1854 . 
THE CULTIVATOR 
129 
Botes for the Iffonth. 
E- S. R. Butler, dealer in newspapers, maga¬ 
zines, &c., No. 114 Market-street, Wilmington, Del., is 
Agent for the Country Gentleman and The Culti¬ 
vator. -— 
Oxford Hoe and Edge Tool Company.— We here 
recieved from Joseph G. Thorp, Treasurer of the 
Company, a specimen of the Solid Shank Cast Steel 
Hoe, manufactured at Oxford, Chenango oo. which re¬ 
cieved the first premium at the New York Crystal 
Palace exhibition. L. Bolles & Co., manufacturers, 
have also recieved the first premiums at the State Fair, 
at the Fair of the American Institute and at the Coun¬ 
ty Fair. The sample in our possession has the appear¬ 
ance of being made of the best material, and is of su¬ 
perior workmanship. We are informed that the Manu¬ 
factory of the Company is very large, and their ma¬ 
chinery unsurpassed. They are now making 300 Hoes 
per day, and their arrangements will soon be completed 
for making 500 to 600 daily. They also manufacture 
Chisels, Adzes, and other Edge Tools. 
By reference to an advertisement in our columns, it 
will be seen "that Mr. Sanford Howard, editor of the 
Boston Cultivator, offeis his services to gentlemen for 
the purchase of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Swine and Poul¬ 
try. We know of no gentleman in whose judgment 
and integrity the public may more confidently rely in 
the selection of any of the domestic animals. He has 
been for many years thoroughly conversant with all 
the improved breeds of cattle, and his extensive ac¬ 
quaintance with all the best breeders in the country 
will render his services particularly desirable. We 
have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Howard will 
discharge such commissions as are entrusted to him to 
the perfect satisfaction of gentlemen who may employ 
him. -- 
Manufacture of Ag. Implements. —We learn 
that It. L. Allen, proprietor of the well-known agri¬ 
cultural warehouse and seed store, nos. 187 and 189 
Water-street, New-York, has just got his new manu¬ 
factory, upon which he has been engaged for some 
months past, into operation. It is represented as one 
of the most, complete and perfect establishments of the 
kind in America. It is fitted np with a powerful steam 
engine, and with new and improved machinery. About 
100 men are now employed in it. The improvement of 
old, and the rapid increase of new establishments of 
this kind, affords gratifying evidence of the progress 
our farmers are making both in improvement and 
wealth, and we heartily wish their proprietors the suc¬ 
cess they so richly deserve. 
High Prices for Sheep. —Mr. G. P. Gardner, of 
Schoharie, a few days since purchased of Mr. John T 
Andrew, of West Cornwall, Conn., a ram and four 
ewes, of the New Oxfordshire breed, for which we un¬ 
derstand he paid the handsome sum of $300. We re¬ 
cently had the pleasure of examining some very fine 
specimens of Mr. Andrew’s sheep, at New-York, which 
attracted much attention by their great weight and fine 
forms. A writer in the Middlebury (Vt.) Register, 
states that W. R. Sanford, of Orwell, one of the old¬ 
est wool-growers in that state, has just purchased of 
Wm. Remelee, of Cornwall, thirty-six- ewe sheep, for 
which he paid $1,800. They were pure bred Spanish 
Merinoes, descendants from the Atwood stock. 
Ohio Cattle. —Two droves of beef cattle were sold 
in New-York last week, which are worthy of special 
notice—one, consisting of 124 head, from the farm ot 
Thomas Renwick, of Ohio, sold at an average of $80, 
producing a total of $9,920—the other, from the farm 
of Col. Elias Florence, of Pickaway eounty, Ohio, 
consisting of 102 head, sold for an- average of $108, 
making $11,016 for the lot. They were ail Durham 
grades, had been fed two years, and were nearly all 
four year old&. —- 
Important from Washington. —A telegraphic 
despatch announces that “Professor Mapes exhibited 
in that city on the 23d ult, some wheat and chess 
growing on the same head!” The government should 
take care to secure this wonder, together with a speci¬ 
men of the toads which selected the “ Professor’s ” 
best strawberries, and the plows with which he plowed 
thirty-six inches deep, to be deposited in the Smithso¬ 
nian Institution for the promotion of Science among 
mankind. —— 
Great Cattle Show in Ohio. —Extract of a letter 
from a subscriber at Springfield, Ohio.—“ Our Agricul¬ 
tural Society have purchased 10 acres of ground and 
enclosed it with a good fence, and will erect substantial 
buildings this summer. We are going to have next 
September, an Exhibition of Cattle here, free to all 
throughout the United States. Premiums from $500 
down to $50, and will amount to some $7000 in all.” 
Fine Pigs. —Mr. D. A. Bulkley, of Williamstown, 
Mass., furnishes us the following particulars in rela¬ 
tion to some fine pigs recently slaughtered by his 
neighbors. J. Y. S. Conklin killed five pigs, Dec. 25. 
They were all of one litter, one week less than 9 
months old, weighed respectively 339, 319, 308, 289 
and 284 lbs. In January he killed a hog of the same 
breed, 19 months old, which had no extra feed until 
September, after which he was fed as much meal, wet 
up with water, as he would eat, and he weighed 844 
lbs. The same da,y a brother of said hog was killed 
by S. Walley, and weighed 649 lbs. 
The California Farmer. —We have neglected to 
notice the reception of the first and second numbers of 
the California Farmer. It is a Weekly journal, pub¬ 
lished by JohnF. Morse & Co., at San Francisco, and 
Edited by John F. Morse and J. L. L. F. Warren. 
The contents give evidence of ability, and we cordially 
welcome this new co-laborer in agricultural improve¬ 
ment. California is a broad and promising land, and 
we trust the “Farmer” will live 'fo See it bud and 
blossom like tlffe rose, and become one of the richest 
agricultural states of the Union. 
