A CONSOLIDATION OF BUEL’S CULTIVATOR AND THE GENESEE FARMER. 
Cult. Vol. X.—No. 9. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 
ALBANY, N. Y., SEPTEMBER, 1843. Cult. & Far. Vol. IV.—-No. 9. 
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THE CULTIVATOR. 
“TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” 
“ THE CULTIVATOR ALMANAC.” 
The publisher of “The Cultivator” will issue, early 
in September, “ The CiMivator Almanac, or Rur^ Ca¬ 
lendar for 1844,” which will embody, beside the usual 
astronomical calculations, a great variety of facts, hints, 
suggestions, &c., which it is believed will prove exten¬ 
sively useful to farmers and planters. In the arrange¬ 
ment of its pages, utility has been the object kept in 
view—the condensation of the greatest amount of valu¬ 
able matter into the smallest space. It will be illustrated 
by numerous engravings, and printed in a neat and 
tasteful style, and afforded at the low price of $20 per 
1,000—$2.50 per 100, or 37^ cents per dozen. Editions 
will be published with astronomical calculations for the 
several sections of the United States, and orders for it 
are solicited from our friends in all parts of the coun¬ 
try. Address Luther Tucker, publisher of the Cul¬ 
tivator, Albany, N. Y. 
MONTHLY NOTICES. 
Communications have come to hand, since our 
last, from Richmond, (2,) J. L. Mott, A. J. Down¬ 
ing, Franklin County, G. Butler, Henry Colman, North 
East, J. W. Smith, A. P. Peck, Wm. Weaver, L. Du¬ 
rand, N. B. Cloud, J. J. T., J. E. Ferre, A Saratoga Co. 
Farmer, R. A. Avery, Sanford Howard, H. T. C., L. 
"Bostwick,*!, N., Richmond, C. N. Bement, A Subscriber, 
M. W. Phillips, Thomas Thompson, H. A. Garrett, N. 
N. D., J. R. Speed, Lansingville, J. M. Harlan, A. E. 
Cowles. 
K. N. D.’s favor came too late for this paper. We 
shall therefore forward it to the chairman of the Com. on 
Plows, that the committee may have the benefit of his 
experience and suggestions. 
A. B. N. and A Sitbscriber, with answers to their inqui¬ 
ries, in our next. 
J. R, S. and H. A. G. —The Western Shepherd, by Geo. 
Flower, was printed at New Harmony, Indiana, and has 
never to onr knowledge been on sale in this part of the 
country. We believe Mr. Flower resides at Albion, Ed¬ 
wards CO., Illinois. It may probably be obtained by ad¬ 
dressing him at that place. 
W. i). M., Tuscaloosa. —Smith's subsoil plow is not 
manufactured in this country. The Worcester subsoil 
plow, described at p. 49 of our current vol., is for sale 
in this city-T—price $15. 
C. J. R., Lan"-Island .—Please send ns the “ Calendar,” 
in as concise a form as may be. 
We will endeavor to comply with the request of 
A Subscriber, Marietta, by giving the ground plans, ex- 
penscj &c. of Cottage Row. 
T. M., jr., Erie, Pa~. —Collect the bill in the funds 
mentioned. 
Acknowledgments. —We are very greatly indebted 
to Mr. Colman, W. W. Wadsworth of Geneseo, (now 
traveling in Europe,) P. L. Simmonds, X'oTeigri News¬ 
paper Agent, London, and to the Editors of the New 
Farmer’s Journal and the Mark Lane Express, for papers 
containing copious accounts of the great Cattle Show of 
the Royal Ag. Society at Derby. The Pictorial Times, 
received from Mr. Simmonds, furnishes us with pictorial 
representations of the Council Dinner, the Mayor’s Din¬ 
ner, and the grand Agricultural Dinner, at Avhich 2,000 
gentlemen, and 500 ladies, (in a gallery fitted up for their 
use,) were present—three different views of the Cattle 
Yard, and views of the Grand Pavilion and of the Trial 
of Implements. We are also indebted to Mr. Colman 
for the notes of his speech at the Council Dinner, which 
will be found in another part of this paper, and to Mr. 
Simmonds, for Denton’s Treatise on “ Model Mapping, 
as suggestive of a general and economical system 
of Drainage and Irrigation”—Baldwin’s Treatise on 
the ‘‘ Cultivation and Uses of the Swedish Turnep,” 
and for several pamphlets, showbills, advertisements, &c. 
To the Author, for “ The Every Day Book,” by Joel 
Munsell. 
To the Rev. E. G. Smith, the translator, for “ The 
Economy of Farming.” 
To D. Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, for 
their editions of “ Productive Farming,” and to the lat¬ 
ter firm for Prof. Johnston’s Lectures, Parts I, II, III, 
and the Appendix. 
To H. T. Chapman, Esq., New-York, for acock and 
pair of pullets of the Dorking breed. They are fine birds, 
and were raised froiri a lot imported by Mr. C. two years 
since. Gentlemen wishing to procure this excellent 
breed of fowls, can obtain them by addressing Mr. C. 
No. 77 Fulton st. New-York—price $4,00 per pair. 
To Thomas Allen, Esq., formerly editor of the Madi¬ 
sonian, for the Prize List of the St, Louis Co. (Mo.) Ag. 
Society, 
To L. Durand, for the New-Haven Palladium, con¬ 
taining a communication of Erastus Dudley of North 
Guilford, (Ct.) on the subject of Btommer’s Manure. Mr. 
D. says:—“ Having made use of Mr. George Bommer’s 
method of making manure by fermentation, for more than 
one year, and having tested its results in various respects, 
I am now fully prepared to give my unequivocal testi¬ 
mony in its favor.” 
To Sanford Howard, Zanesville, (0.1 for specimens 
of silk from Mr. Gill’s manufactory, a notice of which 
will be found in this paper. The specimens are very 
superior; among them, is a piece of the crimson silk 
from which the flag for the China mission was made. 
To J. R. Speed, Esq., for the Prize List of the Tomp¬ 
kins Ag. Society. 
S.ALE OF Improved Stock.—I t ivill be seen by a no¬ 
tice in this paper, that Mr. Bement, of the Three Hills 
Farm, near this city, proposes to sell at public sale a 
portion of his improved stock, consisting of bulls, (old 
and young,) cows, heifers, calves. South Down sheep, 
&c. The sale will be held on Wednesday, the ]3th of 
this month, and will afford a good opportunity to those 
who wish to improve their stock to procure such ani¬ 
mals as they may want. 
A most gratuitou.s, and, were it not for the ma¬ 
licious spirit indicated, amusing attempt is made in a 
late number of one of our recently established agricul¬ 
tural papers, to pervert and misrepresent an article on 
breeding, which appeared in our paper for .Inly. To 
show its true nature, it is only necessary to say that the 
effort is made to show that the Cultivator has “ grossly 
calumniated” the Short Horn Durhams; and the writer 
says, “If the Short Horn breeders will put up with 
such gross calumnies on their stock, wh}'' 
greatly mistaken in their spirit, and the 
herds are driven back to the place from which they 
came, the better.” It was news to us to hear that we, 
who have ever been the strenuous advocates of the Diir- 
hams, had calumniated them; and so, we doubt not, it 
w-ill be to such breeders as Messrs. Prentice, Rotch, 
Bement, Vail, Sherwood, Randall, Ilillhouse and others 
in this State, and to the Messrs. Lathrop of Mass.; 
Messrs. Collins, Townsend and Whitney of Conn.; Dr. 
Poole of New-Jersey; Messrs. Gowen, Coi)e and Mor¬ 
ris of Pa., and a host of other Short Horn breedei-s,who 
have been the constant readers of the Cultivator. They 
will wonder as much as we did where these gross ca¬ 
lumnies are to, be found in our pages. For the thirteen 
years we have had charge of an agTicultural paper, we 
have been in the' habit of expressing our views freely 
on all matters of interest to the fanner. In So doing, 
it is not strange that at times we have crossed the course 
of those whose selfish purposes and the interest of the 
great body of the fanning community do not coinciile, 
and who, for that reason, arc disposed to assail us. 
When our opinions have been criticised, we have ever 
been ready to concede to an opponent whatever we Were 
convinced was right, our only object being the attain¬ 
ment of correct principles. But when our opinions have 
been called in question in a captious or faultfinding spi¬ 
rit, with attempts to misrepresent and pervert our views, 
as in this case, it has been our practice to allow such 
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then we are«f*’^’s’^‘ ? 
sooner their 
attacks to pass without notice; and we should not have 
deviated from our usual course in the present instance, 
had not our attention been specially invited to the arti¬ 
cle by the journal itself. The temper and tone of the 
paper in question are such as to preclude all hope of an 
amicable discussion; we cannot enter into a controversy 
with a writer who knowingly and Avillfully misrepre¬ 
sents US; and having obtained the notice sought for, 
we hope the editor in question will he satisfied. We 
certainly wish him no harm, and to be obliged to retract 
the many kind things we have said of him would pain 
US; but we must confess that since his trip to England, 
whither he was sent, we believe, as an agent to pur¬ 
chase pigs, he has afforded the most striking illustration 
of the “ important man,” so humorously described by 
Washington Irving, who had smelt salt water and writ¬ 
ten a hook, that has ever fallen under our notice. Al¬ 
though he has never to our knowledge bred any farm 
stock but pigs, immediately on his return, (without hav¬ 
ing seen but a moiety of the fine Short Horns of Eng¬ 
land, and probably not a single extensive herd of Ayr- 
shires,) he pronounced, with oracular gravity, that 
“ there was but one man’s herd in England that would 
improve our own,” and that there was no necessity for 
importing Ayrshires, inasmuch as we “could make 
them by the thousands here.” His assertions that we 
have calumniated the Short Horns,will receive about the 
same degree of credence that the above assertions of his 
did here and in England. That his eflbrts to distort and 
fix a meaning on our language never intended by us, 
will have more weight with the public than did his 
European discoveries, we do not believe; in any event, 
he is welcome to all the credit or profit he can derive 
from them. We take leave of this part of our monthly 
notices with the remark, that there is not a well inform¬ 
ed Short Horn breeder in the country that will claim 
more for them than we have cheerfully allowed in the 
article in the Cultivator; and that there is not a man in 
the United States, claiming the character of a gentle¬ 
man, who would not be ashamed of the language and 
manners of the paper we have liere noticed. 
Prize Essay. —We commence in this paper, the pub¬ 
lication of the Essay on Manures, which received the 
Prize offered by the N. Y. S. Ag. Society^, at its annual 
meeting last winter. It has received the highest com¬ 
mendation from the agricultural press, and is, we think 
we may say, though from the pen of our associate, one 
of the ablest essays which has yet appeared on the sub¬ 
ject. On copying it into his paper, the editor of the 
American Farmer remarks:—“We should do injustice 
to the ability with which Mr. Gaylord has treated every 
head of the various subjects he discusses, w^re we to re¬ 
frain from the expression of our admiration of the pro¬ 
found research, astute judgment, critical acumen, scien¬ 
tific Attainment, and*practical knowledge he has dis¬ 
played. The essay was most truly worthy^ of the prize it 
won for its erudite author.” 
Measuring Cross.— The description of this instru¬ 
ment, p. 82, seems perfectly plain to us; and we think 
our correspondent, “ North East,” if he will read it care¬ 
fully with the instrument in his hand, and place the point 
d. on such part of his face as will bring g. and a. on a 
a.f. with the eye, and then go such dis¬ 
tance from the object as is necessaiy to bring i. c. also on 
a right line with the eye, we think he will get it in a 
right position. Its correctness, and whether the uneven¬ 
ness of the ground will make any difference, may easily 
be tested by' trying it on a tree, and then felling and mea¬ 
suring its trunk. We will, however, endeavor to give 
North East’s Measuring Cross hereafter. His inquiry is 
answei-ed in another part of this paper. 
The Herd Book.— The long expected vol. (the 4lh,) 
of this work, was issued in England on the 1st of August. 
Butter and Eggs. —Our domestic animals are not in 
the habit of striking for higher wages, but we should 
scarcely wonder if our cows and hens should propose 
conventions for deciding on ulterior movements. Only 
think of new sweet butter made from clover pastures, 
hawked about the streets, and finally exchanged perhaps 
for groceries at six cents per lb. And eggs gathered 
daily from their cosy nests in the clean straw, and deem¬ 
ed a drug at six cents a dozen. Yet this has been the 
state of things in most of our country villages, and hun- 
(h’eds if not thousands of tons of butler and myriads of 
eggs have been disposed of at these prices. If our ani¬ 
mals will continue to produce at such prices, they must 
be very good natured, to say the least of them. 
The Mississippi Farmer, a monthly octavo of 16 
pages at $1.00 a year, has just been commenced at St. 
Louis, bv J. Libby'. 
