1858 . 
THE CULTIVATOR 
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panions do for his skill in feeding. Our appreciation 
of the Governor’s last message has been much increas¬ 
ed thereby, and, whatever may have been the case 
before, now we shall not lack either a cause, or a din¬ 
ner for Thanksgiving. -— 
A Want. —We give the following extract from a 
private letter, because we know that there are others 
who would be glad to avail themselves of the services 
of an architect who thoroughly understands the re¬ 
quirements of the true country resident,—that is one 
who not only lives in the country, but on the proceeds 
of his farm or plantation. We have several excellent 
works on Rural Architecture, but they are all, with one 
exception, deficient in adaptedness to the architecture 
of the farm, where all the buildings, from the residence 
to the smallest out-house, require to be designed and 
arranged with a view to the particular purposes for 
which they are to be devoted, as well as to the general 
appearance of the whole : 
“ I have been long wishing to find out a good prac¬ 
tical farm building designer and architect. City ar¬ 
chitects, generally, know nothing of the uses of such 
country buildings, and consequently, even if they would 
undertake a job of the kind, would probably succeed 
badly, and cause great expenditure. Nor even would 
my want be supplied by Landscape Gardeners, whose 
province is with country dwellings and grounds, gar¬ 
deners’ houses, graperies, Ac. I look for a man who is 
at least a master Carpenter or Builder, and who has a 
head for and experience in planning buildings, and, 
who knows what are the requirements of a farm and 
can arrange in the most convenient form not only the 
parts of one building, but the disposition of several 
buildings, yards, pens, stacks, woods, with relation to 
each other as well as to the common center.” 
Honorary. —We mentioned a few weeks since, that 
Col. J. M. Sherwood of Auburn, had been elected an 
Honorary Member of the “ Imperial Economical So¬ 
ciety of St. Petersburgh, Russia.” We have since 
learned that at the same time diplomas of Honorary 
Membership of the same Society, were received by Col. 
B. P Johnson, Secretary of our State Ag. Society, 
Hon. Geo. Geddes of Onondaga county, and Dr. A. L. 
Elavyn of Philadelphia. 
Large Hogs. —A farmer in Worcester county, Mass., 
reports in the Ploughman that he has just had two 
hogs killed, which weighed thirteen hundred and twelve 
pounds (1312 lbs.!) One weighed 671 lbs., and the 
othe 641. They were eighteen months old. Nothing 
farther is stated, either about the breed, mode of feed¬ 
ing, or anything else. 
Now we would like to know why those who tell the 
public such stories about large hogs, or large crops, or 
large anything else, so often stop in the middle of their 
story. They must be quite well aware that if they 
were telling such a story as the above to a neighbor or 
two, or to the members of a farmers’ club, they would 
not be allowed to stop short where the above story stops. 
They would have to answer quite a number of ques- 
tioes before the curiosity of the hearers became satis¬ 
fied, or before the information could be accounted of 
any value for practical purposes. To make the above 
story complete, or of value for practical purposes, the 
reader should have been informed as to the breed of 
these animals, as to the manner and material employ¬ 
ed in feeding , as to the cost of production, and as to 
any other point which the narrator would have been 
asked for information if he had been addressing him¬ 
self to a group of listeners instead of to a circle of 
readers. There are facts, every now and then, com¬ 
municated to the agricultural papers, which are quite 
unsatisfactory and uninstructive, because the writers 
neglect to inform their readers as to how , and at what 
cost the results they report were obtained. They tell 
only a part of their story. We should like to hear the 
rest of the above story. 
A Splendid Manure. —In illustration of what is 
really the most important of all applications, and equal¬ 
ly applicable to all soils, we copy the following anec¬ 
dote which appears under the above head in an Eng¬ 
lish newspaper. This kind of “ manuring ” includes 
many other processes, besides the one here particularly 
specified:—At the Woodbury plowing match, a few 
days ago, Mr. John Daw told the following anecdote : 
Once having drained a field where nothing ever had 
grown before, I was standing near it looking at a crop 
I had there, when a neighboring farmer came up. We 
have one or two loose farmers in our neighborhood ; 
one of them, in fact, came from Woodbury—(laugh¬ 
ter)—but this is not the man I am speaking of—who 
came up and said to me, ‘ That is a bootiful crop ; how 
did ee get it, Sur?’ I replied, ‘Brains.’ (Laughter) 
‘Wat manure the field wi brains?’ (More laughter) 
The fact was, I had drained the field, so I said ‘Yes.’ 
(Renewed laughter.) He replied, ‘ Lord, yer honor, 
where did ee get um V (Roars of laughter.) 
New-York State Agricultural College —At 
a meeting of the Trustees, held in this city last 
week, we learn that the plan and specifications for 
the College Buildings, prepared by S. E. Hewes, archi¬ 
tect, of Albany, were chosen, and $250 awarded him 
for the same. Awards of $100 each were also made 
to H. M. Wilcox, architect, Buffalo, and Rev. H. B. 
Taylor of the Fort Edward Institute, for plans, Ac- 
submitted by them. The Executive Committee were 
instructed to contract for the materials and erection of 
the buildings. The President rendered a report of the 
farm managsment and operations for the past season, 
which was throughout very satisfactory to the Trustees. 
The course of studies to be pursued, was reported on 
by a committee having the subject in charge, but final 
action deferred until the next meeting, Feb. 9, 1858. 
The President and Secretary were directed to pre¬ 
pare a memorial to be presented to Congress, asking 
for an appropriation to each State of the Union, of so 
much of the public land as will be sufficient to endow 
and put in operation an Agricultural College in each 
State in the Union. - 
Sugar Cane for Swine. —A correspondent of the 
Southern Cultivator, G. D. Harmon, of Mississippi, 
says—“ In September I weighed two shoats and put 
them in separate pens. No. 1 weighed when put up, 
76 pounds. It was fed on what corn it would eat and 
slops from the kitchen. No. 2 weighed 72 pounds, and 
was fed exclusively on Chinese Sugar Cane, seed and 
all. They were fed something over three weeks, and 
again weighed. No. 1, or the shoatfed on corn, weigh¬ 
ed 115 pounds, having gained 39 pounds. No 2, or the 
shoat fed on the Sugar Cane, weighed 110 pounds, hav¬ 
ing gained 37 pounds. This result shows that Chinese 
