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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Jan. 
—many of the best dealers abandoning the article alto¬ 
gether. 
u Ice-cured singed sides, for shipments made during 
the summer heats, do not answer; the meat sustains in 
all cases an injury that lowers the price, and in some 
instances has done so to the extent of 50 per cent. 
Shipments of singed meat, by New Orleans, ought, for 
the same reason, to be avoided altogether, or made only 
in the months of December and January.” 
u Prime mess pork has been a losing article. Some 
few of the first arrivals of New-York and Baltimore 
brands came of prime quality, and brought remunerative 
prices. But almost all the Western brands have come 
particularly bad, defective in cure, wretched in color, 
and the meat soft and inferior. The chief defect in 
almost all American prime mess pork is the color. 
Instead of being the bright cherry red, characteristic of 
skilfully pickled meat, it is a dirty, dull unsightly brown. 
That this is remediable, and arises in the manufacture, 
is proved by some few brands coming otherwise. But 
unless it be"obviated, the preference will continue to be 
given to Irish and Hambro, although inferior meat, at 
much higher prices.” 
Indian Corn in Tennessee. 
Maj. John McGaughey, in his agricultural ad¬ 
dress, delivered at Greenville, says he has raised 90 
bushels of corn to the acre, and he thinks 100 bushels 
or more, can be produced. He makes the following 
calculation : Take an acre of corn and lay it off three 
feet each way, and leave two stalks in a hill, and it 
gives 9,680 stalks, suppose each stalk to produce one 
good ear, and every hundred ears to make a bushel, it 
would make a fraction over 96 bushels. Again, take 
an acre of ground and lay it off 4 feet wide for plant¬ 
ing in the drill, drop your Corn one grain in a place, 
12 inches apart, and it gives 10,890 stalks, which at 
the same rate would make over 108 bushels. But it 
would be reasonable to suppose that upon the acre laid 
off three feet each way with two stalks in a hill, that 
every three stalks, if well cultivated, would upon an 
average, produce 4 good ears, which would make 
129 bushels. 
Reclaiming Sandy Laud. 
Obed Brooks, Jr., of Harwich, Barnstable county, 
Mass., gives the officers of the Agricultural Society of 
that county, some interesting facts in regard to his ex¬ 
perience in reclaiming u blowing sands.” He states 
that much of this kind of soil, with which Cape Cod 
abounds, can be readily rendered u pleasant to the eye 
and profitable to the cultivator.” He says —“ by a 
slight dressing, and by proper cultivation, they may be 
made to produce a good crop of corn the first year, 
and by laying down to grass in the fall, they may be 
brought into good pasturage. Moreover, by setting 
upon the borders of the enclosure, the silver-leaf pop¬ 
lar—a tree exactly adapted to loose and sandy soils, 
and not liable to be eaten by cattle—they may be made 
to improve the appearance of any village, and give an 
air of thrift and beauty to the waste places of the 
cape.” 
Mr. B. bought a lot containing eleven and a half 
acres, in the spring of 1847, which was then regarded 
as completely worn out, and had already begun to 
blow. He gave only $80 for the whole lot, and it had 
previously been offered at a much less price. He fenc¬ 
ed it with cedar posts and chestnut rails, at a cost of 
$70. He has used no manure in the cultivation. He 
plowed it deep, and on the 19th and 20th of May, 
1847, planted it with corn, in hills four feet apart each 
way. He used the cultivator at every hoeing—which 
was four times—running it very deep, twice in a row 
both ways. At the second hoeing, pulled all except 
two plants in a hill. At the last hoeing, 25th August, 
sowed rye, oats, and grass seed, putting on to the acre 
twelve quarts rye, sixteen quarts oats, eight quarts 
herds grass or timothy, twelve quarts red top, and 
eight pounds clover seed. He raised from this field 
156 bushels of corn of excellent quality, which sold 
readily at 85 cents per bushel, and 33 bushels potatoes. 
The crop of rye taken off the next year, measured 55 
bushels. The grass seed took well and has brought 
the field into a fine sward and good pasturage. 
He makes an exhibit of all the expenses he has laid 
out on the land up to the 16th of October, 1849, and 
credits the value of the crops he has taken off ; from 
which it appears that the cost of the 11^ acres of 
land, as now fenced and improved, is $8,57. 
Breeding Horses. 
The report of the committee on horses, for the Chit¬ 
tenden County Vt. Agricultural Society, contained some 
good remarks. In addition to the hereditary transmis¬ 
sion of qualities, it observed, u The progeny will inher¬ 
it the united qualities of their parents. The good as 
well as the bad qualities will descend from generation 
to generation. Hence you will see the importance of a 
knowledge of the parentage, not only as to the sire but 
also as to the dam. Peculiarity of structure and con¬ 
stitution will also be inherited. This is an important 
consideration, though too much neglected, for however 
perfect the sire may be, every good quality may be neu¬ 
tralized, if not overcome by the defective structure of 
the dam. Let the essential points be good in both pa¬ 
rents; but if there must be some minor defects in the 
one, let them be met and overcome by excellencies in 
those particular points, in the other parent. We would 
also advise you, to let your breeding mares be in the 
full vigor of life. Do not put them to the horse too 
young, and especialiy do not let your mares be incapa¬ 
citated for work by reason of old age. If so, you may 
expect that the foal will have a corresponding weak¬ 
ness, and scarcely will a single organ possess its natu¬ 
ral strength. Our farmers are usually too negli¬ 
gent in the selection of their mares. They are tempted 
to part with their best mares, and to breed from those 
which are inferior.” 
The committee speak of a young horse of the Mor¬ 
gan stock, bred by judge Bennett, as having 11 great 
compactness of structure and action of the best kind.” 
Extracts from Agricultural Addresses. 
Influence of Agricultural Periodicals. —Ag¬ 
ricultural reading is another subject to which I would 
call your attention. Papers designed chiefly for these 
interested in farming pursuits, engaging as they do 
the best intellect and most practical talent in the land, 
must be a store-house of interesting and useful know¬ 
ledge. They are moreover, our common medium for 
interchanging thought and opinions, and for communi¬ 
cating from one to the other, our useful discoveries. 
Though the ignorant and penurious may spurn such 
means of gaining intelligence ; yet, it is observable 
and encouraging, that among the more intelligent far¬ 
mers, are always to be found the best patrons of our 
Agricultural prints. And where the land is in the 
highest state of cultivation, and the domestic arrange¬ 
ments are of the most agreeable character, you will 
discover, intelligence to use and appreciate those pub¬ 
lications which are designed to bring conveniences and 
improvements to their farms and dwellings. Go the 
country over and you will see that, in all the cases of 
failure in realizing a fair profit from the farm, there 
