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and eight or ten sound yellow or Swedish turnips, 
having the tops and tails carefully taken off, and 
boil them together four or five hours. To this they 
add as much water as will allow the hand to move 
easily through the mass, and then squeeze down 
the turnips, with three pounds of pea-meal. This 
is given to the cow in the morning and evening, 
with as much sweet hay as she will eat up clean 
five times a day. The butter made from cows fed 
in this manner is as rich and of as fine flavor as can 
be produced in winter by any other means. Should 
the peculiar flavor of the turnip be detected, how¬ 
ever, which is not unlikely, a pinch or two of salt¬ 
petre, as before observed, may be put into the cream 
to take it away. 
Great precaution must be taken in giving turnips 
to milch-cows, that the bulbs should be perfectly 
sound and all decayed leaves removed, as they are 
sure to impart an unpleasant flavor to the milk. The 
same precaution also is necessary in regard to hay, 
which should be perfectly sound, and made from a 
meadow perfectly free from weeds. 
NEW YORK STATE^AGRICULTURAL SO¬ 
CIETY. 
At the meeting of the Executive Committee at 
Albany, on the 11th of November, returns were 
made from the Agricultural Societies of Seneca, 
Cortland, Columbia, Livingston, Cayuga, Oneida, 
Greene, Orange, and Queen’s Counties. In the latter 
Society’s Show we notice the following commend¬ 
able regulation of the butter premiums. 
In this county separate premiums are awarded to 
girls under twenty-one years of age for butter, and 
the competition was very spirited, there being a 
large number of competitors. It is hoped that other 
societies will adopt this practice, encouraging the 
farmers’ daughters to become perfect in this most 
important branch of agricultural industry. Speak¬ 
ing of the exhibitors in this department, it is said, . 
« Although all could not obtain premiums, all : 
gained credit by their labors and gave evidence of : 
ability, that many wives and mothers might be 
proud of, and that husbands often wish for.” ; 
Officers of County Societies are particularly de- < 
sired to forward to the Agricultural Rooms an ac- : 
count of their Fairs, as requested by Circular of 11th 
March. \ 
T. M. Burt, of Kinderhook, presented fine sped- j 
mens of Swaar and Yandervere apples. The 
Swaars remarkably largeand fine. Gentlemen hav- 1 
ing choice fruit are desired to exhibit specimens, . 
especially seedlings which are of esteemed varieties. 
The Secretary exhibited specimens of a remarka¬ 
bly choice variety of seedling apples, from Jas. M. 
Ellis’s farm, Onondaga Hill. They were delivered < 
to Professor Emmons, and will be drawn and en- 1 
graved for his work on the Agriculture of the State. 1 
The Secretary reported, that, in pursuance of a i 
resolution of the Board in relation to international i 
exchanges, he had furnished Alexander Yattemare, « 
Esq., the founder of the system of exchanges, sets 1 
of Transactions of the Society and other agricultu- I 
ral Works foT the Royal Agricultural Society of < 
France, the Minister of Commerce, Chamber of ! 
Deputies, Library of the City of Paris, Academy of 1 
Science, and Royal Botanic Garden, and a variety i 
of 6eeds for distribution by the Royal Agricultural i 
, Society and Royal Institute. Assurances were re¬ 
ceived from Mr. Vattemare, that returns would be 
made of works suited to the library of the Society, 
: and that an interchange of seeds and implements 
would be continued. 
The Minister of Commerce instructed Mr. Yatte¬ 
mare, that “ he would very willingly have a public 
exhibition made of implements and the results oi 
American industry in Paris.” 
Inventors and manufacturers, who are desirous 
of extending a knowledge of their inventions, on 
furnishing models of their articles to the Secretary,, 
will have them forwarded for exhibition in France. 
Saluthiel Ellis, of 247 Broadway, New York, 
presented to the Society his splendid bust of the 
late Silas Wright. The thanks of the Society 
were tendered to Mr. Ellis for his valuable donation 
and the Secretary was directed to have the same 
placed in the rooms of the Society. 
A letter was received from Mrs. Clarissa Wright, 
widow of the late Gov. Wright, informing the So¬ 
ciety, in answer to their request to have the 
original draft of the Address written by her husband 
placed in the archives of the Society, that “ Her 
profound respect for the Society, and for the rea¬ 
sons expressed for making this request, induces her 
to put aside the desire to retain this memorial in her 
own possession, and to give her assent to the re¬ 
quest of the Society.” 
On motion of Mr. Stevens, the following pream¬ 
ble and resolution was adopted :— 
Whereas many persons in different parts of the 
State have received as premiums or otherwise, du¬ 
plicated copies of the early volumes of the Society £ 
Resolved , That the Secretary be authorized and 
directed to exchange late volumes of the Transac¬ 
tions for such duplicated copies, whenever desired 
by the persons having them. 
On motion of Mr. Johnson, Resolved, That Prof. 
.T. P. Norton, of Yale College, be invited to deliver 
an address before the Society, at their annual meet¬ 
ing, on the 3d Wednesday (19th) of January next. 
Competitors for premiums at the winter meeting, 
are desired to forward their statements to the Se¬ 
cretary without delay. Directions for preparing 
statements will be found in the premium list, from 
pages 10 to 14. It is hoped each competitor will 
see the importance of having his papers properly 
prepared and forwarded in season. 
(jb=- The next Annual Meeting of the Society will 
be held at Albany on the third Wednesday of 
January, 19th. B. P. Johnson, Secretary. 
THE HORSE.—No. 7. 
Muscles of the Inside of the Thigh. —The mus¬ 
cles of the hind-quarters are more powerful 
than those of any other part of the frame ; 
therefore provision is made to keep them in their 
respective places, and thus contribute to their secu¬ 
rity and strength. When the skin is stripped from 
any part, we find the muscles are thickly covered 
by a dense, strong, tendinous coat, whose office is 
to confine them to their places. This membrane, 
called by anatomists the fascia , is of extraordinary 
strength in the hind-quarter, and reaches over the 
whole of the haunch and thigh, and ceases to be 
found only at the hock, where the muscles them^ 
selves cease. 
