Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-03-02
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From the Union Agriculturist.
Lose GROVE, La Sale co. Ill.,,
NOy. 18th. TAO.

which seems TO have been mailed on the
| 18th October, did not come to hand till
| November l7th. 1t was directed to Oswe-
| go, which is not my post Office, where it
! might have been till William the Norman's
Day Of Doom. Accidentally, however,
it came to hand, informing me Of my APP
| polniment by meeting OF the Agricultn-
raj Society at NapervilIe, TO draw up "a
report on Horned Cattle" and to read it
at another subsequent meeting to be held at
Ottawa en- the llth inst You will per-
ceivc from this, that had ever been so
comPatcnt, intellectually and physically. to
| fulfil the duty, the delay in receiving the
resolution has altogether put it out of my
power. thank the Society for the COM
pIlment, but am sure they bestowed it
upon an individual very incompetent to the
task. In the first place, have been sick
for the past two months, and am just now
convalescent This alone would have been
sufficient to have excused me- But TO say
| nothing OF this, the conside ration that am
but student IN the noble science Of Agr-
culture, and mere amateur farmer fiu-
vcnile experience, would, if you had known
II, have led the meeting TO fix upon some
other person, and so 10 have avoided any
| chagrinthe gentlemen az Ottawa may have
been subject on account Of the disappolnt-
ment they met with.
Some persons are very fond Of !" telling
their experiences" which, in this day Of
things Of very questionable propriety, is
practice of great repute. 1t may be good
or bad; this | will not stay to determine
The fondness for "ieIIing," aud the sex
periences" themselves are things Of very
different consideration. like to listen to
a good experience, for there is always
something valuable to be learned from 1t;
for good experience can come only from
a sound practical man, in whatever science
| he may profess. | would rather hear the
| experience of such a man than trouble
| mankind with any thing | have 10 tell on
| the important subject OF farming. | have
experienced hitherto, almost nothing but
vexation IN relation to HORNED CATTL E.
| | commenced farming under very unpro-
| pItieUs circumstances, about four years
ago, in the State Of Virginia. say un-
| propfious, because Virginia, like many
other States, has been impoverished to such
an extent by the starved system Of agri
culture, which consists in hard cropping.
close grazing, and non-manuring, Except
for the tobacco patch, that it has become
mparatiyeIy CRASHES, and consequently,
in It's present condition, utterly beyond the
pale Of the Horned Cattle raising commu
nifty. Hence, from bad systemsof farm
ing, naturally fine country is reduced 10
such sterility, that considerable stock Is
| Unmarried from kentucky
Having become enamored of q country
life, 10 which hitherto had been stran-
ger, purchased farm about 40 miles
from Richmond, where | was then prac-
ticing medicine. How little physicians
| have to do with Horned Cattle in city,
except 10 eat them, your knowledge of such
persons in Chicago will suffice to shew.-
have bad rs much TO do with them all
my previous life as these gentlemen beef
eaters. Well, Sir, bought two cattle,
one horned, as she would let you know if
YOU approached too near, the other, "a
buflaoc" or horniess COW, as they term
such animals in the South. In England
we associate with the idea of cows, ano-
Their, viz plenty of milk and butter; but
in America, or rather in The impoverished
| 1tttcS lncEeOi, how erroneous all dSSOCld-
ton! purchased the said cattle for ''milch
cows and so they were; for, according
TO my experience in Virginia, a COW is
mich though yielding only half pint of
milk! My cows yielded me about six pints
aday; therefore according to that standard,
they were certainly mich cows But the
great secret of the whole matter in ever V
country, fertile or infertile. is simply this,
that, nothing is to be had for nothing; or
in other 'cordS, take nothing from nothing
and nothing remains. How in the name
of reason, can farmers obtain milk from
cattle, starved for want of food and COM
Portable shelter This is the great secret
Of the paucity Of MILK and butter in the
winter season. In Virginia, they get no
E hay, NO roots, nor other roots; nothing in
: fact but few shucks, q small portion oil
/. damaged straw, and the scanty pckings,
: called boots" which remain on the corn.
stalks after the fodder is pulled. And
perceive, that even in this rich country,
things are reduced almost, if not quite, &c
the same level; for, Sir, what boots it. il
farmer have yard full of hay stacks, il
that hay,be gathered too late, and if1you have
: double as many cattle as his hay will sup
5 port in mild climate for the shelterles.
cattle OF this country require each double
! the quantity Of fodder necessary 10 sustain
life under more favorable circumstances