1846. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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ment, through a strainer of flannel. The sediment is 
redissolved in water and boiled again. The strained 
syrup is boiled down till thick enough for chrystalizing. 
It is then put in tubs, till cold and hard; holes with a 
gimlet are then bored in the bottom, and when all the 
molasses is thus drained off, cotton or linen cloths of 
some thickness are laid on the top of the sugar, and 
kept wet constantly. They thus keep up a constant 
and regular supply ot water to the sugar beneath, grad¬ 
ually soaking down through the chrystalized mass, and 
dissolving what molasses and other impurities remain, 
which drain off below, and leaving the sugar perfectly 
pure and white. Several weeks are usually required 
for the completion of this process, but the labor is 
light. 
LARGE CROPS. 
Mb. Tucker —From the proceedings of the annual 
meeting of t'he Oneida county Ag. Society, with which 
I have been furnished by the Secretary, I gather the fol¬ 
lowing statements of the product of the fertile and well- 
managed lands in Oneida. Premiums were paid as fol¬ 
lows :— 
On Winter Wheat. 
Product 
per acre. 
Profit. 
1st prem. to E. Rivenburg,Vernon,.. 
bush. lbs. 
66 
$44 25 
2d ct S. H Church, e< 
56 54 
53 32 
3d <c D. Skinner, Deerfield, 
41 
On Spring Wheat. 
1st prem. to R. Eells, Westmoreland, 
34 
31 00 
2d ee E. Dayton, Vernon, ... 
28 40 
19 60 
On Corn. 
1st prem. to C. W. Eells, Kirkland,. 
89 5 
36 43 
2d “ L. Warner, Vernon, ... 
79 48 
18 33 
3d “ L. T. Marshall “ ... 
75 12 
24 60 
On Rye. 
1st prem. to J. I. Curtis, Westmorel’d, 
52 37 
18 56 
2d “ T. Curtis, « 
46 24 
13 34 
i On Barley. 
1st prem. to H. B. Bartlett, Paris,.. 
63 27 
22 75 
2d i( E. Dayton, Vernon,- 
63 9 
21 80 
On Peas. 
1st prem. to Amos Miller, Vernon, . 
56 36 
26 69 
2d « E. Rivenburg, « 
48 
29 20 
On Buckwheat. 
Truman Curtis, Westmoreland,. 
241 
3 87 
On Beans. 
L. T. Marshall, Vernon,. 
half acre. 
101 
5 98 
On Potatoes, (quantity and quality.) 
1st prem. to W. C. Burritt, Paris, .. . 
half acre. 
328 54 
100 20 
2d “ H. B. Bartlett, “ ... 
326 11 
57 13 
On Potatoes, (quantity only.) 
1st prem. to E. Dayton, Vernon. .. . 
half acre. 
370 50 
64 60 
2d (i H. B. Bartlett, Paris, .. 
333 24 
69 62 
On Ruta-Bagas. 
Pliment Mattoon, Vienna,. 
fourth acre 
247 
54 26 
On Carrots. 
1st prem. to Philo Griswold, Vernon, 
fourth acre 
415 13 
49 19 
2d (< L. Warner, ee 
386 
58 22 
On Mangel-Wurzel. 
L. Warner, Vernon,.. 
fourth acre 
236 32 
24 15 
Extra premiums were awarded on carrots, to Wm. 
Wright, Vernon, for 1198 bushels per acre, and to 
Samuel Denison, Floyd, for 800 bushels per acre. The 
estimates of value in each case, includes straw, stalks, 
&c., as well as grain. It will be seen that the crops 
are estimated at higher prices by some of the applicants 
than by others, but most of them seem to be fair esti¬ 
mates. 
When I commenced the preparation of this article, I 
only intended to mention a few of the principal crops, 
but could find no stopping place, and so have ventured 
to ask you, Mr. Editor, to insert the whole. I think you 
will grant me this favor, partly because I have not 
troubled you much with my long communications late¬ 
ly, but more especially on account of the important po¬ 
sition of the Oneida county society. That society repre¬ 
sents nearly ninety thousand persons, a great proportion 
of whom are directly engaged in agriculture, and from ite 
central position, may have a good influence upon other 
societies. From a long acquaintance with most of its 
members I have entire confidence in its success. 
E. COMSTOCK. 
Albany Ag. Warehouse, Jan. 11th, 1846. 
Cultivators with limited means, who lay out and 
keep their own gardens, are often at a loss for a plan. 
The accompanying design is a simple one, and is not 
hard to apply in practice, and has been found easy to 
keep well cultivated, as it admits of horse culture for 
all the rest of the garden. 
The entrance to the garden is at B; on the opposite 
side is the summer-house or arbor, A; between these 
are the curved flower beds. At c, c, are small orna¬ 
mental shrubs, as the double flowering almond, the Ja¬ 
pan quince, the Tartarian honeysuckle, &c., and further 
off, at d, d, are rows of gooseberries, currants, or 
quinces; still further off are rows of fruit trees, at e, $ 
Between these rows are rows or drills of vegetables^ 
strawberries, asparagus, &c., which may be kept clean 
by horse culture. 
This flower garden may be laid out by first drawing 
a line from A. to B., through the intended center, and 
two others at equal distances on each side, and by oc- 
casienal measuring at equal distances from the center 
line, the regularity of the beds are preserved. The el¬ 
liptical bed,/, is marked the usual way, by means of a 
cord tied together at the ends, and running round two 
pegs near its intended extremities, the scratching point 
being pressed against the cord, while sliding round and 
marking the circumference. A regular curve may be 
given to the beds by setting in pegs at equal distances*, 
each successive one varying a certain distance from th© 
The beds, if planted 
with herbaceous perre- 
nials, may be quickly 
cleared of weeds and 
mellowed, by the use of 
the hoe and rake, with¬ 
out hand weeding. 
The summer-house, 
(fig. 15,) was made ac¬ 
cording to the design 
represented in the an¬ 
nexed cut, of rough sur¬ 
faces handsomely white¬ 
washed, ten feet in dia¬ 
meter, and the whole, 
including materials, cost less than the writer once gave 
for a pair of boots, which he soon wore out,—but 
the house stands—and is admired by every one who 
sees it 
