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his late uncle, Col. N. M. Bosley, one of the best cul¬ 
tivated farms in the State—receiving in 1824 a silver 
tankard as such from the Society for the Promotion of 
Agriculture. And an interesting incident in relation 
to this tankard is, that during the year in which it was 
awarded, Lafayette made his great visit to this 
country, and chancing to be an invited guest of the 
Society, it was placed in his hands for presentation to 
Col. Bosley, in whose eyes, as well as those of his de¬ 
scendants, it thus acquired additional consideration— 
linking with its own intrinsic value as a testimonial of 
meritorious agricultural efforts, his memory and name, 
on whom Americans will ever look as one of the bright¬ 
est characters our Kevolution brought to light. 
As Mr. M. farmed for some time under that seve¬ 
rest test of one’s success, formed by a comparison be¬ 
tween the two sides of the cash account, the stock re¬ 
quired for his purposes were not merely breeding 
animals of high pedigree, nor, on the other hand, did 
he, by any means, as too many in similar circumstan¬ 
ces are in the habit of doing, neglect the improvement 
of his cattle. Accordingly we find him at the United 
States Ag. Society’s Philadelphia Show, in 1856, taking 
the $50 prize for the best herd of grade milch cows, and 
several others for native and grade animals, while at 
the same time he succeeded as well in other classes— 
taking first prizes, (and this is indicative of the means 
employed to improve his stock,) on both the Ayrshire 
hulls he exhibited, “Highlander” and “Mar.” And 
we find by turning to the report of the Devon Commit¬ 
tee, that they commend a bull shown by him in that 
department. With a view to devoting some attention 
to breeding pure Herefqrds, and to trying a cross of 
their blood for the production of milk, working oxen, 
&c., he had then recently purchased several head from 
Messrs. A. & H. Bowen of this State, and here, too, his 
name appears prominently on the premium list—the 
bull “Catalpa,” and heifers “Lilac” and “Black 
Beauty,” all receiving awards. 
That crosses produced by such bulls as Mr. Mi has 
owned, upon cows already tinged, in some degree, with 
improved blood, should prove valuable stock'for farm 
and dairy purposes, would not he at all surprising. 
And among the best milking cows we saw at Mr. Love’s, 
were two, then yielding about five gallons a day, rent¬ 
ed by him from Mr. Merryman, at $3 per month for 
six months. A number of Highlander’s calves, some 
from cows partly Short-Horn, have also proved very 
excellent milkers. 
Of sheep, Mr. M. has 45 breeding ewes and 39 lambs 
of Cotswold, with a little South-Down admixture— 
making a favorite cross for mutton. His pigs are black 
and white, partly China and partly Chester,—the for¬ 
mer a variety which consumes little and inclines to 
. flesh, and the latter giving it larger frame and render¬ 
ing it a better feeder. They received a prize at the 
last show of the State Society. 
A hay press, procured six or eight years ago from 
this State, and not found to work very well, was modi¬ 
fied and improved by Mr. M., and since then has been 
operated most satisfactorily. He now uses it mainly in 
haling rye straw and corn husks. It was successful 
at a trial held by the State Society, in 1852 I think, 
when in competition with other presses, and a silver 
pitcher was awarded for it to Mr. Merryman. 
The soil I have seen has been of two kinds, a lighter 
limestone, and quite a heavy red clay rotten stone soil. 
The former makes very good corn and grass land when 
properly treated, and the latter, if rich enough, yields 
good wheat crops.- This year the wheat has, by the 
way, been somewhat injured by that old destroyer the 
Hessian fly; in on© field, in different parts of which 
Mediterranean, a beardless kind of Mediterranean, and 
white wheat were sown, the last two varieties were both 
injured while the first escaped almost entirely. 
We called at one of the two large flouring mills, owned 
and carried on by our friend Thomas H. Matthews, 
which we found most completely fitted out, and I was 
pleased to learn that the flour made by him has a very 
high reputation, especially with shippers, as a superior 
and standard article. Time allowed us but a brief 
call at Mr. M.’s residence, where he cultivates quite a 
farm in addition. to other engagements. He was suf¬ 
fering from the effects of a sprain, but we did not need 
his aid in discovering, as we rode to and from the 
house, the marks of neat and skillful farming, and I only 
regretted that we could not remain long enough to get 
some particulars of its management. The Country 
Gentleman should acknowledge its obligation to Mr. 
Matthews for his kind introduction of it to many of 
its present large and constantly increasing list of read¬ 
ers in Baltimore County. 
Messrs. Carroll, senior and junior, Mr. Love and Dr. 
Charles McLane, a farmer as well as a physician, join¬ 
ed us at dinner. Headers in Western New-York may 
he reminded that it was a relative of Mr. Carroll’s who 
together with Mr. Fitzhugh, also a Marylander, being 
struck when on a journey, about the beginning of this 
century, to Niagara Falls, with the manifest advan¬ 
tages offered for a city by the falls of the Genesee, took 
up a tract there of four or five hundred acres, and, on 
their return, offered a share in the property to a neigh¬ 
bor and friend, Col Rochester, on condition of his im¬ 
proving it. Col. R. accepted the offer, and the result 
of that trip is the city which now bears his name. 
To Prevent Turkeys Straying from Home. —It 
was stated in conversation that turkeys will not leave 
the yard in which they are put if a strip of red flan¬ 
nel is tied around the wing , long enough to trail on the 
ground. The receipt is simple and easily tried, and if 
effective, would prove of greal benefit in removing a 
source of much loss and annoyance to the turkey breed¬ 
er. The vanity of the fowl is probably affected by 
this means, as he would’nt wish to run the risk of see¬ 
ing strangers with such a drag upon his dignity. 
Tarring Seeds to Cover them with Lime, &c„— 
Mr. Carroll has long been in the habit of coating his 
seeds with lime or plaster, as the case may be, by the 
aid of tar diluted with warm water. This was the 
mode I described in giving an account last year of Ma¬ 
jor Dickinson’s farming, and Mr. C. thought well of 
the results obtained. 
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§!^* The Wisdom which ordered all, has varied the 
constituent elements of several grains according to the 
wants which they supply in the different latitudes where 
they are cultivated. Thus Indian Corn, which at its 
northern limit abounds largely in oil and sugar, es¬ 
pecially needed there to sustain the animal heat of its 
consumers, becomes near the tropics almost wholly com¬ 
posed of starch, and suited to the demands of the con¬ 
stitution for lighter nutriment. 
