THE CULTIVATOR. 
Nov 
eellent apple from the middle of September to the mid¬ 
dle of October. From E. Dour, specimens of a seed¬ 
ling clingstone peach of superior excellence, and very 
fine samples of Catawba grapes. From S. D. Smith, 
Lansingburgh, specimens of beautiful quinces, from 
trees reared from seed planted eight years ago. Four 
of them weighed three pounds and a quarter. From 
Geo. Desbarats, Montreal, (through Mr. Thor- 
burn, of this city,) specimens of the.following varieties 
of apples: St. Lawrence, Fametise, Ribston Pippin, 
Golden Pippin, Pomme Grise, Cardevella, Montreal, 
Beauty. 
From E. P. Prentice specimensof the Gloria Mun- 
di, (one of which weighed 2Q| ounces, and was 14£ inches 
in circumference,) Greening, Black Gilliflower, New¬ 
town Pippin, English Pearmain, Talman Sweeting, and 
three other very fine kinds, the names of which are un¬ 
known. From R. H. Pease a specimen of a winter 
russet sweeting. 
Large Apple Tree. —During a recent visit to New- 
York, we visited the garden of Thomas Pringle, Esq., 
corner of sixth avenue and eleventh-street, at the invi¬ 
tation of a friend, to examine an ancient apple tree, 
which we found to measure ten feet, six inches in cir¬ 
cumference at the ground. The land on which it stands, 
was purchased by the late Samuel Milligan in 1799. 
The tree has not, it was said, increased in size since that 
time. It is a Pearmain, and still bears more or less 
firuit annually. 
$(|p Mr. J, N. Blakeslee, wishes to correct a mis¬ 
take which occurred in the extracts we published from 
his communication, in our August number. It is there 
said—“ I never sell any of my best ewes till they are 
advanced in years,” Mr. B. states that the article (or a 
portion of it,) was written several months before its 
publication, but that before it appeared in print, he had 
sold a few of his best ewes. 
Mr. Reybold’s Sheep. —A writer in the Greenville 
(S. C .) Mountaineer, requests to be informed how long 
the fleeces of Mr. Reybold’s Oxfordshire Sheep, spoken 
of in our July number, had been growing. He thinks, 
se justice requires that when the yield of wool is repor¬ 
ted, the time in which it was grown should also be 
stated.” The statement we published, gives the date of 
the shearing of this year, 20th May, but the time they 
were sheared last year, is not mentioned. 
Donations to the State Agricul. Society.—W e 
are gratified to learn that James Lenox, Esq., of New- 
York, has presented the State Ag. Society with thirty 
copies of Washington’s Letters on Agriculture. They 
will be paid out as premiums by the Society. Joseph 
Fellows, Esq., of Geneva, who in 1843 presented the 
Society with $100, has lately made a donation of $50 
more. Such liberal efforts to advance the interests of 
agriculture, cannot fail to be appreciated by the Society 
as well as by the community in general. 
Crops in Maine. —The Maine Farmer says,— f ‘ It 
has been an excellent season. Grass has been excellent, 
and our barns are full of hay. Wheat has been more 
than a medium crop. Oats are very good. Indian corn 
was never better. Potatoes, as a general thing, are of 
good quality, though hardly an average crop, as it 
regards quantity—-not so many planted as usual. Grafted 
winter apples below an average crop. Natural fruit is 
abundant.” 
Saxon Wool. —We have received from Charles 
Watkins, of Walpole, N. H., some samples of very 
fine anil beautiful wool, from his flock of Saxon sheep. 
If these samples, which appear to have been taken from 
some fifty or sixty sheep, are a fair criterion of the 
quality of the whole flock, it must be valuable. We 
are not informed of the number of the flock. 
Correction. —In the list of premiums published last 
month, it was stated that the first premium for horse 
powers was awarded to Richard Montgomery, of On¬ 
ondaga —it should have been Waterville, Oneida county . 
Mr. Montgomery thinks that the editorial remarks in 
our last, in relation to Fitzgerald’s Portable Mill and 
Horse-Power, did “ injustice ” to his mill, “ indirect¬ 
ly.” He says,—“the truth is, Fitzgerald’s Horse-Power 
made the attempt, with two horses, to operate his mill, 
and failed. It was then moved to my Horse-Power and 
successfully operated by it with one of the same span of 
horses which were insufficient to move the mill with 
Fitzgerald’s power.” 
Merino Wool. —We have some samples of very 
handsome Merino wool from D. and L. Eastman, of 
East Rupert, Yt. They are free from gum, white, soft 
and fine. 
Crops on Long Island. — The following is an 
extract from a letter dated Queens County, Sept. 19th, 
1846, which came too late for notice in our last number. 
“ Our farmers are now busy cutting up the corn, which 
will be very good. Buckwheat will not be a heavy crop. 
Potatoes rotted much, and the crop will be light. The 
weather has been so very fine, that we have pasture in 
abundance, and want cattle and sheep to feed. The dis¬ 
temper with horses yet continues on the island, but is 
making towards the east end. I have heard of it as far 
east as Smithtown, where it was very fatal. It has been 
most fatal upon the south side of the island; in some 
villages a horse or two dying upon each farm. Perhaps 
1000 horses have died with it upon Long Island. It is 
generally far less fatal now, than early in the season.” 
Potatoes injured by Wire-Worms. —Mr. J. R. 
Starr, of Verona, N. Y., informs us that his potatoes 
the past season were greatly injured by the fibres which 
connect the tubes with the stalk, having been eaten off 
by wire-worms. The effect of this was to cause the 
tops to wilt and die, presenting an appearance similar 
to those affected with the blight, or what is generally 
known as the “ potatoe disease.” 
Merinos for Mississippi. —We understand that the 
Messrs. Law, of Meredith, Delaware county, N. Y., 
have lately disposed of a lot of superior Merino sheep 
to Mr. Brown, of Mississippi. The sheep have been 
forwarded, through an agent in New-York, to b>ew- 
Orleans. 
Effects of strong alkalies. — A correspondent 
mentions that he put the ashes from a leaching tub into 
his hog-pen, and his pigs, from working among them, 
were all taken lame, and some of them lost their hoofs. 
Just as might have been expected. The ashes should 
have been very th inly spread over the yard. 
Potatoe Rot ; —A correspondent of Orange County, 
with the signature of Charles, writes us that accord¬ 
ing to his experience, the best way to escape the pota¬ 
toe disease, is to plant very early. He states that last 
spring he planted one corner of a lot about a fortnight 
earlier than the rest of the field. “ They were,” he 
says, « well tended, and while the vines were green I 
mowed off the tops of half of the first planted and half 
of the last. On digging them, I found mowing the tops 
did no good whatever, no difference being perceptible 
between those which were mowed and those which 
were not. Of those which were planted first, (about the 
19th May,) three-fourths were rotten; those planted 
last, had not a sound one among them. Again, of those 
potatoes which were planted in a field about the 27th 
April, I should judge, from the few which have been 
dug, that comparatively few will be rotten, although the 
yield will be quite light. I think potatoes which do 
not rot, do not yield as well as they did a few years 
ago.” 
Attachment of a Cow for Pigs.—M r. S- Leech, 
of Wilbraham, Mass., relates a singular case of the at¬ 
tachment of a cow for pigs. In relation to this cow, 
Mr. L. writes -—“ a few years ago she slunk her calf, 
and as I had a pig running in the barn-yard, she took to 
the little porker and was very partial to him—not per¬ 
mitting dogs, or other animals to molest him. I killed 
the pig in the winter, and as the cow had another calf 
in the spring, I was in hopes she would never notice a 
pig so again; but after I sold her calf, and got another 
pig, she took to him, and even taught him to suck her! 
I had the good fortune to break up that. I got me 
another cow, and she was not so fond of the pig, but 
would let him feel her horns. This last spring, as I 
