A CONSOLIDATION OF DUEL’S CULTIVATOR AND THE GENESEE FARMER. 
Cult* Vol. X.—No. 3. 
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THE CULTIVATOR. 
“TO IMPEOVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” 
MONTHLY NOTICES. 
Communications received the last month, as fol¬ 
lows;—J. M. E., Wm. Partridge, Levi Durand, E. H. 
Northrup, H. N. Gillett, A. R. M’Cord, A Young Farm¬ 
er’s Nos. 1, 2 and 3, S. Howard, A. of the North, J. C., 
Jas. Gowen, G. L. Beckwith, B. J. Goldsborough, G. 
Butler, B. Swift, E. Townley, A. Hampton, C. N. Be- 
ment, Geo. Woodfln, S. W. Jewett, H. A. Parsons, L. 
Physick, G. B. Smith, L. Smith, S., Cephas, J. W. A. 
Saunders, Experimenter, A Subscriber. 
We cannot refrain from expressing the gratitude 
due to our numerous friends, for the great number of 
valuable communications with which they continue to 
furnish us from month to month, thus enabling us to sus¬ 
tain, to its full extent, the high interest which has given 
to the Cultivator an influence and a circulation hitherto 
unequalled by any publication devoted to the useful arts. 
We would also render to those who have so successfully 
used their exertions to obtain subscribers for the present 
vol., our hearty thanks. It is only by such efforts on the 
part of our friends, in the midst of the general falling off, 
on account of the “ hard times,” that we can hope to re¬ 
tain any thing near our former number of subscribers. 
The valuable papers of Mr. Smith on the Use of 
Guano, and of Mr. Physick, on the culture of Indian 
Corn, shall appear in our next, as also those of Mr. 
Goldsborough and Mr. Darling. We cannot decide 
upon the publication of the Nos. of “ A Voung Farmer ” 
until the whole series is received. It may be necessary 
to condense them in some degree, in order to give them 
a place, and this we think may be done without injury, 
when all the papers shall have come to hand. 
“ Q. E. D.”—We should be pleased to publish tl 
communication of “Q. E. D.” were it not for the difl 
culty we find in making room for the mass of matter 
coming more strictly within the range of subjects : 
which the Cultivator is specially devoted, which ai 
constantly accumulating on our hands. For the san 
cause, we have been obliged to lay aside several valuab 
papers, during the past year—papers which, under oth( 
circ^stances, we should gladly have published. 
We are indebted to Henry Watson, Esq. for 
copy of the “ Transactions of the Hartford Co. Ag. Soc 
ety for 1842.”—To Hon. D. D. Barnard, M. C., for v; 
rious Public Documents.—To Geo. Vail, Esq. Tro’ 
and Alex. Walsh, Esq. for copies of Mr. Van Renssi 
laer’s Address before the Rensselaer Ag. Society 'in Oc 
last.—To Edmund Ruffin, Esq. Petersburg, Va. for 
copy of the 3d edition of his “ Essay on Calcareous M: 
nures.” This edition of this valuable work is o-reaf 
enlarged and improved, making a super royal octaL vo 
of 320 pages—price, bound in flexible covers for ma 
conveyance, $1.26, or $5 for five copies_To R. 1 
Wilson, Esq. for Prof, Pendleton’s Address at the fir 
exhibition of the Ohio and Brooke Ag. Society, held 
Wheeling, Va. Oct. 19, 1842—To. E. P. Langdon, Es^ 
for the 13th Report of the Condition of Common Schoo 
in Cincinnati—To I. R. Barber, Oxford Mass., fi 
Proceediiigs o^the N. E. Silk Convention, held at Nortl 
ampton, in Sept. last. This pamphlet gives abunda 
evidence of the certain though slow progress of this in 
portant branch of business.—To H. L. Ellswort] 
Esq. Com. Patent Office, Washington, for parcels c 
Valparaiso” and “ White blue stem Wheat,” to bo 
which we shall give a fair trial. Also for a copy of h 
Annual Report to Congress, embracing a variety of st; 
tistics and papers of great interest to the agriculturis 
and to which we shall have occasion hereafter frequen 
ALBANY, N. Y., MAECH, 1843. 
ly to refer.—To. Maj. J. B. Dill, Auburn, for an Ad¬ 
dress before the Cayuga Co. Ag. Society, at its annual 
meeting, Jan. lO, 1843, by H. S. Randall, Esq. of Cort¬ 
land—a very appropriate and well written Address, alike 
creditable to its author and the Society before whom 
it was delivered.—To some unknown friend for Mr. 
Watson’s Address before the Clinton Co. Ag. Society.— 
To the Editors of the Neio Fartner’s Journal, London, 
for the files of that valuable paper for January. 
Board of Agriculture. —Mr. Dickinson, chairman 
of the Committee on Agriculture in the Senate of this 
State, brought in a bill on the 20th ult., entitled “ An 
Act to Promote Agriculture,” which, 1st. Amends the 
Act, passed May 5, 1841, so as to make that act perma¬ 
nent, instead of for five years.—2d. It requires the 
Agents of the State prisons to employ so many of the con¬ 
victs as can be advantageously employed, in the manu¬ 
facture of silk.—3d. It provides for the appointment by 
the Legislature, of eight persons, one from each Senate 
District, who, with tlie Secretary of State, shall consti¬ 
tute a Board of Agriculture—the said Board to meet an¬ 
nually on the first Tuesday of Jan., and is authorized to 
require annual reports of the condition of Agriculture 
from the several Agricultural Societies. The members 
of the Board to hold their offices for three years, and not 
to receive any compensation for their services.—4th. It 
directs that one copy of the series of the Natural History 
of this State, now in course of publication, shall be trans¬ 
mitted to every town clerk in the State, to be and remain 
the property of the town, and to be loaned under such 
rules as the officers of the town may establish; and also 
that a copy of said work shall he furnished to each col¬ 
lege and academy in the State, and to the American In¬ 
stitute. That this bill will receive the hearty approba¬ 
tion of the Agriculturists of our State, we cannot doubt; 
and we trust that it will, with such, amendments as may 
be found necessary in its details, receive the sanction of 
the Legislature. 
Mr. Colman’s Tour. —We are glad to see that the 
subscription for the proposed work of Mr. Colman, is 
rapidly increasing. The Philadelphia Society for the 
promotion of Agriculture, at a late meeting, subscribed 
for forty copies. A subscription is left at the office of 
“ The Cultivator,” in which we shall be glad to enter 
the names of those Avho may wish to become subscri¬ 
bers. 
Johnson’s Farmer’s Encyclopedia and Dictiona¬ 
ry OF Rural Affairs. —Carey & Hart, booksellers, 
Philadelphia, have commenced the republication of this 
valuable work, which was published in London in 
monthly parts during the years 1841-2. This edition is 
to be “ enlarged, improved, and adapted to the United 
States, by A Practical Farmer,” and if the editor per¬ 
forms his work well, will prove a valuable acquisition to 
the American agriculturist. It is to be published in 16 
semi-monthly numbers, 64 pages octavo, at 25 cents 
each, making the price $4 for the volume, which is less 
than one-third the cost of the English edition. The first 
number is now before us. It is introduced to the reader 
by a well written introduction from the American editor, 
and ornamented with a lithographic plate of three Short 
Horn Cows, copied from a steel plate, engraved by 
Landseer, for Steven’s ‘'Book of the Farm.” It is 
printed on fine paper, and got up in good style, and our 
only regret is that the publishers have not given us the 
Short Horns in as beautiful style as they appear in the 
plate from which they are copied; and we cannot but 
believe they would find it to their interest to substitute 
steel plates, in the style of the Farmer’s Magagine and 
Farm Book, for the lithographic prints. 
The North American Review. —The leading arti¬ 
cle of the Jan. No. of this work, is a just and well writ¬ 
ten review of Downing’s volumes on “ Landscape Gar¬ 
dening,” and “ Cottage Residences.” It also contains a 
number of capital papers, of which ive may mention 
“The English Abroad,” “Calderon’s Life in Mexico,” 
“Gray’s Botanical Text Book,” “ Charles Dickens,” &c. 
&e. Boston, published quarterly by D. H. Williams. 
“ The Prairie Farmer.” —The Union Agriculturist 
at Chicago, has taken the above name, and appears in a 
new form and dress. So far as we could judge from a 
hasty glance at the first number, a great improvement 
has been made in its appearance. Before we had an op¬ 
portunity of looking it over, it was taken from our office 
without leave, and much to our regret. Will friend 
Wright please send us another copy ? and also Nos. 5, 
10 and 12, of vol. 1, of the Un. Ag. and the ladex to 
vols. 1 and 2. 
The Southern Cultivator is the title of a semi¬ 
monthly journal, of which we have received the first No. 
from Augusta, Ga. J. W. & W. S. Jones, publishers, 
at $1 a year. 
Cult. & Far. Vol. IV.— No. 3. 
Corn-stalk Sugar. —In December last, we received 
a number of inquiries from Mr. Wurmser of Hamilton, 
O., on the subject of making sugar from corn stalks, 
■which we fonvarded to Mr. Webb of Delaware, in the 
hope that he would favor us with answers; but as he 
has not, we shall in our next number give such infor¬ 
mation as we can obtain in answer to Mr. Wurmser and 
some others who have asked for information on this sub¬ 
ject. A. P. Wightman, Esq. of Granville, O., informs 
us that he and some eight or ten others, made an effort 
last year to make sugar from the corn stalk. He says: 
“ We obtained first rate molasses, but only a little of it 
crystalized. W e think it would be a good business, and 
of vast importance to this whole western country, if 
some method could be discovered to make it crystalize 
readily.” 
To W. J., BardstoKU, Ky .—The price of Barnaby &. 
Mooer’s side hill Plow is as follows:—No. 3, $10—No. 
4, $10,50—No. 5, $11. Coulters, if wanted, laid with 
steel, $2—wheel, $1—extra shares, 50 cents. To be had 
of the inventors at Ithaca, N. Y. 
Cutting Roots _Mr. B. Swift, of Washington, 
Dutchess Co., informs us that he has made a machine for 
cutting all kinds of roots that the farmer wants to feed, 
at the rate of bushels per minute—the crank turned by 
hand. It is simple and substantial, and can be sold at 
from $10 to $12. In answer to his question, we would 
state that there are now several machines for this pur¬ 
pose, one of which is described by Mr. Bement in an¬ 
other part of this paper; and that the success of his, will 
of course depend on its merits in comparison with oth¬ 
ers. We believe but few of these machines are sold, as 
they are hut little known as yet. 
Leaf Hay. —In looking over a parcel of letters a few 
days since, v.'e found a communication, received in 1841, 
from our highly valued correspondent, Za. Drummond, 
Esq. of Virginia, which was mislaid at the time of its 
reception, in which he says that he had gathered and 
packed away, moderately salted, about four tons of 
leaves, which he had no doubt his cows would eat freely. 
If not eat, they were to be used as litter, and thus con¬ 
verted into manure. Will Mr. D. please inform us as to 
the result of his experiment in using them for fodder ■? 
Sowing Corn and Clover —P. F. Wislar, Esq. of 
Columbia, Pa., in a letter of 28th Jan., says:—“The 
weather has been mild here. I last week plowed a five 
acre orchard to the depth of ten inches, which I intend 
early in the spring to sow broad cast with Indian corn 
and clover seed. No experiment of the kind has as yet 
been made in this neighborhood.” 
South Carolina. —The Governor of this State, has 
appointed Edmund Ruffin, Esq. the talented ex-edi¬ 
tor of the Virginia Farmer’s Register, to make an agri¬ 
cultural Purvey of South Carolina. The duty could not 
have been placed in better hands. 
Rice. —A subscriber asks—“Cannot some of your 
southern readers give us an article on the most improved 
method of cultivating Rice ? As this grain is an impor¬ 
tant article of consumption, I think an article on its cul¬ 
tivation would he acceptable to your readers.” We 
should be glad to receive such an article, and trust that 
some of our southern friends will answer this call. 
Townley’s Patent Premium Bee Hive. —In a let¬ 
ter from Mr. Edward Townley, the patentee, 75 Thomp- 
son-st.. New-York cit 3 ^, we have the following descrip¬ 
tion of this hive:—“My hive is composed of two apart¬ 
ments, lower and upper; the bees are swarmed in the 
lower apartment; there the queen lays her eggs, there 
the nurse bees do their work; there they lay up honey 
sufficient to keep them through the winter; in short, it 
is their nursery, their dining-room, their palace, and 
their home. The upper pai-t of the hive contains the 
boxes where they lay up their surplus honey for you, 
and which you may take as fast as the 3 i' are filled, and 
put empty ones in their places. I have taken 40 pounds 
of honey from one hive which was made in 28 days; the 
hive setting in my house in the center of the city of 
New-York. Families in general, in cities or towns, 
might have a hive of bees and raise honey for their own 
consumption. I have a hive setting in my parlor, which 
makes more honey than my family eats. These hives 
certainly have a decided superiorily over all hives now 
in use; and are generally preferred above all others, es¬ 
pecially for economy anil profit. They are easy to man- 
age, from the perfect simplicity of their conslruction; 
and the happy effects produced by the wire screen bot¬ 
tom in ventilating the hive, and in keeping out the bee 
moths, and for maintaining an equal degree of tempera¬ 
ture. I have a number of different kinds of hives which 
I intend to bring before the public in due season. I 
shall give a description of my observatory hive in the 
next number of the Cultivator.” (See advertisement.) 
