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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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The Country Gentleman in Other Latitudes.— 
A South Carolina subscriber writes, in recently enclos¬ 
ing his subscription to begin July 1, that he discon¬ 
tinued his Co. Gent, at the end of last year, on account 
of its being published in a latitude so different. He 
had, however, found the numbers as preserved so in¬ 
teresting, that he concludes to renew, and now thinks 
it will be long before he again hazards the experiment 
of a discontinuance. A correspondent in Maryland 
says in a letter under date of the 7th : “ The Country 
Gentleman is more and more interesting, and I make 
it a matter of conscience to recommend it wherever I 
go.” Another from St. Mary’s Co. in the same State, 
sends a club of five for the new volume 
“ with my best wishes for the success of a paper which I 
regard one of the best (of any kind) ever printed.” 
We should acknowledge clubs for the new volume 
from Academia, Pa., Beloit and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
and smaller ones from several other places. It will be 
well to repeat our prices for the benefit of others :— 
One copy one year strictly in advance,.- $2.00 
One copy one year not in advance. . .. 2.50 
Three copies one year,or Six copies six months,.... 5.00 
Ten copies one year,.-. 15.00 
One may pay for his own paper one year , by send¬ 
ing us four subscribers and $8, when we will credit 
him on account for his own subscription. It would be 
a simple way for some of our friends who are in arrears 
to bring up the balance due in this way; we trust the 
hint will not be lost. 
Our State Show at Syracuse. — Prospects now 
seem favorable for a large attendance. A larger pro¬ 
portion than usual of the judges appointed at the May 
and June meetings, have signified that they will be on 
hand. The position of the buildings has been deter¬ 
mined upon, although but a small beginning has yet 
been made by the local committee in securing their 
erection. They will doubtless work the faster when 
once started, and we have no doubt that all other sec¬ 
tions of the state will come nobly forward to assist Cen¬ 
tral New-York in making an exhibition worthy of the 
Society and of our farmers 
The Best Farms —A Steam Plow. —No less than 
eleven farms have been entered for competition for the 
premiums offered this year by our State Ag. Society— 
seven of them Dairy Farms in Lewis county. Such a 
waking up among our agriculturists is more unusual 
than it should be. An application has also been made 
for the $250 premium offered for a machine that will 
plow satisfactorily by steam power. The inventor, we 
believe is a Trojan, and the trial was set down for 
Monday, the 19th inst., at that city. After it has been 
held our readers shall hear more of the matter. 
Fire Blight — Suggestion. —E. D. Pierson of Un¬ 
ion Springs, N. Y-, informs us that he has been success¬ 
ful in arresting the fire blight in the pear tree, by the 
following treatment: He shaves off all the diseased 
bark, to a foot below the affected portion, leaving a 
thin layer where the bark is not destroyed. This ar¬ 
rests the disease, and the thin bark afterwards forms a 
new covering. As the descent of the sap is only through 
the bark, it is regarded as needless to cut away any of 
the wood to check the blight. This mode of treatment 
may be worthy of further trial. 
Something New. —E. D. Hallock is an old Alba¬ 
nian. Mr. II. has for seme years been engaged in an 
Agricultural Warehouse and Seedstore at Rochester in 
this State. He has built up a business which now com¬ 
mands wide custom through Western New-York, and 
in which, knowing well the strict and thorough-going 
honesty with which it is conducted, we desire to com¬ 
mend him to the reader—taking the opportunity to do 
so, in noticing one or two recent inventions we last week 
examined at his store. One of them was a broadcast 
sowing machine, which costs only $7, and will sow a 
breadth of over thirty feet with any kind of seed, from 
peas to clover or timothy, 
“ doing the work as well, if not better than the most ex¬ 
perienced sower could by hand, besides performing three 
times the amount of work in the same time. Its construc¬ 
tion is simple, being merely a sack, with a hopper at the 
bottotn, under which is a revolving cylinder, turned by 
means of a crank, with arms or tubes through which the 
grain passes, it being thrown out by centrifugal forte. The 
width of space sown depends upon the specific gravity of 
grain. The quantity is regulated by a slide, and can be 
changed in a moment. The machine is made of heavy tin, 
and can be repaired by any mechanic in that branch of 
business.” 
We also saw a new Dynamometer, which if it be 
found to succeed as well in practice as it now promises, 
will surpass any instrument of the kind with which we 
are acquainted at home or abroad. We will endeavor 
hereafter to give a description. 
“The National Horse Show Bulletin.” —We 
have recived No. 2—dating of course, from Springfield, 
Mass. The managers of the coming exhibition do not 
mean to hide their light under a bushel. It is unques¬ 
tionably the true way, if such a show is to be held, to 
acquaint all the world with the fact, and secure the 
widest possible competition and the largest attendance 
This our friends intend to do. Some of the first citi¬ 
zens of Springfield constitute the board, with George 
Bliss, the well known President of the Michigan 
Southern Railroad, at its head. Those who desire full 
particulars as to the Exhibition, can secure them by 
addressing George Dwight, Chief Marshal, or J. N. 
Bagg, Secretary, Springfield, Mass. 
The Great St. Louis Fair. —We have received the 
schedule of Premiums for the 3rd annual Fair of the 
St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association, to 
commence on Monday Sept. 6, and continue six days. 
The Prize List is the most extensive, and the rules 
and regulations for the general management, the most 
complete of any we have ever seen issued in this coun¬ 
try. Indeed the whole preparations are in the most 
magnificent style. Among the buildings on the show- 
grounds, which are shaded with a beautiful grove of 
forest trees, are an amphitheatre of sufficient size to 
seat 12,000 persons, and to shelter 36,000—spacious 
Floral, Mechanical and Fine Art Halls—a Gallina- 
rium, 30 feet in diameter, three stories high, built en¬ 
tirely of wire, with ninety apartments, and all the 
conveniences necessary for the exhibition and keeping 
of poultry, &c., &c. 
Forest Trees. —Richard S. Fay of Lynn, Mass., 
has growing on his farm many thousands of the Scotch 
larch, English oak, and other frees of his own impor¬ 
tation and planting. Some of the larches are thirty 
feet high. Mr. Fay concludes if the growth goes on 
unimpeded for 30 years, the timber will be worth $300 
an acre. Here is a hint for farmers. 
Fruitful Benevolence. —“That the poor might 
have apples as well as the rich,” General Putnam, the 
large-hearted hero of Tiponderoga, planted apple-trees 
for a mile along the highway of his native town. 
