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THE CULTIVATOR. 
A lloosiev Calf—[Fig. 38.] 
The annexed is the profile of a calf 
nine months old, as it stands in the 
yard eating a few years of corn. It 
is now four months gone with calf; 
and if nothing happens, will, of course, 
be giving milk at the early age of 14 
months. According to the estimate of 
a butcher who examined it the oth¬ 
er day, it would dress four hundred 
weight of meat. It is out of a rather 
small but handsome white heifer, 3 
years old, ot’ the common breed; well 
made for a scrub, save her very heavy 
bull neck and enormous ox horns. 
This defect ot the dam (bull neck) 
appears conspicuous, you perceive, in 
the calf. 
The color is a beautiful spotted— 
thicker and darker towards the head, 
which is nearly red, and larger and 
thinner towards the flank. The spots 
in the above are exactly as they ap¬ 
pear on the left side ; making, howev¬ 
er, all due allo wance for my total ig¬ 
norance of the science of “ light and 
shade.” 
The bull it is from is a most beautiful animal, three 
years old, and about three-fourths in the blood of the 
short-horned Durham. The moment I read the inte¬ 
resting article of Mr. Randall, in your last, it struck me 
at once that the above calf is a very happy illustration 
of his views in relation to crosses with the Durham. 
Except the defect of too heavy neck, “the Hoosier 
Calf” would not yield in beauty to any thing of the full 
blood I have ever seen. The rough pencil sketch given 
you does no manner of justice to its elegant proportions. 
The body is round as an apple, and the slight sinking of 
the belly, perceptible in the profile, has only occurred 
Msssrs. Editors —We send you a plate, and a short 
account of a Berkshire hog, bred and fed by us, of which 
the above plate is a good likeness, with the exception of 
his having four white feet, and a small strip of white 
in his face. He was put up to fatten on the tenth day 
of September, at which time he was calculated to weigh 
from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and sixty 
pounds alive—he was slaughtered on the twenty-fourth 
of February last, and weighed six hundred and twenty- 
six pounds. Supposing his dead weight at the com¬ 
mencement of fattening to be one hundred and thirty 
pounds, which we are confident if an error, it is on the 
f ivorable side—it gives him an increase of four hundred 
and ninety six pounds, in one hundred and sixty-six 
days. His weight we do not think so very extraordi¬ 
nary, only in his attaining it in so short a time. It is 
our impression, that he would have attained the weight 
of eight hundred pounds, had the season of the year 
warranted us in keeping him two months longer. 
He measured in height two feet eight inches; from his 
ears to the root of his tail; four feet eleven inches, round 
the body back of his shoulders, seven feet one inch ; 
breadth over his shoulders, two feet four inches—over 
his loin, two feet two inches—when clove down the back 
he measured one foot four inches deep on the shoulder,^ 
and his hams weighed sixty, and sixty-one and a hall 
poun Is, which are all lean with the exception of about 
one and a half inches only of fat on the outside. 
We wish at the same time, to inform those subscri¬ 
bers to your invaluable journal, who are breeders of 
Berkshire hogs, that our friend Siday Hawes, Esq. sent 
us out last fall four Berkshire pigs—two boars and two 
sows, selected by him expressly for us, regardless of 
trouble or expense, with a view of our carrying forward, 
and improving on the good properties of those hogs, 
previously imported by him, of which we held a good 
sample. They are in color similar to those formerly 
within the last few weeks. I have especially failed to 
sketch the beautiful outline of its hind quarter, straight 
in the leg, ample and rounding above, beyond almost 
any thing I have ever seen. 
My apology for venturing to give you a pencil sketch 
of it is, the very great interest which Mr. Allen’s sketch¬ 
es of hogs, and Mr. Randall’s of cattle, have excited in 
behalf of your paper. We are all but children of a 
larger growth, and must have something like sensible 
objects to give us definite ideas. C. 
Cass County, Indiana, Feb. 25, 1840. 
imported, and sent out by the same gentleman. To give 
a minute description of them, would be unnecessarily 
encroaching on your room, as every individual either 
personally acquainted with Mr. Hawes, or possessed of 
some good hogs, descended from his importations, is 
no doubt convinced of his good judgment, and will rea¬ 
dily admit their claim to superior excellence. 
We shall have six or eight litters of pigs to dispose of, 
the prq^ent spring, the produce ol four different boars, 
(one imported,) befween which there are no connection, 
which will enable us to select our pigs for customers or¬ 
dering them by letter, from different sires and dams, 
which will be an advantage as regards their future pro¬ 
geny. We are most respectfully, 
A. & G. BRENTNALL. 
Canterbury, Orange county , N. Y. 
Culture of Corn, Roots, &c. 
Jesse Buel & Co.—I have not seen a sample of the 
Cultivator and Farmer, but from the excellence of the 
late Genesee Farmer, conducted by the editors of the 
present work, I have the fullest confidence that it will 
produce the happiest effect on the farming community. I 
know that the forty copies of the Monthly Genesee Far¬ 
mer, which I procured last year and circulated in this 
county, (twenty-four of which included the four volumes 
of the work,) produced a new and valuable stimulus 
to agriculture in this county; but none I believe were 
so much benefited by it as myself. The four volumes 
cost two dollars, and I am warranted to say, that it was 
worth to me more than one hundred dollars in my crop 
of roots, and in the additional quantity of corn, leaving 
out of the calculation the many other advantages which 
I derived from it. 1 . 
I planted seven acres of Dutton corn on the 10th oi 
May last, and on the 5th of September it was ripe, and 
commenced cutting it up. Each evening I put up the 
stalks in small shooks; about the middle of October j 
commenced husking it on the field, and each day I took 
in the corn and fodder. The ground and the corn were 
carefully measured, and I got from seven acres, 1,352 
bushels of ears, which I calculate to be 676 bushels of 
corn or 96^ bushels to the acre. The ground was a clo¬ 
ver and timothy sward, mowed the two previous sea¬ 
sons ; it was manured with twelve loads manure to the 
acre, and plowed down early in the spring. After four 
times harrowing the ground, the corn was planted three 
feet between the rows and one foot in the row. At the 
first dressing, my corn was thinned leaving two stalks 
(together) for every foot in the row. In the culture of 
my corn, it received no extra labor or care beyond what 
I usually bestow on my corn crop. Of the common 
corn of this country (the yellow gourd-seed) on land 
equally good and the season at least equally favorable^ 
I never made more than 65 bhshels to the acre ; and this 
increase is chiefly attributable to the fact, that the Dut¬ 
ton corn will bear fifty per cent more stalks to the acre 
than our larger growth. The stalks too are of consid¬ 
erable value. I have procured Green’s patent straw 
cutter, and feed ten cows with my stalks and roots with¬ 
out any hay this winter; and the stalks from my seven 
acres will be more than sufficient. 
I planted last spring one acre of beets; part sugar 
beet and part mangel wurzel. They yielded 1050 
bushels, weighing 26 tons. I also planted one acre of 
ruta baga, which yielded 600 bushels. The beet root 
and ruta baga, were I believe never before raised in this 
county, except a few in gardens. I never saw any be¬ 
fore last season, consequently I received all my know¬ 
ledge from the Genesee Farmer. I think every farmer 
should read a good agricultural work and would do so if 
he understood his interest. JOHN MYERS. 
Canton, Stark Co. Ohio, Feb. 10, 1840. 
Importance of Advertising. 
Messrs. Editors— I have just received the February 
number of the Cultivator—and I hasten to address a few 
lines to you on a subject, which I consider of impor¬ 
tance to every farmer, who is a breeder of cattle. With 
Mr. Allen, of Buffalo, I regret exceedingly that you 
have come to the determination of not admitting adver¬ 
tisements : for, with that gentleman, I consider them 
half the spirit and interest of an agricultural journal—so 
much so, that if I had to make the choice between your 
well conducted paper, excluding advertisements, and an 
inferior one, admitting them, I should give the prefer¬ 
ence to the latter. Of course I would confine the adver¬ 
tisements to strictly agricultural subjects. To such of 
us, as are not in the habit of frequenting those places of 
abomination, the bars of taverns, the sources of infor¬ 
mation on these subjects are narrow and limited. In this 
respect, the farmers in the old country have a great ad¬ 
vantage over us. For there, every small town has its 
weekly market days, on which the farmers meet to sell 
their produce, and afterwards dine together at public or¬ 
dinaries, on plain substantial dinners. This brings the 
farmers together, and affords them an opportunity of 
conversing on general agricultural subjects—of deriving 
much useful information with regard to sales of stock, 
&c.—of discussing the merits of newly invented agricul¬ 
tural implements—and of discoursing on the merits of 
the different breeds of cattle most in repute. As we, 
(unfortunately I think,) have not the same facility, I 
trust, Messrs. Editors, that you will do all in your power 
to aid us, in gaining information where we may best im¬ 
prove our cattle, fk.c. by crossing with the most approv¬ 
ed breeds. For want of this information, I have myself 
felt great inconvenience, both with regard to my ewes 
and sows. What I suggest is, that you should publish, 
at the suitable seasons, a list of male animals of improv¬ 
ed breeds, with the names and residence of the owners, 
and the price at which the animals serve. This would 
not take up much room in your valuable publication, 
and I consider that it would afford information well 
worth the space it wmuld occupy. Wishing you every 
success in your new work, 
I am gentlemen, yours respectfully, C. B. 
Ontario county , Feb. 20th, 1840. 
gif- It will be seen by a notice in this paper that we 
have determined to issue an advertising sheet on the 
first of next month. Owners of high bred animals, 
whether of horses, cattle, sheep or swine, by availing 
themselves of this opportunity to make known the par¬ 
ticulars desired by our correspondent, will, it is believ¬ 
ed, promote their own interests as well as confer a fa¬ 
vor on the public. 
Carpenter’s Harvesting Machine. 
Editors of the Cultivator —In the March num- 
her of the Cultivator, I saw the queries of Mr. Lamb- 
son, of New-Jersey, relating to “ Carpenter’s Harvest¬ 
ing Machine.” We are glad to gratify any who may 
wish information concerning the Harvesting Machine. 
He asks— 
“ What would be the cost of the machine ?” Six hun- 
dred dollars, warranted and durable. 
“What number of hands is necessary to attend it?” 
One to drive the team, and one to take care of the ma¬ 
chine. 
“ Where the ground is very wet, would the car wheels 
sink so deep as to render the machine useless ?” The car 
wheels have broad fellies to keep them from sinking 
into soft ground. 
“ Could the thrasher be dispensed with and the machine 
taught to mow ?” We think not; it is too heavy and 
too costly for that use. The great saving in grain and 
labor, is in finishing the work without laying the giain 
