1854 . 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
37 
Return of Prof. Nash. —Our foreign correspond¬ 
ent, Prof. J. A. Nash, of Amherst College, has just re¬ 
turned from his foreign tour, having spent the past 
summer and autumn in a careful and thorough inves¬ 
tigation of the systems and practice of agriculture as 
pursued by the best farmers of Great Britain. He 
also spent a brief period in France and Belgium ; and 
he returns, with a better knowledge, probably, of the 
principles and practice which has given British agri¬ 
culture so high a rank, than any American who has 
visited Europe. Our readers will have seen, from the 
letters we have already published, the view which he 
takes of the subject, and they will be glad to learn 
that he is to continue his series of Letters for the Coun¬ 
try Gentleman for some months to come, from the 
notes which he made while abroad. 
Mr. Thomas Gould, of Aurora, Cayuga co., has 
recently added to his fine herd of cattle, a very fine 
Devon bull, called “Holcomb,” purchased of Lewis 
G. Morris, Esq., Fordham. The dam of Holcomb was 
imported from the Earl of Leicester, and his sire was 
the celebrated bull “Major,” formerly owned by R. 
H. Van Rensselaer, of Otsego county. 
Mr. A. J. Moses, of Champlain, Clinton co., return¬ 
ed home last week with a very superior Short-Horned 
bull calf, named “Oxford Lad,” which »took the first 
prize at the American Institute, purchased of Mr. Mor¬ 
ris. He was sired by Lamartine—dam, imported 
“Oxford 5th.” ?- 
Western Hort. Review. —This work, which was 
suspended a few months since, is to be resuscitated, 
under highly favorable circumstances. The first number 
of the new series will be issued on the first of January. 
Dr. J. A. Warder, Editor; J. W. Ward, ass’tnt editor; 
and H. W. Derby, publisher, Cincinnati. $3 per year. 
Alderney Cows. —Mr. J. A. Taintor, of Hartford, 
Conn., has recently received two Alderney Cows from 
the Isle of Jersey.. They are said to be very fine, one 
of them being a first prize cow, the past year, and the 
other, the previous year. 
To Prevent “ Winter-kill ” in Animals.— Some 
of the papers give the following remedy, written “ doc¬ 
tor-fashion” : — 
R.—Refug. opt. q. s.; Zea pulv. q. s.; Aq Fort. q. s. 
The Zea to be applied as a poultice to the mucous 
membrane of the stomach. It will be needless to in¬ 
form those skilled in learned prescriptions that this 
simply means good shelter, corn meal and pure water, 
and is very sound practice, although the crows denounce 
it as rank quackery, and a gross infringement on their 
rights and privileges. -- 
Chloroforming Bees. —Some weeks ago, a corres¬ 
pondent of the New-Yorker objected to this mode of 
stupefying bees while removing the honey, stating that 
in an experiment of his the bees all went to sleep, but 
never awoke ! Another correspondent thinks he used 
too much, adding that he succeeded admirably, by pla¬ 
cing the hive for 25 minutes, pn a cool autumn morn¬ 
ing, over the chloroform, when the honey was cut out, 
the hive replaced, and by 12 o’clock all were lively as 
ever. - 
Correction. —The Massachusetts Plowman, in an 
article on the recent importations of cattle, speaks of 
one of Col. Morris’ purchases in England, as having 
been made “for the New-York State Society.” This 
is a mistake. Our State Ag. Society has never had oc¬ 
casion to import any domestic animals, all wants in 
this respect having been supplied by the public spirit 
of individual citizens. 
Steuben County. —An Agricultural Society was 
formed in this county in June last, which held its first 
fair at Bath on the 13th and 14th of October, and the 
exhibition, both in quality and extent, exceeded the 
most sanguine expectations of its friends. We have 
been favored with a copy of the excellent address de¬ 
livered on the occasion by the President, Hon. G. Den- 
niston, from which we hope to be able to make some 
extracts hereafter. --- 
Yale College. —We invite attention to the adver¬ 
tisement in this paper, in relation to the course of Lec¬ 
tures on Agricultural Chemistry in Yale College, by 
Prof. Porter, the successor of the late Prof. Norton. 
Prof. P. was for several years a pupil of Liebig, and 
has shown himself a competent and popular lecturer 
on Agricultural Chemistry. 
Fish Ponds. —On the farm of the late Gideon Lee, 
near Geneva, N. Y., is a fish-pond of about two or three 
acres, nine feet deep, made by running an embank¬ 
ment across a small valley, and covering a marsh. 
Trees line it, water-grasses grow in it, and cattle are 
not allowed to disturb it. Some seven years ago, a 
dozen or two of trout were placed in it, since which 
time at least two thousand large and fine fish have 
been taken from it for the use of the family. A run¬ 
ning stream prevents stagnancy. 
Manure vs. Grain-selling. —Every good farmer 
knows that the more grain he uses to fatten stock, and 
the less he sells, the better for his land. The following 
figures show an improvement in this respect:—In 1851, 
over 6 millions of bushels of corn, and 10 millions 
pounds of bacon arrived at tide water from the west; 
in 1853, only about 2 millions of com, and 19 millions 
of bacon. - 
Imported Stock. —The North British Agricultu¬ 
rist, in speaking of the fact that some of the finest 
animals were bought by Americans at the late English 
sales of improved cattle, says that the English bidders 
“ succumbed before their trans-atlantic competitors,” 
and did not bid nearly so high as the latter intended 
to have gone, adding, “It is not impossible that John 
Bull may one day require to cross the Atlantic, for 
some of the blood he is now allowing to leave England.” 
Yellow Butter in Winter. —We observe different 
expedients for this purpose, and among the rest, putting 
in the yolks of eggs just before the coagulation of the 
