THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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be elevated, vvhnse wile can talk of nothing but 
feeding the ducks and chickens, though the 
ducks and chickens should be fed, and fed often., 
too. Acca. 
A Wipe worth having. — We were favored 
a few weeks ago with an interview with Mr. 
Harvey Ford, ol Winchester, Li chfield county, 
who called in to pay his sub cripiion for the 
fourtb volume of the FAfrijer’s Gazette.. Mr. 
Ford’s faria lies principally in the town of 
Goshen, and like most of his townsmen, he is a 
thorough-bred dairy-man, and employed in pro- 
ducing the famous Butter and Cheese, which 
has acquired such an enviable name all over 
the land.* His operations in this are not so ex- 
tensive as many of his neighbors, he keeping 
only on an average twenty cows; but the pro- 
ducts of his dairy are of the best quality, and al- 
ways dernaod the highest price in the market. — 
The firet premium on Cheese was awarded to 
him by the Hartlord County Agricultural So- 
ciety in 1842. 
Feeling highly gratified with the opportunity 
of an interview with an inielligeEt fanner trom 
that section ot our State, we exercised our Yan- 
kee prerogative, and asked M' . Ford a great 
many question! in relation to his business. W e 
ascertained that he had occupied his larm about 
sixteen years, during which time his energies 
had been directed chiefly to the single object of 
producing a first rate article ot butter and cheese; 
these richest of all the products ot agricultural la- 
bor. Among other things, we asked him what 
quantity of these delicious at tides his farm pro- 
duced annually, and how much he usual'y laid 
out tor labor, «&c. From the answer we learn- 
ed that Mrs. Ford had performed almost the en- 
tire labor with her own hands, and that Mr. F. 
had a regular account at home of the quantity 
made each year, the price lor which they were 
sold, &c. At our solici'ation he promised to 
send us a correet statement of his books. — 
Prompt in the fulfilment of his engagement, we 
received trom him, a few days since, a written 
statement from which we copv as follows;: — 
108,807 pounds ot butter and cheese, exdu- 
sive of what was used in the family, and some 
sold to families of which no account is given, 
made by one woman, (Mrs. Ford,) during a 
lerm of sixteen years past — except a very small 
proportion made by others during short intervals 
while she was absent or out of health. The a- 
mount of m )ney for which these articles were 
sold, was S8,340 80. This is an average of 6,- 
800 ^ pounds of butter and cheese per year, sel- 
ling for ^521,30; and all made by the hands of 
one woman. 
Such a wife is an invaluable treasure to her 
husband. What would some of our modem fine 
ladies say to this? Whal would the fashionable 
Miss think, if told on her briaal eve that she 
would be required during the next sixteen years 
to manufacture 7, 000 pounds of butter and cheese 
every summei ! If told that instead of spending 
all her husbands money for silks and laces and 
trumpery, to enable her to make a great bustle in 
a ball room or at a fashionable watering place, 
she would be expected by her own industry to 
addSSOOa year to the wealth of the family, how 
would her delicate hands be raised in horror at 
the thought ! And yet our word for it, Mrs. F. 
has been a happier woman for 16 years past, 
than the most tightly laced and profusely bustled 
dandisette who promenades Broadway or Chapel 
street. We are almost inclined to read a homi- 
ly on female education — but it would be out of 
our appiopriate sphere. — Conn. Far, Gaz. 
' The “ Goshen Butter,” which has acquired such a 
high reputation, we rather think is made in Goshen, 
Orange county, N. Y. We suspect there must be some 
mistake in the statementabove. — [Sds. Chron. 4" Sent-] 
Oil Destructive to Plum Trees. — Mr. 
David Tomlinson, of Schenectady, informs us 
that two of his neighbors lost quite a number of 
valuable plum trees the past year, by applying 
oil to caterpillers in the spring, to destroy them, 
as they had seen recommended in some publi- 
eatioQ . — American AgricvUurist, 
EauiVALENT or Various Plants to Hay, 
&c. — We find the followidg table of equiva- 
lents in Smith’s translation of Burgher’s Econ- 
omy of Farming: 
JOO lbs ot good hay are equal to 
90 lbs of clover hay, made when fully blos- 
ed. 
98 lbs 
of do. made before it blossomed. 
98 
of do. second crop. 
98 
lucerne hay. 
89 
sainfoin do. 
410 
green clover. 
467 
vetches or tares, green. 
275 
green Indian corn. 
374 
wheat straw. 
254 
rye straw. 
164 
oat straw. 
353 
pea stalk. 
201 
raw potatoes. 
175 
boiled do. 
339 
mangel wurtzrl. 
504 
English Turneps. 
276 
carrots. 
308 
ruta baga. 
54 
rye, (grain ofl.) 
46 
wheat, do. 
59 
oats, do. 
64 
buckwheat, do. 
57 
Indian corn, do. 
45 
peas. 
55 
beans. 
60 
horse chesnuts^ 
68 
acorns. 
62 
sunflower seed. 
69 
linseed cake. 
105 
wheat bran. 
109 
rye bran. 
167 
wheat and oat chaff. 
179 
rye and barley chaff. 
An ox 
requires 2 per cent of his weight in 
hay per day; if he works, 2j per cent. A milch 
cow, 3 per cent. A fattening ox, 5 per cent at 
first, 4 per cent when half fat and afterwards. 
Sheep, when grown, 3j per cent of their live 
weight in hay per day. 
SuccEisFUL Corn Culture. — We subjoin a 
short communication made to the Central N. 
Y. Farmer, giving a v-ery pleasing account of 
the yield of an acre of corn in Oneida county, 
N. Y. We say pleasing, because neither the 
quantity of manure applied nor labor bestowed 
were large. We call attention to the manner 
of preparing the land and applying the manure, 
because we believe that the success of the crop 
was owing in a great measure to the circum- 
stances ol deep plowing and a division of the 
manure between the subverted and surface soils. 
We can the more readily incline to this opinion, 
as there was nothing very extraordinary in the 
quantity of manure applied, nor in the amount 
of labor bestowed to the after culture of the 
corn . — American Farmer. 
Gentlemen — On the farm on which I reside, 
(belonging to S. Dakin, Esq.,) we cultivated 
the present season, one acre of corn. The land 
had lain in grass f :>r many years^ and for seve- 
ral of the last had produced but a light crop. — 
In the spring of 1842, it was plowed up, and re- 
ceived about fifteen loads of manure, and plant- 
ed with potatoes — the crop only a moderate one. 
The last spring the piece was plowed twice, as 
deep as could be done conveniently, and previ- 
ous to the last plowing, received twenty to twen- 
ty-two loads of long manure — the precise num- 
ber I cannot state as no memorandum was made 
at the time. After the plowing, eight loads of 
compost manure were spread on the surface, 
and the piece harrowed and marked three feet 
apart each way — and planted the 19th day of 
May with the common large eight rowed corn, 
steeped in saltpetre water, and dried in lime. It 
was hoed twice, which kept the ground tolera- 
bly free from weeds as it was kept clean the 
year before. It was harvested on the 19th of 
September, cut up at the ground and pul in 
shocks, and husked in about ten days afterwards. 
The product was 182 bushels of ears, equal, as 
usually calculated to 91 bushels of shelled corn. 
Cost in labor, 28| cents per bushel. 
Last season we cultivated something more 
than double the quantity of land, naturally the 
same kind of soil, but which had been many 
years under the plow, and lightly manured, and 
obtained 200 bushels of ears, which cost 47| 
cents per bushel of shelled corn. 
Cyrus Ingalls. 
False Estimation of Agriculture. — The 
first obstacle in the way of agricultural im- 
provement, is the low estimate which has been 
put upon this calling. It has too often been re- 
garded as an employment that requires nothing 
but physical power— mere brute force; and con- 
sequently, if a young man exhibited any consi- 
derable degree of talent, he must be pm to some 
other calling. Thenatural tendency of this has 
been, to degrade agiicultural labor, and to im- 
press upon those who had any aspirations after 
distinction, the impolicy of groveling in the 
dust, as cultivating the soil has sometimes beea 
regarded. The effect of this has been to draw 
talent away from agriculture, and to create an 
impression that the calling ivas not as respecta- 
ble as some others. Many a young man has 
been driven from agriculture, and brought to 
ruin by this cause. And if it were not ungal- 
lant, I would say that some of our young wo- 
men, faultless in every thing else, have been so 
far deceived as to prefer a husband employed in 
other pursuits than agriculture. But the lever- 
ses which have attended other pursuits, will, I 
trust, soon teach them, that the permanent home 
of the farmer’s wife is greatly to be preferred 
to the changing abode and variable fortune of 
many other classes of our citizens. * * * * 
Agriculture is no mean employment. It was 
the first into which our race entered, and it is 
the last which can be abandoned. It has com- 
manded the attention of some of the wisest and 
best men of ancient and modern times. Cincin- 
natus, renowned in war, was not ashamed to 
follow the plow; and the estimate which poster- 
ity has put upon his worth is such, that the far= 
mer has thrown the general into the shade. And 
in our own country, to mention but one exam- 
ple, the Farmer of Mount Vernon was the Fa- 
ther of his Country. Who, then, would disdain 
a calling pursued by the wise and the good — a 
calling essential to the well-being of society, 
conducive to public virtue, promotive of health 
and h ippiness, and one to which Washington 
was proud to retire, from one of the highest sta- 
tions ever conferred on man. But modern dis- 
coveries have made agriculture more attractive 
than formerly. Now the application of science 
renders it an intellectual employment; so that the 
laborer may improve his mind while improving 
his soil, and cultivate his heart as well as his 
farm . — Correspondent of N. E. Farmer. 
Tee Peach — With the fertile soil of our 
countiy, we have but little difficulty in growing 
peach trees until they are three or four years 
old, when they are attacked by the worm in the 
root, or a disease called the yellow, and fre- 
quently by both. In ei ther case the tree dies in 
two or three years. 
The following remedies have been found per- 
fectly successlul in preventing the worm in the 
root: When a tree is first set out in the orchard, 
apply three quarts of fresh or un leached wood 
ashes, and add ashes every spring: Another 
method is to pour chamber-lye around the roots 
of the trees several limes during the spring and 
summer. 
The method pursued by Mr. Pell, of Pelham, 
Ulster county, N. Y,, is to put one half peck ol 
fine charcoal to the roots ol each tree when first 
set out in the orchard, and adding a quantity 
each spring.— .B. G. Bosioell, Philadelphia. 
How to have a Sharp Razor. — Take a 
strop of thick harness leather, the size you want 
for a strop and fasten it at each end upon a piece 
of wood, then rub upon its surface a piece ol 
tin, (any tin dish will do,) until it is smooth. — 
Strop your razor upon this, and you will find it 
worth all the patent strops that were ever in- 
vented, — Selected. 
