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THE CULTIVATOR 
Aug, 
Contents of this Number. 
Improvements on the Farm,. 
The Agriculture of Ohio,. 
Nutritive Value of Oat-hay, by Prof. Norton,. 
Action of Soils on Manures, ... 
The Life of the Farmer favorable to the Pursuit of Know¬ 
ledge, by James Tufts,. 
Poultry and Poultry Books, by Observer, ... 
French Names of Fruit—Labels, &c.,. 
Early Notices of the Curculio, by D Thomas,.. 
Notes on New Cherries—Red Antwerp Raspberry—Straw¬ 
berries, . 
Black Prince Strawberry—Unfavorable Localities for Fruits 
—St. Ghislain Pear—Peeling the Bark of the Cherry,. 
New Railroad Horse Power and Feed Mill—Kendall’s Cheese 
Press,....... 
Seymour’s Grain Drill—Grain Binder’s Wheel Rake, Sec., .. 
New-York Stale Agricultural Society,. 
Seed Wheat that will not turn to Chess, by A. D. S.,. 
Mr. Sheafe’s Sale of Short-Horns—Repairing Scythe Snaths, 
by D. S. Curtis—M ode of Unloading Hay, by J. A. H. 
Ellis,.... 
Preparing Land for a Crop, by An Old Farmer—E xperi¬ 
ments in Dissolving Bones, by Warren Hutchins—W is¬ 
consin as a Farming Section, by T. Green,.. 
Cutting Wheat Early, by R. Watkins-—W ire Fence and Red 
Cedar Hedges, by Geo. Mansfield,. .. 
Morgan Horses, by F. A. Wier—M aryland Agriculture— 
Peat as Manure,... 
Agricultural and Horticultural Fairs—Science as Applicable 
to Agriculture—Chess will Grow, by H. W.—Leaves as 
Manure—Waste of Manure,. 
Acknowledgments—Monthly Notices, Sec., ... 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Figs. 180—186—Marks for Fruit Trees,. 269 
187— Red Antwerp Raspberry,.— 270 
188— Black Prince Strawberry,... 271 
189— Horse Power and Feed Mill,. 272 
190— Kendall’s Cheese Press,. 272 
191— Seymour’s Grain Drill,. 273 
192, 3—Wheat, sown broadcast and in drills,. 273 
194—Grain Binder’s Wheel Rake,. 273 
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Agricultural and Horticultural Implements, and 
Field and Garden Seeds. 
TTPWARDS of one hundred different kinds of Plows, and a corres- 
ponding variety of all other Implements for the Farmer, Planter 
and Gardener; embracing the largest and most complete assortment 
to be found in the United States. Also, P’ield and Garden Seeds, a 
large and varied assortment. A. B. ALLEN & CO.. 
August 1, 1850.—If. 189 & 191 Water St., New-York. 
Alien’s Improved Portable 
Railroad Horse Power, Thresher and Separator . 
r PJIE advantages of the above horsepowers are—1. They occupy 
x but little more space than a horse. 2. They can be moved by 
the weight of the horse only, by placing the machine at an angle of 
10 or 15 degtees. 3. They are easily transported, simply construct¬ 
ed, not liable to get out of order, and move with little friction. 
The Overshot Threshers consist of a small spiked cylinder with a 
concave top, and possess these advantages. 1. They have a level 
table for feeding, thus enabling the tenders to stand erect, and control 
the motion of the horse and machine by means of a brake, by which 
accidents are avoided. In consequence of the spikes lifting the 
straw and doing the work on the top, stones, blocks, See. drop at the 
end of the table, and are not carried between the spikes. 3. The 
overshot cylinder does not scatter the grain, but throws it within 
three feet of the machine. 4. This arrangement also admits of at¬ 
taching a separator , high enough from the floor or ground to al low all 
the grain to fall through it, while the straw is deposited by itself in 
the best condition for binding. 5. Neither grain nor straw are bro¬ 
ken by this machine. 6. The cylinder is long, which admits of fast¬ 
er and more advantageous feeding; it is smaller and with fewer 
teeth than ordinary threshers, thus admitting of more rapid motion 
and faster work with less power; and the diminution of teeth in the 
cylinder is fully made up by an increased number in the concave top, 
which is stationary. 7. The separator is a great advantage in dimi¬ 
nishing the labor of raking out the straw, as it leaves the grain in the 
best condition for the fanning mill. Three men with a single power, 
can thresh 100 to 150 bushels of wheat or rye per day; and four men 
with a double power, twice that quantity. All the above are com¬ 
pact, and can be carried where wanted, complete, or they may be 
readily taken apart and packed for distant transportation by wagon 
or otherwise. 
Price of single Power,..... ..... $80 
“ “ Thresher,. $28' 
!t Separator and fixtures,... $7 
Bands for driving, etc.,. $5 
“ Wood-sawing machine, complete, and in running 
order,...$35 
Price of double Power,.. $100 
“ with Thresher, Separator, See., . .$145 to $150 
All the above are sold singly or together, as desired, and are war¬ 
ranted to work well and give satisfaction. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO.. 
Aug. 1—21. 189 Sc 191 Water Street. New-York. 
Choice Sheep for Sale. 
'TRIE subscriber having determined to quit the farming business, 
x offers his entire fiocK of Sheep for sale. They have been bred 
with great care for over 20 years, with a view to make them heavy 
and fine. 
They now shear three and a-half pounds per head, and the wool 
sold last year, at the Kinderhook Depot, for 47 cents per pound. 
Specimens of them will be at the State Fair. 
Also, one Imported Ayrshire Cow, with her last two calves, both 
heifers. DANIEL S. CURTIS. 
Canaan Center, N. Y., Aug. 1—2t. 
Albany Burr Mill Stone Factory. 
A DAM R. SMITH, (late of Troy,) having located at the Corner 
of Broadway and Quaekenbush streets, (three blocks above the 
Delavan House,) Albany, N. Y., invites the attention of Mill¬ 
wrights and others to the stock on hand, which, with his facilities for 
manufacturing, must render it advantageous for them to call upon 
him before purchasing elsewhere. 
He keeps also, a large supply of Bolting Cloth, Screen Wire, 
Plaster of Paris, and other articles used in Milling, which will be 
disposed of on liberal terms. 
August 1—3t.* 
Great Sale of Short Horn Cattle. 
T^HE subscriber will offer for sale, without reserve, at public auc- 
A tion, on Thursday, the 29lh day of August next, at 1 o’clock, P 
M., on the farm of J. F. Sheafe, Esq., at New Hamburg, Duchess 
Co., New York, about 35 head of Short horn cattle, including cows, 
heifers and calves. 
This herd was mostly bred by Mr. Sheafe, and I do not hesitate to 
say, that I think it one of the very best in the United States; and I 
have seen and particularly examined nearly all of them. Great at¬ 
tention was paid in the commencement of this herd, to the milking 
properties of the animals forming it •, and this, together with fine 
points and good growth and constitution, have been steadily kept in 
view in its breeding. There is but one cow in the herd which gives 
less than 20 quarts per day, in the best of the milking season, while 
one has given over 29 quarts per day, and made 15 pounds 3 ounces 
of butter per week, and two others have given respectively, 31 and 
36 quarts per day. Their color is of the most fashionable and desirable 
kind—red, red-and-white and a rich strawberry roan—only one white 
cow in the lot. They are of good size and fine style, and all in calf 
to the superb imported bull Exeter, who will also be offered for sale 
at the same time. 
Pedigree of Exeter. —Exeter is of the Princess tribe of Short norns 
—was calved in June, 1848, and bred by Mr. John Stephenson, of 
Wolviston, Durham, England. He was got by Napier, (6,238,) out 
of Jessamine, by Commodore, (3,452)—Flora, by Belvidere, (1.706) 
—Jessey, by Belvidere, (1,706)—Cherry by Waterloo, (2,816)' See. 
See English Herd Book, Vol. V., for full pedigree. 
Exeter was selected for Mr. Sheafe, by a first rate judge of Shor 
horn slock, and was considered one of the very best bulls in Englandt 
Quite a high price was paid for him; and it is believed that his supe¬ 
rior, if even his equal, has never before been imported into this coun¬ 
try. He carries an enormous brisket for his age, and his style, 
handling, and quality are of the finest kind. His color is mostly a 
beautiful yellow red, which is a bright red with a fine golden or 
saffron undertinge, arising from a rich yellow skin. He is the only 
bull of this peculiarly desirable red , ever imported into America. 
Calves got by him, out of this herd of cows, will fetch a high price 
the moment they are dropped. 
Mr. Stephenson, the breeder of Exeter, now stands at the head of 
his class in England, and his stock is of the highest repute. It is en¬ 
tirely of the Princess tribe, and traces its pedigrees, without any al¬ 
loy or Galloway blood, back to pure Shorthorns, for upwards of tivo 
hundred years ; a matter of no small consideration to those who wish 
a superior fresh cross. 
Catalogues of the above stock, with pedigrees in full, are now rea¬ 
dy for distribution. 
Southdoivn Sheep. —A choice flock of this superior breed of mut¬ 
ton sheep, will be sold on the same day as above. 
Suffolk Sivine.- —One boar and several breeding sows and pigs, of 
this fine breed of swine. 
Working Oxen.—A handsome pair of red working oxen. 
A. B. ALLEN, 189 Water st., New-York 
June 1, 1850—3t. 
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