THE CULTIVATOR. 
250 
July, 
and running after sights is a national vice which 
has too often made us ridiculous, and which should 
especially be avoided at our Fairs , lest they even¬ 
tually become so mixed up with new additions as to 
have nothing left to the farmer but the name. They 
should look to this in time, and never forget to res¬ 
pect themselves and protect their interests. Ever 
bearing in mind that as a class they form an import¬ 
ant part of the great conservative power of the 
State, and that they are bound to make that power 
felt and respected.” 
New Work. —Messrs. Derby & Miller, book¬ 
sellers, Auburn, will issue soon a new work on rural 
affairs, entitled U The Farmer’s Every Day Book; 
or. Sketches of Social Life in the Country, with 
the Popular Elements of Practical and Theoretic 
Agriculture, and 1,200 Laconics and Apothegms 
relating to Ethics, Religion, and General Lite¬ 
rature ; also 500 receiuts on Hygeian, Domestic 
and Rural Economy. 
u Would you be strong ? Go follow up the plough; 
Would you be thoughtful ? Study fields and flowers; 
Would you be wise? Take on yourself a vow, 
To go to school in Nature’s sunny bowers. 
Fly from the city, nothing there can charm— 
Seek wisdom, strength and virtue on a farm.” 
We intended to have given a chapter from it this 
month, on “ The Commercial Importance of Agri¬ 
culture,” but are under the necessity of deferring 
it. From the high character of the author, as well 
as from the few pages we have seen of the work, 
we have no doubt it will have an extensive sale. 
The Oneida County Agricultural Society 
will hold its next fair at Rome, on the 17th, 18th. 
and 19th days of September. This, we believe, is 
the first instance of one of our county fairs con¬ 
tinuing three days, and we are glad to see that the 
farmers of this rich and fertile county take suffici¬ 
ent interest in the subject to warrant a three-day 
fair. Benj. N. Huntington, Rome, President. 
L. T. Marshall, Vernon Center, Secretary. 
Long Island Lands. —The attention of farmers 
intending to change their location, is particularly 
invited to the advertisement of Dr. Peck, setting 
forth the inducements offered by the lands on Long 
Island. 
Price of Mustard Seed. —The editor of the 
Ohio Cultivator states that 6£ cents per pound is 
the price at which manufacturers in Ohio are willing 
to contract for good seed, next fall. A letter is 
published from Messrs. Fell, of Philadelphia, sta¬ 
ting that owing to the fluctuations in the market, 
and generally low prices, they do not recommend 
the cultivation of mustard on a large scale, to the 
western farmers, especially, 11 as long as the foreign 
seed is admitted at the present rate of duty.” 
Heavy Pigs.—Benj. Lyman, of Columbia, Ct., 
gives the Mass. Plowman an account of the weight 
of several pigs killed in that town since the first of 
December last, as follows: 
Hubbard Barstow killed a pig 8 months old, weight 360 lbs. 
Jonathan Clark “ “ 9 “ **■ 387 
John Davenport “ “ 8} “ “ 390 “ 
John Ticknor killed an old hog, “ 610 “ 
Animalcules on Human Teeth. —Dr. H. J. 
Bowditch, of Cambridge, Mass., states as the re¬ 
sult of many microscopic examinations of the accu¬ 
mulations on the teeth of healthy persons, that of 
forty-nine individuals, most of whom were very par¬ 
ticular in the care of their teeth, animal and vege¬ 
table products were found in every instance except 
two. In those cases the brush was used three times 
a day, and a thread was passed between the teeth 
daily. Windsor soap was also used by one of thtese I 
two persons, with the brush. Dr. Bowditch tried 
the effect of various substances, in destroying the 
animalcules, and especially tobacco, by which they 
seemed to be in no way incommoded. Soapsuds and 
chlorine toothwash invariably destroyed them. 
Industrial Exhibition of 1851.—Preparations 
are already in progress for the transmission of the 
productions of American genius and ingenuity 
to the approaching great Industrial Exhibition 
which takes place in 1851 in London. A meeting 
of the Central Committee for the United States 
convened at the National Institute, in the Patent 
Office, Washington, on Thursday, the 13th ult., 
Hon. Millard Fillmore presiding, and Prof. W. R. 
Johnson acting as secretary. Among the various 
communications read at the meeting, was one from 
the secretary of a former meeting, held on the 27th 
of last month, containing the names of those ap¬ 
pointed on the Central Committee, among which 
are the following: Hon. Millard Fillmore, Hon. 
Levi Woodbury, Professors Joseph Henry and Alex. 
D. Bache, Com. C. Wilkes, Lieut. M. F. Maury, 
Col. J. J. Abert, and Thos. Ewbank, and others. 
21 in number.— N. Y. Evening Post. 
Red Cedar Posts. —All kinds of Cedar are 
known to be very durable, but the heart of red ce¬ 
dar is perhaps, preferable on this account, to any 
other kind, and those parts of the tree which are 
most knotty, will probably last longest. E. Bourne, 
in the Mass. Plowman , states that on examining 
some red cedar posts set by his father 48 years since, 
he found those which were taken from the butt-end 
of the tree, a little decayed on the outside; but 
those from the second and third cuts of the tree, 
were perfectly sound. 
Profits of Fowls.—Bradford Packard, of 
West Bridgewater, Mass., states in the Plowman 
that he kept an accurate account with twenty fowls, 
(eighteen hens and two cocks,) for one year, from 
January 1st, 1849. He obtained 2434 eggs, the 
average price of which was fourteen cents per doz¬ 
en, making $28.90; he raised twelve chickens, va¬ 
lued at 25 cents each, giving an aggregate of $31. 
89. The food the fowls ate during this time was 
15 bushels of eorn, which cost $10.89, leaving a net 
profit of $21.01. 
To decoy Rats. —Mix a shilling’s worth of 
Spanish flies in a pint of the best French brandy, 
cork it well, and after shaking, let it stand six 
weeks, and it will be fit for use. A few drops of 
this liquid is said to entice the rats from their holes 
into any kind of trap. 
Wool Market—June 19, 1850. 
The shearing has actively progressed for the two past weeks, and 
is now nearly completed, excepting in the northern portion of this 
and some of the Eastern States. The appearance of a much dread¬ 
ed epidemic in the spring of 1849, caused a general paralysis in the 
business of the country, and greatly aided in depressing the prices of 
wool, more particularly in the Western States. The absence of 
cholera, general prosperity of most business pursuits, and abun¬ 
dance of money facilities in the large northern and eastern cities, 
have produced a very different feeling in regard to the clip of 1850, 
and especially in the Western States, as contrasted with 1849, ai 
though the prices of cloths are about the same now as one year ago. 
The advance of wools in the Northern and Eastern States, com¬ 
pared with 1849, is from 2 to 3c.; while in Ohio, Michigan, and other 
Western States, it is from 4 to 6c. per lb. The excitement in the 
Western market has been and still is very great, growing out of the 
competition amongst buyers, in combination with the causes above- 
mentioned; and purchases have been made on speculation at so 
high rates, as to leave no margin for profits; and it will be fortunate 
if, in many instances, actual losses are not sustained. No reliable 
estimate can be made of the quantity of wool shorn, until near the 
close of the year. The opening prices, so far as they can now be 
ascertained, are as follows: 
Common to I blood Merino, .25a27c. 
i tof do. 28a30c. 
| to full do. 31a35c. 
Full blood Saxon, . 36a40c 
