1852 
THE CULTIVATOR 
285 
Exhibition of the Vermont State Ag. Society. 
The annual exhibition of the Vermont State Agricul¬ 
tural Society, will be held at Rutland on the 1st, 2d, 
and 3d days of September, 1852. 
An area of forty acres, of convenient access, near the 
village of Rutland, will be enclosed for the exhibition— 
embracing a pleasant grove, fresh running water, inter¬ 
vale and rolling sward land, and suitable structures for 
the accommodation of all, without charge, who wish to 
participate in the exhibition. 
Persons honoring the Society with their presence on 
the occasion, will have opportunity for inspecting choice 
cattle of the various improved breeds ; Suffolk and oth¬ 
er valuable breeds of swine; large numbers, and unrival¬ 
led representatives of French Merino, German Merino, 
Spanish Merino, and Saxony sheep—and Vermont hor¬ 
ses, in all their variety and excellence. For the purpose 
of showing the general action and carriage, and the speed 
of horses, a well graded trotting course, within the en¬ 
closure, will be prepared, and stated occasions will be de¬ 
signated for trials of action and speed. 
A Mechanic’s and Manufacturers’ Hall, of ample di¬ 
mensions, will be erected, in which all productions in 
those branches of industry may be advantageously shown. 
It is designed to give prominence to this part of the exhi- 
tion. 
Works of art and of taste, household manufactures, 
and the like, will have a suitable place for display. 
The Society will be addressed by William S. King, 
Esq., on the afternoon of the first day—by if on. Will¬ 
iam H. Seward, on the afternoon of the second day, and 
by other gentlemen, at various times during the exhibi¬ 
tion. 
Arrangements have been made with all the railroads 
of the state, with the Saratoga 8c Washington, the Troy 
& Boston, and Ogdensburgh Railroad, and the Cham¬ 
plain Steamboat Company, by which passengers will be 
carried to and from the exhibition at one-half the usual 
price—and animals and articles free, at the risk of owners. 
Extensive arrangements will be made at Rutland for 
the accommodation of visitors; and those who may fail 
to procure lodgings there, will be readily accommodated 
at the numerous stations on the lines of railroad center¬ 
ing at Rutland. 
Gentlemen from the States and from the Canadas, are 
cordially invited to participate in the exhibition. 
Communications may be addressed to J. A. Beck¬ 
with, Corresponing Secretary of the Vt. State Ag. Soc., 
Middlebury, Vt. Frederick Holbrook, Prest. 
J. A. Beckwith, Sec’y. 
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The Turnep Taste in Butter. 
The Gardener’s Chronicle furnishes an excellent arti¬ 
cle on the causes which effect the quality of milk and 
butter, and suggests chemical inquiry for ascertaining 
several unknown points. The ;t turnep taste” is sus¬ 
pected to arise from the cream being raised in an impure 
atmosphere, at too low a temperature, and is conse¬ 
quently a peculiar acidity of milk not yet satisfactorily 
investigated by chemistry. The facts adduced in proof 
are, that milk has the turnep taste whether cows get 
turneps, ruta-bagas, mangold wurzel, carrots, potatoes, 
or furze; and cases are related where dairy houses,sub¬ 
jected to foul air, rendered butter unfit for eating, al¬ 
though under the care of good dairy maids, in one of 
which all bad taste was removed at the first churning, 
by placing the milk in a clean room in the house, after 
the removal of the carpet, and in the other by draining 
the ponds which caused the bad air. Close stables and 
foul gas from the breath of cows and other causes, are 
supposed to contribute largely to a bad flavor. 
We have fed ruta bagas largely to milch cows, without 
producing a turnep taste, by means of the following 
precautions:—1. Good airy ventilation to building and 
yards. 2. Feeding after milking, (and it is said to be 
still better if directly after ruminating, but this we have 
not tried.) 3. Thorough cleanliness of vessels and dairy 
building. 4. Working out every particle of buttermilk 
as early as practicable, as it is in this that the objection¬ 
able flavor chiefly resides. 
We cannot give full weight to the reasoning of the 
writer in the Gardener’s Chronicle, although the causes 
therein specified, contribute very largely to the unfa¬ 
vorable result; to test this point further, let cows be 
fed with turneps at various times in autumn, while run¬ 
ning at large in open pastures, and let the experiment 
be variously performed with and without the precautions 
named in the last paragraph above, and we have no 
doubt something important may be learned or established. 
Heavy Crop of Ruta Bagas. 
John T. Andrews, of West Cornwall, Ct., furnishes 
the Genesee Farmer an account of his ruta baga crop, 
yielding at the rate of 1660 bushels, or 41^ tons per acre, 
and remarks that for much of the little he knows of 
farming, he is indebted to the Albany Cultivator, Gene¬ 
see Farmer, and Working Farmer. His ruta baga land 
was a heavy soil, originally yielding but half a ton of hay 
per acre. Twenty loads of manure were applied per 
acre, but the resulting potato crop was a failure. The 
next year it was plowed and manured in a different style, 
as follows:—First, 12 inches deep, with 20 loads of ma¬ 
nure ; then, after a few weeks, 40 loads of manure and 
seven inches deep. It was then harrowed and plowed, 
and harrowed and plowed, till the manure was thorough¬ 
ly mixed with the soil. Furrows, twenty-seven inches 
apart, were then strewed with a mixture of hen-manure, 
night-soil, ashes and gypsum. The furrows were then 
reversed, leaving ridges over this last manure. The crop 
was sown the 20th June—the weeds destroyed as soon as 
up—and the roots harvested 6th November. The leaves 
covered the whole ground when fully grown. 
This may seem like a large application of manure, but 
a little calculation will show that 80 loads per acre, work¬ 
ed in a foot deep, form only an eighteenth part of the 
soil, and every load doubtless produced its full effect, and 
was not lost. Triple this amount of manure is often ap¬ 
plied and worked into garden borders and beds, for rais¬ 
ing melons, and vegetables, and a high degree of success 
usually follows such copious manuring. 
There is no doubt that the large crop of roots was 
very much indebted to the thorough admixture of the 
manure and soil by means of the repeated plowings and 
harrowings; an operation even more indispensable on a 
