Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-02
NATIONAL NTELLlGENCER.
FROM Az OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT
NV YORK, SEPTEMBER 80, 1852.

celebrated farm Of ROSWELL Corr, ESQ., in Paterson,
New jersey in search of information likely to benefit me
in the management Of my place, and so muca OF
interest the farmer who desires to avail himself OF the
results Of the experience Of Others that am induced to
write for your agricultural readers concerning Mr. Cs
management of his beautiful miniature estate 1t con-
tans foryour acres and lies in the heart of the large
village of Paterson The soil of most of the farm was
originally naked sand bank, incapable apparently OF
sustaining life in any negotiating substance lie was
therefore compelled on setting out spread muck from
the portion now in fish pond all the rest OF the
premises to depth varying from three inches to two
feet according the natural soil Of the particular por-
ton. covered and to the use for which be designed it,
Unfortunately he failed compost clay with this dress
ing the result Of which is that it fails to retain subse
ouent dressings well it would have done thus COM
posted At present owing to the beralty with which
he supplies with manures produces as uxurianty as
any Mississippi bottom Every tree on the estate has
been planted there and they large plentiful and
carefully attended those in the Capitol grounds at
Washington His barn, probably the finest in New Jer-
sey constructed with three main objects in view to
save the liquid manure ample ventilation, and
protect the stock from injurious changes in the tenn
perature Of the weather Covered drains boxes lead
from the horse stables the pit which is directly
under the cow-sas through which arrangements all the
liquid manure is husbanded 1t is well known that
the liquid manure of barn yard is worth absolutely
more to the farmer than the solids This is matter of
speculative opinion for has been again and again de-
monstrated by chemical analysis with much positive
certainty the mathematician demonstrates PROPOSE
ton of Euclid Yet, in region OF country-around
Washngton-not one farmer in dreams of
fully saving the liquid of his stock When it is
absolutely certain that every load of kept under
cover on which the liquid of the yard has laid for
some time will enrich the land at least twice much as
load left exposed without coyer in the yard, open to
the and the action of the for weeks months
it high time that we should the advantages
suting from the changing of system of managing it.
Any farmer who keeps four cows three horses and half
dozen hogs hauls out the very least hundred
loads Of per annum, worth dollar per load
Now for much less than one hundred dollars
pended in digging pit covering il from rain and
SUM- and laying down wooden drains from
the back of his stalls to the pit he every put
upon his lands which in its results will double
the value to him Of every load hauled out as at present
Such system Of management will also greatly increase
the thrness and reduce the cost of keeping his stock
There is no mring down of ll-treated in barn
yards thus arranged which you may know is COM
occurrence in quagmire barn-yards around
Washington Mr. Colt keeps his hogs in pens boarded up
high and close all Sides with
and weventlated house in each. These pens are
constantly supplied with abundance of clean straw
in which his swine evidently far comfortable
and easily kept in condition than in the mud holes which
incident than half the in section
The appearance Of hshogs satisfies me that sufficient food
alone win keep hog he should be kept for profit
BE should be kept Clearly possible and have COM
Portable bed, well ample shelter from storms and
cutting winds have tried the experiment of high feed
ing without attending TO the other points, and have uni
versay found thatit raise bacon to
buy the high prices for which it sells in Washington
Georgetown and Alexandria Almost every farmer with
in twenty miles Of you viii say the same after calcula
ing every item Of the expense Of keeping his swine
Though strict attention the Of which write
above will do much for u.s. have also secure mprov-
ed breeds any or all Of which win prove vastly more
economical than most Of those around Washington
Mr. Colt keeps three kinds Mackeys the Chester county
(Pa.) pigs, and the pure Sufolks. He obtained the
Mackeys from Mr. webster's Marsh6ed estate They
are a cross Of the Suffolk some Of the New England
stock and to be large and rather hog He
oonceives them be the profitable kind 1t strikes
me, however that for region the pure Suffoks
the best pigs Ills objection them is that they are so
constantly over-fat prevent them from breeding
freely You know that farmer in a hundred
around is given the falling Of at all seasons gorg-
ing his hogs; so, with the feeding common among us
they likely to do best They very little in
deedfar less than any other breed known here and
ten months old clean usually from hundred and fifty
to two hundred pounds Of remarkably fine por-tender
sweet and juicy AT two years old they usually clean
from hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds
often going that weight, which is by
large weight for hogs reared in this section Of country
though hog in every fifty killed at two years Of
age in Virginia and Maryland reach three hundred
pounds Mr. Colt has gone perhaps more successfully
and extensively into breeding Adernay cattle than any
else in the Union. His Aldernsys beautiful ami
mails indeed. Though very small when compared with
other hghbrel cattle he finds that they average at least
two gallons Of milk per diem from calvng to calvng
their milk yielding twice much cream and Of better
quality than is obtained from the quantity Of milk
from any other stock whatever They are very light
feeders and thrive well descriptions Of food which
Durhams would be worthless. have no doubt that for
the dairy purposes Of the farmer who does not sell mill
they far better than any other cattle obtained in
the United States Their quiet tempers too render them
very desirable where women their mixers
Mr. G. has gone extensively and much to his own sat-
sfacton into rearing improved breeds Of fowls Of all
sorts. His Shanghais, Black Soands Dorkns improved
Muscovys &c dress at months old twice as much flesh
usually obtains from full grown chicken or duck
with They hardy as our fowls and as easily
managed, requiring than ours the additional food
only necessary TO sustain their greater carcases was
convert TO the chicken mania, prevalent the
North just now, until saw his fowl yard
He hasimmense graperies under glass some in which
fires are burnt in stoves and others without them For