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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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ly with pork, bacon and lard, for a twelve month. 
Before I had travelled five miles farther, I saw an¬ 
other man with seven, about the same age, and he 
will probably have nearly a ton of pork to sell. 
Another man’s fences, outbuildings and garden, 
were a disgrace to the man, a disgrace to the neigh¬ 
borhood, and to the county - while another as great¬ 
ly honored himself in them all; thus making it ap¬ 
parent to my mind that a man can as signally honor 
or dishonor himself on a piece of ground only large 
enough for a garden, as on a farm of 100 or 500 
acres.— R. G. Pardee’s Address. 
Dairying in St. Lawrence Co.., N. Y. 
Eds. Cultivator— Perhaps it may not be unin¬ 
teresting to many of your readers to hear something 
from us, especially those at the west, who regard us 
as almost in the frozen region. I am inclined to 
think that many of the accounts of products from 
different parts of the country, that appear in your 
pages, are among that class of farmers who are both 
able and willing to expend more in their business 
than a great majority of farmers are able to do. 
I have had 100 acres of land previous to last year. 
I now have 130 acres; have frequently cut from 70 
to 80 or 90 tons of hay, and raised my own grain, 
and some to spare. My best crop of spring wheat 
(for I raise no other) 30 bushels per acre—China 
wheat. Last season was uncommonly dry with us, 
no rain at all having fallen for many weeks. The 
hay crop was light, and the pastures were dried up. 
Meadows after haying, dried and sunburnt—there 
being no after feed at all. Grain was light. Hay 
was sold this spring at $10 per ton, and then was 
drawn from 5 to 30 miles. 
Bear these things in mind, as you read the amount 
of butter and cheese from my dairy last season. The 
cheese weighed from the press 8,343 pounds- But¬ 
ter, twice thoroughly worked, 2,200 pounds. Num¬ 
ber of cows in May, 25; bought in June and July, 
and sold in October. Average number about 28. 
Averaged nearly 300 pounds of cheese and 80 pounds 
of butter per cow. I reckon 3 pounds of cheese for 
each pound of butter, according to the estimate of 
some Ohio dairymen, which would equal about 534 
pounds of cheese per cow. 
I should like to hear from other dairymen in our 
county and in Vermont, through your columns. G. 
A. Hanchet. Potsdam , May , 1850. 
On the Height of Corn. 
Eds. Cultivator— In the year 1842, I travelled 
through a portion of the state of Ohio. The season 
was a poor one for corn. I measured three differ¬ 
ent fields on the Raccoon creek, in Licking county, 
and found it thirteen feet high. I was told that on 
the same soil, it grew sixteen feet in good seasons. 
I saw a field of two hundred acres on the bank of 
the Muskingum, near Coshocton, where the height 
was said to be the same as aboye. 
The largest corn that I saw in my own state, that 
year, was between Syracuse and Fayetteville. It 
was eight feet high. This I have found to be the 
usual height of our best yellow corn in some of our 
most favorable seasons. There is one remarkable 
difference between the northern corn and the gourd 
seed varieties, which are cultivated in Ohio and far¬ 
ther south. The ear of the southern corn unites 
with the stalk above the centre of it, while our north¬ 
ern corn unites with it below the.centre. C. E. G. 
Utica. 
Sale of the Bates Short-Horns. 
The public sale of this noted herd of cattle took 
place on the 9th of May last, agreeably to previous 
notice. We have not received a detailed account of 
the sale, but the following extract from a letter 
received from L. G. Morris, Esq., who attended 
as a purchaser, will show that several of the ani¬ 
mals are to come to this country. The letter is da¬ 
ted Kirkleavington, May 10. 
“ The great Bates sale took place yesterday. The 
attendance was from three to five thousand, from al¬ 
most all parts of the world. The average price was 
about 63 guineas, the highest price 205, and the 
lowest priced sound animal was 30 guineas. Mr. 
Colling’s sale reached higher prices, but it was 
when England was in a more prosperous state than 
it now is; and the terms of sale more liberal than 
these.* Mr. Bates’ heirs and executors are in 
chancery, and all business done through a receiver, 
who made the terms half cash down, and balance on 
delivery of the animals, which was to take place 
five or six days at farthest from the date of sale. 
The risk of the animals immediately on being struck 
down was to be borne by the purchaser. I purcha¬ 
sed three head, and Mr. Becar of Smithtown, Long 
Island, purchased four head. I did not make my 
purchases until I had examined all the herds of any 
note in the counties of Yorkshire and Durham, 
which are the finest Short-horned sections in the 
world; and even then I did make my final selection 
until I had re-examined Mr. Bates’ herd several 
times. The only animals I bid on, I purchased.” 
Farming in Rhode Island. 
Mr. S. B. Halliday, of Cranston, R. I., gives 
an account in the Providence Journal, of the pro¬ 
ducts of his farm for 1849, from which we take the 
following. The size of the farm is not stated, nor 
is the number of cows kept for the dairy, mentioned. 
“ Of potatoes, I have dug about 1200 bushels; 
turneps, 1200 bushels; carrots, 600 bushels; pars- 
neps 200 bushels; table beet, 1000 bushels; mangel 
wurtzel, 500 bushels; spinnach, 300 bushels; toma¬ 
toes, 200 bushels; white cabbage, 20,000 heads; sa¬ 
voy cabbage, 25,000 heads; broccoli, 2000 heads; 
lettuce, 20,000 heads; egg plants, 400; salsify, 
(oyster plant,) 2000; rhubarb, (pie plant,) 3000 
lbs.; asparagus, 1000 lbs.; pickles, 20,000; corn, 
2000 bushels, ears; rye, 100 bushels; millet, 20 
tons; green rye and clover, 40 tons; English hay, 
10 tons; buckwheat, 3 tons; 250 lbs. spinnach seed; 
200 lbs. beet seed; 40 lbs. of turnep seed. In ad¬ 
dition to this, we raise nearly all our small seeds, 
such as celery, carrot, radish, &c. The dairy yields 
for the year, about 20,000 gallons milk.” 
The Cheese Trade. 
Henry Kemp & Co., of New-York, have issued 
a circular in which it is stated that the supply of 
cheese brought to the tide-waters of the Hudson for 
the year 1849, was 42,097, 818 pounds, against 43,- 
278,526 pounds in 1848. The decrease the past 
year is artributed to the severe drouth of last summer 
in Western New-York and Ohio. The export of 
cheese to Great Britain from New-York, is said to 
have reached last year 12,000,000 pounds, against 
15,386,836 in 1848, being a decrease of one-fifth. 
* At the sale of Mr. Charles Colling’s herd, in 1810, 47 animals 
brought £7115.17$. The- highest price for bulls was 10C0 guineas, 
for Comet; and the highest price for cows was 410 guineas, for Lily. 
Another bull, Petrarch, brought 365 guineas; and the cow Countcsa 
1 400 guineas. Eds. 
