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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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NOTICES or NEW WORKS. 
The Farmer’s Dictionary: a vocabulary of the 
technical terms recently introduced into Agriculture 
and Horticulture from various sciences; and also a 
compendium of Practical Farming ; the latter 
chiefly from the works of the Rev. W. L. Rham, 
Loudon, Low, and Youatt, and the most eminent 
American authors. By D. P. Gardner, M. D. Har¬ 
per & Brothers, New-York. 
The first design of this work, seems to have been to 
furnish a short explanation of technical terms which 
have latterly been introduced into agricultural writings. 
The author well remarks, that a great “ drawback to 
the advancement of our art is the indefinite words used 
among us.” Thus “ we find,” he says, “one writer 
using the word c withers ’ for the shoulder of an animal, 
another for the womb.” So far as we have examined 
that part of the work devoted to the explanation of 
technicalities, it seems to have been judiciously execu¬ 
ted, and will no doubt be found very useful. The vari¬ 
ous tables showing the analyses of the ashes of plants, 
will no doubt be found valuable. The 'practical part 
of the book, is almost wholly a compilation from 
English authors. How far the matter contained in this 
part may be applicable to this country, we are hardly 
able, from present examination, to say. We shall pro¬ 
bably recur to the work again. 
American Journal of Science and Arts. —The 
number of this valuable periodical for March has been 
received. Though we cannot notice the contents in 
detail, we remark that they are particularly interesting. 
In an article by Wm. M. Carpenter, on some Fossil 
Bones, found in Tennessee and Texas, we find that the 
“ Gigantic Fossil Man, eighteen feet high,” said to 
have been found in Tennessee, such astonishing accounts 
of which have been spread through the country in the 
newspapers, turns out to be the skeleton of a young 
mastodon . In the same article, a description and cut is 
given of part of a skull, horns, and teeth of a fossil ox, 
found in Texas. From the parts found, it is thought 
that the distance between the tips of the horns, in the 
living animal, could not have been less than eleven feet. 
In the Athseneum, Zanesville, O., there is a part of a 
skull and horns, said to have been found in Kentucky, 
which, from appearance, belonged to a larger animal, 
of the same species above mentioned. In an extract 
from a letter written by Chas. Lyell, it is shown be¬ 
yond question, that the bones of the fossil animal which 
has been exhibited in New-York by Mr. Koch, under 
the name of Hydrarchos, were procured at several dif¬ 
ferent places, and under such circumstances as to leave 
no doubt that they belonged to several distinct indi¬ 
viduals. . 
American Journal of Agriculture.— This work, 
the publication of which was for a while suspended at 
the close of the first year, has been resumed under the 
charge of Prof. E. Emmons and Mr. A. Osborn. We 
have received the first number of the new volume. It 
is handsomely printed, and contains 160 pages octavo. 
A well executed portrait of Gov. Wright, constitutes 
the frontispiece. A little more than one-half the mat¬ 
ter is original; the remainder is chiefly extracts from 
other Journals. Among the original articles we were 
well pleased by the perusal of an able and sensible one 
on the “Theory of Agriculture,” by Prof. Em¬ 
mons. . 
Lardner’s Lectures. —We have received Part 
XIII, which treats of the Steam Engine in various forms. 
We consider these Lectures among the most valuable 
reading that has ever been offered to the American pub¬ 
lic. Published by Greely & M’Elrath, Tribune 
Buildings, New-York—price 25 cents per No. 
tCT We have received the first number of a work, so 
novel in Its character, that we are tempted for once to 
step out of our line of business, to notice it. It is the 
“ American Phonographic Journal ,” to be published 
monthly by Andrews & Boyle, 337 Washington st., 
Boston. As we have no acquaintance with the science 
of which it is the organ, we can of course only speak 
of the mechanical execution of the work, which is 
ce/tainly very creditable to the publishers. It is entire¬ 
ly engraved upon copper-plate, and though the charac¬ 
ters look crabbed enough to the uninitiated, we doubt 
not they are “ plain as preaching ” to those who have 
looked into the matter. 
We see that this improved system of writing has long 
attracted attention in Europe, and is slowly but surely 
finding students in this country. As we believe there 
is something in it, we invite the attention of those 
who are willing to examine a new thing with a candid 
and unprejudiced eye, to the subject. The price of the 
Journal is only $1 per annum. 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
New-York State. —The meeting of the Executive 
Committee of the N. Y. State Ag. Soeiety for this 
month, will be held at the American Hotel in Auburn, 
on Thursday the 14th inst. At this meeting, the ap¬ 
pointments of Judges to award the Premiums at the 
Fai^ to be held at Auburn in September next, will be 
made. A full attendance of the members of the Ex. 
Committee, consisting of all the officers of the Society, 
is very desirable. 
Saratoga County. —Fair to be held at Saratoga 
Springs, Oct. 21, 22. 
Rensselaer Co.—F air at Troy, Sept. 23, 24. 
Allegany Co. —Officers elected at last annual meet¬ 
ing:—Laurens Hull, Angelica, President; Joel Karr and 
Bryce Kerr, Y. Presidents; R. Church, Recording Sec., 
and A. B. Hull, Angelica, Cor. Secretary and Treasurer. 
Seneca Co. —Fair to be held at Waterloo, Oct. 22, 
23—John Delafield, Geneva, President, and J. W. Ba¬ 
con, Waterloo, Rec. Secretary. 
Suffolk Co. —Fair to be held at Comae, Oct. 1—J. 
L. Smith, President, and N. Smith, Sec., Smithtown. 
Rutland Co., (Vt.) —This Society, which has been 
recently organized, has issued its Premium List for the 
present year, but the time and place of holding the Fair 
is not stated. Frederick Button, Clarendon, President; J. 
C. Thrall, Rutland, Rec. Secretary, and W. C. Kittredge, 
Fairhaven, Cor. Secretary. 
Jefferson Co. —At the winter meeting, Geo. White 
of Rutland, was elected President; Edward S. Massey, 
Rec. Secretary, and J. C. Sterling, Watertown, Cor. 
Secretary. Receipts of the Society last year, $673.11. 
Payments, $497.36. 
Dutchess Co. Hort. Society. —This society, which 
was organized the past winter, has issued a liberal list 
of Premiums for early Fruits and Vegetables, to be 
awarded at an exhibition to be held at Poughkeepsie 
on the 18th and 19th of June. We cannot but hope that 
this society is destined to a better fate than has awaited 
all the Horticultural Societies, which have heretofore 
been organized in the Valley of the Hudson, with the 
exception of the one in Columbia county, which we 
believe has been eminently successful. Dutchess pos¬ 
sesses many of the most highly improved gardens in the 
State, and they are owned by gentlemen whose liberality 
will not, we are confident, permit their Hort. Society 
to languish for want of funds. The great obstacle to 
the success of such associations, is, generally, the want 
of some individual to perform the labor necessary to 
give them vigor and usefulness. Men ought to (and 
no doubt will) be found in Dutchess county, who 
will devote the time and labor necessary to insure their 
society abundant success. 
Madder. —In answer to an inquiry in our last No., 
Thos. Watson, Jr., of Torringford, Conn., informs us 
that he “can furnish several bushels of the slips, which 
are generally used for propagating it, if applied for 
soon. The time for planting is from the 1st to 20th 
May. About 10 bushels of the slips are necessary foy 
an acre.” 
