1848. 
THE CULTIVATOR. ?55 
are money-making men good managers. The first fol¬ 
lows too much a routine taught him; the other has no 
other idea but saving. The first fears to try an im¬ 
provement he never tested, a course of cultivation he 
never tried, a seed he never used, lest he might not do 
as well. The other will not lay out a dollar that he 
does not see the immediate return of. There are ex¬ 
ceptions I admit, and when we meet the enlightened 
mind, then we should hold on to and encourage. But 
the idea as thrown out by one writer in an Agricultur¬ 
al paper, .that money-making men, are the men who 
improve land and s f oek, keep up fences and buildings, 
and in 'short do every thing well—is a vain hypothesis. 
Let us go into any neighborhood, and we shall find men 
who are accumulating property, who wear out land, 
and live without much expense. Large crop makers, 
work at a heavy outlay of something, and the man who 
makes large crops has not the time to rebuild, or im¬ 
prove land. 
Most men that have accumulated large estates, can 
not tell how they have grown rich—and other men who 
make large crops, cannot see why every body can not 
do so. The fact is, there are u vessels made to honor, 
and others to dishonor some men with one faculty 
and others with another ; to make money comes as ea¬ 
sy to some men, as the eternal waste comes to others. 
Let us hear from all, and though we may have to pick 
over a bushel of chaff to get a grain of wheat, yet we 
may be benefitted thereby. 
I do not like this way of ruling off the track, all that 
have not the Flying Childers or the Eclipse blood in 
their veins ; if agricultural readers only want to hear 
how they can make dollars, let them call up the misers 
from their dens, who can but tell them how many grains 
of corn will do to support life ; and as they .pay for the 
printing they have a right to control. As for me, this 
eternal weighing and measuring with a dime, I am 
sick of. I love dimes, but I do not want to eat them, 
nor to sleep on them, nor to measure a man’s honor, 
nor his worth, nor his ability to advise me, by the length, 
breadth, weight or worth of his purse. 
If I wanted legal counsel, I would not ask whether 
Daniel Webster was wealthy ; if I wanted medical ad¬ 
vice, I would not ask whether Valentine Mott could 
make pills fast. No, sir, I would ask-—are they fully, 
sufficiently, entirely competent in their professions? 
Why should not the principle prevail in agriculture ? 
Why should not Dr. Daniel Lee be just as able to in¬ 
struct in the best mode to conduct an estate, as any Jo¬ 
nas Smallbones in the land, though he might be born 
between the plow-handles ? The instructor must have 
the faculty of communicating his views, and should by 
all means be thoroughly conversant with his subject— 
then, it matters not whether he be a doctor or a plow¬ 
man. 
There are many who are too much‘bound to their 
own views to examine others, or to give them a trial. 
Much of this natural (I may say) disposition is broken 
down by mixing with our neighbors—by education—yet 
it will hold to oneself in spite of him. 
I consider myself a practical man, yet I have not 
hoed a row of corn or cotton in many years, nor turned 
a furrow, yet I am not considered practical by the ma¬ 
jority, because I had the blessed advantage of having 
had a father who sent me to school and made me study. 
I cannot accumulate property, nor do I have that sort 
of a desire : I see so many things I want, that I spend 
my dollars before I get them to jingle. Though I am 
not anxious to write for the press, and will gladly quit, 
whenever I see such a desire exhibited by even a tithe 
of the readers, I have vainly thought that, though I 
have sheep-skins enough to permit me to use the M. D. 
I might he of service to my fellows ; if in error, I as¬ 
sure you and all others that I erred in judgment, not 
from any vanity. M. W. Philips. Edwards, Miss., 
June 10, 1818. __ 
Time for Cutting Hay. 
As the season has arrived for cutting hay, and as 
there is much difference of opinion in relation to the pro¬ 
per time for cutting it, I will just mention the course 
taken by one man in this mountain town. The man to 
whom I allude, is John Pratt, and he has managed a 
dairy of sixty cows for nine years; and in all that time 
he has not had a cow that has had the least trouble in 
calving, or cleaning, (as he told me himself) which I 
think something remarkable. Mr. Pratt’s course is, to 
commence cutting his hay very early, generally before 
any body else thinks of it, or as soon as it begins to 
blossom ; and he gets help enough to cut all his hay be¬ 
fore it gets very ripe, and is generally one of the first 
to finish haying. He attributes his success with his 
cows, to early-cut hay, together with careful attention 
through the winter; and the rest of his stock corres¬ 
ponds in appearance with his cows. E. L. H. Shrews¬ 
bury, Vt. July 10, 1848. 
Importance of Cutting Roots for Domestic 
Animals. — 1. To avoid choking in the case of cows. 
2. To secure better digestion of the food, and of course 
the better health and improvement of the animals, and 
the more economical use of food. 3. To save the teeth 
of the animals, more particularly the horse. This ani¬ 
mal often refuses to eat roots, after having taken them 
freely for a few weeks, entirely, as I suppose, because 
his teeth have become sore. By frequently biting into 
roots of two or three inches in diameter, the gums be¬ 
come chafed, and the animal refuses to eat the roots. 
Root Cutting Machines —A Cheap Substitute. 
I never felt the need of a machine of this kind although 
I have fed roots freely for many years. I use a box 
with a hard wood plank bottom. The size depends on 
the amount of stock to be fed. In such a box I crash 
them with a square headed mallet. Here are no 
knives to get dull or be broken by a stone among the 
roots. This box may be kept in your cellar in cold 
weather. All sorts of animals eat roots thus prepared 
more easily than when sliced in a machine ; since by 
being left in grains by the mallet, and these grains of¬ 
ten cohering, the animal can the more readily seize 
them than when cut by a machie. 
Carrots vs. Oats for Horses. —I have worked a 
horse all winter long on carrots and hay, with better 
health, with equal effectiveness and with less expense 
than on hay and oats. All horses will not eat them 
readily at first, especially if mashed fine with a mallet. 
But all will soon learn ; then they are never clogged by 
them. I think parsneps are equally good; certainly 
they are equally acceptable to the horse. I leave it to 
chemists to ascertain the relative proportions of starch 
and sugar, of phosphates and of nitrogenous matter in 
each. Carrots are the best root we have for late 
spring feeding, as they keep better than turneps and 
most other roots on the approach of hot weather.-- 
With good hay and carrots the horse will hardly feel 
the want of fresh grass. C. E. G. 
Structure of the Horse. —Sir Charles Bell ob- 
observes that of all creatures the horse has the small¬ 
est stomach, relatively to its physical size. Had he 
possessed the quadruple ruminating stomach of the ox, 
he would not have been, at all times, ready for exer¬ 
tion ; the traveller could not have baited his steed and 
resumed his journey. The stomach of the horse is not 
so capacious, even when distended, as to impede his 
wind and speed ; and the food - is passing onward, with 
a greater degree of regularity than in any other animal. 
A proof of this is that the horse has no gall-bladder. 
