THE CULTIVATOR. 
Market Fruits—Show and Value. 
A proof of the higher estimate that is placed on fine 
show and little merit, in comparison with high merit 
and plain exterior, by this superficial Yankee nation, 
is furnished by Dr. Kirtland in ‘his*letter to the North¬ 
western Fruit Convention, published in the Transac¬ 
tions of that body. He sent into market several bush¬ 
els of the Beurre Van Marum—a third- rate, but yel¬ 
low and showy pear; and a quantity of the Beurre 
Bose, one of the finest flavored of all existing varie¬ 
ties, but with a rusty and unimposing exterior, both 
being fully ripe. The intelligent people of Cleveland 
gave very readily from two to three dollars per bush¬ 
el for the showy third-rate pear, but would pay nothing 
for the rich and melting Boses. The reason of this is, 
the great mass of the community, notwithstanding the 
enormous dissemination of fruit trees of late years, 
and the increase of pomological knowledge, do not 
know what good fruit is. But the time will come when 
they will be wiser than to prefer a pumpkin to a Seek el 
pear, or a handsome sack of saw-dust, to a rough look¬ 
ing bag of superior flour. 
Cleanliness and Neatness. 
We were once visited by a distinguished pomologist. 
He was what the Yankees would call “a first-rate 
clever fellow, 5 ’—but, he spit the apple skins of the spe¬ 
cimens we were testing, down on the office floor, when¬ 
ever he had occasion to get rid of them. We carefully 
gathered them up with our fingers before his eyes, and 
he took the hint. This is not so bad, however, as the 
more common practice of squirting a certain brown in¬ 
fusion known as “ tobacco spit,” on clean floors. An¬ 
other evil is a great annoyance to decent housewives, 
viz., the practice of carrying into clean rooms a certain 
dark brown compound of pudding r like consistency, 
known by the name of “mud," which adheres to boots 
and shoes in the spring of the year. Every civilized 
farmer must certainly consider it necessary to provide 
a good scraper at each of his doors, and a well-made 
straw, grass, hemp, husk, or sheep-skin mat, within 
doors. We shall not probably offend any of our nu¬ 
merous subscribers,—for we trust they are all neat, 
considerate, and civilized men,—when we say that the 
man who has a filthy door-yard, a filthy barn-yard and 
animals, and filthy boots within doors, is a boor and a 
barbarian ; it is those who will not read, and whom we 
consequently cannot hit, that indulge in slovenly hab¬ 
its. On some farms, however, the fault is not confined 
to the men; for it often happens that the queens of the 
kitchen, though they may keep their floors and their 
persons very neatly, have a most unlady-like practice 
of pouring dirty slops and soap-suds down into pud¬ 
dles close beside the kitchen doors, which in warm 
weather exhale odors which decidedly eclipse those 
milder perfumes emitted by the skunk and by assa- 
foetida. Now, we have heard the remark that dirty 
people are good natured ; if so, we hope every muddy- 
booted man, and puddle-making housewife, will good 
naturedly make a mutual bargain that the one shall 
provide scrapers and keep his sole as well as his body 
clean, if her ladyship will only agree to carry the slop 
to the nearest fruit trees, or if that is too far, to the 
liquid manure barrow, provided with cask and cover 
for this purpose by her clean-booted husband. You 
may depend upon it, that no one can have a first-rate 
morality at heart, who allows the accumulation of im¬ 
purity on his person or around his premises 
Painting Implements. 
A great saving may be made by keeping imple¬ 
ments constantly under shelter when not in use. But 
this is nearly impossible; and besides, many of them 
must of necessity be exposed during their employ¬ 
ment to many days of hot sun and occasional showers. 
It is therefore very important to keep them well 
fainted. As a general average, they will last twice 
as long by the protection of a . coat of paint, renewed 
as often as it is worn off. Now, only look at the econo¬ 
my of the thing—a harrow, horse-rake, or cultivator, 
may cost from five to ten dollars; a good coat of yel¬ 
low ochre, renewed as often as worn off, would never 
cost a fiftieth part of this sum, and would save its small 
cost many times over. Every good farmer has invest¬ 
ed hundreds of dollars -in his carts, wagons, sleds, 
plows, cultivators, rollers, harrows, rakes, wheelbar¬ 
rows, spades, pitch-forks, ladders, &c., and it will be 
much better for him to save a few hundreds in the 
course of ten years, by keeping a pot of paint always 
at hand, to apply to his washed or cleaned implements 
on some rainy day, than to try to make the same 
amount by seeking extra prices for his produce, by 
overreaching his neighbors, or by refusing a helping 
hand to the sick and destitute. We have mentioned 
yellow ochre —this is one of the cheapest paints, as 
well as the most durable, an 1 being of a light color, it 
will not absorb so much of the hot sun’s rays as a dark¬ 
er color, and consequently will not cause heating, warp¬ 
ing, and cracking of the wood to which it is applied. 
Keeping Eggs. 
Our correspondent C. D., of Butternuts, N. Y., ob¬ 
jects to our theory respecting the non-adhesion of the 
yolk to the small end of the egg, when that end is 
placed downward. He remarks, “I do not know what 
kind of eggs ffty-dollar hens may lay ; but I do know 
that in eggs laid by common hens, the air-bubble is in 
the other end." We of course admit what every one 
knows, that when the contents are discharged from the 
shell, a vacancy between the shell and the skin at the 
large end is very visible ; but this does not prevent the 
adhesion of the yolk to that part when the large end 
is placed downwards, and the consequent destruction of 
the value of the egg. Whether the smaller air-bubble 
at the other end, or some other cause, prevents the ad¬ 
hesion to that end, we shall not argue; but the fact 
that the egg keeps well when the small end is down, 
and that it does not ’when placed in other positions, is 
what we have to do with in practice , and to which we 
wished particularly to call the attention of our egg¬ 
keeping readers. 
