THE CULTIVATOR 
Dotes for tl|c poult 
New Advertisements. —The attention of 
wishing to import improved stock, is invited to the no¬ 
tice of James Douglass, East Lothian, Scotland. Mr. 
D. recently shipped to this country quite a lot of supe¬ 
rior animals, ordered by H. L. Eades, Esq. for the 
Shakers of Warren Co., Ohio, and is, we are told, a 
gentleman in whose integrity and judgment purchasers 
may safely rely. 
We are frequently inquired of for fancy rabbits. It 
will be seen that Mr. Van Rensselaer offers a few 
pairs for sale, which we know to be genuine. 
Advertisements. —We invite attention to several 
important advertisements in this number. Among 
them may be found an important notice from the State 
Ag. Society, setting forth the arrangements for the 
coming Fair. Breeders of Short Horns are referred to 
the advertisement of Mr. Strafford who it will be seen, 
is to sell a lot of young Bulls, on the 5th Sept, contain¬ 
ing more or less of the best blood in England. The 
time is short, and those who wish to purchase should 
send their orders to Mr Strafford by the first Steam¬ 
er. For other high bred Short Horns, for sale in this 
country, see the advertisement of Mr. Rotch, of Otsego, 
and Mr. Taber of Duchess—for Sheep and Pigs those 
of Messrs Wells and J. R. Page. For concentrated 
Manures, see the advertisements of Thos, IIolling- 
woeth and Son, Utica., Longett & Griffing, and Lo¬ 
di Manufacturing Co., New York. 
Those who do not wish to undertake a regular Col¬ 
lege Course, will find an alternative offered in the 
Scientific School connected with Yale College. It 
is advertised in this week’s paper, and merits the atten¬ 
tion of all. -- 
Imported Sheep. —We had the pleasure ot exam¬ 
ining a fine lot of . Lincolnshire Sheep, consisting of 
eight yearling ewes and two rams, just received per 
ship Windsor Castle from Liverpool, by John R Chap¬ 
man, Esq. of Oneida Lake, Madison Co. N Y. They 
were selected from the flocks of Messrs. Kirkham, 
Shelby, Topham and Fowler, celebrated breeders of 
the original long-wooled Lincoln3. Although they 
were over eight weeks on shipboard, they looked re¬ 
markably sprightly and healthy, and were a very supe¬ 
rior lot. The fleeces taken from these ten sheep Iasi 
spring weighed 112 lbs. or a trifle over 11 lbs per head. 
We notice by the last London Mark Lane Express, that 
Mr. Kirkham of whom three of the ewes and one of the 
Rams above mentioned, were procured, received a 
prize of $50. at the show of the Royal Ag. Society, 
last month, for a pen of five ewes of the improved Lin¬ 
coln breed. - 
Trial of Reapers.— J. $. Wright of Chicago, 
proprietor of “ Atkin’s Automaton or Self Raking 
Reaper,” and J. H. Manny of Rockford, Ill., the in¬ 
ventor of “Manny’s convertible Reaper for Grain or 
having agreed to a trial of their machines for 
of $1,500, and appointed Messrs. M L. Dunlap, 
Hiram Miller, and R. Emerson, Jr. to decide the ques 
tion, the trial commenced on the 26th July on the 
farm of David Stockwell, near Belvidere, Ill. and con¬ 
tinued five days. The points to be decided were the 
relative amount of manual labor in “ Rakiag , Binding 
and Shocking , twenty acres to be cut by each machine. 
Any loss of grain to be charged to the proper party.” 
The Judges after devoting 5 days assiduous labor to the 
trial, say—“ we find the contest so close and so many 
excellencies in both Reapers that we are unable to say, 
under the circumstances, which should have the prefer¬ 
ence. In gome respects one machine has the advantage 
over the other, and vice versa. Which has actually 
the preference, in all respects, is a matter too nice for 
us to decide.” —*—— 
The papers announce the death, at Detroit on the 
24th July of cholera, of Mr. Charles Fox, senior 
editor of the Farmer's Companion published at De¬ 
troit, and Lecturer on Agriculture in the University of 
Michigan. Mr. F. was formerly an Episcopal clergy¬ 
man, but for some years past has devoted his attention 
almost exclusively to the study and practice of agri¬ 
culture. Beside his contributions to the Farmer’s 
Companion, and various addresses, he had just issued 
a work on Agricultural Chemistry. 
Galloway Cattle.— The Canadian Agricultu¬ 
rist for July, enumerates quite a list of domestic ani¬ 
mals which have just been imported by several public 
spirited gentlemen of that province, and among them 
three very fine Galloway cattle, (a bull and two hei¬ 
fers,) brought out by Mr. Roddick of Hamilton. 
Among the other importations, are a Durham bull, a 
pair of Yorkshire pigs, and forty Leicester sheep, by 
Mr. Dickinson of Port Hope—a Durham bull and 
some superior sheep, by Mr. R. Wade, Jr., of Cobourg; 
and a lot of Leicester sheep by Mr. Geo. Miller, of 
Markham. - 
Tall Timothy. —Mr. Beny. Snyder of Bethlehem, 
in this county, has sent us a small bundle of Timothy 
grass, the stalks of which measure from 4 ft. 6 in. to 
4 ft. 9 in. in length. 
“Tall Corn.” —We make the following extract 
from a letter of a correspondent in Maryland, merely 
premising that our statement of the probability of the 
Courier and Enquirer’s tale, had reference entirely to 
the story itself, and not to the number of rows of corn 
in the ear, as detailed therein. “ I was sorry to see 
in a No. of the Co. Gent, that you say the “ Tall Corn ” 
tale of the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, “ may be true." 
The saying that ears of corn had “ twenty-nine ” and 
“ thirty-one ” rows of grains on them, is saying that 
the writer knows nothing about corn. The same law 
which turns a bean vine one way and a hop vine ano¬ 
ther, says there shall be no odd row on corn, and in 
writing the tale the writer should have kept probabili¬ 
ty in view. For some ten or fifteen years I dealt large¬ 
ly in corn (not distilling it.) I have had an ear of 
corn weighing (on the cob) two and a half pounds, 
and another ear having 1812 grains on it. Corn is to 
