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made into meal as fine as flour need be. This is done 
merely by turning a screw. So easily can it be moved, 
that two men can take it about with as much ease as they 
can move a corn-sheller or wheat fan. The burrs are 
of cast iron, and will grind from three to five hundred 
bushels before they become too smooth for use, when 
any farm hand can take them out and replace them with 
others, which cost $3,50 per pair. There is no other 
part of the machine that will not last an age. The cost 
is only $40. 55 
“ Credit. 55 —The paragraph alluded to by the Am. 
Ag. was taken from some paper, where it appeared with¬ 
out credit. It appeared originally we believe in the 
Western Farmer’s Almanac. We could easily fill a col-, 
umn with a list of articles which are going the rounds of 
the papers, copied from the Cultivator without credit. 
Take for instance the following, from papers now on our 
table: The article on Poultry in the Ulster Huguenot , 
should have been credited to the Cultivator—also, Soak¬ 
ing Corn, in the Kent News; the six articles on the first 
page of the Mercer Co. Farmer for April; the jive arti¬ 
cles under the Ag. head in the Peterboro Chronicle of 
April 30; the articV on Lucern, in the S. C. Temp. Ad¬ 
vocate of April 25, and two other articles in the same pa¬ 
per; History of the Mercer Potatoe and Culture of Tea 
in America, in the Zanesville Gazette of May 15; six ar¬ 
ticles in the Ag. department of the Spirit of the Times of 
May 18; three articles in the Goshen Clarion of May 23, 
&c. &c. These omissions to give the proper credit, are 
undoubtedly accidental, and we have seldom alluded to 
them. Greater care in this respect is, however, desira¬ 
ble; and we hope those who are in the habit of copying 
from the Culrivator, will remember to give credit to 
whom credit is due. 
Frost. —There was a hard frost in this vicinity on the 
night of the 21st of May. Ice was formed on some wa¬ 
ter which stood in barrels, to the thickness of an eighth 
of an inch, and in some places the ground was frozen. 
Beans, and other tender plants, were killed—corn and 
potatoes that were above ground, were cut down, but not 
killed. We have just learned from a gentleman from 
Madison county, in this State, that the damage in that 
section was quite heavy. That the ground was frozen to 
the depth of two to three inches, and that great fears 
were entertained that the fruit is killed. 
New Mode of Churning. —We saw in the street the 
other day, a churn which worked itself. It was moved 
by a weight, which, after having been wound up, would 
keep the machine in motion till it had run down. A ma¬ 
chine sufficiently large to admit of the weight being 
■wound up to th height of nine feet, would rn about 
half an hour. It was invented in Saratoga cou a y, (N. 
Y.) but we did not learn the inventor’s name. 
The Wheat Crop.— -Accounts from every section of 
our country afford the prospect of a most abundant wheat 
crop this season. A letter from Lewis Ellsworth, Esq. 
Dupage county, Illinois, dated May 14, says :—“ The 
prospect of a heavy harvest was never so good. The 
amount sown exceeds that of last year by at least one 
quarter, and from present appearances the yield will ex¬ 
ceed per acre that of any previous crop. Our spring has 
been rather cold and very wet, consequently corn-plant¬ 
ing is late.” 
Amusements for Farmers’ Boys. —Being lately at 
the residence of one of our most intelligent farmers, our 
attention was attracted to the door of a small room in an j 
out-building, which was labelled “ -office.” On in-1 
quiry, we learned that this was a room given up to the 
boys. Entering, we found it fitted up with miniature 
implements of husbandry, seeds, of different kinds, a few 
plants, and branches of ever-green; the walls decorated 
with portraits of celebrated horses, cattle, sheep, swine, 
and poultry; while on some shelves, were some geolo¬ 
gical specimens, and several juvenile books of a charac¬ 
ter calculated to inspire a taste for rural life, and at the 
same time to teach correct modes of husbandry, horti¬ 
culture, &c., the whole arranged in agreeable order. It 
struck us as an excellent plan, and we would suggest its 
general adoption. It furnishes the means of both amuse¬ 
ment and instruction. How infinitely better it is to al¬ 
low boys an opportunity of spending a part of their time 
in thus cultivating a taste for the investigation of those 
subjects by which their knowledge of nature and the 
world around them is increased, than in mixing with 
rude company and becoming contaminated with their 
vices. 
Northern Light. —From a prospectus of this work, 
we learn that several important alterations and improve¬ 
ments are proposed for the coming year. It will be 
printed in the royal octavo form, similar to the Cultiva¬ 
tor, instead of the quarto, as heretofore, on fine white 
paper, with entire new type, will be stitched, and en¬ 
closed in a neat handsome cover, each number containing 
sixteen pages. Its columns will be filled with a judicious 
blending of Literature and Science. Interesting selections 
will be made, though its contents will be chiefly origi¬ 
nal. Mr. A. B. Street, the present talented and accom¬ 
plished editor, is to be assisted by Dr. T. Romeyn Beck, 
favorably known for his former contributions, Professor 
Hall, a distinguished geologist and man of general 
science, S. S. Randall, Esq., Deputy Superintendent of 
Common Schools in this State, with other contributors. 
! The talent thus engaged cannot fail to recommend the 
Northern Light to the favorable notice of the public. 
The first number of the new series, will appear in the 
second week in June, and will be succeeded by others 
on the first and fifteenth of each month. Terms, a dollar 
a year in advance. 
Farming Implements. —Inventors and manufacturers 
of improved farming implements may find it to their ad¬ 
vantage to send models or specimens to the Hall of the 
New-York State Agricultural Society, in the old State- 
House, Albany. The Agricultural Hall adjoins the rooms 
devoted to the Geological collection—is visited by many 
persons from all quarters in passing through Albany— 
and articles placed there for exhibition may prove ex¬ 
tensively beneficial to the manufacturers as well as to the 
farming community. Any such articles may be directed 
to Henry O’Reilly, Recording' Secretary of the State Ag¬ 
ricultural Society, Albany. {jCp 3 The Agricultural papers 
in this and other States, are requested to promote the ob¬ 
ject by copying this notice. 
Premium on Cotton. —The Chamber of Commerce 
of Apalachicola, have awarded a premium of a tea set to 
Col. A. M’Donald of Eufalla, Ala., for the best 20 bales 
of cotton sold in that market last season. The cotton was 
sold afterwards at 10£ cts. per lb. The premium for the 
best 50 bales was awarded to Capt. Thornton of- 
The Michigan Farmer. —This is published at Jack- 
son, semi-monthly, at $1,00 a year, by D. D. T. Moore. 
It deserves a liberal support, which we doubt not is ac¬ 
corded to it by the intelligent farmers of Michigan, 
j Charcoal. —Our correspondent at Columbus, (Ga.) 
J. G. W., will find in the back numbers of the Cultiva- 
|tor, which have been sent according to his directions, all 
the information we can give him on the use of charcoal 
as a manure. Several experiments were made with char¬ 
coal last year, and we should be glad to learn the result 
—particularly should be glad to hear the results of the 
trials made of it, by our correspondent, Za. Drummond,. 
Esq. of Virginia. 
| Warren’s Horse Power.— W. F. B. of Bushville, 
jGa. will find the information he wants, respecting the 
j price of this machine, in an advertisement in this paper. 
We do not know the cost of shipping it to Savannah. 
« J. H. AT.” Adams Co., Pa. —The charge for insert 
ing your advertisement three times, would be $6,00. 
S. IV., Whalen's Store —Tf we can find a person who 
will answer your purpose, you shall hear from us. 
Correction. —The paragraph about “ Blind Teeth in 
Man,” proves to be all a mistake. Mr. Johnson assures 
us that he wrote “ young mare," instead of “man.” 
Ginger Beer. —One pint of molasses and two spoons¬ 
ful? of ginger put into a pail to be half filled with boiling 
water; when well stirred together, fill the pail with cold 
water, leaving room for one pint of yeast, which must 
not be put in until lukewarm. Place it on a warm hearth 
for the night, and bottle it in the morning.— Selected. 
