1850. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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when young they afford more eggs in sucsession than 
common varieties. 
If I should find male fowls superior to my own, I 
would dispose of mine and introduce the strangers, 
after subjecting them to quarantine for a reasonable 
time. I have once done this with good effect. 
I have had no experience in the treatment of dis¬ 
eased fowls, but if my fowls were diseased, I would 
give them passports with leave of absence, to go 
where fancy ruled. If in summer, I should look for 
returns from the fields, as autumn approached, with 
an increase of numbers perhaps; and with the rose 
of health upon their animated countenances . J. R. S. 
Verona , Nov. 6, 1849. 
Good and Bad Management. 
From the excellent practical address of R. G. Par¬ 
dee, before the Wayne Co. (N. Y.) Agricultural So¬ 
ciety, we extract the following:— 
Be not afraid of book farming. If the best way of 
farming can be told, it can be written; and when 
written, you can learn and understand it as well as 
from the lips of a co-laborer. It is one of the shallow¬ 
est prejudicies which ever crept, into the mind of man, 
that a fact loses its power and Value because printed in 
a book. 
I wish I could place the Genesee Farmer and the 
Cultivator in the hands of every farmer in our country, 
and I would be gladly responsible for the injury. Just 
discrimination, is of course necessary in reading any 
human writings; but where the editor of an agricul¬ 
tural journal admits one error into his paper, a thou¬ 
sand are propagated from the lips of neighbor to 
neighbor, among agriculturists. 
Again, fence and water your farm, so as to save as 
much valuable time as possible. Much more than 
many farmers are aware of, is gained or lost in this 
way. One of your number has directed my attention 
to one of our best farmers who went on to his farm 
some years ago, and found it without plot, without 
fences of any value, and without water. In a few 
short years, he had so planned and fenced his farm, 
and by the help of a very small spring he brought to 
light, and a few logs, he had so watered it, that he 
could pasture his flocks and herds on any part of his 
large farm, and give them easy and constant access 
to water, without stepping but a few rods from his 
dwelling. Of course he saved a vast amount of time, 
to improve his land; and the man who can devise 
such liberal things, soon raised his farm to the very 
highest state of cultivation, as well as order, and grew 
rich. His neighbors who proceeded him many years, 
and selected better soil, with streams of water running 
through their farms, have never been able, even to 
this day, to devise any plan by which their flocks can 
be watered or pastured without using up one or two 
boys, if not one or two men, by their long pilgrima¬ 
ges. Of course their life is one continued scene of 
toil and drudgery; for it is all an up-hill business. 
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I will detain you only to name two or three things, 
that will be likely to endanger or prevent your com¬ 
plete success. First, your sloth. Man is said to be 
naturally indolent; but I need not stop here to prove to 
you, that this obstacle must be removed, or all your ef¬ 
forts will prove failures, and your inheritance in a short 
time resemble that dismal, but graphic sketch, drawn 
by the pen of the wise man, in the following language: 
“ I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vine¬ 
yard of the man void of understanding; and lo, it was 
all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered 
the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken 
down. Then I saw and considered it well; I looked 
upon it and received instruction: yet a little sleep, a 
little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so 
shall thy poverty come as one that travaileth; and thy 
want as an armed man.” 
The reverse of this description is vividly illustrated 
by Pliny, the elder, as follows: “ Furius Cresinus, an 
emancipated Roman slave, having obtained from his 
very small estate much larger crops than his more 
wealthy neighbors from their vast domains; they be¬ 
came so envious that they charged him with employing 
enchantment to attract to his ground the product of 
their fields. 
“ Having been summoned by Spurius Albinus, and 
being fearful of condemnation, he introduced into the 
Forum, as the tribes prepared to vote, his robust and 
well-clad family, and his agricultural implements, his 
heavy mattocks, his ingeniously constructed plows, and 
his well-fed oxen, and then exclaimed: ‘ Behold 1 Ro¬ 
man citizens, my magic: but I am still unable to show 
you, or to bring into the market-place my studies, my 
constant vigilance , my fatiguing labors Scarcely 
had he concluded, when he was absolved by public ao 
clamation.” 
Second—A greater obstable to your success may be 
found in your unbelief. Faith, says an eminent writer, 
11 is the main-spring of human action.” Washington 
had faith, firm faith, that his country must be free and 
independent, and therefore he determined to seek it, re¬ 
gardless of every obstacle, as long as he lived. The 
principle, “ according to thy faith be it unto thee,” is 
almost as infallible in nature as in grace. 
You do not believe you can accomplish any good 
thing, and therefore you do not pat forth any good ef 
forts. You have no confidence in your own effort? 
to make things better around you, and therefore you 
allow your whole life to run to waste, and go down 
to your grave, leaving it scarcely perceptible that the 
world is any better for your having lived in it,—forget¬ 
ting that, many drops makes an ocean, and many sands 
the mountain, and many threads will bind the elephant. 
Make even two spears of grass to grow wdiere one grew 
before—ascertain the cause and note it down, and you 
may leave the embryo of a principle, that will clothe 
the desert with verdure, and bless the world. 
American Pork in England. 
Messrs. Allen 8c Anderson, extensive provision 
dealers in London, have sent to this country a circular 
in relation to the curing and packing of pork for the Eng¬ 
lish markets. It contains useful information to persons 
engaged in the provision trade. 
The circular states that the trade with England in 
this line has been generally an unprofitable one, chiefly 
on account of the inferior quality of the article. Of ba¬ 
con, it is stated that the imports of American into Lon¬ 
don— 
In 1847, were... 14,161 cwt. 
In 1848, “ . 70,823 “ 
In 1849, 9 months,.. 140,096 “ 
A considerable portion of which was soft, oily, inferior 
in quality; and to this circumstance, more than to the 
great quantity, the serious declension in prices, and 
consequent heavv losses to the shippers, are attributa¬ 
ble. 
The bacon best adapted to the London market, is 
singed sides, weighing 56 to 64 ibs. each. The first 
sent ont from this country last winter, is represented to 
have been of fair quality, and the meat of a good, firm 
texture; and as it was offered at much less price than 
the Irish, it found customers. But the subsequent ar¬ 
rivals were so soft, oily and inferior, that the Irish was 
again preferred, even at advanced rates, while the 
American became, and continued, a dull, dragging trad e 
