NEW “ TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” SERIES. 
Vol. I. ALBANY, FEBRUARY, 1844. No. 2. 
THE CULTIVATOR 
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THE CULTIVATOR. 
MONTHLY NOTICES. 
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting- of the New-York State Agricultu¬ 
ral Society, which took place in this city on the 17th 
inst., was well attended, and a good degree of interest 
was manifested in promoting the objects of the society. 
A brief account of the doings, will be found in another 
part of our paper. 
THE ANNUAL CATTLE-SHOW AND FAIR. 
It will be seen that Poughkeepsie is selected for the 
next Fair of the New-York State Agricultural Society; 
and the 18th and 19th of September are designated for 
the purpose. 
[CT The Premium-List, which will be found in an¬ 
other part of this paper, is published thus early in the 
year, that further time may be given than has hitherto 
been allowed for preparation. This winter season, with 
its stormy weather and long evenings, furnishes abun¬ 
dant opportunities to farmers for examining the List, and 
making timely preparations for the stock or other arti¬ 
cles which it is in their power to exhibit in compe¬ 
tition at the Fair. The facilities of reaching Pough¬ 
keepsie by steamboats will render the transit of cattle 
and horses easier to a large section of country where 
many of the finest animals may be found; and the same 
facilities will enable visitors to arrive and depart more 
conveniently, and be better furnished with accommoda¬ 
tions than could well have been the case hitherto. We 
mistake the spirit of the Poughkeepsie people if they 
fail in making early and adequate arrangements for the 
multitudes that will throng their town on the occasion. 
Communications have been received since our last from 
R. A. Avery, An Enquirer, (whose letter cost us 56| 
cents) J. S. S., A Virginia Farmer, P. Peterson, S., M., 
Quercus, S. C. Smith, George Geddes, J. M. Ellis, Geor¬ 
gian, J. Crawford, Edgar, (this as well as his previous 
communication was written with a pencil, and will cost 
us too much labor to decypher it,) A Practical Farmer, 
L. A. Morrell, M. Bingham, A Friend to Farmers, S. 
Weller, N. N. D., Geo. Bement, S. Peck, C. Colfelt, N. 
Loomis, S. Tillotson, F. J. Betts, N. Clean, J. Smith, A. 
McDonald, W. A. Dunlap, W. McKinster, S. W. Jew¬ 
ett, G. A. Mason, W. H. Sotham, A Cayuga Farmer, R., 
A Subscriber, N. W. C., L. Physick, J. S., Peregrinalor, 
Richard Cowles, H. A. P., F. Rotch. 
We are indebted to Joseph Breck, Esq., Ed. N. E. 
Farmer, for copies of Dr. Dana's Prize Essay on Ma¬ 
nures, and Mr. Foote's Prize Essay on the same subject 
-—to Lt. Gov. Dickinson for a copy of his Address be¬ 
fore the Queens Co. Agricultural Society—to Dr. Lee 
for his Address before the Erie Co. Ag. Socie!y—to C. 
P. Holcomb, Esq. Devondale Farm, Wilmington, anil to 
some unknown friend, for copies of the Transactions of j 
the Newcastle Ag. Soc : e‘y for 1843—to A. Randall, 
Esq. for the Western Farmer's and Gardener's Almanac 
for 1844. 
CHANCE IN THE FORM OF THE CULTIVATOR. 
A correspondent says:—I see no objection in the change 
of form, except that you cheat us a little in quantity by j 
the increased amount of margin.” In this, however, he, 
is mistaken. The sheet has been enlarged, as he will see; 
by comparing it. with a former number, so that we givej 
just the same amount of reading now that we did in the! 
quarto form. J 
EXPERIMENT WITH POTATOES. 
Mr. Charles Colfelt of Mifflin co. Pa., informs us 
that he raised last season, 90 bushels potatoes on a quar¬ 
ter of an acre of land, and he thinks he should have had 
125 bushels if the season had been favorable. He plant¬ 
ed the potatoes on the 8th of May, in rows 3 feet apart. 
After they came up, he hauled out 8 cart loads of barn 
manure about half rotted, and spread over the tops on the 
rows—then run a one-horse plow on each side of the 
rows, to throw the manure over the potatoes and cover 
the manure with earth. Harvested in November. The 
same man also raised 120 bushels of potatoes on a « third 
of an acre” of land, which had been previously planted 
to com and was destroyed by “ cut worms.” He put on 
8 four-horse loads of long manure, spread it, furrowed 
the ground 3 feet apart, dropped the potatoes and covered 
them with the plow. 
RESULTS OF SUBSOIL PLOWING. 
Mr. C. N. Bement states that a few years ago, he sub¬ 
soiled part of a piece of ground which he planted to In¬ 
dian com. The piece was on a light, loamy or sandy 
knoll, and he subsoiled it in « strips,” leaving alternate 
strips not subsoiled, all being manured alike. He ran 
the subsoiler about eight to ten inches deep. The season 
proved very dry, and where the subsoil plow was not 
used, the corn was so burnt up that it produced little or 
nothing; but where the subsoil plow was used, the corn 
remained green and flourishing through all the drouth—. 
the strips were plainly seen at a distance, and the sub- 
soiled part produced a good crop. 
Mr. B. made a similar experiment on carrots, and the 
results were even more strikingly in favor of subsoilmg 
han in the case first cited. 
