COW PASTURES.—STATE FAIR OF MISSISSIPPI. 
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we have done the best we could in the city. We 
wish we had a good animal painter here, one who 
could faithfully cut after his own sketches. He 
would be sure to make a fortune in his business, 
for now many are deterred from getting things done, 
because they are made caricatures of rather than 
portraits. For full accounts of the Dorking-fowl, 
we must refer the reader to our first volume. 
For the American Agricu Iturist. 
Dear Sir : Above you will see what sort of a 
poultry court I have sent you, and if you will only 
make the engraver stick to my lines, you will have 
some good Dorkings. The right hand hen is from 
the pullet you brought me from England, and the 
left hand bird is that noble brown hen that came 
with her. The cock is the one your brother L. F. 
sent me, so they are actual portraits. Be particu¬ 
lar in your cut to keep the legs entirely white, and 
do not forget the extra toe. I have stood a poultry 
basket in one corner, by way of showing our mar¬ 
ket-men how to carry fowls to town. 
F. R. 
Butternuts , May 23 d, 1843. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
COW PASTURES. 
In settling a new farm or putting buildings up¬ 
on an old one, place your barn so as to have a lane 
run from it through a track of pasture land, fenced 
off into lots of 10 acres each, into which a gate 
opens, so that the cows may pass in and out at 
pleasure, the water being accessible in the barn¬ 
yard, under the cow house: if in the pasture so 
much the better. When the feed is eaten off in 
lot No. 1, that gate is closed, and No. 2 is opened, 
and so on to No. 10, which includes the 100 acres 
appropriated to cow pasture; then commence with 
No. 1, and go through again. A small child or a 
tractable dog may soon be taught to bring the 
cows; and many days of a man’s labor saved 
during a summer, that must otherwise be spent 
in driving cows to and from pastures: another ad¬ 
vantage is, the eows have always fresh feed. 
S. 
June 6th , 1843. 
We are quite obliged to Dr. Philips for his re¬ 
port of the State Show and Fair at Jackson; but 
we never heard of measuring milk by the bushel 
before. Thanks to the spirit of agricultural im¬ 
provement in Mississippi, we fancy that they are 
getting milk now by the cart-load , where, a few 
years since, with their poor stock, they were al¬ 
most in a state of starvation for the want of it. 
We answer the question, of “ how many wet quarts 
in a bushel?” by saying, 32, beer measure. A 
bushel and two quarts, therefore, would make Mr. 
Tucker’s cow produce 34 quarts. When a big 
story is to be made up here at the north, or in Eng¬ 
land, of the quantity of milk given per day, the 
wine measure is used, which being within a frac¬ 
tion of one seventh less than beer measure, would 
make Mr. Tucker’s cow yield nearly 39 quarts, 
which beats Mr. Smith’s Victoria (see June No. of 
current ,Vol., page 90) a trifle over four quarts. 
But pray, Doctor, had the bushel measure been 
gauged under oath ? Was the milk strained be¬ 
fore measuring, or do you include 5 to 6 quarts of 
froth ? Come, sir, take the stand if you please 
now, and answer; for we have no idea of being 
beaten by the south in the matter of milking, and 
be obliged to surrender our creamy laurels without 
first having a little good-natured cross-questioning. 
To give the weight of milk is the best test, as 
measures are apt to be of the size of a “ piece of 
chalk.” 
For the American Agriculturist. 
STATE FAIR OF MISSISSIPPI. 
Log Hall , Miss., June 4 th, 1843. 
I am unable to enter minutely into a detail o* 
our Fair. I was engaged pretty constantly, eitha: 
in the business proper of the society, or in answer¬ 
ing questions, or in talking. The spirit evinced 
by the large assemblage of individuals of both sex¬ 
es, the interest they took in examination, the busy 
moving officers of the society, and the smiles that 
beamed on the countenances of the warm friends 
of this measure, all speak in glowing language that 
we have commenced. 
I should judge that there were full 1,000 per¬ 
sons on the ground, busy moving to and fro, from 
one portion of the exhibition to another, as bees 
from the hive. The stock shown was highly 
creditable to us, who have so very recently made 
a commencement in this department of agricultu¬ 
ral improvement. 
In horses, there was Gloster, a stallion of no 
ordinary pretensions, in all the pride of his native 
state, Virginia, of high pedigree and great finish. 
He took the 1st premium last year, and was there¬ 
fore excluded this year. Owned by C. S. Morris. 
There were some five other stallions on the 
ground, and at least eight to ten more within a 
day’s travel that were not there. There were also 
several fine blood mares; two-year-olds, yearlings, 
and colts ; jacks, mules, and mule colts; and had 
the season been more favorable to farmers, there 
would have been more than double the number; 
there being in this region of the state quite a 
number of thorough-bred horses, and some very 
promising young stock. 
In the cattle department, we must give to our 
friend C. S. Tarpley, the credit of having the two 
finest animals we know in the state—his imported 
white cow, and his heifer, now in milk, whose 
finely formed and capacious udder, with widely- 
standing pins, gives promise to her fair mistress, 
that she must make, with good care, an animal 
worthy of her kind treatment. A cow was ex¬ 
hibited by M. R. Tucker, of the grade Durham, 
that on your pastures, and with your feed, would 
