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THE CULTIVATOR. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 
Fine Fruit in Ohio— We learn that the Hon. James 
Matthews, M. C., of Coshocton, Ohio, has been for 
some years making 1 an extensive collection of choice 
fruits from every section of our country, and from abroad. 
He has now growing about six hundred varieties, inclu¬ 
ding apples, pears, peaches, cherries and plums, beside a 
great variety of nectarines, apricots, grapes, gooseber¬ 
ries, strawberries, &c. His trees are all young, only 
about fifty of the varieties having produced fruit the past 
season. We know of no finer climate for fruit than that 
of Ohio, and we are glad that Mr. M. is making such ef¬ 
forts to ascertain what varieties are best suited to if. He 
will, by these efforts, confer a benefit upon his constitu¬ 
ents, which wiil entitle him to their lasting gratitude. In 
the culture of gooseberries, of which Mr. M. has 34 
kinds of the large English varieties, he has been very 
successful for two years past, having entirely escaped the 
mildew which has proved so great an obstacle to the cul¬ 
ture of this delicious and healthy fruit. Should his fruit 
escape the blight another year, he will be more inclined 
to think it is owing to his, in some measure peculiar 
treatment, and will give the public the benefit of his ex¬ 
perience. 
The American Larch. —Extract of a letter from Mr. 
M. Ingalsbe of Washington county in this State, to the 
Editor:—“Much has been said of late in the Cultivator, 
about the American larch, or tamerack, for timber. We 
have had much experience in this section, in the use of 
it. The farm upon which I was ‘brought up,’ is con¬ 
nected with a swamp, 4 or 5 miles long and one quarter 
to half a mile wide, and the principal timber growing on 
it was formerly tamerack. There appears to be two 
varieties of it; one is nearly all sap wood; the other has 
but little; the former is nearly worthless for posts or 
rails; the latter is considered to be the best limber for 
posts that can be found in this region, red cedar except¬ 
ed. I have heard several old.gentlemen say they had 
posts that had been in the ground for thirty years and up¬ 
wards, while I removed a piece of fence that had stood 
only eleven years, and the posts, many of them, were 
rotted nearly off. They were of the first variety I men¬ 
tioned. This worthless variety is what some call the 
* second growth,’ a term which I do not precisely under¬ 
stand. This timber is valuable for building; it grows 
straight, is very stiff, and will hold a nail equal to white 
oak. The rafters to most of the buildings in this section t 
are poles of this wood. A gentleman of this town told 
me that his'front gate post had stood in its place 30 years, 
and was an old weather beaten post when he put it there; 
I examined it, and it was quite sound at the time. The 
wood is the common wild black cherry. I never heard { 
it recommended from any other source.” 
Death of cattle from dry corn-fodder.— 
Jas. Grant, Esq. of Davenport, Iowa, informs us, that 
on turning his cattle into the corn-fields, after the corn 
was gathered last fall, several of them died from consti¬ 
pation. The stoppage took place in the many plus, (ma¬ 
nifolds) or third stomach. The death of the animals was 
go sudden that cows which gave a good mess of milk at 
night, were dead the next morning; and oxen which 
worked as well as ever in the morning, died in the after¬ 
noon. After having lost several of the herd, among 
which was a valuable Durham bull, Mr. Grant saved the re¬ 
mainder by administering heavy doses of Epsom salts, 
and following generally the treatment recommended in 
the November number of the last volume of the Cultiva¬ 
tor, in reference to a disease by which Mr. Devereux of 
North Carolina lost a Devon bull. Mr. Grant says if the 
Cultivator had reached him a week sooner, it would have 
saved many of his animals. 
Clover, Crops, &c. in Mississippi.— Extract of a let¬ 
ter to the editor of the Cultivator, from A. M. Mayo, 
Esq., dated Holmes Co., Dec. 22:—-“ I am this year try¬ 
ing an experiment with red clover; and so far, it looks 
well. I think it will do well; if so, it will be a great 
thing for our country. I am not aware of any experi¬ 
ments with it having been tried in our region of country. 
I intend making an experiment with corn sown broad¬ 
cast, for fodder, next year. Millet does well with us. 
Our cotton crop this last season was very light in many 
places, owing to the worm; and, added to that, the low 
price of the article, makes it a poor business. We shall 
be obliged to alter our system of farming, if we expect 
to live by it.” 
Spread of the Potatoe Malady. —Mr. John 
Townsend, of Zanesville Ohio, informs us that the dis¬ 
ease in potatoes, spoken of in the eastern papers, made 
its appearance in his neighborhood last season. It seem¬ 
ed to be generally confined to particular varieties. Mr. 
T. says, “ a round potatoe, of a dull red color; brought 
from the State of New-York in 1833, suffered the most,” 
so far as his observation extended. 
Monroe Co. Ag. Society—Great Crop of Corn.— 
Extract of a letter from T. H. Hyatt, Esq., dated Roch¬ 
ester, Dec. 18:—“ The Annual meeting of the Monroe 
County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, for the 
election of officers, the awarding of premiums on field 
crops, &c., was held in this city on the 11th inst. An 
interesting and elaborate report on farms, the best modes 
of farming, &c., was made by Mr. Langworthy, chair¬ 
man of the committee appointed to examine and award 
premiums on the best farms in this county. The awards 
of the committees were but few. The most remarkable 
crop offered, was by Rufus Beckwith of Henrietta, being 
that of 126 bushels of shelled corn per acre! The whole 
Transactions of this Society for the year, are soon to ap¬ 
pear in pamphlet form. The following are the officers 
elected for the ensuing year: John H. Robinson, Henri¬ 
etta, President; Elisha Harmon, C. K. Hobbie, F. P. 
Root, Y. Presidents; James P. Flogg, Bochester, Trea¬ 
surer ; H. M. Ward, Recording, and Thos. H. Hyatt, Ro¬ 
chester, Coresponding Secretary.” 
Prejudice. —A correspondent who dates at Lenox, 
N. Y., and signs “ Rambler,” gives us some of the ob¬ 
jections of a very narrow-minded and prejudiced man to 
agricultural papers and to all improvements. It is an 
old saying, that “ it takes all sorts of people to make a 
world ,” and this saying furnishes the only evidence we 
are able to give, of (he advantage which some men are 
to society at large. The man who opposes improvement, 
is in principle and fact a savage—his proper place, if he 
really belongs to our territory, is “ west of the Mississip¬ 
pi”—not, however, among the Cherokees, Choctaws, or 
Wyandotts, for they take the Cultivator, and are rap¬ 
idly advancing in agriculture and other arts—but among 
the Crows and Black-feet, he would probably find con¬ 
genial spirits. We are not surprised that a man of the 
prejudice and obstinacy of the one described by “Ram¬ 
bler,” should lose (< two thousand dollars by farming .” 
The resolution he has adopted of doing all his work him¬ 
self, for the future, is no doubt a good one. Under such 
narrow policy, the less that is done, the better—small 
business is adapted to a small mind. 
The Apple Worm. —We give the following, from a 
letter from R. L. Pell, Esq.—“ I have for yearsbeenata 
loss to know from whence the worm was derived, which 
is always found in fallen fruit, or in that ripening prema¬ 
turely; by accident, last spring, when my fruit trees 
were in bloom, a limb of an apple tree was cut off, I ex¬ 
amined the blossoms, and discovered numerous small 
worms, precisely like those found in the fruit, at a later 
period; even many of the buds still unopen, contained a 
worm. I observed as the fruit enlarged, the worm eat 
its way into it, and caused it to fall. The season was 
still cold, not a fly of any description had yet appeared; 
the conclusion I arrived at was, that the egg had been 
deposited early in the autumn in the bud intended for 
fruit the ensuing season. Last fall I noticed my trees 
frequently, and invariably saw numerous winged insects 
flying around them, and alighting on the buds, but could 
not discover to what family the obnoxious one belonged. 
Can you throw any light on the subject?” 
Continuation of Milk in Cows. —Extract of a letter 
from Mr. Calvin Butler, Plymouth, Ct., to the Editor: 
“ On the subject of keeping cows in milk from year to 
year, I have had some experience. It is not true that 
cows kept constantly in milk, will, after a lapse of years 
fail of their milk. This depends upon the nature and 
disposition of the cow for milk or fattening. I kept one 
in nv'U for five years constantly, and she increased in her 
