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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Sept. 
THE FARMER’S NOTE BOOK 
u Irish Rose Butter.” —A notice was published 
in the Cultivator for July, as to li Irish Rose Butter,” 
said to be the article which the government required 
to be conformed to in contracts for supplying the navy. 
I have lately received letters from England and Ireland 
in relation to this Irish butter, and the result is, that 
so far as I can learn, there is no such butter manufac¬ 
tured in Ireland for their shipping, as “ Rose Butter .” 
A letter from Clonmel, Ireland, says, “ We never 
heard of rose butter, —but we know one of the Water¬ 
ford houses brands the best quality he ships with a 
rose.” 
Another letter says, “ He understands that there is 
rose butter which is put up with very little salt, and is 
nearly as good as fresh butter; but it is not Jit for 
export .” 
Another letter from Cork, from which port the but¬ 
ter for the British navy is purchased, being made in 
the counties of Cork, Limerick, and Kerry, says, 
II The term “ rose butter” we know not the derivation 
of. There is only one description shipped here, and all 
is brought in for inspection to a public market in this 
city.” 
The letter from Cork gives the method of manufac¬ 
turing butter for the British navy, which I will give 
for the benefit of your readers, trusting that it will be 
useful to our dairymen, and may perhaps enable some 
of them to compete for the supply of the navy, with 
the one county referred to by your correspondents. 
The writers say— 
“ The butter brought here, is packed by the farmer 
in original packages', which should be good casks of 
about 66 to 70 lbs. nett each, capable of containing 
pickle, (the pickelleries and .cooperage, with some 1 
or 2 lbs. of the salt on each package additional, to keep 
the pickle at full strength,) should be done at the port 
of exportation, as it is here. The quantity of salt 
mixed in the making of the butter, to be about 1 lb. 
of salt to 10 or 11 lbs. of butter, and the buttermilk to 
be well worked out of the butter, without using, how¬ 
ever, the hand too much. In packing, care should be 
taken to pack it as closely as possible. This, we be¬ 
lieve, is the only instruction that can be given.” H. 
See those Young Maples. —The present year has 
been peculiar for the immense quantities of young ma¬ 
ples that have sprung up everywhere in the region of 
these valuable trees. In our highways, where maples 
have been planted as ornamental trees, they have 
sprung up on either side of the travel path, as thick as 
though they had been sown broadcast by some liberal 
hand. In fields, where perhaps a solitary tree had 
been left for shade, they have grown for a wide dis¬ 
tance around. But in the woodlands their vegetation 
has been most fortunate in laying the foundation for 
new forests of these valuable trees. .Here, surround¬ 
ing trees will shelter them from winds and storms, and 
shield them from scorching suns, and their growth may 
well be anticipated as rapid and healthful. Such 
woodlands, however, should be protected from the 
depredations of cattle and sheep, or this bountiful pro¬ 
vision for future necessity will be unavailing. Where 
proper protection is given, they will give a rapid 
growth, and in some fifteen or twenty years they will 
be ready for the sugar manufacturer, or for the axe. 
We have heard of one instance where they came up 
so thick in an old pasture, that the owner has devoted 
it to their use, and excluded all ruminants from the en¬ 
closure. This will probably prove a judicious arrange¬ 
ment to him, and afford an illustration to others of the 
utility of letting old exhausted fields go to woodlands, 
even though the labor of seeding them down to such 
varieties as may be desirable must be necessary. W. 
Bacon. Richmond , Mass., 1847. 
Cultivation of Potatoes.— The information gain¬ 
ed from one number of your valuable paper, in regard 
to planting Irish potatoes, has more than compensated 
me for the subscription price for five years. For the 
benefit of others, who may wish to plant light sandy 
land, being the kind I have succeeded so well with, I 
would thank ypu to again notice and call attention to the 
manner, which was:—Flush up the land well, open a 
drill deep with the plow, plant the potatoes in the 
drill', fill up with manure, level the earth over and cover 
four or five inches with straw. They never require 
any further attention, except a few weeds may spring 
up among them, which can be easily drawn out by 
hand. The same manner would not be advisable in 
wet or low lands. 
There is probably no climate or soil in the union, 
better adapted to the cultivation of the sweet potato, 
or where finer crops are raised, than with us. If my 
crop should prove as well as usual, and you can in¬ 
form me to whose carp at the city of New-York, I can 
direct a barrel for you, (as there is no direct commu¬ 
nication from here to Albany,) you may expect a bar¬ 
rel next fall as a specimen. Edward Hill. Cedar 
Point , Carteret Co., N. C. 
[We thank our correspondent for his kind offer. The 
sweet potatoes may be sent to the care of A. Van 
Santvoord &, Co., New-York.— Eds.] 
Agricultural Societies—Measuring Land foh 
Premium Crops, &c. —There can hardly be a reasona¬ 
ble doubt in the mind of any one acquainted with the 
subject, that the formation of. agricultural societies 
and the holding of annual fairs, have been the means 
of decided benefit to the farming interest. A spirit of 
improvement and of honorable competition has thus 
been awakened, whose benefits are not confined to this 
class of our fellow citizens, but diffusive in a high de¬ 
gree, and extend to all. It cannot be denied, how¬ 
ever, that an impression exists, to a considerable ex¬ 
tent, that with regard to some of the premium crops, 
whose yield so much exceeds the ordinary production, 
and even what are generally considered great crops, 
that some error must obtain, either in the measure¬ 
ment of the land of its product. How much occasion 
there is for this impression I am unable to say; but I 
will here allude to a practice which has prevailed to 
some extent in measuring corn on application for a 
premium, (a practice which appears to me highly er¬ 
roneous,) which is, to draw the line close to the out¬ 
side row, and by making the requisite piece long and 
narrow, the result is obvious. As corn is usually 
planted, each hill occupies about nine superficial feet; 
but, if the ahove>method be correct—if it- is right to 
draw the line close on one side of the row, why is it 
not right to do the same on the other side, making a 
connected acre of six inches in breadth, and obtaining 
a product of perhaps 500 bushels to the acre ? The 
measured crop may literally stand on the ground thus 
marked out, but who can fail to see that it was not 
produced by it ? G. Butler. Clinton, Aug. 3, 1847. 
