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AMEKICAN AttBICb uTURIST. 
James Brown 10, William Tyler 10, Amos Tyler 
22. Total 195. Except Thomas Todd, none of 
these worthy citizens has had more than one 
wife. A man named Lockwood, in the same 
neighborhood, has been married three years, 
and has had six children— Tribune. 
CREDENTIALS OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 
A subscriber at Stone Mills, N. Y., in for¬ 
warding pay for some subscribers on the 10 th 
instant, after stating that he delayed his own 
subscription to get as many more names as pos¬ 
sible, says: 
Some of those whose names I formerly sent 
you, say that the market Reviews and prices, 
alone compensate them for their subscriptions, 
to say nothing about the other valuable matter 
contained in each number. For my own part, 
I have been almost lost since waiting for the 
others to get the money ready for the paper. I 
have, indeed, other reading matter enough, but 
it does not at all satisfy me like your king pa¬ 
per. I consider it second to none. I have read, 
and continue to read, some of the best of those 
published in this State, and can say that I have 
never had so complete a view of the corn-trade 
throughout the world, as since I commenced 
reading the Agriculturist. I may say within 
bounds that, last year alone, poor as the season 
was, I was benefitted more than $100 in read¬ 
ing your paper—setting aside the knowledge 
gained, which is worth to me more than five 
times that sum. I have built me a barn the 
past year 80 feet by 50, in which I have made 
invaluable improvements suggested by your 
paper. I have stabling under the whole of it, 
enough to hold 40 cows, room to house the ma¬ 
nure, a granary, &c. I intend to give you a cut 
of it at some future time. I have arranged to 
save all the liquid from the stables. 
L. Kieffer, 
A Farm One Hundred and Fifty Miles 
Long. —This may not, perhaps, be any thing 
remarkable in Australia or America, but in 
England it is a rare occurrence ; yet such is the 
fact, and furthermore, there is no other farm in 
Great Britain with every inch of which the 
public are better acquainted. The owner, or 
rather renter of this farm, is Mr. Brotherhood, 
of Chippenham, the contractor. This gentle¬ 
man has an engagement for keeping the perma¬ 
nent way or rails of the Great Western in re¬ 
pair, and he rents at the same time all the land 
on both sides of the line, slopes, &c., belonging 
to the company. In some places between the 
line and the fence there may be twenty yards; 
in other spots it is not more than six feet, but 
all equally constitutes Mr. Brotherhood’s farm, 
which, however narrow, is literally 150 miles 
long, and through its whole length—whether 
in grass or arable—is well, and, we have heard, 
profitably kept by Mr. Brotherhood, who has 
risen by his own industry from originally being 
a workman on the line, and whose enterprise is 
only equalled by his kindness and liberality to 
those he employs and others. He has a factory 
at Chippenham, where he employs 300 men.— 
Bath Chronicle. 
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Poultry in France. — The organization of 
the general agricultural competition finished 
yesterday, and the several juries made their 
awards. This exhibition numbers more than 
five hundred entries, among which may be no¬ 
ticed nearly all the French and Foreign Bovine, 
Ovine, and Porcine races. The birds of the 
farm-yard formed fifty very curious lots. 
All the animal and the agricultural instru¬ 
ments were decorated with much taste. In 
order that this exhibition should be equal to 
similar ones in England, an elegant fountain 
was constructed, and masses of flowers decora¬ 
ted the place. 
The flowers, the verdure of the trees, the 
voices of the animals, (query, the crowing of 
cocks,) and the noise of steam-engines at work, 
gave to this great exhibition, held in the Champ 
de Mars, a peculiar interest.— Journal des De¬ 
bats. 
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Indications of Rain. —The water-plungings 
of sea-fowl and fresh-water birds, is a sign of 
rain approaching—especially so in the case of 
the swan, and her cousin the duck,—from the 
presages of which latter bird we find the origin 
of the classical simile, “like a duck in a thun¬ 
derstorm.” Virgil, it will be perceived, repre 
sentsthem as continually plunging in the water 
half sportively, half in earnest, as if they were 
anxious to wash themselves and be clean, when 
they knew they did not need either. 
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CATTLE FIELDS OF ARKANSAS. 
The Van Buren Intelligencer has the follow¬ 
ing in reference to stock-raising; 
Arkansas is destined to be the great grazing 
State of the Union. Its extensive prairies and 
mild climate render it one of the greatest gra¬ 
zing countries in the world. Immense droves 
of cattle have been driven annually from our 
State to Ohio, when after being wintered one 
season, they are driven to the eastern cities and 
sold as fine “ Ohio beef.” The citizens of New- 
York and Philadelphia are hardly aware that 
most of the fine beef they purchase in their 
markets, is Arkansas bred. The cattle trade 
has commenced in another channel, viz: via 
Chicago, Illinois, where it is taken by railroad 
to the eastern cities. Some three or four thou¬ 
sand head destined to the “lake city,” passed 
through our place during the past week. Bui 
the greatest and what is considered the most 
profitable trade is that to California. The 
droves that take this destination are much the 
largest and most numerous, more than doub¬ 
ling all other branches of the trade put together. 
The resources of cattle breeding in Arkansas 
are inexhaustible, and if our farmers and stock 
breeders choose, and are enegetic and enterpris¬ 
ing, they can command this branch of business 
over all other States of the Union. 
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Flax Culture. —The Earl of Albemarle has 
addressed an important letter to the members 
of the Norfolk Agricultural Society, respecting 
the cultivation of flax in this country. His 
lordship says, “ The present high price of wheat 
cannot always continue ; is it not, therefore, de¬ 
sirable to have a crop that will indemnify the 
farmer for the occasional low price of grain? 
Now flax is exactly the description of plant for 
this purpose, for it is notorious that flax rises 
as wheat falls. It appears to be the most re¬ 
munerative crop that can well be grown. 1 
have accounts from various parts of the country 
which concur in the opinion that where there 
is a profit of £9 in a crop of wheat, there will 
be £20 in one of flax. The cultivation of flax 
would afford increased employment to persons 
of both sexes, of all ages, and at all seasons of 
the year. The plant will grow on almost every 
description of soil, and will take its place in any 
part of a rotation. Flax is no new crop in this 
country, as is shown by old leases, which con¬ 
tained plauses prohibiting its growth, being con¬ 
sidered an exhausting crop. Granting that it is 
so, the artificial manures have entirely removed 
this objection, and it is grown in the present 
day in several parts of the kingdom. Mr. 
Warnes, of Trimingham, has proved in his 
pamphlet that it can be produced ‘ on the edge 
of cliffs, and above 200 feet above the level of 
the sea.’ The agriculturists of Ireland are al¬ 
ready sensible of its value.” 
Sowing Grass Seeds. —To those who are 
about laying dow T n land to permanent pasture 
or meadow, it is highly essential that the land 
should be worked as fine as possible, and ren¬ 
dered perfectly clean and free from seeds. The 
seeds should be sown on a calm day, [or they 
would be irregularly distributed,] and be merely 
brushed in with a “ light brush harrow,” as the 
seeds of many natural grasses are so minute 
tnat if covered deeply they cannot germinate. 
When the object is to obtain a fine, close pas¬ 
ture in the shortest possible time, the seed 
should be sown -without any other crop. Per¬ 
manent grass seeds should not be sown before 
the first week in April, [May here,] nor later 
than the first or second week in August, being 
easily injured by frost when coming through 
the ground.— Farmers' Herald , Chester , Eng¬ 
land. 
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Extensive Corn Field. —The beautiful farm 
belonging to Wm. S. Sullivan, Esq., containing 
1,200 acres, adjoining the town of Franklinton, 
has been rented to Messrs. Dixon, Merrick Sc 
Stitt, of this city, and from the manner in which 
it has been worked this season, they may well 
claim to be classed among the model farmers of 
the day. Notwithstanding the continual wet 
weather about planting time, they succeeded in 
putting in six hundred acres of corn, and by 
constant care and attention, they can show the 
tallest corn in the neighborhood. Fifteen sho¬ 
vel plows and three cultivators, worked by 
eighteen men and twenty-five horses, are kept 
in constant requisition; and the result is that 
scarcely a weed can be seen in the well plowed 
furrows. Twenty-five German girls follow the 
plow, and do the hoeing, for which they receive 
62^- cents per day. The men receive $20 a 
month. The view of the mound upon which 
the “ log cabin” stands, is exceedingly beautiful. 
Far as the eye can reach, as you look down to¬ 
wards the “ sunny banks” of the Scioto, the 
Summer breezes stir the waving corn. —Colum¬ 
bus (Ohio) State Journal. 
The Crystal Palace (English) Agricultural 
Museum. —An apartment is provided in the 
north wing for the Exhibition of Agriculture; 
there will be a museum of geology, rocks, soils, 
subsoils, and their produce. The young farmer 
or aspiring student will find, besides every suit 
of specimens, in a colored map of the country 
for that particular purpose, any district that pro¬ 
duces limestone or mineral manure, chalk with 
or without flint, marl or green sand, and copro- 
lite. An hour’s examination will instruct more 
perfectly than a series of lectures. If the agri¬ 
culture of any one district is required, he will 
find specimens with this end in view—the ma¬ 
nure and the implements generally used ; every 
variety of the grasses and grain in seed, and of 
the beautiful specimens of wheat (of which 
there are many in this corn district) and their 
uses—flour, starch, manufactured straw, and pa¬ 
per. There will likewise be exhibited the high 
products of the grazing districts—cheese, wool, 
&c.; so that the farmer, upon his visit to this 
scene of wonder and delight, will find himself 
at home at all his exciiing pursuits, and feel 
well repaid, even by this true representation of 
his daily toil. This Museum of Agriculture 
will surpass any thing of the kind in Europe, 
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Milk for the Parisians.—A most rigid sur- 
vedance is being now kept up not only in Paris 
and the Banlieue, but in all parts of the country 
from whence the capital is supplied, over the 
milk which is forwarded for the consumption of 
its inhabitants. Thirteen farmers have just 
been condemned fines of lOOf. and under, and 
one to eight days’ imprisonment, for sending 
milk mixed with water. The milk undergoes a 
rigorous examination at the railway stations, 
and also at the shops of the retail dealers. 
Couldn’t believe him. — A young man, meet¬ 
ing an acquaintance, said, “I heard that you 
were dead.” “But,” said the other, “you see 
me alive.” “I do not know how that may be,” 
replied he; “ you are a notorious liar; but my 
informant was a person of credit” 
