THE CULTIVATOR. 
of the plague or cholera; banks are for men of speculation, and 
theirs is a business with which farmers should have little to do. 
A farmer should never be ashamed of his calling; we know that 
no man can be entirely independent, yet the farmer should remem¬ 
ber that if any one can be said to possess that enviable distinction, 
he is the man. 
No farmer should allow the reproach of neglecting education to 
lie against himself or family ; if knowledge is power, the begin¬ 
ning of it should be early and deeply laid in the district school. 
A farmer should never use ardent spirit as a drink ; if, while 
undergoing severe fatigue, and the hard labors of the summer, he 
would enjoy robust health, let him be temperate in all things. 
A farmer never should refuse a fair price for any thing he wishes 
to sell. We have known a man who had several hundred bushels 
of wheat to dispose of, refuse 8s. because he wanted 8s. 6d., and 
after keeping his wheat six months, was glad to get 6s. 6d. for it. 
A farmer should never allow his wood-house to be emptied of 
wood during the summer months ; if he does, when winter comes, 
in addition to cold fingers, he must expect to encounter the chilling 
looks of his wife, and perhaps be compelled, in a series of lectures, 
to learn, that the man who burns green wood has not mastered 
the A B C of domestic economy. 
A farmer should never allow his windows to be filled with red 
cloaks, tattered coats, and old hats ; if he does, he will most assu¬ 
redly acquire the reputation of a man who tarries long at the whis¬ 
key, leaving his wife and children to freeze or starve at home. 
There are three things of which the man who aims at the cha¬ 
racter of a prosperous farmer will never be niggardly, manure, til¬ 
lage and seed ; and there are three things of which he never will 
be too liberal, promises, time and credit. W. G. 
CHAPTER OF FACTS.— measures of capacity. 
Measure is length, breadth and thickness, estimated by known 
lengths, or compared by othe.r known quantities ; thus, there are 
124-12-j-12=l,728 cubic inches in a cubic foot, and 343-|-3=27 
cubic feet in a cubic yard. 
The imperial gallon is 277.274 cubic inches. A gill, or quarter 
of a pint, is 8.? inches. 
The imperial gallon contains 10 lb. avordupois, of distilled wa¬ 
ter, weighing in air, at 62°, with the barometer at 30 inches. Two 
gallons, a peck—eight a oushel, and eight bushels a quarter. 
Heaped measure, per bushel, is 2815J cubic inches clear. 
The Winchester bushel is 18$ inches in diameter, and 8 inches 
deep, containing 2154.42 cubic inches. 
1,000 ounces of rain water are equal to about 7j gallons wine 
measure, or, to a cubic foot. 
7 pounds avordupois is a gallon of flour. 
A chaldron of coals is 58f cubic feet. 
Twelve wide gallons of distilled water, weigh 100 lbs. advordu- 
pois. 
A cubic inch of distilled water at 62°, in a vacum, is 252.274 
grains. 
The imperial dry bushel, when not heaped, is 2218.192 cubic 
inches; the peck 554.584; gallon 277.274, and quart 69.3185. 
The bushel is 8 inches deep, and 18.8 wide, with a heap 6 inches 
high. 
A bushel of wheat is 60 lbs.—rye 53 lbs.—barley 47—oats 38— 
peas 64—beans 63—clover seed 68—rape 48 lbs. 
A Scotch pint is equal to four English pints. 
A Scotch quart is 208.6 cubic inches. 
There are 545,267,000 cubical yards in a cubic mile. 
Hogs .—The dealers in this article have generally returned, and 
we believe, without a solitary exception, have made money. This 
fortunate state of the market will throw a considerable sum of mo¬ 
ney into circulation in Kentucky. We are informed 60,000 hogs 
have passed the Kenhawa route, 82,000 through the Cumberland 
Gap, and about 40,000 through Tennessee to Georgia and Alabama, 
making, in the aggregate ,182,000 head. Suppose half this, num¬ 
ber to have been slaughtered and packed forN. Orleans market, and 
we have the grand total of 273,000 head taken from Kentucky this 
season. This number of hogs, supposing them to average 200 lbs. 
nett, and supposing the New-Orleans market equal to the other 
markets, will furnish the handsome sum of two million seven hundred 
and thirty thousand dollars. From the best information we have on 
the subject, we are inclined to believe our calculations nearly cor¬ 
ryirm 
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rect. What sum has probably been realized from the sale of hor¬ 
ses, mules, beef cattle, we have no data for calculation.— Ken¬ 
tucky Chronicle. 
GOOD POINTS IN FARMING. 
The Massachusetts Agricultural Society have awarded a premium 
off 100, to Mr. Amos Sheldon, of Beverly, for the best farm of¬ 
fered for premium. The committee enumerate the following 
seven points, for which Mr. S. deserves commendation, and add 
several others, perhaps equally important, in which his statement 
is defective. The report is given at length in the New-England 
Farmer. 
1. For having this farm so divided into pieces as probably to 
make all temporary division fences unnecessary. 
2. For draining and reclaiming low or meadow lands. 
3. For renovating old pastures by ploughing and sowing down 
anew with grass seed. 
4. For having the food for his cattle prepared by cutting and 
mixing the hay, Sic. with grain and vegetables. 
5. For his care in collecting manure, and making a liberal and 
judicious use of it on his farm. 
6. For having, by good management, gotten so much produce 
from his farm in 1834, with so few laborers. 
7. For the small quantity of ardent spirits which he permitted to 
be consumed, compared to former times by his laborers—an entire 
abstinence from which, would have a fine moral effect. 
On the other hand, Mr. Sheldon’s operations as a farmer, taken 
together, do not come up to the full expectation or wishes of the 
Trustees. It was hardly to be expected indeed from one whose 
cares are so divided as his are. It would have been well if he had 
attended to and stated with some precision, the advantages of a 
rotation of crops, so far as his experience extends. If he had at¬ 
tended to the cultivation of vegetables, as food for his stock in ad¬ 
dition to potatoes, such as mangel wurzel, carrots, ruta baga, com¬ 
mon turnips, &c. 
If he had made some experiments in ploughing in green crops, 
as a manure, and given the result. If he had been much more li¬ 
beral in the use of grass seed. If he had shown more interest in 
respect to orcharding and fruits of various kinds. If he had turned 
his mind more to the breeds of stock, &c. &c. 
It has been a leading object of the Trustees, in offering these 
handsome premiums on farms, to bring about something like me¬ 
thod in our agricultural operations. In the mechanic and manufac¬ 
turing arts—in all the sciences—discoveries and improvements are 
constantly making—and why not in those most important of all 
arts, agriculture and horticulture, on which all others so essentially 
depend? Why should not our industrious and sensible cultivators 
make experiments of no great hazard or expense, and preserve a 
record, not only of their success, but what would be quite useful to 
know, their failures'! Why not endeavor to learn so much of the 
nature and uses of different soils as to determine what course will 
probably be the best as to a rotation of crops, and in the different 
use of manures, and in improving one soil with a mixture of ano¬ 
ther’? Why not keep a diary to which they might turn at any 
time, and compare one season with another as regards heat and 
cold, rain and sunshine—the times of planting and harvesting and 
the many occurrences of the year? 
BOTS IN HORSES. 
Mr. Editor—I have read your articles in the Farmer under 
this head, and though the sentiments are quite discordant with 
common opinions on this subiect, still I have no disposition to at¬ 
tempt their refutation. I have a remedy which I have seen ap¬ 
plied in a number of cases of what were called bots, with complete 
success. The prescription is as follows : Mix in a convenient 
nottle, one pint of good vinegar and a half a pint of good ashes. 
The horse should be previously prepared to receive the dose im¬ 
mediately on mixing it, as the effervescene produced by the acid 
of the vinegar and the alkali of the ashe=, v ill render it difficult 
to retain the compound many minutes after mixing. From one to 
three bottles will, I think, in all cases be found sufficient. I have 
known this medicine administered to horses apparently in the last 
stage of the disease, and have never known it to fail of producing 
relief in less than ten minutes. The ashes should be sifted.— 
Genesee Farmer. 
