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T.'s South-Down flock, and Mr. T. also forwarded at the same time a very fine yearling heifer to Mr. A. B. FORBES of San Francisco. Mr. D. MCMILLAN, Jr., Xenia, Ohio, last week started for his place from the same hord, “1st Duke of Thorndale," and a bull calf from "Buttercup 2d," and Mr. RICHARD BRADLEY of Brattleboro, Vt., purchased "Field Marshall" the week previously. California particularly, seems to be thoroughly awakened to the value of all kinds of improved stock. Every steamer now

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THE HOG CHOLERA.-If any of your numerous readers know what will cure or prevent the disease in hogs, called cholera, they would confer a great favor by letting it be known through the columns of the Gentleman.

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itself a school of agriculture, allowing no year to pass without bearing witness to some efforts after immediate and tangible good, not less than to increase if possible the attractiveness of their pursuit to the young, by setting an example in seeking that information of which it presents 80 many channels. So long as men differ in the degrees of success they achieve, and in the constitution of their minds, so long we can all learn something from one another. It is surely an appropriate season, now that the New Year is fairly begun and the days are already length-takes out more or less. ening for the seed-time of another harvest-to prompt every farmer who reads this sheet to the earnest inquiry, "How am I to make 1860 mentally and materially a better year than 1859 ?" Is there any one ready to claim that there are no means within his reach for the accomplish-of hogs are to be seen lying dead on the road-sides. Mine ment of this purpose? are dying fast. They do not eat, but droop and die in a few days. No purging or anything unnatural, save, perhaps, in some instances after death, the blood seems to have settled towards the hinder parts, (or say from the loins back.) What the disease is, I do not know. Some of my neighbors call it cholera. The propriety of the name I cannot see. JAMES MOORE. Bullitt Co., Ky. [In visiting an excellent Delaware farmer a year or two ago, Mr. BRYAN JACKSON, of New Castle Co., he stated that a pint of tar put in the bottom of a trough, say 12 feet long, with a couple of ounces of flour of sulphur, proved very beneficial; an ounce of dissolved saltpeter was also put with the swill into the trough once a day, and chloride of lime sprinkled about their sleeping places. When the first trial of this remedy failed, a second was successful.]

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Our soll is as good, our facilities are as great, and our people as enterprising as any on the globe, and it only requires time with a steady improvement, not only to accomplish this, but in my opinion, go beyond it, [the production upon English farms.] Now, it is by communicating information-by a friendly interchange of intelligence, it can be accomplished--but it must be through our Agricultural Journals and Agricultural Fairs.

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I acknowledge myself as a practical farmer, deeply indebted to the CULTIVATOR and COUNTRY GENTLEMAN for information I have acquired from them for many years. The last year, particularly, I have been more than usually interested in reading a series of articles published in that paper, of information acquired by one of its Editors while abroad, which has added much to its usefulness and general excel lence. We have many excellent Agricultural papers published in this State, and no farmer does justice to his profession, his intelligence, his family, or his farm, who does not take one regularly; for I have not yet seen the first man, except the most conceited and stultified, who cannot be made wiser by reading a good Agricultural paper. The above extract from the Kinderhook Rough Notes, forms the conclusion of an interesting article on the "Pro- WALKING HORSES-A SUGGESTION.-I would like to gress of Agriculture," in which we can trace the pen of suggest an idea, which, if you approve, you can prepare our friend, Dr. BEEKMAN, one of the committee in charge an article, or get some of your correspondents to discuss, of The Cultivator when it was originally established as as to the propriety of a premium being offered at our anthe organ of the old Agricultural Society of this State.-nual Fairs, for fast walking horses as well as trotters. I Dr. B. justly remarks, that "from the information diffused by this paper and many others now published in different portions of the State, a greater impulse has been given to Agriculture within the last 20 years, than in the whole century that preceded it."

SQUASHES.--Mr. GEO. W. Brower has handed us on trial a part of a Squash, the seed of which was sent him, he states, a year or two ago, by a brother in Chili, South America. It was solid, and in as good order as if just plucked, and proved of first rate quality. I. W. BRIGGS Supplies us with a sample, dried, of the "Honolulu Squash," which we have heretofore highly noticed. His price for the seed is "One Dollar a Dozen and no less, except as premiums for subscriptions."

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think horses trained to walk fast would be a greater bene fit to farmers in general than fast trotters, as almost all of his work has to be done with a walk. I onee knew a man in Massachusetts, who, before the railroads were built, kept from two to four teams at work on the road, and never allowed them to trot at all, and made the distance in quicker time than his neighbors, who made their horses trot at every convenient place. He said that when a horse commenced to walk after a trot, he walked much slower than his common gait if kept on a walk, and thereby lost more than he gained. A. H. Oak Creek, Wis.

We understand that Jos. JLUIAND, 2d, of Bainbridge, N. Y., has lately sold the North Devon bull "Young Metropolitan," to Wm. O. Williams, Esq., of Sandford, Broome Co., N. Y.

N. Y. STATE MAP AND GAZETTEER.-Under the supervision of J. H. FRENCH, a large and very full map of this OBITUARY.-During the month of December last, our State, including "the location of school houses, churches, State Agricultural Society lost three of its more prominent mills, factories, post-offices, hamlets, villages, lakes, ponds, members and officers in times past-B. B. KIRTLAND, for streams, canals, railroads, hills, and mountains," has been several years Treasurer, Judge VAN BERGEN, of Coxsackie, published by R. P. SMITH. It is accompanied by a Gazet- one of its early Presidents, and Judge TURRILL, of Oswego teer containing "a general view of the topography, geolo- last year Vice President for that district. Mr. Kirtland gy, history, and institutions of the State, including the in- as many were aware, had been for some time in failing ternal improvements, education, religion, legislative, judi- | health, which was indeed the reason why he relinquished cial, and administrative departments of government, agri- a year or two ago, his connection with the Society. A culture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation. Also, the meeting of the Executive Committee in this city last a brief history and description of every county, city, town, week, a committee was appointed to prepare appropriate village, hamlet, and locality; all prepared from material resolutions, which will appear in our columns when precollected by competent men, who have been sent through sented. the State for the purpose. The map covers an area of about 36 square feet, and is engraved and manufactured in the best style of the art. The Gazetteer is a royal octavo volume of about 700 pages, illustrated by fine original engravings, on steel, of prominent points of interest in the State. It is well printed, on good heavy, white paper, and elegantly and substantially bound. These works are sold only by subscription. Price invariably $10."

SALES OF SHORT-HORNS AND SOUTH-DOWNS.-We are pleased to see that the demand for fine stock continues good, at least in some directions. Mr. S. W. Coburn has lately purchased from SAM. THORNE, Esq., "Peveril," and taken him to California. By the last steamer Mr. PATTERSON sent out two rams and five ewes, purchases from Mr.

VERMONT STATE AG. SOCIETY.-At the annual meeting of the Vermont State Ag. Society, held at Middlebury, on the 5th of Jan., the following gentlemen were elected officers for the year ensuing:

Prosident-E. B. CHASE, Lyndon.

Vice Presidents-Edwin Hammond, Middlebury; J. W. Colburn,
Springfield; H. H. Baxter, Rutland; and Henry Keyes, Newbury.
Treasurer-Edward Seymour, Vergennes.
Secretary-Charles Cummings, Brattleboro',
Directors-Frederick Holbrook, Brattleboro'; U. H. Penniman, Col-
chester; David Hill, Bridport; H. S. Morse, Shelburn; John Jackson
Brandon: John Gregory, Northfield; D. B. Potter, St. Albans; Dan-
iel Needham, Hartford: D. A. Bennet, Bridport; Elijah Cleavland,
Coventry; and Henry E. Root, Bennington.

The Treasurer's report shwed a balance in the treasury of three thousand, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents.

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OHN KOLBER'S Second Importation of
HUNGARIAN GRAPE SLIPS,

Will be received per steamer in March next, consisting of 30,000 hardy
shoots, embracing a selection of TWENTY-ONE of the cholcest va-
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TABLE AND WINE GRAPES, Suitable for Out door Culture in every section of the United States. The Slips will be long, thrifty, thickly budded, ALL HARDY, Some excel on mountain slopes of moderate elevation; others on plains. To secure their prompt delivery, ORDERS should be sent in early, that the Proprietor may be enabled to forward them in good condition on their arrival.

Sold in lots to suit purchasers. A bundle containing ten varieties, each carefully marked, will be forwarded to order for One Dollar by Express, payable on delivery. One Hundred Slips for Five Dollars. A liberal discount to Agents, Vine-growers and Nurserymen. Send for Descriptive Catalogues. JOHN KOLBER Feb 1-m2t 592 Broadway, New-York,

RASPBERRY PLANTS AND SEEDLING POTATOES.

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IX. Kitchen and Flower Garden.

Articles on the Management of these portions of the Homestead
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Conservatories, Vineries, and Rustic Ornaments of Wood and Iron,
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Growing Timothy Seed on the Prairies,.

Testimonial to John Johnston-his Letter...

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Top-Dressing Meadows, by E. ROSELL..

An American among the English Farmers,.

Changing Pastures-Shade for Stock...

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Field Culture of the Onion, by J. W. PROCTOR,.

Farin Accounts-Profit on a Corn Crop, by FARMER,.
Annual Meeting of the U. S. Ag. Society,

Subsoiling-Liquid Manure-Green Crops...

Cause of Smut in Wheat and its Remedy,

Inquiries and Answers...

Culture of the Sweet Potato, by J. PINE,.
Notes for the Month....

THE GRAZIER AND BREEDER.

Sheep and Cattle of Suffolk, England,,

Statistics of the New-York Cattle Market for 1859,
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Jurian Winne's Leicester Sheep...

Regularity in Feeding Domestic Animals,.

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Short-Horn Cow 2d Duchess of Airdrie,

Treatment of Ringbone,.

Economical Feeding of Stock, by HAWK EYE,

Dadd on Diseases of Cattle-Vertigo in Horses,.

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The Clinton as a Wine Grape, by S. MILLER,.. .....
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No. XXVIII---More about Farming in Suffolk.

A Heavy Shower-Suffolk Horses-Folding Sheep--Embankment against the Wind-A Suffolk Plow-Donkeys-Tile Works-Pipe for Draining-Collars Tile for Roofing-The Chillesford Farm-Blading a Wheat Field-Marsh Embankments-Suffolk Swine-Progress of Agriculture and Wages paid to Laborers.

one, and that neither fog nor mist nor rain anywhere befell, to impede my movements or lessen the pleasure of my visits.

The fact has already been mentioned that Mr. Crisp is an extensive breeder of the Suffolk farm or cart horse. He keeps about 30 brood mares, and has nearly an equal number in addition, including colts and stallions. A very good idea of the Suffolks may be obtained from the portrait given in another column (see p. 60,) of "Chester Emperor," accompanied by a brief description and some remarks as to their character. I was told that the market price for horses of this breed for working purposes in Ipswich, varied with quality, from $150 to $300, while that of stallions and brood mares runs from $500 to $1,500, according to

the circumstances of the case.

Of sheep, Mr. Crisp's South-Down breeding-flock numbered between eight and nine hundred. As to the system of folding, to which reference has been made, I should perThe American climate is spoken of by English people haps mention some further details. In our walk we passwith some horror of our sudden variations. I remembered through a field, just then receiving a dressing of mahaving met with a gentleman who had travelled in the nure in this way. Like the one I spoke of in my last, it United States, and who, on his return, narrated as one of had grown wheat in 1858, but there the succeeding crop the singular experiences of the journey, that a storm had occurred one night in hot weath er, producing such a sudden change that his host for the time being, got up and came to his room, to supply him with an extra coverlet. If there was no extreme descent of the mercury to render this hospitable attention necessary while I was at Mr. CRISP's, it was not for the lack of a tolerably violent visita tion one night from the thunder and rain. Though the sun was shining brightly enough as we breakfasted next morning, the paths and borders bore witness to as fine a washing as they would have been likely to receive on the banks of the Hudson; and during the sultry weather of the following week or two, I thought more than once most wishfully, how occasionally in such a time at home, a squall and fluster will abruptly warn us of anything but an unwelcome change, the big drops at length relieving a swelling sky, and beating thicker and faster as the falling procession hurries forward, apparently startling Nature herself, very much as a nervous man might suffer in getting an extra dose at his first shower bath. Truth to tell, I did not remain awake long enough to know how far this English shower would have realized such a picture, and all the rains I actually saw were of that gentle kind to remind one rather of a heavy mist that had borrowed the garments of a storm. I should

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Vignette representing a Suffolk Plow.

was mangolds, while here they were just making preparations for sowing turnips, of which the general seed-time of the region is from the 5th to 10th July, or thereabouts. On the former, there had been a "stolen" turnip crop, and here a corresponding one of trefoil was obtained as follows:-The seed was drilled upon the wheat stubble after a harrowing, no plowing being necessary, and the field fed off by the sheep some time in autumn, and as

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