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Durability of Timber.. —J. Townsend of Zanes¬ 
ville, in a communication to the New-England Farmer, 
speaking of the diversity of opinion relative to the best 
time for cutting timber, very justly remarks, that much 
less depends on the season of cutting, than on the treat¬ 
ment it receives after it is cut. For instance: a tree 
is cut perfectly green and full of sap; it is suffered to 
lie in large logs, with no chance of seasoning—the sap 
ferments, and the log partially decays. Another por¬ 
tion of the tree is, immediately after cutting, sawed 
into thin boards, which season in a few days, and the 
whole becomes dry and iC tough and hard like horn.” 
Hence, the influence of summer heat, in causing a more 
rapid evaporation and drying, under favorable circum¬ 
stances therefor, and in promoting also a more rapid fer¬ 
mentation under other circumstances; the advantage of a 
season when the bark may be peeled to assist in drying, 
and its disadvanlages when the bark is not peeled, by 
increasing decay, should all be taken into account. 
Pruning Apple Trees.—A correspondent of the 
Boston Cultivator notices an objection to early summer 
pruning, generally overlooked. The newly forming 
wood and bark is then in an unusually tender state, and 
the weight of a ladder or of the feet on a branch, easily 
separates the bark, and seriously bruises and injures the 
tree. 
Carrots—Rotation. —At one of the Boston Agricul. 
tural meetings,-Gleason, of Wayland, stated that he 
had raised 800 bushels of carrots to the acre; on the 
same ground the year following, he had only 525 bush¬ 
els. The ground was manured both years. The im¬ 
portance of alternation or rotation is here evident. 
He found carrots to be the best of all roots; his cows 
fed on them in winter, yielded him as much profit as in 
summer . Eight hundred bushels to the acre were equal 
to sixteen tons—they were worth to him eight dollars 
per ton, or equal to $128 per acre. The tops were worth 
$5 per acre to feed swine in autumn. 
Durable Shingles. —The durability of pine stumps 
is well known. S. W. Jewett says, in the Boston Cul¬ 
tivator, i( There are house roofs of large buildings in 
this vicinity that are covered with shingles from the 
butt ends of pine trees more than forty years ago, that 
remain sound and good at present.” 
Pears. —J. M. Earle of Worcester, states, that a 
seedling pear tree, growing in a pasture, was pruned 
and grafted with the Bartlett, and produced pears enough 
the third year to sell for eight dollars. 
INQUIRIES. 
Peaches.—G. S. P., (Randolph, Vt.) We do not 
believe there is a “ rare ripe,” or any other peach, the 
seed of which will produce fruit ie always like the ori¬ 
ginal.” 
Wind Power. —A Subscriber. We should sup¬ 
pose the “ Centrific Wind-wheel,” described in our last, 
would answer your purpose better than anything else 
we have seen. 
Malay Fowls —T. H. A., (Canton, Ct.) Some of 
the fowls called Malay, have feathers (as you describe) 
on the legs down to the feet. Their colors vary from 
dull yellow to black. The largest of them stand in the 
first rank as to size. 
Carrot Seed. —S. S. G. The carrot seed you speak 
of as being two years old, we suppose w T ill be a year 
older before you can sow it, as it is now too late for 
this season—hence you had better buy new seed than to 
use it. It will vegetate some at two years old, but not 
as well as during the first year. 
Seed Planter —R. a. B., (Macon, Ga.,) asks, 
“ Haven’t you an implement for planting seeds ? one 
that makes the furrow, drops the seed, and covers it, at 
one operation ? If so, will it plant seeds of all sizes, 
and corn, peas, &c. ?” Lewis’ seed planter answers all 
these requisitions admirably. Those who have tried it 
speak of it as the best they have seen. The price is 
$15. 
ALBANY, AUGUST, 1846. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Communications have been received, since our last, 
from S. W. Jewett, a Subscriber. G. S. Paine, Chas. N. 
Ryan, Thomas H. Austin, Storrs Barrows, a Wool 
Grower, Wm. J. Eyer, Heber Van Volkenburgh, 
J. L. H., Herman Wendell, Nicholas, Levi Disbrow, 
Jason Smith, an Old Subscriber, W., S. W., John 
Keese, Ebenezer Bridge, S. S. G., X., P., H. L. Shel¬ 
don, and H. P. Byram. 
Books, Papers, &c., have been received as follows: 
The American Journal of Science and Arts, conduc¬ 
ted by Prof. Silliman and others. New-Haven, Ct.— 
$5 per year. 
The American Journal of Insanity, edited by the 
Officers of the N. Y. State Lunatic Asylum. Utica.— 
Quarterly; $1 a year. 
The Cayuga Tocsin, from Maj. J. B. Dill. 
Premium Lists of the New-Haven (Ct.) Horticultu¬ 
ral Society, of the Fairfield (Ct.) Agricultural So¬ 
ciety, and of the Hartford Co., Ct., Ag. Society. 
The Farmers’ Library, Yol. I., neatly bound, form¬ 
ing a beautiful octavo volume of 664 octavo pages, and 
embracing Petzholdt’s Lectures to Farmers on Agri¬ 
cultural Chemistry, and Thser’s Principles of Agricul¬ 
ture; also, the Monthly Journal of Agriculture, voh 
I., complete, by J. S. Skinner, and bound in uniform 
style with the Library. From the publishers, Greely& 
McElrath, New York. 
Speech of Hon. E. B. Holmes, in the House of Re¬ 
presentatives, on the Mexican War, from Mr. H. 
Prize List of the New Haven (Ct.) Agricultural So¬ 
ciety for 1846—Exhibition to be held at Birmingham, 
Oct. 1st. From L. Durand. 
Lardner's Popular Lectures on Science and Art, part 
14. This part completes the work, forming two beau¬ 
tiful volumes of about 600 pages each.—Price $4.50. 
Prize Lists of the Otsego arid Oneida Agricultural 
Societies for this year. The Otsego Fair is to be held 
at Cooperstown, Oct. 1, 2; that of Oneida, at Whites- 
town, Sept. 24, 25. 
S. W.—The paper was disposed of as requested. 
N. C.—We know of no opportunity to dispose of the 
animal you speak of in this vicinity. 
L. F. Payson —Should like to hear from you. 
MONTHLY NOTICES. 
[U In Mr. Jewett’s article on “ Improved Flint 
Wheat,” in this number, the variety should have been 
described as a bald wheat, with a few short beards in 
the upper end of the head. 
$1^ In the article on Principles of Breeding” in 
this number, the No. 1591 is applied to the bull, Red 
Comet, by mistake—that number belongs to Wye Co¬ 
net, as he is registered in the Herd-Book. 
Crops in Connecticut. —Extract from a letter 
from H. Watson, Esq., dated East Windsor Hill, July 
21st :—“ My tobacco crops look well. Our wheat crop 
is a good one—it succeeds better after tobacco than 
after any other crop ; and we have proved here, that 
tobacco does not exhaust the land as much as corn, for 
on land every way manured and cultivated alike, a 
much greater crop of wheat is obtained from the to¬ 
bacco land than from the corn land, in the same field, 
and side by side.” 
Crops on Long Island. —Extractfrom a letter from 
Albert G. Carl, Esq., dated Queen’s Co., July 16th, 
1846. “Our wheat and rye is all in sheaf or stack, 
and is a fine crop. We are yet in the midst of hay, 
