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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Nov. 
Dotes for tlje Utoittl], 
A Book for Dairymen and Farmers. —Wo are 
pleased to learn that C. L. Flint, Esq., the able Sec¬ 
retary of the Mass. State Board of Agriculture, has in 
press a work on Dairy Farming, now nearly ready 
and soon to be issued. It embraces a sketch of the 
different breeds of cattle, especially the dairy breeds; 
the principles of breeding, the selection of milch cows, 
with a complete explanation of Guenon’s method; the 
feeding and management of dairy stock, the raising of 
calves ; the details of the milk, the butter, and the 
cheese dairies ; a valuable chapter on the Dutch Dairy, 
translated from the German, and containing all the 
modes of making butter and cheese in Holland, where 
this branch of farming is carried to the highest perfec¬ 
tion ; a Letter to a Dairyman, containing many impor¬ 
tant suggestions ; the Piggery, as a part of the Dairy 
establishment; the Diseases of Dairy Stock, an exceed¬ 
ingly important chapter, in the preparation of which 
Drs. Dadd, Wood and others have been consulted ; to 
which is added Horsfall’s System of Dairy Manage¬ 
ment, now first published in a form available to the 
American public. 12mo., 416 pp. Retail price $1,25. 
Published by A. 0. Moore of New-York, J. B. Lippin- 
cott & Co. of Philadelphia, Rickey, Mallory & Co., Cin¬ 
cinnati, and A. Williams & Co., Boston. 
The drawings and illustrations have been got up 
expressly for the work, at a cost of over $300. 
American and English Ideas of Independence.— 
In reply to an application from the Editor of the North 
British Agriculturist , we recently communicated to 
that Journal some facts in relation to the Guano trade 
of this country, and also sent a copy of the published 
proceedings at a Convention held as readers may re¬ 
member, some two years ago at Washington, at the 
meetings of which the subject was pretty thoroughly 
ventilated. This Convention, which attracted little or 
no attention here except in those sections directly in¬ 
terested in the use of large amounts of Guano, and 
was there considered quite a matter of course,—really 
excites the astonishment of our contemporary. In 
Great Britain it would almost have been considered a 
revolutionary movement. Read the following para¬ 
graph : 
The proceedings are valuable from the facts communi¬ 
cated, and also from the illustration the Convention pre¬ 
sents of the character of American agriculturists. While 
the greatest difficulty has always been experienced in the 
United Kingdom in obtaining an agricultural deputation, 
and while these deputations have mainly consisted of 
Members of Parliament resident in London, a Convention 
of farmers meets in Washington—invites the agricultural 
committees of the Senate and House of Representatives 
to take seats in the Convention—continues their sittings 
for several days, and adopts memorials which were for¬ 
mally presented to the President of the Union ! That this 
was an undue prominence asserted by practical agricul¬ 
turists seems to have been conceived by no one in the 
United States, though a similar movement on the part of 
British farmers, would awaken not only surprise, but pos¬ 
sibly create some alarm at such a display of independence 
and self-action. Most parties, however, will believe that 
by this ready and general co-operation, American agri¬ 
culture has an element of power, the absence of which 
has been frequently presented in the past of British agri¬ 
culture. 
English Beans in the United States. —The N. E. 
Farmer speaks os the large varieties of beans, such 
as the Flowering Marsh, which are raised in large 
quantities in England for feeding horses, and says— 
“ This practice has not found favor in this-country yet, 
probably from the want of some one or more to lead in 
it.” We have planted the bean spoken of, and know 
of others doing the same, but no success ever attended 
the experiment in our own case, or, as far as we know, 
in any other. The climate seems unsuited to their 
perfect growth—they flourish well for a time, and then 
turn black, shrivel up, and fail, partially or entirely, 
in producing fruit. 
Cochran’s Agricultural Book-Keeping. —In re¬ 
ply to numerous correspondents who have inquired 
where this may be procured, we desire to state that 
we have obtained from Mr. Cochran of Detroit, some 
sets of his books, which are for sale at $2 each—or 
$2.30 where we have to send them by mail, pre-pay¬ 
ing postage. It will be remembered that this system 
of keeping farm books has not only received the ap¬ 
proval of many who have examined it carefully, but 
that several of our correspondents have tried it in ac¬ 
tual practice, and found it to meet their highest ex¬ 
pectations. Each set includes a book of instruction in 
the system, and blank Day Book and Ledger. 
Fine Bears. —Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, Mount 
Hope Nurseries, Rochester, have our thanks for a bas¬ 
ket of as rich and well-grown pears as one need desire 
to look upon, or to eat. May no blight ever come near 
their trees ! 
Maine State Fair. —Extract of a letter from a 
subscriber, dated Saco, Sept. 29:—“ Our State Fair 
went off very well last week—best show of stock we 
have ever had.” 
Sales of Horses. —An auction sale of horses took 
place at the close of the late exhibition at Springfield, 
when eight or ten horses were sold. Sontag’s colt was 
bought by Hon. W. II. Ladd of Ohio, for the sum of 
$1,500. Nicholas, a Messenger and Morgan stallion, 
owned by John Maynard of Hollis, N. II., was sold to 
Mr. Chamberlin, for $1,025. The thoroughbred stal¬ 
lion Hard Times, was put up at $2,000, but was not 
sold. The other prices were from $150 to $350. The 
Ohio Farmer states that the Messrs. Ladd of Richmond, 
0., have sold their famous “ Old Bush Messenger,” to 
Gen. John S. Goe of Brownsville, Pa. 
The Peach Tree. —Some years since there appear¬ 
ed in a paper which I took, a communication promis¬ 
ing a discovery of the writer’s, (which he said he had 
thoroughly tested,) for rendering the peach in all sit¬ 
uations, a healthy and long lived tree. I looked ea¬ 
gerly for the promised secret, but it never appeared. 
M. M. B. [Many such supposed discoveries are an¬ 
nounced without due consideration. Probably the wri¬ 
ter’s further experience convinced him of his error ] 
The Sorgho amd Imphee in France —Mr. Howard, 
in his last letter from Paris, to the Boston Cultivator, 
says—“The Chinese Sugar Cane is chiefly cultivated 
here for distillation. Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrews & 
Co., inform me that the difficulty of obtaining sugar 
from it is so great, that the plant will not be grown in 
France for that purpose, though they think it will be 
profitable for making alcohol. I should remark in 
passing, that Messrs. V., A. & Co., assure me that the 
Imphee, —the variety of IIolcus about which there has 
been considerable talk in America,—has not proved 
an object of cultivation in France, yielding less sac¬ 
charine matter than the common Chinese Sugar Cane.” 
