THE CULTIVATOR. 
“Visit to Mount Fordham.” 
In our notice of a “ visit to Mount Fordham,” pub¬ 
lished in the Country Gentleman of Sept. 15, we were 
unfortunate in an allusion to the South Down Ram, 
which Mr. Morris had just received from Mr. Webb of 
England. We said: 
“ There are about forty beautiful Southdown sheep, 
the whole being obtained or bred from the flock of the 
celebrated Jonas Webb, of which about twenty are im¬ 
ported, and the residue raised from them. A South- 
down ram of extraordinary excellence and superlative 
beauty, was obtained there the present season, before 
the annual letting, and was selected as the best one in 
the flock.” 
Had we, instead of saying that it was “ the best one 
in the flock,” said that it was the one which Mr. Mor¬ 
ris selected as his choice of the flock, the right idea 
would have been conveyed. 
This correction is important only in its bearings upon 
the merits of the two rams purchased of Mr. Webb by 
Mr. Morris of Westchester,.and Mr. Thorne of Dutch¬ 
ess, as heretofore noticed in this journal. To set the 
matter right, it is proper to state that in the autumn of 
1852, Mr. Morris visited Mr. Webb, and in company 
with Mr. W.’s son examined the flock, which embraced 
the yearlings which received the prizes at the show of 
the Royal Agricultural Society in 1852. Young Mr. 
Webb asked Mr. M. to select the prize animals. After 
a careful examination, he selected the one he consid¬ 
ered the best, but one which did not receive any prize. 
For this ram, called by Mr. Webb, “ Young York,” 
Mi*. Morris offered any price that Mr. W. might fix 
upon; but he would not consent to part with it until 
after he had used him one season. Thus the matter 
rested until the present season, when Mr. Thorne ap¬ 
plied to Mr. Webb, and secured the ram Ho. 112, in 
Mr. W.’s catalogue, and which was the one that re¬ 
ceived the first prize as a yearling at the Royal Agri- 
rieultural Society’s exhibition in 1852, and which was, 
in the opinion of the English judges, the best one in the 
flock. In the meantime Mr. Morris effected the pur¬ 
chase of “Young York,” the one he had selected in 
the autumn of 1852. Thus- it will be seen that each 
gentleman secured the sheep he most desired, and with 
which, we venture to presume, both are abundantly 
satisfied. —— 
Use of Guano at the South. 
There seems to be no question as to the entire success 
of the application of guano to the old farms of Maryland 
and Virginia, and the demand for it has increased very 
rapidly for the last two or three years, so much so in¬ 
deed that cargoes all are bespoken long before their ar¬ 
rival. In alluding to this subject, the American Farmer, 
Baltimore, says : 
The wonderful effects which all who have used it have 
experienced, (particularly on the worn out lands of Ma¬ 
ryland and Virginia,) has caused this extraordinary 
demand the presents season—and many who have pre¬ 
pared their land with the expectation of obtaining guano 
to sow upon it, will prefer to forego the at'empfc to raise 
a crop, if they cannot obtain a supply. On the wheat 
crop it has been found to answer better than on any 
other, though it pays well on almost any crop, be it 
grain, grass or vegetables. We cannot go amiss in say¬ 
ing that, directly or indirectly, it has been the means 
of increasing the value of landed estate in many sections 
of Maryland and Virginia 100 per cent, and that the 
increase in the crop of wheat, wherever this fertilizer 
has been used, has been in the same ratio—it has been 
a real God-send to our old States, and has created a 
wonderful revolution in the hopes and prospects of the 
farmers of the poorer districts of the States alluded to. 
Lands which would not have produced six bushels to the 
acre, and could not have been sold for $5, by the use of 
200 to 40Q lbs. per acre, of this agent, are now made to 
yield crops equal in quantity to the lands which have 
been sold for $50 td $75 per acre! No wonder that- 
these facts, the knowledge of which is brought home to 
the doors of farmers in every, direction, by the ex¬ 
periments made under their own eyes, has caused so in¬ 
tense an excitement, predicated upon the apprehended 
deficiency in the supply. 
Good Cultrvaticn. 
The Wisconsin Agricultural Transactions contain the 
following short account of a specimen of good fanning 
in Brown county, in that State, which shows that the 
poor success which has attended some of the farming 
there, and especially that with the wheat crop, is owing 
to bad management, and is not to be attributed- to the 
soil—for land that wi.l give these results must possess 
great inherent fertility: 
Captain J. W. Cotton, until recently of the U. S. 
army, a few years ago resigned his commission and 
sword and the excitement of the .camp, to pursue in 
quiet a life devoted to agriculture. His farm (Beau- 
prey Place,) is situated on the high land one and a half 
miles from Green Bay, upon the east side of the river, 
and until Capt. Cotton undertook its culture, was truly 
an unpromising tract. In 1850, the first year of his ef¬ 
forts, with one eoat of manure upon land that had been 
“ worn out,” of sandy soil, and a clayey-marl sub-soil, 
with deep plowing, and thoroughly pulverizing the sur¬ 
face, he raised from thirty-five to forty bushels of winter 
wheat to the acre, and remunerating crops of corn and 
oats. Upon one-fifth of an acre, with field cnlture, he 
raised 335 bushels of carrots, the largest of which, when 
trimmed, weighed six pounds each. The past summer, 
from a fiedd of four and a half acres, that had been “run 
to death” by the French mode of tfllage, by the plan of 
culture he had pursued the year prSvious, he raised and 
harvested 340 bushels of ears of corn, and .about 1800 
pumpkins. These results, compared with the make¬ 
shift culture that has prevailed with most of those who 
■have pretended to cultivate the soil, serve to prove that 
Brown county may, when her forests have been remo¬ 
ved, and the land brought under the genial influence of 
the sun, raise at least her own substantials of 'life, and 
not depend for her supply upon the fruit of the husband¬ 
man's labor elsewhere. 
The Richest Mine. —The manure applied to the _ 
soil of England amounts to three hundred millions of 
dollars; being more than the value of its whole foreign 
commerce, and yet the grateful soil yields back with 
interest all that is thus lavished upon it. And so it 
would be here, if we would only trust the soil with any 
portion of our capital. But this we rarely do. A 
farmer who has made any money spends it not in his 
business hut in some other occupation. He buys more 
land when he ought to buy more manure, or he puts 
out his money in some joint stock company to convert 
sunshine into moonshine. Rely upon it, our richest 
mine is the bam-yaid, and whatever temptation stock 
or shares may offer, the best investment, for a farmer is 
live stock and plow-shares.— Extract. 
Salt.—A n annual dressing of salt in moderate 
ties sown broadcast over the garden early in 
destroys the germs of insects; 10 bushels to the 
