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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Aug. 
good wheat soil will produce 5 bushels, which again 
sown will, two years hence, produce 100 bushels; a 
quantity sufficient to sow 50 acres; and no farmer 
having a good wheat soil and 100 bushels perfectly 
clean wheat, could be in better business than to 
propagate it exclusively for seed. All that is 
essential to success, is to sow clean seed on a clean 
wheat soil. The preparation of the soil is gene¬ 
rally well understood in the wheat-growing districts 
of our country, but it may perhaps not be known 
or not thought to be necessary, that to keep 
wheat intended for seed free from all foreign 
admixture, a separate barn and granary should 
be appropriated exclusively to its reception, in 
which it should be threshed with the flail and 
stored till sold. 
For the encouragement of such an enterprise I will 
state the results of my experience in dollars and 
cents. 
Sifting, picking, brining and liming 2 bush, wheat, £ day at 8s. 50 
Salt and lime, say. 10 
60 
Extra price of 28 bushels wheat, at 2s. per bushel.$7,00 
Deduct. 60 
6,40 
For half a days work merely in the improvement of 
the quality of the grain, aside from the probable 
increase in quantity, to say nothing of the premium 
of $6. But this is not all. From the six bushels 
of this crop sown in 1842, 92 bushels equally good 
was produced and sold for seed at an advance of 
18f cents per pushel, at wholesale, to a seedsman. 
Thus 92 bushels at ls6d. per bushel is .. $17,25 
No sifting or picking being necessary, but only brining and 
liming, j day ... 25 
Salt and Lime say. 25 
SO 
Leaving a balance of $16,75, in favor of improved 
quality to say nothing of increased quantity and 
premium. I will add that the wheat was the beard¬ 
ed, red chaff, and that of several kinds that I have 
grown, I give it the preference. A. D. S. Troy, 
July 1 6th, 1850. 
Mr. Sheafe’s Sale of Short-Horns. 
This will positively take place at New Hamburg, on 
Thursday, the 29th day of August, as advertised at 
page 288. The stock will be arranged according to 
their number in the Catalogue the day before the sale, 
and on sales day. Thus every one will be able to ex¬ 
amine them to entire satisfaction. When the sale 
commences an ample ring will be staked out and roped. 
Into this circle each animal will be brought when it is 
put up for sale, and walked around for inspection. As 
all persons will be kept outside of the ropes, this again 
will give every one present an opportunity of close 
examination. If there be any unsoundness or vice in 
any animal on sales day, the public will be informed of 
it. It is my intention that every thing be conducted 
in the most honorable manner; and in doing this, I am 
happy to add, I shall only be carrying out the express 
wishes of the owner of the herd. 
New Hamburg is on the east side of the Hudson 
river, eight miles above Newburg, and about the same 
distance below Poughkeepsie. It can be reached by 
rail road from opposite the former place, or directly 
from the latter in fifteen minutes. It is only two to 
three hours distant from New York by rail road, and 
four to five hours from Albany by steamboat and rail 
road. Several trips per day are made to each place, 
at the low rates of eighty-five cents, to one dollar. 
Conditions. —In order to save time in bidding, and 
ensure despatch, the cows and heifers will be put up 
at a price varying from $25 to $100 each, dependent 
upon the animal. If bid off at the price named when 
put up, or any thing above, it will then be the property 
of the person bidding, otherwise it will be considered 
still the property of Mr. Sheafe. The bull calves will 
be put up at $25 each, and Exeter at $300. The 
sheep and lambs will be put up at $5. $6, and $7 per 
head, as above. The swine at $5 to $10 per head, ac¬ 
cording to age. The working oxen at $100. 
After an animal is bid off, it will then be considered 
at the risk of the owner; but it can remain on the 
farm free of expense, one week. 
Terms. —For all sums amounting to one hundred 
dollars and upwards, approved endorsed notes will be 
taken at six months, or a discount of five per cent, for 
cash. 
Catalogues with full description and pedigree of 
each animal, can be had on application to A. B. Allen, 
189 Water street, New York. 
Repairing Sythe-Snaths. 
Eds. Cultivator —In preparing for haying I was 
reminded of what I intended to do some time ago—and 
if this is published in your August number it may not 
be too late to benefit some of your numerous subscribers. 
I refer to repairing sythe-snaths in a way which I 
have practiced for many years. When the craw-hole 
(socket to receive the svthe) fails, which is very com¬ 
mon, I flat the end of the snath about six inches from 
the end, and get a blacksmith to fit an iron to it about 
one-eighth of an inch thick, with a hole punched in it 
suitable for the craw of the sythe, which plate is firmly 
secured or riveted on, so as not to alter the hanging of 
the sythe, which makes the snath far more durable than 
when new. I find on examining my snaths, that I have 
none but what have been repaired in this way, and that I 
have saved the expense of buying any for several 
years. Daniel S. Curtis. Canaan Centre, July 
1 1th, 1850. * 
Mode of Unloading Hay. 
Eds. Cultivator — I send you an account of the 
manner in which I unload my hay, thinking that a 
slight description might be of benefit to some of 
your numerous readers; as it saves nearly all the 
expense and fatigue of pitching off in. the usual way, 
and the apparatus costs only fifteen dollars—a sum 
which is more than saved in unloading forty tons of 
hay. 
The improvement over the old method consists in 
removing one half of the load at a time, in one entire 
body, from the wagon to the mow, by means of a 
windlass; thereby saving all the labor and exertion 
which is at present spent in separating the forkfulls 
from the load. On commencing the load a net, or 
piece of net-work, made of small rope and resem¬ 
bling in appearance the cording of a bedstead, is 
spread over the bottom of the wagon, it being of 
sufficient size to cover it; the hay is then pitched on 
above this, until the load is about half on, when an¬ 
other net, similar to the first, is spread over the top 
of it, and the load completed. On arriving at the 
barn, a rope which passes through apully, fastened 
to the ridge directly over the mow and from thence 
to the windlass, is hitched by means of a slight tac¬ 
kle, to the outer edges of the uppermost net, when, 
by means of the windlass, the man that came to the 
barn with the load can elevate that half of it above 
this net over the beam, and drop it into the mow, in 
the short space of two minutes; when the remaining 
half is elevated in the same manner. By lowering 
the hay down after it has passed over the beam, it 
