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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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grains of good but paler butter. Ex. 5. Cream 
and milk, after standing 39 hours as usual, 
heated to 156°, and skimmed next day, produced 
1,968 grains of good yellow butter. 
Remarkable Product of Butter.— We have 
been furnished with a statement authenticated by 
oath, showing that from the milk of a heifer called 
“ Cherry,” calved June 14, 1849, owned by Miss Mary 
Brice of New-Scotland, in this county, there was 
made in one hundred days, from Nov. 11th, 1852, 
one hundred and three pounds of butter, which was 
sold in this city for $25.75. The amount of skimmed 
and buttermilk was 1,432 quarts, worth at 2 cents per 
quart, $28.64. She dropped her second calf on the 4th 
of Nov., and it was raised on the skim milk, which had, 
to provide for the wants of the calf, to be skimmed be¬ 
fore the cream had all risen. It was thought that had 
the milk been permitted to stand until the cream could 
all have been secured, the product of butter would have 
been increased at least 14 pounds, which would have in¬ 
creased the total income from this three-year old heifer, 
for 100 days, to $57.89. We are not informed as to the 
breed of cattle to which “ Cherry” belongs, nor as- to 
the amount of milk given. “ Her feed,” says our cor¬ 
respondent, “ from Nov. 11, to Dec. 11, was nothing 
but the poor frozen pasture—from Dec. 11, to Jan. 1, 
owing £o the very high price of hay, she was sparingly 
fed on poor hay, with about four quarts of buckwheat. 
bran twice a day—from Jan. 1, to Jan. 25, she had * 
good hay and same quantity of buckwheat bran—from 
the 25th to the close .of the experiment, there was added 
to the above feed, about four quarts of cut potatoes 
twice a day.” “ It is,” continues our correspondent, 
“ the generally received opinion, that cows do not ar¬ 
rive at maturity for butter making, until six years old; 
and I think it reasonable to suppose that when Cherry 
arrives at that age, she will produce in the same time, 
double the amount of butter above testified to.” 
Turners and Milk.— It often happens that the 
number of remedies for any evil indicates their 
inefficiency, but the following, lately recommend¬ 
ed, may be worth trying: 1. Remove the fibrous 
roots and every portion of leaf, from the turneps, 
which it is said, chiefly contribute to the taint of 
the milk. 2. Before going to milk, place a kettle 
of water upon the fire, and on returning, add to 
every gallon of new milk, half a pint of boiling 
water, (or a sixteenth.) stirring both a minute or 
two, before pouring out into the earthen or glass 
vessels. 
We observe among the correspondence of some 
of the English agricultural papers, a statement 
that in Cornwall, where the / cream is separated by 
fire, and churns are not used, the butter being 
“made with the hand in a few minutes,” the 
taste of turneps is unknown; and also the follow¬ 
ing, to prevent this taste, which appears more like¬ 
ly to succeed than the other remedies. Feed the 
cows with sliced mangold wurtzel, with a small 
quantity of crushed oats added, together with 
plenty of sweet soft meadow hay, and use no tur¬ 
neps under any circumstances, and all complaints 
will cease. -— 
A Good Cow. — W. Ellsworth, of Mayfield, O., 
has a cow that gave 52^ lbs. of milk per day, dur¬ 
ing 21 successive days, and gave as high as 3 lbs. 
4 oz. of butter per day, her feed being hay and 8 
lbs. of bran per day. 
Fattening Cows on Apples.— A correspondent of 
the New-England- Farmer fattened a cow on apples in 
35 days, with the addition of seven baskets of what is 
termed cow-corn, in the year. She gained in one week 
32 lbs. The beef was of the best quality. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
The Yam Potato.—I have grown this excellent po¬ 
tato for some years past, and have found it of most ex¬ 
cellent eating quality, and superior to all other kinds I 
have ever tried, in resisting the rot. Being of hardier 
constitution and more solid texture, it retains its eating 
qualities later in the spring than the other varieties.— 
The character given to it for productiveness, by Mr. 
S-mith, who introduced it into New-York, and highly 
commended it to the attention of agriculturists, I am 
prepared to endorse. J. M. Ward. Newark , N. J. 
Potato Blight. —Will you do me the favor to cor¬ 
rect a mistake made in the extract from the paper I 
wrote you, on the cause of the rot. It is the water in 
the roots and bulbs or tubers, and ■ not in the balls, as 
printed. It has been extensively the practice, to plant 
potatoes on wet ground, without draining. That is 
is one great cause of the disease,causing them to be less, 
productive, and more liable to rot on any ground. The 
potato is not the only plant that is injured by flooding at 
the roots. The past season has proved my belief cor¬ 
rect. There was no heavy rains in this region, from 
about April until late in Sept., but frequent refreshing 
showers. There was a very abundant crop of potatoes, 
and very sound ones, except a few in low grounds, that 
did not get ripe until a heavy rain came in the fall.— 
These rotted badly. Phineas Pratt. Deep River, 
Feb., 1853. ' ——— 
Suggestions to Advertisers—Prices. —I wish 
to suggest the propriety of always stating some price, 
to those who are in the habit of advertising property for 
sale. More than three-fourths of the money paid for 
advertising is a total loss to the advertiser, for this rea¬ 
son, besides failing in accomplishing the ends for 
which it is designed. It is annoying to take up a paper 
and read an advertisement of a beautiful farm some¬ 
where for sale, without a price annexed. A would-be 
purchaser knows not whether it will come within his 
means or not, or whether it is worth as much money as 
he would like to invest in real estate. Nor can he know, 
without writing through the mail, and paying postage 
both ways, perhaps, and few will take the trouble to do 
that, and the affair is soon forgotten. The same rule 
holds good with implements and machinery. 
I once knew three farms advertised in a monthly 
New-York paper, and the price carefully stated. Be¬ 
fore another month came round, every one of them had 
been sold for cash at the advertised price. II. S. Felch- 
ville, Vt. —- # 
Chittagongs. —Speaking of hens, I bought, on the 
25th October last, a Chittagong hen with nine chickens, 
some six weeks old. She has since weaned the chickens, 
and laid one litter of 26 eggs, another of 14, and has 
just finished a third litter of 16, making 56 eggs since 
Nov. 9th. Whether that is worth telling of, I don't 
know. The hen is only a year old this month. C. S. 
Hubbard. Deep River, Feb. 18, 1853. 
Artificial Ice — To Mechanical Inventors .— We 
want a cheap, portable machine to press pure snow from 
the drift into cakes of ice. 
Ice would be much more extensively used, if it could 
be more conveniently procured. The great distance that 
many persons would have to go, to cut it on ponds or 
lakes, is very discouraging; and if your active heads 
andliands could provide us with such machine, it would 
soon be in great demand. Every independent house¬ 
holder ought to have an ice-house. 
If the tenacity of snow prepared in this manner, 
should not be sufficient, it might be sprinkled with water 
on a cold night, when the mercury in Fahrenheit stands 
at zero. 
With the advantages of pressing hay, cotton, and oth¬ 
er loose substances, you must all be acquainted; and if 
clay without preparation, can be thrown into a brick 
machine, and come forth a perfect article, why may not 
snow undergo a similar process with equal advantage ? 
