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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Nov. 
Ornamental Bead Bcll-Rope.~M.xB. Millard Fill¬ 
more, Buffalo, $5, and Diploma. 
Fringe Mittens. —Mrs. S. T. Stebbins, Homer, $1, 
and Diploma. 
Lace Veils. —Miss Abbott, Auburn, $3. 
Worsted Card Port-Folio .—Miss Matilda Davis, Buf¬ 
falo, $2. 
Ornamental and Domestic Needle Work .—Mrs. V. 
R. Voorhees, Amsterdam, Diploma, and for Table Cover, 
$2, and Diploma. 
Bonnets. —Mrs. Cook, Syracuse, $3, and Diploma; 
Mrs. F. H. Graham, Auburn, Diploma; Miss Atwood, 
Salem, $5, and Diploma. 
Lace Caps and Capes. —Mrs. Cook, Syracuse, $3, and 
Diploma. 
Fancy Worsted Chain. —Miss Mary F. Snow, Au¬ 
burn, Diploma. 
Lamp Stand. —Mrs. B. F. Hawks, Phelpstown, Di¬ 
ploma. 
Silver Ware , Pens, fyc. —Willard Hawley & Co., 
Syracuse, $5, and Diploma; F. W. Maffit, Syracuse, $5, 
and Diploma; B. R. Norton, Syracuse, (for Gold Pens,) 
$5, and Diploma; Washburn & Robinson, Taunton, 
Mass., (for Pen-Nibs,) Diploma; S. N. Smith, Auburn, 
(for Dental Work,) Diploma. 
Weather Strip for Doors. —Wm. Genett, Syracuse, 
(Gifford’s Patent,) Diploma. 
PLOWING MATCH. 
1st. Davis Cossit, Onondaga, $15; 2d, Azarial Letts, 
Ulysses, $12; Henry Willard, Cayuga; $10; L. C. 
Pratt, Salina, Col. Tour; J. B. Gaylord, Auburn, Vol. 
Trans. JOSEPH ALLEYN, Ass’t. Sec*y. 
OSAGE ORANGE. 
Wm. Neff, Esq., in a communication to the Ohio 
Cultivator, says he has long since come to the conclu¬ 
sion that the Osage orange, is decidedly preferable to 
any other plant for hedging. 
“ The plants,” he observes, “ are best propagated from 
the seed, which I have always planted in the spring, (from 
not having been able to get them in the fall,) in a nur¬ 
sery, in broad drills, about a foot apart, the seed scat¬ 
tered and separated an inch or two in the drills. 
My experience, however, plainly tells me that they 
should be planted in the fall, as when planted in the 
spring they vegetate but sparingly, and oftentimes 
many spring up the ensuing season, from the seed which 
had laid in the ground a year.” 
The seeds, he says, can be obtained in any quantity 
in the neighborhood of Columbus, Hempstead county, 
Arkansas, for the mere expense of gathering. He 
states that in one quart there are about eight thousand | 
seeds. The plant is said to be very hardy, and when 
once vegetated is sure to grow. 
“ The plants may also be favorably propagated from 
the trimmings of the roots when taken from the nur¬ 
sery to set in the hedge. They may be cut in small 
pieces, only two or three inches long, and planted in 
drills with the end barely covered by the soil. They 
will be sure to grow, unless they have been too much 
exposed, and suffered to become dry, which should be 
carefully avoided by covering with earth till ready to 
plant. 
“ At one year old, they may be transplanted to the 
hedge, or at two years they are stronger and better, and 
give more spare roots to propagate from. I have not 
found the fall planting to succeed well—the spring is 
far preferable. 
“ At a year old, whether they remain in the nursery 
or set in the hedge, they should be cut off within one or 
two inches of the ground; the next spring six inches; 
and about the first of July about fifteen inches; and if 
not in July, then the following spring, after which they 
will require but little more than side and extreme top 
pruning. Or the hedge may be thickened, and some of 
the above pruning avoided, and perfected sooner, and 
perhaps as desirably, both for utility and beauty, by 
careful intertwining of the lower branches; the nume¬ 
rous thorns will prevent any change of their places. 
“In making the hedge, the ground should, of course, 
be well prepared the previous year, and in the early 
spring well plowed and harrowed, till quite mellow. 
The line is then laid, and a trench formed with a spade 
deep and wide enough to admit the roots; plant in two 
rows, six inches apart, and twelve inches apart in each 
row, diagonally, so that the double row makes the 
plants equal to six inches apart in one line. The dis¬ 
tance between the plants can be well preserved, by 
first preparing a stick cut in niches at every six inches, 
and laid alongside the trench, which, being straight on 
the one side, will govern one row, and the eye will 
direct the other with sufficient accuracy. The plants 
having been taken up and properly pruned of the tops 
and roots, are scattered along the trench, and a man or 
boy, taking one in each hand, puts them in their places 
in the trench, while another stands with the shovel of 
well pulverized earth, which he carefully casts upon 
the roots, and thus they proceed on; afterwards fill in 
and press the earth to the roots with the hand or 
foot. When all are set, by means of a more eleva¬ 
ted line, and a good eye, they may be pressed to a 
perfect straight line. Dress your ground, and all is 
done till the weeds and grass want eradicating. It is 
a general error in rearing trees, &c.,.to suppose the 
work done when planted. It is worse than labor lost, 
unless afterwards cultivated and protected beyond the 
reach of the stock, grass, and weeds; nay, it is down¬ 
right waste.” 
EXPORTATION OF AMERICAN WOOL. 
Hamilton Gay, Esq., of New-York, in a letter to 
the Journal of Commerce , states that the chief obstacle 
to the success of American wool in the English mar¬ 
kets, is its unclean condition, and not a prejudice against 
the article, merely because it is American. He says 
our wool has not only been shipped in bad condition, 
“ each fleece by itself considered, but long wool and 
short wool, the weak and the strong, the coarse and the 
fine, the felting and clothing qualities, have been min¬ 
gled in the same sack, with a degree of knowledge and 
judgment about equal to that which would characterize 
the conduct of a farmer who should send his wheat, 
corn and oats to market, mixed together in the same 
bag.” This he is confident has much depressed its value 
in England, for “nowhere,” says he, “is property so 
carefully examined and so correctly estimated before 
purchasing, as in that country; and no where else 
does a good article of its kind, in good condition, bring 
so high a relative price; and nowhere are such heavy 
deductions made and allowed for fraud and ill con¬ 
dition.” 
He states the consumption of England to be about 
two hundred millions of pounds annually, three-fourths 
of which is the growth of Great Britain, and the 
balance is said to be c * imported from every climate of 
the earth, duty free.” He thinks all must agree, “'that 
hereafter the prices of our wool must be regulated prin¬ 
cipally by its export value ”—that “it must be so to 
enable our manufacturers to compete with foreign ri¬ 
vals, as well as from the abundant supply.” 
SALE OF AYRSHIRE STOCK. 
The sale of Capt. Geo. Randall’s herd of Ayrshires, 
took place at New Bedford, on the 6th of last month. 
We are indebted to a gentleman who was present for 
the following memoranda :— 
Cows. 
Young Swinley, (imported,) 11 years old, sold to Mr. 
Gray, of Boston, for $70. 
Maggie, (dam Young Swinley,) 6 years old, sold to 
Mr. Bickett, for the Mass. Ag. Society, for $90. 
Pink , (dam Maggie,) 4 years old, sold to Mr. Law- 
son, of Lowell, Mass., for $75. 
Medal, (imported,) 7 years old, sold to Mr. Lawson 3 
for $1271. 
