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April, 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
Mot n for t{re Monti; 
Our Premiums for Subscribers. 
We offered, it will be remembered, Twenty Premiums, to those 
who should send us, with the payment in advance, previous to the 
20th of March, the greatest number of subscribers to The Cultivator 
for 1850. In announcing the result, it is proper for us to say, that 
none of our Agents in the cities are included among the competitors 
for the prizes, which will account for the non-appearance of their 
names in the list of those receiving Premiums. 
We annex a list of the twenty persons who have obtained the pri¬ 
zes ; and we lake this occasion to tender to them, and to all others 
who have so kindly acted as Agents, our most hearty thanks : 
1. A. Cary, Fort Plain, N. Y.,.......... .245 subs. $50. 
2. L W. Curtis, Madison, N. Y.,.. . .204.$40. 
3. Wm. E. Calkins.Ticonderoga, N. Y.,... .178.$30. 
4. H. & J. Brewer. Springfield, Mass,,...... 130.$20. 
5. C. P. Waller, Honesdale, Pa.,..116.$10 
6. Wilson Dennis, Quakertown, Pa.,.114 
7. Samuel Brooks, Edgefield C. H., S. C., . .113 
8. L. Richmond, Woodstock, Vt.,...104 
9. Hiram Mills, Lowville, N. Y.,. 69 1 
10. O. C. Chamberlain, Richfield Sp’gs, N. Y., 87 J 
11. M. Davis, Jr., Lynchburgh, Va-,. 861) 
12. James Wells, Johnstown, N. Y.,. 80 ' 
13 Willetts Keese, Peru, N. Y.,.... 76 
14. L. Helmer, Ilion, N. Y.,. 65 
15. R S. Bartlett, Binghamton, N. Y.,. 54 , 
16. Wm. McKinney, Ida Mills, N. Y.,. 51 f 
17. J. H. Reid, Fredericton, N. B.,. 46 ‘ 
18. F. H. Fessenden, Bratlleborough, Vt.,... 42 J 
19. A. N. Barber, Harwinton, Ct.,. 41 | 
20. Charles Root, Gilbertsville, N. Y.,. 40 J 
To all the above, except the first four, we shall add to each pre¬ 
mium, a copy of the second volume of The Horticulturist. We 
shall also send a copy of the same volume, in addition to the Ameri¬ 
can Fruit Culturist to which they are entitled, to all those who have 
sent us thirty or more subscribers, as follows: 
W. H. White,. 
G. A. Ainsworth,. 
J. M. Hart,. 
Each 
$5.00 
Each 
$3.00 
Thos. Briggs, Jr.,. 
H. Moore,. .. 
R. II. Van Rensselaer,. 
J. N. Sawyer,.. 
W. L. Avery. 
C. W. Kelloy?, . 
E. H. Townsend. 
39 
M. Crowell. 
. 32 
38 
F. B. Smith,. 
38 
Jas. La Roche,.. 
. 31 
38 
P. M. Ross,. 
37 
P. C. Stone, .... 
_ 31 
36 
E. Adams,. 
_ 30 
36 
A. Cornell,. 
. 30 
35 
J. Franc, ....... 
35 
S. C. Jackson,... 
34 
James Lee,. 
33 
R. S. Marshal,.. 
33 
O. F. Marshall,.. 
33 
C. C. Purdy,- 
.30 
32 
J. B. Packer, ... 
. 30 
32 
Jas. Culver,. 
.30 
J. W. Reed, ...". 
To all others who have sent us 15 or more subscribers, a copy of 
Thomas’ American Fruit Culturist. 
Communications have come to hand since our 
last, from A. B., H., T. H. Collins, A Wool Dealer, 
C. E. G., Lotan Smith, Jacob Hitchcock, E., Da¬ 
vid Thomas, G. Butler, Levi Durand, C. F., 
F. Holbrook, F. Engle, G. H. Dadd, --, Prof. 
Norton. D. D., Thos. Craighead, Jr., J. H. Salis¬ 
bury, Wm. R. Prince, R. W., A. S. Copeman, D. 
DO 
B oks, Pamphlets, &c.,have been received as 
foil > ws: 
A ’ ass before the Anderson District (S. C.) Farmers’ Society, No- 
v«_ n.ber 21, 1849, on the four principal means of improving the 
soh—Draining, Subsoil Plowing, Rotation of Crops, and Manu¬ 
ring, by Dr. O. R. Broyles. 
Annual of Scientific Discovery—a Year-Book of Facts in Science 
and Art, for 1850, from the publishers, Gould, Kendall & Lin¬ 
coln. 
A package of Seeds, from the Commissioner of Patents. 
Report of the Committee of Supervison of the first exhibition of 
Domestic Poultry, held at Boston, November, 1849, from Dr. E. 
Wight. 
Scions fiom a Se*;lling Apple, from W. Dennis, Quakertown, Pa. 
Grammar of Arithmetic, or an Analysis of the Language of Figures 
and Science of Numbers, by Chas. Davies, L. L. D., from A. S. 
Barnes & Co., publishers, New-York. 
Annual Report of the Board of Agriculture of Ohio, for 1848, from 
P. C. Stone, Esq., Tallmadge, Ohio—pp. 220. 
Guenon’s Treatise on Milch Cows, with Introductory Remarks on 
the Cow and the Dairy, by J. S. Skinner —pp. 68—price, in paper 
covers, 37-£ cents, from the publishers, Bangs, Platt & Co., 
New-York. The same, from Mr. McElrath, bound, price 62^ 
cents. 
Address before the Hartford (Conn.) Ag. Society, by Simeon Hart, 
Esq., of Farmington. 
Agricultural College and Experimental 
Farm. —The Committee of the Assembly, to whom 
was referred the report of the Commissioners ap¬ 
pointed to mature a plan for an Agricultural Col¬ 
lege and Experimental Farm, together with that 
part of the Governor’s Message and other papers 
relating to the same subject, have brought in a bill 
for the establishment of such an institution. This 
bill makes liberal provision for effecting the general 
design and purposes contemplated, and proposes 
that the Comptroller be authorised to borrow, on the 
credit of the State, the sum of one hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars for establishing and carrying on the in- 
stitution. The bill has not yet been acted on, but 
we understand that a favorable feeling is manifest¬ 
ed in regard to its general features, in both branch¬ 
es of the Legislature. 
“Imported Short-horns —Mr. Bates’ Stock.” 
—We have received from Ambrose Stevens, Esq., 
a reply to the remarks of Mr. Chapman, on this 
subject, published in our January No. Having pub¬ 
lished Mr. Stevens’ commendation of his and Mr. 
Sherwood’s cattle, in our last volume, in which it 
was thought by Mr. Vail’s friends, that injustice was 
done to Mr. V.’s herd, it became a matter of duty 
to give place to Mr. Chapman’s reply. But as we 
can perceive no benefit to be derived by our readers 
from a continuance of the controversy, and as the 
question has a personal bearing on the interests of 
two public spirited importers of foreign cattle, we 
think it best to decline any further discussion of the 
points at issue, in our pages. 
Northern Farmers in Virginia. —We have re¬ 
ceived a communication from a gentleman formerly 
a citizen of the State of New-York, but who at 
present resides in Powhattan county, Virginia, on a 
farm of 700 acres, purchased by him a few years 
since. In relation to the advantages which that sec¬ 
tion possesses for northern farmers, he appears to 
have experienced some disappointment; and he 
comes to the conclusion that the investment of mo¬ 
ney in Virginia lands, will not generally prove pro¬ 
fitable, under any management that can be adopted, 
“ compared with the same expenditure of labor and 
money in the State of New-York.” He gives vari¬ 
ous reasons for this conclusion, the principal of 
which is, that the expenses which the farmer must 
necessarily incur there, are much greater, in propor¬ 
tion to his income, than at the north. Among the 
heavy expenses of the farmer in Virginia, he cites 
those of educating his children. He must either hire 
a teacher for his family, or pay very high charges 
for sending them to schools, often at a great dis¬ 
tance. Expenses of transporting produce to mar¬ 
ket are represented as much greater than at the 
north, and though what the farmer has to sell does 
not generally, command a higher price than in New 
York, everything he has to purchase is considera¬ 
bly dearer. 
Fine Cattle. —The butchers of Albany, pur¬ 
chased several fine animals for their usual display 
of meat on the 22d of February last. E. Kirkpat¬ 
rick purchased of Clement Leach, of Eaton 
Madison county, N. Y., a pair of short-horned oxen, 
five years old, raised by E. Sheldon, of Sennett, 
Cayuga county, N. Y., which received one of the 
premiums on fat cnttle at the State Fair at Syra¬ 
cuse; also a cow, five years old, apparently a mix¬ 
ture of Short-horn and Devon, which received the 
first premium on fat cows at the same show. J. 
Fredenrich purchased the fine Short-horn heifer of 
J. Barber, Homer, Cortland county, which took 
the first premium for fat heifers at Syracuse. These 
