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THE CULTIVATOR. 
two horse draft,) to save an average of abushelof wheat garden earth thrown over their roots. Here they stand 
to the acre which would be lost by ordinary cradling, and j! protected, fresh and green, .till spring, with not a limb or 
to be strong and durable—not subject to get out of order,” j, bud injured by the cold. As the season for transplanting 
and is sold on a credit, giving time and opportunity to' comes on, they are easily transplanted in any place se- 
test it before payment is made, at the low price of one lected for their future location. 
hundred dollars. j! The hint to this method of preservation, was derived 
Of the large number of certificates from Virginia, I from the experience of the writer in the winter preser- 
herein enclose three or four, which it might be well to. vation of the mulberry. 
append to this, if you can allow it so much space. 
Very respectfully, yours, Wm. H. H. Taylor. 
Post Office Cincinnati , May 16, 1845. 
We give the substance of the certificates whichaccom 
panied the above: 
Mr. E. Fletcher, Lynchburg, Va. says—'«During j f 0 ^ C e which will leave half thei 
wheaf and oat harvest I used it some fifteen days without;!o-round. 
any difficulty. It cut uniformly, clean, and well, on an 
average, without pushing, from fourteen to sixteen acres 
a day. One day, when a little more activity was used, it 
cut twenty acres. Where the wheat or oats were tangled 
and fallen down, with a little care it cut and saved the 
grain admirably well. Many of the best farmers in the 
neighborhood of my plantation, near Amherst Court- 
House, came to see its performance; all were highly 
gratified, and many would linger and follow it round the 
field to admire and witness its neat, rapid, and perfect 
performance. I think it would not be going too far 
to say that it is a perfect machine of the kind, and that 
no farmer whose plantation is clear of stumps and stones, 
(for it does not much matter that the land be rolling,) and 
raises wheat or oats to any extent, should throw by his 
reap-hoops and cradles, and make use of jour Reaper to 
save his grain.” 
Mr. Robert Ives of Oak Ridge, Va., says he was so 
well pleased with it, that he had ordered a second one. 
Mr. Washington Swoap of Augusta county, Va., 
says that {i in cutting 100 acres of good wheat, when the 
labor and grain saved are fairly estimated, it will pay for 
itself.” 
Mr. Wm. Galt of Glenarvon, Va., says— “I have used 
it in cutting my low ground wheat, and it has performed 
to my entire satisfaction. I did not measure any one 
day's cutting, but am perfectly convinced that it will do 
the work of not less than 10 cradles, and cuts the wheat 
very clean. I am so well satisfied with the performance 
of this, that I will take another machine from you for 
next harvest.' 5 
The cherry, apple, pear, &c., though not killed by 
! winter, may be greatly benefitted by this kind treatment, 
| while seedlings. 
! In mellow soils, the labor is a mere trifle, with those 
!who learn to preserve their trees. But to do the thing 
right , care should be taken not to pull up the trees by a 
best roots in the 
Let the ground be thoroughly loosened by an 
iron bar, till every root may be obtained. No spade or 
shovel should be used in this work, inasmuch as either 
of these tools will cut off many of the best and most 
fibrous parts of the roots. Much has been written about 
digging large holes for the reception of trees, and well 
written, too; but if all the roots of a tree are taken up 
with it, we can assure him who transplants it, that he 
will have no small trench to dig. No tree should be 
transplanted without its roots, unless you wish to be in 
doubt two years whether or not sc it will make a live of 
it.” For this reason, the younger the tree to be trans¬ 
planted, the better, because you can secure a greater pro¬ 
portion of its roots. Some people enter a nursery and 
select the largest trees; whereas, they would get fruit 
sooner by selecting only 'those whose roots they could 
carry with them. Long roots must have, and short roots 
need to have, tvide holes. 
I am well pleased with the management of peach 
trees, recommended by “ C. D.,” in your June number; 
he is right. Too rapid a growth will subject any thing 
to a rapid decay. The multicaulis grown slowly in a 
poor soil, will resist the winter. The peach grown 
rapidly, usually loses half its growth by winter’s cold; 
and its liability to disease is strongly argued from the 
analogies of nature. I would only give it a good chance 
in a gravelly soil, decently cultivated. It is said that the 
red varieties are less liable to the disease than the yel¬ 
low. P. 
Prospect , Ct., January 20, 1845. 
SOWING CORN AND OATS FOR FODDER. 
PEACH TREES, CHERRY TREES, &c. 
Mr. Tucker —If the following suggestions, relative 
to the cultivation of the peach tree, as well as some 
other trees, should be thought worthy of a place in the 
Cultivator, others may receive the same benefit which 
the the writer has, from the method here suggested. 
The seedlings of the peach are found in almost every 
garden; and, in too many, they are left to take their 
chance to live or die, according to circumstances. If a 
few of these are not destroyed by the hoe, as incum¬ 
brances, and a few are permitted to escape, the cold 
winters of the North hasten on to complete the work of 
destruction, by killing down a large proportion of the 
growth. 
From his own experiments, the writer can recommend 
the following method of obtaining and preserving these 
precious trees: he gathers all the stones that come in 
his way in peach time, and in the autumn wraps them in 
a paper or rag, and buries them a few inches in the 
ground, in any convenient place. Over them he lays a 
flat stone to denote their position and to preserve them 
from the digging of ferrets. As the warm weather ap¬ 
proaches in the spring, he uncovers them and finds them 
in a state easily to be cracked. The seed is then taken 
from the shell, and planted in such places as are conve¬ 
nient for their cultivation. They will then come for¬ 
ward early, and furnish a growth according to soil and 
care bestowed. 
Then, to preserve them in their entire growth from 
the winter's cold, each tree is in the fall taken up, with 
with such care as to preserve, if possible, every fibrous 
~oot, and placed in a cellar for the winter, with common 
Luther Tucker, Esq.—There is no way in which the 
writer spends a dollar per annum more satisfactorily than 
in subscribing to the Cultivator. It is not necessary a 
practical farmer should immediatelj' act upon every sug¬ 
gested improvement in farm management. He has to 
examine whether the change recommended is suited to 
his location and circumstances; everbearing in mind that 
the great object of the agriculturist, is the profitable occu- 
jpationofhis time and capital, and that he may even 
I buy gold too dear.” 
| "With these considerations before him, the writer has 
for some years read the Cultivator with interest, and (al¬ 
though on a small farm.) derived considerable advantage 
from the hints of your more experienced correspondents. 
During the past winter, by an economical arrangement 
of his stock yards, and occupying time unsuited to other 
purposes, he has been enabled to haul out upwards of 200 
cart loads of manure more than in anj f previous j r ear, 
which if brought from the neighboring city would have 
cost in the article ami labor as many dollars; and in the 
management of his future crops he hopes to derive addi¬ 
tional advantage. 
If the limited experience of the writer should be worth 
a place in your journal, he proposes occasional!}' furnish¬ 
ing you with a short article without further introduction. 
And first, in reference to broad cast corn. Having suffi¬ 
ciently proved its value, he determined in the present 
year to secure a good supply for cutting green, or curing 
as occasion maj" require. On the 5th of April, he had an 
acre of ground plowed and harrowed, then spread over 
it 20 cart loads of cow manure mixed with the leaves 
used for bedding, and sowed four bushels of corn and one 
of oats, wffiich with the manure, were well harrowed in. 
