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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Jan. 
New-York State Ag. Society. 
Answers t© Inquiries* 
Chinese Geese.—J. C. N. A,, Richfield Springs. 
Chinese Geese can be had in this vicinity at $5 per 
pair. We cannot tell how much weight in feathers a 
pair will produce in a year. They are not large, but 
the feathers are thickly set, and appear to be finer than 
those of common geese. They readily breed with any 
of the domestic kinds. 
Carrots.— u A Subscriber,” Frederick, Md. Car* 
rots are usually fed raw to horses and cattle. They 
are sometimes fed to hogs, but do not seem to be as 
valuable for them as for some other kinds of stock. 
Directions in regard to their culture may be found in 
the Cultivator, vol. 2, new series, page 154, and in 
vol. 3, p. 159. 
Pea-Nut, ( Arcahis hypogcea,) or Ground Pea.— 
P. N. Norristown, Pa. This article is considerably 
cultivated in some of our southern states under the 
name of pindars. The seed is planted in rows five 
feet apart, and a foot apart in the row, as early in 
spring as the weather and the state of the soil will 
admit. They are dug in the fall before hard frost. 
The tops dried, make good fodder for horses and cat* 
tie. It is said that the poorest land in Mississippi 
will produce from fifty to eighty bushels of peanuts 
per acre. The only cultivation needed is to keep the 
ground clean. 
Preservation of Cabbages. —F. G. R,, Shad- 
well, Ya. In a climate as mild as that of your sec¬ 
tion, we should suppose the best way of preserving- 
cabbages through the winter, would be to place them 
in long piles or winrows, and cover them with straw 
or corn-stalks. A layer of earth in addition may be 
needed in the coldest weather. They are easily taken 
for use as they may be wanted, by beginning at one 
end and continuing to take them till the pile is finished. 
Guano.— P. R. B., Cattawissa, Pa. Two hundred 
pounds of guano is the quantity usually recommended 
for an acre. It should be previously mixed with about 
four times its bulk of finely pulverized earth-sand will 
be most convenient for the purpose—and it may be 
spread broadcast on the surface of the ground imme¬ 
diately before putting in the seed. It is sometimes ap¬ 
plied to gardens in a liquid state. Four pounds of 
guano are put to twelve gallons of water, and after it 
has stood twenty-four hours, it is applied to the ground 
by a watering apparatus. 
Converting Corn-Stalks into Manure.— P. H. 
A., Baltimore Co., Md. The best way of “ convert¬ 
ing dry corn-stalks into manure, speedily ,” with which 
we are acquainted, is to pass them first through a 
strong cutting machine, calculated for the purpose, 
and then place them in a heap with manure, or 
muck, and saturate it with urine. The urine may be 
saved by conveying it from the stalls where the ani¬ 
mals are kept, to tanks, or temporary hollows, from 
which it may readily be taken to the heap. Fermenta¬ 
tion will take place in a short time. 
Price of Wood in Paris.— An American in Paris 
says, that so high is the price of wood in Paris, in con¬ 
sequence of the forests having been mostly consumed, 
and the high duty on English coal, that it is usually 
sold by the pound—and that the dealers keep it locked 
up in-doors, u lest while the wood-merchant was look¬ 
ing one way, some scoundrel might fill his pockets, and 
be off!” 
Prices of Grapes.—P. Barry says that the common 
market price of the best exotic grapes, raised in houses 
at Boston, is 75 cents to $1 per lb. 
The annual meeting of the Society will be held on 
the 3 d Wednesday ( 19th) of January at the Capitol, 
On Wednesday evening an address will be delivered by 
Prof. J. P. Norton of Yale College. On Thursday 
evening, an address by the President, George Vail, 
Esq. The reports of Committees and awards of pre* 
miums will be made on Thursday morning at the agri° 
cultural rooms. B. P. Johnson, Sec’y. 
COMMITTEES APPOINTED FOR WINTER MEETING. 
(I# 3 Their attendance is desired as early as Tues- 
day morning the 18th of January. 
Management of Farms J. Stanton Gould, Colum¬ 
bia, and A. Van Bergen, Greene. 
Stall feeding Cattle, and fattening with Indian Corn . 
—S. Howard, Albany, and Henry Wager, Oneida. 
Draining and Top Dressing.— J. P. Beekman, 
Columbia, and A. Ayrault, Livingstpn. 
Designs for Farm Buildings.— Wm. Buel, Monroe j 
B. N. Huntington, Oneida, and J. McD. McIntyre. 
Cheese Dairies .—B. P. Johnson, Oneida, and Thos. 
Burch, Herkimer. 
Butter Dairies.— R. Denniston, Orange, and J. 
Carey, Albany. 
Wheat and Indian Corn.— George Geddes, Onom 
daga, and L. C. Ball, Rensselaer. 
Barley , Rye, Oats, Peas, and Beans. —E. Comstock, 
Oneida, and W. P. Coons, Rensselaer. 
Potatoes, Ruta Bagas, $c.— E. P. Prentice, Albany, 
and Martin Springer, Rensselaer. 
Corn Fodder, Hay, Hops, fyc.— Benj. Enos, MadL 
son, and Seth Hastings, Rensselaer. 
Experiments , Soiling, and Manures.- —Prof. E. Em¬ 
mons, Albany, and Joseph Daniels, Saratoga. 
Management of Sheep.— M. Y. Tilden, Columbia, 
J. McDonald, Washington. 
Fruit. —L. F. Allen, Sam’l Young, H. Wendell, A. 
J. Downing, and J. W. Bissell. 
Live Stock in Vermont.— Vermont will probably 
always be a stock and wool-growing state. Her hills 
and vales, and the thousand cool and refreshing rivu* 
lets that empty themselves from the one to the other, 
has destined it for a grazing country. In 1840, she 
had more horses and more neat cattle than any of the 
New-England States ; her number of sheep was nearly 
equal to the whole of those states combined. She cut 
more hay and produced more oats than either. The 
value of her dairy products was but a trifle below that 
of Massachusetts, and it would have exceeded that 
even, were it not on account of our distance from mar¬ 
ket. She stands next to the great state of New-York 
in her quantity of wool, and her quantity to each indi¬ 
vidual is about double that of the last mentioned state. 
— Richardson’s Address. 
Effects of Famine. —The village of South Reen, 
in the west part of the county of Cork, says the South¬ 
ern Reporter, contained in the early part of the year 
62 houses, and 320 inhabitants. It now has but 50 in¬ 
habitants, and 8 small hovels remaining, the rest of 
the houses having been broken up to furnish coffins for 
the dead and fuel for the living. 
Potato Crop in Ireland. —It is estimated that, 
until the present year, the potato erop in Ireland has 
occupied two million acres—the present year it is esti¬ 
mated that only one-fourth the usual quantity has been 
planted, the remaining three-fourths having been plant¬ 
ed with other crops, or remaining uncultivated. 
To save Horses from Fire. —The difficulty of get¬ 
ting horses from burning stables is well known, to re¬ 
medy which, blindfold them perfectly, and by gentl© 
usage they may easily be led out. 
