NEW METHOD OF MAKING MANURE.— PAtlLAS MERINOS* 
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I am engaged in introducing Barnahy andMooers 
plow among the farmers of this section, and find 
that it meets with the same favor here that, it has 
in other places where it has become known, al¬ 
though there is no section of country in the Union 
where it would be harder to introduce a new plow, 
owing to the excellence of those in use. In addi¬ 
tion to all the best Massachusetts plows sent here 
for sale, there are three establishments here that 
manufacture a belter plow than theirs, and the 
sward-plowing is better done in this state than 
anywhere else that I have travelled. The potato 
and com crops are generally planted on sward 
furrow turned over in the fall, and the farmers 
take great pains to have it done well, so as to make 
the after culture as easy as possible. There have 
been a number of attempts to introduce the Free¬ 
born plow, which was olfered here at half, and in 
some cases one fourth the price of plows manufac¬ 
tured here, but they won’t sell—they are too frail 
an article. Were it not for the right and left 
principle and, ease of draught of Barnaby and 
Mooers plow, it would be hard to make inroads, 
upon them; but with the many advantages this 
plow possesses over all others, it will work itself 
into favor anywhere. 
E. Cornell, 
For the American Agriculturist. 
NEW METHOD OF MAKING MANURE. 
New York , September 12, 1843. 
I find in the last number of your paper, a notice 
of a new work on Manure and Tillage, called the 
Farmer’s Mine, or Source of Wealth ; you also 
give an extract, as a.specimen of its value. Hav¬ 
ing spent some time on Long Island during the 
present season, I have had opportunity of witness¬ 
ing the practical result of the process mentioned 
in said extract. Permit me to give a few exam¬ 
ples by way of illustration. 
Garret Knowenboven, Esq,, of Flatlands, laid 
up a heap according to Said method, consisting of 
dry straw, salt hay, etc. On the fifteenth day 
after laying up, the heap was opened in the pres¬ 
ence of a large number of farmers', who, without 
exception, expressed their surprise and admiration. 
They all admitted that it presented the appearance 
and smell of rich stable manure. On the same 
day his men planted potatoes with it. In the 
same lot, on one side he planted potatoes with 
manure from the farm, fine and good ; on the other 
side he planted with a load of horse manure, brought 
from Brooklyn for the express purpose, and the 
best he could obtain. The potatoes planted with 
the new manure, when examined, were far superior 
to those planted with manure' from the farm, and 
presented even a more luxuriant growth than those 
planted with the manure from Brooklyn. 
A second example I found at East New York, 
where Mr. Schenck planted com with the new 
manure, and alongside of it planted with hog- ma¬ 
nure, which he considered his best manure. I 
went with him to look at the corn, when he him¬ 
self, though before unbelieving,, acknowledged 
that the corn planted with the new manure rather 
‘ook the lead of the other. 
A third example I found in the garden of E. W, 
Strong, B. M. East New York. This also was 
decidedly in favor of the new method. Mr. Strong, 
in addition to the manure made from straw, weeds, 
.fee., took some black muck and threw it into the 
vat containing some of the liquid which had 
drained from the heap. After laying a few days, 
he , took the muck and planted several articles 
with it. It. has proved itself equal to the best ma¬ 
nure. 
Now in view of these several experiments, and 
others which might be mentioned, I hesitate not 
to pronounce “the improved method for manu¬ 
facturing vegetable manure,” worthy the attention 
of every farmer, and if we may judge of the Farm¬ 
er’s Mine from the specimen you have given, no 
one interested in agriculture will regret supplying 
himself with a copy. 
An Observer. 
For the American AgriculturistT 
PAULAR MERINOS. 
Weybridge , Vermont, July 16, 1843. 
A writer in the May, No. of the Agriculturist, 
says, that I have none of the Paular breed of sheep, 
and for me to use the “ name of Paulars is beyond 
all question, libellous,” &c. He appears to arrive' 
at the conclusion from a description and picture of 
one of my stock bucks, which appeared in the Au¬ 
gust No. of the Albany Cultivator [for 1842.] The 
engraver, as I have heretofore mentioned to you, 
did not do justice to the head and neck, the other 
points* in the picture are well executed. The face 
was too flat, nearer the representation of the horn¬ 
ed gnu of southern Africa, and the horns as nearly 
represent a couple, of scythe snaths as they did .the 
horns of the original, I would refer Mr. Examin¬ 
er to the second volume of the N. Y, State Tran¬ 
sactions of 1842 for a, correct likeness of one of my 
stock bucks. 
These two sheep sheared in six of their heavi¬ 
est fleeces, 74^ lbs. of washed wool; their nine 
fleeces weighed 97 lbs. and 13 ounces. Pedro is 
five, and Fortune is four years old; these two sheep 
in the intermediate time have tupped over 1,000 
ewes, and many of their stock equal the sires for 
size, and beauty, and weight of fleece. “ Paulars, 
old Merinos,” or anything that Examiner is not. 
willing to call them, it matters not to me; they are 
ahead of anything that I have seen, and it may be 
possible that I have seen with my own eyes, and 
bandied with my own hands , as many Merino 
sheep as this city gentleman. This variety of 
sheep have the best points in carcase among the 
finer breeds, and the length and quality of wool are 
good; the fleece very thick and solid ; wooled all 
over, many of them from the extremity of the nose 
to the dew claws. I never ranked them among 
the Saxonies for fineness. Examiner tells us;mine 
are a very coarse breed of sheep. He says, “ the 
Paulars are among the best and finest of the travel¬ 
ling sheep of Spain.” If he intends to convey the 
idea that they equal, or are superior to the Saxons 
for fineness of fleece, then he has received some 
false or true light which I had not before been ap- 
'■ prized of. 
