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THE CULTIVATOR. 
CONDENSED COMMUNICATIONS. 
Vineyard and Nursery at Brinkleyville, N. C.— 
We have a long- communication from the esteemed Sid¬ 
ney Weller. P. M., at Brinkleyville, detailing his ex¬ 
perience in the growth of fruit trees and vines, at the 
South, in which he states that he has for fourteen years, 
as an incidental business, cultivated the vine—at first, 
with but poor success, from want of experience and 
adopting foreign vines and foreign modes of culture—but 
latterly, having adopted native vines and an “American 
system'’ of culture, he has succeeded to his entire satis¬ 
faction. He has found the following varieties of the 
grape to succeed well. The Scuppernong, (ranks first 
south of lat. 37| deg. but of no superior excellence north 
of that,) Norton’s Virginia Seedling, good every where 
so far as he has heard, Weller's Halifax, Vine Arbor, 
&c. The Catawba, Isabella, Herbemont’s Madeira, &c., 
have not done as well with him. The Elsinburgh proves 
to be a delicious fruit, much admired on account of its 
fine flavor and freedom from pulp. He has not tested it 
for wine. From several of his Scuppernong vines, he 
has made from half a barrel to a barrel each of wine. 
One of Norton’s Seedlings, five years in culture, produ¬ 
ced 2| bushels of grapes and 8 gallons juice. He says 
800 gallons wine per acre is considered a capital yield in 
Europe, but from his experience, he thinks 2,000 gal¬ 
lons per acre, by good culture, can be realized in North 
Carolina. His culture consists in keeping the ground 
clear of grass and weeds, the year round, so that all the 
leaves and litter from the vines can be incorporated with 
the soil by scarifying it when needful with a harrow or 
cultivator. In some instances however, instead of adopt¬ 
ing this course, he covers the ground several inches deep 
with pine leaves or other litter, which, renewed once in 
two years, keeps down all extraneous growth, and saves 
the labor of annually working the ground. After a vine¬ 
yard is well under way, no other manure is necessary. 
He has made this season, 15 barrels of wine, and is just 
commencing on his Scuppernong vines, which constitute 
his principal crop, and from which he expects to increase 
the amount to forty barrels. 
Fruit Trees. —Mr. Weller says that he finds some 
varieties of superior excellence at the north, of no profit 
with him. The Newtown pippin, (and other northern 
winter fruit,) is subject to rotting on the tree, and ripens 
too early for winter keeping. The celebrated winter 
Bellflower is a fall apple with him. The Sine-qua-non 
apple, the Bergamot pear, the red Magdalene peach, and 
the Bolmar or Washington plum, have proved as good 
with him as at the north. For winter apples, those pe¬ 
culiar to the south only will keep well, such as the Sal¬ 
mon, Gully, and Haul, Barrow, and other seedlings. As 
a summer fruit with him, he says there is none superior 
to the common southern horse apple. He thinks No¬ 
vember the best season for transplanting fruit trees at the 
south. 
Improved Farming in Virginia —Mr. H. R. Robey, 
near Fredericksburg, Va., gives us the following favora¬ 
ble account of the effect of agricultural papers in impro¬ 
ving the husbandry of his neighborhood: “When I com¬ 
menced farming, I determined to try the new system of 
husbandry, because I saw the old plan would not do; the 
farmers were all going backwards, or getting poorer ev¬ 
ery year; my new neighbors laughed at me, when they 
saw me occupying so much of my time in hauling mud 
and sods from the swamps to put in my manure pile, and 
asked where I got that notion from. My reply was, 
from the Cultivator. They laughed still more, and call¬ 
ed me the book farmer—said I would soon find out my 
folly, and go back to the good old custom, as they call 
it. Many of those men have acknowledged since, that I 
have been pursuing the right plan. I have now eight 
barrels of corn growing, where six years ago one barrel 
could not be grown; and all my information has been de¬ 
rived from agricultural papers. Some of my neighbors, 
for two or three years past, have been taking the Culti¬ 
vator, and you can perceive an improvement upon their 
farms already. They are now not content to put up with 
the bare necessaries of life. A spirit of improvement 
seems to have taken hold of them; they begin to culti¬ 
vate improved varieties of fruit for market and for their 
families; thus adding profit and pleasure, where neither 
could be found before they began to read agricultural 
papers.” 
Black Sea Wheat. —In our March number, page 75, 
we published a communication from Clark Rich, Esq. 
on the subject of Black-sea wheat. We lately received 
another article from the same gentleman, in which he in¬ 
forms us that this kind of wheat continues to maintain 
its superiority over other kinds, for that section of coun¬ 
try. It is a spring-wheat. Its distinguishing excellen¬ 
cies are, hardiness, freedom from rust and other diseases, 
and generally producing a better yield, especially on un¬ 
favorable soils and in unfavorable seasons, than other 
varieties. There is a white, and a red-chaff kind. The 
white-chaff is said to yield as well, but the millers pre 
fer the red-chaff, as giving better flour. It is said not to 
make as nice looking flour as good Tea-wheat, or as 
some good kinds of winter-wheat; but since the millers 
have found how to grind it, the flour is well liked. This 
wheat has been much disseminated for a few years past, 
and wherever spring-wheat is cultivated, has been much 
esteemed. Mr. Rich says, “ it is believed that this wheat 
will yield better than rye, even where rye has heretofore 
been considered the safest crop.” Mr. Rich informs us 
that prime Black-sea wheat can be delivered at the land¬ 
ing, Shoreham, Vt., at $1.12 per bushel—and procured 
of the farmers for $1.00 per bushel. 
Disease in the Stomach of Cattle. —Mr. J. De- 
vereux, of Raleigh, North Carolina, wishes some infor¬ 
mation in regard to a disease by which he lately lost a 
valuable Devon bull. A post mortem examination show¬ 
ed the third stomach or manifolds, “ crowded with food 
until it was as hard as a pressed cotton-bale.” In rela¬ 
tion to diseases of this organ, Mr. Youatt says—“ it will 
always be proper to bleed, in order to diminish any ex¬ 
isting fever, or to prevent the occurrence of that which 
continued disease of this important stomach would be 
likely to produce. To this should follow a dose of phy¬ 
sic, in order to evacuate the intestines beyond the place 
of obstruction, and by its action on them, possibly to re¬ 
call this viscus also to the discharge of its healthy func¬ 
tion. The Epsom salts, with half the usual quantity of 
ginger, will form the best purgative; and it should be 
administered either by means of a small horn, or the 
pipe of the stomach-pump introduced half way down the 
gullet, and the liquid very slowly pumped in. By this 
cautious method of proceeding, the pillars of the seso- 
phagean canal will probably not be forced open, and the 
liquid will flow on through the passage still partially 
open at the bottom of the manyplus, and thence into the 
abomasum.” 
It may not be improper to remark that the manifold, 
as it is called, is the third stomach, and not, as our cor¬ 
respondent supposes, the first stomach. We are unable 
to inform Mr. Devereux the probable price of a Devon 
bull-calf. In answer to the inquiry for the names of 
breeders of Devon cattle, we would mention Messrs. 
George Patterson, and John P. E. Stanley, of Maryland, 
Mr. Wm. Garbutt, of Wheatland, and Mr. L. F. Allen, 
of Buffalo, N. Y.', and Mr. Hurlburt of Connecticut. 
Glandrrs. —Mr. C, B. Clark, of Monroe, Conn., 
wishes some more particular information in relation to 
the cure of glanders by tobacco, as mentioned by Mr. J. 
B. Cook, in our July number. Mr. Clark says, “ if your 
correspondent w r ould state how much of the decoction of 
tobacco was given at a dose, the manner of giving it, and 
the subsequent treatment, a subscriber would be amply 
repaid for the expense of the Cultivator, especially if a 
cure was effected.” 
Larches. —In relation to our inquiry whether larch, 
or tamarack trees will flourish on dry soils, “ A Con¬ 
stant Reader,” at Burlington, Vt., informs us that he 
has often seen them “in fine condition on high and dry 
localities, the soil of which was pure sand.” 
Bone Mills. —A correspondent wishes to obtain a ma¬ 
chine for grinding or crushing bones. We shall be 
greatly obliged if any of our friends can inform us where 
one can be procured—its price, and the power necessary 
to drive it. 
