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THE CULTIVATOR. 
MONTHLY NOTICES. 
Communications have been received since our last, 
from George Geddes, Esq., Dr. James Bates, A Farmer 
of Western New-York, D. Lee, Richmond, A Practical 
Farmer, P. A. Reading, J. B. Cook, W. T. Fannin, G. 
B. Smith, J. Townsend, Noyes Darling, Thomas Affleck, 
Za. Drummond, Oneida, B. P. Johnson, H. S. Randall, 
J. N. Smith, S. W. Jewett, C. D., James Pedder, O. W. 
Owen, H. J. Powell, A. G. Summer, A Subscriber, W., 
L. A. Morrell, Franklin, D. T., Spade Labor, Double- 
you, D. A. Ogden. W. A. Cowell, C. N. Bement, Exe- 
kiel Rich, L. B. Langworthy, N. N. D., J. P. Norton. 
It will be seen by this list, that we have on hand a 
goodly number of contributions, all of which will be 
disposed of as rapidly as our limits will permit. Several, 
in type for this No., are necessarily deferred till our next. 
We are indebted to J. S. Skinner, Esq., for a copy of 
his Address at Wilmington—to E. Mack, Esq., Ithaca, 
for a copy of his Address before the Tompkins Co. Ag. 
Society^—to J. W. Proctor, Essex, for his Address to the 
Essex Co. (Mass.) Ag. Society—to John Delafield, 
Esq. Oaklands, for his Address to the Seneca Co. Ag. 
Society—to T. B. WAKEMAN,Esq., for Mr. Talmadge’s 
Address to the American Institute—to D. G. Mitchell, 
England, for a copy of Mr. Shepard’s treatise on Guano 
—to D. A. Ogden, Esq., for Mr. Lawrence's Address be¬ 
fore the Yates Co. Ag. Society—to S. Williams, for his 
Essay on Manures, prepared for the Seneca Co. Ag. So¬ 
ciety; and to Messrs. A. Walsh, Lansingburgh, and Eg¬ 
bert Cowles, Farmington, Ct., for papers, containing 
Reports of Agricultural Societies. 
James Gowen, Esq., will please accept our thanks for 
his kind letter of Dec. 2. We shall be very glad to re¬ 
ceive an article on the subject he mentions. 
Agricultural Addresses. —Notices of such address¬ 
es as we have been favored with, are unavoidably deferr¬ 
ed till our next. 
Pure blood Merino Sheep. —We saw the other day 
some fine Merino sheep, purchased by Col. J. M. Sher¬ 
wood, of Auburn, (N. Y.) of Mr. Jacob N. Blakeslee, 
of Watertown, Litchfield county, Connecticut. We have 
before spoken of Mr. Blakeslee's sheep—in last volume, 
pages 315 and 338. They are a very valuable stock, and 
we presume will lose none of their excellence or reputa¬ 
tion in the hands of Col. Sherwood. 
Hussey’s Reaping Machine. —We take pleasure in 
inviting attention to the advertisement of Mr. Hussey, 
on our last page. His Reaping Machine, from all we 
hear of it, has fully answered public expectation, and we 
trust he will be abundantly rewarded, as he certainly 
ought to be, for the time, ingenuity and money he has 
expended in bringing his useful invention to its present 
state of perfection. 
Portable Mills. —We would refer Mr. W. T. Fan¬ 
nin of Georgia, to the notice and representation of Sin¬ 
clair & Co’s Portable Mill, which we publish in this 
number. We possess no more definite information in 
relation to this mill, or Platt’s, heretofore published, 
than we have given to the public. He can probably as¬ 
certain any farther particulars he may require, by ad¬ 
dressing the manufacturers. 
Saleratus as a Substitute for Saltpetre.— Our 
correspondent, “ C. D.” it seems, made a mistake in his 
paragraph on this subject, in our Nov. number, p. 345, 
which escaped our notice, till our attention was called to 
it by a writer in the Providence Transcript, and since by 
several correspondents. Saleratus, instead of being 44 com¬ 
posed of sulphate of potash and pearlash,” as stated by 
C. D., 44 is not,” says the writer in the Providence pa¬ 
per, ‘ 4 a very pure bi-carbonate of potash. As usually 
found in the shops, it may contain some small portion of 
sulphate of potash and of pearlash, together with certain 
impurities, none of which possess any remarkable pre¬ 
servative qualities, or would be likely to produce any 
valuable effect upon muscular fibre.” 
State Ag. Society. —We would remind our readers 
in this State, that the Annual Meeting of the N. Y. S. Ag. 
Society is '.o be held at the old State Hall in this city, on 
Wednesday, the 15th inst. 
To our Friends in the South-West. —Circumstan¬ 
ces forbidding us to visit, as we have long desired to do, 
the numerous friends of The Cultivator, in the South- 
Western States of the Union, we have, at the suggestion 
of several of them, engaged that old and familiar ac¬ 
quaintance of the readers of our paper, Solon Robinson 
of Indiana, to undertake an Agricultural Tour through se¬ 
veral of the south-western states, for the purpose of pro¬ 
curing information and promoting the interests of 44 The 
Cultivator,” in that section of our country. Those who 
have read the numerous articles of Mr. Robinson for the 
last ten years will, we doubt not, be gratified with this 
arrangement, and we trust that his correspondence during 
his present tour, will be found interesting to all our rea¬ 
ders. We bespeak for Mr. R. a warm reception by the 
readers of the Cultivator whom he may visit, and hope 
we shall receive, through him, a large addition to our 
circulation, assured as we are by numerous friends in that 
quarter that all that is necessary to accomplish this ob¬ 
ject, is to have our paper brought to the notice of the 
planters of that extensive region. Though printed so far 
north, The Cultivator will be found of nearly equal inte¬ 
rest to the Planter of the South as to the Farmer of the 
opposite section of the country. It is not intended as a 
local but as a national journal; and aside from the fact 
that the general principles of agriculture are everywhere 
the same, the constantly increasing list of its correspon¬ 
dents in the south and south-west, with the Letters of 
Mr. Robinson, will make its pages as valuable to those 
sections of our country, as to any other. Indeed, we 
think the communication in this No. from our valued 
friend Affleck of Mississippi, well worth ten times our 
annual subscription price, to any planter who will read 
and act upon such of his suggestions as he may find he 
can adopt to his advantage. Mr. R. will receive sub¬ 
scriptions for our current vol. and orders for any of the 
previous volumes; and we shall be greatly obliged for 
any aid which our friends may be able to render him. 
The readers of 44 The Cultivator ,” and of the 
44 Central New-York Farmer ,” were apprised in the De¬ 
cember number of both papers, that the latter would, at 
the close of the then current volume, be discontinued, 
and that its publishers would hereafter labor to promote 
the circulation of 44 The Cultivator.” In making this ar¬ 
rangement, we were aware that we should not meet the 
views of many friends who have been very desirous of 
continuing a paper in Central New-York, but a proper 
regard for our own interests, has, among other things, in¬ 
duced us to make the present arrangement. Since the 
announcement in the December number of the Farmer, 
we have received from numerous individuals in different 
sections of this and other States, letters expressing regret 
at the discontinuance of our paper; and in some of them 
the writers have hinted pretty strongly that we have done 
the public a wrong in so doing. As we cannot well an¬ 
swer all letters of this character without encroaching too 
much upon our other labors, and as we have no doubt 
that all who thus address us will become subscribers to 
the Cultivator, we beg leave in this public manner to ten¬ 
der our acknowledgments for the manner in which our 
labors have been noticed, and to assure our friends that 
we duly appreciate the many favors which we have re¬ 
ceived from the friends of agriculture. 
We trust that all with whom we have formerly held con¬ 
verse through the columns of the 44 Farmer,” will continue 
to take some agricultural paper, and it will give us great 
pleasure to forward their names as subscribers to the 
Cultivator. We will not permit ourselves to believe that 
those who have during the several years that the 44 Far¬ 
mer” has been published, been its constant patrons and 
readers, will, now that it is united with another, and we 
hope more valuable journal, forego the advantages of ag¬ 
ricultural reading, or be deprived of intercourse with 
their brother farmers through the agricultural press. 
Comstock & Johnson. 
Intemperance. —We have received a well written 
article on this subject, by “ A Farmer’s Wife ,” which, 
with the present press of matters relating more particu¬ 
larly to the objects of our paper, it will be impossible 
ilfor us to publish. 
