THE CULTIVATOR 
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Portrait of 44 Julia,” an Improved S. Horn Cow, 
Messrs. Gaylord & Tucker — I see in all of the late 
numbers of your most excellent paper, specimens of 
fine stock of different kinds, which I am pleased to see, 
believing that it will he the means of exciting a still 
greater interest in the western and southern states, in 
procuring fine stock of all kinds. We have some very 
fine cattle and hogs in this section of Kentucky, but 
they are few in number, and many of our good farmers 
have none, and are still hesitating; I hope that your 
paper may soon be read by all of our farmers, and will 
do all I can to aid in promoting its circulation. 
owned by J. W« Kendall, Esq., Elkton, Ky. 84. 
Believing you will feel disposed to let some western 
stock be s< en through the Cultivator, I have this day 
mailed to you an engraving, and a most excellent like¬ 
ness it is, of my cow Julia, a beautiful roan, seven years 
old, said by the best judges to be a very fine specimen 
of the Durham stock. I purchased her from the herd 
of Col. Benjamin P. Gray of Woodford county, Ken¬ 
tucky. 
Very respectfully, 
J. W. KENDALL. 
Elkton, Todd co. Ky. August 9th, 1840. 
LETTER FROM ENGLAND. 
Messrs. Gaylord 8c Tucker — I am so far on my 
journey, with the best lot of stock ever seen together. 
They consist of the following: 
One cart colt, one year old, allowed by the begt judges 
to be as good as England can produce. 
One cart mare, six years old, equally good. 
One Hereford cow, that won the first prize at Oxford, 
1839, against all England; and a young bull from her, 
eleven months old. 
Two five year old Hereford cows. 
Five yearling Hereford heifers. These Herefords are 
all in calf by Dangerous, a yearling bull that is to be 
shown against all England, next year. 
One half bred between the Hereford and Durham, 
to show the cross, which I think is an excellent one, pro¬ 
bably better than the pure breed of either, and from 
what I saw of Mr. Cottier’s stock of Middle Aston, it 
may be extended much farther than generally supposed, 
for his fourth cross was equal to the first—not the least 
sign of degeneration. Of this I will say more, when I 
have more time, for it is now precious. 
I have twenty shearling Cotswold rams from Mr. 
Hewer. I send you an English paper* to show the av¬ 
erage price of each sheep, which was £17 16s. 1(M. 
$85.63. The Messrs. Hewers were offered 150guineas 
($756,) for one shearling, by a noted ram breeder in 
Lincolnshire ; this offer and sale was bona fide, no hum¬ 
bug or reservation; this I know positively, for the 
Messrs. Hewers do not allow any thing of the kind. I 
will give you my ideas on sheep next time. 
I have a quantity of pigs of various descriptions ; the 
best that could be procured in England. I have one 
sow and eight pigs that cannot be beaten in any coun¬ 
try, either for fattening qualities or weight. You can 
judge for yourself when you see them. 
We shall show a number of our cattle at the show at 
Niblo’s in October, where we invite the owners of the 
best ca ttle in America to appear against us, (with the 
best of feeling,) for it is oppositon and competition that 
spurs us on to superiority, but prejudice must be out of 
the question. Let reality be our helmsman, and perse¬ 
verance our motto, and then our country can be equal in 
stock to any on the globe. It all depends on the people. 
We shall have twenty-four rams for sale, such that 
cannot be beaten even in England. This is positive. 
Mr. Hewer has numerous backers if he will allow it, 
to show from one sheep to a hundred, against any per¬ 
son in the world, either ewes or rams. He has been 
very careless about showing his sheep and cattle, hav¬ 
ing met with a ready sale without it. 
I am, dear sirs, yours sincerely, 
WM. H’Y SOTHAM. 
Portsmouth, August 24.1840. 
* Mr. Hewer’s long established and well known annual 
sale of Tups, took place at Northleach on Wednesday, and 
was, as it has always been, most numerously attended by all 
the gentlemen and farmers round about, as well as from dis¬ 
tant parts of the kingdom. There were sixty sheep for sale, 
several of which were bought up for the purpose of being ex¬ 
ported to the United States of America. The sixty were sold 
at the average price of £18 10s. 4d., a circumstance which de¬ 
monstrates the superior value of Mr. Hewer’s sheep, and the 
decided preference whiqfl is alvvavs shown to them. As an 
evidence of the vast superiority of Mr. Hewer’s sheep, we can 
state as a fact, that for one remarkably fi ne tup, the high price 
of £150 was offered and refused, Mr. Hewer wishing to keep 
the animal for his own ewes.— Wilts and Gloucestershire Stan¬ 
dard of August 1, 1840. 
MESSRS. IIAR LANDS’ SWINE. 
To the Editors of the Cultivator —Some months 
ago you obligingly inserted for us in your excellent pub¬ 
lication, a very brief notice of a superior breed of hogs 
recently imported from England. In consequence of 
that notice, we have unexpectedly received numerous 
letters from the United States, requesting a more par¬ 
ticular description of the animals alluded to ; we have 
as a matter of course replied to every letter that has 
been sent us, and by that means have involved ourselves 
in a rather inconvenient expenditure in postage. It 
would save us any farther useless expenditure, and con¬ 
sequently oblige us, and probably some others of your 
numerous subscribers, if you would insert the follow¬ 
ing answers to the questions that have been put to us, 
some of which you will infer from the answers given 
relate to very minute and critical points. 
The hogs are perfectly white ; skin thin ; ears by no 
means large, but remarkably thin and transparent, and 
somewhat pendulous; nose short and straight; hair thin 
and straight; they have neither wool nor bristles; body 
long; back broad; ham very large; tail so small that 
a gentleman remarked to us a few days ago, that it 
bears about the same proportion to their carcase as a 
piece of thread does to a woolsack; their disposition is 
excellent; they will bear a Canadian winter as well as 
any other hogs if they are well fed, but we have not 
yet thought it necessary to make an experiment up¬ 
on the starvation system, nor would we recommend 
any one to try it upon them. When we stated that they 
would arrive at the weight of four hundred pounds at 
the age of one year, we of course meant dressed; but 
we never intended to convey the idea that they would 
arrive at that weight if stinted to the allowance of a 
single cob of corn per day, and without being allowed 
the privilege of shelter during the nights of winter. 
Their appearance when dressed is beautiful, so much 
so that in this market they readily command a dollar 
per cwt. more than any other description of hog. Our 
breeding stock at present consists of three sows and two 
boars. We have been very unfortunate in losing young 
ones this season, and we have only three boars and two 
sows for sale ; they are of the respective ages of eleven, 
nine and two weeks. Our price for a single pig, de¬ 
livered free on hoard steamer at Hamilton, at the head 
of Lake Ontario, is fifteen dollars, but as we consider 
that it will cost us five dollars to remove them from 
hence to Hamilton, and that the removal of a pair will 
cost no more than a single one, we will sell a pair for 
twenty-five dollars. 
Can you or any of your numerous and very intelli¬ 
gent correspondents, give us any advice under the fol¬ 
lowing circumstances:—Our very best sow, now about 
two and a half years old, generally loses nearly if not 
all of her pigs in a few days after farrowing, for ivhich 
we know no cause, unless it is that she is too fat. We 
have feared that that might be the case, and we have 
endeavored to reduce her by keeping her in a paddock 
where the herbage was very scanty, but it had not the 
effect of lowering her condition. Would it be advisa¬ 
ble to confine her to the cob of corn per day system ? She 
has always an immense quantity of milk at the time of 
farrowing, but when a few of her pigs have dropped 
off, she loses her milk and appears to have scarcely suf¬ 
ficient to support the few that remain. At present she 
has but four pigs left alive; they are two weeks old, 
and two of them are as beautiful and as fat as it is pos¬ 
sible for pigs to be, and the other two are not worth a 
penny a piece. Yours very respectfully, 
JOHN & E. A. HARLAND. 
Guelph, Upper Canada, 19th 9 mo. 1840, 
LATE SOWN WHEAT. 
Messrs. Editors —In your September number, yon 
request farther information in relation to late sown wheat, 
which from experiments some suppose will yield as well 
as that which has been sown at an earlier period. In 
reply, I would state that I sowed a small field of wheat 
on the 14th day of October last, with the exception of 
about an eighth of an acre, which at the time was co¬ 
vered with young mulberry trees. The trees were dug 
up after the frost had destroyed the leaves, and the 
ground which they had occupied was sown on the 13th 
of November, but the cold weather set in so soon after, 
that the grain had only an apportunity to vegetate, and 
could with difficulty be seen above the surface. The 
whole field was in good order and received a sufficient 
coat of manure. The soil is loam and sand, the latter 
predominating, and is of such a nature that frosts is not 
apt to injure grain growing in it. The whole of the 
wheat was injured by the Hessian fly, and the larvae were 
found in the stalks of the late sown in as great abun¬ 
dance as in the early, from which it is evident that lata 
sowing is not always a preventive of this pest, and 
that the fly deposites its eggs in the spring as well as in 
the fall. The late sown did not grow as luxuriant as 
the early, and from appearances, (the quantity was not 
measured,) would not yield half as much, I have 
known instances of late sown wheat yielding nearly as 
well as early sown, but as a general practice on soil in 
which sand predominates, believe early sowing to be 
preferable. Yours, 8 tc. 
T. G. BERGEN 
Narrows, L. I. Sept. 10, 1840. 
CARPENTER’S HARVESTING MACHINE. 
Messrs. Editors —I wish to answer, through your 
paper many of the inquiries relating to the Harvesting 
Machine. It seemed the best medium, for every wheat 
grower should take one. We can now emphatically 
say, the harvesting machine has been in successful ope¬ 
ration, and the present adds another season of experi¬ 
ence in confirmation of theory, and when experience 
and theory agree, they go far to establish truth. We 
find none of the difficulty apprehended by some in pre¬ 
serving the early threshed grain, and have proved it to 
waste much less grain than is wasted in the common 
way of harvesting, and to save more than three-fourths 
of the expense in cutting, gathering and threshing grain. 
And farther, that the machines are far from being diffi¬ 
cult or expensive to keep in order; for any ingenious 
teamster may learn in one day to take the entire charge 
of the team and machine, and will need help only to 
empty out the grain. Respectfull 3 r , 
G. G. CARPENTER, 
Caledonia, N. Y, August, 1840. 
Description of a Cotswold Buck. 
Messrs. Gaylord 8i Tucker —I saw in the June 
number of the Cultivator, a description of a Lincoln¬ 
shire Buck, owned by L. D. Clift, Esq. After seeing 
that statement, I was induced to take the measurement 
and weight of a full-blooded Cotswold Buck, raised and 
owned by Stephen Haight, Esq. of this town. The 
Buck was three years old last April, and weighs at this 
time 240 pounds, and measures as follows : 
Across the shoulders,. 1 ft. 6 inches 
Across the loin,. 1 “ 5-§ “ 
Across the back,. 1 “ 7^ “ 
Height on the rump,. 2 “ 64 “ 
Height of fore shoulders,. 2 “ 5 u 
Length from nose to root of tail,.. 5 “ 3 “ 
Girth round brisket,.4 “ 5 “ 
The weight of his fleece I am unable to give, as it 
was not kept from the rest of his flock. This sheep has 
had no better keeping than the other sheep in his flock 
ISAAC HAIGHT, Jr. 
Washington, Dutchess co. 25th Avg. 1840. 
Save your Peach Trees from Grubs. 
Never having seen the following in print, I send it to 
you to publish, if you see fit; after twelve years expe¬ 
rience, I am convinced of its efficacy. Pour boiling or 
scalding water, for I am not very particular which 
around, and on the body of the tree, as near the ground 
as possible, as often as jamr trees show any symptoms 
of decay. Indeed, I do not always wait for the symp¬ 
toms to appear. I have not lost a peach tree for twelve 
years, having practiced the above method for their pre- 
servation. I have not failed of having good peaches 
but one year during the whole time. C. S. PHELPS. 
Oswego, June 1, 1840. 
All the Luck. —We find in one of our foreign jour¬ 
nals, the following instance of rapid increase :—■“ On 
Thursday the wife of Mr. W. Claims, a farmer near 
Caistor, presented him with a fine boy and girl. Short¬ 
ly after, his cow produced two calves; and in the course 
of the day, the sow farrowed 11 pigs, a ewe yeaned 
him 3 lambs, and his hen came off with 15 chickens. 
The gude mon was at home during this increase, and 
properly rejoices in the gifts of Providence.” The ele¬ 
ments of reproduction, as Walker would say, must 
have been uncommonly active in that vicinity. 
