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THE CULTIVATOR. 
July. 
for individuals also, he is to make considerable pur¬ 
chases of improved live stock. Letters intended for 
Mr. Howard while abroad, may be directed to the care 
of Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co., Liverpool. 
St. Lawrence Co. Ag. Society. —The annual meet¬ 
ing of this Society was held at Canton on the 8th of 
June, when the following officers were elected: 
President— Henry G-. Foote of Ogdensburgh. 
Vice Presidents—Cyprian Powell of Madrid; Joseph 
E. Orvis, Massena; Wm. Wilson, Potsdam; Jonah San¬ 
ford. Jr., Hopkinton; Nelson Doolittle, Russell; Corne¬ 
lius Faville, DeKalb ; Reuben Nott, Rossie ; Chester Dyke, 
DePeyster. 
Secretary—L. E. B. Winslow, Canton. 
Treasurer—Ebenezer Miner, Canton. 
The Treasurer’s report was read, and showed a bal¬ 
ance of $389 49 in the treasury. 
At a subsequent meeting of the Executive Commit¬ 
tee, the 15th, 16th, and 17th of September next were 
designated as the days for holding the annual fair. A 
resolution was also passed to purchase the part of the 
grounds occupied but not now owned by the Society. 
§2^ The Kentucky papers announce the death of 
the Hon. Adam Beatty, at his residence in Mason Co, 
in the 82d year of his age. Judge Beatty was one of 
the earliest and most earnest advocates for agricultural 
improvement in Kentucky. A volume of his Essays 
on the Agriculture of Kentucky was published in 1844. 
The next New-Hampshire State Fair is to be 
held at Dover, October 6th, 7th and 8th. Rev. E. H. 
Chapin of New-York will deliver the address. 
Kentucky Fair. —The time of holding the next 
Kentucky State Fair has been changed from the first 
week in September, to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs¬ 
day, Friday, and Saturday, September 28th, 29th, and 
30th, and October 1st and 2d. 
Culture of Millet. — I see some of your corres¬ 
pondents tell of sowing Millet broadcast for seed. 
Much the best way is to sow it in drills, say 3£ feet 
apart, and plow it, or use the cultivator the same as 
with corn. The seed will then all mature to perfec¬ 
tion, and many of the heads will be 10 or 11 inches in 
length. For hay, we sow here from 3 pecks to a bush¬ 
el per acre, and sow from 1st May to 15th July. M. 
E. Marrowbone , Tenn. 
Oregon against the World for Productiveness. 
—I raised from one single blue pea that came up in 
my orchard, eighty-four pods, containing five hundred 
and twenty-seven good sound peas. And I also raised 
on one single head of oats, six hundred and two grains. 
This looks like large figures, but it can be proved by 
men that helped to count them. I also raised a Sha¬ 
ker blue potato, that weighed eight pounds and one 
ounce, without irrigation. P. Prettyman. Paradise 
Springs , 0. T. 
U. S Fair. —We hear that the United States Ag 
Society has determined to bold their fair for this year, 
at Richmond, Va., about the 25th of Oct. 
Underdraining. —In the report of the Tioga Co. 
Society in our last State Ag. Transactions, instances 
are given where swamps were drained through the 
clay bottom into the underlying gravelly subsoil, by 
digging wells and filling them with stones. In the same 
way we saw a wet cellar drained, at a small expense, 
through the hard-pan into the coarse sand beneath. 
National Horse Show —A National Horse Show is 
to take place at Springfield, Sept. 14th and the two 
days following. One of the new features of the exhi- 
tion will be the State Prize Banner, costing $100, 
which will be awarded to that State, other than Mas¬ 
sachusetts, which shall by its citizens enter for exhibi¬ 
tion the largest number of valuable horses. The hor¬ 
ses will parade by states, and an opportunity will thus 
be afforded the spectators of comparing and contrast¬ 
ing the different breeds and products of different lo¬ 
calities. Nearly three thousand dollars are to be of¬ 
fered in premiums. 
Changing Pastures'. —A milk dairyman near Bos¬ 
ton, has his pasturing in four lots, and enumerates the 
following among other advantages in the division 
More stock can be kept by one-eighth on a given num¬ 
ber of acres—by keeping on each one week at a time; 
when the fourth is turned into, the grass is fresh and 
large, (and so of each field through the season)—the 
cattle are quiet and peaceable, much more so than 
when kept uniformly in one lot. His experience makes 
him a believer in the old saying, “ A change of pas¬ 
ture makes fat calves.” 
Much from Little Land. —The Provincetown Ban¬ 
ner gives the following as the product of about seven 
acres, cultivated by Thomas F. Small, on Cape Cod. 
With the exception of a dollar and a quarter paid for 
additional help, all the work was done by the owner 
and his son, a boy twelve or thirteen years of age :— 
100 bushels corn, worth.» $100.00 
150 “ beets, sold for 60 cents per bushel,- 90.00 
80 “ potatoes, sold at 87£ cts. “ 70.00 
50 “ turnips, sold at 60 cts. “ 30.00 
10 “ beans, worth $2.25 “ 22.50 
20 “ rye, worth $1.40 “ 28.00 
200 “ carrots, worth 25 cents “ 50.00 
Squashes and pumpkins,. 20.00 
Milk sold. 125.00 
1,000 cabbages, sold at 6 cts, each,. 60.00 
Eegs and fowls,. 75 00 
Pigs,.- 50.00 
Amounting in the aggregate to.$720.50 
Salt for Wheat. —Our correspondent John John¬ 
ston of Geneva, writes to the Ohio Farmer, that he 
salted fourteen acres of wheat last autumn, and that 
it now surpasses any he has seen, and is much superior 
to eleven acres in the same field, on which no salt was 
sown —both being sown on the same day, and treated 
in the same manner. He thinks it will mature four 
days earlier. He is generally successful, and some¬ 
times sows seventy-five barrels in a season. On a 
lighter soil, we have seen sait on wheat without any 
visible effect. 
Covering the Soil — Use of Clover. —In recently 
speaking of the system employed by George Geddes, 
as involving the plowing in of a clover crop once in five 
years, we were really a little short of the truth. He 
is also in the habit of sowing clover seed with the crop 
of spring grain, (oats, barley, or spring wheat) when it 
occurs in his rotation. This gives a sufficient bite to 
the stock after the grain is harvested to pay for the 
seed, while it also prevents the ground from lying bare 
until it is time to sow the winter wheat that follows, 
and the roots and tops make a heavy manuring for the 
field in addition. So that this is a double clover dose 
during the five years. 
Thumps. —A writer in the Cotton Planter says, “I 
have frequently had cases of thumps among my hogs, 
and my remedy is to tar the corn before feeding it to 
them. I usually commence soon after Christmas, and 
regard it as a preventive. 
