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BUTTER-ENTRANCE GATE TO A VILLA.-POLLED CATTLE. 
bushels without hauling manure, and think the day 
is not far off. 
The attention of Southern planters being drawn 
to corn culture, is my excuse for troubling you at 
such length. M. W. Philips. 
Edwards’ Depot , Miss., April, 1846. 
Butter. —A lady, writing us from her plantation 
in Louisiana, says: As for the sugar crop, that is 
the gentleman’s vocation; mine is the garden, 
poultry, and dairy. Butter as yet we have only 
enough for family use. After repeatedly visiting 
the market of New Orleans, I am convinced that 
they know not what butter really is there. It is a 
miserable, white, washy stuff, sold there under this 
name, at an exorbitant price. I know our butter 
made on the plantation would cause theirs to blush. 
I hope to send a small sample to our State show 
in January. The musquitoes seem to be our great¬ 
est inconvenience. They annoy the young chick¬ 
ens greatly, and prevent our hens from sitting in 
warm weather. 
ENTRANCING ATE TO A VILLA. 
Fig. 50. 
t The entrance to a garden or villa may be pro¬ 
duced in a few years, agreeably to the above repre¬ 
sentation, by planting a. dense thicket of trees and 
shrubs, clipping the latter so as to form a rustic 
arch of almost any size or shape. The shrubs to be 
employed for this purpose may consist of the 
purging buckthorn, arbor vitae, arborescent box, 
holly, and Cherokee rose (in the southern states), 
grape vine, or ivy. 
The Best. System of Farming. —When Cato 
was asked, What was the best system of farming ? 
he thrice answered, “ bene pascere,” which is to be 
translated “ to graze well,” or to procure food for 
cattle, having had in view the connection between 
the feeding of cattle and the production of manure. 
POLLED CATTLE. 
I noticed in your April No., an inquiry about 
polled cattle. They are to be found in this vicinity. 
I have a cow six years old, from an imported cow, 
brought from London by one of our packet masters. 
The mother was a very fine cow, and cost in Lon¬ 
don a very high price. The one I have is of me¬ 
dium size, very gentle, and hardy and Well propor¬ 
tioned. Color red, with some little white. 
Henry Perkins, Esq., formerly of Salem, gave bfs 
attention exclusively to polled cattle, raising no 
others. A few years ago he gave up the business 
of farming, and disposed of his cattle, which have 
become scattered through the town. Capt. Chad¬ 
wick, of this place, has a very fine cow of that 
breed, purchased of Mr. Perkins. She is unques¬ 
tionably the best cow in this vicinity, with the ex¬ 
ception of the imported Ayrshire of R. S. Gris¬ 
wold, Esq., which you have seen, and which took 
the first premium at the cattle show of the Ameri¬ 
can Institute in October, 1844. Some think her 
superior to the imported cow of Mr. Griswudd. At 
any rate she is a very valuable animal; large, well 
made, and gives milk abundantly, and of fine qua¬ 
lity. Color, reddish brown. She had a 
heifer calf this spring, by Mr. Gris¬ 
wold’s imported Ayrshire bull. 
The other cattle of Mr. Perkins have 
mostly gone into the possession of far¬ 
mers who pay little attention to their 
stock, and of course are not in a condi¬ 
tion to show their true characters. The 
breed has been very much neglected 
here, as our farmers give more of their 
attention to working oxen than to cow r s. 
The polled cattle here are not so 
much esteemed for oxen as those with 
horns. Henry M. Waite. 
Lime, Ct., April 18, 1846. 
Another Correspondent thus writes 
us upon this subject:— 
Your correspondent, G. W. J., of Mil- 
ton, N. C., writes to you about polled 
cattle, and you ask your readers for in¬ 
formation as to where the best are to be 
procured. 
In Great Britain there are now three 
breeds of polled cattle, whish were no 
doubt originally derived from the wild 
cattle, of which I believe but one herd 
now remains pure and in a wild state in York¬ 
shire, though some 60 or 70 years since there 
were several parks stocked with them, both in the 
north of England and south of Scotland. Of the 
improved polled cattle, the Galioway, from the 
southwest of Scotland, rank first. These are of 
very fine symmetry, small in the bone, and of very 
great capability of quickly taking on fat. They are 
now all black, though formerly this was not the 
case. Next to these come the Angus-shire, from 
the northeast of Scotland, very similar to the Gal¬ 
loway, rather larger, but hardly so fine in their 
points. These are both more valued for making 
beeves than for dairy purposes. When grass-fat¬ 
tened, at three years old, they leave Scotland and 
go to within a moderate distance of London, and in 
the yards in Norfolk and the neighboring counties 
