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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Feb. 
Carrot Butter. 
A correspondent of the Dollar Newspaper gives a 
mode of coloring butter yellow, consisting substantial¬ 
ly of the application of a liquid at churning, made by 
grating yellow carrots, and after soaking in half their 
bulk of milk or water over night, straining through a 
cloth. This, we are assured, will make it as yellow as 
October butter, and with an agreeable flavor. Custom¬ 
ers, who buy butter of the manufacturer who furnishes 
the communication, much prefer this to any other. 
Some of our readers may think this method worthy of 
trial ; others will prefer a modification, which we have 
often tried with great success. This modification dif¬ 
fers in one particular only, yet has several advantages. 
The point of difference is in the time of applying the 
carrots;—that is, instead of doing it at the commence¬ 
ment of the churning, by introducing them into the 
churn , we apply them about two or three days sooner 
by introducing them into the cow. This modification 
has several advantages, namely, saving the labor of 
grating the carrots; furnishing animal instead of veg¬ 
etable butter; and nourishing the cow into the bargain. 
Hie Effects of Drainage on Tillage. 
Mr. Tucker —Last spring I concluded to plow a 
clayey field only once for wheat, and that after har¬ 
vest. The field contained about 40 acres. Previous to 
draining, it was one of my wetest fields, and in dry 
weather, even in April or was very hard to plow, 
often having to get the coulters and shares sharpened 
every day, when we used wrought iron shares. 1 
bought oxen in spi'ing so that I could put a yoke oi 
oxen and a pair of horses to each plow, and owing to 
the great drouth before, during, and after harvest, I 
got a large plow made by Messrs. Newcomb & Rich¬ 
ardson, of Waterloo, the makers of the Seneca County 
Plow, so that I could put two or more yokes of cattle 
and a pair of horses to it if necessary. Immediately 
after harvest the day of commencement camp, when we 
started for the field, oxen and drivers, plowmen and 
horses; and besides new shares on the plows, we took 
16 other new shares along, expecting to have to change 
every day. When we got to the field, I had one man 
put a pair of horses before the large plow, and try to 
open the land with a shallow furrow. He went 70 rods 
away and back, without ever a stop, except when the 
clover choked the plow. I then had the plow put down 
to eight inches deep, and he went round apparently 
with the same ease. He then went round at nearly 
ten inches deep, and no trouble at all. His furrow was 
about ten inches deep and fourteen wide, and laid as 
perfect as it could be. I then had one yoke of oxen 
put behind my smallest horses, and a pair of horses 
before each of the other plows, and they plowed the 
field with perfect ease, and only changed shares twice. 
I never was more agreeably surprised in my life—in 
fact had they been plowing up gold dust as they do in 
California, I should have been no more pleased. 
Although the field was undoubtedly plowed at the 
rate of nine inches deep, yet the clover roots went 
deeper, and the land plowed up as mellow as any 
loam; whereas had it not been drained it would have 
broke up in lumps as large as the heads of horses or 
oxen. 
A few years ago, a neighbor broke up a field about 
the same season of the year and similar land, but not 
drained; and after cultivating, rolling and harrowing, 
be had to employ men and mallets to break the lumps 
before he could get mould to cover the seed; and after 
all he did not get the third of a crop of either wheat 
or straw. My wheat looks as well as any I ever saw, 
and I doubt not but it will be a good crop. 
With regard to Newcomb & Richardson’s “Sene¬ 
ca County Plow,” I think them the best I have ever 
used. They are of light draught and do their work 
perfectly. Try them, brother farmers, and if they 
don’t please you, lay the blame to me. They are man¬ 
ufactured at Waterloo, Seneca co. I procured two of 
them last year, and will get other two this spring. 
Yours truly, John Johnston. Near Geneva , Jan. 
Plaster for Peas. 
Messrs. Editors —At the request of some of my 
friends, I send you the result of an experiment I made 
last season in the use of plaster. 
I have used plaster for fifteen years, on all sorts of 
grain, potatoes, &c., upon all the kinds of soil I possess. 
But thinking that I derived no benefit from its use on 
grains, for the last ten years I have only applied it to 
grass and peas. 
I belong to an Agricultural-Society, as every farmer 
should do, and of course intend my crops for premiums. 
When the committee examined them, I called their at¬ 
tention to the difference in the different ridges of my 
pea crop—the parts where plaster was sown, exhibiting 
a dark green and thrifty appearance, while those ridges 
without plaster, were pale and unthrifty. In harves¬ 
ting, I cut two ridges of equal size—one plastered, the 
other not—and threshed them separately. The one 
plastered yielded one bushel and eighteen quarts, 
while 'the unplastered one produced two quarts less 
than a bushel. John Borrowdale. Lacole, G. E. 
Vermont State Agricultural Society. 
The annual meeting was held at Middlebury, pur¬ 
suant to notice, on the 5th day of January, 1854. The 
president in the chair. 
The financial report was read, by which it appeared 
that there was a balance in the Treasury of $1,149. 
Hon. E. N. Briggs, from the committee to nominate 
officers, reported the following nominations : 
President, Frederick Holbrook ; Vice-Presidents, 
Edwin Hammond, J. AY. Colburn, H. B. Stacy, E. B 
Chase; Cor. Sec., J. A. Beckwith; Rec. Sec., AYm 
AYeston; Treasurer. Edward Seymour; Auditor, E 
P. Walton; Directors, B. B. Newton, Goo T. Hodges 
J. AY. Vail, Henry Keyes, John Gregory, A. L. Bing 
ham, John Howe, Jr., 0. AVood, Geo. Campbell ; and, 
on ballot, the nominees were elected. 
A resolution of encouragement was introduced by 
James M. Slade, Esq., and passed. Speoches were 
made by Messrs. Chase, Stacy, Newton, Hodges, Kim¬ 
ball, Stockwell and Slade. The Society adjourned 
sine die. F. Holbrook, President. 
J. A. Beckwith, Secretary. 
