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REVIEW OF THE JUNE NUMBER OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 
keep such as are good for something. Bogs, in 
general, are worse than worthless. Let our ag¬ 
ricultural societies look to the matter. If they 
can furnish a substitute for the poor man’s dog, 
they will do more good than they ever have 
done before. 
Bathing. —This little paragraph ought to be 
printed in large letters and hung up in every 
sleeping room in America. Read it again, this 
hot weather. It is cooling. 
Worthless Furniture. —I grant a lazy woman 
is so, but not the most so. Words to express 
the superlative degree of greater worthlessness 
of her lazy, drunken husband, have not yet 
been invented. 
Pork — Bacon — Ham , No. 3.—The value of 
this number is not equal to the preceding ones. 
The directions about butchering and cutting up 
are entirely too English for our use. What 
would some of those professional butchers think 
of one man cutting seven hogs a minute, as has 
frequently been done at Cincinnati ? The re¬ 
commendation to cool it 24 hours before salting, 
is not adapted to the latitude where cotton 
grows. If suffered to remain that long, saltpe¬ 
tre would not save it. 
Kentucky Cattle Shows. —A Virginian entering 
Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap is sur¬ 
prised to find a portion of that state as uninvit¬ 
ing as some of the poor land of his own. My 
dear sir, every state has its poor corners as 
well as rich centers, like Kentucky. Florida 
has her Everglades; Georgia, her poor, sandy 
pine plains; South Carolina, her poor ridges of 
drift sand; North Carolina, her ditto, as well as 
vast swamps; Tennessee, her mountainous dis¬ 
tricts, valued at one cent an acre; Missouri has 
miles of mountains worth nothing except for 
lead and iron; Illinois, rich as is her soil, is un¬ 
inhabitable over vast tracts of prairie, void of 
timber, and so on of all the rest. In some things 
one is superior to the other—in other things* 
the reverse. Let us be content. 
But is it any wonder agricultural societies 
flourish in Fayette and Bourbon ? It is not the 
rich soil. It is not because you found such a 
fine-looking set of intelligent men. But it is for 
the reason that always has and always will 
make every cause flourish. Female influence 
is the true secret of success; and the failure of 
every agricultural society ever organised, can 
be traced to the foolishness of man in underval¬ 
uing and neglecting to provide in time for the 
security of the main brace of every ship afloat. 
Man is the slave of woman, (Mary is looking 
over my shoulder and says, “ Oh! father”—but I 
repeat It,) and can never prosper in an attempt 
to abolish her power. If, then, agricultural so¬ 
cieties wish to succeed, let them look to the 
highest of all human authority—the great gov¬ 
erning power—female influence. 
A Chapter on Fowls. —I had long since deter¬ 
mined, as had many other of your readers, 
never to look at another of these eternal cack- 
lings of a brood of old superanuated Biddies, 
concerning this fowl humbug; but inadvertently 
got into this chapter and went through it, laugh¬ 
ing heartily all the time, at the way this heavy- 
fisted defender of common sense knocks down 
the Shanghaes, Burampooters, id genus omne , of 
all the big rooster family. But Mr. A. is entirely 
mistaken in the character of the American peo¬ 
ple, if he supposes for a moment he can stop the 
current of folly in which they are floating 
through all the phases and fogs of the hen fever, 
by any amount of argument or ridicule. He 
might as well attempt to stop the ever onward 
current that passes his own door. Let both run 
—both will find a Niagara fall at last, and great 
the fall will he. 
Fowl Breeding is another article upon this 
subject, already rung upon so many changes, 
your readers would gladly give it one more 
wring, such as fowls often get about thanks¬ 
giving time. 
The Ladies 9 Department. —Where is it? Blot¬ 
ted out entirely. Well, man is the most obsti¬ 
nate animal that ever existed, undoubtedly— 
that one which grunts, fights, and squeals, and 
goes ahead backwards, not excepted. I re¬ 
viewed you for trespassing upon the rights of 
the ladies; instead of amending, you get up 
your bristles, and upset the whole page into pie, 
I suppose, and not one single sentence, either in 
that department or any other, is to be found in 
this June number, intended to attract the eye, 
or win the female heart. Now, as you have had 
the gratification of your obstinacy, and shown 
us you can do just what you have a mind to, 
with your own paper, take an old man’s advice 
who has had some experience, and in fulure 
show yourself a little more amiable towards 
your fair readers. If you wish your paper to 
go abroad doing good in the world, you must 
cater for those who are its rulers. The influ¬ 
ence of one woman to extend its circulation, is 
worth ten men. Can you expect that influence 
when you do not publish one single line exclu¬ 
sively for their use ? [Please Sir, Master Cap¬ 
tain, we had to leave out the Ladies’ Depart¬ 
ment to accommodate nobody but yourself.— 
Eds.] 
