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THE CULTIVATOR, 
August. 
will ripen this summer, and it may be interesting to you 
to know the average size, as well as quality of each.” 
We shall be glad to hear from the writer as he promi¬ 
ses, and also from any one of our subscribers in Oregon 
and California, as to the prospects of agriculture and 
horticulture in those far off-lands. 
Re maskable Product of Butter. —On the 164th 
page of this paper, we gave an account of butter made 
from the milk of a three year old heifer, called Ci Cher¬ 
ry,” owned by Miss Mary Brice, of New-Scotland, in 
this county, for the 100 days, succeeding the 11th of 
Nov., 1852. We are now furnished with a statement for 
the following hundred days, from which it appears that 
the heifer Cherry was four years old on the 14th of June, 
1853—that she had her second calf Nov. 4, 1852, and 
that, in the two hundred days, from Nov. 11th to May 
29, 1853, there was made from her milk 194 lbs. 11 oz. 
butter—a very large product for so young an animal, 
including as the period does the entire winter months, 
and without other extra feed than four quarts ship-stuff 
twice a day. —- 
Purchasing Stock in England. —Some' of our 
people thing it an easy matter to purchase fine stock in 
England; but the experience of those who have vis¬ 
ited that country for this purpose, proves that it is 
about as difficult to procure fine animals there as here. 
One of the agents sent out by a company in Kentucky 
to purchase stock, details the difficulties he met with, 
in the Kentucky Cultivator. He says— <c You can form 
no idea of the difficulties that surround us in getting 
cattle to suit; to find them of quality that we want, 
and of age and condition; and then when we do they 
can t be bought for money at all, which is generally the 
case. Some of these men whose income is $300,000 to 
$500,000, who keep Short horns as a piatter of pride and 
fancy, if they have a fine animal that is admired very 
much, and pleases their own fancy, and you were to 
offer to buy such an animal of them, and would offer 
to weigh it in a scale, and agree to give the il weight in 
silver dollars,” would not let you have it.” 
Ayrshire Cattle for Canada. —A committee from 
an agricultural association at Brockville, C. W., con¬ 
sisting of Messrs. Chas. Jones, J. W. Hough and Wm. 
Beattie, purchased, the past week, from the beautiful 
herd of E. P. Prentice, Esq. of Mount Hope, near 
this city, four'fine animals, consisting\of a two-year old 
bull, C£ Dundee 3d”—a yearling bull, “Highlander 
2d,” and two in-calf heifers. They were all fine speci¬ 
mens of Ayrshires, and cannot fail to give satisfaction 
to the society for whose use they were bought. 
The Government of New-Brunswick has appropriated 
$800 to "each County Ag. Society in the. Province, for 
the purpose of importing improved breeding horses, on 
ondition that tche societies each raise $200 for a similar 
purpose. It is proposed to send out an Agent to attend 
the ensuing Fairs of England and Scotland, that he 
may have the best opportunities for obtaining informa¬ 
tion and making the purchase of the animals desired. 
IIerefords in Kentucky. —The last Kentucky 
Cultivator, contains the pedigrees of two bulls and 
two cows, IIerefords, purchased of Wm. II. Sotham of 
Piffardinia, Livingston co., N. Y., by John J. Towles 
of Henderson, Kentucky. We shall be glad to hear 
how these cattle succeed on the rich pastures of Ken¬ 
tucky, and doubt not Mr. Towles will give them a fair 
chance to compete with the Short horns. 
Increase of Agricultural Machinery.—I t is 
said that the manufacturers of steam engines for farm 
purposes in England, have increased eight fold in three 
years, and that one house that furnished only fifteen five 
years ago, three years afterwards made about three 
hundred. Thrashing, and other machines, are also ra¬ 
pidly increasing in manufacture, and clod crushers, reap¬ 
ing machines, and some of the newer articles much 
more rapidly. 
Annual Addresses. —The Address at the New- 
York State Fair at Saratoga, is to be delivered by 
Hon. W. C. Rives of Virginia—that at the Indiana 
State Fair, by Horace Greeley of New-York—and 
that at the American Institute, by Hon. Wm. H. Sew¬ 
ard of Auburn. - 
Native Flowering Trees. —Mr. Dille of New¬ 
ark, O., a well known amateur horticulturist, states in 
the Ohio Cultivator, that he has recently discovered 
two new flowering trees, which he thinks of sufficient 
interest to florists, to communicate to the public—the 
first, a deep pink flowering dogwood, Cornus Florida, 
which he found in the woods near Lancaster; and a 
bright red flowering Buckeye, found in Hocking county. 
The American Farmer, Baltimore, Md., begins a 
new volume with the July No. Tt is published monthly 
by Sam’l Sands, at $1.00, and is one of our very best 
agricultural journals. - 
The Wool Grower and Stock Register, published 
at Rochester, by D. D. T. Moore, monthly, at 50 cents, 
and edited by T. C. Peters, Esq. and the publisher, is 
a valuable work, and no wool-grower should be withoutr 
it. Now is the time to subscribe, as'a new volume 
commences this month. 
O* Col. Carroll of Dorregban Manor, Md., has 
"just imported from France, a stallion and two mares of 
the celebrated Persheron breed, and a Norman mare. 
The editor of the American Farmer thinks they 
will be found to be unsurpassed by any importation into 
this country. Such men are public benefactors. 
Morgan Stock. —According to the Boston Cultivator 
there has been sold from the town of Bridport, Vt., since 
1844, 38 Black Hawk colts, part geldings and fillies, 
for the aggregate sum of $22,737, or an average of 
$590 each. There are many in the town unsold. This 
shows the value of Morgan stock at home. 
Poultry Show. —Mr. M. Van Deusen of Phelps, 
Ontario co., proposes to be one of five or more, to pay 
$20 each, to make up a fund to be offered as a premium 
to any one in this State, who shall exhibit the best 
five pairs of Cochin China, Chittagong, Shanghai, Brah¬ 
ma or Malay, and Dorking Chickens, on the last day 
of the New-York State Fair at Saratoga. He also pro¬ 
poses to be one of five or more, from any part of the 
Union, to pay $50 each, for a fund to be awarded at 
an exhibition to be held in New-York, the week after 
the State Fair, for the best ten pairs of chickens. 
Heavy Calves. —It is with no small degree of grati¬ 
fication, that we comply with the request of Mr. Aaron 
Wilson, of Ovid, N. Y., to make known through your 
paper, the fact of his rearing and owning two remarka¬ 
ble calves, crosses of the Devon and Durham stock. 
The first is a steer, two years of age, whose weight is 
1400 lbs., and which measures in length 13 feet, 5 in. 
from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, the 
body measuring 7 feet in circumference. This steer 
never ran with the cow, but was reared <c by hand,” 
in the usual method. The other is a young calf, three 
weeks old, whose weight, before being one day in cat- 
tle-dom, was one hundred and twenty-.two pounds.— 
Both were bred from the same cow, and we dare say, 
are “ hard to beat.” D. 11. 
Food for Sheep. —A late writer of great intelli¬ 
gence on this subject, says, “ No farmer can feed either 
cattle or sheep profitably, without either ruta bagas, 
mangel wurtzel, carrots or parsnips. The experiments 
made in England and Scotland, in the last two years, 
have demonstrated this beyond all doubt.” 
Wheat Crop in Virginia. —A letter from a cor¬ 
respondent in Chesterfield, Virginia, dated 2d July, 
says—“ Our wheat harvest is just closed, with probably 
the best crop ever raised in Eastern-Virginia. Owing 
to a severe drouth, the oat crop is light.” 
