1854 . 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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New-York State Fair. 
At the regular meeting of the Executive Committee 
of the New-York State Ag. Society on the 6th of April, 
a resolution was adopted, that the Annual Exhibition 
for this year, be held on Hamilton Square, in the city 
of New-York, on the 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th days of Oc¬ 
tober next. —<s>— 
Postage. —We have frequent inquiries as to the 
postage on the Country Gentleman and The Cultiva¬ 
tor , from which it appears that some postmasters 
charge twice as much as they should. The postage on 
the Country Gentleman is twenty-six cents a year , 
payable quarterly in advance at the office where the 
paper is received. The postage of The Cultivator is 
six cents a year , also payable in advance at the office 
where the paper is received. The postage is the same 
whether paid at the office where mailed, or where re¬ 
ceived by the subscriber. We are often requested to 
pre-pay the postage; but this we cannot do without 
unnecessary trouble, as no regulations have been made 
by the Post Office Department by which the postmas¬ 
ter here can transmit to the postmaster where the pa¬ 
per is sent, an account of the prepayment; consequent¬ 
ly if the postage is prepaid here, we have to pay it 
weekly on each paper, whereas the subscriber can pay 
it once a quarter or once a year if he chooses 
Improved Stock. —Those in want of high-bred 
stock—Durham and Devon cattle, South Down sheep, 
and Suffolk and Berkshire swine—are referred to the 
advertisement of L. G. Morris, Esq., in this paper. 
It will be seen that he has come to the conclusion, ow¬ 
ing to the extent of his private sales the past year, not 
to hold his contemplated public sale the coming sum¬ 
mer. We are pleased to learn that the demand for his 
stock, and the prices it has brought, have been in a 
high degree satisfactory. Mr. M. has spared no ex¬ 
pense requisite to obtain the best to be procured abroad, 
and such liberality should be handsomely rewarded. 
The Working Farmer is assured that we pub¬ 
lished the communication of “ F. C. L.” just as he wrote 
it, and that we have the Writer’s name, and vouchers 
for his veracity and responsibility. We do not see, 
therefore, but the editor will be compelled to withdraw 
the credit he has given us for ingenuity in devising 
this ingenious mode of injuring him. That superphos¬ 
phate of lime, when properly manufactured, is a valu¬ 
able fertilizer for certain crops and soils, there can be 
no doubt. Were we his “ untiring constitutional ene¬ 
my,” as he represents us, there would be no necessity 
of resorting to subterfuge or invention to enable us to 
publish articles to his discredit. All we should have 
to do, would be to copy the articles which have already 
appeared in various agricultural papers, to show that 
notwithstanding he professes to make an improved su¬ 
perphosphate, it has in many instances proved perfect¬ 
ly useless. So far, however, from manifesting any de¬ 
sire to injure him, we have refrained from doing this, 
and have published no statements, even from our own 
correspondents, without proper vouchers for their au¬ 
thenticity. We have served him as we have Mr. De 
Burg and other manufacturers—published the opinions 
of our correspondents in favor of and against both, 
without prejudice or partiality to either. Little confi¬ 
dence as we have in “ Prof.” Mapes 5 ’ science or state¬ 
ments, we have certainly no desire to injure him; but 
justice to our readers—justice to science, requires the 
exposure of pretensions not founded in truth ; and un¬ 
pleasant as the duty may be, we shall not refrain from 
expressing pur opinions as occasion may require, even 
should they prove unacceptable to the editor of the 
W. F. There is no secret about the manufacture of 
superphosphate of lime. Mapes can, and undoubted¬ 
ly has made a good article. Any one else can do the 
same, and at a far less cost than he charges for it. 
The price of superphosphate of lime in Great Britain 
is about £6 (less than $30) per ton, and any one who 
chooses to make it, will find directions, by turning to 
the 168th page of this volume of the Co. Gent., for 
making a first-rate article. It is, however, a difficult 
matter, in most parts of the country, to procure the 
materials, and it would probably be as well for those 
who wish to test its merits, to purchase their supply, 
provided they procure it of a manufacturer upon whose 
integrity and carefulness they can safely rely. 
Short Horns. —John It. Page, Esq., of Sennett, 
Cayuga county, purchased three very fine heifers, last 
week, foj gentlemen in Cayuga, from the herd of Dr. 
Herman Wendell of this county. Dr. Wendell also 
sold a valuable young Durham Bull, to Ezra B. 
Meech, Jr. of Vermont, to whom he was sent a few 
days since. We learn with pleasure that the heifers, 
and the young bull, Lord Ducie, imported last autumn 
by Dr. Wendell, from the herd of Mr. Bell of Mos- 
bro Hall, are doing finely. We also understand that 
Dr. W. wishes to dispose of the valuable prize bull 
Meteor (11811) who is now in fine condition. 
Remedy for the Potato Rot. —Our readers may 
remember that we published in our last vol. a state¬ 
ment from Mr. Barrett of Cayuga, that he and his 
neighbors had prevented all rot in their potatoes for 
several years, by simply sowing ashes over them at the 
rate of from two to three bushels per acre, once a week 
for about six weeks, commencing immediately after 
the second hoeing. Rev. Lyman Smith, of Charlotte, 
Vt., confirms this statement in a letter to the N. E. 
Farmer. He says he has prevented the rotting of po¬ 
tatoes by sprinkling the tops with ashes, as soon as 
they made their appearance, a table spoonful to each 
hill; after hoeing applying the same amount again. 
The ashes were applied immediately after a shower, 
or upon a heavy dew. After such applications he has 
no rotten potatoes. The experiment is certainly worth 
trying, and we hope some of our readers will make the 
application and let us know tlm result. 
We copy the following from the March no. of 
the Working Farmer :— 
“ Chess in Wheat. —We shall exhibit a head of 
wheat at that Society, [the U. S. Ag. Society | with the 
wheat and chess mixed, and on the same centre, and 
leave it to a committee of the Society to investigate.” 
The telegraph announced the exhibition, as stated 
above, but we have looked in vain for any account of 
the results of the “investigation.” Will Prof. Mapes 
please enlighten us on the subject*? 
Ohio State Fair. —With a promptitude worthy of 
note and imitation, the list of premiums, awarding 
committees and regulations of the Fair of the Ohio 
State Board of Agriculture, to be held at Newark in 
September next, is already published. The show 
ground is to be a portion of the “Ancient Works,” 
still remaining near Newark, which possess great in¬ 
terest both on account of their antiquity, and the mys¬ 
tery which veils the purpose for which they were ori¬ 
ginally constructed. - 
Prof. E. S. Carr, of the University of Albany, has 
been appointed Chemist to the State Ag. Society, in 
place of Dr. Salisbury, who has resigned, and remov¬ 
ed to New-York. —- 
Vegetable Weeder. —We have been shown a 
model of a hand cultivator, contrived by Mr. C, W. 
Emerson, of Bethlehem, which he calls a “ vegeta¬ 
ble weeder,” that promises to be highly serviceable in 
the cultivation of all garden crops. 
