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THE CULTIVATOR. 
The portrait at the head of this article, is that of the 
Paular buck “ Fortune ,” owned by S. W. Jewett ©f 
of Weybridge, Vt. He was bred by that gentleman, 
sold by him a lamb, and subsequently re-purchased at 
$200. Mr. Jewett considered him superior to his cele¬ 
brated “ Don Pedro,” so often alluded to in our agri¬ 
cultural periodicals. The fleeces of these animals, well 
washed on the back, has been as follows: 
Don Pedro. Fortune. 
1st year,.. 6 lbs. 7 oz. 7 lbs. 9 oz. 
2d year,...... 9 lbs. 4 oz. 12 lbs. 
3d year,. 12 lbs. 13 lbs. 4 oz. 
4th year,. 14 lbs. 
5th year,...... 13 lbs. 
“ Fortune’s” live weight is about 140 lbs. 
Mr. Jewett states that the full blood yearlings of For¬ 
tune’s get, taking bucks, wethers and ewes together, 
will average between five and six pounds of washed 
wool. 
The accuracy of the above portrait, I have had no 
opportunity of testing by personal inspection. Mr. 
Jewett thinks it an uncommonly faithful one. If so, 
Fortune is truly a remarkable sheep—better in the fore 
rib and bosom, and with less dew-lap, than any thorough 
bred Merino I have ever seen. I suppose in fact, this 
buck is every way a remarkable one. I am satisfied 
that Mr. Jewett has no design to exaggerate in relation 
to his fleeces, or in other particulars in relation to his 
sheep. In proof of this, I offer the following facts:— 
This spring, I ordered a small lot of sheep of him. He 
was unable to forward but two—a buck and an ewe. 
They were about 13 months old at the time of their ar¬ 
rival. I had them vcell washed. To make “ assurance 
doubly sure,” I sent a pair of small steelyards to the 
sealer of weights and measures,” and invited in some 
neighboring breeders. Both fleeces were accurately 
weighed by the newly tried steelyards, in the presence 
of all, and the buck’s fleece weighed 8 lbs., the ewe’s 5 
lbs. 12 oz. On the first day of Dec. inst., I had the buck 
weighed. Including two light straps, weighing say 1 
pound, he weighed ]47 lbs. The ewe, I think propor- 
tionably heavy. So far, then, my buck beats both his 
sire and Don Pedro. I never have seen finer formed 
pure bred Merinoes than either of them, nor finer ivooled 
ones. The ewe I think decidedly the best I have ever 
seen. I have a small flock of Merino ewes, which, in¬ 
cluding yearlings and all, averaged above 5 lbs. of 
wool per head. A portion of them took the first prize 
in two counties this fall, but none of them equal the 
the sheep purchased of Mr. Jewett. Both of the latter 
however, and in fact all of them, are terribly wrinkled 
—have huge pendulous dew-laps, and an “apron” (a 
large flap of loose skin depending from the brisket,) 
which falls nearly to the ground as they graze. 
So, Mr. Editor, I have fulfilled your request to tell 
you what I know of Paulars in general; “Fortune’s” 
character, pretensions, and progeny, in particular. 
Yours truly, Henry S. Randall. 
Cortland Village, Dec. 1843. 
EXPERIMENT WITH GREEN MANURES. 
Messrs. Editors:— 'The query in your November 
number, (p. 172,) relative to “green manures,” opens 
a subject which is important to that large section of 
country where corn usually sells from ten to fifteen cts., 
wheat from thirty to sixty cents per bushel, and other 
crops in proportion, and where of course it behooves 
farmers to manure their lands not only well but cheaply . 
Having recently tried some successful experiments with 
green manures, on exhausted land, I propose to give 
the results to your readers. 
The farm is “bottom” land, 140 acres, slightly roll 
ing; soil originally 4 to 6 inches rich sandy loam, then 
2 to 4 feet yellow clay, mixed with sand and loam, the 
whole resting on a bed of limestone gravel 30 or 40 feet 
deep. When I commenced my experiments in 1840 
about half the farm was moderately fertile, having been 
cleared from the forest about eight years; the other 
half, old fields which had been cleared forty years, had 
been skinned by successive crops of corn, and appeared 
more congenial to mullein than any thing else. My ob¬ 
ject was to restore these old fields at the least expense 
practicable. In September, 1840, one of these (30 acres) 
was sown in wheat, red bearded, 5 pecks to the acre, 
and in March, 1841, 3 bushels of clover seed sown on 
the 30 acres of wheat. The crop of 1841 was just 8 
bushels of wheat to the acre, and was a fair measure of 
the average capabilities of the land in its then condition. 
The spring of 1842 was an early one, and on the 9th of 
May, the 30 acres of clover being in full blossom, and 
divided into two lots of 14 and 16 acres, 118 hogs were 
turned to pasture on each lot alternately, and kept fat 
without any other food than the clover tops, until the 
1st of September. From the 15th to the 24th of Sep¬ 
tember, 1842, fourteen acres of the clover sward was 
broken up, and with 20 acres of the adjoining .new land, 
sown in wheat (red bearded, 5 pecks to the acre.) 
The crop of 4843, was 18 1-4 bushels of wheat to the 
acre on the 14 acres of old field, and 14 1-2 bushels per 
acre on the 20 acres of new land. The average wheat 
crop of 1843, in this neighborhood, did not equal that 
of 1841. There is now, without any expense of seeding, 
a fine crop of young clover on the 14 acres of old field, 
the remaining 16 acres being under a different course 
of experiment. 
The advantages of this mode of restoring exhausted 
soils, of the kind above described, where labor is dear 
and the produce of land cheap, are several: 
1st. The expense of preparing and hauling artificial 
manures is avoided. 
2d. The pasturage of the hogs (3 to the acre, 4 mo’s,) 
on clover, pays for the use of the land and expense of 
sowing and seed. And as hogs eat little else than the 
clover tops, they do not check its growth, and the dung 
they leave is as valuable for manure as the clover they 
eat. 
3d. The clover, if not pastured too close, will always 
scatter seed enough to cover the ground the next year 
with a new crop. 
I ought to have stated that 3 acres of the 14, had 52 
ox cart loads of well rotted horse manure, and 3 other 
acres had 100 bushels of fresh slaked lime scattered 
over the clover sward before it was plowed in. The 
land was well plowed once, and harrowed twice. The 
stable manure produced a slight effect for the better 
on the wheat crop; the lime none perceptible. I will 
watch the effect of each on the coming clover crop. I 
attribute, therefore, nearly all the increase of the wheat 
crop to the effects of the green clover and fresh hog 
manure. If I am right in this, the account for 1843 will 
stand thus: 
COST OF MANURES. GAIN. 
50 cart, loads horse litter on 3 > Q . . . . . f _ A „ «*. on 
acres, at 8 c. per load, $4-00 $ 8 bushels wheat at 60 c. $4-80 
100 bu. lime on 3 a. at 7 c. 7-00 
14 acres, clover sod and hog ) ( 140 bu’s of wheat, increased 
manure, paid for by pasture, £ ( crop, at 60 c.,. $84-00 
I do not give this single experiment as a safe basis 
for any system whatever; but as many of your readers, 
like myself, occupy lands where any mode of manuring 
costing more than four or five dollars per acre would 
occasion a loss, even if the average crop were doubled, 
an efficient and less expensive mode of manuring than 
is practiced where the produce of the soil brings a higher 
price, is much needed, and I earnestly desire to see the 
attention of the many intelligent correspondents of your 
valuable and widely circulated paper turned to this sub¬ 
ject. Very respectfully, 
Jas. T. Worthington. 
Chilicothe, Ohio, Nov. 20, 1843. 
Chautauque Silk.— From a report of the proceed¬ 
ings of the Board of Supervisors on the 14th ult., fur¬ 
nished by the Mayville Sentinel, we see there was a- 
warded by the board, the sum of $176,79 as a bounty on 
cocoons and reeled silk, the products of Chautauque co. 
N. Y., for 1843, to be paid from the treasury of the 
State, agreeably to a legislative enactment offering 15 
cents per lb. on cocoons, and 50 cents per lb. on reeled 
silk. The amount of cocoons being 1002 lbs.; of reeled 
silk 59 lbs. 
Give hens chalk or egg shells with their food. 
