THE CULTIVATOR. 
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. 
We have received our files of the Mark Lane Ex¬ 
press, Farmer’s Journal, to Dec. 4, and only sixteen days 
from that date, are quietly reading them at our desk! 
The weather, during the month of November, had 
been generally fine, and the seeding of the wheat crop 
had been finished under favorable circumstances. 
We are indebted to Mr. Geo. W. Atwood, of London, 
for a copy of his commercial circular of the date of 
Dec. 2, 1843. In regard to business generally, the cir¬ 
cular says: 
“ I am pleased to notice a general improvement in 
trade throughout the whole kingdom, and a gradual re¬ 
covery from its long depressed state, with a prospect for 
its continuance, and that the consumption of many arti¬ 
cles of produce is greatly increased. 5 ’ 
Speaking of the preparation of American provisions 
for the English market, the circular says: 
“ Any thing that is done in provisions for the English 
market must be done nicely; too much care cannot be 
taken. Low prices, also, must be looked for; and un — 
less it can be well done here, at a low figure, it canno. 
be advised.” 
AYRSHIRE CATTLE IN GERMANY. 
The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England, contains an account of a meeting of the Ger- 
mae Land-owners, at Doberan, in 1841, from which it 
appears that an Association of Farmers and Land-own¬ 
ers had introduced into Germany the Ayrshire breed of 
cattle, and at this meeting the merits of this breed for 
dairy properties, compared with the German breeds, was 
considerably discussed. The results of such experi¬ 
ments as have been made, show the superiority of the 
Ayrshires. Baron Malzahn Sommerstoeff, stated that 
in the year 1837 he went into Scotland on the part of an 
Association in Pomerania, and bought 185 Ayrshire 
cows—-and that he had found no breed that gave so much 
milk upon moderate food, as the Ayrshires. ‘‘Mr. 
Stanginer said that he had put two Ayrshire cows, and 
two of his own cows, (supposed to be from Angeln,) in 
a grassy paddock. The two Ayrshires gave 32-| pots 
per day, the two others, 29 pots. The Ayrshires were 
the hardiest, but their milk was not richer.” 
DISEASE AMONG CATTLE. 
The Mark Lane Express says, that a new and most 
violent epidemic has broken out in the counties of Cum¬ 
berland and Westmoreland. The disease is an inflam¬ 
mation of the heart, and the cattle die within eight 
hours from its commencement. 
PRIZE BREEDS OF SWINE IN ENGLAND. 
At the last exhibition of the Royal Ag. Society, the 
Berkshire and Lincolnshire breeds obtained the highest 
prizes for hogs of a “large breed;” and the Improved 
Essex and Sulfolk, took the highest prizes for “ small 
breeds.” 
PREVENTION OF SMUT IN WHEAT. 
At a late agricultural meeting in Sussex, Eng., John 
Ellman, Esq., related the following account of an expe¬ 
riment in preventing smut in wheat. He took four sacks 
of smutty wheat, sowed one sack of it with brine only, 
as strong as he always made it, to bear an egg as large 
as a shilling; he sowed another with lime only; be sow¬ 
ed the third sack with brine, strong enough to bear an 
egg, and then let it lay in lime all night; and the fourth 
he sowed without any thing. The result was as follows: 
Where the brine only was used, every now and then 
there was a smutty ear, still not many; where the lime 
only was used, there was much about the same quantity 
of smut; where the lime and brine was used, there could 
not be found a single smutty ear; and where nothing 
was used it was a mass of smut. 
PROPER POINTS OF SHEEP. 
A writer on Sheep-breeding, in the London Farmers’ 
Journal, gives the following as the points of a good 
sheep: 
“ The head short, and without an angle or hollow; a 
tape passed from the throat round behind the ears, shall 
about equal a like girth from throat over the eyes and 
forehead; a quiet, but confident aquiline visage; ears 
woolly, short, well back and bent down, not rabbit fash¬ 
ioned; the neck not straight lined from the rump, but 
set on at the shoulders, at about a forty-five upward an¬ 
gle ; not tapering over delicately towards the head, but 
thick, full, and fleshy along its whole length. Blade- 
bones well spread, far back, and showing the chine 
above their working, which will produce a large, open, 
and heavy breast, not pitched downwards, as in the 
grey-hound, but rounded up to a frontage, like the fore 
keel of a ship. This enables the sheep to look you well 
in the face, and gives it a presence as if standing up hill, 
from whatever aspect it may be viewed. Capacious loin, 
spread-out hips, and well connected rumps, wide and 
fleshy in the twist, legs short, light boned, and under the 
sheep, not stuck out like four props to a hay-rick, and a 
well woolled belly.” 
Great preparations were being made for the annual 
Show of Fat Cattle, &c., at the Smithfield market, which 
was to take place in a few days. 
PRINCE’S LINNjEAN BOTANIC GARDEN & NURSERIES, 
flushing, long-island, near new-york. 
P RINCE’S New Descriptive Catalogues of the Linncean Bo¬ 
tanic Garden and Nurseries , al Flushing, with very redu¬ 
ced prices, will be sent gratis to every postpaid applicant, and 
orders per mail will receive prompt attention. They comprise 
as follows, and the cost of publication was above $100: 
No. 1, Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit Trees, Shrubs, and Plants. 
“ 2, Hardy Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Plants 
“ 3. Bulbous Flower Roots and Dahlias. 
“ 4. Green-House Shrubs and Plants. 
“ 5. American Indigenous Trees and Plants. 
“ 6. Garden, Agricultural, and Flower Seeds. 
“ 7. do do. in French. 
“ 8. Wholesale Catalogue for Nurseries only. 
“ 9. Catalogue of Roses, comprising above 600 varieties of 
every class. WM. R. PRINCE & CO. 
Flushing, Dec. 6, 1843. 2t. 
ENGRAVING. 
N ORR, having established him- 
• self in the above business, is 
now prepared to execute all orders 
with which he may be favored, and 
respectfully solicits a share of patroa* 
age. 
Portraits of Animals , Architectural 
Plans, Views of Buildings, New In- 
ventions , Potent Machines, &c. &C. 
executed at a moderate compensation 
and with undeviating punctuality. 
03” Office. No. 4, third floor, Ex¬ 
change, Albany. January 1, 1843. 
TO FARMERS. 
T HE subscriber is prepared to furnish farmers with Stone and 
Shell Lime, either slaked or unslaked, at a rate which will 
make it an object for them to use it liberally in the improve¬ 
ment of their lands, for which purpose he has sold large quan¬ 
tities during the past year. He refers to John Townsend, C. N. 
Bement, and W. H. Sotham, Esqr’s.who have used his lime ex¬ 
tensively. E. C. WARNER, 
Albany, Dec. 1, 1843.—3t.* Corner Market and Nucella-sts. 
POUDRETTE 
O F the very best quality for sale. Three barrels for $5, or 
ten barrels for $15—delivered free of cartage by the New- 
York Poudrette Company, 23 Chambers street, New-York. Or¬ 
ders by mail, with the cash, will be promptly delivered, and 
with the same care as though the purchaser was present, if ad¬ 
dressed as above to D. K. MINOR, 
Dec. 1, 1843.—3t. Agent. 
LINNCEAN BOTANIC GARDEN AND NURSERY, 
Late Prince’s, Flushing, L. I., near New- York. 
T HE new Descriptive Catalogue, not only of Fruit, but also 
of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, cultivated and 
for sale at this ancient and celebrated Nursery, (known as 
Prince’s, and by the above title for nearly fifty years,) with di¬ 
rections for their culture, may be had gratis on application to 
the New Proprietors by mail, post paid. 
The collection at this establishment is unrivalled, and prices 
generally very much reduced; and the proprietors flatter them¬ 
selves that the Catalogue will be found to surpass in extent of 
information and usefulness, any thing of the kind ever before 
presented to the public; and to be worthy of a permanent 
place in the library of the Horticulturist. Orders will be 
promptly executed. WINTER k CO., 
Flushing, Nov. 13, 1843.—2t. Proprietor . 
