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state? Unless there be some acid extricated during the 
operation of curing, having a greater affinity for the 
potash than nitric acid, and thus setting it free in its 
deleterious state, I presume no danger need be appre¬ 
hended trom its moderate use, which is said to be ser¬ 
viceable in intenerating the fibre of animal substances. 
If our preserved meats become insoluble, the change 
must be in a great part referred to the salt and the ■py¬ 
roligneous acid of the smoke-house. At the same time, 
I agree with the Professor in thinking, that sugar in a 
large proportion, might be beneficially applied far more 
generally than we find to be the case in these processes- 
But I dare intrude no farther on your good nature, 
and am therefore with great respect, 
Yours, &c. COMET. 
N. B. I have no Durhams or cows from the banks of 
Ayr, for sale. Newburgh, February 1, 1840. 
z s from one to four months, and even longer, before an 
eruption takes place: And if sheep are long exposed 
in such pastures, the worse the effect—even the rot may 
in a higher or less degree be contracted, when this dis¬ 
ease becomes permanently fixed, (seated;) there is then 
no help for the poor animal, but it is inevitably doomed 
to destruction. 
Thirdly, it may be brought on by fever. 
I know of no particular cure for it—and none to my 
knowledge has ever been published, either in this coun¬ 
try or Europe. Whenever I have had any individuals 
that were affected with it, I bettered their feed by giv¬ 
ing them plenty of oats and hay, and as much salt as 
they would eat. Should, however, the sheep be poor 
and feeble, great caution in feeding is necessary. 
I am yours, most respectfully, H. D. GROVE. 
Buskirk’s Bridge P. Office, March, 1840. 
Successful Farming. 
Messrs. Gaylord &. Tucker— I think I have been 
very successful in farming the last year, and will give 
you an account of the different crops I have have raised 
and their product from 31 acres of limestone land. I 
do not mean to boast of being able to raise more from 
an acre than other farmers, or of having raised any 
very superior crops; but on the contrary Ram aware of 
having committed many erros in my system of farming, 
an 1 am convinced that my crops last year ought to have 
been one fourth heavier, and that in future I shall in¬ 
crease the product from year to year above what I have 
raised last year. 
3 acres of Barley, 180 bush. 
7 do do 230 do 
5 do do 225 do 
685 bushels at 70c.$479 50 
4 acres I. Spring Wheat, 125 bushels at $1.10 137 12 
5| “ of Eye, 244 bushels at 75c. 133 00 
10 “ of clear Timothy, 20 tons, $15 . 300 00 
2 “ Lucerne and red clover fed green for 
soiling, cut three times and valued at. 60 00 
11 acre in Potatoes and Cabbages, 105 bushels 
potatoes at 25c. . ... 28 25 
750 heads of cabbages at 3c. 22 50 
Yours respectfullv, $1,203 37 
FREDERICK SEITZ. 
Easton, Pa. March, 1840. 
Culture of Indian Com. 
Messrs. Editors —Careful observation has satisfied 
the writer, that the present system of cultivating Indian 
corn, is generally very defective, and can be greatly im¬ 
proved. Not more than half a crop is obtained upon an 
average, except on new or very strong land. We also 
see this valuable crop frequently destroyed by autum¬ 
nal frosts. 
The following is an outline of the plan which has been 
tried by the writer, with entire success. Good crops 
have been obtained—75 bushels to the acre—and the 
corn, invariably ripened before the frosts of autumn 
could injure it. 
Spread upon the ground, before plowing, 20 to 30 ox 
cart loads of good, long, or unrotted stable manure; 
when the corn is planted, put into the hill one half of a 
shovel full of well rotted manure. This will give the 
corn an early and vigorous growth, until the roots are 
long enough to derive sustenance from the long manure. 
By thus giving it an early start, it will ripen two or 
three weeks earlier than it otherwise would. The long 
manure will carry it out, and make more corn an 1 less 
stalk, than when all rotten manure is used. Let the 
manure, which is to be kept until it has rotted, be piled 
up, and covered, so as to protect it from rain and sun, 
and it will lose much less of its strength than if expos¬ 
ed. Some may say, that the quantity recommended per 
acre, is more than can generally be afforded. Unless 
the land is very strong, or in high tilth, less can not be 
afforded. As a general rule, 5 acres, with 100 loads of 
manure, will produce more corn than 10 acres with the 
same quantity, beside the great saving of labor and 
ground. It is very clear that farmers generally do not 
manure their land high enough for Indian corn. Upon 
sward land, rotten manure is indispensable to give the 
corn a start, and insure an early and full crop. 
Poudrelte, is a good substitute for rotten manure, 
when it can be had. 
No farmer should be satisfied until his average crop 
is at least 75 bushels to the acre. 
A Lover of Good Husbandry. 
New-York, March, 1840. 
Cutaneous Diseases of Sheep. 
Messrs. Editors —The disease, as described to exist 
in sheep, by your correspondent “ J. V. H. Clark,” is 
strictly cutaneous, but not dangerous nor catching. It 
is caused, first, by sheep being kept on too short an al¬ 
lowance of feed, when they get hunger-bit, (vorhungert) 
pinchel with hunger. 
Secondly, by being kept in sour and wet pastures; 
and although they may have plenty of feed, and fill them¬ 
selves; yet, the bloo l becoming gradually vitiated and 
acrimonious, the requisite an 1 healthy nourishment is 
not conveyed through the system, which partly causes 
respiration to stop. These vitiated juices, becoming 
more anl more acrimonious, seat themselves in the 
skin, an l when the sheep begin to thrive again, it starts 
the dandruff, and causes itching ; hence they are seen 
nibbling and pulling out small flakes of wool. The period 
Culture of Carrots, Ruta Baga, &c. 
Messrs. Gaylord & Tucker —Having been a sub¬ 
scriber to the Cultivator three years, I have derived 
much instruction and pleasure from its perusal; and 
wishing to impart instruction as well as receive it, I 
will give you my experience in the root culture the past 
season. I have been engaged in it for the last three 
years on a small scale, and have derived much profit 
from it. I sowed half an acre of Swedish turneps on 
a wet soil, and the wet weather caused almost a total 
failure; one-eighth of an acre of carrots, the land a 
sandy loam; was in corn the previous year, and the 
product was eighty-five bushels, or 680 to the acre. I 
also sowed one-eighth of an acre of mangel wurtzel, 
and the product was seventy-five bushels, or 600 to the 
acre, the land being the same as the carrots ; both pie¬ 
ces received a liberal dressing of unfermented manure. 
Agreeable, to my experience, one acre of carrots is 
worth more to feed farm stock, than four acres of ordi¬ 
nary good grass ; the carrot contains more nutriment 
than the wurtzel or ruta baga, and is easily raised, not 
being subject to the depredations of the insect. 
B. STANTON. 
South Westerlo, Jan. 22, 1840. 
Rohan Potatoes. 
Messrs. Editors—I have seen several statements in 
the Cultivator, of large yields of the Rohan potato. 
Permit me to give you a statement of the yield of two 
Rohans, which you had the kindness to present to me 
last spring. One of them I cut in fifteen parts, an eye 
in each part, and made fifteen hills—nine of the hills 
were afterwards plowed up, and the remaining six pro¬ 
duced half a barrel of fine large potatoes—the largest 
weighing 3 lb. 3 oz.—the other one I gave to a neighbor 
of mine, it weighed half a pound, and had seventeen eyes. 
He made fifteen hills, and the yield was a flour barrel 
rounded over, full of the largest size, weighing 138| lbs. 
some weeks after being housed—which I think is the 
largest yield, of any statement I have yet seen of this 
valuable vegetable. W. J. SLINGJSKLAND. 
Minavilie, Montgomery county, N. Y. 
Large Calf. 
Mr. Luke Watson of East-Windsor, Hartford co. 
(Conn.) has a bull calf of the short horn breed, that 
weighed, when three months and three days old, 336 
pounds. What is very remarkable he is the second calf 
of a very large heifer three years old the first of April 
next. She brought her first calf at the age of twenty 
months and a half—her second at the age of two years 
seven months and a half. 
East-Windsor, Conn. Feb. 15, 1840. 
To Correspondents. 
An apology is due to our numerous correspondents 
and friends, for the want of proper and immediate at¬ 
tention to their letters, inquiries, Sic. which has been oc¬ 
casioned by the necessary absence of the resident editor 
at Rochester most of the winter. A number of in¬ 
quiries now on hand will be answered next month. 
gtf- Several communications intended especially for 
this No. are unavoidably delayed till our next. Among 
them “ Evelyn,” and Mr. Cain’s Plan of a Dwelling- 
House. 
fjrf=* The first edition of the January, February, and 
March numbers having been exhausted, we are getting 
out a new edition, and hope to be able to furnish those 
subscribers who have not received their numbers in 
the course of two or three weeks. We have made such 
arrangements as will enable us hereafter at all times to 
supply back numbers. 
Those subscribers to vol. 6, who have not received 
the December number, are informed that it will be sent 
them just as soon as the portraits to accompany them 
can be procured. The fault lies with the copper-plate 
printer who injured the plate, from which the portrait 
of Judge Buel is taken, so much that it became necessary 
to have it re-engraved, 
The Genesee Farmer. 
In reply to several inquiries, we would state, that no 
complete setts of the Genesee Farmer, either of the 
weekly or monthly paper, can be furnished. We have 
quite a number of the 4th, 7th, and 8th vols. of the 
Weekly Genesee Farmer, which, to close the concern, 
will be sold at half the subscription price, viz: $1 per 
volume. We have also, a supply of the 1st and 3d vols. 
of the Monthly Genesee Farmer, price 50 cents per vo- 
| lume. 
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Contents of this Number. 
Quarterly Advertising Sheet 1 —Agricultural Geology, . 
Cuhure of Potatoes,. 
Grafting—Apples,. 
Work for the Month, on the Farm, and in the Garden— . 
Currants and Gooseberries, . . . . J i>b 
Culture of the Pea—The American Swine Breeder—The ) 
Farmer’s Instructor—Blacklock’s Treatise on Sheep— > 57 
Manufacture of Maple Sugar, . . . . J 
Composition of Fertile Soils—Culture of Rape—Best ) co 
Cows for the Dairy,.$ 0B 
Dictionary of Terms used in Agriculture, . 59 
Gratuitous Agent at Washington—Letter from Missis- 4 
sippi—Cisterns-—Mr. Lossing’s Berkshires—Setting > 60 
Fence Posts in Stone—Orchard Grass—Bees, . 3 
Management of Sheep, No. 10, byL. A. M.—A new va-) 
riety of Sheep, by H. S. R. \ 
To Dairymen or Dairy women, by Agriculture—Hot Air 7 
Furnaces, by J. J. Thomas—Good Crop of Wheat, by z 62 
R. Foster, . .. ) 
Durant’s Report on the Culture of Silk, . . 63 
Potatoes, Spring Wheat, Muck for Rye, China Corn, by j 
D. L. Dodge—Field Gates, by Myron Adams—Wea- 1 g. 
ther, Crops, &c. in Indiana, by S. Robinson—Expe- j 
riments in Maryland, by Experimenter, . . j 
Account Current with various Crops, by Eben. Smith—) 
Hay Rack for Sheep, by L. G. Northrup—Harrow for j 
Old Lands, by John Cain—Rearing Calves on Milk J 
and Meal, by D. Tomlinson—Preserving Hams for r 
Summer use, by C. Butler—Sore Teats in Cows, by j 
A Farmer,. j 
A Hoosier Calf, by C.—Berkshire Hog Constitution, by v 
A. & G. Brentnall—Culture of Corn, Roots, &c. by | 
John Myers—Importance of Advertising, by C. B. (.66 
•—Carpenter’s Harvesting Machine, by G. G. Car- j 
penter, ........ J 
Treatment of Sandy Soils, by S. D.—Durhams vs. De- ) 
vonshires, by Comet,.$ 
Successful Farming, by F. Seitz—Culture of Indian) 
Corn, by a Lover of Good Husbandry—Cutaneous Dis- | 
eases of Sheep, by H. D. Grove—Culture of Carrots, ! gg 
Ruta Bagas, &c. by B. Stanton—Rohan Potatoes, by f 
W. J. Slingerland—Large Calf—Notice to Correspon- | 
dents—Genesee Farmer, ..... J 
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List of Cuts. 
34— Hot Air Furnace, 
35— Field Gate, 
36— Hay Rack for Sheep, . 
37— Harrow for Old Lands, . 
38— Hoosier Calf, 
39— Berkshire Hog, 
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