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REVIEW OF THE MAY NUMBER OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 
makes me feel as though all of that com that 
Jonathan and I raised by the sweat of our brows, 
and sent over to feed the famishing Irish, had indi¬ 
rectly gone to feed horses and horned beasts kept 
to consume the food that should go into human 
stomachs, and by which we have helped to breed 
and propagate gambling, and all its attendant hunt¬ 
ing and horse-racing accompaniments. There is 
something rotten in England as well as Denmark. 
As putrescent manures produce good crops, I hope 
something good will soon grow out of this rotten¬ 
ness. 
Red-Cedar Posts. —Glad to hear that this timber 
is so plenty within reach of New York; for we 
are going to use a great quantity of cedar posts, 
when we all begin to make wire fence. And un¬ 
less we are to have that good time when all fences 
shall be no more, the sooner we get to making 
them of iron the better. There is one item of ad¬ 
vantage in wire fence, that I have never seen no¬ 
ticed ; that is, it never will blow down ; and this, 
in our windy country, is a very important con¬ 
sideration. 
Mosses on Meadows. —“Moses on meadows!’,, 
said a neighbor of mine, who borrowed my paper 
(he never subscribes for one of them book-farm¬ 
ing papers.) “ I should like to know what Moses , 
knew about meadows. Though he might have 
some knowledge of bulrushes, I fancy he knew 
but little about such grass as we grow now-a-days.” 
And with that he turned over the leaf as unwor¬ 
thy of his notice. I fear this is too often the case 
with readers. If they even cut the leaves of the 
paper, they look it over with about as much atten¬ 
tion as my neighbor did “ Mosses on Meadows,” 
and, doubtless, as will many others do to this very 
article. 
Hints on Horses , No. 1 . —First rate. No fault 
to find. Go on. Perhaps I may catch you trip¬ 
ping in the next number. And then the lash is 
ready. 
Guano vs. Poudrette. —Multum in parvo. It 
ought to be printed in large letters, and posted up¬ 
on the corner of every street. How to destroy, not 
save, all fertilizing matters, appears to be the 
sole study of all the city fathers. But all trades 
must live ; and if we should save and apply all of 
these home-made manures, how could the guano 
trade live ? There are a great many other round¬ 
about-ways of doing things in this world, besides 
sending the materials of which guano is made 
down into the deep waters, to be returned to us 
after many days. 
New Mode of Preparing Rones for Manure .— 
This, of all others, appears to me to be the cheap¬ 
est and best mode yet thought of. I know a friend 
of mine, who has erected a hone mill, at consider¬ 
ably greater expense than the steamer would have 
been, particularly as the bone mill is driven by 
steam, which could just as well have been applied 
to the bones, as to drive the mill that grinds them. 
A wooden vessel would answer, I suppose, as 
such are used to steam fat out of hogs, sheep, &c., 
that are tried up for their grease. 
Very Important to Farmers, is the title of an ar¬ 
ticle from Mr. Wilkinson, which certainly shows j 
bis experiments in a very favorable light. , But. 
f here should have been one more; that is, to test I 
the quality of the increased quantity of milk. 
Now, for all purposes, except to sell by the quart, 
a pint of milk may be worth as much as a quart. 
It is also worth the inquiry, whether the cows will 
continue as healthy upon this warm food and close 
confinement, as otherwise. My opinion is, that 
they will not. Feeding hogs with warm swill 
may do better, as they are so much like folks. But 
there is decidedly too much warm food taken into 
human stomachs, for the good of all the dependent 
members. 
Supposed Injury from Plowing under Green Corn 
Stalks. —I deny the position, in toto, assumed by 
this writer, that green corn stalks, or any other 
vegetable containing sugar, are not suitable crops 
to turn under for manure. I grant that alcohol and 
vinegar are not good fertilizers ; but supposing 
this man had applied 40 bushels of lime per acre to 
his land, how much vinegar would his corn stalks 
have made ? He would then have had a “ rich 
mass” of really fertilizing manure. I have heard 
of just such things before. 
Profits of Farming. —It would have been much 
more satisfactory to your readers, if Mr. Wilkin¬ 
son had given the prices per bushel for which he 
actually sold his produce, because it strikes me 
that he has got the prices full high. For instance, 
wheat is within a fraction of $2.10 a bushel, which 
is certainly so far above the market, that it throws 
a shade of suspicion upon the correctness of the 
whole table, unaccompanied by any explanation. 
Corn is rated a little over 60 cents; rye, a fraction 
less than 90 cents; oats, 32 cents; and potatoes, 
75 cents, &c., &c. Now, are these actual, fair 
market prices? If they are such, at Philadelphia, 
they are not general, and a proper deduction must 
be made for other localities. The same amount of 
fertility may be obtained in many places, at about 
the same expense probably; but, instead of this 
article being called “ Profits of Farming,” it should 
have been headed, “ Profits of a Small, Well-cul¬ 
tivated, Rich Farm.” 
Analysis of Soils , &/c. —These tables of analyses 
are just what I like to see. I hope they will be 
continued until we can get a general knowledge of 
the character of the soil in all parts of the coun¬ 
try. As they seem to be put forth with a sort of 
“ by authority” endorsement, I hope they may be 
depended upon as correct. 
Successful Growth of Cranberries on Upland .— 
Although “ one swallow don’t make it summer,” I 
hope this one experiment will make a great many 
fields of this valuable fruit. If the same success 
continues, I don’t see why every one, who has a 
garden, may not have a plat of cranberries as well 
as strawberries, unless they are prevented by that 
blighting influence of procrastination, which, after 
all, is the greatest preventive of all others. I have 
no doubt that swamp muck, spread over the land, 
will be found to be the best manure for this crop. 
That it is a profitable one, I think has been suffi¬ 
ciently demonstrated by several Massachusetts far¬ 
mers, and that should induce others to “go and do 
likewise.” 
Driving Hogs East.— Not only hogs are driven 
I from the fertile lands of the great west, to fill the 
I mouths of the great manufacturing Yankee nation, 
I but cattle and sheep come from the same inexhaust- 
