INDIANA FARMER.
Devoted  to   Agriculture,   Horticulture,   Mechanics,   and   the   Useful  Arts-
P^H°jj^^ IND,, AUG. 15,1851.      j        gg£™ j
Thanks. Many   tlianks   to   our    Editorial j     Prolific yield of Flax.—Mr.  Fulghum   has
friends who have so kindly, and in sucli flat- also sent us a stem of Flax, which had on when
tering terms noticed our humble sheet—the In- ( pulled 371 boles of seed. Each bole will av-
diana Farmer. Wo shall at all times be ready i erage 8 seed which will make the product of
and happy in an opportunity to reciprocate the one seed 2,808 fold. It was also grown by
favor. We shall take pleasure in forwarding Mr. Clevenger. Randolph bears thc palm,
it to each paper in the State in  exchange ; but --~™,™™~~     -     _~~   .   -
1   * ° \ Cattle in the London Market.
those    who  send to tho   Palladium  need  not >     ,,    _     . . .,   ,   .      „   ... c , , .
1 . Mr. Batcham visited the   Smithfield  market
send to the  Farmer.    We have   placed upon 1 .n   ^^ an(,       iakii      of ^   mogt
our exchange list every paper  in the State, so  valuable kimls of cattlo offerod therc> .
far'as they are known to us, and shall  add oth- j       „, ...      ,. ,,    ,     ,      ...        c   . . ,. . ,
1 ' j     "The quality of the beef cattle at Smithfield
ers as wc may become acquainted with their lo-   is> as a whoi0>   superior to those at New York
cation, &c.    Again we thank our friends of the > anJ Philadelphia ; not, however, so much ow-
press, for the handsome  manner in which they  ing to greater fatness and   size, as to their fine-
have welcomed our  Farmer  to its  present po-ness  of form   nn<l    smallness  of bone.    Thc
,   r       ,,        , ,.       lr n greatest number seem to be of a cross   between
sition before   the public.     We are well aware   f,    „,       , ,    .      ,.      ,       ,        ..in
1 < the Short-horn  and  Ayrshire   breeds, with  all
that no new enterprise of this character can j shades and degrees of relationship. Those
succeed without the favor of the press—we I which rank nearest to the short-horns, inelu-
therefore are grateful for the attention already I ding thoroughbred, are generally smaller and
paid to it, and these obligations will bo in- i j!™1 boncd than most of those of this breed in
, , a-   .   . * •     i     r- i-i Ohio ; thc  London   butchers  being averse   to
creased by any efforts to sustain the rarmcr  by  , .       , „„      • n.. ,    ; , „ i°       •   v.    r
1    / JJ large size, and especially to large bones in beef
an occasional notice, or an occasional  club of 5 cattle.
patrons. On this accou it, mainly if not  entirely,  wc
™ ~      ~~        "       „ find at Smithfield a large number of the  small
Apologetic—Ave present, tho   third  number  of   the ?i ,      r -   ..i     c    — -\<t  i i .i      tt-   i i       ,
T. ...       ...  ,v , , .    .   ..    , , breeds of cattle from Wales and the Highlands
I anner to the public to-day, and in justice to ourselves,!   c o     .i       i i     i ,,   r    . , i-   ,
we express the regret that we are unable to give our of Scotland and when well fattened, a higher
readers as much original matter as we had expected to be \ PUC.e 1S Paid f°r }heS% ™anc for thc English va-
able to do. The chief value and interest of an agricultu- I rieties. ihe price of beef cattle at the present
ral paper is the publication of the practical operations and j time> is fr°m ^ t0 4i pence (8 to 9J cents) per
experience of our own farmers ; and we cannot even hope > pound—say on an average of SO per 100 lbs.,
to publish a paper which will  be acceptable to our pat- j nett, for the best class of animals."
rons unless the farmers will furnish us facts and results       This rage for large, overgrown, coarse cattlo
as developed in their experience. }     • .i , .- ..  , ,     ~. ,
1T ... v . •   i.     , <■ •    ,   •   L- with an undue proportion of bone and offal rc-
Until we can enlist our agricultural friends m this mat-!      . *     r ■"
ter, we can give but articles of general interest. One of 1ulres to "e corrected and reformed among Our
the causes of failure in previous attempts to publish ag-j Western breeders. Early maturity and great
ricultural papers in this State, has been the little or no in- apt;tude tO fatten is of the first importance,
tercst manifested by those interested.    We hope however, I       ,    ». ,    -,     r        , . ,
that an interest is awaking, and we hail with  pleasure the j and thlS Can rarely be founfl   am0nS large bon-
organization of Societies throughout the State for tho pro-   ed animals.     We have SOD1C short-homed   cat-
motion of tho farming interest. tlein this vicinity, which  compares very close-
Wohopotobo able before long to furnish our readers   ,        . .   .,      , ... • ,      ir     n   .  i.„.,.
,.;(>,„„„,,.     „f <•      .   , ,-.,_•        .     ly with the description given by Mr. Bateham,
with engravings ot somo fine stock, owned in this county, j   J r ° J
 „~~ „^_ j and some of our breeders   will be able  to  fur-
Wheat crops in tho Northern counties of Illinois, has j nish suitable  animals to breed  from, to those
proved almost an entire failure. !     i      i     •      .i
_  who desire them.
Tall Timothy.—In our last We  gave   notice       Ekrata.—We re-publish an article this week from tho
of a specimen of tall   timothy   grown   in   this   Western Agriculturist, entitled, "Wheat-Results of high
-,,r    , , , \ tillage," for the  purpose of correcting  an error in tho
county. We have now upon our table a spear arrangement of the table, which we suppose almostevery
from Randolph county, grown on the land of reader has already detected. The heading of the first and
Thomas Clevenger, and presented   to   US   by J. j second  column was transferred in our last issue.    It is
W. Fulghum, that beats old  Wayne  consider-  corrected in""" numbcr' f    ,.    „ .    . lU. .    „,
~, '"     cunsiucr        in the list of premiums, for the Fair of this county, $3
ably.     The spear now referred to   measures   six   i3 published as the premium for the best grain cradle; it
feet four and three quarter inches. j should have been $i.