THE CULTIVATOR. 
tSR 
lions of the Morgan anil Morgan anil Hell founder stock, 
have been intrmluccil, anil the foals by them arc spoken of 
as being “ precisely the stock which it is wished to rear.” 
Upon the whole, the prospects arc very favorable to the 
improvement of agriculture anil the condition of the far¬ 
mer throughout the Province. 
PRODUCTS OF CALEDONIA COUNTY, Vr. 
Though located in the north-east corner of one of the 
coldest States in,the Union, this county has long been no¬ 
ted for the independent condition of its inhabitants, and 
the large amount of its agricultural productions. If we 
mistake not, the census of 1840 indicated a larger amount 
of property, and a greater amount of produce, for each 
citizen of Caledonia county, than was exhibited for any 
other part of the country We have received from Mr. 
J. P. Fairbanks; Secretary of the Agricultural Society 
of that county, a copy of the Caledonian, containing some 
valuable facts and statistics in relation to dairy products, 
from which we give the following summary: 
“Dennis May, Waterford, kept 8 cows, and sold 750 
lbs. of butter, and 900 lbs. of cheese. Robert Gilkerson, 
Barnet, kept 8 cows, and sold 840 lbs. butter, 120 lbs. 
cheese. Cloud Harvey, Barnet, kept 13 cows, and sold 
1705 lbs. butter. The above was in addition to the 
amount consumed in their families. Lucius Freeman, 
Waterford, 7 cows, made 950 lbs. butter, 300 lbs. cheese. 
William Watson, Barnet, 21 cows, made 4000 lbs. butter. 
Johr Abbot, Barnet, 10 cows, made 2^198 lbs. butter. 
Francis E. Fuller, Hardwick, for 10 or 15 years has kept 
10 or 12 cows, ant! made on an average 200 lbs. of butter 
from each cow. Mr. Watson's cows averaged 190^ lbs. 
of butter, and Mr. Abbott's averaged 220 lbs. to each 
cow. The latter was sold at 18 cents per lb. and $2 ad¬ 
ditional on the lot. Perhaps cases are not rare of single 
cows that have yielded 200 lbs. of butter in the season; 
but it is believed that instances are not common, where a 
stock of from 10 to 20 cows, with no other keeping than 
good pastures, have produced on an average so large a 
quantity.” 
AGRICULTURAL ADVANTAGES OF N. JERSEY. 
We are indebted to H. W. S. C. of Oatlands, near Bur¬ 
lington, N. J., for some remarks on the facilities which 
are offered by that section of the country, to emigrants 
from New-England. Our correspondent seems well ac¬ 
quainted with different sections of the country—is a na¬ 
tive of Massachusetts, but has passed several years in the 
west as a surveyor, and settled in his present location 
from a conviction that in no other situation he had seen, 
could a man with a small capital, commence farming un¬ 
der so favorable auspices, a conviction which has only 
been strengthened by three year's experience. Of the 
advantages of the neighborhood, the first mentioned i» 
facilities for markets. Philadelphia is twenty miles be¬ 
low, with which there is communication by the Dela¬ 
ware rive and by rail-road, and the competition for 
freight between boats and cars, affords cheap transporta¬ 
tion. The market train of cars will top any where on 
the road to take freight. The farmer there is as near 
Philadelphia as the one within six miles, who hauls his 
own produce, and as the land is much cheaper than near 
the city, it follows that the farmer in the location men- I 
tioned has the advantage. The rail-road also connects 
with New-York, which city is reached in four hours, and 
there are at Burlington, plenty of purchasers of produce, 
always eager to buy any marketing that is rare and nice. 
The idea that New-Jersey is little better than a sand¬ 
bank, which is enleriained by many who have only seen 
that portion of the State crossed by the rail-road from 
Amboy to Bordentovvn, our correspondent thinks would 
be no longer retained, if the section in which he is loca¬ 
ted could be seen during the season of crops and cultiva¬ 
tion. He states that he cut last year upwards of two tons 
of timothy hay per acre on land which had received no 
manure for four years. But the region is peculiarly 
adapted to fruit and vegetables, which our friend thinks 
may be produced with great advantage and profit. Ashe 
had suffered severely from fever and ague in the west, he 
took care to satisfy himself of the perfect healthiness of 
his present location, before settling, and has had every 
reason to be satisfied on this account. All that is want¬ 
ed, in his opinion, to render agriculture profitable in that 
region, is an enterprising class of farmers. 'They have, 
he says, already some good farmers, but more are want¬ 
ed to give character to the neighborhood The climate 
is in his estimation, a happy medium between north and 
south. During the past winter, farmers were engaged in 
plowing during-a great portion of the month of January. 
In conclusion, he says he “ would advise no man who 
has a farm on which he can support himself at the cast, 
to sell out for the sake of doing better elsewhere, because, 
as a general rule, he must meet with some loss for an un¬ 
certain gain; but there arc many shrewd men with a 
small capital, say from two to six, or ten thousand dol¬ 
lars, who might fix themselves here with a certainty of 
receiving a good interest on their investment, and an al¬ 
most equal certainty of their property increasing in val¬ 
ue, and it is for such men that this sketch is written.” 
NEW-YORK STATE AG. SOCIETY. 
At the regular monthly meeting of the Executive Com¬ 
mittee of the New-York State Agricultural Society, on 
the second Thursday of April, the Recording Secretary 
reported thai nc ..-ol received, since the last meeting, 
communications and books for the Society, as follows: 
1. A Letter from Alexander Djunkovsky, Perpetu¬ 
al Secretary of the Royal Imperial Economical Society 
of Russia; accompanied by a volume of Extracts from the 
Reports of said Society, in the German language. 
2- Two volumes of the “ Transactions of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of Jamaica,” from that Society. 
3. A Letter from John H. Redfield, Corresponding 
Secretary of the New-York Lyceum of Natural History, 
with three volumes of the Annals of the Lyceum. 
4. A Letter from the Hon. Ww. Young, President of 
the Board of Agriculture of Nova Scotia, with the Annual 
Reports of the Board. 
5. A Letter from Thomas Bridgman of New-York, 
with a copy of the new and beautiful edition of his 
“ Young Gardener's Assistant.” 
A vote of thanks was passed for these several donations 
to the Society’s Library, and copies of its Transactions 
ordered to be forwarded to the several Societies above 
named. 
The following is a copy of the letter from the Imperi¬ 
al Economical Society of St. Petersburg: 
Russian Imperial Economical Society, 
Office of the Perpelual Secrelary, ) 
St. Petersburg , the 2'Jtk of January , 1S45. J 
To the State Agricultural Society of the State of New-York, 
in the United States of America : 
The Russian Imperial Economical Society, established 
in the year 1765, having for its object the improvement 
of different branches of rural economy, desires to enter 
into correspondence with your Honorable Society for 
mutual exchange of different experiments, observations 
and discoveries, in order to promote the national wel¬ 
fare of both countries. The Almighty having blessed 
the United States and Russia with immense tracts of fer¬ 
tile land, has pointed out to us that the principal occupa¬ 
tions of both countries should consist in rural pursuits. 
I Therefore we feel real sympathy towards your great na¬ 
tion, and the more so, because our Society has the honor 
of counting amon ; r its active and useful members, one 
of your distinguished citizens, the honorable Col. Todd, 
the Representative of your country in Russia. 
Our Economical Society has for a long time expressed 
th* wish cfcomr^iunicating with Agronomical Societies in 
other countries, but as our annual accounts of proceed¬ 
ings and the transactions of our Society are published in 
the Russian language, which is very little known abroad; 
so the Soiiefy commenced publishing extracts of the an¬ 
nual reports and of the transactions in the German lan¬ 
guage, which is generally understood in civilized coun¬ 
tries, and the Society conceiving that these publications 
would be the means of communication between the two 
countries, has therefore charged me as its Perpetual Sec¬ 
retary, to forward to you a copy of the said publication | 
