THE CULTIVATOR. 
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GREAT PRODUCTS IN OHIO. 
Scioto Valley against the World. —N. W. Thatcher,Esq. secretary of the 
Agricultural Society, has handed us the following staieinent. It contains 
Btriking illustrations of the fertility ol our soil, under skilful culture:— 
“ One hundred and fifty-four bushels of corn, actual liberal measure, was pro¬ 
duced the present season on one measured acre of ground, selected from a field 
of twelve acres, all equally as good, on the farm of Mr. George Renick of this 
vicinity. Mr. Felix Renick produced eighty-five and a half bushels of oats on 
an acre of ground: the seed of which he recently brought from England. 1 he 
oats weigh about twelve pounds to the bushel more titan the common oats of 
this country. Mr. Daniel Maderia of this place, raised in his garden, Cauli¬ 
flowers of c ost extraordinary size, measuring from 29 to 33 inches in circum¬ 
ference, and weighing three pounds ten ounces in one solid head. And a stalk 
of corn, in the garden of Mr. Peter Douglass, produced eight good ears of 
corn!"—Chillicothe Adv. 
“ Premium Corn. —The premium was awarded to Mr. Asahel Renick, by the 
Agricultural Society of Pickaway county, on Monday last, for the best acre of 
corn. [f~T One hundred and fifty-seven bushels and one peck 1 Let those who 
can, beat that. We learn from the president of the society, that the corn was 
planted in hills, a little more than three feet asunder and received no more 
than the ordinary cultivation. So much for Darby creek bottoms. We were 
gratified to observe an increased interest in the society, manifested on the part 
of the farmers of the county.” 
Estimating the cost of culture at $15 per acre, and the price of 
corn at fifty cents per bushel, the growers of the above corn crops 
realized a nett profit of $62 per acre. We are not sure that the 
valley of the Hudson can compete with the vallies of the Scioto and 
Darby creek, but we are sure that eighty bushels of corn per acre 
can be raised here, on proper corn ground, without extra expense: 
and this, at present prices, affords a profit of $65 per acre. 
Yield of Carrots. —Mr. Wilson, of the Albany Nursery, sowed 
last spring, a piece of ground 111 feet in length, and 39 broad, with 
carrots, in drills 18 inches apart. The product was 6,321 pounds, 
topped and freed from dirt. This is at the rate of about 31 tons, or 
1,030 bushels of 60 pounds each bushel, per acre. The ground was 
first trench ploughed, then well dunged, and ploughed again; un¬ 
leached ashes were then spread upon the ground at the rate of fifty 
bushels the acre, the ground well harrowed, and the seed sown.— 
The plants were thinned to six inches. Mr. Wilson thinks it would 
increase the crop, to sow in drills at two feet, and that in this case, 
the crop might be cleaned principally with the cultivator, particular¬ 
ly with Van Bergen’s. 
Carrots are fine food for all farm stock, and are particularly bene¬ 
ficial to horses, and are considered to be worth for this purpose, as 
much per bushel as oats. At three shillings per bushel, a thousand 
bushels would be worth $375.00. They are worth at least half 
this for any kind of farm stock, which would still make them a very 
profitable crop. 
Mr. Brewster's Experiments. —The communication of Mr. Brews¬ 
ter will be read with interest. The great secret of his success, we 
trow, is to be found in the manure —the food upon which his crops 
fed and flourished. Mr. B. has made no charge for this in his ex¬ 
penses; we do not know the reason of this, except that he saved it, 
while his neighbors wasted theirs—a practice too common. In tra¬ 
velling in Otsego and Schoharie, and seeing the large piles of ma¬ 
nure which were rotting—and rotting—in the barn yards, we 
thought of the fine corn, and potatoes, and ruta baga which these 
piles might produce, if they were used as Mr. Brewster used his 
manure. But we saw not there but few if any crops like those of 
Mr. B.; and had this gentleman left his dung to waste in the yard, 
we venture to say we should have had no statement from him of his 
abundant crops. 
We do not expect to learn old birds to sing, or to persuade the 
old farmer to forsake the footsteps of his father—yet we would have 
him look abroad, and have the candor to admit, that the old way is 
not always the best way—that agriculture, like every other branch 
of labor, is constantly undergoing improvement. If he has sons, and 
has a regard for their welfare, he must wish them to learn how to 
turn their labor to good profit. The experiments of Mr. Brewster 
alone are worth much to the young men who are ambitious to im¬ 
prove ; and the agricultural papers are filled with such information. 
We have seen hundreds of farms with meagre starved crops, which 
might have produced as fine crops as Mr. Brewster’s, had the ma¬ 
nure been saved and judiciously applied. We thank Mr. B. for the 
service he will render our young farmers by this communication. 
We advise every young farmer, who is sensible that he has a head 
capable of assisting his hands, to peruse the Cultivator or some other 
agricultural paper. 
Apple Pomace. —On a late visit to the town of Marlborough, in 
Ulster county, we found that the Mess. Hallocks, very intelligent 
and extensive farmers, and withall great cider manufacturers, were 
husbanding their apple pomace with great care, and feeding it to 
their milch cows. They begin with small feeds of it, and find that 
it adds greatly to the quantum of milk. The Mess. Hallocks ma¬ 
nufacture their refuse pippins into cider separately, and if the liquor 
does not retain the peculiar flavor of the fruit, it gives a rich and ra¬ 
cy liquor which commands the first price in market. When we 
practice making cider from a single species of fruit, and that species 
affording a rich must, we shall treble our quadruple the value of this 
product of the farm. 
This town of Marlborough, by the bye, has undergone, and is un¬ 
dergoing, important changes in the productiveness of her lands. 
Thirty years ago, when we first knew it, it was one of the poorest 
towns in the county; its agricultural products were trivial, and its 
wood-drawing population had much ado to make their ends and 
means meet, li now verifies the remark that we have often made, that 
where nature has done least, industry and skill are most active, and 
most successful, in maintaining good habits and good morals. There 
is no stimulant so salutary as the habit of depending upon one’s own 
exertions. Farmers in fertile districts, like the sons of wealthy pa¬ 
rents, seem to be content with the bounties which Providence has 
alloted to them, without heeding or profiting from the improvements 
which art or industry are ev6ry where making around them. The 
common schools of Connecticut, since the state has provided bounti¬ 
fully for their support, are said to be rapidly declining in character: 
the people lean upon the state—they neglect their own interests and 
duties, from a reckless hope, that others will perform for them what 
they can only properly do for themselves. Fifty years ago the fer¬ 
tile flats in several of the towns of Ulster, exhibited patterns of pro¬ 
fitable husbandry and of tidy neatness and comfort. But the sons 
have been living upon the fame of their fathers. Their lands have 
deteriorated under old exhausting practices—and they have been 
virtually standing still, while around them, where nature has been 
less kind, industry and enterprise have been carried into action, 
and improvement has progressed. Thus while in the once fertile 
towns, the products and profits of agriculture have been stationary 
or retrogading, they have been more than quadrupled in the now 
thriving town of Marlborough. These facts suggest an admonitory 
lesson to those who are flying to the fertile west in anticipation of 
all the choice pleasures of life. Our habits, more than the soil we 
till, influence our happiness ; and where incentives are lacking, and 
we are afraid they will be lacking in the west when the country be¬ 
comes filled with population, to industry, economy, and the other 
social virtues, society, we fear, will become lax, and the enjoyments 
of life be blended with more than an ordinary share of evils. 
The Sap of Plants. —It is a received opinion among the unlearned, 
and even some of the learned, that all the sap of the trees decends 
to the roots in autumn, and remains till the genial influence of spring 
causes it again to ascend. This is disproved by numberless facts 
which come under our observation. “ Not only do plants,” says 
Chaptal, “ prepare all the juices which are essential to vegetation, 
and to the formation of fruits ; but after having fulfilled those func¬ 
tions, they continue to extract, from the earth, and air, the princi¬ 
ples of their nourishment; these elaborate and deposite between the 
bark and wood, to serve for their first aliment on the return of spring, 
till the development of the leaves, and the excitement of the roots by heat, 
can provide fur their nourishment by the absorption of foreign substan¬ 
ces.” The volume and fluidity of this elaborated sap are diminished, 
in winter, by the absence of heat and by evaporation. 
The West—far West. —We have received from Galena, a town 
hardly yet noticed in our gazetteers, so recent being its name and 
settlement, situate near the banks of the Mississippi, 480 miles north 
of St. Louis, twenty dollars in payment, in advance, and a portion 
of it four years —for the Cultivator. We note the fact for the double 
purpose of showing the advance of population in the far west, and of 
suggesting the example to subscribers who find it inconvenient to 
transmit a single years subscription. The Cultivator will continue 
to be published, we trust, without any diminution of character for 
usefulness. Our correspondent says, in concluding his letter— 
“ You may expect additions to this list, as many persons in this 
young and prosperous settlement, prefer to read useful works, and 
attend to their own business, rather than to pay for, and read, slan¬ 
derous publications, and attend to other people’s concerns.” 
