THE CULTIVATOR 
A MONTHLY PAPER, DEVOTED TO 
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS 
“TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” 
New Series.] 
JANUARY, 1845 
[Vol. II.—No. 1. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
Editorial. 
Notices to Correspondents, &c.,. 10 
To our Patrons—Mr. Lenox’s Prize Cow, Red 
Lady—Condensed Correspondence,. 11 
Answers to Inquiries,. 12 
Care of Animals in Winter—Improvement of 
Farms,. 13 
Raising- Fruit Trees from Seed'—Winter Eve¬ 
nings, . 14 
Foreign Intelligence,. 16 
Sinclair’s Patent Corn Mill—Agricultural In¬ 
struction in Common Schools,. 18 
Summer Fallows and their management,.... 19 
Irrigation, Mode and Effects of,. 21 
Farming in Massachusetts—Description of C. 
Newhall’s Farm,.’ 22 
Subsoil Plowing by J. M. Sherwood, Esq.,.. 23 
New Publications,. 24 
Esterly’s Patent Harvesting Machine,. 26 
Corn-Stalk Sugar,. 39 
Correspondence. 
Condensed Correspondence,. 11 
Products of the Dairy , by E. Comstock,. 15 
Letters from Mr. Norton, No. VI. 15 
Experiments in the Culture of Indian Corn, by 
Geo. Geddes,. 17 
Sweet and Sour Apples, by D. T.,. 20 
Clydesdale Breed of Horses, by C. N. Bement, 24 
Improvement of Worn Out and naturally Poor 
Lands, Old Fields, &c., in the Middle States, 
by G. B. Smith, .i... 26 
Hall’s Stump Machine, by G. J. Pumpelly,. 27 
Remedy for the Rot in the Potato,.. 27 
Indian Corn—New Variety—Planting, by 
Noyes Darling,. 
Agriculture and Rural Economy of the South, 
by Thomas Affleck,. 
Salt Destructive to the Grub and Wire Worm— 
Rot in the Potato, by B. P„ Johnson,. 
Preparation and Use of Charcoal, by Za. 
Drummond,. 
Agriculture of Mexico—Cornstalk Sugar, by 
Richmond, . 32 
Stone Boat or Sled, by J. Smith— Review of 
Prof. Johnston’s Lectures, by A Practical 
Farmer,. 
An Experimental Farm, by D. Lee,. 
Injurious Effects of Iron on Soils, by James 
Bates,.. 
Culture of Sugar Cane, in Louisiana, by S. 
Tillotson, . 
Potato Onions, Culture and Description of, by 
N. Darling,. 
Management of the Peach Tree, by C. D.,.. 
Rot in the Potatoe—Scours in Sheep—Coalpit 
Dust, &c., by J. N. Smith, . 39 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Frontispiece—Portrait of “Red Lady,” Engraved on Steel. 
Figs. 2, 3, 4—Sinclair & Co's Patent Corn- 
Mill, ... 17 
Figs. 5, 6, 7—Illustrations of Irrigation,.. 21, 22 
Fig. 8—Portrait of a Clydesdale Horse,. 24 
Fig. 9—Esterly’s Patent Harvesting Machine, 25 
Fig. iO—Hall’s Stump Machine,. 27 
Fig. 11—Stone Boat or Sled,.. 33 
Fig. 12—Winter.. 40 
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