AHEKICAN AGBICULTUBIST. 1 
889 
4r. Whittington — Solomon Brock, Jeffer¬ 
sonville, Fayette County, 0., 900 
•5. The Marquis—W. Bently, Blooming¬ 
ton, Clinton County, 0., 625 
■6. Duke of Cornwall—D. P. Quinn, Sa¬ 
bina, Clinton County, O., 700 
7. Billy Harrison—Jesse G. Starbuck, 
Wilmington, Clinton County, 0., 1,500 
8. Moonraker (calf)—Thomas Conner, 
Buena Vista,. Fayette County, 0., 400 
6. Lord Rain 2d, (calf) Daniel Early, 
Port William, Clinton County, 0., 195 
10. Young Sir Robert (calf)—Thomas W. 
Me Millan, Wilmington, Clinton 
County, 0., 250 
the cows. 
1. Duchess—M. B. Wright, Jefferson¬ 
ville, Fayette County, 0., $1,675 
2. Emma — David Persingcr, Sabina, 
Clinton County, 0., 750 
Hope—William Palmer, Bloomington, 
Clinton County, 0., 1,000 
4. Miss Shafto—Jesse G. Starbuck, Wil¬ 
mington, 0., 650 
5. Dairy—Jesse G. Starbuck, Wilming¬ 
ton. 0., 475 
6. Familiar—Jesse Pancake, Frankfort, 
Ross County, 0., 550 
7. .Sunbeam—Thos. L. Carothers, Wil¬ 
mington, Clinton County, 0., 500 
8. Young Emma—A. Rombach, Wil¬ 
mington, Clinton County, 0., 300 
9. Miss Walton—John Hadley, Clarks¬ 
field, Clinton County, 0., 325 
10. Princess-Hadley & Hawkins, Clarks- 
field, Clinton County, 0., 1,060 
11. Moonbeam—Henry Kirkpatrick, Jef¬ 
fersonville, Clinton County, O., 500 
12. Lady Jane—David Watson, Milford 
Centre, Union County, 0., 225 
18. Lady Whittington—W. Reed, Bloom¬ 
ington, Clinton County, 0., 300 
14. Strawberry—James Fullington, Mil¬ 
ford Centre, Clinton County, 0., 675 
15. Louisa—James R. Mills, Blooming¬ 
ton, Clinton County, 0., 300 
16. Jessamine—J. 0. B. Renick, Shade- 
ville, Franklin County, 0., 475 
17. Victoria—[no pedigree]—D. Persin- 
ger, Sabina, Clinton County, 0., 1,000 
18. Queen [calf of Victoria]—H. S. Pa- 
vey, Leesburgh, Highland County, 0., 425 
SOTJTH DOWN SHEEP. 
1st Buck—R. R. Seymour, Bainbridge, 
Ross Co., 0., $120 
2d “ Thomas Blackstone, Bain¬ 
bridge, Ross Co., 0., 95 
3d “ Jeptha Perrill, Bowensville, 
Ross Co., 0., 100 
1st Ewe Thos. Blackstone, Bainbridge, 
Ross Co., 0., 70 
2d “ R. R. Seymour, Bainbridge, 
Ross Co., 0., 70 
3d. “ Thos. Blackstone, Bainbridge, 
Ross Co , 0., 60 
4th “ II. S. Pavey, Leesburgh, High¬ 
land Co., 0., 55 
5th “ John Hadley, Clarksfield, Clin¬ 
ton Co., 0., 70 
6th “ Thos. Blackstone, Bainbridge, 
Ross Co., 0., 55 
THE COTSWOLDS. 
1st Buck—Jeptha Perrill, Bowensville, 
Ross Co., 0., $70 
2d Ewe—Thos. Blackstone, Bainbridge, 
Ross Co., O., 85 
3d “ R. R. Seymour, Bainbridge, 
Ross Co., 0., 85 
SHEPHERD DOGS. 
A dog, slut and five pups were sold. John 
Hadley, of Clarksfield, Clinton County, 
bought the Slut for $51, and one Pup for 
$36. The Dog was sold to A. R. Seymour, 
for $30, and the other four Pups for $19, $12, 
$12, and $10.50 each— Ohio Farmer. 
Excuses are the pickpockets of time. The 
sun does not wait for his hot water, or his boots, 
but gets up at once. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
CROPS IN ORANGE COUNTY. 
In this dry weather, farmers should see that 
their farms and stock be watered in the best 
possible manner. My farm is watered by means 
of a well dug on an elevated spot, from which 
the water is drawn by means of a syphon, and 
conveyed to different parts of the field. I bring 
it, if possible, to the place where the fields are 
cornered, so as to derive as much advantage as 
possible. 
The weather still continues very dry, and our 
hopes are nearly cut off as to the corn crop. 
We cut it up for fodder. The buckwheat is of 
no value, and in some cases is plowed up. Our 
soil, being in some sections, of a loamy nature, 
and in others clay mingled with sand, corn 
stands a drouth quite well, but at this time, all 
our verdure has to yield, and we fodder our cat¬ 
tle as a general thing. 
My neighbor tells me that his dairy last year 
averaged $68 to the cow, for butter alone. On 
some farms the average, in good seasons for 
making butter, is three firkins, consisting of 
eighty pounds each; but this season the quan¬ 
tity will be a third less. I keep about thirty- 
five cows, and do not get more than half the 
butter made in a good season. E. S. 
Searsville, August 18,1854. 
WHAT HAS WOMAN TO DO WITH AGRI¬ 
CULTURE 1 
In a late number of the Ohio Cultivator, Mrs. 
Josephine N. Dyer, of Galena, asks this ques¬ 
tion, and then answers it as follows: 
In one of the early numbers of this volume, 
was a short sketch of English life, where we 
hear of a lady—“ a peeress in her own right,” 
who seems to understand enough of agriculture, 
&c., to descant about wheat-drills, and the best 
breed of cows for the pail. 
Is it not singular that in our wishes to ape 
foreign aristocracy, it is almost without excep¬ 
tion their objectionable practices that we as 
Americans, as individuals, arc most ambitious to 
imitate. Their enervating luxuries, without 
their virtues—their extravagance, their livery, 
without their exercise and general information. 
It is nothing unusual, we are informed by tour¬ 
ists, for English ladies to walk four or five miles 
without fatigue, while American country women 
almost invariably think it a hardship to be 
obliged to walk one-fourtli the distance. 
Shut up from pure air, and health giving ex¬ 
ercise, it is not to be wondered at that prema¬ 
ture old age and early graves await-so many. 
As to agricultural knowledge among our farm¬ 
ers’ wives, I will venture to say that the major¬ 
ity are, as yet, in their a-b-c’s, and will never 
advance farther; simply knowing that plowing 
must precede sowing, &c. But what has 
woman to do with agriculture, that she need in¬ 
terest herself about the best method of raising 
grain, or the particular adaptation of the vari¬ 
ous grasses for different soils, or which will 
produce the most hay, and which the most pas¬ 
ture ? 
I know a woman, who, twelve years ago, was 
left a widow with six small children, in debt, 
upon a farm of one hundred acres, fifty im¬ 
proved and indifferently cultivated. The fact 
forced itself upon her mind that she had some¬ 
thing to do with agriculture, and although she 
was as ignorant as farmers’ wives generally, 
she went to work industriously to inform 
herself; for upon her efforts and her success 
depended the education it had always been her 
ambition to give her children. Her success 
was undoubted, and now she will tell you, if 
you ask her, what crops are most exhausting, 
and which least injurious to land; she will ex¬ 
plain the course necessary to be pux-sued to ele¬ 
vate the standard of fertility — will tell you how 
she made her dairy profitable, and why she 
finally exchanged her cows for sheep. 
I know several other instances where families 
similarly circumstanced have been broken up 
and scattered, because the mother could not at¬ 
tend to the farm. If our own interest, and the 
interest of our children, is not inducement 
enough for us to inform ourselves upon this 
matter, then the ambition to become sensible 
companions for our husbands, and intelligent 
mothers for our sons, should be enough to in¬ 
duce farmers’ wives and daughters to learn 
something respecting the principhs of agricul¬ 
ture. 
- — • - 
SEWING MACHINE. 
BY HENRY F. FRENCH. 
To the Ladies of New-England. —Were an 
angel to appear before you some pleasant morn¬ 
ing in spring, and say that he had come to be¬ 
stow upon you, for your patient endurance ol 
life’s wearisome labors, a reward of two hours or 
time daily—two hours of waking, conscious, ac¬ 
tive time—for all your future life, how would 
your schemes of life expand ? Your education 
and early associations have inspired you with a 
taste for literary pursuits; but family cares, the 
want of servants, and the want of time, have 
compelled you to relinquish them. 
, You were instructed in music and drawing in 
your youth, you cultivated flowers, and traced 
in botany, and its kindred studies, the curious 
analogies of nature; but, in later years, your 
time has been filled with duties more imperative, 
and with a secret sigh you have, without com¬ 
plaint, sacrificed on the household altar the plea¬ 
sures and graceful accomplishments of your 
early years. As to mere amusements, you 
could well enough bear that loss, but to feel 
that the cultivation of the mind must cease, that 
you must stop in the pursuit of knowledge, 
while husband, brother, and Mend are still ad¬ 
vancing, to be conscious that the sympathy that 
once bound you together in intellectual pursuits 
is daily lessening, this is a burden that no one 
can help you to bear. 
Blessing the good angel for this most precious 
gift, you, who better than all others, know its 
value, would treasure it with sacred care. You 
would devote it, not to frivolous amusements, 
not to idleness or dreamy listlessness, but to 
social enjoyments, to mental culture, and to ac¬ 
tive benevolence. 
Constant physical labor is not, perhaps, a se¬ 
vere burden to the ignorant and degraded, but 
for one whose moral and intellectual training 
has elevated him to the true appreciation of life’s 
great ends, a merely servile life of manual labor, 
is not enough. To ladies of education and re¬ 
finement, the petty toils and harrassing cares of 
the family are trying, indeed; but when we add 
to these the constant demand upon them for 
labor with the needle , an employment trying- 
alike to the patience, the sight, and the nervous 
system—an employment which never ends, 
which takes every moment that ought to be 
given to leisure, amusement, or reading—we 
have some idea of the value of the angel gift, 
with which we commenced. 
The spiritualists tell us of the influence of 
mind over matter; how, by mere force of the 
human will, tables and other lifeless quadrupeds 
may be made to walk, as if alive ; but the laws 
by which such things are done are not suffi¬ 
ciently understood to enable us to work out from 
them any valuable practical results. But the 
laws by which wood and iron may be constructed 
into machinery, and so made, instead of human 
bones and sinews, to perform servile labor, are 
working always for human comfort and human 
freedom. 
Of this description is the recently-invented 
Sewing Machine —an invention doubtless sent 
down from Heaven, in answer to the prayers of 
suffering thousands—an invention destined to 
bestow upon New-England women the priceless 
boon of time for mental cultivation and social 
enjoyment. Slavery to the needle is the pecu¬ 
liar slavery of New-England ladies. The price 
of such labor, to those who are paid for it, is piti¬ 
fully small, and yet the customs of society de- 
