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THE CULTIVATOR 
Feb. 
ings of our State Society, viz.; the permanent location 
of the Shows, was warmly discussed and finally voted 
down. The members of the State Board for the ensu¬ 
ing year, were chosen the second day. Messrs. Mus- 
grave, Stedman and Barker declined a re-election. The 
result after the organization of the new Board, is as 
follows: 
President —J. M. Millikin of Butler, 
Treasure ?—Lucien Buttles of Franklin. 
Recording ‘Secretary —N. S. Townshend of Lorain. 
Members —Luther Smith of Logan, Abel Krum of 
Ashtabula, Alex. Waddle of Clark, T. S. Webb, of 
Stark, John Reber of Fairfield, John M. Trimble of 
Highland and L. Q. Rawson of Sandusky. 
Mr. J. H. Klippart is continued as Corresponding 
Secretary. 
The Board will hold a meeting in January, when the 
question of location for the next State Fair will be 
considered, the premium list prepared, and commit¬ 
tees appointed. - 
Hogs and Cattle in Ohio. —Returns in the office of 
the Auditor of State, are quoted in the Ohio Cultiva¬ 
tor, showing, that the number and value of hogs and 
cattle in that State, stand thus :— 
1857. 1856. 
Hogs,. 2,331,778 .... 1,851,124 
Cattle. 1,655,415 .... 1,687,750 
The value of these compare as follows:— 
1857. 1856. 
Hogs,. $6,772,470 _$5,268,000 
Cattle,. 21,662,223 .... 21,175,070 
Showing in both instances a higher rate of valuation 
when the returns were last made, than that of the pre¬ 
vious year. It is suggested that if the valuation should 
be taken now, there would doubtless be a marking down 
from these figures. - 
Large Yield of Corn. —One of our subscribers at 
St. Matthews, Ky., writes us as follows :—“ Our crops 
generally are good, as you doubtless know. The corn 
and potatoes were perhaps never so uniformly heavy 
—and in many individual cases have rarely been equal¬ 
led. A part of one of my fields was measured accu¬ 
rately, and made at the rate of 124 bushels of shelled 
yellow corn to the acre, three heaped half bushels of 
ears being reckoned a bushel.” t. b. 
Annnal Meeting of the Oneida County Agri¬ 
cultural Society. —The winter meeting of this So¬ 
ciety was largely attended at the village of Verona the 
7th inst. The following board of officers was elected 
for 1858: 
President—J. Wyman Jones, Whiteetown. 
Vice Presidents — George Benedict, Verona; A. Van 
Patten, Rome. 
Executive Committee—W. O. Laird, S. C. Greenman, 
John Potter, G. C. Palmer, David II. Curry, John Bryden, 
Nathaniel S. Wright, Wm. Ferguson, Stephen A. Coveil, 
Chas. W. Eells. 
Treasurer—II. R. Hart, Whitestown. 
Secretary—Sidney A. Bunc-e, Vernon. 
Premiums were awarded on Roots, Grain and Fruits ; 
Resolutions were passed in favor of Mr. Morrill’s Bill 
donating public lands to Agricultural Colleges ; also in 
favor of permanently locating the annual shows alter¬ 
nately at two points within the county. The Treas¬ 
urer’s account showed a balance on hand of $258.29. 
Western Virginia. —You saw fit to insert a notice, 
descriptive of the Kanawha region, from me some 
months since, that has brought many letters of inquiry ; 
I would beg leave to say, I am not a land-seller or 
land agent, and those that have failed to receive re¬ 
plies from me, will impute it to failure of mails or for¬ 
getting a postage stamp. I would say, that our moun¬ 
tains, in the proper sense of the word, are not really 
mountains, but good thumping hills with no definite 
direction, ranging every way. I am willing to give 
every information in my power in relation to lands of 
Western Virginia; but none but a very foolish man 
could expect to buy fertile land, (even if rough,) in a 
fine climate, near market, &c., with every convenience 
of a long settled New-England or New-York neigh¬ 
borhood, for $2 or $3 per acre. S. Clarke. Kanawha 
C.H. , Va. 
Cattle Licking Themselves. —A correspondent 
states that the meat of fat cattle, which have been in 
the habit of licking themselves, is unfit for eating— 
that the flesh under the skin is bloodshot and diseased, 
and he recommends giving such animals ashes in their 
feed and salt. But is it a fact that the meat of such 
cattle is diseased 1 
Productive Cow. —Hollis Chaffin of Providence, R. 
1., states in the N. E. Farmer, that in Oct., 1852, he 
purchased a fine five year old native cow, and in Feb¬ 
ruary following she produced twin calves. The two 
next years she produced one at each birth ; the fourth 
year she produced twins, and on the 27th of November 
last, which is the fifth year, she produced triplets , 
which is an increase of nine calves in five years, at five 
births. 
A Good Yield. —Since a number of your sub¬ 
scribers have given their experience in the “ Chi¬ 
nese sugar cane,” I will give you mine. Last spring 
I planted about one-fifth of an acre, which I worked 
up about 20th of Oct., and from the one-fifth of an 
acre I obtained 30 gallons of good molasses, which I 
consider better than any of your southern molasses. 
California State Ag. Society.— At the late annu¬ 
al meeting of this Society, it was resolved to hold its 
next Fair a t Marysville, and the following officers were 
elected for this year : 
President— John C. Fall of Marysville. 
Vice-Presidents— J. N. Sweezy, G. C. Yount, Maj.Jno. 
Bidwill of Yuba County; C. M. Hitchcock, San Francis¬ 
co ; II. W. Carpentier of Almeda • Gen. Jose Govarrubi- 
as of San Diego; I. D. Morley of Stanislaus. 
Cor. Sec.—O. C. Wheeler, Sacramento. 
Rec. Sec —George H. Beach, Marysville. 
Treasurer— John A. Paxton, Marysville. 
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A. Good Day’s Work: for a Boy. 
A correspondent at Pleasant Ridge, Rock Island Co., 
111., whose farm we had the pleasure of visiting last 
summer, writes us as follows : 
My son, the plow-boy, whom you will remember to 
have seen breaking up the prairie sod with one pair of 
horses at the rate of nine acres per week, wishes me 
to tell you, that the summer before he was 14 years 
old, he broke 18 acres of prairie in eleven days, with 
the same plow and team he had when you saw him. 
Also one month before he was 14 years old, he milked 
six cows before breakfast. Then with our hired man 
and his team, drove two miles into a neighbor’s wheat- 
field ; there he met two men and team, and one man 
to stack. The wheat was heavy, yielding thirty bush 
els per acre, and bound in large double-banded sheaves 
He pitched on ten loads of 240 sheaves each, and went 
three-quarters of a mile for water; then one and a 
half miles to dinner. In the afternoon pitched on nine 
more loads, and one load on to a high stack, and reach- 
