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gar being disturbed, much more those of the 
gallant soldier; and we are surprised that the 
government of the Netherlands should per¬ 
mit such a desecration ; it is on that, and not 
the English importer, that the blame rests, 
admitting that the paragraphs we have often 
seen in the newspapers of this despoiling of 
Europe’s great battle-field be true. 
KENTUCKY FARMING. 
Concluded. 
Sheep —We should be glad to see the size 
of the Merino a little increased by crosses 
with the Rambouillet; we think they would 
also improve the quality, as we know they 
would add largely to the quantity of their 
wool; and to make mutton, we should desire 
greatly the introduction of a few South- 
Downs. We are satisfied that it would con¬ 
duce to the health of the population, if in 
their food they would use more mutton , and 
consume less pork. The former is lean, 
tender, and always palatable, while the latter 
is gross, and during hot weather, scarcely 
endurable to many palates. The wool of 
the South-Down is also as well adapted to 
make common clothing as the Merino, and 
is more easily manufactured in a domestic, 
way. We heard it intimated while in Ken¬ 
tucky, that the South-Downs were not a 
hardy sheep ; the reverse is the fact, for on 
the high hills of the western counties of New 
York, where the thermometer frequently 
sinks to 20°, and even 30° degrees below 
Zero, and six months foddering out of the 
year is required, they stand the climate as 
well as any other breed existing. Their size 
and forms in England have been latterly 
greatly increased and improved, and it is 
quite common now to see them weigh from 
18 to 24 lbs. per quarter dressed at one year 
old. For wool destined to be sold at the 
East, we would recommend the cultivation 
of none but the finer breeds, producing the 
best quality, and this should always be clean 
washed, and put up in the neatest and most 
compact manner, pressed, if possible, in 
bags as close as cotton bales. It costs no 
more to transport the highest priced grades 
of wool to market, than those of coarser 
qualities. 
Swine. —In these the Chinese and Berk¬ 
shire have made greater and more desirable 
improvements than any other breeds. There 
are thousands still left however, of Landpikes 
and Alligators, and on our journey from 
Louisville to Frankfort, we noted among 
other discoveries, a touch of the Wolf- breed. 
These animals, we should judge, were culti¬ 
vated like those of Okatka in Russia, for 
their bristles alone , for they stood staring out 
every way from their gaunt carcases, full 6 
inches long. We also saw a few long-legged 
coarse woolled sheep, that could never pay 
for their keep at a six months’ grass pasture ; 
scrub cattle also a few, and many of the 
horses with crane legs and slab sides, and 
seemingly totally unfit for either saddle or 
harness. In good roadsters, and a hardy 
stout active race of farm horses, we think 
the whole South-west greatly deficit* 
For these purposes they employ too mary ol 
a sort of nondescript, bred, we should jidge, 
between a tall Dutch cart horse and light 
leggy racer. But these, together with some 
slovenly crops, outbuildings, fences, and 
farming, are rather ungracious matters to 
dwell upon, we therefore forbear. 
We could not learn that any systematic 
course of cropping has yet been adopted in 
Kentucky, except by an enlightened few ; 
too many, as in New York and elsewhere, 
having followed up the skinning and ex¬ 
hausting system, and then sold out and 
sought new regions and a virgin soil further 
west. This is the bane of American hus¬ 
bandry, and with a view of counteracting it, 
and putting a stop in a measure to the de¬ 
pleting emigration, with becoming liberality, 
the State Agricultural Society offered prizes 
for a series of papers on the best rotation of 
crops for Kentucky, that should embrace, at 
the same time, an improvement of the soil. 
These were won by her eminent agricul¬ 
turist, the Hon. Adam Beatty, and published 
in the fourth and fifth vols. of the Kentucky 
Farmer ; and we would recommend a close 
and careful perusal of them to all who wish 
to benefit and improve themselves in the 
science of agriculture. 
On a farm of 300 acres, 75 of which are 
reserved for woodland, 25 for meadow, gar¬ 
den, orchard, and raising hempseed, and 200 
in cultivation, where hemp is the main crop , 
Mr. Beatty recommends the following di¬ 
vision and rotation of twelve years, in four 
fields of 50 acres each. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
1841 
Corn 
Clover 
Rye 
Hemp 
1842 
Rye 
Com 
Clover 
Hemp 
1843 
Clover 
Rye 
Corn 
Hemp 
1844 
Com 
Clover 
Rye 
Hemp 
1845 
Rye 
Com 
Clover 
Hemp 
1846 
Clover 
Rye 
Corn * 
Hemp 
1847 
Hemp 
Clover 
Rye 
Corn 
1848 
Hemp 
Corn 
Clover 
Rye 
1849 
Hemp 
Rye 
Corn 
Clover 
1850 
Hemp 
Clover 
Rye 
Corn 
1851 
Hemp 
Corn 
Clover 
Rye 
1852 
Hemp 
Rye 
Corn 
Clover 
