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THE CULTIVATOR. 
WINTER FOOD FOR STOCK. 
Rich, loamy ground, will bear a good crop of English 
flat, or the Norfolk bullock turneps, after a crop of grass 
hits been cut. Turn the sod over nicely, spread on some 
rotted manure, compost, or leached ashes, harrow well 
with a light sharp harrow, and sow the seed with a ma¬ 
chine, or by hand, in rows eighteen or twenty inches 
apart, and when the plants are fairly out of the way of 
insects, thin them to eight or ten inches in the row, if 
intended for stock; if intended for the market, they 
should be thicker, to prevent their growing too large for 
the table. Four to five hundred bushels, and sometimes 
even twice that quantity, may be grown to the acre, and 
they are good food in connexion with straw, for cattle 
ami sheep, till the middle of the winter, when they be¬ 
come so “corky” that the value is much lessened. The crop 
may be cultivated without much expense, if the weather 
only happens to be favorably moist at the time of sowing, 
and till the plants get into rough leaf. A very small 
harrow, with sharp knives so set as to cut the surface of 
the ground clean after the harrow-teeth, is the best tool 
we have seen for cultivating turneps on light land, and 
turneps can hardly be grown to advantage on any other. 
Indian corn will give a good crop of fodder on rich 
land, sown or planted any time this month. Is not the 
kind called sweet corn, best for this purpose? We are 
inclined to think it is. It suckers a great deal, and the 
stalks are said to be as much sweeter than common corn¬ 
stalks, as its grain is sweeter than other kinds. Some 
varieties of it grow large also, and would probably 
yield as much weight as any. Another advantage about 
it, is the softness of the kernels—if it makes ears, the 
cattle eat them without waste, or at least with much less 
waste, than the kinds whose kernels are almost as hard as 
flint. It is the opinion of some farmers who have tried 
it, that this kind is best to raise for fatting cattle, where 
it is intended to feed stalk and ear all together. 
With the exception of new land, or that which is free 
from weeds, we think it best to plant or sow corn for fod¬ 
der in drills, rather than to scatter it on the ground broad¬ 
cast. If it is in drills, a chance is afforded to work with 
a harrow and cultivator, and keep down the weeds. Mr- 
Newhall of Massachusetts, whose farm management was 
spoken of in our January number, prefers the drill mode 
—rows three feet apart, ami two to three bushels of seed 
per acre. He has raised very large crops in this way— 
larger than we have known grown by any one else. 
Another advantage of the drill mode, is the convenient 
curing. It may be cut with common corn-cutters or 
stout sickles, laid evenly and regularly on the ground, 
and, when fairly wilted, bound close to the tops in small 
bundles and set them in small shocks, open at the bottom, 
and well protected against the weather at top,, till dried 
enough to put in the barn or stack. It makes capital fodder 
in this way—better for cows than timothy hay, or indeed 
almost any other hay, excepting the best of clover. 
Millet is a good crop for winter feed, on suitable land; 
that is, a light (or not heavy,) soil, of middling rich¬ 
ness. There are several kinds of millet, but the Ger¬ 
man ami the Italian are most commonly cultivated. We 
prefer the Italian. Some think half a bushel of seed is 
sufficient so the acre, sown broad-cast, but no more than that 
quantity gives too coarse a stem, which does not make so 
good hay. We would therefore sow a bushel of seed to 
the acre. We have raised this grass in times past, and 
found it to make very nutricious and palatable hay. It 
should be cut while the seed is in the milk, well cured; 
and when fed, it is best to cut it with a machine. It will 
yield from a ton to three tons per acre, according to the 
state of the ground, the season, &c. 
CAST IRON ROLLERS WANTED. 
of either a lawn, or graveled walks, can be well or 
properly kept, without the frequent use of an implement 
of this kind. In England, they are as common, and 
thought to be as indispensable, as plows or harrows. 
They are constructed in various ways; but the simplest 
and cheapest, is a cast iron cylinder, from two and a half 
to four feet in diameter, and from three to five feet in 
length, with a shaft passing through the center; at each 
end of which, is attached the fixture for moving it, either 
by hand or horse power, according to its size or use. 
Arrangements are made to attach weights to the shaft, 
in the center of the cylinder, to make the roller either 
heavy or light, as may be required. 
I cannot doubt that these articles would meet with a 
ready sale; and I think you would do many of your 
readers an essential arid very acceptable service, by call¬ 
ing the attention of our manufacturers to the subject. 
Vindex. 
The Yellow Locust.-— In relation to the cultivation 
of the locust tree, Mr. Proctor, in his Address before the 
Essex Ag. Society, says—“I am fully persuaded that in 
no way can our barren and gravelly pastures be so ad¬ 
vantageously used, as bj r covering them with the locust, 
which may be readily done, either by planting the seed, 
or by here anil there transplanting a tree, and allowing 
them to spread, as they are much inclined to do. Lands 
thus managed, I have known to yield posts and rail-road 
sleepers, that sold for more than one hundred dollars per 
acre, for ten acres together, within forty years from the 
first planting-—which, during this period had been of 
more value for pasturing in consequence of the trees 
growing thereon; for it is a fact, that the feed, both in 
quantity and quality, under and about the locust tree, is 
better than where there are no trees. Take into view al¬ 
so, the increasing demand for this kind of timber, for 
rail-roads, fencing, trunnels for ships, and other purpo¬ 
ses, and the rapidity of its growth, advancing so rapidly 
that those who plant may gather, and it will not be easy 
to find an object more worthy the attention of the own¬ 
ers of such unproductive lands.” . 
Maple Sugar. —Mr. John Gotham, Kingwood, Pres¬ 
ton county, Va., informs us that twenty-two pounds of 
sugar were made from one tree in a single season. The 
tree belonged to David Potter, and stood in Allegany 
county, Maryland. 
PRICES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 
New York, May 21, 1845. 
COTTON.—The exports of Cotton, from 1st to 20th of May, were 
21,754 bales. Prices, 5-£a7|. 
BUTTER.—Orange County, in tubs or pails. 15al8—New West¬ 
ern dairy, llal4. 
CHEESE—New, sold readily at 7 cents. 
FLOUR— $4.56a$4.68—Exports from 1st to 20th, 16,941 bbls. 
GRAIN—Wheat per bushel, $1.04—Rye, 65aG6—Oats, 23a32— 
Corn, 44a46. Exports, 4,907 bushels corn. 
HEMP—Dew rotted, per ton, $95—Dressed, $145. 
HOPS—per lb. 13al4 cents. 
HAMS—Pickled, per lb. 5a7 cents. 
BEEF—Exports 4.304 bbls.—prices not stated. 
LARD—per lb. 7|a8. Exports, 6,664 kegs. 
PORK—Mess per bbl. $12.50a$13—prime, $9.37a$9.50. Ex¬ 
ports, 6,735 bbls. 
TOBACCO—Kentucky, per lb. 3 cents—Connecticut seed leaf, 
8al0. 
WOOL— Boston, being the great wool-market, we give the pri¬ 
ces of Wool in that city, as reported in the New-England Farmer of 
May 21: 
Prime or Saxony fleeces, washed per lb. $0.42a0.48 
American full blood fleeces,. 3Sa0.40 
“ three-fourths blood fleeces,. 35a0.37 
“ half blood do ........ 32a0.34 
“ one-fourth blood and common,..... 30n0.31 
Northern pulled Lamb’s wool,, superfine,.... 36a0.37 
do do No. 2,. 23a0.25 
Mr. Tucker —I have been for some lime on the look¬ 
out for a cast iron roller , suitable for lawns, walks, roads, 
&c., and thus far, I have been unable to meet with any 
thing of the kind. I am rather surprised that this arti¬ 
cle is not made and kept for sale in all our principal ag¬ 
ricultural warehouses. 
No well lcept, and well cultivated place, should be 
without one; and indeed, no gentleman’s place, boasting 
ROME PLOW FACTORY. 
T HE Diamond Plow which received the first premium at the 
State Fair at Poughkeepsie, as well as at every County Fair where 
it has been shown, is manufactured by the subscribers in the very 
best style, and for sale at wholesale or retail. Also, some eight or ten 
patterns of approved plans, as well as Scrapers, Cultivators, ('radios, 
Mott’s Agricultural Furnaces, Ac. Orders from abroad promptly fill¬ 
ed, aad a liberal discount to dealers. 
March 1. 1845. DRAINERD & CO.' STOCK. 
Rome, Oneida county. 
