subjects.” 
