1849. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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Communications have been received, since our last, 
from An old Subscriber, Charles R. Smith, Farmer. Dr. 
G. H. Dadd, N. Longworth, G. Butler, John Johnston, 
S. F. C., A. S. F., F. Holbrook, J. Gardner, J. G., 
T. H. C., Isaac Hildreth, W. Doolittle, S. L. Wattles, 
Wm. N. White, D. A. Morrison, N. S. Smith, S. E. 
Todd, Agricola, Thos. Allen, J. O’Fallon, D. E. Gar* 
diner, David Thomas, S. D. Martin, D. M. 
Books, Pamphlets, &c., have been received, since 
our last, as follows:—Mr. Fletcher’s Address before the 
Windsor (Vt.) Ag. Society, from J. A. Pratt, Esq. 
—Mr. Delafield’s Address to the Yates Ag. Society, 
from the author.— Dadd’s Chart of Veterinary Prac¬ 
tice, from the Author.—Belcher’s Farmer’s Almanac, 
from C. H. Belcher, publisher, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
—Prof. James Hall’s Address before the Harvard Na¬ 
tural History Society, from the Author.—California 
Gold Regions, with an account of its mineral resources 
and sketches of the country—a 12^ cent pamphlet— 
from the publisher, W. H. Graham, New-York.—Rev. 
Dr. Bacon’s Address to the New Haven Co. Hort. So¬ 
ciety, with the Transactions of the Society for 1848.— 
Laws of the United States, relating to Patents and the 
Patent Office, with the Decisions of the U. S. ancTState 
Courts, relating to the same, to which is added an Ab¬ 
stract of the Patent Laws of other countries, compiled 
by the Commissioner of Patents, from Hon. S. Came¬ 
ron, U. S. Senate.—Two packages of Brewer’s Com¬ 
pound Marshmallow Candy, prepared by our excellent 
agent at Springfield, and recommended for diseases of 
the throat and lungs.—Report of the First Exhibition 
of the Worcester Co. (Mass.) Mechanic’s Association, 
from Wm. B. Emery. 
W. N. W., Athens, Ga. We shall be glad to hear 
from you in the way you propose. 
Back Vols. and Nos. of the Cultivator. —All 
the engravings and plates of the vol. for 1848, having 
been burnt, we shall not reprint that vol.; and conse¬ 
quently, we cannot supply orders for that volume sin¬ 
gly. We have, however, succeeded in purchasing a 
number of copies of it, which will enable us to supply 
orders for entire sets of the Cultivator, for one or both 
series. We can supply all the Nos. for 1848, except 
the first three —all the Nos. for 1847, and a part only 
of idle Nos. for some of the previous years. 
m* We shall supply all orders for single back Nos. 
as far as we can, and those who do not receive the Nos. 
for which they write, will understand that it is because 
we do not have them to send. 
Cultivator Almanac. —This Almanac was not 
published for 1849—consequently, we cannot comply 
with the numerous requests for it. 
Models of Sheep. —We have received from John 
A. Taintor, Esq., of Hartford, Ct., a plaster model of 
one of his Merino Sheep. The Secretary of the New- 
York State Agricultural Society, has also received two 
similar models, representing different Merinos belong¬ 
ing to Mr. T. They are fine specimens of the art of 
modeling animals, and are very perfect representations 
of the animals themselves. They are the first Ameri¬ 
can specimens we have seen of this art, and are high¬ 
ly creditable to the artist. 
SCf 3 We have received from Mr. Daniel F. Newell, 
of Southbridge, Mass., samples of two kinds of apples. 
'We do not know the name of either. They appear to 
arrive at maturity early in the fall, and were over ripe 
when brought to us. On this account it was impossible 
to decide fully as to their natural flavor, though they 
are evidently good. 
Profitable Swarm of Bees. —Mr. W. Doolittle, I 
of Borodino, N. Y., states that about the 20th of 
June last, he had two swarms of bees come out, and 
they went, together, into one of Weeks’ patent hives. 
Thinking there would not be room for them to work, 
he added two more boxes on the outside of the hive, at 
the bottom. They immediately went to work, and 
made seventy pounds of nice honey, besides plenty left 
in the hive to winter the bees. 
Spirea Prunifolia. —In our December number, we 
gave a cut and description of this beautiful shrub. We 
have since seen it in flower, in the green-house of Mr. 
James Wilson, of this city. It is certainly a beautiful 
plant, and Mr. W. thinks it will be sufficiently hardy 
for the open air. In the house, it will give a succes¬ 
sion of flowers the whole winter. From present ap¬ 
pearances, it will be a valuable acquisition to our list 
of flowering shrubs. 
Weekly Agricultural Meetings. —Arrangements 
have been made for the usual weekly meetings in Al¬ 
bany, for the discussion of subjects relating to agricul¬ 
ture. Reports of the remarks made at the different 
meetings will be published in the Albany Evening 
Journal , and the substance of them will be embodied 
in the forthcoming volume of Transactions for the 
New York State Agricultural Society. We may also 
find room for publishing some portion of the discussions 
in the Cultivator. 
Colts of the Morgan Stock. —Mr. S. A. Gilbert, 
of East Hamilton, Madison county, lately passed 
through this city with three fine colts and a filly, which 
he had purchased in New Hampshire and Vermont. 
Two of the colts and the filly were foaled in 1848, 
the other colt in 1847. They were all got by the Gif¬ 
ford Morgan, and, with the exception of the filly, were 
out of mares having more or less Morgan blood. The 
yearling, a very superior colt, in points and action, was 
by Gifford Morgan, dam by Green Mountain Morgan, 
grand dam 11 a Messenger mare.” The dam of one of 
the other colts was a fine mare by the Sherman Mor¬ 
gan. We feel confident that these animals will prove 
of much importance to the section for which they are 
destined, and we would cail the attention of farmers to 
them. 
Importations of Saxon Sheep. —We are informed 
that John A. Taintor, Esq., of Hartford, Ct., has 
lately received a lot of very fine sheep, selected from 
the choicest flocks in Saxony. In addition to remarka¬ 
ble fineness of wool, they are said to possess large size 
and good constitutions. We are also informed that an¬ 
other importation of Saxon sheep, has been made by 
Messrs. D. W. Catlin, of New York, and Chas. B. 
Smith, of Wolcottville, Ct. We understand that a 
part of the lot is owned by T. W. Swift, of Amenia, 
Dutchess county, N. Y. They are said to combine 
great weight of fleece with fine quality, and were se¬ 
lected by a German of the best judgment, who owns 
several thousand sheep. We expect to receive, short¬ 
ly, samples of the wool of these sheep. 
New kind of Fence. —A subscriber at Vergennes, 
Vt., wishes some information in regard to a kind 
of fence, which is said to be made of posts, set 
in the ground two rods apart, with strips of sheet iron, 
an inch and a-half wide, fastened on—the iron prepared 
in oil, and painted white, to resist the action of the 
weather—the cost less than thirty cents per rod. We 
have no knowledge in regard to such a fence, and shall 
be obliged to any of our correspondents who will furnish 
any information as to its utility, cost, &c. 
Exhaustion of the Soil. —The Valley Farmer , 
published at St. Louis, Mo., says, “ There is no por¬ 
tion of the globe that is being exhausted of its fertility 
by injudicious cultivation, so rapidly as the Mississippi 
Valley, at this present time.” 
Dadd’s Chart of Veterinary Reformed Pp.ac 
