1850. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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$5,431,500. Live geose feathers, $1,000,000. Pro¬ 
ducts of the dairy, $42,233,785. Milk, $20,000,- 
000 . 
Products of the forest, including lumber, furs and 
skins, $22,250,000. 
Firewood, $37,500,000.^ 
Fisheries, $17,581,339. 
Profits of capital employed in commerce, $24,000,- 
° 00 . 
Value of the products of manufactures, $550,000,- 
000 . 
Products of the rrrines, including iron, lead, gold, 
silver, marble, coal, &c., $75,000,000. 
Profits of Banking and Insurance Companies, 
$ 20 , 000 , 000 . 
Profits of money loaned at interest, $20,000,000. 
Rentals of houses and lands, $50,000,000. 
Profits of professions, $50,000,000. 
The aggregate of the whole estimate of the pro¬ 
duce of labor and capital in the United States in 
1848, is given as $2,323,564,765. 
Things in Virginia. 
Eds. Cultivator —There can be no question but 
a large number of our farmers would not hesitate to 
spare a dollar or more, to see some trilling amuse¬ 
ment—a u bear dance,” or a cock-fight ; and yet 
are indifferent towards an agricultural paper, 
which like a true friend, sticks by them, ever ready 
to point out the poor and wet parts of the farm, 
saying — li drain, manure, plow deep, harrow fine, 
seed well, read and observe.” 
Allow me to make a suggestion. Suppose every 
member of an agricultural club or society, were to 
make a report of all his operations at the end of 
every year, stating the number of his family, the 
number of laborers and the number of those unable 
to labor, the number of stock of all kinds, the food 
consumed by all, the work for each lot or field and 
the number of acres in each, the kind of crop, 
the yield, the amount of money received and 
spent, the state of the weather for each month, 
with such remarks as suggest themselves—would it 
not be useful? 
Gur crops last year were fair, except fruits, of 
which we had none. I did not see a good peach or 
apple the whole season. The whole fall and De¬ 
cember were very pleasant, till the night of the 
30th ult., when it commenced raining, then hailing, 
and ended in snow, which fell six inches deep. The 
thermometer was down to 12° on the first of Janu¬ 
ary. J. Bunch. Chuckatuck, Nansemond Co., 
Va., Jan. 1, 1850. 
Mode of Planting Corn. 
Eds. Cultivator —We have in this section a 
method of planting oorn which may be new to some 
of your readers. 
After the ground is furrowed one way, one man 
commences furrowing in the other direction. A 
boy or man follows and drops the corn. Then ano¬ 
ther, provided with an implement something like the 
common shovel plow, with a square piece of iron 
about the size of a common hoe screwed fast to the 
end of it, follows the dropper and covers the corn, 
by letting the iron scrape up the dirt from the bot¬ 
tom of the furrow, and deposit it immediately on 
the hill. As soon as the corn is covered up, the 
planter is dropped again for another hill, 8ec. This 
method here, in our new fields, where stumps are 
very thick, is a great saving of time. Two men, 
and a boy 12 years old, with two horses, can fur¬ 
row out one way, and plant eight acres in a day. 
This I know to be true, for I helped to plant one of 
my fields of eight acres in this manner last spring. 
The shovel-plow, with a square piece of iron on the 
end of it, w T ill answer the purpose. W. R. Webb. 
Vienna X. Roads, Clarke Co., Ohio, Dec. 27, 1849. 
Profits of the Dairy. 
Eds. Cultivator —We have many times noticed 
in your paper, statements made by different writers 
of the profits of a dairy. Below we give you an 
account of the proceeds of our dairy for the year 
1849, from forty-one cows, six of which were heif¬ 
ers, having their first calves the same season: 
INCOME. 
41 calves, at four weeks old, $4 each. $164 CO 
3,748 lbs. cheese, at 9 cents per lb... 337 32 
6.569 lbs. butter, best quality for table use, at 20 cts per lb. 1,313 80 
6.570 gallons. or 18 galls, per day, new milk, used on table, 
never skimmed, at 3 cts. per quart. 788 40 
For manure. 200 00 
Total amount.$2,803 52 
EXPENSES. 
10 tons wheat bran, or ship stuff, at $10 per ton.. $100 00 
600 bushels beets at Is per bushel. 75 00 
62 tons hay, at $8 per ton. 496 00 
26 weeks pasturing for 41 cows, at Is per week each..... 333 25 
Slops from kitchen during the year. 15 00 
Nett expenses.$1,019 25 
Total amount.$2,803 52 
Deduct expenses. 1,019 25 
Leaving a balance of.$1,784 2T 
Making an average to each cow, of butter.160 lbs. 3f oz. 
“ “ cheese. 91“ 6joz. 
“ « milk.160 galls. 
The milk, it will be understood, is that which is 
used on table by boarders, never skimmed. 
Add manure and calves, and the total amount for each cow is $68 37 
Deduct expenses. 24 86 
Nett profit to each cow... $43 51 
Made of butter in the month of October. 1849,1st week .... 180 lbs. 
“ “ “ 2d “ ....201 “ 
“ « “ 3d “ ....191 “ 
“ “ “ 4th “ ....167 “ 
“ * “ 5th ^ ....173 “ 
Total in October.932 
We prefer putting our cows in the stable while 
milking, at all seasons of the year. This affords an 
opportunity of messing twice a day, and is done 
regularly at time of milking, believing it the best 
time. Wheat bran, or shorts, mixed with slops 
from the kitchen, or dairy, make a good feed for 
milch cows. 
Some think it quite objectionable and very un¬ 
natural for cow r s to eat or drink whey and milk, but 
we see no good reason for such objections. 
We have practiced for some years feeding our 
cows the whey and skimmed milk from our dairy, 
mixed with wheat, buckwheat, or rye bran, and 
have never seen any injurious effects whatever— 
but, on the contrary, believe it to be very beneficial, 
and productive of good sweet milk and butter. 
It is very necessary for milch cows to be well sup¬ 
plied with good pure water, especially in the win¬ 
ter season when fed on dry fodder. We make a 
practice of watering our cows twice a day, morn¬ 
ing and night. This is given them in the stable, 
where they can drink at leisure, sheltered from cold 
and storm. New Lebanon, Shaker Village. Fami¬ 
ly of Jonathan Wood and Edward Fowler, num¬ 
bering 130 persons. 
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more 
than a change of the moon. 
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the 
sun shines. 
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. 
