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A HAY CRIB.-BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.—NOTICE. 
A HAY CRIB. 
Farmers are not particular enough in saving 
their hay. They throw it out in the yard, where 
cattle tread it under their feet, without any regard 
to the quantity wanted. How much better they 
would eat it if kept from the filth of the yard in a 
crib made after the fashion of the following wood- 
cut. 
Fig. 24. 
It would save what would be worth three times 
their cost. They are cheaply made by nailing 
boards on four posts, 4\ feet long, 3£ feet wide, and 
3£ feet high, with the feeding places at the ends 1 \ 
feet above the ground. The cribs should be made 
so tight that there can be no hay got except at the 
feeding places. The length given is such that the 
cattle can reach their food from the centre either 
way; and it is better not to have but two feeding 
at each crib, as they are more peaceable. Try it— 
two or three hours’ work in making them, will save 
five times as many dollars. 
BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS OF ANIMALS. 
We invite our readers to call at our office, 187 
Water street, and examine a series of engravings 
of animals, selected with great taste and care, by 
Francis Rotch, Esq., when in London last year 
They are the choicest of their kind; and what 
makes them the more valuable is, they are actual 
portraits and correctly colored after nature. 
No. 1. A stable of thorough-bred horses—the 
Emperor, Foigh-a-Ballagh, Charles Twelfth, and 
Alice Hawthorn. These are among the most cele¬ 
brated horses of England. 
No. 2. A stable scene of hunting-horses. 
No. 3. A stable scene of coach-horses. 
No. 4. A stable scene of farm-horses. 
No. 5. A portrait of the excellent breeder, Mr. 
Crisp, and one of his superb South-down bucks. 
We saw them both when in England, and know 
them to be faithfully done. 
No. 6. The Duke of Northumberland, a Short- 
Horn bull, bred by Thomas Bates, of Yorkshire. 
The Duke was the best bull of his day in England, 
and invariably took the first prize wherever exhi¬ 
bited. 
No. 7. Duchess 34. A Short-Horn cow bred by 
the above. We saw both of these animals at Mr. 
Bates’s farm, when in England, and compared their 
portraits with them, and consequently know them 
to be accurate. 
No. 8. A Short-Horn ox bred by the late Earl 
Spencer. He was exhibited at the Smithfield Show 
of fat cattle, in London, December, 1839, and took 
the gold and silver medals, thus winning the high¬ 
est prizes as the best ox of any breed exhibited that 
year. 
I No. 9. A Hereford prize ox, which took the first 
I premium as above in 1840. 
No. 10. A group of Leicester sheep. 
No. 11. A group of South-down sheep. 
These portraits are admirable models, and de¬ 
serve the careful study of breeders, as well as all 
others desirous of obtaining a correct knowledge 
of domestic animals. 
They are elegantly framed, and done up in a pe¬ 
culiar style, giving them the effect of the best spe¬ 
cimens of oil paintings. We shall take pleasure 
in ordering copies of these or any others our friends 
may desire. 
WASTE MANURE. 
How many substances do we see lying about the 
country which might be gathered up and applied 
as manure; thus removing many an intolerable 
nuisance, and at the same time greatly increase our 
crops and add largely to the product of the land 
Here is one—the refuse of glue factories. This 
substance has been recently analysed, and found to 
contain— 
Water, - 45.66 
Hair, .... l.io 
Fatty matter, - 23.34 
Cellular tissue, and a little ammonia, 4.43 
Phosphates of lime and magnesia, and 
a trace of iron, - - 2.30 
Carbonate of lime, - - - 20.06 
Sand, and loss, - - - 3.11 
100 parts. 
Our readers will now see that this refuse is a 
highly valuable manure, and should be sought for 
with avidity. They will find plenty of it poisoning 
the air of this neighborhood with its foetid odors. 
We presume the glue manufacturers, in several in¬ 
stances, would even pay for its removal. What 
would not Jack Chinaman give for a full swing at it! 
To our Southern Subscribers. — It will have 
been perceived by the readers of the Agriculturist 
that we have added the name of R. L. Allen, 75 
Camp street. New Orleans, to the names of our 
agents at the south. He has already sent us the 
names of a large number of the leading and most 
intelligent planters in Louisiana, and many in the 
adjoining states, who have voluntarily called on 
him to leave their subscriptions. Many at the south 
have been deterred from subscribing, heretofore, 
from the difficulty of forwarding payment, and some 
from the irregularity in receiving, their papers 
through the country offices. To all such, the es¬ 
tablishment of this agency offers an opportunity of 
taking the American Agriculturist with the same 
convenience and freedom from risk of not receiving 
it, as if it were printed in New Orleans itself. The 
money for one or any number of copies, either for 
the past, present, or future volumes, may be paid 
there, and by adding the postage, the numbers may 
be received at the office above indicated, or they 
will be sent to factors, or any other designated 
agents. We trust this arrangement will meet the 
wishes throughout so much of the south as make 
New Orleans their headquarters. Complete sets of 
bound volumes are also to be had at the same place. 
