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THE CULTIVATOR 
and still are very poor. Now, Messrs. Editors, if you 
or any of your many subscribers, can tell us through 
your paper, what this disease is, and what can be done 
for it, you will confer a great favor on Alfred H. 
Bronson. Rensselaer ville , N. Y. 
The Llamas. —In our last we inserted an inquiry, 
as to whether the Llamas recently imported, are “ the 
Alpaca or Vicuna.” We have since received several 
other inquiries to the same purport. One gentleman 
gays—“ Xf they are the genuine Alpaca, I should like 
to experiment with them, and I presume others would.” 
Will the importers please enlighten our readers on the 
subject ? 
f^pT" R- iV. C. will find a full report of the awards 
of premiums on the machines tried at Syracuse last 
summer, in this paper, which will afford an answer to 
his inquiry. 
Pot and Pearl Ashes. — S. A. McM. We do not 
know where to refer you for information in relation to 
the manufacture of these articles. 
Muck for Upland. —What effect would the muck 
from a cranberry marsh have on upland, there being 
one upon my land of 3^ acres, which I have had just 
grubbed—would it grow corn, root crops, &c. ? J. A. D. 
[The application of swamp muck generally benefits 
upland, if heavily applied. We have known it to 
double the crops, but more commonly the result is not 
striking, and not unfrequently it is imperceptible The 
beneficial effect no doubt depends much on the previ¬ 
ous condition or composition of the upland soil, and 
the amount of vegetable matter it may contain, and 
also on the nature of the muck. We prefer to use it 
first, after being well dried, as an absorbent of liquid 
in the barn-yard. 
The swamp itself, after being thoroughly drained, 
will produce flat turnips, broom corn, and often oats 
and Indian corn, if the latter is the earliest kind, so as 
to escape the frosts to which muck land is eminently 
liable. 
Wire Fence. —Will you or some ot your corres¬ 
pondents, inform me through The Cultivator, of the 
best plan for a cheap wire fence. S. W. J. [We have 
never yet been able to find the two qualities of cheap¬ 
ness and efficiency combined in a wire fence. We have 
heard of their being made of small wire for twenty- 
five or fifty cents a rod—but all we have seen of this 
kind were worthless. No. 9 wire, which is but little 
more than one-eighth of an inch in diameter, is often 
recommended, but it is quite too small. No. 4 wire, 
(one-fourth of an inch,) is small enough. Fence made 
of this will cost a dollar and a half or two dollars a 
rod, if well constructed.] 
Rose Acacia. —Please inform me through the Cul¬ 
tivator, how the Acacia Rose, (Robinia hispida, or 
Moss Locust,) can be propagated, and if propagated 
from seed how to manage it with success. M. C. L. 
[The Robinia hispida commonly increases rapidly by 
suckers—it doubtless might be easily raised from cut¬ 
tings of the root, in the way so commonly adopted at 
the present time among nurserymen for the increase of 
raspberries and blackberries. Well ripened seed would 
readily grow, if sown in good soil, one-half or three- 
fourths of an inch deep, after scalding.] 
Trimming Hedges. —What is the proper implement 
for pruning an Osage Orange hedge about five years 
old, which has been suffered to grow wild for the last 
Feb. 
three years? What would be the effect of cutting 
back such a hedge to within a foot fj;om the ground ? 
M. II. Leesburg , Va. [A bush-hook ; or if this is not 
sufficient, a saw set on a long handle, so as to avoid 
the thorns. Cutting down such a hedge early or by the 
first of spring, would probably cause it to sprout up 
thickly, and, if rightly managed afterwards, to make 
a good and efficient hedge in a very short time. Strong 
hedges have been thus made in two years, in connection 
with proper after pruning, culture, &c.] 
The Michigan Plow. —Is the smallest size Michi¬ 
gan plow of too great draught for a pair of stout, able 
horses, at a depth of 7 inches, in a soil where a pair 
of small horses (14£ hands high) walk along easily 
with a Prouty, to that depth, and will it work advan¬ 
tageously in a soil already loose and mellow by culti¬ 
vation for root crops ? Ploughman. Burlington , N. 
J. [“Stout and able” being comparative terms, we 
an not answer with great precision, but we have no 
doubt a Michigan plow would run seven inches deep 
with ease, when a weaker team draws a common plow 
as deep. We have not, however, found the smallest 
size Michigan to do its work handsomely at a less 
depth than nine or ten inches, requiring from three to 
four horses. The best work we ever performed with 
this plow, was the largest size drawn by three yoke of 
oxen (two yoke were not stout enough) to a measured 
depth of twelve or thirteen inches. The loosened bed 
of earth, thrown up by the mould-boards, was about 
twenty inches deep. It will work advantageously in a 
loose mellow soil.] 
Address. —Please give me the address of “ B. J. 
T. of Grundy, Tenn.,” who inquires through the Co. 
Gent, of Oct. 20, about the “ durability of threshers 
with cleaners attached,” and “ where and by whom 
are the best lever power threshers made;” and also 
the address of “ J. W. P., Cass Co., Ga.,” in Co. Gent, 
of Dec. 24. Millesor Carver. Brownsville, Pa. 
[We cannot do it. Perhaps the gentlemen will answer 
for themselves.] 
Leghorn Fowls. —Can you inform me through the 
“ Cultivator,” where, and at what price, I can get the 
“ Leghorn ” fowl, or their eggs ? G. K. 0. [We think 
the birds can be procured of R. P. Pearsall, Harlem, 
N. Y., though they are not mentioned in his advertise¬ 
ment.] 
Reins and Long Tails. —Having seen in the Co. 
Gent, some inquiry for a preventive of horses throw¬ 
ing their tails over the reins, and not having seeu any 
given, except to nick and dock, and as some of your 
readers, (and your humble servant among them,) have 
a particular aversion to that remedy, I thought I would 
give you an idea of mine, which I have tried with very 
good success during fly time, on a five year old mare. 
It is simply this: Pass one rein around the other, so 
that they will be united directly over the tail; or what 
is better, fasten a small ring to one rein, over the tail, 
and pass the other through it; in that way the horse 
cannot get his tail over one rein without both, and they 
could be held with sufficient force to prevent his cling¬ 
ing them under. D. S. Springfield , Vt. 
Worms in Hogs. —Can you inform me through the 
Cultivator how to expel worms from hogs. I had some 
last fall that were full from one end to the other, of the 
long red worm, and in consequence of which they would 
not fatten; they would eat just enough to keep them 
