SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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received from other breeders during the past year, I have 
concluded to issue this, my prospectus for a second volume 
of The American Herd Book, and to request you, if you 
feel an interest in the work, to inform me at your earliest 
convenience, whether you wdll aid in its publication by 
sending a record of your animals for registry, and to 
designate the number of volumes of the book you will take. 
The size of the work will, of course, depend upon the 
number of animals registered, which, if this opportunity 
is embraced by the breeders generally, will be several 
hundred pages, octavo, and illustrated v/ith portraits of 
such animals, properly engraved, as the owners may be 
desirous to have inserted, they furnishing the cuts for the 
purpose. 
I shall also give an account of all the recent importa- 
tions into the United States. A copy of the Catalogue of 
each separate herd will be given, whenever they can be 
obtained, together with the account of their sales, the 
prices at which they were sold, purchaser's names, &c. 
In short, every matter of interest in relation to them, so 
far as it can be obtained, will be given. 
All papers relative to such information will be thankful- 
ly received, sent in my Post Office address at Black Rock, 
New York. 
As it is necessary that I get to work by the first of this 
month, you will oblige me by replying immediately, and 
informing me whether you will have your cattle recorded, 
and if so, what the probable number will be, and the num- 
ber ot volumes you will take. The recording fee for each 
animal will be fifty cents ; the price of the book five dol- 
lars. The recording fees, will be expected to be remitted 
in advance, when the pedigrees of the cattle are forwarded, 
and the book paid for on delivery. 
If, bij any casualty, the book shovld tiot be issued, the ad- 
vance money tcill be promptly ref tended. 
That there may be as little uncertainty as possible, I 
wish that the reply to this may be as prompt as con- 
venient, that 1 may know whether T shall be justified in 
undertaking the work ; if so, I will give you notice of the 
fact as early as the first of March, 1855, on receiving 
which, your pedigrees and insertion fees will be required 
to be sent immediately. 
Very respectfully yours, 
Lbwis F. Allen. 
Buffalo, Black Rock Post Office, N. Y., Dec., 1st, 185-1. 
P. 8. — As I cannot be presumed to know the name and 
address of every Short Plorn breeder in the country, you 
will oblige me by sending one of these circulars to every 
breeder wdth whom yon are acquaintsd, or to whom you 
have sold “Herd Book” animals, and give me a list of 
others, that I may send them a circular, so as to give as 
extensive information as possible on the subject. 
L. F. A. 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
Of the benefit and importance of associated effort in ag- 
riculture, the Cheraw (S. C.) Gazette thus discourses: 
“Recently, we very briefly called the attention of our 
planter friends to the importance of organizations to pro- 
mote the success of agriculture among them. And in 
view of the importance of the subject we now take the 
liberty of referring to it again. Experience everywhere 
most conclusively demonstrates the value of such organi 
zations. Even in old England, where the lights of a 
thousand year’s experience, are at the command of the 
planter. Agricultural Associations are still the order of the 
day — are still the cherished means of diffusing knowledge 
among their members. We have not yet arrived 
fection in any of the Arts or Sciences, nor until we do so, 
can we safely dispense with the practical results of the ex- 
perience of our fellow laborers. Precept without example,. 
is like faith without works — it is dead and valueless. 
“Suppose that A., (and our readers can at a moment’s 
warning point to many such,) enters upon his profession 
(planting) with moderate means, and in the course of his 
life, by industry, economy aad untiring perseverance, ac- 
cumulates a reasonable fortune. Now, isolated as most 
of our planters are, we would like to know what use he 
has been to his neighbors and to the State, save in the 
amount of taxes he has eontributed to the support of the 
government '? Every beneficial result of his experience is 
locked up in his bosom, and will descend into the same 
grave with his body. And this is owing to no peculiar 
fault of his; but it is the natui*al result of isolation. Can, 
our planters be desirous of winning such an inglorious 
distinction 1 We know they are not. But if they were 
animated by no higher motive, by no nobler desire, than 
the mere accumulation of wealth, then the very best 
means to promote that object, would be to profit by the ex- 
perience and example of others, which are most easily at- 
tainable through Agricultural Associations. These Asso- 
ciations afford the means of comparing the actual results 
of the experience of their members, attainable in no other 
way.” 
A Priceless Cow. — The Mobile Tribune, has the fol- 
lowing notice of a Devon cow : 
“We have occasionally observed in the agricultural pa- 
pers notices of fine milking cows, but we think Mobile, in 
one case at least, can surpass them all. A gentleman in 
this vicinity— who is too modest to have his name men- 
tioned— has a Devon cow, six years old, running at large 
on the commons every day, but kept up at night and well 
fed on bran, hay, vegetables, &c., which gave the past 
year 1,620 gallon.s of milk. The dairy- woman’s memor- 
andum is as follows : 
First three months, average, G gallons of milk and 12 
pounds ofbutter. 
Second three months, 5 gallons of milk and 10 pounds 
ofbutter. 
Third three months, 4 gallons of milk and 8 pounds of 
butter. 
Fourth three months, 3 gallons of milk and 6 pounds of 
butter. 
The milk at 40 cents per gallon, which is the common 
price here, would amount to S648. This shows the im- 
portance of having a full blooded cow. In the present in- 
stance the cost of keeping is no more than an ordinary 
country cow, and yet the value of milk for one year is 
nearly $C50. 
True Philosophy. — An old man was toiling through 
the burden and heat of the day, in cultivating his field 
with his own hand, and depositing the promising seeds 
into the fruitful lap of the yielding earth. Suddenly there 
stood before him under the shadow of a huge linden tree, 
a vision. The old man was struck v/ith astonishment. 
“I am Solomon,” spoke the phantom, in a friendly voice. 
“What are you doing here, old man 1” 
“If you are Solomon,” replied the venerable laborer, 
“how can you ask this 1 In my youth you sent me to the 
ant; I saw its occupation, and learned from that insect to 
be industrious and to gather. What I have learned I have 
followed out to this hour.” 
“You have only learned half your lesson,” resumed the 
spirit. “Go again to the ant, and learn from that insect to 
rest in the winter of your life, and to enjoy what you have 
gathered up .” — German AUepnry. 
Early fruit trees ^should be protected from the frost 
by spreading straw around the roots, which will preveuit 
the buds from starting. 
