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It is further worthyof remark, as respects 
the meadow observed upon, that although 
only a part of it could be irrigated, yet from 
the animals depasturing ,thereon having 
range over the whole meadow, the unirri¬ 
gated portion has been also much improved, 
so that where all of a meadow can not be 
brought under the influence of this agent, it 
might be well to consider if only a portion 
can be so cultivated. 
4th. This necessarily leads to a consid¬ 
eration of the advantages to be derived from 
the practice, for if a whole meadow be im¬ 
proved by the irrigation of a part, so may 
we not consider the utility of such meadows 
to the farm in general. This will become 
evident by a glance at the following facts: 
a. Irrigation produces earlier pasture. 
b. It always secures a good late herbage— 
lattermath. 
r. Its yield of hay is much more certain 
where plenty of water can be com¬ 
manded. 
Hence, then, this portion of our subject 
will need no comment; but if this be so in 
ordinary cases, how much more so in a dis¬ 
trict like the Cotteswolds, where the great 
breadth of the land is on uplands ot the por¬ 
ous oolitic rock. Such meadows in the 
valleys assist sheep farming in an extraordi¬ 
nary manner, as they enable the farmer in a 
not very genial climate still to have pasture 
for his early lambs, and thus to compete with 
those under more favorable circumstances 
as to climate. It is on this account that ir¬ 
rigated meadows are so carefully managed 
in the neighborhood of Cirencester, and we 
shall, therefore, devote another paper to a 
detailed account of their management. 
Creole Butter. —The neighbors of a cer¬ 
tain lady in the Fourth District in New Or¬ 
leans, has recently discovered the nature of 
something that has seemed a miracle, for 
months past. They knew the lady had but one 
cow, (says the Crescent,) and they knew al¬ 
so that the lady’s two little negroes peddled 
as much Creole butter daily as could be 
produced by half a dozen common cows. 
Inquisition got so high on the subject at last, 
that the lady has let out the secret, and in its 
travels it has reached us. She told a friend 
that her cow was only a common cow, and 
did not produce any butter, but yielded milk 
enough in which to re-churn any quantity of 
strong Goshen butter, which the boys pur¬ 
chased by wholesale at the groceries, and con¬ 
verts by the said re-churning in new milk, to 
that pale, sweet delicacy known as the Creole 
butter, which always commands the highest 
of prices. She added, also, that by this pro¬ 
cess she had made a clear profit, since June 
last, of twelve hundred dollars ? One cow is 
not much, but one cow and Yankee ingenu¬ 
ity together, are considerable. Our author¬ 
ity in this ^matter is indisputable, and the 
speculation is worth imitating. 
To Divest Calves of Vermin. —It often 
happens that calves become covered with 
vermin, causing them to lose flesh, and look 
very dull. To clean the calf is a very disa¬ 
greeable piece of work ; but if the following 
recipe is adhered to, they will become clean 
with a very little trouble. Give the calf a 
tablespoonful of brimstone for three morn¬ 
ings in succession ; if one trial does not com¬ 
pletely rid the calf, the second will never 
fail. I have tried it several times, and once 
has been enough in each instance. 
Speaking of strawberries, a sapient friend 
says that, as a chemical analysis shows 
them to be ninety per cent water, he thinks 
it will be cheaper to use water only. He 
c an obtain an imaginary taste of the fruit by 
sucking the water. 
Roan; calved July 16,1850. Bred by Col. 
Sherwood. Sire imported 3d Duke of Cam¬ 
bridge (5941); dam Nymph, by Bertram 2d, 
(3144); gr. dam Nannette, by Patriot (2412); 
gr. gr. d. Nonpareil, by Young Denton (963); 
gr. gr. gr. d. Arabella, by North Star (460); 
GUANO ON WHEAT-THE CROPS. 
Last year I got Mr. Allen to send me a 
tun of guano, as an experiment to try if it 
would pay on the wheat land of Seneca 
County ; and I am now convinced that, so 
long as wheat keeps from $1 75 to $2 per 
bushel, guano will pay well. It acts differ¬ 
ently from any other manure I ever saw, for 
although the wheat, both in fall and spring, 
looked very dark and grassy—just as if it 
had been over highly manured with barn¬ 
yard manure—yet, on coming to maturity, 
the straw, in place of being soft and moldy, 
was stiff and of a golden hue. 
I have this year procured 6,832 pounds of 
guano from your city, which I shall apply 
on 30 acres of fallow for wheat. Last year 
I sowed the guano with Seymour’s broad¬ 
cast sower, then plowed it under six inches, 
and immediately sowed the wheat. I shall 
do so again this year. 
I am sorry to say that the farmers in 
western New-York have met with a serious 
loss, by the great rains that commenced at 
the beginning of harvest and continued for 
some eighteen days. The wheat was so 
often swollen and dried during that time, 
and so much weather-beaten, that little is 
left of value. I think, on an average, it will 
fall short in weight as much as from 8 to 11 
lbs. per bushel; and some of my neighbors 
who have had new wheat ground, say they 
only get 27 to 30 lbs. of flour per bushel. 
If all the wheat not secured before the rains 
in the different States is as bad as that 
around here, the loss to the farmers will be 
immense. Almost all the Soule's wheat is 
more or less sprouted ; at least such is the 
case with mine and all in this neighborhood. 
gr. gr. gr. gr. d. Aurora, by Comet (155); 
by Henry (301); by Danby (190). 
Winner of the first prize in the class of 
heifers at the American Institute and Queens 
County Fairs in 1852. 
From loss of weight, and shelling by being 
over-ripe, we certainly lose from 35 to 40 
per cent of our wheat crop, and there are 
very few to sympathise with farmers when 
they meet with losses. 
On all dry land corn looks well, but is 
late. On wet land it is worthless for any 
thing but fodder. Oats are very good, and 
potatoes could not be better. There is no 
appearance of rot. Had our wheat crop 
been preserved, every crop would have been 
excellent. John Johnston. 
Near Geneva, Aug. 20,1855. 
TRIAL OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
AT THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. 
Horace Greely, Esq., editor of the Tribune 
attended a trial of Plows and Mowers on 
the 7th July last, at Guignem, the “ Im¬ 
perial” College of Agriculture, some twenty- 
five miles west of Paris. He says :—“ A 
great number of Plows were taken from 
the Exhibition and tried here, and that of the 
Messrs. Howard, Bedford, England, was 
pronounced the most effective. I understood 
Mr. James Howard, one of the makers, to 
state that, as carefully tested by the dynam¬ 
ometer, on clover sod, being drawn by two 
smartly-walking horses, it turned a furrow 
ten inches wide and six and a half deep, with 
a medium draft of only 182 pounds, or a little 
more than half its own weight. There are 
a good many men who could draw this 
plow at that gait, and almost any two men 
could easily do it. There was no plow 
entered from our country, (we have none in 
the Palace,) but one from Canada was tried 
and did good work. Most of the ploughs 
entered from the continent proved beneath 
contempt, as was to be expected. Some of 
them required over quadruple the power to 
propel them that was exacted by the winner, 
and one from Austria, that was confidently 
bragged on before the trial, actually twisted 
round, broke off, and gave up the ghost, in 
For ths American Agriculturist. 
