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me ten times their cost. In practice I find that a 
eneW of hay may stand out through a storm of a 
week under a good cap, ana njceiTo »o oth Pr injury 
only what it receives from the wet ground. From 
practice I find that the winds have not blown hard 
enough for the last four years, when I had hay- 
capped, to blow over a cock with a cap on it. 
From practice, I find that the caps may remain on 
after a rain, just as long as you wish to have them, 
and not injure the hay. You may just as well say 
that a man must remove his umbrella after a show- 
es as his caps. I have never had a cock of hay as 
much wet, through a cap, as it would be by a heavy 
dew without a cap. ?} 
School or Applied Chemistry.— -We would in¬ 
vite particular attention to the advertisement of this 
School, which is under the charge of Prof. Norton, 
Yale College. It will be seen that the fourth course 
of lectures on Scientific Agriculture, will commence 
in January next, and we trust that many of our 
young men will embrace the opportunity here offered, 
of acquiring a knowledge of those sciences and 
principles on which the art of husbandry rests. 
Prof. Norton is a sound, practical, and thorough 
teacher, and one who has been eminently successful 
in that vocation, as well as in the results of scien¬ 
tific investigation. The number of students attend¬ 
ing his lectures, increases with each successive 
course, and several of those of former classes have 
obtained desirable situations as instructors in 
various institutions. 
Sale of Live-Stock.-—T he public sale of live- 
to our clays, half rotten dung will be most efficacious 
to soils of a medium texture, and rotten dung to our 
light ones. Decomposed farm-yard manure is no 
better adapted for every soil than one man is adap¬ 
ted for every profession. Jig. Gam r_ 
Merino Sheep for Sale. 
,500 MERINO LAMBS for sale, in lots of 50 or more, at $1,50 
p er head. 800 good sheep to slaughter. 
The undersigned will also sell 200 pure bred Merino Ewes, of 
good age, at from 8 to 10 dollars per head. Cash down, or good 
credit, one year. g. W. JEWETT. 
Middlebury, Vt., Oct. 18, 1850.—It.* 
Cow Milkers. 
A GENUINE ARTICLE—small, compact, and cheap—may be 
sent by mail or carried in a Pocket Wallet. Price $2,50. 
For sale, by EMERY & CO. 
Nov. 1 —It 369 and 371 Broadway, Albany, N. Y. 
A New Book for the 
Practical Farmer. 
T ECTURES on the General Relations which Science bears 
J- 4 to PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE, delivered before the New 
York State Agricultural Society, by James F. W. Johnston, F. 
R. S. S. L. and E., Prof, .of Agricultural Chemistry in Durham 
University, Eng., author of Lectures on “ Agricultural Chemistry,” 
etc. etc., with notes and additions by an American Farmer. Illus¬ 
trated by a Portrait of the author—price 75cts in cloth binding, 50cts 
in paper (mail edition.) C. M. SAXTON, 
Agricultural Book Publisher, 120 Fulton st., New-York. 
C. M. Saxton has in press a new edition of Prof. Johnston’s Lec¬ 
tures on the application of Chemistry and Geology to Agriculture- 
Price $1,25 colth, mail edition $1. 
Also Hoare on the cultivation of the Grape vine with full direc¬ 
tions for its management—Price 50cts cloth, mail edition 37£. 
Nov. 1—It. 
stock belonging to the estate of the late William 
Stickney, took place at Westminster, Vt., on the 
9th of October. The number of people in atten¬ 
dance was estimated at one thousand, and the ani¬ 
mals brought satisfactory prices. One Devon heifer, 
two years old, brought $150, another $160, and sev¬ 
eral cows upwards of $100 each. The Devon bull 
imported by Mr. Stickney, brought $270. The 
Suffolk, Middlesex, and Essex pigs sold well. One 
Suffolk sow and pigs brought over $100, and one 
sow alone $80. 
Agricultural Exhibitions.— -These annual ju¬ 
bilees of our rural population, have generally been 
of an unusually interesting character, the present 
season, and have been attended by large crowds. 
We have received accounts of many exhibitions, for 
which we return our thanks, but are obliged, for 
want of space, to forego detailed notices. 
Heavy Steers.— -Col. E. Long, of Cambridge, 
N. Y., informs us that he has a pair of steers, two 
years old last April, which weighed alive on the 
12th of October, 3,420 lbs. They were intended 
for exhibition at the State Fair, but by an accident 
were prevented from arriving in time. 
New Books.— C. M. Saxton, 123 Fulton-street, 
New-York, has just issued a handsome edition of 
Prof. Johnston’s Lectures before the N. Y. State 
Ag. Society, delivered at the Capitol last winter. 
Mr. S. has also in press a new edition of Prof. J.’s 
Agricultural Chemistry. 
Long and Rotten Manures. —Were we not 
guided by experience, perhaps we should be led to 
imagine there would not only be a saving of the 
ammoniacal salts, phosphates, &c., by applying 
manure fresh to the soil, but that all soils would be 
equally benefitted by being thus treated. Not so. 
The chemical action of the manure will be equally effi¬ 
cacious on light and heavy soils, but this is more than 
counteracted by the injurious mechanical action. 
Whilst unfermented dung will prove most beneficial 
Sale ol Merino Sheep. 
T WILL sell at my Farm, on Wednesday, the 20th day of Novem 
her, at I o’clock, P. M., 40 Merino Rams, and 100 Merino Ewes. 
These Sheep I have bred from Sheep I purchased of J. N. Blakes- 
ly, Esq., of Watertown, Conn. A history of his sheep can be found 
in the Cultivator for 1844, at page 238. 
At my last shearing I look off 180 fleeces, 100 of them from breed¬ 
ing Ewes, 60 from shearlings, and the balance from Rams and 
Wethers. They averaged 4 3-4 lbs. 
For the quality of the Wool, I give the copy of a letter from H. 
G. Ellsworth, Esq. Agent of Woolen Manufacturing Co. in this 
city, to the Editor of the Cultivator. 
Office of the Auburn Woolen Company, 
Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 8, 1850. 
Editor Cultivator, Dear Sir Learning that Col. J. M. Sher¬ 
wood, of this city, has proposed to sell a portion of his Merino Sheep, 
I take pleasure in recommending them to the attention of such per¬ 
sons as may wish to improve their stock of this kind. I have manu¬ 
factured, in the Mills of this Company, the wool taken from this 
flock, during the last three years, and find it grades higher and more 
even , spins better , and is, on the whole , svperior to any lot of Merino 
wool 1 have met with. H. G. ELLSWORTH, Agent. 
The Rams will be put up at ten dollars each. The Ewes will be 
sold in lots of five, and will be pul up at five dollars for each Ewe. 
If these prices are not offered, they will remain mine. 
Terms cash at the sale. J. M. SHERWOOD. 
Auburn, N. Y., October 10th, 1850—It. 
Isabella Grape Vines, 
AF proper age for forming vineyards, propagated from and con- 
D tabling all the good qualities which the most improved cultivation 
for over twelve years has conferred on the Vineyards at Croton 
Point, are offered to the public. Those who may purchase will re¬ 
ceive such instructions as will enable them to cultivate the grape 
with entire success, (provided their locality is not too far north.) All 
communications, post paid, addressed to R. T. UNDERHILL, M. 
D. Grape Depot, 379 Broadway comer of White st., New York, will 
receive prompt attention. 
He feels quite confident that he has so far meliorated the character 
and habits of the grape vines in his vineyards and nurseries by im¬ 
proved cultivation, pruning, &c., that they will generally ripen well, 
and produce good fruit when planted in most of the Northern and 
all the Western, Middle and Southern States. 
Nov. 1, 1850—21. 
