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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
thing: wiitn }iiu[ake liieiu uU, they must Deled 
not once or twice a day only, but five times at 
least — not twice as much as they can eat at a 
time, but just as much as they can eat, and no 
more. 
II it is your intention to raise two or ihree, or 
half a dozen calves, you may as well have good 
ones as bad ones — only lake ca^e of them. In 
the first place, breed from the best stock you 
have, or can produce, and then feed regularly 
with a sufficient quantity of some not so 
much matter what; they will readily learn to 
eat almost any thing — sour milk, or whey, with 
a trifle of meal, answers a good purpose, only 
let it be regular as to time and quantity. “ This 
tampering an.l stuffing and overfeeding,” as Mr. 
Bement says, is not the thing — it is not necessa- 
ry. Goa l s ock can be raised without it, even 
from our native soil. But a little c«/e, especial- 
ly the first summer and first winter, they must 
have. 
It you wish to have your fodder hold out well, 
iakecare of it. Have every animal in the stable 
if possible, n it only nights, but cold stormy and 
windy days — teed little at a time and often, not 
only night and morning, but through the day. 
If you wish to increase your quantity ol ma- 
nure, ceie of it. Keep your cattle clo.se in 
the yard, and put up eave-troughs to carry oflT 
the water, .so that there may be as little wash as 
possible. If there is a drain at one side of your 
yard where all the moisture runs off, try and 
prevent it. A speaker in a late agricultural 
address says, “you may as well have a hole in 
your 'pockety as a drain from your barn yard.” 
Jfyou wo' Id raise good crops, take care of them. 
They must be fed as well as your cattle; or they 
will not grow. Plow thoroughly, to cut and 
cover won’t do, neither will you have a great 
crop of grain, an 1 a very great crop of weeds at 
the same time. Have an eye to your fences; 
if a board gets loose, or a rail is ready to tumble 
off, try to find it out before your cattle do. 
Ifyou have a family ofchildren growing up. 
to take your place in this busy scene of things, 
when your race is run — you would probably be 
glad to have them become wiser and better men 
and women, than their father and mother were 
before them — then lake care of them. Feed and 
clothe their bodies decently, but don’t forget to 
feed their minds. Give them all the opportu- 
nities of a good and substantial education with- 
in your power. And whether they he male or 
female, and whet er you expect to leave them 
rich or poor, learn them to take care. 
From the American Agriculturist. 
MANURING STRAW BEIRUIES. 
There appears an undue fear of manuring 
strawberries. I have read somewhere that all 
plants that throw out suckers or runners rapidly 
deteriorate the soil, and that a power of escape 
to new ground is given by the runners. If this 
is correct, it is a reason for the good results I 
have always seen of manure. How rarely, ex- 
cept where strawberries are grov.'n for profit, do 
we see room enough given. Beds of strawber- 
ries are objectionable for this reason, and it is 
this cause rather than manure that leaves are 
more abundant than fruit. I have tried and 
proved thi«. Where strawberries are grown 
for profit, (that is, grown at all in the true sense,) 
they should be planted in rows — the large sorts 
not les.§ than 30 inches in the row, and 15 inch- 
es from plant to plant, and no runners suffered 
to remain. By these means, with deep trench- 
ing and early planting, any sort wortli cultivaU 
ing may be grown large and abundantly. 
©hituarj. 
From the Albany Cultivator. 
DEATH OF WILLIS GAYLORD. 
A bright light has been extinguished in the 
death of our associate and Iriend, Willis Gay- 
LO! D. He expired at his residence, Kimerock 
Farm, Onondaga county, on the 27th ofMarch, 
in the 51st year of his age. An aged mother 
deplores the loss of a most devoted son, over 
wliuse fragile loi 111 she hail wateiied with all a 
mother’s lender care for more than fifty years— 
a brother and sister weep for one who had ever 
manifested for them the most heartfelt affection 
— and his friends, and none more than ourselves, 
mourn the loss of one, beloved alike for his ge- 
nius, his faithfulness, and the happy temper ol 
his mind; while the American farmer has lo 
regret the sudden departure ot one who has la- 
buied zealously and successfully Ibr years lo 
promote his interest, to enlighten his mind, and 
to elevate his calling to tliat dignity and respect 
lo which it is .so justly entitled. His death was 
sudden, and to his family, as well as to us, 
most unexpected. He waslaken wilh a bilious 
affection of the stomach on the night ol the25ih. 
The next morning a physician was called in, 
and remedies were administered, which it was 
lliouglii would afford relief. No alarm wasfelt, 
as no immediate danger was apprehended, till 
early on the morning ol the 27th, when it was 
discovered that his life was rapidly drawing t-i 
its close. At 9 o’clock, thirty-three hours after 
the commencement of the attack, he sank grad- 
ually and gently into the arms of death without 
a groan or a struggle. He had been for more 
than thirty years a w’orthy member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and the hopes and con.sola- 
lions of the gospel had enabled him to endure, 
not only without a murmur, but wish a buoy- 
ant and cheer.'ul spirit, an amount of bodily suf- 
fering which falls to the lot of but few. 
Mr. Gaylord was born in Bristol, (Conn.) in 
1792, and removed with his lather’s family to 
Oiisco, in this ^tate, in iisOl This town was 
then ahiiosS an nnbroken wilderness, but three 
families having preceded that ol Mr. Gaylord’s 
father. Young as he was, ihe deep, dark and 
majestic lorests, as he entered them, at the be- 
ginning of summer, made an impression upon 
his mind, and excited a love for trees, which 
was never effaced. He always spoke of them 
with enthusiasm. In a letter, written but a few 
weeks belure his death, he says — “ When we 
entered these forests, the heavy foliage wore its 
freshest green, and the elm, the maple, and Ihe 
linden, were successively laden with flowers; 
and never shall I forget the rich, the indescriba- 
ble perfume which filled the air, as tree after 
tree was cut d'^wn, and day after day pas-?ed 
away before the Idossoms had ceased to exhale 
their odors from their withered cups.” depriv- 
ed as he was, by this removal, at the age of 9 
years, of the advantages of even the District 
Schools of his native State, he was soon after 
visited with an affliction which prevented his 
reaping the benefits to be derived from the es- 
tablishment of the similar institutions which 
are sure to rise up in all new countries, peopled 
by emigrants from New England, At the ear- 
ly age of 12 years, he was attacked with a vio- 
lent rheumatic auction, which resulted in a 
curvature of the spine, and unfitted him, in all 
after-life, for any active or laborious pursuit. 
His innate love of knowledge, however, was 
such that no bodily infirmity or ordinary obsta- 
cle was permitted lo dampen his ardor lor its ac- 
quirement. Being unable to attend school, he 
studied such school-books as were to be procur- 
ed at that early day, carefully noting such parts 
as he could not alone surmount, till he could 
obtain the assistance of some one who was able 
to solve his difficulties. He not only read with 
avidity, hui studied all the books which came 
within his reach. He was remarkably fond of 
rural .scenery, and when the weather would per- 
mit, it was his delight to sit for hours iindei the 
shade of trees, and cheered by the singing of the 
birds, pursue his studies wilh pencil and paper 
in hand lo note the cuirent of his thoughts. — 
While thus engaged in the pursuit of knowl- 
edge, and in the enjoyment of such a degree of 
health as permitted him occasionally to engage 
in the lighter labors of the farm, he met with an 
accident, slight indeed at first, but which entail- 
ed upon him a vast amount of suffering, and 
rendered him almost as helpless as a child to 
the day of his death. It was occasioned by a 
fall, from which, at the time, he noticed only a 
slight bi uise on the left arm. It afterwards 
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swelled, and became a running .-oie, causingihe 
decay of ihe bone, and rendeiing bis rm forev- 
er alter entirely useless. This afieciion of the 
arm continued for about a dczeii years, and 
when it healed an abscess occurred in one olhis 
sides, which ccniituied, with occa.'-ional allevia- 
tions, till his death. Ns twithstanding the pain 
he was thus obliged to endure fur a long series 
of years, which was sometimes exce.s.sive, he 
was ever cheerful and happy; and even under 
the most acute suffering, was never known to 
utter a word of complaint. 
At the appropriate season, if his health per- 
mitted, he resorted much to the woods and fields. 
A favorite retreat was the shore ol one of those 
beautif ul lakes which adorn the western section 
of our State; and there, enjoying the charming 
view and inhaling the refrt'shing breeze, his 
mind was at once soothed and .strengthened by a 
contemplation of the varied phenomena of na- 
ture. His was that happy constitution of mind 
which finds 
“ Sermons in stones, tongues in trees. 
Books ill the running brrioks, 
And good in every thing.” 
“ Disqualified by these calan iiies from labor 
or active physical habits,” in the language ol 
one who knew him well, “ hedevoJed hismind 
to study; and although suffering under severe 
bodily affliction, deprived of the ordinary facili- 
ties for obtaining information, without teachers, 
and by the aid only of such books as he was 
enabled ai that early day to collect, he became 
a ripe and sountl scholar, and eventually one of 
the most able and powerful wrilei.s ol ourtime.«. 
For more than twenty years he hail been a regu- 
lar contributor lo many ol the American Q.uar- 
lerly and Scientific Journals, and in several in- 
stances to some of the most popular Magazines 
in Europe. His contributioi s to the newspa- 
per press of this country, on almost every varie- 
ty ot topic, literary, religious, scientific, miscel- 
laneous, and occasionally poetry, have been 
numerous and ofthe highest order of excellence. 
As a writer on all of these varied subjects, 
whether we regard the beauty of bi.‘< style, the 
chasteness of his diction, or the invariable accu- 
racy of his facts, it M'ouid be difficult to find his 
superior. 
The versatility of his talents, the rapidity 
with which he wTote, and the great number of 
hi.« productions, have e.^cited alike the adrnir^^ 
tion and astonishment ol hjs friends, 
“But the most valuable part of his writings, 
and for which he will be lonaast remembered, 
relate to the passion of his latter years — practi- 
cal and scientific agriculture. In these depart- 
ments he wa.s Ihorougnly verged, as his contri- 
butions, commencing in 1833, to the old Gene- 
see Farmer and the Albany Cultivator, will 
abundantly atte.st. The services he has render- 
ed to the farming interest ol the country have 
been immense, and form a legact' which will 
endure to a late generation. He was eminent- 
ly practical and judicious in all his views and 
recommendations, and possessed a happy tael 
in communicating his impressions to others. 
To the readers ofthe Cultivator, and to the ag- 
ricultural community, his loss will be irrepara- 
ble. 
“ Isolated and excluded as he was by physi- 
cal infirmity and location, from a general inter- 
course with his fellow citizens, there are conse- 
quently but few^ who can justly appreciate his 
many .social qualities. Thoroughly informed 
on almost every subject of general or individu- 
al interest, he was always ready, as it was his 
delight, to impart to others who sought his so- 
ciety, the rich treasures ot his w’ell-stored mind. 
Those few' and favored friends, w’ill long and 
fondly cherish his memory. As a man, his 
philanthropy knew no bounds. He studied and 
labored emphatically for the benefit of mankind. 
As a friend, he was true and faithful j as a son 
and a brother, kind and affectionate. When a 
man of such gifted powers and universal ac- 
quirements, in the lull maturity of his intellect, 
and in the midst of his uselulnes.s, iscut down 
suddenly and removed from among us, we may 
in truth mourn a public bereavement.” 
