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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
WARWICK. 
Warwick was bred by Samuel Thorne, 
Esq., and is now owned by Samuel T. Taber, 
of Chestnut Ridge, Dutchess County, N. Y. 
Calved 18th March, 1854. Color, red roan. 
Got by Duke of Glo’ster [11,282]; 1. Dam 
For the American Agricultuirst. 
GET THE BEST. 
I have often wondered why our hard 
working farmers, particularly those who 
have easy access to our large cities and 
towns, (which with our numerous Railroad, 
and Steamboats, embraces nearly all,) do not 
more generally and exfensively cultivate 
choice vegetables and fruits, for market, in¬ 
stead of confining themselves, in many in¬ 
stances, to a scanty livelihood, obtained by 
growing on a small scale our ordinary field 
crops. And why do not farmers raise only 
the most desirable and best varieties, since 
it requires but little more expense and care 
to raise the choicest stock or crops, than the 
inferior ; while the best always find ready 
sale, and usually at a price very much above, 
and frequently at several times, the price of 
ordinary produce. 
I was impressed with the truth of these 
remarks when recently visiting the farms of 
the Messrs. Hallocks, and others, at Milton 
N. Y., and viewing among other fine things, 
their splendid raspberries, which are sent by 
steamboat daily to New-York, and which 
one of the Messrs. Hallocks, I think, told 
me brought him in for several weeks during 
bearing season, $100 per day; while he also 
sells a large number of his fine plants in the 
fall and spring. I have seen the same result 
lately, at Mr. Lawton’s, with his fine black¬ 
berries. He has several acres of plants, and 
sells all his fruit readily at $1 the gallon, and 
says he could get a higher price if he thought 
it polite to do so. He estimates that an acre 
of bearing plants would yield 800 to 1,000 
gallons during the season. He also sells at 
a high price a large number of plants. If 
our farmers were to show more enterprise 
in growing new and superior varieties of 
fruit, seed, stock, &c., and in using the best 
labor-saving implements, I think they would 
find more cash in their pockets than if they 
imply raised, as too many do, hay and oats 
Mystery, by Usurer [9763]; 2. Minstrel, by 
Count Conrad [2510J; 3. Magic, by Wallacs 
]5586]; 4. By Wellington [2824]; 5. By Mar- 
mion [406]; 6. Daphne, by Merlin [430]; 7. 
Nell Gwyne, by Layton [366]; 8. By Phe- 
for their horses, corn for their pigs, and 
pigs and wheat for themselves. 
Excelsior. 
The following facts may be of service to 
some of your readers : Acting upon the 
repeated suggestions of the American Agri¬ 
culturist, I sowed, early in the spring, 
(about the 20th of April,) one acre of corn 
broad-cast, for soiling. It so happened the 
hay crop in this Valley was expected to 
prove a failure ; and, therefore, as soon as 
my corn made its appearance above ground, 
“ as thick as the hair on a dog’s back,” and 
my neighbors got over their wonderment, 
they began to imitate my example, several 
of them putting in, late in May, eight or ten- 
acre fields of broadcast corn. As far as I 
can learn, it has done well in every case. In 
my own field it has grown very nearly as 
well as the corn planted in the regular way— 
as the season has been very propitious— 
and will produce an abundant crop of “ nub¬ 
bins,” if not of full-grown ears. It has al¬ 
ready, (August 15,) paid me thrice over, for 
I have been feeding three head of stock upon 
it for eight weeks, and not one-quarter of it 
is cut yet. At the same time, my cow gives 
twice as much milk, and of a better quality 
than ever before. 
As was expected, the hay crop did fail, 
but those of us who have broadcast corn, 
consider the loss of the hay crop a matter of 
very little importance. E. 
Cumberland Valley, Penn. 
The Sandusky Register has seen a potato 
vine six feet two inches in length. There 
was a fine yield of potatoes at the bottom. 
nomenon [491]; 9. Princess, by Favorite 
[252]; 10. By Favorite [252]; 11. By Hub- 
back [319]; 12. By Snowden’s^Bull [611]; 
13. By Waistell’s Bull [660]; 14. By Mas- 
terman’s Bull [422]; 15. By Studley Bull [626]. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
THE CROPS. 
The excitement under which farmers have 
labored for some time past, because of the 
continued rain upon their exposed wheat 
fields has, we are happy to say, considerably 
abated. The weather during the last week 
having been fine, farmers have availed them¬ 
selves of it to hurry their grain into the barn. 
Wheat however is badly sprouted, and the 
injury.in dollars and cents will be great. 
Considerable has been threshed, and the 
grain spread upon the barn floor for drying. 
Such as I have seen will make passable flour, 
if it can be preserved from mustiness. Con- 
trary to the statement that “the injury to 
wheat has been over-rated,” it is such as to¬ 
tally to unfit it for seed, and renders it com¬ 
paratively unmarketable; and the injury is 
likely to be increased, too, by the precipitate 
manner in which the crop has been ushered 
into the barn. Some millers, in this sec¬ 
tion, have already been west and bought Illi¬ 
nois wheat for flouring, the home-produced 
being rejected by many retail customers. 
The hay crop in this, as well as Onondaga, 
Wayne and Seneca Counties, has also been 
materially injured. A great deal had been 
cut by mowing machines before the rains, 
and as little was secured much was spoiled. 
Clover ripened earlier and was mostly se¬ 
cured before the rains. The hay crop, how¬ 
ever, will undoubtedly be greater than last 
year after all. 
There must be an overwhelming crop of 
oats this season. In traveling through the 
country, one is astonished at the number¬ 
less fields of this crop that meet the eye. In 
every direction it is oats, oats, oats. Not 
only are great quantities sown, but the crop 
is unusually heavy and promising. 
The prospect for a great crop of com is 
good. The spring was cold and backward, 
and the growth continually retarded up to the 
For the American Agriculturist 
CORN-PASTURE—THE RESULTS. 
