THE CULTIVATOR 
Feb. 
flotes for the 
Awards of our January Prizes. 
The following amounts are awarded in pursuance of 
our offer of New-Year’s Premiums : 
Henry Willis, Connecticut,_ Twenty-five Dollars. 
I. W. Briggs, Wayne Co.,. Twenty Dollars. 
J. R. Howard, Massachusetts,- Twenty Dollars. 
Westchester Co. (.Pa.) Ag. Society, Fifteen Dollars. 
A. S. Moss, Chautauque Co.,. Fifteen Dollars. 
E. Benedict, Clinton Co.,. Fifteen Dollars. 
Wai. Carpenter, New-Jersey,- Ten Dollars. 
J. A. Horton, New-Jersey,. Ten Dollars. 
E. Merritt, Dutchess Co.,. Ten Dollars. 
L. Selleck, Orange Co.,. Ten Dollars. 
J. C. Carlisle, Jefferson Co.,_ Five Dollars. 
Jaaies Lyon, Steuben Co.,. Five Dollars. 
C. B. Sheldon, Delaware Co. Five Dollars. 
O. P. Knapp, Niagara Co.,. Five Dollars. 
Bucks Co. (Pa.) Ag. Society,. Five Dollars. 
Several lists, whose senders’ names would have been 
entitled to rank with the above, were not mailed to us 
in time; but they, together with those who are now 
successful, and others from whom we have yet to hear, 
will all compete for the April Prizes. We trust that 
efforts will be renewed and that we shall have the plea¬ 
sure of being able to announce with the next awards, 
the gratifying fact that our subscription lists for 1858 
are larger than ever before. 
The sums above mentioned are respectively placed 
to the credit of the gentlemen or societies named, and 
await their orders. 
With many thanks for the kind exertions of our 
friends in all parts of the country in support of both the 
Country Gentleman and The Cultivator, we can 
but also intimate our hope that they will keep up their 
public spirited labors during the winter and spring; 
and that, undiscouraged by “hard times” and an 
apathy more general than usual, on the subject of agri¬ 
cultural progress, each will persevere until he succeeds 
in eliciting such additions to the ranks of our subscri¬ 
bers as we are happy that we can already acknowledge 
from numerous localities. The first prize above, is 
awarded on a list of subscribers to the Country Gen- 
lleman, with but few exceptions, wholly new, and 
many of the others manifest a striking increase over 
previous years. Try and keep all old subscribers, as 
the first point, and as the second, don’t be discouraged 
if your list has but one or two to start with. We will 
supply specimen numbers with pleasure for those un¬ 
acquainted with the paper.* • • • We republish the list of 
Prizes to be Awarded April 10. 
1. For the largest amount of cash subscriptions to our 
Journals, at the lowest Club Rates, received at this 
office April Tenth, or previously, we will pay, 
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. 
2. For the TWO next largest amounts, each, 
TWENTY DOLLARS. 
3. For the THREE next largest amounts, each, 
FIFTEEN DOLLARS. 
4. For the FOUR next largest amounts, each, 
TEN DOLLARS. 
5. For the FIVE next largest amounts, each, 
FIVE DOLLARS. 
gfjf* And that those who did not begin canvassing 
early enough for the January prizes, or who took one 
of the two lowest offered, (eiher $10 or $5) may have 
some inducement to compete more vigorously for the 
April list—should the first of the above premiums be 
taken by any one who in January received neither a 
first, second or third prize, we will make it Thirty-five 
instead of Twenty-Jive Dollars ; and should either sec¬ 
ond or third prize be taken under similar circumstan¬ 
ces, we will increase them each $5, (making them res¬ 
pectively $25 and $20.) 
Cauliflowers Headed in Winter —We have just 
had a fine present of a cauliflower, set in a cellar for 
heading, just at the commencement of winter, when 
it was not as large as a common sized fist. Now, it is 
beautifully headed and measures ten inches in diame¬ 
ter,—and we learn that it is only one of many. They 
were merely taken up with the roots, and deposited 
vertically on the cellar bottom. 
Albany Strawberry Plants in Missouri. —We 
received some time since, a letter under date of Dec. 
21st, from a correspondent in Clark Co., Missouri, who 
last fall ordered from Mr. John Dingwall of this city, 
a thousand plants of the Albany Strawberry. We 
were somewhat in doubt of their transportation so far 
with safety, but are pleased to learn that they all ar¬ 
rived living, though, from negligence in setting them 
out, about half the plants were subsequently lost. 
We could procure for our correspondent the plants 
he wishes in the spring. We do not know how the cli¬ 
mate where he resides compares with ours, but pre¬ 
sume Brinckle’s Orange Raspberry would require win 
ter protection, as it does here, and even, we believe, 
farther south. 
Cost of Chinese Cane Molasses. —There arc hun¬ 
dreds of reports in the agricultural papers, of entire 
success in the manufacture, of molasses from the Chi¬ 
nese Sugar Cane. There is no longer a shadow of doubt 
on this point. Some have succeeded in making good 
sugar, of which the editor of the Philadelphia Friends’ 
Review lately gives several instances. But we are 
left entirely in the dark on the great leading paint, the 
actual cost , including cultivation, manufacture, labor, 
and fuel. Several say the cost is moderate , but this is 
not at all definite. We lately met an intelligent gen¬ 
tleman from Orange county, who had given special at¬ 
tention to this point, and had found the molasses to 
cost, all things counted, a dollar a gallon. Can any 
correspondent give 'particulars , showing that it can be 
made for less, and how much less, accurately ? 
[£3r* We had occasion some time since to correct an 
article in the Genesee Farmer , in relation to the his¬ 
tory of the different papers that have borne that title, 
—a correction which we much regretted that Mr. Har¬ 
ris did not do us the justice to transfer to his columns. 
In the January number of the same periodical, we no¬ 
tice a claim that it has “ commenced its Twenty-Eighth 
year”—a claim of exactly the same merits as if a son, 
because he bore his father’s name, should add his 
father’s age to his own, and speak of celebrating his 
“ hundredth birth-day” when he was himself actually 
50 or 60 years old. The original Genesee Farmer , 
established and published by the Senior Editor of this 
paper, was consolidated with the Cultivator as our 
readers are aware, on the death of Judge Buel in 
1839. Afterwards a journal was started at Rochester, 
bearing for some time the title of the “ New Genesee 
Farmer ,” which, during frequent changes of owner¬ 
ship, has for a number of years past dropped the New, 
and at last begins to assume the age as well as the 
name of its predecessor. The N. E. Farmer with sim¬ 
ilar reason and justice, might considerably increase its 
age by adding the number of years in which Fessen¬ 
den’s old N. E. Farmer was issued. We look back 
