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head, and bound to the horns with leather thongs.” So 
says Hon. H. F. French, in his letter from Europe. 
He states that they carry their loads as easily and 
comfortably, and hold their heads as high as if yoked 
New-England fashion. The same fashion and yokes 
may be seen in this country, and we have often noticed 
the apparent ease with which a small pair of cattle 
draw their loads of wood to market, harnessed in this 
method. A sack or something of the kind is tied 
around the forehead, the yoke is fastened to the horns 
by leather straps, and the wagon tongue hitched on in 
the usual manner. 
Another Large Bullock. —An ox called “ Leo¬ 
pard,” raised and fed by Dr. Wh. Elmer, of Bridg- 
ton, N. J., was slaughted Feb. 24, 1832, at the age 
of 6 years and 8 months. His live weight was 3,360 
pounds. Size—length from nose to rump, 10ft. Gin.; 
from nose to end of tail, 15ft.; girth behind fore 
shoulders, 9ft, 8in. ; around the body, 10ft. 9in.; 
around the brisket, 10ft. 3in.; length from shoulder to 
rump, 7ft.; along the back from horns, 9ft.; width 
across the hip, 2ft. lOJin.; height of fore shoulder, 
5ft. 6in.; behind, 5ft. 8in.; circumference of leg be¬ 
low the knee, 1 foot. b. f. e. 
Productive Dwarf Pears.— T. W. Field, well 
known as an intelligent and successful cultivator of 
fruit, states in a late number of the New-York Tri¬ 
bune, that he saw last summer in the garden of Capt 
Richardson, of Williamsburgh, L. I., dwarf trees thir¬ 
ty-four years old, bearing six to eight bushels of the 
finest fruit. 
There are to be two fairs holden at Charles¬ 
town, N. H., this year. One, the regular “ Sullivan 
Co. Fair,” to come off on 15th and 16th of Septem¬ 
ber ; another, perhaps a rival, to be holden at same 
place, on 21st, 22d and 23d days of September. This 
is composed of territory, on both sides of the Connec¬ 
ticut river, “ up and down,” for a long distance, l. b 
The Best Soil for Beans. —A great many far¬ 
mers think, and agricultural papers have frequently 
stated, that rich soils were not suited to the product 
of beans—that the growth would run to vines, retard¬ 
ing the ripening and injuring the yield of the crop. 
C. Inman, of Macomb Co. Mich., states in the last 
Genesee Farmer , that he has tried all kinds of soil 
and always raised the best beans on the richest land. 
One year he manured an acre, and planted the rest 
without manure ; the manured portion ripened earliest 
and evenest, and yielded about twice as much as the 
other. “ Last year,”be writes, “ I planted on a piece 
of green sward, plowed in the spring. The soil was a 
clay loam, and it had been tilled but little. On one 
acre where there was a straw-stack fed out, I had 
thirty-three and a half bushels, and they ripened the 
evenest of any in the lot.” 
Virginia Lands — Large Timothy.— 1 inclose you 
two heads of Timothy. They may not seem long to 
you, but they do me—one over 13 inches, the other 
over 14? inches long. You would, may be, like to 
know on what kind of land such grass grows. I would 
say a good grass and grain soil—only run down by con¬ 
stant cropping without manure. The land is almost 
level, and a very little manure helps it wonderfully. 
There are thousands of acres of such land here, lying 
out in the commons, five or six miles from railroad, 
and not 30 miles from Washington—fine land to work 
machines on, no stone. There are a good many kinds 
of timber, but the principal is hickory with eight or 
nine kinds of oak. The fine climate has brought peo¬ 
ple from the best parts of New-York, from other States, 
and even from the west. D. McCulloch. Areola , 
Loudon Go ., Va. 
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— Life Illustrated. 
Maryland State Fair.—I avail myself of the 
earliest opportunity, to give notice through your ad¬ 
mirable paper, of a change of time for opening of the 
annual exhibition of the Maryland State Agricultural 
Society. The time heretofore named was the 26th. 
We now propose to open upon Tuesday, 19th October, 
thereby preceding one week the exhibition of the 
Unsted States Society at Richmond, Va. 
Many of your enterprising readers have been in the 
habit of attending the exhibitions of the United States 
Society, and it is to be hoped they contemplate going 
to Richmond. By an arrangement, as above, a fa¬ 
vorable opportunity is offered for attending our exhibi¬ 
tion, to which, I beg leave most cordially to invite 
them, as well as yourselves. Stock can be transported 
to Richmond, from Baltimore, direct, by steamboat, 
leaving Baltimore on Saturday. 
Our Premium lists are out, and can be had upon ap¬ 
plication by mail, or otherwise, to Samuel Sands, 
Esq, Gen. Secretary, Baltimore. John Merryman, 
President Maryland State Ag. Society. 
The Country Gentleman entered upon a new volume 
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It is one of the very best of our agricultural and family 
papers.— Neiv-York "Observer. 
Gooseberries. —Much Esteemed Friends: I have 
sent you this specimen of the bearing qualities of our 
new and perfectly hardy goosebery called “Moun¬ 
tain Seedling.” I now have bushes standing from six 
to seven feet high, loaded all the way from top to bot¬ 
tom like the specimens I send you, and these are not 
a fair sample, as we had some hail that knocked many 
off the bushes some days ago. The bushes have been 
uniformly like the sample every year, and have never 
been subject to any kind of disease. P. Stewart. 
New Lebanon , ( Shaker’s Fox, ) N. Y. — [ The 
branches of the gooseberry sent us, were most profuse¬ 
ly loaded with fruit, for a very long distance. The 
crop upon such bushes must be heavy, and the berries 
themselves were apparently perfect throughout, and 
nearly all of them in a fine state of maturity.] 
Texas is a great young State, and the editors and 
friends of Agricultural Journals and improvements, 
should feel and take great interest in her people com¬ 
mencing a system of improvement now, where they 
