Cult. Vol. X.— No. 10. ALBANY, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1843. Cult. & Far. Vol. IV.— No. 10. 
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THE CULTIVATOR. 
‘‘TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” 
MONTHLY NOTICES. 
Communications have come to hand since our last, 
from A. B. N., of Nashua, G****, A. E., Solon Robinson, 
R. Rubblee, Alonzo Sessions, Will. H. Wills, J. T. Leigh, 
D. H. Wright, C. Butler, John W. Smith, T. D. C., Pe- 
regrinator, John Delano, A. J. Downing, E. D. Worbas- 
se, A Farmer, Geo. Bommer, T. M. Niven, A Practical 
Farmer, M. E. Merwin, B. A. R., Y'ankee Farmer, P., 
J. King, G. Kouwenboven. 
Our absence at Rochester, for ten days past, has 
prevented attention to several private letters, and answers 
to many inquiries. They shall be attended to next month. 
The articles alluded to in the private note of A Prac¬ 
tical Farmer, will be very acceptable, as is every thing 
from the same source. 
We should have been glad to have given jdace to 
Mr. Bommer’s communication this month, had it been 
possible. It was not received till after our return from 
the Fair, when our paper was more than filled. It shall 
be given in our next. 
Mr. S. Williams will find in the nos. of the cur¬ 
rent vol. of the Cultivator sent him, the information he 
asks in relation to pressing the juice from cornstalks. 
J. M. H.—The engravings would cost from $10 to $12. 
Lansingville, S. A. Steele, Wm. Dicken, and seve¬ 
ral others, should each have paid the postage of their 
letters. We are ever ready to answ'er inquiries or attend 
to commissions for our friend,s, when in our power, but 
we do not like to pay $18.” or 25 cents for the privilege. 
The Pictorial Times and Illustrated Ixmdon News, 
containing descriptions of the Fair of the Royal Ag. So¬ 
ciety at Derby, were sent from this office to several of 
our exchange papers, and we susjiect the South. PJanter 
and the S. W. Farmer, are indebted to us for the papers 
they have acknowledged from another source. Certain it 
is, we sent them copies of the papers mentioned. 
Shedding of Horns in Cattle. —By the remark re¬ 
specting cattle shedding their horns at the age of two or 
three years, in the Aug. no. of the Cultivator, and which 
is referred to by “A Saratoga Farmer,” it is not intended 
to convey the idea that the horn falls off as in the case 
of the deer, but that it is loosened from its base so as to 
allow a lengthening of (he bone of the horn, as without 
this process growth would be difficult, if not impossible. 
It is to this annual starting of the horny covering of the 
bone of the horn, that the annular rings are owing, by 
•\vhich the age of the animal is computed, allowing two 
or three years previous to the first ring. 
Old Onondaga forever!— Our obliging host of the 
far-famed Syracuse House, is about to become as cele¬ 
brated for his success in farming, as for his superb ac¬ 
commodations for the traveler. His unrivaled ox, and 
his splendid porkers, have elicited the admiration of 
thousands, and when we learned that his wheat crop this 
year was 48 bushels per acre, we began to think he had 
distanced competition in this respect also; but it seems 
that Mr. Dickinson, of “Sunny” (or Onondaga,) ‘‘ Hol¬ 
low,” has carried off the palm, by producing from an 
acre, 52 bushels, 8 qts. of wheat. Verily this does not 
look like a material falling off in the wheat crop. We 
wait to sec what county beats Old Onondaga. 
SESuammaam 
A-CKnowledgments. —We tender our kindest thanks 
to '.he several friends to whom we are indebted for the 
various articles alluded to in our “ Acknowledgments,” 
from month to month. Since our last, we have received 
“ The Horse, by Wm. Youatt.” American edition, edi¬ 
ted by J. S. Skinner, Esq. From-Lea & Blanchard, pub¬ 
lishers, Philadelphia. 
The Atnerican 4:Sriculturist s Almanac, by A. B. Al¬ 
len, from J. Winchester, New-York. It is got up in 
good taste, and is well worth the shilling charged for it. 
Manures, a Prize Essay, by S. L. Dana, published by 
the Mass. Society for tlie Promotion of Agriculture— 
from the Author. 
Address before the New-Haven Ilort. Society, by A. S. 
Munson, M. D., together with the Transactions of the 
Society for 1842—from N. Darling, Esq. [Mr. D.’s note, 
though dated Aug. 17, was but recently received. We 
shall be glad to receive the paper alluded to. Send it by 
mail.] 
The London Farmer's Journal, Mark jMneExpress, and 
Farmer's Herald, in regular files, from their respective 
Editors. 
“ The Farmer's Mine or Source of Wealth, b}' Henry 
Heermance —Revised and corrected by A. B. Ali.en, 
editor of the American Agriculturist.”—From the Au¬ 
thor. [We presume this must be a good book—indeed, 
we are quiie sure it is, unless the compiler or revisor has 
so badly mangled several excellent papers, as to render 
them valueless. ¥or instance, the f rat chapter is copied 
verbatim, from the Prize Essay by one of the Editors of 
the Cultivator, and without even the poor acknowledg¬ 
ment of quotation marks. In the other chapters, page 
after page is given from the same Essay, sometimes with 
acknowledgment, but more frequently without. The 
other parts are made up from two or three other standard 
works, with an occasional acknowledgment of the sour¬ 
ces from whence derived. Taken together, it is as gross 
a piece of plagiarism as we have e\er seem. The revi¬ 
sor's part seems to hav^e consisted in the introduction in 
several places, of references to the American Agricultu¬ 
rist. We have not, however, carefully the 
portions taken from our Es.sa\', to see what “ corrections'’ 
have been made.] 
We have the pleasure of acknowledging the re¬ 
ceipt of a box containing two pair of those fine birds, the 
Dorking Fowl, from our friend L. F. Allen, Esq. of 
Buff'alo. The Dorkings are famed for their size am) egg 
producing properties, and those forwarded gave good 
evidence as to this latter quality. Western New-York 
is certainly much indebted to Mr. Allen for his efforts at 
introducing and improving the best animals generally. 
The Farmer’s Encyclopedia. —The nos. of this 
work are regularly issued by Messrs. Carey & Harl, Phi¬ 
ladelphia. The article on the “ Effects of Climate,” in 
this work, allmled to by our correspondent, J. T. Leigh, 
Esq., and which has been so severely liandled by our 
friend Phillips, in the S. W. Farmer, was not written for 
the Encyclopedia, but coined from Feaiherstonhaugh’s 
Journal of Geology for 1831. AVe venUire to presume 
that it was inti-oiliiced without a proper examination of 
its statements, as we cannot believe the editor would in¬ 
tentionally have done injustice to the productions of the 
South. 
Blackwood's Magazine. —The cheap re-print of this 
work for Sept., has been promptly furnished us by the 
publisher, AVinchester, New AVorld Office, New-York, 
who has nearly reaily for the press an abridged edition 
of Allison’s History of Europe, to be published at the 
low price of $1,00. 
Princes Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Orna¬ 
mental Trees, &c. cultivated atthcLinnean Botanic Gar¬ 
den, Flu.-hing, lias been received. It will materially aid 
the purchaser in making his selection. 
Kir Van Winkle Pear. —We received about the first 
of las month, a box of this fruit, from Mr. C. Hamilton, 
Canterbury, Orange co., from the tree noticed in our Aug. 
no. It is a l ery fair quality, and worthy of being intro¬ 
duced into our collections of this fruit. 
The American Rail Road Journal. —Our old 
friend Minor, formerly of the New-York Farmer, has 
resumed the editorship of this work. Among the inte¬ 
resting papers in the July no. is a very interesting ac¬ 
count of a visit to the extensive iron works of H. Bar¬ 
den, Esq., near Troy. 
Chatterly’s Report on Agricultural Experi¬ 
ments —We acknowledge the receipt frotji our London 
correspondent, of a sheet containing the result of a series 
of experiments made with various substances, on dift'er- 
ent crops, from which it appears that sulphate of ammo¬ 
nia was the most active of these substances, increasing 
the product in the same kind of soil, from 23^ bushels of 
wheat per acre, where none was used, to 32^ bushels, 
where 1 j cwt. per acre was used, 
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The South.— AVe make the following extract from a 
private letter of a correspondent in Maryland:—“Your 
remarks in regard to Dr. Cloud's improved culture of 
cotton, ilo you much credit, and I am truly pleased to 
know that your subscription list is increasing southward. 
There is no section of our country requires your indefati¬ 
gable aid more than tlie south, and I hope to see the day 
when their agriculture will be impToved. From my lit¬ 
tle experience there, I believe that larger crops can be 
made than Dr. Cloud’s. The very best land I ever looked 
upon, being a vegetable dcj osit with sand and clay, and 
based upon a secondary formation of lime, only produced 
about 25 bushels of corti to the acre, and ought to grow 
over 100 with less labor. Tlie corn was planted about5 
feet square, one stalk in the hill, and they were obliged 
to work it till earing, or the weeds would have smoth- 
ed it. My astonishment was that they made an}^ corn.” 
Soi.oN Robinson. —AVe regret to learn that this effi¬ 
cient and zealous advocate of every measure calculated 
to improve the character and elevate the standing' of the 
cultivators of the soil, has been removed from tlie office 
of postmaster- Holding' the pen of a ready writer, and 
enjoying the franking privilege, Mr. R. has for years 
past, done niucli by his private correspondence, as well 
as by his communications to the Agricultural Journals, 
to promote the great object in which he has been so zea¬ 
lously engaged. Having lost the I'tanking privilege, his 
labors must of necessity be somewhat curtailed, as few 
men can be expected to maintain so exten.sive a corres¬ 
pondence as he has lieretofore done, when the jiostage 
on each letter costs nearly a bushel of wheal. Hereafter, 
we beg him not to pa}' postage on his letters to the Cul¬ 
tivator; ami we second the motion of our friend Phil- 
Livs of the Southwesfern Farmer, by entering the name 
of Solon Robt.nson, as a permanent free subscriber to 
the Cultivator. 
Sou'j'H Downs.-— AA’e call tlie attention of all amateurs 
and breeders of fine stock, to the notice of Mr. Rctch’s 
sale in anofher part of this nurnbei-. The sheep are of 
tlie nest Di eeiis, seiectetl or bred with great care, and will 
be found great acquisitions to all who are desirous of 
placing on their farms so.nie of the best Bouth Downs in 
the country. The great experience and skill of Mr. R. 
in the selection and breeding of stock, are sufficient gua¬ 
rantees of the excellence of the animals offered. 
Business of an important nature calls Mr. R. to Eng¬ 
land for the next two or three years, and he will spend 
a large portion of them in a survey of the agriculture of 
tliat and the other portions of Europe, and a thorough 
examination of their several breeds of improved and 
other animals; a labor for which he is admirably quali¬ 
fied, and of which the results can scarcely fail of being 
valuable and important. He will carry with him the 
best wishes of thousands for his success ivhile abroad, 
and a safe and speedy return to our American shores. 
We invite particular attention to the advertisement 
of Thomas & Smith, in this number of the Cultivator. 
Their Nursery, though recently commenced, occupies 
more than ten acres in compact cultivation, and they 
have already in fi ness for sale, a supply of some of our 
best fruils. Among these are a fine colleclion-of jieach- 
es of more than 10,OCO trees of large size and excellent 
growtli. But that which we wish more especially to 
commend, is the rule which they have laid down as the 
basis of all their operations; to offer nothing for sale but 
proved varieties, which they have themselves examined 
while in a bearing state, and -whose excellence and fit¬ 
ness for the climate has been rigidly tested by directex- 
periment. Though they have availed themselves of an 
extensive collection of fruit, only a few of the very best 
are selected for propagation and sale, and the confusion 
and frequent mistakes arising from a numerous list of 
kinds is avoided. They have made great efforts in col¬ 
lecting the best fruils from all ]iarts of the Union, and 
these as they come into bearing are submitted to tho¬ 
rough examination, and those which on strict trial are 
proved fully worthy, are cultivated for public use. 
Profits of .4, Good Cow.— AA’'e find in the S. C. Re¬ 
gister of Agriculture, the following statement of a cow- 
owned by him, for the last 2 years and 3 months. In that 
time she has given milk for 672 days, and at least eight 
quarts per day. Milk sells at Columbia, for l2^ cents 
per quart, and the milk would thus be worth $672. Two 
calves were sold for 17 dollars, giving a total profit of 
$689. The expenses W'ere cost of the cow, $11; inter¬ 
est, $1.73; Servant’s time milking, $54; food, stabling, 
&e. at $45 per year, $100. AVhole expense, $166.73; 
leaving a [irofit of $522.73, or about $196 per year. Put¬ 
ting the milk at the common price at the north, 6 cents, 
and the profits are still great. The cow is small, and of 
the native breed. Who would not keep a good cow’? 
